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16 Belgrave Square. - Was 'really rejoiced to be one of your 35 peers who made you a Traveller tonight'; Milnes may be assured that it is the 'strongest proof of your popularity' that he was voted in when 'such an unusual umber of members were present'; believes the Travellers Club has 'done honor to itself in electing so well known & so distinguished a man'; confesses he was alarmed when he 'saw the drawing room so crowded', as he had never known a candidate to be 'successful under such conditions'.

On House of Commons headed notepaper. - Milnes was 'elected triumphantly' with an 'afterclap of applause, w[hic]h I never observed before at the Travellers ballots'; a large number, about forty or fifty, present. [Signature undeciphered].

Dated only 'Tuesday night'. Is 'very glad that, altho' neither remote, unfriended, melancholy, nor slow, [Milnes is], nevertheless, - a Traveller'.

In hand of Annabella Hungerford Milnes [?]. Perhaps once used as a label.

Must 'express with the greatest grief [his] shortcoming' in failing to vote for Milnes at the Travellers Club; had asked Lady Arundel 'twenty times' to remind him to be there in time, but people came for dinner and somehow it was forgotten until half past twelve; 'would not have been absent for a thousand pounds'. Has not heard the result but trusts it will be all right, 'though Stafford does say no man above thirty ever can get in there'.

Milnes has been blackballed at the Travellers Club, but 'in good company - with Landseer. The Travellers will have neither poetry nor painting'. Milnes' friends did what they could 'but there was a strong cabal against you & nothing could save you'. Suspects that 'the enemy' came from the Foreign Office. Is very sorry. Signed 'JWC'.