| Content Description | Reports that he has completed the backlog of work left by Mr Strachey; his successor, Mr Milbanke, has not arrived and does not appreciate the amount of work there is to do; he makes his children copy out his despatches; has taken charge of G.L. Conyngham's affairs at the request of his father; Florence [Buchanan] will have told him about the incident at a ball which his wife had described to her; the latest gossip was about the death of Baron van Brienea and the mad feats of Ariola, who had been recalled to Berlin; Mr James London would like to see his, and Lady Buchanan's photographic cards; Mrs Ward sends her regards. |