| Content Description | Thanks him for recommending his leave; informs him that should war break out he will return to Poland on intelligence supplied by Mansfield; gives brief details of his contingency plans for these circumstances; comments on discussion in the 'House' on Europe and Austria; Gladstone holds little hope of continued peace; remarks that he 'dreads the thought of St Petersburg'; sends best wishes to Lady Buchanan.
Postscript stating he has seen his [Buchanan's] son [unspecified] at Lady Wensleydale's, lunched with Mr and Mrs Rashleigh and seen Lady Blantyre. |