| Content Description | Comments on the weather and the lack of society in Japan, stating only two Japanese officials could speak any English; describes the scenery, Japanese customs and the language; informs him the weather was causing his wife much discomfort but that she sent her love to Lady Buchanan and hoped the photographs had arrived; comments on the Eastern question and states he was glad to see his comments to Andrassy published in the Times from an extract in the Blue Book; also comments on Paget's remarks on the Berlin note and the way the 'three emperor's [Russian, German and Austrian] treated Europe; asks him to write with news and enquires after Ffrench and other members of his staff. |