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telegram from Brentwood, the Petre estate in Essex, to say that the 

 priest there will bury Father Tyrrell ; so they consider the matter settled, 

 and Miss Petre has gone to Brentwood to make sure. The funeral 

 will be on Wednesday. 



" Mrs. Powell gave us a more detailed account of Father Tyrrell's 

 illness. He had had trouble with the kidneys for some time, but did 

 not pay much attention to it, and his doctor did not consider it very 

 important, though now, since his seizure, all agreed it to have been 

 Bright's disease. He spent the early Spring at Clapham, but when her 

 sister returned from abroad he also returned to Storrington, but had 

 left again for London till the end of June, when he once more came 

 to Mulberry House for the summer. He had been greatly over- 

 worked and felt his quarrel with Rome more deeply than appeared on 

 the surface. He was subject to violent headaches, when he would 

 retire to his own room for twenty-four hours at a time, but in the 

 intervals was cheerful and seemed full of life. His general health 

 had improved latterly. 



" 20th July. — Tyrrell's case seems to have been referred to Rome, 

 and the burial service absolutely forbidden. It is announced to be 

 at Storrington to-morrow, I presume in the parish graveyard, so I go 

 back to Newbuildings to-night. Tyrml's little book of poems is in 

 print at Elkin Mathews', though not yet published. Meynell took me 

 there and we saw it : ' Versions and Perversions,' with ' To W. S. B.' 

 on the title-page. They gave us a copy of it not yet bound. 



" I lunched with Harry Cust and his wife and George Leveson 

 Gower, and Harry's young nephew (Storrs), who has some place in 

 Egypt, a very intelligent youth. 



" John Dillon spent an hour with me, and we discussed India and 

 the ethics of assassination. He said he had always been opposed to 

 it, except where there were secret societies, which could not be main- 

 tained without it against members who turned traitor. I told him I 

 would send him my ' Canon of Aughrim,' which he said he had never 

 read. He will try and bring forward the case of the Egyptian press 

 persecutions on Thursday, when they have the Foreign Office vote. 

 There may be some chance of getting it discussed now that the Persian 

 question seems in way of settlement. He says, however, that there are 

 not three members in the House that interest themselves about Egypt 

 ■ — and this is true. 



" I went down by the last train to Newbuildings, nor do I intend to 

 return to London this summer. 



" 2,1st July. — The day of Father Tyrrell's funeral. I drove over to 

 Storrington, and arrived at Mulberry House half an hour before the 

 contingent of mourners from London, and had some talk while waiting 

 with Freddy von Hiigel, now an old man much grizzled, and the most 



