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another series of letters to The Times, appearing under 

 the signature of " Another Citizen." So determined 

 was Mr. Spencer in his opposition that his will actually 

 contained a codicil making provision for reprinting 

 and distributing gratuitously as a pamphlet his argu- 

 ments against the system. Accordingly this pamphlet 

 was reprinted and distributed in the spring of 1904, 

 but it does not appear to have created any strong 

 feeling in favour of the views therein propounded. 



Among the many intimate friendships which I 

 formed in the House there are none I value more, 

 among men still living, than that of Leonard Courtney, 

 John Morley, James Bryce, Henry Hobhouse, Henry 

 John Roby and Arthur Acland ; whilst among those 

 friends who are gone before, I mention first Anthony 

 John Mundella. No one was a more faithful friend 

 or more welcome guest in our house. He possessed 

 a warm and generous heart, and when he cast off 

 the official manner, which he thought it was his duty 

 sometimes to assume, he was simplicity itself. The 

 wags at South Kensington, when as Vice-President he 

 accompanied the Lord President, used to say jokingly 

 (for he was most popular in the office), " Here come 

 Lord Mundella and Mr. Spencer." 



We saw much of him both at home and at Camfield 

 Place, my father-in-law's house near Hatfield. He 

 was brimful of anecdote, well versed in standard 

 English poetry, especially in Shakespeare, which he 

 would recite ore rotundo, much to the delight of his 

 hearers. When at the Board of Trade he used each 

 morning to feed from his window the pigeons which 

 fly about the gardens at Whitehall. Night after night 

 we used to come home together from the House in a 

 growler, often in snow and storm and rain, at one in 

 the morning, and he would then say : " Let us give the 



