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Indeed, Lady Ritchie's letter is altogether so 

 delightfully expressed that its quotation may be 

 welcomed : 



36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, 

 January Is/, 1900. 



My dear Sir John — How delightful it is to look in 

 the paper and for once to read something that is good 

 news and makes one glad. 



Please accept our very sincere, very warm congratu- 

 lations and sympathies for you and yours. — It is the 

 yours I think who enjoy such tokens of honour and 

 public appreciation even more than the recipient. But 

 old friends also, who have always sympathised and 

 always found kindness during long years, must be 

 allowed to feel happy, and I am one of these and with 

 all good wishes, dear Sir John, I am, yours sincerely, 



Anne Ritchie. 



I cannot write to Lord Dash so I must still write in 

 the old formula. 



lO/ft February 1900. 



My dear Lubbock — (Forgive me the wrong name 

 has slipped from the end of my pen.) The Standing 

 Committee at the Museum have asked me to succeed 

 you as their representative in the House of Commons, 

 and of course I had no objection. May I come to see 

 you for five minutes on Tuesday or Wednesday or some 

 other day. It will be no trouble to me to come to 

 Lombard Street. 



I did not write to congratulate you, because I thought 

 you would be glad to be spared superfluous letters. 

 But you may be sure that like all the rest of the world 

 I recognise with the utmost pleasure the deserved honour 

 that has been done you. If the House of Lords is to be 

 mended and not ended, I know no better way of mending 

 than to call you into it. 



If you can tell me all that is to be told in a letter, 

 don't let me waste your time in an interview. — Yours 

 sincerely, John Morley. 



The comments in the above and in the follow- 

 ing letters on the House of Lords have interest 

 in view of the fate that has befallen that illustrious 

 institution. 



