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two or three days, but expect to be back in London next 

 Thursday. 



My wife joins in congratulations and good wishes to 

 Lady Lubbock, who will make an ideal peeress. — Very 

 faithfully yours, Leonard Courtney. 



The Speaker's brief note of congratulation is 

 humorous. 



Sutton Pi^ace, 1st January 1900. 

 Dear Lubbock — I send my sincere congratulations 

 to you and Lady liubbock upon your honourable 

 banishment from the House of Commons. We who are 

 left behind there are the only ones who have cause to 

 deplore your promotion, but we shall all own that you 

 have fairly earned this addition to the leisure which you 

 so well know how to employ. I hope your Lordship will 

 still condescend to occasionally play a round at golf 

 with the humble Commoner who is — Yours very faith- 

 fully, W. C. Gully. 



Highbury, 2nd January 1900. 



My dear Lubbock — As an old friend permit me most 

 heartily to congratulate you on your well - deserved 

 honours. 



We have worked together so long and so cordially 

 that it is a real pleasure to me to see that your services, 

 your character, and your attainments are properly 

 appreciated. 



May you have many years of usefulness and happiness 

 still before you. — Believe me, yours very truly, 



J. Chamberlain. 



One of his congratulatory letters is from His 

 Highness the Aga Khan, incidentally giving a 

 terrible picture of the suffering caused by the 

 combination of plague and famine at this time 

 raging in India. " It is most touching," he writes, 

 " to see that in the midst of the anxieties of the 

 South African War, people in England have not 

 forgotten our misfortunes, and that the Lord 

 Mayor has opened a Famine Fund." 



Aga Khan, a descendant of the famous 



