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me to stay, and showed me her garden and pet 

 flowers. . . . Then the Earl arrived and we had 

 much talk, and he listened to all I earnestly urged 

 about the British Museum, and promised to do 

 his best next year : in the middle of which, bang ! 

 went a gun, close to the drawing-room window. 

 Lord R. rushed to the window, past which 

 the smoke was drifting. It was Willie (Lord 

 Russell's son) who had shot a rabbit. He brought 

 it to the window to show his father in triumph. 

 11 Take it- to the cook, boy, take it to the cook," 

 said the noble Earl testily. I walked home after 

 a cup of tea.' 



Part of his own holiday was this year spent 

 at Lord Stratford de Redcliffe's. There he met, 

 as he tells his sister in September, Sir Henry 

 Storks, ' and I heard much curious and interesting 

 talk on Jamaica and the negroes at first hand. 

 Also much on the Turkish Empire and Russian 

 policy.' 



In the autumn he resumed his work as a 

 lecturer. His diary records that he gave two 

 lectures at Bradford in October, as he had pur- 

 posed to do in the early part of the year. On his 

 return journey, he writes to his sister : ' I found 

 Sir J. Kay-Shuttleworth and his son in the car- 

 riage I got into, and we had some vigorous talk 

 en route, so much so that a gentleman seated in 

 the corner begged to ask to whom he was listening. 

 We duly enlightened him, and he told us his 



