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allowed. His Royal Highness, after alluding to 
the pleasure he had in my lectures at Buckingham 
Palace, and to the cosy little dinner-parties at the 
White Lodge, chiefly chatted about the interest 
of his sport in Germany, stalking and shooting 
bustards, and whether they could be got back into 
Norfolk, N:c. At the dinner I sat opposite Prince 
Alfred, and had some conversation with His Royal 
Highness there, as well as after in the smoking- 
room. There were gathered the Duke of Buc- 
cleuch. Lord Caithness, Lord Stanley, Hon. Mr. 
Cowper, &c. 
The Prince of Wales’s Equerry, Colonel 
Teesdale, gave me a very interesting account of 
his Crimean adventures, and the siege of Kars. 
I walked home with Fowler, sincerely congratu- 
lating him on the success of his great day. I 
also had the honour of a conversation with Prince 
Teck. . . . Mr. Cooper writes that “ Fulmer 
Place is in the market. The owner has had 
losses. I think if I had thirty or forty thousand 
pounds to spare I should be tempted ; it will 
bring now a good figure, being so easily reached 
by the Great Western Railway.’ 
On August 26, 1866, he writes to his wife, who is 
away from home on a holiday : ‘ On Monday Lord 
Russell rode over here before I had returned froni 
the British Museum, so yesterday I went over 
to Pembroke Lodge. Lord R. was out riding, 
but was expected shortly, so Lady R. pressed 
