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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. 
“ 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 1 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 
