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Re signing two congratulatory addresses.

Proposing, on behalf of his mother, his sisters and himself, to erect and equip a College Hall at Aberystwyth to accommodate 50 Professors sitting at tables on a dais at one end of the Hall, and for 300 students sitting at tables in the remainder of the Hall at a cost of approximately £8,000, on condition inter alia that the normal and ordinary students he accommodated in the same building, that the College should undertake to provide residential accommodation for at least one third of the present number of ordinary students and, if such a scheme should prove financially successful, one other third should be so accommodated and, if at the end of six years the system was still found to be working successfully, the College should further enlarge the buildings to accommodate all the men students.

Arranging to meet in London and asking him to go to see an exhibition of the drawings of Miss Pughe, daughter of Dr John Pughe of Aberdovey.

Thanking him for his cheque of £1,000 for Aberystwyth College, and praising his paper on Disestablishment.

Concerning the termination of the employment under the Office of Woods and Forests of a man called Roberts, appointed on the recommendation of Lloyd George, on the grounds that he was not sufficiently qualified.

Thanking him for a letter of congratulation on his becoming Governor-General of South Africa.

King had heard no stories respecting the leaving by Mr Vavasseur of his property to the son of Sir John Fisher and knowing the latter, as he did, he would not have believed them; the king had met and liked young Fisher.

Enclosing the provisional allocation of the additional grant of £2,000 to increase the salary of the Principal and heads of departments, the remainder of the Rendel fund to be applied to increase the stipends of lecturers and assistant lecturers, who were excluded from participation in the grant.

Attacking the undemocratic conduct of the House of Lords and their support of ecclesiastical monopoly, stating that the House of Lords alone stood in the way of Welsh Disestablishment; prays that co. Mont. and Wales should realise that 'the whole fortunes of Welsh Nationalism are at stake' in the struggle between the Peers and the people.

Enclosing copy of letter in which David Davies made his conditional offer and of reports submitted to the College Council.

Giving his opinion on the prospects of a student about to take an exhibition to Jesus College, Oxford; remarks on the considerable over supply of secondary school teachers.

Informing him that his doctor had advised him to go abroad for the sake of his health.

Map (Ordnance Survey 6" scale 1906) of the Aberystwyth Union, showing in colours the Grogythan and Caergog lands, the site of the National Library, the proposed new road on the Penglais estate and the piece of Caergog land necessary to continue the road to the site (see 26, 26a).

Expressing on behalf of the Court of the National Library of Wales their thanks for conveying land for an improved approach road to the Library.

Thanking him for his cheque of £1,000 for Aberystwyth College and enquiring if he could be present at R. B. Haldane's lecture.

Agrees with Rendel's remarks about Balfour's management of the party, who had been wielding the Upper House as a weapon for dealing blows at the present ministry and that the weapon was breaking in his hands or being wrested out of his grasp, believing, he supposed, that Lansdowne's fencing was too irresolute; in his view Balfour was steadily losing ground to Asquith; reports a conversation with Arthur Elliot, who had remarked on the comparative indifference felt about the constitutional crisis and did not believe that the King had consented to the creation of 500 peers or so; believes that the best tactics for the Lords would be to return the bill to the Commons with some moderate amendments only and so not thereby forfeiting the support of the country; both he and Elliot agreed with Rendel's view that, if the bill were simply rejected by the Lords, they would have no backing in the constituencies; thinks the weakness of the opposition lay in their misfortune of having no leader but Balfour, who did not lead them in the country and who to the millstone of Tariff Reform round his neck had added the entanglement of his referendum round his feet; but there was also talk of dissension in the Cabinet; in the meantime Joseph Chamberlain sat apart like a veiled prophet, occasionally uttering oracular messages which perplexed the faithful.

Uncertainty as to whether Asquith had reached a positive undertaking on the action to be taken if the Lords threw out the Veto Bill; it was generally supposed that he was willing to make concessions, if the leaders of the opposition were inclined to compromise; reports on conversation with Lord Balcarres, who believed that Asquith, if the peers rejected his bill, notwithstanding reasonable modifications, would resign at once, so as to leave Balfour in an impasse; believes that the moderate people would be overruled by the extremists on both sides; the people at large looked at the matter with a sort of phlegmatic interest due, no doubt, to reasons given by Rendel; moreover trade was flourishing and the Stock Exchange was in a good humour; hoped that Rendel's particular business shared in the general prosperity and that the Japanese investment gave him no anxiety; reference to a book by Putnam Weale (alias Simpson) entitled the 'Conflict of Colour'; refers also to Curzon's speech in the Lords about the Bagdad Railway and the threat to British commercial and political interests, but himself believes that the opening of the region, including Persia, by railways, long prevented by the jealousies of the European powers, could not fail to benefit England.

Refers to a letter from T. H. Middleton of the Board of Agriculture, thanks him for his contribution of £1,000 to the College and for sympathy in bereavement.

Believes that George Murray would be a good director, but suggests that he should purchase shares, which were very cheap just then, to give him a qualification.