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Written at Ormond House. Much regrets William George cannot come on the holiday. Business matters. 'Ld Roberts' proclamation is another General Election move. They want to be able to say Ld.R. now considers the war to be so far over that he annexes the whole country. Nothing can now save us from a dissolution in October but (a) Serious complications over China or (b) One or two "regrettable occurrences" of some dimensions. Thirty trucks with supplies captured & burnt is not big enough although more serious than the papers will allow'. Will see William George at Caernarfon. 'Osmond retired. W.E. ought now to get it'.

Written at Ormond House. Met Colonel Hanna at Courtney's the previous afternoon - 'He says that at the present rate they will never conquer the Boers. He ridiculed the block horses'.

Written at Ormond House. Is very busy and cannot write. Is enclosing the evening paper with a list of the new ministers: 'Arnold Forster is the only good one'.

Written at Ormond House. Is attempting to re-start his work. Family news. Has met the candidate for York that day. Anticipates the Monday meeting. 'You will see how [the] Greenock paper attacks them for making money out of me. Quite right especially as I got none of it. Glasgow mean to pay my expenses'. Saw the Bishop of St Asaph that day who claimed that Balfour's intention was to be defeated in the Commons, resign and to force the Liberals to form a government.

Written at Ormond House. I fear that the newspaper business ... will prevent my putting my back into defending the Penrhyn workers'. Can see Daniel at Bangor the following day. Must return on Thursday.

Written at Ormond House. Hopes to see William George on Saturday evening. Is to play golf with T. P. O'Connor at Wimbledon Park that afternoon. 'Meetings are thickening for me. Invitations pouring in daily. Some I can't very well refuse'.

Written at Ormond House. Goes to Wrexham the following day to address the Literary Society of Peris Williams's chapel. 'There will be a tug of war on Thursday but we ought to win'. There is an apology in the Chronicle for misquoting him.

Written at Ormond House. Goes to Wrexham at 2.10 'C.B. is buckling up in earnest'. 'I see the Libl. Imps. are congregating around Rosebery at Chesterfield Monday next like a lot of cats around the catsmeat tray. They are all looking forward to getting some scrag thrown them when he gets in'.

Written at Ormond House. Family news. Goes to Birkenhead on Thursday to lecture on 'Imperialism' to the Ruskin Society - 'Telir i mi am y job hono'. Is at Wandsworth that evening and Caernarfon on Friday.

Written at Ormond House. Encloses a letter from Morian - 'The old boy wrote the first newspaper description ever penned of me. It was when I spoke with Davitt at Festiniog - 18 years ago! So he takes a deep interest in me'.

Written at Ormond House. Druan o Salisbury. Hen wr crynedig yn ceisio canu gwagedd. Y mae Rosebery ei siawns os ydyw digon craff iw chymeryd'. Said to Rosebery four or five months ago, 'The Liberal statesman who comes in to continue the war will ... ruin himself'.

Written at Ormond House. Discusses a death - 'How imperceptibly & unstrenuously life merges into death - as the day shades into the night'. Cannot leave with Margaret that evening because of the Lunn business: 'He is off tomorrow to America & the money is not all in'.

Written at Ormond House. Cannot attend the lecture. Goes to Swansea on Wednesday. 'What an exposure of Osmond! He is a dau wynebog chap. A thoroughly poor creature'.

Written at Ormond House. 'Agree with Uncle Lloyd that D.N. gave too much notice to Perks'. Has gone through the figures of the last six months with Edwards - 'Improvement shown far exceeding our anticipations. Much better than last year under old Company. ... Great financial success. [Edwards] asked only for 3 years to pull it round & the progress already made in what must be the worst year is marvellous'. Goes to Derby the next day.

Written at Ormiston, Belfast. The success of the previous day's meetings, especially the previous night's at the Great Ulster Hall. The attempt to incite a riot was a failure. 'Had there been trouble the Cabinet would have said, "We told you so". Now it is my turn to crow over them. They are a set of funks. Morley & Birrell were in a great panic'. Is staying with Lord Pirrie, the great Belfast shipbuilder, and is to visit his works. Has a deputation on Board of Trade business that afternoon and goes to London that night.

Written at Nurnberg. The homeward journey. Hopes to be in London on Saturday. 'Wythnos i ddoe ydyw'r llythyr diweddaf derbyniais oddiwrthych yn [sic] Nghricieth. You are all wretched correspondents - even Uncle Lloyd hasn't been up to his usual mark'. The newspaper cuttings. Mutilated.

Written at North British Station Hotel, Glasgow. Has just disposed of the Suffragists, 'but they were not the wild ones so my interview with them was quite satisfactory'. Declined an invitation from the Lord Provost to attend a meeting of the Corporation that afternoon. There is a leading article in the Glasgow Herald discussing his prospects of becoming leader of the Liberal Party.