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Written at House of Commons. Business matters. 'I mean to have another go at Rhyl. I have put another motion down & I'll try yet another before it goes through'. Is to spend Sunday with D. H. Evans.

Written at House of Commons. Business matters. Goes to see Asquith about a case 'put in our hands by Alfred Davies Liverpool'. Is presiding that evening over a Baptist Translation Society meeting.

Written at House of Commons. Business matters. Drafted the Home Rule All Round resolution that day. 'Ellis is apprehensive of a row with Irishmen over it & wanted us to confine our resolution to Scotland & Wales. But I think it is time Liberals should define their position on Home Rule generally. It is more honest - & more in the interests of the highest expediency to do so'.

Written at House of Commons. Business matters. Did not go to Cardiff. John Redmond's amendment may be on the next day; is uncertain about speaking.

Written at House of Commons. Business matters - Yr Herald and Y Genedl: 'This transaction ought to pay. I shall charge professionally in any event'. Should S. T. Evans be allowed to join the syndicate?.

Written at House of Commons. Burdett-Coutts's letter in The Times 'describing the awful state of things in our South African camps. ... Disease rampant - 20,000 cases of sickness - the medical arrangements completely broken down - the poor victims lying out on the damp ground soaking in the rain &c - Nothing like it since the Great Crimean scandal. Joe may yet find there is many a slip between the cup & the lip'. 'Merionethshire must go. I cannot abandon the Boroughs now that the position has become untenable for anyone else'.

Written at House of Commons. 'Buddugoliaeth ardderchog. ... No good applying for further loans until we place the whole business on a better footing'. The Storey case. Has spoken once that evening and has to speak twice. 'My National Council amendment is in order'.

Written at House of Commons. Brings his idea about Disestablishment before the Cabinet the following day. 'We had no official facts before - it was all unofficial. I believe the Report [of the Royal Commission] will bring home facts to British people they never realized'. All this is top secret, only for the Garthites.

Written at House of Commons. Brighton is 'an earthquake', quite unexpected. Put a question to Balfour that day; his reply was 'very feeble & halting'. Anticipates the effect on the life of the government. Family news.

Written at House of Commons. Breakwater. 'This Scotch Bill takes up all my time & I fear health now. I am confined in a crowded room without moving for 5 hours. No more Committees for me'. The 'compensation issue'. Is spending the evening with W. G. Thomas of Caernarvon. Caine wishes him to speak on his behalf at Barrow.

Written at House of Commons. Bradlaugh assisted him to secure the private Act of Parliament under which the Rhoshirwaen award was made. Discusses the provisions of section 26 of the Act. Parnell has just spoken on the Land Purchase Bill - ' a wretched speaker with the most flagrant contempt for his audience'.

Written at House of Commons. Both he and Winston Churchill have just spoken: 'Y fi o ddigon aeth a'r blue ribbon. Roasted Balfour'. His oration has been very highly praised by Sir Charles Maclaren, Church and Morley amongst others.

Telegram.

Written at House of Commons. 'Bil Addysg. Very dead. Have spoken once'. Is to dine with Morley that night. Dined with one of the owners of the Daily Mail last night. Details of a legal battle involving the Daily Mail. 'All the fight is out of this House. Transferred to Country. Great scene between Unionist Free Traders & Govt. today. Better let them fight it out. It accentuates & embitters the quarrel. ...'.

Written at House of Commons. Beriah's decision; accepts William George's and Uncle Lloyd's advice generally, 'But I can quite see from your second & third alternatives that you have a hankering for a "left hander" at these yelping curs'. Proposes the publication of a letter from John Rowland. A meeting at Paddington with an English doctor previously encountered at Rapallo. The previous day he visited the graves of Benjamin Disraeli, William Penn and Edmund Burke and other sites.

Written at House of Commons. Believes that everything is satisfactory - 'Asquith gets up to make the momentous declaration in a few minutes'. Friday: 'My poor words were a triumph for the Government yesterday. Never seen such enthusiasm on our side since the great Gladstone days'. Believes that the Budget is now safe, and would like Uncle Lloyd to come up for the Royal Assent within a fortnight. Has been sitting that day in the Treasury Board Room as the presiding judge under section 29 of the Patent Act 1907.