Autograph letter signed : Danesfort, to William Angus Knight, 1888 July 5.

Commenting on accepting a place on the Arnold Memorial Committee; saying "The only thing is that I have not much money to give away, as I have never had a year with so many subsc'ns, nor shall I be in the way of seeing anybody for several months who is not 1/2 bankrupt. Still I will do the little I can, wishing that it were more. I have not yet seen what sort of sums are being given;" commenting on the libel trial against The London Times saying "Lord Coleridge is already showing his political animus with the Times trial. Everybody anticipated the danger all along. The Times can only prove its case if they are allowed to bring out the essential & important facts they possess in cross examination. And Coleridge seems disposed to exclude such evidence as may tell powerfully ag'st the [Land] League. I was struck at the blindness & ignorance which political partizanship can produce in a Judge by a remark he made at Jowett's (where we were staying with him from Sat: to Monday). He was denouncing the Papal rescript & declared that it w'd make no difference to any human beings as no one in Ireland cared a straw for anything the Pope might sign! Little he knows the Irish. Prices are rising. There is the prospect of a splendid harvest. Nationalists very low about it. All their hopes centre on the fickleness & gullibility of the British democracy. I hope now to get some quiet months work."