Autograph letter signed : Be[a]consfield, to [the Marquess of Buckingham], 1796 June 1.

Complaining about the difficulties in selecting refugee children to attend a school; writing that his "consolation is that no Choice can be very wrong; because none can be received whose parents in some way or other are not meritorious or indigent"; observing that he ought to have put an Englishman at the head of the school because none "of the late refugees" can "read [English] in Verse, or even in prose": "the little infant of between five and six year old who is running about me, and entertaining me with her little talk is more capable of teaching English, than any I have yet seen of that Nation [i.e. France]."