Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 1870 June 17.

Telling George that Pen has failed again, and must take his name off the books at Christ Church, Oxford: "[H]e did his best in the country, I believe,--but two months of labor were not enough to overcome nine years of idleness"; writing he does not think it is a good idea to give him another chance, because of his extravagant spending habits: "He cannot be made to see that he should follow any other rule than that of living like the richest and idlest young men of his acquaintance, or that there is any use in being at the University than to do so"; writing that this dashes his hopes for a diplomatic career for Pen; asking George's advice; commenting that he feels he has tried everything, and failed: "I have no sort of influence over him: but something must be decided on at once for a young man in his twenty-second year, who told me just now, in Ocky's [Octavius] presence, that he would not have consented to be at Ch. Ch. at any less expense than he had been incurring, and that he considered getting a first class no brilliant thing at all."