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much more leisurely than it has been for months,
and I have actually leisure to read a few
books. I have just finished such a good
Jacobite novel - "Poor Sons of a Day" by a
cousin of Lady Tullibardine's.

I had a large mail this week, - letters from
Richard Brown, Uncle Willie, [?illegible], Denman,
Strachey, Raymond Asquith, & Angela Malcolm.
Richard Brown is very opposed to the idea of
my leaving politics for literature - as indeed so
am I. He says that the eldest Miss Hamilton
is married - another blow to his young
affections. Raymond Asquith is in Egypt,
and thinks very little of it. He says that the
desert sunsets, with their rapid variations from