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Seats out of charity. Joe has
scattered our party to the winds
of Heaven, & the Tory working-man,
who was our real strength, has
become Liberal to a man. We shall
have to start at the beginning &
do the work of Disraeli all over
again, & build up a new Tory
democracy.

I have had a dismal week
with the Election & a severe influenza
cold ending in neuralgia. It
is nearly gone now, but I have