Includes: 14 November 1894 from Birkenhead to 14 Barton Street, Westminster, together with an undated letter, also ‘Dearest Meg’ from ‘your H’, 14 October 1894; 16 November 1894 from Birkenhead; 18 November 1894 to 14 Barton Street, Westminster - ‘You are I believe at Reigate today’, together with 20 November 1894 - ‘I am doubtful how it wd be for you to come home as you proposed. How could you ever keep yr finger out of Coop Pie, with letters coming & Lilian always longing to discuss?’; 23 November 1894 to 14 Barton Street, Westminster - talks of the possibility of Margaret spending several months in Ceylon and the need for a companion - ‘Do you think Emily Booth would go?’; K[irkby] L[onsdale] Sunday [November 1894] - 'I think you did not understand we never meant you to go to Singapore' - 'So now we return to Bibby Booth, if H[arry] gets his place on it & if you can find - - a co-voyager. I feel strongly that you must have some other woman with you. - - I could not bear to think of your landing all alone in Ceylon' - 'Could not Janet go if part fare were paid? or Ethel wd. not she botanize around Equator?'; 25 November 1894 to 14 Barton Street, Westminster - ‘It is a rather tremendous plunge - - But if - - you get over the mal de mer in say a couple of days or so, you are likely to enjoy yourself - - Dora R had been in my mind as a good sort of companion- - ‘ - ‘It is difficult to believe you are to go so far away!’ - ‘Hope you will have a good time at Reigate’, together with K.L. Monday - ‘Is there the faintest hope of Dora? - - what say you to proposing to E[mily] Booth to join you? - - Love to Ethel. Won’t she go?’, and 26 November 1894 - ‘If you fix to go from L’pool don’t you think you wd. be as well at home as anywhere if only you wd. not do Coop - wh. I hope is now pretty well fixed up’; K.L. 28th [28 November 1894?] - ‘- - won’t it be worser when I have to think of you plowing through redsea or Indian ocean! How I shall die for letters from Marseilles & Port Said - & then Colombo’ - ‘I have just written a diplomatic note to Emily Booth’; 29 November 1894 to Reigate, together with 4 letters from Kirkby Lonsdale, some not dated, discussing the possibility of Maurice going to Singapore; 7 December 1894 to Reigate - ‘Can you walk any better? & how do you sleep?’ - ‘I am going to ask E.D. for Xmas - I hope she’ll refuse’; 11 December - envelope only, from Kirkby Lonsdale to Reigate; 17 December 1894 to Reigate, together with another letter 23 December; 23 December 1894 to Reigate - ‘I am going to try to tempt Emily Booth tomorrow’ - ‘I hope you have - - begun the real holiday. Mrs Harris was here today to condole on yr. giving up work for a time’; 25 December 1894 to Reigate; 3 letters to Ruan Minor, Cornwall, 28, 30 and 31 December 1894 - ‘to think of you going all that way alone’ - together with 3 other letters, undated.