Written from Ewart Park, Wooler, Northumberland.
Differing opinion about Lady Henry has led to an acrimonious exchange of words between the two parties. Agrees with Mr Stuart when he says 'She cannot do us much or either good or harm for she has made such a fool of herself poor woman'. Afraid she cannot come to the Newcastle meeting in Apr: at the moment five people in the house in bed with influenza she cannot well leave the families of Stanley and George till after Easter.