Bawtry. - Read Hayward's 'Radowitz' [obituary of the general, published in the Morning Chronicle, 31 Dec. 1853?]; apt description. of 'Peelite' views, combining pomposity and simplicity. His wife is much better. Coalition failing, much as expected, possibly because of [Sir James] Graham's presence; did he write 'F-----' article in the Times?
Broadlands. - Will Hayward offer Napier [Macvey Napier, of the Edinburgh Review] an article by Milnes on Custine's Russia?; has just returned from 'the Land's End'.
A friend would like to know if the boiled beef immortalised by Hayward in the Quarterly Review can still be obtained from that corner eating-house; general disgust at the doings of Dr Dionysius [Lardner, i.e., elopement with the wife of Richard Heaviside]; 'the moral Blues have turned Private Jackson out of the Reg[imen]t and intend to pay Serg[ean]t [Brunskill's?] fine'