| Description | Letter written from 10 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gore, dated 11 January, concerning the 'Kosmos Letters' and noting that he is proud of their 'tough impartiality' [T. H. S. Escott wrote a series entitled 'Letters to Eminent Persons' under the pseudonym 'Kosmos' in The World, a journal edited by Edmund Yates]. The letter also mentions Joseph Chamberlain as a likely successor to Gladstone. |