of "My dear Stephen" to form the "M" of "Many thanks for your letter of the 14th." However, you may remember that the only difference between Moses and Manchester is that one ends in -oses and the other in -anchester; and there you are. . . .
I am calling on the Netherlands minister at half-past eleven this morning. . . . Bisschop (of the Anglo-Batavian Society) rang me up on Saturday evening. . . . There is to be a council-meeting at 4 o'clock on Friday at the International Law Association in King's Bench Walk. . . . If you are back by Friday and likely to be at home, I'll come on to see you from there. And I'll write to you to-morrow about my call on Van Swinderen. . . .
P.S. to my former letter, he writes on the same day: Van Swinderen was most charming. He at once offered to have the Dutch reading at the legation. . . . I said that, if Van S. would make it an invitation matter, he would be doing a great honour to C. and giving a very welcome reception to the Dutch colony in London. . . .
He leapt at this; said he would give a dinner to twenty of la crême de la crême; he could manage thirty at two tables; and ask up to a hundred to the reception. . . .
