cause to much anxiety on our part. After declining to attend a meeting
at the Clarion Hall, we find you there amongst the audience, and you
address them in direct opposition to the advice which we were giving
them authoritatively. We specially invited you to be present at a
meeting of this committee to-day, in order that a definite plan of
campaign might be formulated before your visit to Manchester. You have
not accepted our invitation, and we understand that you are now staying
at the private house of the Prime Minister, notwithstanding our request
that you should not interview, or be interviewed by any representative
of the Government without one of our committee being present.

"We wish to express our dissatisfaction with the state of affairs, and
to say that should you be still intending to address the meeting at
Manchester on Monday night, we demand an explanation with you before you
go on to the platform. We understand that the residence of Mr. Foley
is only sixty miles from London. If you are still desirous of acting
with us, we beg you, upon receipt of this letter, to ask for a motor car
and to return here to London. We shall all be at number 17, Notting
Hill, until midnight or later, telephone number 178, so that you can
telephone that you are on the way. Failing your coming, some of us will
be at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, from mid-day on Monday.

"I am,

"Faithfully yours,

"RICHARD GRAVELING,

"Secretary.