BR writes, "I should of course be glad if I could divorce Dora, instead of the other way. But I should have thought that difficult. There is no evidence that Gillard liked her, so far as I can see; the advances seems to have been all on her side. Mary Bailey's statement is admirable as showing that Dora is not fit to have custody of the children, but seems barely adequate to prove adultery. Moreover, would it not be difficult for me, at this date, to begin to seem sufficiently virtuous?"

BR encloses advertisements (2nd page of this document) of the school from the New Statesman; presumably Beacon Hill.