Davies tells Maw that he received his letter of 28 June, and is unclear about the meaning of paragraph two, and the third paragraph of his letter did not say anything new. "But what you say in the first paragraph about Lady Russell having held throughout the view that the future of the children should not be made the subject of litigation is unintelligible to me in view of the claim made in the divorce petition after I had informed you that such a claim could not be tolerated by Lord Russell, and would be in contravention of the rational and settled arrangement existing between him and Lady Russell under the deed of separation."

"As to the rest of your letter let us try, if we can, to avoid misunderstanding."

Davies has again annotated the copy, this time at length.