The recipient is identified as Lief Jones, who won the North Westmoreland riding in a bye-election on the date of this letter. Secretary to the Countess of Carlisle, he became Lord Rhayader.

"I am delighted to see by the evening paper that you have been successful on Westmoreland. It must have been a stiff fight, as every one said nothing could be done against the Rigg interest. I am quite specially glad that you should get in, as I have known & admired your self-sacrifice, on former occasions, both in standing & in not standing. I remember a conversation we had in Cheyne Walk, you maintained that a man could hardly get into Parliament if he was thoroughly conscientious; but now your view is agreeably falsified. I fear or rather I hope that it will be a very short time before a dissolution compels you to face another election; but I suppose, if it is very soon, there would not be afresh contest in your constituency. Yours ever, Bertrand Russell."

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