Private
THE RED HOUSE,
ASCOT, BERKS.
My dear Ripon
I learn by a letter from O'Brien of 21. Sept: 23. that, instead of waiting for me to telegraph to him at the end of this month, and then deciding whether or no to send in his "memorial", he has in a fit of impatience, or more likely at the instigation of that femme fatale, his sister, already sent in his application to be transferred back to his old post as Auditor General of Ceylon.