My OWN DARLING WIFIE,--I have been so longing to be with you during all these dreary hours, still more dreary as they have been made by the knowledge that Wifie has been unhappy and anxious all the time. Her letters came to me quite safely and were a great pleasure, and I want some more. On Tuesday or Wednesday, I forget which, I left my room for the first time and caught a slight cold, which threw me back somewhat, but I have more than regained my lost ground to-day, and am to leave my room again to-morrow, and if I {212} don't over-eat myself or catch cold again, shall go on all right. The Conference will most probably last two days, but I hope to be able to leave on Wednesday, or at latest on Thursday evening, to be with my Queenie until the end of the Session. Do please write me a nice letter, my darling. YOUR OWN HUSBAND. _October_ 17. MY DEAREST WIFIE,--I have arrived all right, and got through the first day of the Convention successfully. You will be glad to hear that the telegrams which I missed were of no importance, and I received them this morning unopened, as well as yours also unopened. With best love to my own Katie. The Convention duly met, Parnell presiding, and the National League was formed, with Home Rule and peasant proprietorship as the two main articles of its creed. _Sunday._ MY OWN DARLING WIFIE,--I have been so delighted to receive both your letters quite safely; you have no idea how much I long for a letter or a wire from you, and how frightened and nervous I feel when, as sometimes happens, a whole day goes by without any news. I was very much afraid that my little wife would not have approved of all my speech, and so much relieved to find that you did not scold me. Has anything been done about the monument yet? I hope there will not be any hitch.