"I have direct authority for stating that Mr. Parnell has not the remotest intention of abandoning either permanently or temporarily his position or his duties as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. This may be implicitly accepted as Mr. Parnell's firm resolution, and perhaps by learning it in time the Pigottist Press may be spared the humiliation of indulging in a prolonged outburst of useless vilification. In arriving at this determination, I need not say that Mr. Parnell is actuated exclusively by a sense of his responsibility to the Irish people, by whose suffrages he holds his public position, {289} and who alone have the power or the right to influence his public action. The wild, unscrupulous, and insincere shriekings of the Pigottists on the platform and in the Press can and will do nothing to alter Mr. Parnell's resolve." Parnell wrote to me from London after the meeting in Committee Room 15. MY OWN DARLING WIFIE,--I have received your letter through Phyllis, and hope to return to Brighton to-night per last train and tell you all the news. Meanwhile I may say that I am exceedingly well, having had twelve hours' sleep last night. The meeting adjourned to-day till to-morrow at 12 or 1 to consider an amendment moved by one of my side that Gladstone, Harcourt, and Morley's views should be obtained as to their action on certain points in my manifesto. YOUR OWN KING. December 3, 1890. The following letters speak for themselves:-- PARNELL _to_ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND. MY DEAR WILLIE,--Thanks very much for your kind letter, which is most consoling and encouraging. It did not require this fresh proof of your friendship to convince me that I have always justly relied upon you as one of the most single-minded and attached of my colleagues.--Yours very sincerely, CHAS. S. PARNELL. PARNELL _to_ DR. KENNY. MORRISON'S HOTEL, DUBLIN, _Saturday._ MY DEAR DOCTOR,--I shall be very much obliged if you can call over to see me this afternoon, as I am not feeling very well, and oblige, yours very truly, CHARLES S. PARNELL. Don't mention that I am unwell to anybody, lest it should get into the newspapers.---C. S. P. To all his brothers and sisters, and, most of all, to his mother, Parnell was most generous and affectionate, {290} and of that generosity and affectionate regard I have abundant proof. One of the last letters he wrote was to his mother:--