MY DEAREST KATIE,--I have just received your three letters, and am so delighted to read them hurriedly before sending you this line in time for post. I never had the slightest doubt of my darling, and cannot imagine why she should think so. Did not know I was going when leaving here, but was induced to leave by private information, the nature of which I will send you in my next. Am not yet sure whether I shall return, but shall manage to see you in any case.--Yours, C. HOTEL BRIGHTON, 218 RUE DE RIVOLI, PARIS, _Sunday evening, February_ 27, 1881. MY DEAR MRS. O'SHEA,--I cannot understand your {96} telegram received to-day at all, although I have been thinking it over all the evening. I wired back as you appeared to request in it, "All right." There was no letter for me from you at the usual address, so I enclose another, as I fear something may have gone wrong. You can write me freely in my own name under cover to this address: Thomas Adams and Co., Limited, 33 Rue d'Hauteville, Paris, and they will forward the letters safely to me. I have been warned from Dublin that there is some plot on foot against us which has been originated by information received from Cork, and you will guess the original source. I am expecting further information to-morrow in reference to it. I have received five letters in all from you since my arrival in Paris. Best not post your letters at Eltham. I did not know when leaving you that I was going my departure was influenced by information of reliable kind that my arrest was intended for passage in Clare speech, and that bail would be refused, and I should be left in jail until Habeas Corpus was suspended, when I could have been again arrested. I think, however, they have now abandoned this intention, but will make sure before I return. This is my third letter to you since my arrival here.--Yours, C. S. P. HOTEL BRIGHTON, 218 RUE DE RIVOLI, PARIS, _Tuesday, March_ 1, 1881. MY DEAREST LOVE,--To-day I have received your four letters, the earliest of which was written on Saturday. You do not seem to have written on Friday, as there was nothing for me on Saturday or Sunday. I propose returning to London on Thursday morning, leaving here Wednesday evening, but it is just possible I may not leave till Thursday morning, in which case I shall not be able to see my Katie until Friday. If I return Thursday morning, my Queen may expect to see me about one o'clock. Your letters make me both happy and sad, happy to hear from my own, but sad when I see how troubled you are.--Always yours, CHARLES. {97} GLASGOW, _Tuesday, April_ 19, 1881. DEAREST KATIE,--I send you authority for letters. They are in two forms, one authorising delivery to you, and the other to' bearer.