(2) Both speak to the desirability of speedy performance, but Lennox does not, like Moray, assign this need to the danger of Mary’s being won over. (3) Moray does, and Lennox does not, say that Mary ‘will go and fetch’ Darnley, which cannot have been part of a letter purporting to be written at Glasgow. (4) Moray does, and Lennox does not, speak of poisoning Darnley on the road. From a letter of three sheets no two persons will select absolutely the same details. (5) Moray and Lennox both give the same catalogue, Lennox at more length, of all that Mary sacrifices for Bothwell. (6) Both Moray and Lennox make Mary talk of the house where the explosion is already arranged: at least Lennox talks of its being ‘prepared,’ which may merely mean made inhabitable. (7) Both make her say that the night of Bastian’s marriage will be a good opportunity. (8) Both make Mary advise Bothwell to poison his wife, Moray adding the alternative that he may divorce her. (9) Lennox does, and Moray does not, mention the phrase ‘wishing him then in her arms,’ which occurs in Casket Letter II. The fact does not strengthen the case for the authenticity of Letter II. As to order of sequence in these nine items, they run, 1. Moray 1. Lennox 1. 2. Moray 2. Lennox 2. 3. Moray 3. (an error) Lennox 0. 4. Moray 4. Lennox 0. 5. Moray 8. = = Lennox 5. 6. Moray 6. Lennox 6. 7. Moray 7. Lennox 7. 8. Moray 5. = = Lennox 8. 9. Moray 0. Lennox 9. Thus, in four out of nine items (Moray 3 being a mere error in reporting), the sequence in Moray’s description is the same as the sequence in that of Lennox. In one item Moray gives a fact not in Lennox. In one Lennox gives a fact not in Moray. In the remaining items, Moray and Lennox give the same facts, but that which is fifth in order with Lennox is eighth in order with Moray. Mathematicians may compute whether these coincidences are due to a mere fortuitous concurrence of atoms of gossip, possessing a common basis in the long Glasgow Letter II., and in the facts of the murder, and accidentally shaken into the same form, and almost the same sequence, in the minds of two different men, _at two different times_. My faith in fortuitous coincidence is not so strong. Is it possible that the report of Lennox and the report of Moray, both of them false, as far as regards Letter II., or any letter ever produced, have a common source in a letter at one time held by the Lords, but dropped by them?