December 1^st 1846 A letter this morning dated 21^st. Nov. from Mr. Hawes acknowledging receipt of my memorial to Lord Grey. Forwarded to Ireland and sent back.

Wrote to J. Reed, D^r Taylor and Mrs. Barry.

Received tonight a letter from D^r Cullen dated Nov. 8 and forwarded to Cork and thence transmitted here. It informs me that the letter from Propaganda sent to Demerara by D^r Griffiths contained the Bull of my appointment as Vicar Apostolic.

Wrote to J. Reed, to D^r Taylor and to Mrs. Barry.

2. Called on D^r Lawrence and gave him a second fee. He examined me closely again today - he says there is no abscess on the liver but that it is somewhat enlarged. He prescribed again for me.

A letter from D^r Lee in reference to the young man MacGuire - it is unfavorable to his views. Wrote to him declining his services.

I perceive by the morning papers that D^r Griffiths had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey.

2 Dec^'r 1846 No communication as yet from Lord Grey, neither any intimation from D^r Griffiths of what transpired at the interview of yesterday. This is not friendly on the part of a Brother Bishop.

3. Received letters this morning from D^r Taylor and Sophy Henry.

Wrote to D^r Taylor and S. Henry in reply.

It has been very cold but dry during the last week.

4. Still kept waiting for an answer from Lord Grey. How tiresome and humiliating to be thus kept dangling at the heels of a Colonial Minister. It is enough to make a convert to Voluntaryism of the most devout worshipper of Government alliances.

7. Received letters this morning from J. Leahy and Mrs. Grantley Berkeley - this evening from Mrs. Barry.

8. Still without any communication from the Colonial Office! a newspaper from the Henrys, and a visit from D^r Griffiths.

December 9 1846. Letters by the West India mail from J. Reed, Mr. Lordan and Mr. O'Brien - also from M. Kelly sent back from Demerara and also one redirected from the Marchioness de Casaflorida in reference to a Society for the relief of nuns in Cordova of which she is President.

Dr. Griffiths has just called and read for me the correspondence between himself and Lord Grey - he also gave me a report of what passed between himself and Lord G. at this interview. Lord G. has conceded the point of appointment, and has laid it down that a person suspended by his Bishop, or from whom faculties had been withdrawn, should not be acknowledged as holding any Priestly office by the Authorities.

Wrote to Grantley Berkeley - informed him in Postscript that matters were in course of satisfactory adjustment at the Colonial Office.

La Marquesa de Casaflorida requests my subscriptions for the object mentioned in her letter may be paid to the Consul General of Spain in London, José Maria Barrero.

10 December 1846. Wrote to D^r Cullen and to Revd. Mr. Mullock. Requested the former to remind him of his promise of attending to our wants. Informed him of the concessions made by Earl Grey and the likelihood of matters being satisfactorily adjusted.

To Mr. Mullock enclosed La Marquesa de Casaflorida's letter, begging to have it translated and published in the Freeman.

December 11 1846. A newspaper this morning from Mr. Troy, and letters from M. Kelly and S. Henry.

Wrote to Miss Adams about R. Smith.

12. Received newspapers this morning from Mr. Troy and letters from D^r Taylor and Grantley Berkeley. Wrote to D^r Taylor in reply.

Sent a Tablet to Soph: Henry.

13. Sunday. A visit from Revd. Mr. Ferguson, and also one from W^m Lee. Mrs. Meyer, Geoghegan's sister, called and made enquiries about their brother Michael. All her sisters in Ireland and her brothers Tom and Richard have become Protestants. Joseph is the only one in Dublin who calls himself a Catholic.

W^m Lee called - is expecting his brother James from Antwerp in the morning.

14^th. A newspaper this morning from Mr. Troy. Baron French of Florence paid me a visit today. Called on Mr. French, George's Street.

Wrote to Earl Grey.

December 15^th. 1846. Revd. Mr. Sing of Derby, the originator of the cheap Derby religious publications, introduced himself to me this morning.

Heard that Abate Hamilton put up at this hotel, and left last night for Rome.

A newspaper this morning from good Mr. Troy.

Dined with D^r Griffiths, who read for me his last letter to Lord Grey. Met D^r Murphy, the Bishop of Adelaide.

16. Wrote to J. Reed, Revd. Messrs. Lordan and O'Brien. Forwarded by this West India Mail six English ecclesiastical Ordos.

Wrote a note to D^r Griffiths requesting copy of his correspondence with Lord Grey which he last night promised to give me.

17. Waited on Mr. Gwatkin of the firm of Colley, Smyth and Gwatkin, attorneys of the Berkeleys, at the request of Mrs. G. Berkeley, and had a conference on the Benfield properties - could not but acquiesce in all the views of Mr. Gwatkin respecting them. He read for me 2 letters of J. Reed, one dated June, the other August - in the latter he alludes without any comment to a letter he received from ArchDeacon Foderingham respecting a piece of land for a church etc. promised by Mr. Baird.

December 18^th. 1846. London. Still without any reply from Lord Grey. What can be the cause - is it the pressure of other official duties that prevents him, or is there any hidden current running against me in the Colonial Office of which D^r Griffiths is aware?

19^th. Called at the London Joint Stock Bank, and took up £25. H.H. Young was two or three times there with Mr. Robinson.

A letter this morning from D^r Griffiths dated Old Hall Green - and a note from Lady Salis to dine with her on Christmas day.

A newspaper from Fr. Mullock containing a translation of the Circular addressed to me by the Marchioness Casaflorida and Sotomayor.

20. Sunday. Called at Ford's Hotel to see if I could locate myself better than where I am.

Wrote to Mrs. Grantley Berkeley and forwarded a Tablet to S. Henry.

I feel wearied and annoyed at Lord Grey's procrastination, and fear that some dirty trick is at the bottom of it. Perhaps as a set off to his liberality in conceding so much on the principles at issue, he will refuse an extension of leave of absence, and cause my salary to be withheld.

21^st. December 1846. London . Paid Mr. Nind £12 for hotel expenses to date.

A visit from the two Mr. Frenchs.

The West India mail arrived last evening.

Received a letter from J. Reed.

Met Darcy Talbot, J. Reed's friend.

Wrote to S. Henry - to go by tomorrow's po^st.

22. Called at Mrs. Browne's, Duke Street, and looked at her lodgings - engaged the first floor at a guinea per week, commencing tomorrow.

Received a despatch this evening from the Colonial Office.

Newspapers from Mr. Troy and S. Henry.

23. Left Nind's Hotel, where the charges are most exorbitant, for my new lodgings - paid on account thirteen shillings and sixpence.

W^m Lee and his brother James called today

Wrote to Mr. Hawes of the Colonial Office - also to Mr. Troy, M. Kelly and S. Henry and D^r Taylor.

24. Wrote a long letter to J. Savage and enclosed him the Obedience which I received from Rome. Gave him an account of Fr. Joachim's conduct - and commissioned him to salute Miss Duff for me etc.

A visit from W^m Lee and his brother James - the latter spoke of a student at [Saint] Sulpice [Seminary] from the diocese of Cloyne named *Buonsang*, who would make a good missioner.

London. December 25 1846. The Lisbon letter which I posted yesterday will not go before the 27^th.

Invited to dine by Lady Salis; but the hour is so late, and not feeling inclined just now to pass an evening replying to interrogatories about our affair with Lord Grey that I prefer taking a quiet dinner at some hotel.

26. Called at Mr. Thompson's factory, Limehouse. Saw his son, with whom I left the Baltimore church plan, which he promised to return on Monday.

Mr. Adolph, brother in law of Mr. Brown, called upon me - he had a letter from J. Reed.

27. A visit from Revd. James and. W^m. Lee - posted a Tablet for Soph: Henry.

28. A letter from S. Henry.

Called on the two Lees. J[ame]s starts tomorrow.

Read in the last Dispatch a notice or an answer to a correspondent desiring to know the best and safest way of realizing an annuity for £1000 - the age of the party is 27. The Ed: recommends purchasing a Government annuity at the office, 19 Old Jury - or else half or £500 invested in [a] Savings Bank annuity - the other half to be laid out in the purchase of a house etc.

1846. London. December 29^th. Mr. Thompson the builder called - had a long conversation with him about church building - promised to give me an estimate for one.

A newspaper from Mr. Troy.

30. Looked in at the Bazaar in Baker Street.

Paid Mrs. Browne week's rent, and sundry items, in all amounting to £1.14.5.

31. Received a note from D^r Griffiths inviting me to dine tomorrow, and informing that he has received a message from the Colonial Office to attend there tomorrow, and promises me to communicate the substance of the interview with Lord Grey. I hope this conference will be the last.

Sent papers to go by next mail to Guiana - also a Dispatch to M. Kelly.