Lord Macnaughton and Mr Justice Bigham and Parker have accepted for the play, the Marquis of Aylesbury has refused it; such is the Play news this morning. We racked our brains over newspapers this morning. I gather all the big newspapers and journals are asked except Vanity Fair and Truth. We decided to ask the ‘Figaro’ and the ‘Matin’ and so have a French account!
Low and Barrington-Ward went up to Oxford today and I am afraid that I can’t honestly say I wish them success except as my personal friends. I consider it would be most undesirable precedent for the Captain of the School not to go to the House [i.e. Christ Church College].
Ward and myself attacked John Sargeaunt on the subject of the Old Lecture Room, whether it couldn’t be turned into a museum; he said (as I knew he would) that he would talk to Gow.