Meynell informs Raisbeck that he will not be attending a committee meeting but will ‘send my proxies by Carins (sic) who may supply my place on the opposition benches he is a good Bulldog & if he cannot bite he will at least bark but biting the [...] would be useless it would be merely biting the chains with which we are fettered'. Attached to the letter is a black seal, en placard, with the letter M.