Excerpt from Letters to Nobody: 1908-1913

Here am I, having survived a journey which for me has been a genuine delight, and having survived also the fellow-passengers on the P. and O. Some proved to be attractive and friendly, the rest, the major portion, assumed a critical attitude undisguised and distinctly unfavourable. These decided and asserted:

1. That I have a wife and four children, that I maltreat the first and neglect the rest.

2. That I suffer from cancer, and that one year in India will kill me.

3. That I have been removed from the public service of the Crown in England, and that I have been jobbed into the position I now hold by my uncle, John Morley. He is no relation. If he were, I should proudly claim him as such, for he is the ablest, the most far-seeing, and the strongest Secretary of State who has ever presided at the India Office.

4. That I am hopelessly incompetent and altogether unfit to be Finance Minister in India.

As to 4, I am not altogether disinclined to agree with them.

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