15 Jack spent the period 22 September to 10 October with his father at Little Lea. Mr Lewis wrote in his diary on 11 October: ‘While Jacks was at home I repeated my promise to provide for him at Oxford if I possibly could, for a maximum of three years from this summer. I again pointed out to him the difficulty of getting anything to do at 28 if he had ultimately to leave Oxford’ (LP VII: 156).