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27 December 1869 — Madrid | |
Monday. 27th [December 1869]. Had my Spanish lesson & afterwards wrote all the morng & copied out music. After lunch we had a visit from Señor Ochoa—a very nice man who has translated Virgil into Spanish prose & brought out a Latin edition. He has a clever countenance & speaks French very well. He had been a Deputy & chamberlain to the Queen & since the revolution had given up politics & taken entirely to letters. He told us he was no relation to the Ochoa who is now a Deputy. At 3 I went out in the carriage and went to fetch Mme Riaño & we went shopping together. We went to the Plaza della Cruz & bought some common wooden toys of the country, at the booths there, to send home to Maria’s children. We also went to buy some pomegranates & turron & other sweets—a fan for Grannie, some silver buttons for Blanche and a cosy for a wedding present. I brought Mme R. home to have some tea & then sent her home in the carriage. We had the Hunts, Messrs Ff: & Ash: & Cerruti & M. Weisweiller & Col Stephenson & Capt. Rycroft to dinner & in the evening, the Prussian Minister & Mme Canitz, Genl & Miss Sickles & the Riaños. Mr & Mrs Hunt & I each sang. | |
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