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18 August 1871 — Cologne | |
Friday. 18th August [1871]. We found it raining in the morning, & we had to take a carriage to go to the Dom Kirche which we thought most lovely & we went all round it. We went on afterwards to the Museum which was most interesting containing beautiful examples of the Cologne school from the earliest down. There is a lovely triptych by Meister Wilhelm of wh I afterwards bought a photo: We went back to the hotel after going over most of the museum wh was very well arranged. They have there a charming gallery with bits of old carving, pottery, glass (German & Venitian) & some fragments of Meister Wm frescoes wh had been discovered a year or 2 ago in the Rathhaus. We had some luncheon and then we all got ourselves up in waterproofs & set out to take a walk taking Alice with us as she had stayed in to rest in the morning. We got some Eau de Col: & photos & Alice & I went abt some little shopping of our own getting her umbrella mended &c—& got in by 5 & had a little tea. We dined abt 7 & had great fun at dinner & teased Henry abt some Moselle he was going to order of the M. of the hotel. The man who took the order came up to Henry & said that old gentleman that has been ordering some wine is a Genl Clark. I think if those ladies go into the reading room they shall find a commotion. “He says he is connected with some of these ladies.” This set us all off in a roar. We of course knew nothing of him but at once christened him “Old Cockalorum.” He was a stout old party with a middle aged wife & 2 rather plain girls who knitted stockings & we were amused with watching “Our relations”. We did not make out whose relations they were supposed to be, ours or Mrs Burr’s or Alice’s. | |
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