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8 April 1881 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 8th April [1881]. Mildred & Rhuvon appointed to meet their father here at 11 this morng so he came to receive them– They came an hour late owing to the train having been detained by the University Boat Race wh Oxford won & which took place at 8 this morning. Rhuvon was considered so untidy that he was taken to Henry’s dressing room & “scrubbed down” before he was allowed to go out with Mildred to lunch at Queen’s Gate with their mother with whom they are now soon going to live as Arthur is going to have a signed separation & the children are going to return to their mother. Cecil Alderson came to see us & walked with me round to Lady Cowley’s in Albemarle St. She was at home & so I paid her a visit. She was very kind to me & we talked a gt deal abt Consple & she says she hears that Henry is sure to go to Rome. I walked home in time for luncheon with Cecil & Henry. At 3 Addie Tavistock fetched me & took me out driving. We took my silver book cover to Sotheran to get a Bible fitted to it. Being next door to Piccadilly Hall we went in to see the “Midgets” the smallest dwarfs ever heard of. They are abt 24 inches high & sit on tiny chairs on a platform in the middle of a room. The girl whom they say is 18 is very repulsive looking having an enormous nose but she seems otherwise well grown. The boy is rather good looking. They are shown off by two more ordinary sized dwarfs who look gigantic by the side of the Midgets. Their voices were so small it was not easy to hear them & the girl seemed rather idiotic & jabbered in Portuguese or Mexican wh made her seem more like a monkey. We did not stay long. Went to call on Ly Galloway whom we found in & then Addie took me home. Margie Rate & Mrs Poynter called & Mr Burton came to tea. Went to dine at Sir Hy Thompsons & met Maria, Richard & Alice, Mr & Mrs Eustace Smith, Robert Browning the poet who sat on my right & our host on my left. Great talk with Mrs Eustace Smith abt Burano Lace. She promises to buy. | |
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