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17 June 1881 — Oatland Lodge, Weybridge, Surrey | |
Friday. 17th June 1881. We left Oatlands by a 12.15 train & returned from paying a visit to Sir Wm & Miss Drake. Kate Alderson who had been staying a few days at Aunt Felicias at her house in Easton Place No 49 came to luncheon with me & we sat together till I had to go out with Henry at 5 to a small musical party at Sir Henry & Lady Thompsons. Met very few people I knew there—Mrs Alma Tadema, Lady Strangford and Mrs Reynolds were all– Mr & Mrs Herschel sang & Mme Haas played. Herschel’s singing was magnificent. He sang a piece out of Handels most wonderfully accompanying himself & he also sang other things. It appears that he is the great singer of the day & has just returned from a lucrative tour in America. He is young with curly black hair & his wife is young & nice looking. She sang several of his compositions very prettily. Mr Shakespear also sang very well. The whole thing lasted exactly two hours. We had to go home then & dress & go & dine at the Rates. Met Lady Hobart & Mr and the Dean of Westr who sat & talked to us some time in the evening abt our journeys in the Holy Land, and was charming as he always is and very lively. He asked me after our old servant Henry Beale & said he remembered his attention to him when he stayed with us at Madrid. He said we ought to go to the Abbey on Sunday to see the Lord Mayor go there in state. I told him I had half arranged to go to hear Spurgeon. | |
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