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17 January 1882 — 3 Savile Row | |
Tuesday. 17th January [1882]. Busy morning cutting out chair covers. Connie’s maid Hay came to help me & we sat on the floor doing it all the morning. Lunch at 1.30 & Monty went off to stay at Sandringham on a visit to the P. & Pss of Wales. We had another horse in our brougham & went down to call on the Menabreas. They were out. We went to see the Coutts Lindsays & found her just going out. She made us come in & took us to her studio & I remained with her while Henry went to Sir Coutts’ studio. Browning the poet called & helped the talk which was a blessing as Lady Lindsay was very fallal & had been ill– She has always a strange manner & makes me feel uncomfortable. We went to Glass shop St James St to give Cortelazzo’s teapot to be sent back to him. I went on to enquire for the Rates who are not in town—to Cohen’s to fetch my thimble &c & then home. Gertie Clay Ker Seymer & Car (late Churchill) Dixon Stewart came to see me– Ld Aberdare & Major & Mrs Swaine. Lord Aberdare stayed a long time chatting & I worked my sewing machine. We went to dine at 13 Eaton Place with Mr & Mrs Jarrow Whitby & Sir Arthur Otway. Mrs W. is his daughter & they live together. We met Sir C. & Ly Wellesley, Sir C. & Ly Rawlinson, Miss Otway, Miss Whitby, Mr Vincent, Mr Bagot &c. Mr Whitby took me to dinner & Sir Henry Rawlinson was on my right. He was very dull. Mr Whitby was nice & talked. Mrs Whitby is a beautiful girl with dazzling white complexion & swanlike neck– Unfortunately she does her hair all on top of her head wh is ungraceful. She has a beautiful figure. She played & her sister sang. The sister is plain but clever—sings tolerably—& composes very pretty music. She sang two pieces to us. Someone begged her to recite but she did not do so– | |
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