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22 February 1883 — 3 Savile Row | |
Thursday. 22nd February [1883]. Wrote &c in morning. Sir Wm Gregory & Mr Burton & Annie Murray came to lunch. Henry went out with the 2 former directly after on Nat: Gallery business. Annie went home & Ola & I went out paying visits & found Lady A. Russell & Mrs Tom Hughes at home. The Hughes are on a visit to the Russells. Found Mrs Holmes White at home—& also Mrs Drummond & Mrs Kay. Was introduced to Mr Morris the Poet who wrote the Epic of Hades. He is a big ungainly man & rather commonplace. He said he was a great friend of Lord Aberdares. Home at 5. Dined at Mrs Henry Reeves 62 Rutland Gate. Met Lord & Lady Dartrey, Mr Mallock (the writer of the New Republic) who gave himself great airs—Mr & Mrs & Miss Hodgson– Mrs H. is still an elegant & must have been a lovely woman. A young man in the F.O. who was 6ft 6in in height. He sat next me & Lord Dartrey took me to dinner. Ct Pipes the Swedish Minister took Mrs Reeves down– Lady Dartrey told us a deal about Ireland in the evening & said that in all the 41 years of her married life that she had lived there she never had seen things so bad– She said socialism & the priests were ruining the country & she laid the fault at Gladstone’s door. The Dartreys are liberals wh is curious. She said the R.C. land owners were insulted in the same way as the Protestants but that the priests hoped to drive every Protestant from the country. She believed it would all end in civil war & that we shd have to reconquer Ireland. | |
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