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3 April 1883 — Dowlais House, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan | |
Tuesday. 3rd April [1883]. Spent the morning going to the schools & over the works with Mrs Clark accompanied by Mr Ed. Martin & remained some time watching the Bessemer steel. Met there also Tom Jenkins who is one of the old set of my father’s time. Martin talked nicely of our family & said that my father’s name was still remembered & referred while other more recent ones (Menelaus for example) had already passed away. We returned home to lunch & directly after Mrs Clark & I set off on foot to call on old Mrs Martin, on Mrs Cresswell the Dr’s wife & the Edward Martins. At Mrs Cresswell’s the subject turned on the “World” newspaper & I said I hoped nobody took it in as it was so scurrilous & lying. Mrs Cresswell said that she took it in & “thought it just as well to know both sides of a question.” I told her that if she hoped to find any real side to every question in the World she wd be disappointed as there never was a word of truth from beginning to end of it. When we returned to the House the waggonette was ready & Henry & I went for a drive with Mrs Clark. We drove to Cyfarthfa & called on Mrs Crawshay whom we found at home. It is a hideous mock castle but prettily situated. The works down in the valley had been stopped for some time but is now being repaired & rearranged to work steel. There was a great din of hammering & building going on. Mrs took us round the garden where there are quantities of hot houses & then we drove home. We stopped at Mrs Clark’s hospital & went in to see it. She entirely supports it & there are 8 beds– | |
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