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17 September 1883 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Monday. 17th September [1883]. Mr Rate & Margie went to Padua for the day. Alice came up to the studio & we sewed mignonette and potted out things & gardened all the morning. Henry had a visit from Messrs Pender, John Lister, Sir James Anderson & others who are come here in the yacht of the E. Telegraph Co. from Trieste and are on their way to Consple. They begged him & me to go to dine with them tonight at 7 wh we promised to do. At 4.30 we had tea downstairs in Alice Rate’s sitting room & then went out for a row. Took her to see the Stabto & then for a row. Came home & dressed for dinner & went off to the “Yalta” found Mr & Lady M. Beaumont dining there & their son & a niece. The dinner table was divided half on each side of the cabin. We had a very bad dinner but pleasant company. I sat between Forster & Pender who was very busy with a new invention for squeezing out lemons an American dodge & he kept supplying Lady Margaret & me with lemon juice & apollinaris water. After dinner we went on the upper deck & I found that Capt Shaw the head of the London fire Brigade was of the party. I had met him before & he is a great friend of all my brothers. I showed Burano lace to the gentlemen of wh I had taken a store. Sir James Anderson bought some & Pender ordered some. At abt 9.30 we were asked to leave the ship as they were going to start at once for Consple. At dinner time Mr Pender having asked what he had bought said he had picked up a very good picture by “Tippolo” he thought. He retired to his cabin & brought out the very watercoloured copy of a Longhi wh Guggenheim had once lent me to copy on my fan. He asked us to guess what he had given for it & at last said £5. We told him it was not a Tiepolo & I made him write Longhi at the back of it to wh he added “Lady Layard says it is a very good copy.” It was all very comical & I met Mr Beaumont’s eye with a twinkle in it. Mr Pender is enormously rich & has fine English modern pictures but no knowledge or taste. This morning while talking of Hill’s state with Alice Rate she advised me strongly to send her home & said she thought Hill wd gladly go– I spoke to her & suggested she should go next week—Monday—& almost decided it. She is still weak & ill & cannot pick up & will never do so here. | |
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