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13 February 1885 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Friday. 13th February [1885]. I sat with Mr Vigor all the morning. Dr Fuller came at 9 said he had seen Mama & she was better. Alice went also to see her in the course of the morng. Maria & Ola came to lunch & then Maria & I walked round to Langham Hse to see Mama. She is in bed & seemed to me a good deal better. I wrote a letter for her abt the Turkish work & then Maria & I went in my brougham to 25 Park Crescent which is the house Richard has taken & where they will live when they leave Exeter House at Lady Day. He has sold Exeter House for £14,000 with the intention of coming to live in London. I left Maria at Pk Crescent with Connie who joined us & I went to pay some calls & returned home at 5. Maria came to tea & Bee Eliot came with a Mrs Dalzell. We dined at 6.45 & at 7.45 Sir Henry Thompson called for Henry, Alice & me & took us to the St James’ theatre to see “As you Like it” in wh Mrs Kendal played Rosalind. It was beautifully got up—& was well done but altho’ Mrs K looked well & was ladylike it did not feel like Shakespeare & left one cold. Mr Hare as Touchstone was very good. Mr Kendal did a passable Orlando. Miss Linda Dietz as Celia was aggravating. It all goes to prove one ought not to go & see Shakespeare acted. I sent round to inquire how the mother was when I returned & had a good report. Henry met Gladstone in the street today. G stopped him & said he had thought he was at Venice & then said he was afraid there was no longer any hope that Gordon was alive. Every body is talking of Gladstone’s having gone to the theatre the night that the news of the fall of Khartoum had arrived– There is general indignation. | |
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