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17 February 1885 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Tuesday. 17th February [1885]. I spent an hour washing my hair which shows the London dirt so much owing to its being so very white. Went out to do a little shopping & then went in to see Blanche & sat with her a little while & went home for lunch. Alice & Henry walked to the Grosvenor Gallery & I joined them by carriage & we went thro’ the Gainsboro’ collection. Most of them were very much repainted & spoilt but many were very fine. We saw there also a collection of Dicky Doyle’s sketches & drawings. Alice & I drove till 5. Henry & I dined at the Rates and Alice joined us after dinner. The Mathew Arnolds dined there. Mr Rate was not present being laid up with erysipelas. Mathew Arnold was very cheery & talkative & told us a good deal about his tour in America & how his daughter had married a Yankee & was terribly home sick. Alice & I went on to a dance at the French Embassy. Henry went home. The Waddingtons were very civil to us & it was a pleasant party & Alice danced a good deal & we did not get home till 1.30. During the Cotillion M. Waddington sat down to talk to me & glower at the sad state of affairs in the Soudan– He talked of the different members of my family & remembered when he stayed with my mother at Exeter Hse Roehampton when he was a young man after leaving Cambridge. In many ways he is more like an Englishman than a Frenchman & certainly in looks. | |
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