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12 January 1886 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Tuesday. 12th [January 1886]. Haynes came to put up the mirrors in our drawing room & we had a long busy morning setting the room in order. I tried to do some copying for Henry but it did not get on very fast. Mrs Eden came to lunch. Afterwards we went to Marshall & Snelgrove’s sale & then did other commissions & I took her back to Hans Place where they have a house at present. I went in for a moment to see Mr Eden who is not well & then hurried home to tea. At our door I met Mme Reyntiens who paid us a visit. We dined with Mr & Mrs Ball in Southwell Gardens. The thaw began this eveng but the streets were very bad & the snow lay thick in many streets. Rustem Pasha (Turkish Ambr), Mr D’antas (Portuguese Minst), Mrs Green, the widow of the Historian, Mr & Mrs Robertson, a Miss Trevelyan, & M. Gutmannsthal dined. Mrs Green is a strange looking woman—young, Irish with wildly curled hair—red eyes—& ugly. Mrs Robertson is rather a buxom looking woman—a German, niece of Bismarck’s & brought up in his family—bright & speaking English almost without an accent. I sat between our host & M. d’Antas. | |
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