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4 June 1886 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Friday. 4th June [1886]. I wrote hard all the morning my correspondence being in arrears. May Ponsonby came in & I asked her to lunch, she, Blanche & Mr Lawrence Oliphant lunched with us. Mrs Bronson came in at coffee. The news of the cholera at Venice is bad. There are abt 40 cases a day nearly all fatal. B & I drove together dropping Henry at Murrays. We came back & took Irene with us a little way as the child has a sprained ankle. Home to tea. Nelly Alderson came to tea. Dined with the Gregories & met Mr & Mrs Hanbury. She a beauty née Eager just married, Mrs Plowden the Consuls wife—a grass widow also pretty—Mr James the American novelist, Mr Cartwright, Mr Cordrey, an Indian friend of the Gregories—Lord Howth, Mr H. Doyle. | |
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