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10 March 1887 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Thursday. 10th [March 1887]. There was such a fog in the morning I had to get up by candlelight. Wrote letters. Went to see Susan Hambro & consult her abt my train & then took a walk with Blanche, we walked to Park Crescent to see Maria whom we found in despair over the Concert she is getting up on 22nd at Gros: House for the Children’s Hospital. We talked it over with her & then walked home stopping at Lady Thompson’s to talk to her about it. Susan came to see abt my train just at lunch time but did not stay. Fred Layard came to lunch & he & I walked to Devonshire Place to call on Mrs White & found her at home. Then the carriage followed me & I went to see Mrs Poynter who was at home—then to tea with Alice Murray & was introduced to her 3 month old son. Henry joined me & we went home. We dined at Mrs Bloomfield Moore’s & found that she was not well eno’ to be down at dinner but the honors were done by a lady we did not know. We met Browning & his sister, Col. & Lady Elisabeth Romilly, Sir John & Lady Hay, a Mrs Morton Fruin & Mrs Potter an American lady who has come over here to go on the stage & who is the P. of Wales’ last fancy. She is rather handsome but has not much manners, puts her elbows on the table. She wears a tuft of hair curling straight out over her eyes—a rather wild looking coiffure. Mrs B. Moore was in the drawing room when the long dinner (wh was excellent was over) & said she was better. Before the gentlemen came upstairs I had to go as Lady Gregory called to take me to Bss Burdett Coutts’. There was a great crowd there. Arthur was there & was giving me some tea when to our surprise up trips Mildred. Arthur in astonishment asked her how she came there. “With mother” she said at wh Arthur said Oh & we hastened to leave the house in order not to find ourselves face to face with his wife. He had expected to take Mildred himself to this party but hearing nothing of Mildred had come alone. | |
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