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19 March 1887 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Saturday. 19th March [1887]. Wrote. Practised guitar. Went to 19 Stratford Place to see Lady Ampthill & sat an hour with her. Snowing a little. Miss Maxwell came to luncheon—& stayed till nearly 5. Henry went out in the carriage. Count Loredan, Mrs Kay, Mr Mowbray, Mrs Kate, Mme d’Antas all came to see me, Sir F. Burton & Mr A. Bagot. At nearly 7 I went up in a hansom to see Maria. She & Louis walked back with me. I had to dress quickly. We went to dine with Mme du Quaire & met Mr & Mrs Knowles (of 19th cent.), Robert Browning, Mr & Mrs Mathew Arnold, Mr Russell, & Miss Violet Cust, a very nice little party. Arnold took me down & I sat next to Knowles. I asked him after the Tennysons & expressed my regret at Laureate having taken a peerage. He said it was entirely the work of Mrs Tennyson & Hallam T., that neither Tennyson nor Gladstone had invented it & said he Knowles had when staying at Sandringham told the P. of Wales this! | |
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