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1 August 1887 — Coole Park, Gort, County Galway | |
Monday. 1st August [1887]. Lady Gregory was going out to see some poor people in her poney carriage & took me with her. After lunch she took us & Mr Doyle over to a place called Tallyra to call on Mr Martyn & his mother. We met there Lady Clanmorris & her daughter in law the young Lady Clanmorris. We walked round the gardens & saw the house which has been added to the old Castle tower by the present owner. In the central hall there is an American organ which Mr Martyn allowed me to try & wh he played himself. We had tea & returned to Coole. The Visconite de Bastereau dined & Mr Mercer the resident magistrate also dined. Henry found that he had known Mr Mercer at Baghdad when Mercer had been in the Navy. The Visconite is half Irish half French an ugly agreeable lame little man speaking English very well. He is clever & his hobby is said to be the study of human race & was delighted when the subject turned on “yellow blood.” He said he lived a great deal at Rome but he was very Papist & abused the Italians roundly. | |
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