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27 May 1890 — Milton Court, nr. Dorking, Surrey | |
Tuesday. 27th May [1890]. Got up late. Abt 4 went off in brougham with Mrs Rate to a garden party at Wotton. The girls followed in the phaeton with a nice little Miss Maxey daur of the Admiral who has come over to Milton to stay with them. Mrs Evelyn received us kindly. There were very few people there Sir Rd Webster (the Attorney Genl) & a Mrs FitzGerald. The latter joined me & Mrs Rate & we walked in the garden & climbed the steps to the top of the mount in front of the house. Mrs Rate took me over the house & we saw the new dining hall & other additions made by the present owner. We went into the old library. It is full of glass cases in wh the most interesting relics of old John Evelyn are tossed in the greatest confusion. Mr Evelyn is rather an eccentric man– His wife a clergymans daughter a commonplace rather frivolous woman who probably takes no interest in the old things. He was talking to me today & complaining that he could not get Mrs Evelyn to agree with him as to the education of his only son– He would have wished him to have been brought up like the young Pantaleoni’s of Rome who were distantly related to him. They knew many languages &c but Mrs Evelyn would not hear of anything but the usual routine of any English school life. We drove afterwards to see some old ladies Mrs Fuller & her 2 sisters Miss Berkeleys. Mrs Fuller has the most charming sweet countenance & wears an old fashioned tulle cap with little strings tied under her chin. I quite fell in love with her. Her sisters were older looking (tho’ really younger than her), fat common place looking kindly little old ladies. We walked back to Milton from their house & heard a nightingale singing in the copse. | |
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