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11 July 1899 — 3 Savile Row | |
Tuesday. 11th July [1899]. Molly Humphery called for me & took me in her carriage to lunch with Mr & Mrs Fuller Maitland at Phillimore Gardens– There were several people there whom we did not know except Mrs Dugdale & Mr Clifford. Sat in the little garden behind the house & have coffee– I went to Argyll Road to see Sir Frederick Burton & sat with him while Molly went to make a call & then she returned for me & brought me home. Mme Nevada Palmer & her little girl Mignon & Dr Palmer came to tea also Monty Alderson & Mrs Willy Hanson– I went to dine with Blanche Lady Lindsay & met there Mr & Mrs Broughton, Mr Bence Jones & 3 other people whose name I did not catch. Mr Broughton was very funny; he is an American with an Irish accent—& an artist. I went at 11 o’cl to 44 2 doors off to see Lady Vivian who was not very well & I sat with her half an hour & then took a cab home. Mr Bence Jones talked of the newly published Byron letters—& said his father & mother had been very intimate with Lady Byron but his mother had burnt all her correspondence with Lady Byron & would not allow her son to read it. That Lady Byron had been a divinity to them had helped to make their marriage possible when his father was penniless. He had thus brought up with a great admiration for her. What strikes him most in reading the correspondence is Lady B’s lawyer like letters so clever hard & clear. I told Mr Bence Jones I knew of another woman’s letters on the same subject (my sister in law Adeline’s) which had been also written in the same tone—& I supposed it is the faculty given to a woman in such cases whether they are right or wrong. It was a tremendously hot day & the thermometer stands 80 in my bed room at sunset. | |
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