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1 January 1900 — Villa Pisani, Vescovana | |
Monday. 1st January [1900]. A very foggy wet day & no moving out. Read aloud & worked for the War people & on 2nd Tuesday I received a telegram from Leo Layard to say his father (Henry’s youngest brother) Edgar Layard died yesterday morning– So for me the New Year has a sad beginning. He was much like Henry in appearance as he grew older—but a weaker copy. He was good & amiable but exciteable & rather boastful & exaggerated things in talking. So ends that generation—& the last of the 4 brothers. I see trouble ahead between Leo & his stepmother between whom there is no love lost. Day by day the fog got thicker so that for 5 days there was no moving out. I was busy reading aloud to the Countess & working for the War sufferers– The accounts in FitzPatrick’s book “Transvaal from Within” of the treatment by the Boer Govt of the poor Uitlander makes ones heart bleed & one evening while reading it, I fairly broke down & cried. | |
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