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24 January 1900 — 3 Savile Row | |
Wednesday. 24th [January 1900]. In this morning’s Times there were letters saying a Mrs Dring & a Senhor Muchado have offered their house at Madeira for convalescent hospitals for officers so I walked off to consult Adeline Bedford as to my scheme. She approved & begged me to go & call on Mrs Dring at Stanhope Terrace. This I did but she was not at home so I came home to lunch. Connie came to lunch & afterwards I walked to Q. Anne’s Mansions to see Lady Gregory & together she & I went by underground railway to High Street Kensington & paid a visit to Sir Frederick Burton whom we found much aged & very weak & infirm. However he expected us and sat erect in his chair in the sitting room by the fire in a purple dressing gown evidently only partly dressed & catching his breath from weakness. He looked as handsome as ever with his silver white hair & a bright colour on his cheeks from the effort he was making. However he was as bright & interested as ever & every now & then when excited he spoke very loudly & threw himself back & laughed heartily. But it was sad for it is evident he is slipping out of this world—& it will be another good friend of the old times to lose. We had tea with him & then walked to Kensington Square & called on Mrs Green (widow of he of the short history). She received us—but her manner was embarrassed & strange so we did not stay long. After that Augusta & I parted– She went home & I paid a visit to Miss Faithfull whose name was mentioned in this morning’s paper in connection with Mrs Dring’s offer. Miss Faithfull proved to be a young & rather handsome girl a trained nurse & she hailed my visit with delight saying she was to be the matron at Madeira if the scheme is carried out but that no definite answer can be obtained from the War Office as to the acceptance of the scheme. She wd get Mrs Dring to give her all necessary information as she is going to see her tonight & will come on to see me afterwards—but she has not come. | |
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