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16 March 1900 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 16th [March 1900]. Read the papers in bed & wrote letters & got up by 10. Mr Burton came with Dr Broadbent to see Monty & said he must remain in bed. I went at 11 to see Mrs Hope at Lansdowne House to ask if she would facilitate wives of officers going to Madeira to meet their husbands. She said she would send me an answer tomorrow. I returned home & fetched Eda. Nela came to invite Eda to go to the Irish Industry Sale at the Mansion House this afternoon. Nela Laterriere came to sit with Monty so I went out again with Eda & drove to Fenchurch St to Donald Currie’s Office to discuss with Mr Hunt the manager how to get cheap tickets for poor officers. He recommended me to get some lady to be our Agent at Cape town to arrange it all. We got back to Savile Row at 1 & Eda went on to lunch with Nela Du Cane. Lady Agneta Montagu & her girl Helen came to see me, also Elaine Villiers. Ivor came also & went up to see Monty. Nela Laterriere lunched with me. Connie looked in to say she could not stop as she was going to help to sell at the Mansion House. Nelly returned to sit with Monty. I went off to tea [with] Lady Gwendolin Cecil & discuss with her the paper we are going to have printed about the Madeira Homes. She took me off to try & see Dr Stewart at Norfolk House St James’ Square. He was out but we saw Lady Mary Howard & explained our message to her. I parted with Lady Gwendolin & walked to Victoria Street to Miss Oswell’s office & she took me to the printer’s where we ordered the paper to be printed. It snowed a little & was very cold. I came home in a hansom to tea. Found Monty in his arm chair in the sitting room in his dressing gown– Charlie Eliot came to tea with me. I wrote letters. Eda came home abt 7. We dined alone together. I wrote for the Madeira mail in the eveng & also went up to see Monty a bit. He had returned to bed & seemed better tho’ rather tired from having seen many visitors. His nice gentle little nurse rests by day & sits up with him at night. | |
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