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20 April 1900 — 3 Savile Row | |
Friday. 20th [April 1900]. We had our Committee meeting at 10.45. We finally decided to move to the Cape– Cabled to Dr & Mrs Longworth to proceed at once & leave their patient Boyce in the hands of Miss Bickmore. Wrote to Sir C. Clarke. Lady Gwendolin Cecil, Duchess Adeline Bedford, Dr Hyslop & self only at the meeting. At 3 oclock a clerk came from the War Office from Sir C. Clarke to ask how many of our staff & what stores we wanted to send out. I said we could not tell till we had an answer from Capetown as to size of house &c offered us at Matjesfontein. The clerk was civil, intelligent & helpful. He said he thought the place was 160 miles from Capetown—believed the Govt we telegraph in their call for us at 2/ per word– Just as I was going out I got a note from Mr C. Hallé asking me to go & see the new Gallery Exn. Today being “press day.” He showed me a bas relief portrait of Henry by Frampton done for Southwark public library. I was dismayed when I saw it—for it was so bad. I had sent the library authorities the bronze relief I had done myself from life! There was a portrait by Watts of Lena Duff Gordon feeble & not like– A fine picture of a brown monk called Ave Maria by very striking & religious in feeling. On leaving the Gallery I set out to walk to Park Crescent to see Maria. In Regent St Connie’s carriage drove by & she saw me & stopped & spoke to me– Maria was with her so I only went as far as Cav. Sqr & then returned home. Mr Cazenove came to see me to hear about the Committee meeting. Lady Poynter called. Miss Oswell came to dinner & we worked till past 11. I wrote letters for the mail to Madeira & she typed them for me. I arranged that the letter I had written to Dr Wainwright shd be taken to S’hampton by hand & given over to c/o the Capt. of the SS “Norman.” Decided to send Knapp & let her go home & see her mother. | |
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