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28 May 1900 — 3 Savile Row | |
Monday. 28th [May 1900]. Capt. La Terrière came to go with me & Nellie to see the rooms she wants to take at 11 Mill St. Conduit St for her dressmaking establishment & I was going with them. At the door we met Sir Francis de Winton who came to talk abt the Layard Home so I turned back & we arranged what he shd do & see to the Red Cross Committee. He agrees to go to see them for us & state the case to them. I went afterwards & we settled to take 11 Mill St. Nellie lunched out but I was at home. Merthyr returned to Inwood in the morning. He is selling his horses & hounds having given up being M.T.H. to the Blackmoor Vale. It grieves him—& the nine as the gentlemen of the county have been very uncivil to him about it all. The farmers, on the contrary has been very nice 826 of them signed a testimonial to him & he entertained them at a great breakfast party– There was a partial eclipse of the sun which began a little before 3. I watched it through a piece of coloured glass I found in Mrs Austen’s cabinet of curios. There were some clouds about but not eno’ to obscure the sun altogether & made it more easily watched without a coloured glass. I dined with Mr & Mrs Beaumont at 144 Piccadilly—a great function but dull. Sir Charles Mansfield Clark took me to dinner. I dont know who my other neighbour was—but he was pleasant, said he was an R.E. had just returned from Egypt. The D. & Dss of Somerset were there, Sir Russell & Lady Rodd, the Danish Minister, wife & daughter & others. After dinner Mr Walter Farquhar talked to me. He knew my brother Arthur well. | |
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