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28 July 1900 — 3 Savile Row | |
Saturday. 28th [July 1900]. The weather much cooler in morning. At 10.30 Mr Burton called to tell me that the Sisters at Mortimer St have a vacancy & are willing to take my mother’s late Maid Moody into the House so I hastened off to Molly’s (Lady Humphrey) to ask her maid who is Moody’s sister about her going. She says Moody prefers to go to her uncle at Richmond– I found Molly at Breakfast so I left her & hurried on to Mr Burton’s 13 Dover St to tell him & thank him– I then went on to Stratton St to see Mr Burdett Coutts & found him at his breakfast. As I had breakfasted at 7 & it was past 11—it amused me. I brought him the address of a Prof. Ogston who last year lectured on the bad Army Medical arrangements—a subject wh Mr B. Coutts is agitating violently in the House of Commons. He asked me into his study & made me sit down & eat a peach which was excellent & then talked abt the question he has so much at heart. I am afraid his opinion of me went down considerably when he found I had not read all the letters & articles lately published on the subject in the Times & I went on my way abashed– In the street I met Mr Cazenove & brought him into my house to show him Dr Wainwright’s last letter– Monty went away for Sunday & I am alone in the house. It was stormy all day. At 4.30 I went in a hansom to Little Holland House to see Mr & Mrs Watts who had Mrs Arthur Hanson with them. “Signor” as we all call Mr Watts looked remarkably well despite his 84 years & was charming as ever—& his dear good wife the same– Met there Lady Arran, Lady Kemball, Lady Battersea. Mrs Hanson looks very ill but says she is well. She is a firm disciple of the Faith cure—& certainly she has lived these last 2 years in spite of the Doctors who told her she had only 3 months before her. I got home at 6.30 so tired that I went straight to bed & slept & had some food brought me there. | |
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