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15 July 1901 — 3 Savile Row | |
Monday. 15th [July 1901]. Typed the Ross letters in morning. Nellie left at 12.30 for Ascot for the dress rehearsal of “Twelfth Night” this afternoon– The performances are to be tomorrow & the next day. Hilda Keppel came & offered to lunch with me—but as Connie was coming we agree Hilda should not remain. Connie remained till 3 when Mr Burton called for her & took her home. I went to Claverton St to see old Sir Collingwood Dickson & found him as usual sitting in his den or dressing room. He says he has been ill all the winter with bronchitis—but he is 84—the same age as Henry. It seems hard that the dear old General should be spared who has no wife to want him & Henry gone who was my all! Ah me. The dear old man was very preoccupied giving over Turkish books from his library to the R. Artistic Institute so I left him & went & did other commissions & then home at 5 to tea– Later I went in a cab to Wyndham Place to see Henry & thence to Blanche for a few minutes—then home– Theo & Aura dined with me but left early in the evening as Aura was going to a ball. Theo & I had a confab over dowsing & compared notes. “George” Gordon came to tea with me– We had last met at Rome in Jany. I wrote letters after I got into bed & crept downstairs in my night gown to post them in our hall box. Regular hot summer weather. Professor Venturi called. | |
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