 | Lady Layard’s Journal Go to a Date Search the Journal |
|
Previous Entry
|
Following Entry
| |
12 September 1901 — Dolobran, Haverford, Pennsylvania | |
Thursday. 12th September [1901]. Breakfast in my room at 8. Very hot heavy weather with occasional heat drops– We were engaged to lunch at Sister Bettle’s & Nellie, Pansie, Mrs G. & I went to her cottage at 1.30. She had not returned from N. York so Mrs G. ordered lunch. We had hardly sat down when Sister Bettle appeared looking very tired so we soon left her after lunch that she might rest & came back to sit in our rooms to be quiet. After tea I went to see Mrs Rodman Griscom whose house is in these grounds. I found her at home & sat talking with her some time till her mother in law came in. We talked of the R.C. Church in America & she said there was not the same friction here between it & that the R.C. Priests understood that they must keep friends with the Americans or they would not succeed so they always made the Irish servants in American families mind what they were about & do their service well– I left Mrs Griscom with her daughter in law & accompanied by Beulah the bulldog set out for a walk. I went out of Dolobran grounds & past the golf ground—the same round Nellie & I had taken the evening before but it was later than I thought the sun set & as there is hardly any twilight in this part of the world it soon grew quite dark. It was a very hot steamy evening & as I had to go as fast as I could & to find my way across a stream it was rather a difficult job. Once I got on to a wrong road but on hearing the railway train I judged that I had mistaken the turning so I went back & turned up a sharp hill—stumbling along the road wh was cut up by yesterday’s heavy rain. At the top at the hill I saw lights in a house where I determined to ask my way. On getting over I found it was the Bettle’s house & I was in the grounds of Dolobran– I hurried in & found it was 7.30. Mrs Griscom had a dinner party & I had only just time to dress for 8 o’cl dinner & hardly time to cool down– I only passed 3 carriages on my walk & not a single pedestrian of whom to ask directions. Mr & Mrs Van Rensselaer, Mr & Mrs , Mr Ellis, Mr Forbes, Mr & Mrs Rodman Griscom & a Mr Keith dined also Mr Hamilton Kuhms who had travelled out with us in the St Paul & who lives close by here. Mr Keith remained to the last & talked in a very interesting manner. He seems a man of great cultivation & said he is a genealogist & knows abt all the family pedigrees in this part of the country. The Van Rensselaers were very cordial & hospitably begged Nellie & me to go to see them & offered to have us on their yacht for one day of the coming races. Altogether the evening entertainment was very pleasant & lively & was quite a success. | |
|
Previous Entry
|
Following Entry
| |