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1 April 1902 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Tuesday. 1st April [1902]. I got up after lunch & sat in the studio and at 11 had a visit from Mr Hamilton who has come to look into the affairs of the Venice & Murano Glass Co. He began by saying he is staying at the Grand Hotel where he is in the fastness of the Jesurum & Co & does not believe that the Venice Art Co & the Venice Hotel Co consist of the same people. I did my best to undeceive him. He then said he has decided to keep on Castellani at the head of our Co. Both these things disheartens me & I forsee failure. However I do not understand business & Mr Hamilton does only he has no idea of the capacity of a Venetian for lying & I have. I promised however to do all that lies in my power & said I would allow a meeting to be held in this house if he thought it desirable. He said he would come again to see me & departed. After lunch Da Laura came to see me & sat & had a chat. Hear that the Harstons’ little boy is down with Typhoid fever. Poor little fellow he is only 6 & such a pretty little fellow with his long fair curls which have all had to be shaved off– Fanny Browning came to see me. Her hair is beginning to grow since her last year’s illness & she looks better but I have little pleasure in seeing her now after he queer behaviour to me in turning upon me when she left her husband a second time. I amused myself in watching out of the window a party going on at the French Consul’s opposite me Ca’ Garzon in honor of the Captain & officers of the French training ship the . The Dr Sacchi came today, pronounced me cured & allows me to go out tomorrow. | |
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