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2 July 1906 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Monday. 2nd [July 1906]. Teresina the Malagola niece came, as she has been doing this fortnight past to help me in the morng to make bead chains. I went to lunch at 12 at Hotel Victoria with Angela Reinelt to meet Dr Giordano the celebrated surgeon. Had much interesting talk with him & he explained to me how he wishes to be treated at the Civil Hospital here—& unless something is done to improve his position he will leave Venice. I promised to do what I cd to set matters straight. Home at 3. Worked. Prepared to go to pay the Empress Eugenie a visit on her yacht “Thistle” when I received a note from Sigr Malvezzi dei Medici asking me not to go there today as H.M. was going out, so I telephoned to Angela that I wd go out with her later & I went off to the Piazza to buy beads for Lady Egerton & returned straightway. At 6.30 Angela came & had with her Css Morosini & her girl. We took them a little way till they met their own gondola & transferred themselves into it. We went on to enquire abt the Czernin child who is already better—& then to call on Bss Ritter at the Hotel Britannia; we sat with her some time in the garden & then I returned home. Found Srs Arbib & Cortina waiting to see me & had a few words with them till a little after 7.30 the Belmondos arrived to dine with me. Afterwards we left the Count to do his own affairs & I took Iduna to the Hospital & found the two nurses in the garden listening to music discoursed to them by Angelo the Eden’s gardener & his friend—on guitar & mandolin. They were playing for the benefit of the patients who cd hear their serenade. It was a lovely moonlit night & a lovely cool air. I took Iduna home. She told me much of the sad death of Aimées husband P. Cariati at Rome after 3 operations to his head. He was only 47 & had since 3 days been named Ambr at Washington his great desire. | |
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