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22 June 1907 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Saturday. 22nd [June 1907]. I got a note early this morning from Sra Malagola asking me if I would go to lunch with her at the Giardino of the Exhibition at 12– I accepted suggesting that I should take her there in gondola—so she came here at 11.30 & we started. Her son Guido & Marchese Sonimi Picenardi Grand Prior of the Croce di Malta met us & we sat at the Kiosque near the Exhibition & had an excellent lunch. Sonimi is a great talker & knows every body so the conversation never flagged. He has been a good looking man & is fond of society of ladies still, is a widower & does not respond to ones ideal of a Prior. We all returned to town in my gondola & Sra Malagola & I went on to the Giudecca to the hospital where the overseer of the work told me he hoped to have everything finished & to take away the workmen on Wedy next. Magari! I then returned home. Visit from Genl & Mrs Hatton at tea time & also Mr & Mrs Lindon Smith—she of the family of Putnam the publisher a handsome woman but “got up” & very second rate. They were introduced to me by Janet Ross of Florence. After came Mrs Curtis & Henry James (US) who [is] staying with her. At 6 Angela called for me in gondola—& we started for the Giardini but it was stormy & began to rain so we had to turn back & went to call on Baroness Ritter at Hotel Britannia & sat with her till it cleared when we returned to our homes. | |
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