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7 March 1908 — 3 Savile Row | |
Saturday. 7th [March 1908]. Charlie left for the Tile House at 11 & I went off to have my electric treatment at 11.30—home & rested for an hour when I lunched. Went out in brougham taking Nora Hallé who came to call on me just as I got into the carriage. Drove to Miss Jessie Allen’s in Eaton Terrace & Nora got out & Miss Allen in to the carriage & I drove her to Campden Hill & we called on Mrs Ch: Thyune to see her charming little house where she lives with her daughter & one maid. The house had been a stable & then a studio & consists of 4 rooms—one being a very large studio. On the ground floor there is a tiny kitchen, a small room for the maid & a room for Miss Thyune. In a cupboard is her bath &c & her bed wh at night is taken out & put in the middle of the room. Upstairs there is the big studio—one corner of it serves for a dining room– Above it is a kind of gallery with ladderlike steps leading to it. On going up there one finds oneself in a place containing the bed toilet &c &c which is used by Mrs Thyune as a bed room– Nothing of this can be seen from the studio & it is not even necessary to draw the curtains. The studio or hall is full of pretty furniture pictures china &c &c & looks very comfortable. Tea was served in coarse German Pottery very effective & cheap. An old capone served as tea table. Met there a Mr Leigh who said he had often been at Venice & had sketched there. His house No 18 Aubrey Walk is opposite the great water supply of London & the highest point. We drove back by Notting Hill to Portland Place to call on Mrs Sneyd whose mother was a Miss Layard. Her grandfather being the son of the Dean of Bristol. She is niece to Miss Barbara Layard of Ceylon– Her mother having being one of 26 children. I left Miss Allen there & came home to tea. Lady Limerick came to tea & chattered away very pleasantly looking wonderfully pretty & attractive. I went to dine with the Bessboroughs. Met old Lady Bessboro & Lady May Ponsonby, & the Oranmores & Bertie Pon: was at home. | |
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