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17 March 1908 — 3 Savile Row | |
Tuesday. 17th [March 1908]. I never knew the telephone so importunate as it was all this morning. I was at it from 9 a.m. till lunch time at short intervals. Nellie & Charlie arrived from the Tile House to stay the week. Lady (Blanche) Lindsay came to see me to bid me good bye before I leave for Italy. Augusta & Eda both went out to lunch & the Wylds & I were alone for that meal. Augusta had a man from Garrards the jeweller to bring some diamonds for her to choose for her daughter in law in exchange for an emerald she has & we had a long discussion over it. Verona Williams came to bid me good bye. At 3 Gweneth called for me in the motor & we went to the Irish Sale at Londonderry House. There was a great crowd of people there—all the fashionable world. I saw Rachel Lady Dudley there & had a long talk with her. She was looking lovely in a tight fitting mauve velvet dress with hat to match but she is very thin & has a very tiny waist wh is the more remarkable that she has just had twins & was desperately ill. I came home in a cab for tea. Dss of Somerset came & brought a statement of the accounts of our sale: over £380. Sir Alfred Lyall came to call looking very white & frail. Mrs Whitaker came later having just returned from a visit to her son at Rome. The Wylds, Augusta & Eda all dined out & I dined at the Humphery’s to meet H.R.H. Pss Louis Augusta of Schleswig Holstein—a big dinner at which were Ld & Ly Waldegrave, Lady Winchester, the Archdeacon & Mrs Wilberforce, the Belgian Minister & Mme Lalante, Mr Gye & Mme Albani (still looking wonderfully youthful), Lord Hugh Cecil, & others. Gye took me down & I found him a pleasant friendly old man– Lord Waldegrave on my left was grumpy. The dinner lasted a long time. Afterwards I talked a bit to the Pss & then with the Belgian Minister. Came home at 11.30 & the Wylds came in soon after & came & sat talking in my room—& so to bed. | |
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