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20 March 1909 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Saturday. 20th [March 1909]. I went at 9.30 to San Daniele & found the profughi diminished in number & more leaving. I brought back Css Papadopoli when I returned. She is very assiduous there & goes before 9 a.m. After lunch Ola & Baker went to the church practise & I went to see Bss Reinelt at the Hotel Victoria where she always lives. It was a pouring wet day & I came straight home after this visit. At 7.30 Css Giustina Valmarana dined with us & then she & I went off to Malagola’s Conferenza at the Aleneo Veneto. It was still raining hard—but that did not prevent people going to hear him & the lecture room was full. The subject of the lecture was writing, from the earliest times when pictures were used to the time of the medieval writing. Lantern slides showed illustrations of the different scrittura. The whole lecture took about 1 hour & ½—the last example of picture writing seems to have been when abt 1807 England took the Island of Tasmania & had no other way of communicating with the aborigines. | |
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