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1900

1900, early, MacGregor and Moina Mathers were living at 87 Rue Mozart, Paris (Howe 203).

January 1900

13 January 1900, Tuesday

THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS. ENTERTAINMENT AT HER MAJESTY'S.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princess Victoria and Prince Charles of Denmark, attended the entertainment to aid the widows and orphans of her Majesty's Household Troops, organised by Mrs. Arthur Paget and presented under the direction of Mr. H. Beerbohm Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre last night.

... [The major part of this story is the program of the entertainment, in which Muriel Wilson, among others, played an important part.]

Among those present at the entertainment were: The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Victoria of Wales, and Prince Charles of Denmark, the French Ambassador, the Russian Ambassador, the Portuguese Minister, Count Mensdorff, the Austrian Embassy, Prince and Princess Demidoff, Prince and Princess Hatzfeldt, Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, Count and Countess Roman Potocki, Count and Countess Alexander Münister, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the Marquis of Downshire, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, the Earl and Countess of Gosford, the Earl of Lathom, the Countess of Ancaster, the Countess of Wilton, the Countess of Yarborough, the Countess of Huntingdon, Viscount Curzon, Lord and Lady Farquhar, Lord and Lady Savile, Lord Rowton, Lord Westbury, Baroness d'Erlanger, Count and Countess Seilern, Lord and Lady Ribblesdale, Lord and Lady Hothfield, Lord and Lady Raincliffe, Lord Wandsworth, Lord Charles Montagu, Lady Cunard, Sir Edgar and Lady Helen Vincent, Lady Kathleen and Mr. Pilkington, Lady Violet Brassey, Lady Grey Egerton, the Hon. Humphry and Lady Feodorowna Sturt, Lady Ripley, Lady Katherine Coke, Lady Agneta Montagu, Lady Tatton Sykes, Lady Templemore, Lady Florence Grant, Lady Garrick, Lady Pearson, Lady Constance Haddon, Sir F. Burdett, the Hon. M. Charteris, Sir A. de la Rue, Sir Frederick and Lady Milner, the Hon. E. Stonor, Sir Edward and Lady Sassoon, Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, the Hon. Mrs. Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Napier, Sir Charles Forbes, Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. Cornwallis West, Mr. Arnold Morley, Mr. L. Neumann, Madame Vagliano, Mr. Gillett, Mrs. Godfrey Samuelson, Mrs. Reginald Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson, Mr. Menzies, Mr. Dreyfous [sic], Mrs. George Coats, Mr. Hartmann, Mrs. Rube, Mrs. Neumann, Mr. Lukach, Mrs. Candy, Mr. Bargrave Deane, Mr. L. V. Harcourt, Mrs. Oppenheim, Mrs. Lionel Phillips, Mr. King. Mr. James Finch, Mrs. Clayton Glyn, Miss Van Wart, Mr. Hall Walker, Mr. Drexell, Mrs. Van Raalte, Mr. Alfred Beit, Mr. Douglas Uzielli, Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, Mr. Munday, Mrs. William James, Mrs. Newhouse, Mrs. Max Waechter, Mr. G. Prentis, Mrs. M'Calmont, Mr. Blacklock, Mrs. Ausell, Captain Holford (Equerry to the Prince of Wales), Mr. De Nino, Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Breitmeyer, Mrs. Wernher, Mrs. Armour, Mr. Van Alan, Mrs. Ewart, Mrs. Carl Meyer, Mrs. Powell, Mr. Hambro, Colonel Charles Allen, Colonel Cunningham, Mrs.Hutchinson, Mrs. Schumacher, Colonel Kennard, Mrs. Fludyer, Mrs. Williamson, Mr. Thellusson, Mr. Sackville West, Captain M'Neil, Mrs. Dalrymple Hamilton, Mrs. Penn Curzon, Mrs. Hamar Bass, Mrs. Kuhliug, General Stracey, Mrs. Jeffcock, Colonel Thynne.

17 January 1900, Saturday

1900 February 17, Lady Greville writes about the amateur theatricals Muriel Wilson is involved in:

The most notable social event of the week was the amateur performance of tableaux at Her Majesty's Theatre. One is accustomed to the amateurs under every aspect, leaping in where angels fear to tread, essaying the most difficult parts, dabbling in the arts of music and literature, but so full and rich and interesting a performance has rarely been given before. To begin with, there was a masque, modelled on the Elizabethan lines, with song and dance, and special music composed for the occasion by Mr. Hamish McCunn, dresses statuesque and graceful, and a bevy of pretty women to carry out the idea.

One original feature there was, too, which certainly did not present itself before our Virgin Queen, and that was the graceful fencing of Miss Lowther, who looked an ideal young champion in her russet suit and jaunty little cap. A very young debutante appeared in the person of Miss Viola Tree, who, dressed in the nest diaphanous garments, acted with a grace and lightness that promises well for her future career. Mrs. Crutchly, as "Glory," appeared amid a din of thunder and a rosy glare of limelight, and clashed her cymbals in truly determined fashion. An element of wildness suited to the character, distinguished her agreeable posturing, and her high spiked crown gave distinct individuality to the representation. Mrs. Martineau, Hebe-like in a white robe and a large crown of roses, as if she had just stepped out of a picture by Leighton, then danced and took the palm for poetry and suppleness of movement; Miss Muriel Wilson, meanwhile, having daringly shot up through a trap-door in scarlet robes with a flaming torch, announced herself as "War," and beckoned to Glory, Victory, and Prosperity, when they finished their performance, to sit beside her on her throne. "Rumour," alias Mr. Gervase Cary Elwes, sang an excellent topical song, attired in a quaint garb covered with interrogations, and carrying an electric telegraph-post in her hand. Lady Maud Warrender, as "Pity," advanced from a barge that had just arrived, and sang a doleful ditty which made one wish "Pity" might combine a sense of gaiety. But as Mrs. Willie James, in the part of "Mercy," dressed as a nurse, recited some bright lines anent Tommy, to the accompaniment of distant fifes and drums, the audience decided to take this as a satisfactory compensation.

All being now harmoniously arranged, "War" performed a sleight-of-hand feat, divested herself of her red dress, her headgear of flaming serpents, and her glistening breastpiece, and appeared in virgin white, crowned with roses, as “Peace," surrounded by “Music" in a gorgeous gown of gold tissue, by “Painting," “Science," and “Literature." A pleasant finaleof gay music brought the Masque to a close, and left a decidedly agreeable and novel impression behind it.

Tableaux then followed, all more or less well grouped by well-known artists, and represented by beautiful women of Society. Among the familiar faces were Lady St. Oswald, Lady Mary Sackville, Miss Agatha Thynne, Mrs. Fitz Ponsonby, Lady Maitland, Madame von André, &c., but neither Lady Helen Vincent, Lady De Grey, Lady Cynthia Graham, the Duchess of Portland, nor many other well-known and lovely ladies took part in the performance.

Finally, came the Patriotic Tableau, which had evidently engaged all the energies of the organisers of the fête. On a high throne, with a most realistic lion, open-mouthed and fierce-looking, beside her, sat Lady Westmoreland as "Great Britain," a stately and dignified figure in white satin, draped in a red cloak and crowned with a large wreath of laurel. The stage on each side was lined by genuine stalwart Guardsmen, and to the sound of lively martial music, composed and conducted by Sir Arthur Sullivan, slowly advanced a procession of Great Britain's dependencies, figured by ladies magnificently costumed, their long jewelled trains borne by two little pages in cloth of gold brocade coats, with black silk legs. Very beautiful were the blendings of the colours in this tableau, artistically designed by Mr. Percy Anderson. Lady Claude Hamilton, as "British Columbia," moved with stately gait in a robe of palest green; Lady Feo Sturt glittered barbarically with jewels; her headdress and her bosom were covered with gems. As the typical representative of "India," she was dressed in apricot colour and bore branches of hibiscus in her hands. Mrs. Hwfa Williams, in blazing red, carried a parrot and some red flowers. The Hon. Barbara Lister looked lovely and picturesque in her violet robes under a massive wreath of wisteria blossoms; Lady Raincliffe, wearing a curious high head-dress, was dressed in white to represent "Canada." "Rhodesia" made one of the prettiest figures in her khaki gown and cloak, with the coquettish hat and feathers and the red trimming associated with the Colonial Volunteers. "Natal" appeared appropriately clad all in black, while little "Nigeria," for the nonce, wore spotless white robes. /

Miss Muriel Wilson spoke an ode, and looked striking in apricot and white, with a high diamond crown and a long standing-up white feather. None of the ladies suffered from shyness; they showed thorough acquaintance with the stage, and moved easily thereon. In fact, costumes, arrangements, music, and the glorious feast of beauty left nothing to be desired.

The final impression in one's mind was that the stage produces strange effects. It idealises some faces, hardens others, and alters many. The large wreaths, almost grotesque in size, proved eminently becoming, and the Grecian draperies carried away the palm for beauty. After them our modern dress seems stiff, angular, and inartistic. The whole performance was one to be commended, and will no doubt be as successful financially as it was from the aesthetic and spectacular point of view.

Mrs. James Stuart Wortley, who died last week, will be regretted by every class of society. This lady, a beauty in her youth, devoted the latter part of her life entirely to works of charity. She founded the East London Nursing Society, to the tender and skilful ministrations of which many a poor woman owes her return to health, and in every philanthropic scheme, emigration, the befriending of young servants, and the education of youth, she took a lively interest. Her clear sense, her logical grasp of subjects and her immense activity were of infinite service in everything she undertook, and her memory will smell sweet in the hearts of the many who loved and depended on her.

I really wonder at the patience of the British taxpayer. During the snow of this week Belgravia, Eaton, and other fashionable squares, remained a morass of slush, ice, and half-melted snow. The pavements as slippery as glass had not been cleansed, and only at the risk of one's life one made one's way from street to street.

25 January 1900, Thursday

David Lindsay, Lord Balcarres and Constance Lilian Pelly married:

MARRIAGE OF LORD BALCARRES.

The marriage of Lord Balcarres, M.P. for North Lancashire, eldest son of the Earl of Crawford of Balcarres House, Fife, and Haigh Hall, Wigan, to Miss Pelly, daughter of the late Sir H. Peily, Bart., and granddaughter of the Earl of Wemyss, was solemnised yesterday (Thursday) at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, in the presence of a large gathering of friends.

Among the invited guests were the Earl and Countess of Crawford, the Dowager Countess of Crawford, the Earl of Wemyss, Lord and Lady Elcho, the Hon. E. Lindsay, the Hon. Lionel Lindsay, the Hon. Ronald Lindsay, Lord and Lady Cowper, Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Hon. L. Greville, and many othsrs. The service was fully choral, and was conducted by the Bishop of Stepney, assisted by the the Rev. Canon Gore. Mr Yorke, the stepfather of the bride, gave her away. She wore a dress of white velvet, draped with old Brussels lace, the gift of the Dowager Countess of Crawford: chiffon veil and wreath of natural orange blossoms. Her only ornament was a Maltese cross of diamonds, also the gift of the Dowager Countess of Crawford.

There were nine bridesmaids. Miss Pelly, sister of the bride) [sic], the Hon. Mary Vasey, the Hon. Cynthia Charteris, Miss Brodrick, Miss Sybil Brodrick, Miss Benita Pelly, the Hon. Aline Menjendie, Miss Daisy Benson, and Miss Madeline Bourke. They were attired alike in costumes of white de chine, with lace insertions, with blue chiffon hat, trimmed with plumes of white and blue ostrich feathers. They carried bouquets of violets, and wore red enamel brooches with diamond centres and pearl drops, the gifts of the bridegroom. The Hon E. Lindsay supported his brother as best man.

At the conclusion of the ceremony the guests drove to the town residence of the bride's mother in Queen Anne's Gate, where the wedding reception was held. Later in the day the newly-married couple left town for Wrest Park, Ampthill, kindly lent them for the honeymoon by Earl and Countess Cowper. Princess Louise (the Marchioness of Lorne) sent the bride a handsome silver basket as a wedding present.

February

1900, February, a brief account of the Matherses' Isis ceremony appeared in "the New York periodical the Humanist, February 1900" (Howe 201).

15 February 1900, Thursday

Enid Wilson and the Earl of Chesterfield Wedding

27 February, 1900, Tuesday

Mardi Gras

April 1900

8 April 1900, Sunday

Palm Sunday

14 April 1900, Saturday

Wynn Westcott assumed W. A. Ayton was on, as he wrote, "the Committee to investigate the G. D. which contains Yeats, Bullock and I suppose Ayton" (Howe 217).

20 April 1900, Friday

The R.R. et A.C. was code named Research and Archaeological Association (Howe 226)

21 April 1900, Saturday

The Inner Order of the Golden Dawn met at 116 Netherwood Road, West Kensington (Howe 227).

27 April 1900

The Thames Salmon Experiment

The fact that they were taking part in what may in after years be considered an historical event was no doubt the cause of the little crowd which gathered round Teddington Weir on Shakespeare's day. It is getting on for half a century since Stephen Ponder and Frank Dockland hatched out some thousands of salmon eggs, at Kingston-on-Thames and South Kensington respectively, and turned the resulting fry into the Thames. In the light of our present knowledge the failure of their experiments was a foregone conclusion; but that no salmon were found ascending the river in after years was very generally considered a sufficient proof that the Thames was for various reasons no longer capable of becoming a salmon river. In the sixties the art of rearing healthy fry was only beginning to be understood, and the fearful mortality which takes place among infant Salmonidæ both in stew and river was by no means appreciated. It is the A B C of modern fish culture that even if some thousands of ordinary brown trout fry are turned into a suitable stream successful results cannot be, as a rule, expected. The yearling form is invariably recommended. Our greatest experts now hold the opinion that, if salmon rivers are to be stocked by means of fry, the little fish must be placed in large quantities in the head-waters, and by large quantities is meant not thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but millions. The Thames, however, is not in its characteristics an ordinary salmon river. For many years coarse fish have been preserved in the interests of the angler; thus pike, perch, chub, and barbel, all fish of cannibalistic habits, are so numerous that if fry were placed in the headwaters they would have to run the gauntlet through considerably over a hundred miles of current in which voracious fish are plentiful. Dangers of pollution above London can be put out of the reckoning, for, owing to the water supply being largely taken from the river, the duty has been placed upon the Thames Conservancy of stopping pollution of all kinds above the intake of the metropolitan water companies. The river below London, however, still presents many dangers to fish owing to pollution from manufactories, gas and chemical works, though the London County Council have done much towards improving matters. The tideway is in appearance infinitely cleaner now than it has been for many years, and the fact that smelts can push their way up through portions of the river which it was believed would prove fatal to fish, while not being conclusive proof, certainly gives fair grounds for hope that the young salmon may descend to the sea in safety.

Though the tideway has much improved in one respect, it has, in another, seriously deteriorated, for, owing to imperfect dredging, the channels have silted up. At certain states of the tide even steamers of light draught churn up the foul deposits at the bottom, and the water becomes charged with matter of a very offensive and possibly, from the salmon's point of view, dangerous character. The Royal Commission which is now inquiring into the matter may lead ultimately to the formation of a new authority for the port of London with power and funds to deepen the river. Should this body be brought into existence, and extensive dredging be carried out, the chances of salmon running up the Thames will be materially increased. Had it been decided to place fry by the million in the headwaters of the Thames, there would still have remained the almost insurmountable difficulty of getting a sufficient number of eggs. Now that salmon have become so scarce, local fishery authorities are most reluctant to allow ova to bo taken from their districts, and until we have a fishery department with a river providing a supply of spawning fish and a hatchery of its own, it is hardly likely that an adequate supply of salmon eggs will ever be forthcoming for the purpose of restocking any of our large rivers. The Thames Salmon Association unquestionably had a most difficult problem to grapple with, and the committee's decision to place no fry in the river was undoubtedly a wise one under all the circumstances. The system adopted by the association is to rear the fry until they put on smolt livery, and then turn them into the upper portions of the Thames tideway; they thus largely escape danger from pike and other predatory fish. It is only [Col. 1c–2a] reasonable to assume that one smolt placed in the tideway is worth some thousands of fry turned in higher up. We may here remind our readers that the association was formed in 1899, and in July of that year the subject was discussed at a public meeting held at the Mansion House under the support of the Lord Mayor. In the previous year there had been a meeting of a few persons interested in the question, called together by the Hon. Algernon Bourke, at White's Club; but the leading spirit of the present association is Mr W. H. Grenfell, M.P. What success has been obtained is largely owing to him and to the enthusiasm and liberality of Mr W. Crosbie Gilbey, who has devoted the whole of his trout hatchery at Denham, on the Misbourn, a tributary of the Colne, to hatching salmon for the association, Mrs Goodlake, his neighbour, rendering very valuable assistance. It is an interesting fact that the great majority of the little fish which were turned into the Thames on Tuesday were Irish, having been presented to the association by Mr W. L. Moore from his Boyle and Bank fishery. A smaller number were obtained from Scotland.

The result of the first year's hatching and rearing is about 8000 samlets. Of these, only the 600 which were turned into the Thames had assumed, or partially assumed, smolt livery, and there are hopes of turning in some additional hundreds this year; but the bulk of the 8000 will have to be retained until their second year at Denham, when we may expect most of them to put on the silver vesture which, with a certain restlessness, may be considered a decisive indication that they are ready to descend to the sea. How many of the 600 will return? It is difficult even to make a surmise on the point, the element of chance being so very considerable. As the little fish descend the great estuary of the Thames they may be met by the sudden outpour of a manufactory's destructive refuse; but, on the other hand, they may escape all dangers and reach the sea in safety. When there they have, of course, many natural enemies to meet, and at the best we could only reasonably expect a small percentage to return to their river of adoption. Those who are well acquainted with fish culture will perhaps say that the scale upon which the Thames Association is working is not likely to restock the Thames with salmon, but the actual restocking of the river is not the immediate object of the committee. It is well to understand that what is now being done is merely in the nature of an experiment to test the question whether salmon can exist in the Thames, passing down the estuary as smelts, finding their river again, and returning to fresh water as mature fish. If a few salmon are sooner or later seen in the river then the experimental stage will be probably considered at an end and the question of how to stock the Thames on an efficient scale will have to be considered. When that time arrives there will no doubt be questions arising as to the interests of those for whom coarse fish have been so long preserved; for it is not unnatural to suppose that, should the Thames become again an important salmon river, fishery rights which now lie dormant will be asserted, and pike and other coarse fish will not be viewed with favour. Meanwhile the Association will be turning out its few thousand smelts annually for the next three or four years, and questions of conflicting interests are not likely to arise yet awhile, though if, by happy fortune, a single returning grilse were to be taken in the Thames on its return from the sea before the end of the coming summer, the public interest would be instantly aroused and events would march rapidly.

May 1900

26 May 1900, Saturday

Arthur Sullivan is visited by "Sir George Martin, the organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, and Colonel Arthur Collins, one of the royal equerries" to get him to write a Te Deum thanking God for the end of the Boer War (Ainger, Michael. Gilbert and Sullivan: a Dual Biography. P. 381.).

30 May 1900, Wednesday

Derby Day.

According to the Morning Post, <quote>The Derby Day. / The Archbishops of Canterbury and York hold a Reception of Colonial and Missionary Church Workers in the Great Hall of the Church House, 4.30 to 6.30. / ... May Fair and Bazaar, St. George's Drill Hall, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, opened by Lady Edward Spencer Churchill, 2.30.</quote> ("Arrangements for This Day." The Morning Post Wednesday, 30 May 1900: p. 7 [of 12], Col. 6C)

June 1900

Summer 1900: WBY summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

3 June 1900, Sunday

Whit Sunday (Pentecost)

Whitsun party at Sandringham House, described by Lord Knutsford in his letters and summarized by Anita Leslie, whose parent's generation remembered some of these people Knutsford mentions as present:

• The Prince and Princess of Wales
• Princess Victoria
• Other daughters of the Prince and Princess of Wales
• Lord Knutsford
• Lord and Lady Gladys de Grey
• Luís De Soveral
• Tosti
• Hon. George Lambton
• Lady Randolph Churchill
• Holford
• Lady Musgrave

Leslie's summary of Knutsford's letters:

The Whitsun party that year included Lord and Lady de Grey, De Soveral, whose caustic wit always lightened Edward's humour, Tosti, the famous baritone-songwriter (Alexandra and her daughters were so musical — strumming away à quatre mains while Totti's voice made chandeliers vibrate in after-dinner songs), the Hon. George Lambton (racing trainer), and Lady Randolph Churchill, "just back from her hospital ship which had been a boon in South Africa, but fractiously insisting she is going to marry George Cornwallis-West."

Lord Knutsford describes the chattering guests travelling in that special train coach from St. Pancras to Wolverton Station where the house party was met by royal carriages with officious flunkeys in red livery who dealt with the luggage — and such luggage! Big trunks had to be brought for a few days' stay so that the correct attire could be produced for every meal and outing.

How exciting to drive through a forest of rhododendrons and to disembark in front of Sandringham House. The royal host and hostess stood in the hall to welcome their guests. After handshakes Queen Alexandra sat down to pour tea. Dinner was at 9 P.M. (at Sandringham all clocks were kept half an hour ahead of time). Footmen informed the gentlemen what waistcoats were to be worn. Ladies' maids scurried to the ironing rooms. At nine, having assembled in the drawing room, each man was told whom he must escort into dinner and where to sit. This saved hesitation and embarrassment. On this occasion Knutsford describes the Prince giving his arm to Lady de Grey, while Alexandra walked beside De Soveral and Lord de Grey escorted the unmarried Princess Victoria. There were, of course, no cocktails, but exquisite wines accompanied each course. The Prince never drank more than a glass or so of claret at dinner and a brandy after the last course.

When the ladies left the dining room cigarettes and cigars were brought by footmen. Heavy drinking was never encouraged, and / after half an hour the gentlemen moved to the drawing room to chat with the ladies, until Alexandra rose and they retired to their bedrooms where the ladies' maids would be waiting to unlace them from their gorgeous satin and velvet gowns. Hard as the existence of a servant might be, they were perhaps consoled by the colossal meals offered in recompense for late hours. A five-course breakfast could be consumed by every scullery maid if she so desired, and many a working-class mother strove to "get her daughter's knees under a good table."

When the ladies had disappeared upstairs the men went to the billiards room, where the Prince, who idolised his dogs, would roar with laughter when his black bulldog nipped the legs of players. No one could go to bed before Edward, but at twelve-thirty he would certainly retire. There was no thought of any hanky-panky after hours at Sandringham. That would have been considered bad taste and an insult to the royal hostess.

On Sunday morning the breakfast gong sounded at 10 A.M. Then came church and a stroll in the garden until lunch at one-thirty. After a fairly heavy meal the ladies went upstairs to change into walking skirts and strong boots. The whole party then underwent a slow three-hour walk to the kennels and stables and farm. Talk was almost entirely about animals — dogs, pedigree cattle and, of course, race horses. Knutsford noticed Alexandra's "touching girl-like love" for every stone and corner of Sandrringham. She reminded him of "a bird escaped from a cage."

Certainly the royal pair were never so happy as in this big Norfolk house, which they regarded as home, but guests grew weary of trying to do the right thing. Knutsford found dinner very wearing, with the conversation in mingled English and French: "they drop from one to another in the same sentence."

Then came the local Whitsunday sports. Off drove the house party — Lady de Grey and Holford in the first carriage with Edward. Knutsford found himself in the second carriage with Princess Victoria and Lady Randolph Churchill and Lady Musgrave. The ladies wore coloured blouses and contrasting skirts and jackets over their blouses, white gloves and feather boas. A brisk wind nearly blew off their huge hats. Lady Musgrave in particular had difficulty with her concoction. "Send it to the bazaar!" cried Alexandra, and everyone roared with laughter.

Sandringham parties were called "informal," but what a relief, nevertheless, when they all got back to the station in those regal carriages followed by the four horse-drawn vans of luggage.

In this spring of 1900 the visitors departed to their homes full to / the brim of food and anecdote. Jennie, who had been argumentative all weekend, would almost immediately marry her young George. Gladys de Grey would get on her newly installed phone to admirer number one, the Hon. Reginald Listen, or if he was not available to admirer number two, Sir John Listen-Kaye. Ladies were now able to ring the men up and guardedly converse instead of sending dangerous notes. Servants might overhear but there would be nothing on paper.

26 June 1900, Tuesday

There was apparently a regular celebration of Arthur Collins' birthday, 26 June, by Bret Harte, George Du Maurier, Arthur Sullivan, Alfred Cellier, Arthur Blunt, and John Hare (Nissen, Axel. Brent Harte: Prince and Pauper: 239. [1]). Choosing 1885–1902 as the dates because those apparently are the dates of the close relationship between Harte and Collins, ending in Harte's death in 1902.

28 June 1900, Thursday

Lady Randolph Churchill and George Cornwallis-West married at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge.

July 1900

17 July 1900, Tuesday

A number of Society women took part in the Children's Fete in support of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children:

In the grounds of the Royal Botanic Society yesterday afternoon a very delightful Children's Fete was organised by the Countess of Ancaster in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The good work of the society, of which the Queen is patron, is well known, and the need for its existence is emphasised by the fact that, whereas in the year 1888–89 it dealt with only 737 cases, the number increased to 28,165 in 1898–99. Its operations are, of course, limited by the funds placed at its disposal, and though the income last year amounted to £51,300, a still larger sum is needed to meet all the claims which come before the society. In the organisation of yesterday's fête Lady Ancaster was assisted by the Ladies' Committee for London, of which the Hon. Mrs. Stephen Coleridge is hon. secretary. The list of stewards included Lady Blanche Conyngham, Lady Florence Bridgman, Lady Grizel Cochrane, Lady Victoria Grey, Lady Sybil Grey, Lady Agnes Noel, Lady Norah Noel, Lady Elizabeth Northcote, Lady Alice Willoughby, the Hon. Ethel Fraser, Miss Aermonda Burrell, Miss Nina Hill, Miss Ceciie Drummond, Miss Euphemia Drummond, and Miss Linda Oppenheim.

The fête opened with a procession of children, a large number being in fancy costume, and many bearing wands and floral symbols. This was the prelude to the Floral Feast and many other events. The feast was arranged by Sybil Marchioness of Queensberry and Mrs. Wordsworth, and among the "flowers" who took part were Miss E. Grove (white lily), Misses Olline and Katherine Wyndham-Quin (tiger lily and bluebell), Misses Pamela, Sibyl, and Madeline Adeane (sweet pea, Canterbury bell, and daffodil), the Hon. May Charteris (rose), Miss Joyce Knatchbull-Hugessen (snowdrop), Miss Elsie Gorell Barnes (wild rose), Miss A. Smjth (daisy), Miss Currie (convolvulus), and Miss Clare Tennant (daisy). Master Terence Grove, the Hon. Ivor Charteris, Master Gorell Barnes, Master Desmond Smith, Master Edward Tennant, the Hon. Thomas Boscawen, Master Harold Farquhar, and Master Chanler also assisted.

A gavotte arranged by Lady Helen Stewart was a very pretty feature, among those taking part being children of Lady Aline Beaumont, Lady Wenlock, Lady Doreen Long, Lady Meysey-Thompson, Lady Eden, Lady Gertrude Astley Corbett, and others.

The Gainsborough quadrille, arranged by Lady Milner and Mrs. Wordsworth, was most charmingly executed by the Hon. M. and R. Thellusson, Miss Murray, Misses Beckett, the Hon. E. Gerard, Miss Stanley, Miss Muir Mackenzie, Miss Evelyn, Miss Padelford, Miss Hadow, Miss Grosvenor, the Hon. Marie Hay, and the Hon. Hilda Chichester.

For the Highland dances the Countess of Ancaster and Mrs. Wordsworth were responsible, Miss Wickham, Miss Le Blanc, and the Masters Fairbairn doing full justice to the music of Pipe-Major Fraser, of the Scots Guards.

A Pavane arranged by Lady Victoria Grey, an Irish jig by Mr. and Mrs. d'Egville, and pas seuls by Mrs. Walter Cave and Mrs. Gerald Maltby were most attractive. Of the pas seuls, the Spanish dance by Miss Hersey Maltby, and the gavotte by Miss Violet Asquith were greatly admired, and the same young ladies also performed a pas de deux.

Perhaps the favourite events of the afternoon were the flower dance and the maypole dance, both being, as one might say, intermittent, recurring at intervals, for the young people, despite the heat, never seemed to tire. Lady Florence Astley was responsible for the flower dance, and the children who took part were the representatives of Lady Alwyne Compton, Lady de Trafford, Mrs. Stanley Wilson, the Countess of Yarborough, Lady Eden, Mrs. Hartmann, Lady Naylor-Leyland, Lady Barnard, the Hon. Mrs. Lambton, Lady Constance Combe, Lady Newton Butler, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, the Hon. Mrs. Alwyne Greville, Lady Gertrude Astley Corbett, the Hon. Mrs. Pelham, Mrs. Walter Campbell, Lady Meysey-Thompson, the Duchess of Wellington, Lady Hastings, and Mrs. Parkinson Sharpe. This dance was given on a platform under the shade of the trees on the north-west side of the gardens, and was watched with much delight by the crowd of spectators seated around. The maypole, gaily adorned with the traditional ribbons, was erected on the opposite side of the grounds above the lake, and the dances were supervised by the Hon. Mrs. Cecil Bingham and Miss Miller. Most of the children were dressed in shades of pink or green.

Near the maypole a flower market and a fruit market were disposed in a variety of tastefully-decorated stalls. Mrs. Charles Wilson arranged the flower market, and was assisted by Lady Mary Willoughby, Miss Gwladys Wilson, Lady Aldra Acheson, Lady Marjorie Carrington, the Countess of Chesterfield, Viscountess Castlereagh, Lady Alexandra Carrington, Lady Mary Acheson, Miss Muriel Wilson, Mrs. Kenneth Wilson, the Hon. Alexandra Fellowes, Miss Madeline Stanley, Lady Florence Astley, and the Hon. Mrs. A. Bourke. Lady Faudel-Phillips conducted the fruit market, with the assistance of Mrs. Phillip Henriques, Miss Hope, Miss Cockerell, and the Misses Faudel-Phillips.

In the course of the afternoon there was a juvenile cricket match between Lady Evelyn Ewart's eleven and an eleven from Mr. E. T. Bull's School, which resulted in a draw. The band of the Royal Artillery played a delightful selection of music, led by Cavalier Zavertal. The whole fête was most successful.

The Princess of Wales, attended by Lady Suffield and Sir Dighton Probyn, visited the gardens shortly after four o'clock and remained until half-past five. Her Royal Highness, escorted by Lady Ancaster, witnessed the maypole and flower dances and other events of the fête, and on leaving expressed herself as having been greatly delighted with the juvenile revels.

27 July 1900, Friday

The Prince of Wales had dinner at the Arthur Wilsons’:

Mr and Mrs Arthur Wilson were honoured with the presence of the Prince of Wales at dinner on Friday night. Amongst the guests were the Portuguese Minister, Count Mensdorff, Duke of Roxburghe, Lady Georgina Curzon, Captain and Lady Sarah Wilson (arrived that morning from South Africa), Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, Lord Herbert Vane Tempest, Viscount Villiers, Lady Norreys, Lady Gerard, Hon Mrs Keppel, Sir Edward and Lady Colebrook, Mr and Mrs Grenfell, Lady Lister Kaye, Mrs Arthur Paget, Mr and Mrs Arthur Sassoon, Hon. W. Erskine, Mr and Mrs J. Menzies, General Oliphant, Miss Jane Thornewell, Mrs Kenneth Wilson, and Miss Muriel Wilson.

30 July 1900, Monday

Barber of Seville at Covent Garden

In spite of the fast waning season there was a very considerable audience at Covent Garden to witness the performance of the "Barber of Seville" last Monday. The honours of the evening lay chiefly between Mine. Melba and Signor de Lucia, while M. Edouard de Reszké was a very humorous and entertaining Basilio. Mme. Melba sang part of the mad scene (from "Lucia di Lammermoor," in what is popularly known as the "Music Lesson Scene"; needless to say she was vociferously applauded, and for an encore she sang Tosti's "Mattinata," accompanying herself very charmingly. Lady de Grey was in her box, and wore cream colour with a pink rose in her hair; Lady Charles Beresford was in Lily Duchess of Marlborough's box; and the Countess of Carnarvon wearing black, with touches of heliotrope and diamonds in her hair, was in Mr. Alfred Rothschild's box. Among others present were Lady Cynthia Graham, Lady Colebroke wearing pink, Lady Chelsea, and Mrs. Arthur Paget; Mrs. Higgins in white, Mrs. Hwfa Williams, and Mrs. Algernon Bourke; Mrs. Murray Guthrie, Lord Westbury, and Captain Hedworth Lambton. The Princess of Wales, with the Duke of Sparta, was in the Royal box.

October 1900

31 October 1900, Wednesday

Halloween.

November 1900

5 November 1900, Monday

Guy Fawkes Day

9 November 1900, Friday

A debutante dance for Miss Helyar:

In honour of the coming of age of Miss Helyar, a small dance was given by Lady Savile, at Rufford Abbey, last night. The number of invitations was not so large as it would have been but for the war. The house party included Mrs. and Miss Cavendish Bentinck, Lady Juliet Lowther, Lady Evelyn Ward, Lady Mabel Crichton, Mrs Kenneth Wilson, Miss Muriel Wilson, Sir Berkeley Sheffield, Miss Sheffield, Lord Hyde, Lord Herbert, the Hon. B. Ward, the Hon. E. FitzGerald, the Hon. W. Erskine, Mr. Laycock, Captain Brinton, the Hon. George Peel, Mr. Harris, Captain Tharp, Captain Heneage, and the Hon. G. Portman.

27 November 1900, Tuesday

Arthur Sullivan's funeral:

At eleven o'clock on Tuesday, November 27th, the [366/367] funeral procession set forth from Victoria Street, Westminster, on its mournful way, first to the Chapel Royal, St. James's, where, by command of the Queen, part of the Burial Service was to take place, and thence to St. Paul's. Throughout the line of route flags drooped at half-mast, whilst beneath them people crowded in their thousands, bare-headed and in silence, waiting to pay their last tribute of respect and gratitude to the lamented master whose genius had done so much to brighten their lives for the past five-and-twenty years. [new paragraph] Into the Royal Chapel, where Arthur Sullivan had begun his career as a chorister, was borne the casket containing his remains. On either side stood men and women famous in society and the wider world of Art in all its branches. The Queen was represented by Sir Walter Parratt, Master of Music, who was the bearer of a wreath with the inscription: "A mark of sincere admiration for his musical talents from Queen Victoria." Sir Hubert Parry represented the Prince of Wales; the German Emperor was represented by Prince Lynar, Attache of the German Embassy; Prince and Princess Christian by Colonel the Hon. Charles Eliot, and the Duke of Cambridge by General Bateson.

Among the congregation at the Chapel Royal were seen the United States Ambassador; the Earl and Countess of Strafford; Theresa, Countess of Shrewsbury; the Countess of Essex; Lord Glenesk; Lord Rowton; Lord Crofton; Lady Catherine Coke; the Dean of Westminster; Lady Bancroft; Lady [367/368] Barnby; Mr. Arthur Chappell; Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Burnand; Mr. Arthur W. Pinero; Mr. Haddon Chambers; Lieutenant Dan Godfrey; Signor Tosti; Mr. George Grossmith; Mr. Rutland Barrington; Miss Macintyre; Mrs. Ronalds; Canon Duckworth; Lady Lewis; Miss Ella Russell; Mr. Augustus Manns; Mr. Charles Wyndham; Captain Basil Hood; the Chairman and Secretary of Leeds Musical Festival; and Representatives of various British Musical Associations.

The Pall-bearers were Sir Squire Bancroft, Mr. Francois Cellier, Colonel A. Collins (one of the Royal Equerries), Sir Frederick Bridge, Sir George Lewis, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir George Martin, and Sir John Stainer. [new paragraph] he chief mourners were Mr. Herbert Sullivan (nephew), Mr. John Sullivan (uncle), Mrs. Holmes, and Miss Jane Sullivan (nieces), Mr. Wilfred Bendall (Sullivan's secretary), Mr. B. W. Findon, Mr. Edward Dicey, Mr. C. W. Mathews, Mrs. D'Oyly Carte, Dr. Buxton Browne, Mr. Arthur Wagg, Mr. Fred Walker, Mr. Dreseden and Sir Arthur's servants. [new paragraph] Much to their regret, neither Mr. Gilbert nor Mr. Carte was able to attend the funeral. The first was on the Continent for the benefit of his health, the second was laid up by serious illness. The present writer also, having been absent from London at the time, has not the advantage of an eye-witness to give a graphic description of the funeral obsequies of his old friend; and so, rather than attempt to paint the picture from imagination, he gladly avails himself [368/369] again of the courtesy of his brother-author who is so generous as to lend the aid of his experience. [new paragraph] In these sympathetic words, Mr. Findon describes the scenes and incidents in which, as a chief mourner, he took part at the Chapel Royal and St. Paul's Cathedral:

". . . As the casket was borne into the Chapel, it was impossible to avoid thinking of those days when Sullivan himself had worn the gold and scarlet coat of a Chapel Royal Chorister, and his sweet young voice had rung through the sacred edifice. Then the world and its honours lay before him, but we doubt if even in the most sanguine moments of impulsive boyhood he imagined the greatness that one day would be his, or that his bier would pass within those honoured walls amid the silent demonstration of a mourning people. The anthem, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,' from his oratorio 'The Light of the World,' was beautifully sung, and the pathos of the music bathed many a face in tears, and touched a tender spot in more than one loving heart. Another of the dead master's exquisite thoughts, ' Wreaths for our graves the Lord has given,' brought the Service at the Chapel Royal to an end, and the procession passed on its way to St. Paul's Cathedral, which was crowded with sympathetic spectators. "Clerical etiquette and cathedral dignity compelled the beginning of the Burial Service anew, and when the coffin had been lowered into the crypt there came the most poignant moment of the long ceremonial. [new paragraph] "Close to the open vault sat the members of the Savoy Opera Company, including his life-long friend, Mr. Francois Cellier, who had been associated as chef d'orchestre with all his comic operas, and, after [369/370] the Benediction had been given, they sang in voices charged with emotion the touching chorus, 'Brother, thou art gone before us,' from ' The Martyr of Antioch.' The effect was quite remarkable, inasmuch as it was one of those incidents which come but rarely in a life-time."

It was not in London alone that people mourned for Arthur Sullivan on that November day. Throughout Great Britain and Ireland, on the Continent of Europe, in America and farther across the seas, thousands of fond and grateful hearts ached with grief at the thought that England's dear master of melody had passed away into the silent land. From high-born personages and from people of low estate came floral emblems, wreaths, crosses, and lyres innumerable. Conspicuous among them was a beautiful harp of purple blossoms with strings — one broken — of white violets. To this offering was attached a card bearing the inscription:

In Memoriam

ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN

Born 13 May, 1842. Died 22 Nov., 1900

FROM MR. D'OYLY CARTE'S "ROSE OF PERSIA" TOURING COMPANY IN TOKEN OF THEIR AFFECTIONATE REGARD

Dear Master, since thy magic harp is broken,
Where shall we find new melodies^ to sing?
The grief we feel may not in words be spoken;
Our voices with thy songs now heav'nward wing.
Whilst on thy tomb we lay this humble token
Of love which to thy memory shall cling.

BELFAST,

24th November, 1900.

[370/371] These simple lines but half expressed the love and esteem in which Sir Arthur Sullivan was held by all whose privilege it was to have been associated with him, and to have served, however humbly, his proud and brilliant life-cause.

30 November 1900, Friday

The wedding between Lady Randolph Churchill and George Cornwallis West at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, occurred about this time. Muriel Wilson attended, as did much of Society.

25 December 1900, Tuesday

Christmas Day

26 December 1900, Wednesday

Boxing Day

1901

January

"There were no winter performances of opera at Covent Garden in those times: there was, in 1901, only a summer season" (Baring-Gould II 704, n. 14, quoting Rolfe Boswell).

16 January 1901, Wednesday

Arnold Dolmetsch sent out notices that he was moving to 85 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square (Campbell 137-38).

22 January 1901, Tuesday

Queen Victoria died at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight.

23 January 1901, Wednesday

Edward VII formally proclaimed “King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, Defender of the Faith” "at Temple Bar, on St. Paul's Cathedral steps and at the Royal Exchange." "The Privy Council met in St. James' Palace at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of signing the accession proclamation of Edward VII. The attendance at the meeting of the Council was more than 200." (Merrill, Arthur Lawrence, and Henry Davenport Northrop. Life and Times of Queen Victoria: Containing a Full Account of the Most Illustrious Reign of Any Soveriegn in the History of the World, Including the Early Life of Victoria; Her Accession to the Throne and Coronation; Marriage to Prince Albert; Great Events During Her Brilliant Reign; Personal Traits and Characteristics That Endeared Her to Her People; Graphic Descriptions of Her Charming Home Life; Noble Qualities as Wife and Mother; Royal Castles; Public Receptions; Wonderful Growth of the British Empire, Etc. To Which is Added the Life of King Edward VII., and Sketches of the Members of the Royal Family. Philadelphia, PA: World Bible House, 1901. Page 437. Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=Kx48AQAAIAAJ)

26 January 1901, Saturday

Arnold Dolmetsch gave a performance at his new domicile at 85 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square (Campbell 137-38).

February 1901

2 February 1901, Saturday

Queen Victoria’s funeral at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Chapel. Consuelo (Vanderbilt), Duchess of Marlborough was there:

The service itself was magnificent. The stalls of the Knights of the Garter were occupied by the German Emperor and a dazzling array of kings, queens, ambassadors extraordinary, Indian princes, Colonial dignitaries, generals, admirals and courtiers. Consuelo wore the prescribed deep black mourning and crepe veil, which rather suited her, and it had the effect of extracting what she describes as a 'rare compliment' from her husband who remarked: 'If I die, I see you will not remain a widow long' — a conceit which suggests that he was more of his father's son than he cared to acknowledge. Consuelo later reflected that the funeral of Queen Victoria was a moment when it truly appeared that no other country in the world had an aristocrac so magnificent, nor a civil service so dedicated, which is precisely what was intended. The great doors were flung open as the royal cortege mounted the steps, a boom of distant guns and clanging swords the only sound other than the funeral march, until Margot Asquith broke the reverential silence with a quip. Consuelo thoroughly enjoyed herself at the reception in the Waterloo Chamber afterwards too. (Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age. New York and London: HarperCollins, 1005. Page 228. Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=44mhoIv12rEC)

Also Henry James saw the funeral procession.

3 February 1901, Sunday

1901 February 2–4?: Queen Victoria lay in state for 2 days between her funeral and her interment.

4 February 1901, Monday

Queen Victoria’s interment at Frogmore Mausoleum, Windsor Great Park.

23 February 1901, Saturday

The wedding of Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster and Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West (1901-02-23 Cheshire Observer).

March 1901

Sometime in March 1901 Arthur Conan Doyle and Fletcher Robinson "were on a golfing holiday at the Royal Links Hotel at Cromer in Norfolk," where Robinson told Doyle a Dartmoor legend of "a spectral hound" (Baring-Gould II 113).

Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" began publication in the Strand in January 1902.

April 1901

18-20 April 1901, Thursday-Saturday

Muriel Wilson and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree took part in 3 performances of <quote>Masks and Faces. The matinées have been organized by Mrs. Arthur Wilson, of Tranby Croft, in aid of the local fund of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families Association. It was originally intended that the matinées should have been given in January last, but, owing to the death of Queen Victoria, they were postponed until Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last week. Additional interest was centered in the event, owing to the cast including no less a name than that of Mrs. Beerbohm Tree, while the fact that Miss Muriel Wilson was to appear as Peg Woffington aroused expectation.</quote> (1901-04-25 Stage)

May 1901

1901 May 30, Thursday

The London Daily Express reported on the opening of the Ladies' Dog Show:

There was a very large attendance yesterday at the Botanic Gardens for the summer fête of the Ladies’ Kennel Association, which is under the patronage of the Queen, and the charming grounds had quite the aspect of a garden-party at tea-time, when the band played under the trees.

Among well-known exhibitors to be seen were Sir Claud and Lady Alexander, who was showing a number of cats, Lady Aberdeen, Lady Angela Foster, and the Princess de Moniglyon, who took a first prize. Neither Lady Decies nor Lady Maitland was exhibiting on this occasion. Others to be seen were Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox in black and white, Mrs., Algernon Bourke all in mauve, the Duchess of Newcastle, Mrs. Baillie of Dochfour, and Mrs. Greville.

The Dogs’ Brigade Parade, which takes place to-day at 4.30, will be in aid of the Princess of Wales' Soldiers and Sailors' Widows and Orphans Fund.

The Birmingham Daily Gazette has a different list of names:

Yesterday the annual show of the Ladies' Kennel Association was held in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park, and attracted a highly fashionable gathering. Among the ladies represented were Princess Victor Dhuleep Singh, Princess Sophie Dhuleep Singh, the Marchioness of Nottingham, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess of Aberdeen, Lady Evelyn Ewart, Lady Helen Forbes, the Hon. Mrs. Baillie, Lady Moor, the Hon. Mrs. Alwyne Greville, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Lady Alwyne Compton, Lady Chetwode, Lady Cathcart, Lady Angela Forbes, the Hon. Mrs. Fellowes, Lady Gooch, Princess de Montglyon, and Viscountess Southwell, Mrs. Samuelson, Miss Serena, Mrs. Bosanquet, Mrs. Williams, and Mrs. Ingle Bepler. Cats and poultry are also exhibited.

June 1901

Summer 1901: William B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

17 June 1901, Monday

<quote>The "Women Writers" held their dinner at the Criterion on Monday, the 17th. Now Mr. Stephen Gwynn, in his paper entitled "A Theory of Talk," roundly asserts that women are less amusing than men. He says that there is no reason in nature why they should be, but that their inferiority is obvious. He points out that "thirty or forty men will meet at seven o'clock, dine together, and pass the evening very agreeably till midnight. Imagine thirty or forty women called upon to do the same; would they be able to amuse themselves?" It seems almost a pity that the exclusiveness of the women writers would not allow Mr. Gwynn personally to observe whether they were amused or bored on Monday night. In number there were nearly two hundred, and there certainly did not appear to be any lack of enjoyment or of laughter, but then it is also a fundamental belief with men that women are early adepts at hiding their true feelings. / Lucas Malet occupied the chair, and her carefully prepared speech was read out by Miss Sydney Phelps. Standing at the base of the statue of one of the world's greatest authors, and that, we regret to say, not a woman but a "mere man," Miss Phelps, speaking for Lucas Malet, said there was good cause for women to congratulate themselves that, whereas there had been Thackeray, Dickens, the brothers Kingsley, and Wilkie Collins among authors, authoresses could boast of George Eliot, Mrs. Gaskell, [33 Col B / 34 Col A] Miss Yonge, &c, and she felt that in the future they might equal, she would not say rival, their "brother man." At this courageous vaunt our glance involuntarily strayed to the statue, anticipating that it would be moved to at least a wink; but overwhelmed, perhaps, by the presence of so many "sisterwomen," it gave no sign. The speech was long, lasting for over thirty minutes. It touched on the evils of lowering work to what might be a present commercial but fleeting value; it contained much that was excellent, and tendered some good sound advice; perhaps it dwelt a trifle too insistently upon the obvious, and it was serious even to solemnity. But then "women are so serious." / Mme. Sarah Grand's reply was couched in far lighter vein. It slipped into the anecdotal, and was altogether more in the masculine line of after-dinner speaking. It offered no advice save on the advisability of laughter; it lingered for a moment on the sorrows of misinterpretation and misunderstanding, and included some amusing examples. Mme. Sarah Grand possesses a sympathetic voice, and is very pleasant to listen to. / It is characteristic of the gravity with which even in play hours women regard their "work" that the majority of guests preferred the more serious matter of Lucas Malet to the light personal note of Mme. Grand. The dinner itself was very good, and it was noticeable that whilst at the Authors' dinner on May 1 but few women availed themselves of the permission to smoke, at the women's function scarcely one was without a cigarette. Coffee was served at the table, and afterwards the company broke up into groups. / The committee numbered among its members Miss Beatrice Harraden, Mrs. Steel, Mrs. Craigie, Miss Christabel Coleridge, Miss Violet Hunt, and many other favourite writers. In the company present there were Dr. Jex-Blake, Mrs. Ady, Dr. Margaret Todd, Miss Adeline Sergeant, Mrs. Mona Caird, Mrs. Burnett-Smith, Mme. Albanesi, Miss Nora Maris, Miss Kenealy, and others; and the following presided at the tables : Lucas Malet, Mme. Sarah Grand, Mrs. de la Pasture, Miss Montresor, the Lady Mayoress, Mrs. L. T. Meade, Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mrs. Walford, Mrs. B. M. Croker, Miss Violet Hunt, Miss Beatrice Harraden, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Miss Violet Brooke-Hunt, Miss Thorneycroft Fowler.</quote> ("The Women Writers' Dinner." The Author. Vol. XII, No. 2. 1 July 1901. Pp. 33–34.)

26 June 1901, Wednesday

There was apparently a regular celebration of Arthur Collins' birthday, 26 June, by Bret Harte, George Du Maurier, Arthur Sullivan, Alfred Cellier, Arthur Blunt, and John Hare (Nissen, Axel. Brent Harte: Prince and Pauper: 239. [2]). Choosing 1885–1902 as the dates because those apparently are the dates of the close relationship between Harte and Collins, ending in Harte's death in 1902.

29 June 1901, Saturday

"To-day sees the public inauguration of the Horniman Musem at Forest Hill. This collection of marvels from many lands, gathered together by a member of the Horniman family, has been generously presented to the public and housed in a handsome new building — set in the midst of fifteen acres, which are now dedicated to use as a public park. The entrance to the museum will be free." ("The Horniman Museum." Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, June 29, 1901; pg. 928; Issue 3245, Col. B)

July 1901

1901 July 2, Tuesday

The Earl and Countess of Kilmorey hosted a children's party at the Botanic Gardens:

The Earl of Kilmorey, K.P., and the Countess of Kilmorey gave a charming children's fête on Tuesday (2nd) at the Botanic Gardens. It began to rain just as the little people commenced to arrive, so the gardens were abandoned for the large pavilion, where a sumptuous birthday tea was provided in honour of little Lady Cynthia Needham's birthday, also a conjuror; and before leaving, they all danced or played games. The Countess of Yarborough was in a grey silk; Lady Naylor-Leyland, all in pale grey; Ellen Lady Inchiquin, with her little children, and pretty Mrs. Algernon Bourke, in a mauve gown and and purple tulle toque. There were also present H.S.H. Prince Francis of Teck, Count Mensdorff; Mrs. Adair, smart in black and white; lady Hood , with the Ladies Conyngham; the Hon. Mr. George Keppel ' s pretty little girl; Lady Grey Egerton, in rose colour; Lady de Trafford's small schoolboys, Hon. "Buddy" Needham, and little Miss Knollys, who came with her mother, Lady Knollys.

1901 July 4, Thursday

The Countess of Yarborough's Children's Party

The Countess of Yarborough gave a charming children's party on Thursday (4th) afternoon at her beautiful house in Arlington Street. The spacious ballroom was quite filled with little guests and their mothers. Each little guest received a lovely present from their kind hostess. The Duchess of Beaufort, in grey, and with a large black picture hat, brought her two lovely baby girls, Lady Blanche and Lady Diana Somerset, both in filmy cream [Col. 2b–3a] lace frocks. Lady Gertrude Corbett came with her children, and Ellen Lady Inchiquin with hers. Lady Southampton, in black, with lovely gold embroideries on her bodice, brought her children, as also did Lady Heneage and Mr. and Lady Beatrice Kaye. Lady Blanche Conyngham, in écru lace, over silk, and small straw hat, was there; also Mrs. Smith Barry, in a lovely gown of black and white lace. The Countess of Kilmorey, in a smart grey and white muslin, brought little Lady Cynthia Needham, in white; Mrs. Arthur James, in black and white muslin; and the Countess of Powys, in mauve silk with much white lace; Lady Sassoon, in black and white foulard; Victoria Countess of Yarborough, came on from hearing Mdme. Réjane at Mrs. Wernher's party at Bath House; and there were also present Lord Henry Vane-Tempest, the Earl of Yarborough, Lady Naylor-Leyland's little boys; the pretty children of Lady Constance Combe, Lady Florence Astley and her children, and Lady Meysey Thompson (very smart in mauve and white muslin) with her children; also Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, in pale grey, with her pretty little girl.

1901 July 4–6, Thursday–Saturday

The Great County Sale

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association held a benefit sale in the Imperial Gardens of the Earl's Court Exhibition. Alexandra's last act as Princess of Wales was to make an appeal for this organization. The coverage in the Gentlewoman was extensive in the 29 July issue, just before the event, as well as in issues after, in which the newspaper published portraits of some of the people who worked in the stalls.

19 July 1901, Friday

Mrs. Arthur Wilson hosted a concert at the Wilson house in Grosvenor-place in London: <quote>Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson lent their house in Grosvenor-place on Friday afternoon for Miss Gwendoline Brogden’s concert. Miss Brogden, who is only eleven years old, is quite a prodigy. She sings quite exquisitely, and great many people, including Lady de Grey and Mrs. Arthur Wilson, are much interested in her future, which promises to be a very brilliant one. Lady Maud Warrender, Miss Rosamond Tufton, Miss Muriel Wilson, Mr. Bernard Ralt, Signor Ancona, and Signor Tosti, all promised to assist at the concert, and the tickets were a guinea each.</quote> (1901-07-24 Beverley Echo)

25 July 1901, Thursday, 2:30 p.m.

The wedding of William Dixon Mann Thomson — Captain Mann Thomson in the Life Guards — and Violet Hemsley Duncan. Captain Mann Thomson's father had died in 1899. (Guests' names with their gifts set as an unordered list here, to save space; it was typeset as a long list of paragraphs in the newspaper story.)

MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN MANN THOMSON AND MISS DUNCAN.

The marriage of Captain Mann Thomson, Royal Horse Guards, and Miss Violet Duncan, eldest daughter of Mr. A. Lauderdale Duncan, Knossington Grange, Oakham, took place in St. Peter's Chnrch, Eaton-square, London, on Thursday, the inst., 2.30 p.m. The bride, who was given away her father, wore a dress of white satin, draped with white and old Brussels lace, wreath of orange blossoms, and tulle veil. Her ornaments were pearls. She was attended by seven bridesmaids, viz.: — Miss Adèle, Miss Marjory, and Miss Esmè Duncan, sisters; Miss Dorothy and Miss Sybil Thompson, cousins of the bride; Miss Villiers, cousin of the bridegroom; and Miss Joan Dawson. They wore dresses of the palest pink silk, covered with pink gauze, collars of white lace, and pale pink chiffon baby hats. The bride's train was carried by Miss Duncan, her youngest sister. The bridesmaids carried bouquets of pink carnations, and wore diamond brooches in the shape of a violet with sapphire centre, the gifts the bridegroom. A detachment of non-commissioned officers and men of the bridegroom's troop lined the aisle during the ceremony. The bridegroom was supported by the Earl Arran as best man. The officiating clergy were the Rev. Ravenscroft Stewart, Vicar of All Saints', Ennismore-gardens, the Rev. G. Tanner, Rector of St. Peter's, Knossington, Leicestershire, and the Rev. H. Trower. After the ceremony, a reception was held at 8, Rutland-gate, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lauderdale Duncan. Among those present were the Duke and Duchess of Westminster, Dowager Countess of Chesterfield, Sir William and Lady Houldsworth, the Hon. C. and Mrs. Stanhope, Miss Hay, Lord and Lady Eglinton, Lord and Lady Castlereagh, Lord Ernest St. Maur, Lord and Lady Pembroke, Mrs. Adair, Mrs. Mann Thomson, Miss Mann Thompson, Earl Arran, Lord Cecil Manners, Mrs. and Miss Wilton Phipps, and many others. Later, the bride and bridegroom left for Dover, en route for the Continent, where they will spend the honeymoon. The bride's travelling dress was of pale blue crepe-de-chine, and black hat. There were about five hundred gifts from relations and friends. The following is a list:—

• Bridegroom to Bride — Large diamond spray
• Mrs. Mann Thomson (mother of bridegroom) — Diamond ring, diamond and sapphire bangle, and cheque
• Mr. Lauderdale (father of bride) — Diamond and sapphire necklace
• Mrs. Duncan (mother of bride) — Silver-mounted travelling bag
• Dowager Lady Hay (bride's aunt) — Silver tea service
• Miss Mann Thomson (bridegroom's sister) — Brougham
• Mr. and Mrs. Butler Duncan (uncle and aunt) — Gold-mounted claret jug
• The Misses Jackson (bridegroom's aunts) — Silver plate
• Mr. H. Mann Thomson (brother) — Silver-mounted portmanteau
• Mr. Charles Hunt — Diamond and pearl brooch
• Miss Adele Duncan — Gold match-box
• The Earl Arran — Gold cigarette case
• Mr. and Mrs. Lucas — Bracelet
• Earl of Arran — Set of diamond and pearl studs
• Capt. and Lady Riddell — Bracelet
• Mrs. and Miss Wilton Phipps — Gold and ruby buckle
• Hon. H. Stanhope, R.N. — Brilliant buckle
• Mr. and Mrs. Pennington — Ruby necklace
• Mr. A. Butler Duncan — Necklace (old design)
• Mr. and Mrs. Gervase Beckett — Sleeve links
• Duke and Duchess of Westminster—Pair of silver candlesticks
• Duchess of Roxburgh—Dresden china coffee service
• The Countess of Shaftesbury — Walking-stick
• The Earl of Arran — Umbrella
• Lady Napier Magdala — Snuff-box
• Sir Richard Waldie Griffith — Fan
• Officers of the Royal Horse Guards — Massive silver vase
• Lady Houldsworth — Silver inkstand
• Viscount Ingestre — Silver waiter
• Miss Hay — Silver coffee pot
• Lady Hay — Silver tea caddy
• The Countess of Chesterfield — Silver and brilliant-mounted photo frame
• Lord Manners — Set four silver candlesticks
• Lord and Lady Eglinton — Silver cigarette box
• Earl and Countess of Ancaster — Pair of silver peppers
• Lady Augusta Noel — Book-slide
• Mr. and Mrs. Bradley-Martin — Old china coffee service in case
• Mr. and Lady Wilfred Renshaw — Leather-covered book, "Where It?"
• Mrs. Duncan — Silver-mounted stationery case and blotter
• Sir Arthur Fludyer — Hunting crop
• Lady Katherine Cole — Walking-stick
• Lord Hamilton — Oak card table
• Sir John Kelk — Writing case
• Capt. Hon. E. St. Aubyn — Set of silver spoons in case
• Capt. and Mrs. Burns-Hartopp — Set of silver asparagus tongs in case
• Capt. Trotter — Silver sealing-wax stand
• Capt. E. W. Clowes — Silver tobacco box
• Mr. and Mrs. Sands Clayton — Silver scent bottle
• Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt Clayton — Thermometer in silver-mounted case
• Mr. and Mrs. Evan Hanbury — Clock
• Major Atherley — Cigarette box
• Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tryon — Card case
• Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Stubber — Table mirror in silver frame
• Mr. and Mrs. Gretton — Pair of silver candlesticks
• Miss Adele Duncan — Silver tea service
• Hon. G. Crichton — Silver-mounted paper-knife
• Mrs. Norman Lampson — Parasol
• Capt. Gregson — Photo, "Guards at Pretoria"
• Mr. Alfred Keyser — Leather bag
• Mr. and Mrs. Armytage — lvory paper knife
• Mrs. Boyce — Leather tray with two painted china plaques
• Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Norman — Silver-mounted paper knife
• The Master of Elibank — Pair of silver ash trays
• Mr. Adrian Rose — Pair of silver toast racks
• Mr. Archibald Smith — Hunting crop
• Major Bradford Atkinson — Walking-stick
• Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope — Painted china tea service
• Mr. G. A. Grant — Stationery case
• Mrs. Charles Inge — Copper and brass jardiniere
• Col. and Mrs. Makins — Hunting crop
• Mr. G. F. Trotter — Walking stick
• Mr. and Misses Cardwell — Fan
• Mrs. Dana — Thermometer
• Mrs. Nugent — Card case
• Mr. and Mrs. Ovey — Tortoiseshell box
• Mr. F. Peake — Writing table
• Capt. Boyce — Embroidered table cover
• Mrs. Duncan — Dressing bag case
• Mr. F. C. Fardell and Miss Gilbert Day — Brocaded satin cushion
• Mr. and Mrs. Niel Robson — Visiting book
• Mrs. R. B. Hay — Silver salts in case
• Mr. and Mrs. Harold Broadbent — Pair silver peppers in case
• —— Set silver knives in case
• Mr. and Mrs. Greville Clayton — Six silver vases in case
• Mr. and Mrs. Reginald H. Lewis — Pair silver peppers
• Lord Ernest St. Maur — Set four silver fruit spoons in case
• Rev. Geo. and Mrs. Tanner — Pair of silver salts
• Capt. Thomson's Valet and Groom — Pair of silver peppers
• Mr. Alick Duncan — Silver jug
• Mr. and Mrs. A. Brocklehurst — Silver timepiece in case
• Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Blackburn — Silver fruit spoon
• Mr. and Lady Georgiana Mure — Silver-mounted ink [sic]
• Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald — Silver-mounted inkstand
• Mrs. Ruthven — Set of silver knives in case
• Mrs. Blair — Umbrella
• Mrs. Willie Lawson — Hunting crop
• —— Three driving whips
• —— Tea tray
• Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay — Umbrella
• Mr. George Hunt — Silver flower bowl
• Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Cookson — Silver biscuit box
• Mr. Arthur and V. James — Silver two-handled cup and cover
• Mr. Robbio Stubber — Pair of silver scent bottles
• Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Baird — Silver bowl
• Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Broadley — Pair of silver flower vases
• Mrs. Grant—Silver flower-pot stand
• Mrs. Villiers — Silver corkscrew
• Capt. Spender Clay — Antique silver snuffbox
• Mr. and Mrs. Weir — Silver bacon dish
• Mr. Baird — Pair of silver candlesticks
• Mr. Athol Hay — Silver sugar bowl
• Capt. Ewing — Pair of silver fruit dishes
• Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Phillips — Pair of silver baskets
• Miss Esmé Duncan — Silver box
• Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Paton — lvory paper knife
• Dr. Freshfleld — Work case
• Mrs. Arkwright — Silver-mounted blotter
• Mr. and Mrs. Peake — Silver-mounted stationery case
• Miss Goddard — Book
• Mr. D. Baird — Silver inkstand
• J. G. and Jane B. Hay — lnkpot, with silver watch top
• Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth Ritchie — Pair of silver dishes in case
• Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fenwick — Set of twelve silver knives in case
• Jane and Uncle Willie — Silver sugar basin in case
• Mr. and Miss Millington Knowles — Set of four silver dessert spoons in ease
• Herbert and Lady Beatrix Herbert — Silver flower dish
• Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thorneycroft — Four silver candlesticks
• Mr. and Mrs. Russell? M [illegible, ink has spread] — Silver bowl [Col. 2c / Col. 3a]
• Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Wm. Cooper — Fan
• Miss Winearls — Silver-mounted scent bottle
• Sir Ernest Cassel — Diamond and enamel brooch
• Mr. John S. Cavendish — Gold pencil case
• —— Diamond and sapphire bracelet
• Miss Lottie Coats — Diamond and pearl brooch
• Hon. T. Robarts — Diamond brooch
• Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Hay — Enamel and pearl miniature holder
• Evelyn Ward — Cornomandel [sic] box
• Mr. and Mrs. Slade — China clock
• Lieut.-Col. Jervoise — Fan
• Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fergusson—Set of four silver menu holders
• Mr. Guy R. F. Dawson — Silver card case
• Rev. E. V. and Mrs. Hodge — Silver dish
• Mr. C. S. and Mrs. Newton — Silver waiter
• Mrs. Metcalfe — Gold, turquoise, and ruby brooch
• Lord and Lady Erne — Set of three gilt decorated liqueur decanters
• Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Grant — Two silver-mounted spirit decanters
• Mr. and Mrs. George Baird — Set of three cut-glass decanters
• Mr. Peter Cookson—Pair of silver-mounted decanters
• Mrs. Featherstonehaugh — China ornament
• Aunt Mary — China coffee service in case
• Mr. H. S. Sykes — Silver-mounted telegram form case
• Capt. Meade — Pair of engraved claret jugs
• Lord and Lady Binning — Silver-mounted claret jug
• Mr. and Mrs. Baldock — Silver-mounted water jug, with inscription
• Mrs. and the Misses Chaplin — Pair of gilt decorated vases
• —— Silver-mounted claret jug
• Kittie, Margie, Hestie, Walter, Phillip, and Millicent Tanner — Pair of silver peppers case
• Mr. J. R. J. Logan — Silver-mounted claret jug
• Miss Ethel Baird — Painted china box
• Mrs. D. A. Neilson — Pair of female figures with Cupids
• M. M. Phillips — Painted china miniature box
• Lady Waldie Griffith — Stationery case
• —— Painted two-fold screen
• Miss Mabel Fitzgerald — Silver-mounted vase
• Major Bouverie — Silver-mounted match holder
• —— Enamelled inkstand and candlesticks to match
• Mrs. Duncan — Stationery case and blotter
• —— Silver-mounted stationery case
• —— Tortoiseshell and silver-mounted paper-knife
• Miss Mills — Dresden china vase, cover, and stand
• —— Six Vols. of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"
• Mrs. W. Baird — Leather bag
• Miss Langridge — Four silver spoons
• Miss Kirk and Miss Hemsley — Silver-mounted photo frame
• Miss Nessie Hemsley — Silver-mounted photo frame
• Captain and Mrs. St. Aubyn Loftus — Silver vase
• Decima Walker Leigh — Pair of silver-mounted menu stands
• Mrs. Charles Thomson — Mirror in silver frame
• Miss Reese — Silver crumb scoop
• —— Silver-mounted seal and case
• Mary Abercorn Alexander and Gladys Hamilton — Silver inkstand
• Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Chaplin — Silver pen, pencil, and knife in case
• Miss Gwendoline Brassey — Silver-mounted ice pail
• Mr. and Mrs. and Misses Clifford Chaplin — Pair of silver candlesticks
• Mr. and Mrs. Magee — lvory paper knife
• Misses Dorothy and Maude Pilcher — Scent bottle
• Miss Ashton — Silver-mounted clock
• Mrs. William Clarence and Miss Watson — Silver crumb scoop
• Major and Mrs. Ed. Baird — Egg-boiler on silver stand
• Mr. A. F. H. Fergusson — Pair of silver coffee pots
• —— Table mirror
• —— Pair of silver vases
• Mrs. R. B. Mnir — Silver fox ornament
• Mr. H. Brassey and Mr. H. R. Molynenx — Silver teapot
• —— Pair of silver sauce boats
• Mr. and Mrs. Heathcote — Silver cream jug
• Misses Thompson — Silver photo frame
• Mr. C. D. Rose — Pair of silver fruit dishes
• Mr. T. Archibald Hope — Silver toast-rack
• Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunt — Pair of silver sauce boats
• Major and Mrs. Candy — Pair of silver fruit baskets
• Misses Trefusis — Silver-mounted owl mustard-pot
• Mrs. Frank Chaplin — Silver photo frame
• Major Vaughan Lee — Silver waiter
• Major Byng — Pair of silver menu stands
• Lady Wilton — Silver photo stand
• Geoffrey and Sibyll Palmer — Scent bottle
• Dr. Clement Godson — Silver salad cruet
• Mr. Mackenzie — Silver cigar case
• Mr. G. Colvin White — Set of four silver trays
• Mr. Edgar Brassey — Silver pipe lighter
• Miss Emily Dawson — Photo frame
• Mrs. Gerald FitzGerald — Silver match-box holder
• A. Barns — Silver waiter
• Miss Palmer — Letter-clip and dish
• Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Coventry — Photo frame
• —— Silver bowl three feet
• Mr. and Mrs. Hornsby — Openwork silver basket
• —— Antique silver box
• Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Baird — Silver coffee-pot
• —— Pair of silver salts
• Mr. Hugh Wanemley — Silver-gilt match-box
• Captain Gordon Wilson — Silver snuff-box
• Mrs. Whitelaw — Silver mustard-pot
• Mrs. Palmer — Silver spoon
• Mr. Dudley Majoribanks — Silver bowl and cover
• Mr. Wilfred F. Ricardo — Pair silver candlesticks
• Indoor Servants at Knossington Grange and 8, Rutland Gate — Breakfast warmer and two silver entree dishes and covers
• Outdoor Servants at Knossington Grange — Silver stationery case
• Mr. Waterman (coachman) — Driving-whip
• Mr. Alexander (coachman) and Mrs. Alexander — lnk-stand
• Villagers of Knossington — Silver sugar bowl, sugar tongs, and cream ewer in case
• Silver vase, with inscription — "Capt. Mann Thomson, Royal Horse Guards, from the Estate and Household at Dalkeith, on the occasion of his marriage, 25th July, 1901."
• Miss Baldock — Pair of scent bottles
• Captain Cook — Paper-knife
• Sir A. Baird — Pair of silver muffineers
• Rev. H. W. Trower — Pair of silver peppers
• Mr. T. Vandeleur — Silver cigarette box
• Lady Miller — Silver milk jug
• Mr. Hedworth Barclay — Silver muffineer
• Miss May A. Jackson — Photo frame
• Mr. Geoffrey Heneage — Silver ash tray
• Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hay — Pair silver mustard-pots
• Mrs. George Charteris — Silver-mounted calendar
• Royal School of Art Needlework, Exhibition-road — Silvered copper heart-shaped box
• Mr. A. C. Newbigging — Silver fox ornament
• Mr. S. Schreiber — Silver match box
• Mr. and Mrs. J. H. J. Phillips — Silver muffineers
• Mr. and Mrs. Fyfe Jameson — Silver flask
• Mrs. Beaumont Lubbock — Silver bon-bon dish
• Lord Castlereagh — Salad bowl
• Captain Hambro — Silver card case
• Lord Longford — Silver bowl
• Captain —— Silver waiter
• Mrs. Forester — Silver frame
• Mrs. Martin — Tea cloth
• Mr. and Mrs. Cooper — Whip
• Earl Lonsdale — Silver tray
• Lady Augusta Fane — Red box
• Mr. Paul Phipps — Clippers
• Mr. E. Herlick — lnkstand

August 1901

30 August 1901, Friday

The Horoses (troublesome members of the Golden Dawn) were thrown out of 99 Gower Street and moved to Gloucester Crescent (King 89 91).

October 1901

The Prince's Club Ice-skating Rink Opening

The season at the Prince’s Skating Club has opened up with better prospects of success than ever before. Friday, October 26th, was the night of the re-opening, and many of the best known women in London’s social world were present. There was a large attendance, including the following members of the strongest Committee the Club has ever known: The Duchess of Portland, Lady Carrington, Lady Granby, Lady Archibald Campbell (a very graceful skater), Lady Helen Vincent, Mrs. Harry Higgins and Mrs. Asquith. The Committee is headed by the Princess Louise. The men’s Committee includes Lord Edward Cecil, Sir William Hart Dyke, Mr. Algernon Bourke, Sir E. Vincent, Mr. Evan Charteris and Viscount de Manneville. The skaters were perhaps not so numerous as on an ordinary occasion, but the crowd of guests was exceptionally large. Miss Marshall, who is perhaps one of the best skaters in the club, executed some daring and intricate figures with Mr. Clayton, of the Grenadier Guards, She looked very smart in a short black skirt with a white lace blouse. A hat of pale blue completed her costume. Another graceful and well-known skater is Miss Wood, who wore a black dress with black sequin blouse and white fox boa and blue hat. Among the spectators were Count de Vernon, Mrs. Forbes Robertson, Mrs. Nat Goodwin, Miss Cassel — a young American — and many others. The skating men included Lord Doneraile, Lord Archibald Campbell, and Mr. Algernon Grosvenor.

31 October 1901, Thursday

Halloween.

November 1901

5 November 1901, Tuesday

Guy Fawkes Day

December 1901

25 December 1901, Wednesday

Christmas Day

26 December 1901, Thursday

Boxing Day

Works Cited

• [1901-02-23 Cheshire Observer] "Duke of Westminster. Brilliant Function." Cheshire Observer 23 February 2901, Saturday: 6 [of 8], Col. 1a–6c [of 8]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000157/19010223/114/0006 (accessed July 2019).
• [1901-04-25 Stage] "Provinces." "Amateurs." The Stage 25 April 1901, Thursday: 11 [of 24], Col. 3c, 4b–c [of 5]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001179/19010425/028/0011 (accessed July 2019).
• [1901-07-24 Beverley Echo] "Stray Notes." Beverley Echo 24 July 1901, Wednesday: 2 [of 4], Col. 4b [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001561/19010724/037/0002 (accessed July 2019).

1902

Sometime in 1902, London publisher George Newnes published an edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first (1892) collection of Holmes stories.

February 1902

13 February 1902, Thursday

King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra were present with some of their friends at Niagara, which must have been an ice-skating rink. Mr. and Mrs. George West are Lady Randolph Churchill and George Cornwallis-West.

SOCIAL & PERSONAL

Royalty at Niagara.

Quite a record audience was present at Niagara yesterday, when the free skating and waltzing competitions were skated off to the sound of gay music in a brightly lighted, warm atmosphere.

The royal box made a goodly show with its trappings of Oriental hangings and decorations of palms.

The Royal Box.

The King and Queen were accompanied by Princess Victoria and Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, the Prince and Princess of Wales having previously arrived. Their Majesties were conducted to the spacious box by Mr. Hayes Fisher.

All the royal ladies wore black, the Queen adding a bunch of yellow Lent lilies to her sombre attire. Her two daughters lightened their mourning with touches of white, and the Princess of Wales wore a bunch of violets in her toque, with a twist of white.

In the adjoining box, among members of the suite were the Countess of Gosford, Earl Howe, Mr. Sidney Greville, Mr. H. J. Stonor, Lieut.-Colonel Davidson, Lieut.-Colonel Legge, and Viscount Crichton.

In boxes on the other side of the royal box were Lady Alice Stanley, with the Ladies Acheson, the Countess of Derby, Countess De Grey and Lady Juliet Lowther, [Col. 3c/4b] Mr. and Mrs. George West [Lady Randolph Churchill and George Cornwallis-West], Sir Edgar and Lady Helen Vincent, the Duchess of Bedford and the Marquis of Tavistock, M. de Soveral, the Portuguese Minister, and Viscount and Viscountess Falmouth.

Others to be picked out in the crowd were Consuelo Duchess of Manchester, Viscountess Coke and Mrs. Ellis, Lady Archibald Campbell and her son, Mrs. Grenander, Lord and Lady Lilford, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stonor, Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Mr. Algernon Grosvenor, and Mr. and Mrs. Hwfa Williams.

The royal party took a great interest in the contests, and especially applauded the Swedish couple in their graceful evolutions. Their Majesties remained over an hour, the royal party taking their departure shortly after five.

March 1902

The last time Bret Harte and Arthur Collins saw each other: "They dined at the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and Collins found his 'poor old friend' 'saldly aged and broken, but genial and kind as ever.' They sat an hour at a music hall and Harte wrote afterwards to thank Collins for having 'forced him out.'" (Nissen, Axel. Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper. Jackson, MS: U P of Mississippi, 2000: 262)

April 1902

9 April 1902, Wednesday

According to a letter to Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats dictated "2000 words in an hour and a half" "to a typewriter; he was working on his novel (Wade 370). At this point, a typewriter was a person who used the machine called typewriter to type.

10 April 1902, Thursday

W. B. Yeats wrote to Lady Gregory from 18 Woburn Buildings about working on his novel "-- dictating to a typewriter" (Wade 370).

May 1902

5 May 1902, Monday

Bret Harte died. Arthur Collins does not seem to have been there at his death; “his dear friend Madame Van de Velde and her attendants” were, though (Pemberton, T. Edgar. The Life of Bret Harte. Dodd, Meade, 1903. http://books.google.com/books?id=eZMOAAAAMAAJ). Not sure when the funeral occurred, but he is buried “in quiet Frimly churchyard,” (341) and <quote>In accordance with his well-known views on such subjects the funeral was a very simple one. Among the few who followed him to his ivy-lined grave were Mrs. Bret Harte, his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Francis King Harte, his daughter, Miss Ethel Harte, Madame Van de Velde, Colonel Collins, Mr. A.S. Boyd, and a small cluster of grief-stricken friends.</quote> (Pemberton, T. Edgar. The Life of Bret Harte. Dodd, Meade, 1903. http://books.google.com/books?id=eZMOAAAAMAAJ (accessed November 2014).

8 May 1902, Thursday

Bret Harte's funeral:

On Thursday, May 8, 1902, in the squat, mid-Victorian church of St. Peter's in the Surrey village of Frimley, a group of about twenty people had come to show their final respects to Francis Bret Harte. Outside it was raining steadily . In the subdued light from the stained-glass windows, one cold discern a small group at the front of the church consisting of Anna Harte, her son Frank, her daughter-in-law Aline, and her daughter Ethel. Another small group was formed around Madame Van de Velde, including one of her unmarried daughters, Miss Norris (the sister of her son-in-law Richard Norris), and Mrs. Clavering Lyne. Of Harte's closest friend, only Arthur Collins and Alexander Stuart Boyd were present. Pemberton had written to Frank the day before that he wished to attend the funeral but that in his "deplorable state of health" it was impossible for him to travel. Beside the small group of family and old friends, the rest of the people who heard the service conducted by the rector of Frimley, Reverend W. Basset, were recent acquaintances from among the local gentry. As one newspaper noted: "The funeral was of the simplest possible character and the phrase 'this our brother' had a peculiar poignancy, for, though a group of villagers stood in the rain under the trees as the hearse arrived, there were few in the church, who had not the right to call Mr. Bret Harte friend." The simplicity of the service was in keeping with Bret Harte's wishes.

End of May 1902

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough hosted a party at Blenheim Palace:

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough entertained a party at Blenheim Palace last week. Their guests included the Duke of Roxburghe, Lord and Lady Churchill, Sir George and Lady Maud Warrender, Lady Juliet Lowther, Mr. Cecil and Lady Lilian Grenfell, Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Lady Norah Spencer-Churchill, Lady Lurgan, Mr. lan Malcolm, Mr. Frank Mildmay, and Mr. Beaumont.

June 1902

Summer 1902: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until Yeats bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?)

3 June 1902, Tuesday

W. B. Yeats wrote Arnold Dolmetsch, asking him to "chair ... a lecture he [was] soon to give": "You are the only one, I suppose, in the world now, who knows anything about the old music that was half speech, and I need hardly say that neither Miss Farr nor myself, could have done anything in this matter of speaking to notes without your help" (Campbell 142).

7-9 June 1902, Saturday-Monday

The Earl and Countess of Warwick hosted a house party: <quote>The Earl and Countess of Warwick entertained a distinguished house party from Saturday to yesterday, including the Grand Duke Michael of Russia and the Countess of Torby, the Earl and Countess of Craven, the Earl and Countess of Kilmorey, Earl Cairns, Lord and Lady Savile, Lord Chesham, Sir Frederick and Lady Milner, Colonel and Lady Gwendoline Colvin. Lady Margaret Orr-Ewing, Lady Eva Dugdale. Mrs. Kenneth Wilson, Miss Muriel Wilson, Right Hon. H. Chaplin, M.P., Hon. H. Stonor, Mr. J. Pease, M.P., Captain Brinton, and Captain J. Forbes.</quote> (1902-06-10 Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser)

10 June 1902, Tuesday

Florence Farr's first public performance in which she "recit[ed] to her own accompaniment on the psaltery was at the Hall of Clifford's Inn, Fleet Street, on 10 June 1902 (Campbell 144, n. 18).

12 June 1902, Thursday

12 June 1902: <quote>Thursday, the 12th inst., being the grand day of Trinity term at Gray's-inn, the Treasurer (Mr. Herbert Reed, K.C.) and the Masters of the Bench entertained at dinner the following guests: The Right Hon. Lord Strathoona and Mount Royal, the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, K.C, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles, G.C.B. (British Minister at Berlin), General Sir Edward Brabant, K.C.B., the Right Hon. Sir Edward Carson (Solicitor-General), Sir Squire Bancroft, Colonel Alfred Egerton, C.B. (Equerry to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught), Mr. Austen Chamberlain,M.P., Colonel Royds, M.P., and Mr. Frank Dicksee, R.A. The Benchers present in addition to the Treasurer were H.R H. the Duke of Connaught, Lord Ashbourne, Lord Shand, Mr. Henry Griffith, Sir Arthur Collins, K.C, Mr. Hugh Shield, K.C, His Honour Judge Bowen Rowlands, K.C, Mr. James Sheil, Mr. Arthur Beetham, Mr. John Rose, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Mulligan, K.C, Mr. Mattinson, K.C, Mr. Macaskie, K.C., Mr. C. A. Russell, K.C., Mr. Montague Lush, K.C., Mr. Dicey, C B., Mr. Barnard, Mr. H. C. Richards, K.C., M.P., Mr. Duke, K.C., M.P., Sir Julian Salomons, K.C., with the Preacher (the Rev. Canon C. J. Thompson, D.D.).</quote> (The Solicitor's Journal and Reporter. June 21, 1902. Volume XLVI. 1901-1902 [November 2, 1901, to October 25, 1902]: 588. Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=9T84AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA588).

26 June 1902, Thursday

Edward VII crowned King of England. 26 June 1902.

There was apparently a regular celebration of Arthur Collins' birthday, 26 June, by Bret Harte, George Du Maurier, Arthur Sullivan, Alfred Cellier, Arthur Blunt, and John Hare (Nissen, Axel. Brent Harte: Prince and Pauper: 239. [3]). Choosing 1885–1902 as the dates because those apparently are the dates of the close relationship between Harte and Collins, ending in Harte's death in May 1902, so the celebration with Harte present did not take place this year. Did it take place at all?

July 1902

3 July 1902, Thursday

MacGregor and Moina Mathers were living at 28 Rue Saint Vincent, Buttes Montmartre, Paris (Howe 244).

September 1902

Tristan and Isolde at the Covent Garden.

22 September 1902, Monday

Earl and Countess of Mar and Kellie's House Party

The Earl and Countess of Mar and Kellie have a large houseparty at Allca [?] House, Clackmannanshire. Their guests include Lord Charles Montagu, Viscount Chelsea, the Hon. Alexander M'Donnell, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, and Sir George and Lady Maud Warrender.

25 September 1902, Thursday

"There were no winter performances of opera at Covent Garden in those times .... In 1902 an autumnal series was added, and there were several Wagner nights, the last of which was on Thursday, 25 September, when Philip Brozel and Blanch Marchesi were starred in Tristan and Isolda with Marie Alexander as Brangane" (Baring-Gould II 704, n. 14, quoting Rolfe Boswell).

October 1902

Annual Opening of the Prince's Ice-skating Rink

The newspapers reported on 2 Fridays in 1902, October 24th and 31st, on the opening of the Prince's Club Ice-skating Rink.

24 October 1902, Friday

The Daily Express reported on the annual opening of the Prince's ice-skating rink, revealing who had an interest in skating:

The first ice of the season was skated upon yesterday. It was the carefully-prepared ice which Mr. H. W. Page and Mr. Nightingale offer to the members of Prince’s Skating Club, in Knightsbridge, and was in grand condition.

The Hon. Algernon Bourke opened the rink for the seventh season, and in the afternoon and evening the West End patronized the popular club to skate or to lounge to the pleasant strains of the Viennese band.

Princess Louise is again at the head of the ladies’ committee, with the Duchess of Portland and Marchioness of Londonderry as co-members, and Lord Edward Cecil and many other well-known skaters are identified with the committee work.

The skating hours are from 9.30 to 1 and 3 to 7, and on Sundays 3 to 7 only.

Halloween.

The 7th seasonal opening of the Prince's Skating Club and its committees:

Until some genius, at present undiscovered, can cheapen the process of the manufacture of “real ice” we are not likely to become a nation of figure skaters, but where there are opportunities for practising the fascinating art of edges and turns development has proved to be rapid. This was noticeable on Friday at the opening of the seventh season of Prince’s Skating Club, a large number of really good skaters being present, who all found the fine hard surface to their Iiking, and there was a capital display of ice waltzing, the true poetry of motion, to the music of the Blue Viennese Band. Mr. Algernon Grosvenor, an enthusiastic member of the committee, who presided at the little ceremony preceding the opening to members, referred to the prospects of continued success for the present season, which lasts until April next, and said that improvement might be expected, as the end of the war had brought many competent skaters home. A well-deserved tribute was paid to the work of Mr. H. W. Page, the secretary, on behalf of the club, which includes on its ladies' committee Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll), the Duchess of Portland, Lady Londonderry, Lady Archibald Campbell, Lady Ribblesdale, Mrs. Algernon Bourke, and Mrs. Asquith; and on the men's committee, Lord Edward Cecil, Lord Redesdale, Mr. Algernon Bourke, Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, Sir Edgar Vincent, Sir William Hart Dyke, and Mr. W. H. Grenfell.

November 1902

5 November 1902, Wednesday

Guy Fawkes Day.

8 November 1902, Saturday

The Earl and Countess of Warwick hosted a shooting party at Easton Lodge:

The Earl and Countess of Warwick are entertaining a large party at Easton Lodge this week-end for [?] shooting, and among their guests are the Grand Duke Michael of Russia and Countess Torby, the Duc d'Alba, the Duke of Sutherland, Earl Howe, Earl Cairns, Lord Dalmeny, Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, the Hon. John and Lady [Choely?] Scott-Montagu, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P., General and Mrs. Arthur Paget, and Miss Leila Paget, Miss Naylor, Miss Deacon, and Mr W. M. Low.

The Friday 14 November 1902 Melton Mowbray Times reported a slightly different list of people present:

Lord and Lady Warwick's party for shooting at Easton Lodge, Dunmow, last week included the Grand Duke Michael and Countess Torby, the Duke of Sutherland, the Duc d’Albe, M. de Soveral, Lord Howe, Lord Cairns, Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, Lord Dalmeny, Mr John and Lady Cecil Scots-Montagu, Mr Henry Chaplin, Mrs Algernon Bourke, and General and Mrs Arthur Paget and Miss Leila Paget. — The World.

29 November 1902, Saturday

Muriel Wilson’s cousin, Lady Hartopp, was involved in a divorce case:

Society Women in a Law Court Case.

Mr. Justice Barnes’s Court is now crowded by society people. What is the strange fascination which brings elegantly dressed ladies, accustomed to luxurious surroundings and all the external refinements of life, to sit for hours in stuffy court, where the accommodation is all the plainest, and the surroundings are none too attractive. It would need some assurance to invite a Belgravian Countess, or the wife of Mayfair Millionaire to spend the morning under such conditions unless there were the attraction of a very strong piece of scandal. One could not presume to suggest she should attend Missionary meeting, or social reform movement, under any such conditions. At least I must confess that I never heard of one being packed with a West End crowd as the Court just now. Of course it cannot be mere idle curiosity. Our higher education for girls must have cured Mother Eve’s failing long ago. Cynics suggest that it is the survival in our highly-civilised modern conditions of that instinct of the wild creature which incites attack on the wounded or injured fellow. Wild birds will sometimes peck injured bird to death. Are these fair and soft-voiced ladies animated by the same spirit when they throng witness the ordeal through which a woman of their own class is passing?

The Latest Divorce Case.

Lady Hartopp, the heroine of the story which has been occupying the tongues and thoughts of the upper ten thousand for the last 48 hours, is a member of a well-known and wealthy family, and is herself remarkable for her beauty. Her two sisters are as famous for their charms as herself, and society has given them many flattering titles. The daughters of Mr. C. H. Wilson, the great shipowner, whose sails are on every sea, are as favoured by Fortune as Venus. Miss Muriel Wilson, the society beauty, is a cousin of Lady Hartopp, and Lady Chesterfield is her sister. It was at Tranby Croft, near Hull, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson, that the famous baccarat case occurred some years ago. Lady Hartopp is the niece of Mr. Arthur Wilson, and no doubt recollects that incident, and all the consequent stir. It attracted all the more notice at the time, because the then Prince of Wales had taken part in the game; but the Prince, who had nothing to be ashamed of, with characteristic straightforwardness, asked to go into the box and state all he knew. (1902-11-29 Norwich Mercury)

December 1902

9 December 1902, Tuesday

"Severe weather" did not prevent Lady Eva Wyndham's "at home" from being a success:

Lady Wyndham-Quin's "At Home." The severe weather proved to be no detriment to the many visitors who had accepted Lady Eva Wyndham-Quin's invitation to an "at home" at the Welch Industrial depot on Tuesday afternoon, and the admirers and purchasers of the fascinating Christmas gifts were numerous. Lady Eva received her quests wearing a coat of Persian paw and a white feather toque, whilst her two tittle daughters the Misses Olein and Kethlean Wyndham-Quin wore pelisses and hats of pale blue Welsh frieze, trimmed with grebe. Amongst those present were Lady George Hamilton, all in black; Lady Brassey, wearing a lovely sable cape; the Hon. Mrs Algernon Bourke, in a fur coat and a black picture hat; and the Hon. Mrs Herbert, of Llanever; Mrs Brynmor Jones was fall of her coming visit to Paris to see her young daughter, and Mrs Richard Helme came with her son, Mr Ernest Helme. Mrs Brenton and her sister, Mrs Ashurst Morris, were also present, as were Lady Eafield, the Dowager Lady Hylton, Lady Dennison Pender [Ponder?], and Lady Blanche Conyngham. Mrs Grinnell Milne brought Miss Murray end Mrs Shelley Bontens, and Mrs James Head came in for a few minutes. Everybody bought largely and the Welsh Christmas cards were an attractive feature, as were some artistic muff chains. Another specimen of Welsh lace sent by Miss Jenkins, of Denbighshire, was much admired and resembles Irish lace both in style and design.

16 December 1902, Tuesday

A poem satirizing Florence Farr and Arnold Dolmetsch was published in Punch.

25 December 1902, Thursday

Christmas Day

26 December 1902, Friday

Boxing Day

Works Cited

• [1902-06-10 Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser] "Court and Personal." Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 10 June 1902, Tuesday: 5 [of 10], Col. 3c [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/19020610/033/0006 (accessed July 2019).
• [1902-11-29 Norwich Mercury] "Society Women in a Law Court Case." And "The Latest Divorce Case." Norwich Mercury 29 November 1902, Saturday: 5 [of 12], Col. 1b [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001669/19021129/072/0005 (accessed July 2019).

1903

From sometime in 1891 to sometime in 1903 Eduoard de Reszke was "a leading bass" at the New York Metropolitan Opera (Baring-Gould II 112, n. 114).

"[I]n England in 1903, gramophone distinctly meant the Berliner-Gramophon & Typewriter disc machine, while cyclinder machines were known as phonographs or graphophones " (Baring-Gould II 745, n. 15).

Gerald Balfour was "largely responsible for getting the important Land Acts of 1903 under way" (O'Connor 163).

January 1903

3 January 1903, Saturday

Madame Troncey was doing a portrait of W. B. Yeats (Wade 392).

February 1903

9 February 1903, Monday

The beginning of the Viceregal season in Dublin with a house party at Dublin Castle hosted by the Lord Lieutenant and Countess of Dudley:

Monday last week the Viceregal season commenced, and the following guests arrived at Dublin Castle, where the Lord Lieutenant and Countess of Dudley have been in residence since the preceding Friday: H. H. Prince Francis ot Teck, Catherine Duchess of Westminster and Lady Mary Grosvenor, the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn and Lady Phyllis Hamilton, the Earl and Countess of Annesley, Earl and Countess of Essex, Countess of Fingall, Viscount Brackley, Lord Vivian, Lady Barrymore and Miss Post, Hon. H. Fraser, Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke and Miss Madelaine Bourke, Mr. and Miss White.

March 1903

1903 March 17, Tuesday

Aristocratic women supporting Irish-made laces, needlework, and clothing:

It was unfortunate weather for the St. Patrick’s Day sale of the Irish Industries Association, yesterday afternoon; but, in spite of this disadvantage, the rooms were crowded, and orders wore being given and taken on all sides. Lady Londonderry was, as usual, presiding over the laces of the London depôt, though she often left her stall to her assistants and went about receiving her friends. The lace shown on her stall was beautiful. The needlepoint, Limerick, and Carrickmacross flounces, collars, and coatees finding many buyers during the afternoon. The Dowager Lady Downshire presided over the Association’s stall of embroideries, and Lady Gage arrived betimes to arrange them, wearing a dress of black lace over white, trimmed with appliques, also in black and white. Lady Aberdeen, as usual indefatigable, was at the Association’s stall of knitting, carving, and baskets. And Mrs. Marjoribanks was with her, showing in her own white dress how well Irish tweeds can look when made up. Lady Marjorie Gordon was also helping her mother. As for the 21 stalls representing the various cottage industries, these were once again covered with the beautiful work the Irish peasants, or (as in the case of the Gentlewomen’s Guild Handicrafts, the Ulster Ladies’ Work depôt, and the Irish School of Art Needlework) with work done by Irish ladies. The art needlework done by the Irish School needs little recommendation, it known so well for its excellence. And there were beautiful things on its stall this year, including many portières and some very finely-worked pictures. The stall was in charge of Lady Mayo, Georgina Lady Dudley, Mrs. Algernon Bourke, and Miss Beresford. Lady Lucan, being always on the watch for extending the sale of the tweeds woven by the Castlebar Homespun Industry, this year shows some of a rather heavy description, made for motor coats, and one of these was on show yesterday afternoon. A pretty coat it looked, too, being carried out in cream cloth, with strapped back, and narrow collar of black velvet. Toys and furniture came from the Cushenhall and the Killarney Industries respectively, and were by no means the least patronised yesterday afternoon, whilst there was steady sale of little bunches of shamrock, which came from poor Ulster lady, who grows and gathers the plant for such occasions as these. The sale is continued to-day from 12 until 6.

In a display of "too little, too late," on March 18, the day after St. Patrick's Day, the Daily Mail talks about events in London and Dublin in honor of St. Patrick's Day:

The bells of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, were rung yesterday morning in honour of Ireland’s patron Saint. Sprays of shamrock were worn as “button-holes” by some of the residents in Windsor, Eton, and the surrounding districts.

For the first time on record, St. Patrick’s Day was observed as a general holiday in Dublin. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony of the trooping of the colour by the 4th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in Upper Yard, Dublin Castle. The Lord Lieutenant, on horseback, attended by his staff, was present.

June 1903

Summer 1903: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

19 June 1903, Friday

Grand Ball in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle

King Edward and Queen Alexandra hosted a grand ball at Windsor Castle as "a wind-up to the Ascot festivities."

1903 June 23, Tuesday

A children's party at Buckingham Palace:

(From the Court Circular.)

Their Majesties gave a children’s party in the garden of the Palace this afternoon in honour of the ninth birthday his Highness Prince Edward of Wales, at which their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales with their children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, and the Duke of Fife, with their children, the Princess Victoria and their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Teck, with their children, were present.

The following, with their children, some of whom were unable to obey their Majesties' command, had the honour of receiving invitations: The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady Constance Scott, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Catherine, Duchess of Westminster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Granby, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Countess of Airlie, the Earl and Countess of Albemarle, the Countess of Antrim, the Earl and Countess Carrington, the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, the Earl and Countess of Denbigh and Desmond, the Earl and Countess of Essex, the Earl and Countess of Mar and Kellie, the Earl and Countess of Normanton, the Earl and Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Earl and Countess of Selborne, the Earl and Countess of Stradbroke, the Countess de Mauny-Talvande, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscount and Viscountess Churchill, Viscount and Viscountess Coke, Viscount and Viscountess Cranborne, Viscount and Viscountess Falmouth, Lord and Lady Balfour of Burleigh, Lord and Lady De Ramsey, Lady Farquhar, Lady Cynthia Graham, Lord and Lady Hastings, Lord and Lady Hillingdon, Lord and Lady Knollys, Lord and Lady Lurgan, Lord and Lady St. Oswald, Lord and Lady Settringto, Lord and Lady Alice Stanley, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord and Lady Wolverton, Mr and the Hon. Mrs. Gervase Beckett. Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Lionel Cust, Hon. Mrs. Geoffrey Glyn, Lientenant-Colonel Hon. Charles and Mrs. Harbord, Hon. Charles and Mrs. Hardinge, Hon. Sydney and Lady Mary Holland, Hon. Derek and Mrs. Keppel, Hon. George and Mrs. Keppel, Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Lambton, Hon. Lancelot and Mrs. Lowther, Sir Richard and Hon. Lady Musgrave, Hon H. and Lady Feodorowna Sturt, Hon. Dorothy Violet and Hon. Alexandra Vivian, Mr and Lady Aline Beaumont, Mr. and Lady Katherine Brand, Mr. and Lady Violet Brassey, Mr. and Lady Moyra Cavendish, Mr. and Lady Evelyn Cavendish, Sir E. and Lady Colebroke, Captain and Lady Jane Combe, Sir H. and Lady de Trafford, Mr. and Lady Eva Dugdale, Sir E. and Lady Edmonstone, Major-General Sir R. and Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew, Sir G. and Lady Maud Warrender, Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Beckett, Revd. Canon and Mrs. Dalton, Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson of Invercauld, Mr. and Mrs. W. Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hay-Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. W. James, Mr. and Mrs. Blundell Leigh, Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris.

July 1903

Party Hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough

1903 July 10, Friday, or so, the World reported (reprinted by the Melton Mowbray Times) on a party hosted by the Duchess of Marlborough:

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough's week-end party consisted of the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord Rosebery, Lady Lansdowne, Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, the Russian Ambassador, Lady Huntingdon, Count Albert Mensdorff, Lord Percy, Sir lan and Lady Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardinge, Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Mr. and Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, Colonel W. Lambton, Mr. and Mrs. Maguire, Miss Deacon, and Captain Brinton. — The World

August–September 1903

20 and 25 August and 3 September 1903

The 1903 America's Cup yacht race in New York Harbor with Nathaniel Herreshoff's Reliance for the US and Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock III for the UK, the 12th challenge for the cup and "the most expensive Cup challenge in history." The first race was run on 20 August 1903, the 2nd on 25 August and the 3rd on 3 September. Because the Reliance won the first 3 races, the best 3-out-of-5 race ended after the 3rd one.

October 1903

Sometime in October 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Empty House," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 331).

31 October 1903, Saturday

Halloween.

November 1903

Sometime in November 1903 Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 415).

5 November 1903, Thursday

Guy Fawkes Day

December 1903

Sometime in December 1903 Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 529).

16 December 1903, Wednesday

"On 16 December, Punch satirised an activity in which Dolmetsch was concerned. Florence Farr was acting as secretary for a newly-formed fellowship known as 'The Dancers', a body whose aim was to 'fight the high and powerful devil, solemnity'. In a poem entitled L'Allegro up to date, the final stanza is devoted to Dolmetsch:

The old forgotten dancing-lore,
The steps we cannot understand,
DOLMETSCH agrees to take in hand,
These on the well-trod stage anon,
When next our learned sock is on,
We’ll show, while ARNOLD, Fancy’s child,
Tootles his native wood-wind wild.

This verse is curiously prophetic for Dolmetsch had not yet introduced the recorder into his concerts, although he occasionally included a flute. Dolmetsch did know something of the steps of the old dances but it was his wife who later researched the subject most thoroughly and wrote two books on the subject." (Campbell 151–52)

25 December 1903, Friday

Christmas Day

26 December 1903, Saturday

Boxing Day

Works Cited

• Baring-Gould.
• Campbell.

1904

January 1904

Sometime in January 1904 Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 399).

March 1904

Sometime in March 1904 Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of Black Peter," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 384).

April 1904

Sometime in April 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 558, n. 1, and 559).

May 1904

17 May 1904, Tuesday

Countess Cadogan's Great Bazaar

The London Daily Chronicle reported about this event but does not name the date. Also, this report mentions outbreaks of measles and chicken pox among children.

Sir Philip Burne-Jones has offered to arrange the tableaux vivants that are to take place at the Albert Hall on the opening day of Countess Cadogan’s great bazaar. One of the tableaux will represent "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?” and a very pretty little girl has been selected as the central figure. A pleasing feature will be the grouping of children dressed as flowers to represent the garden. Many well-known people in London have been asked to allow their children to take part, but as there is at the present time a good deal of sickness about, such as measles and chicken-pox, a considerable number have had to decline. The following ladies, however, have consented to let their children appear: — The Marchioness of Granby, the Countess of Huntingdon, the Countess Bathurst, the Countess of Mar and Kellie, Lady St. Oswald, Lady Dickson-Poynder, Lady Griffin, the wife of Sir Lepel Griffin, the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Mrs. Drake, and Mrs. Calverley.

June 1904

Sometime in June 1904 Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Three Students," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 370).

Summer 1904: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

July 1904

Sometime in July 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 351).

August 1904

Sometime in August 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 476).

September 1904

Sometime in September 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange," illustrated by Sidney Paget, was published in the Strand (Baring-Gould II 491).

1905

April 1905

3 April 1905, Monday

W. B. Yeats wrote to Lady Gregory from Dublin, saying he had "dictated a rough draft of a new Grania second act to Moore's typewriter" (Wade 368).

1905 April 26, Wednesday

New Forest United Hunt Ball

The annual New Forest United Hunt ball was held at the New Forest Hall, Lyndhurst, on Wednesday night, and it was a very brilliant and highly successful and enjoyable gathering, other hunts being represented, besides those of the New Forest. The decorations were, as usual, entrusted to Mr. W. Gerrard, the proprietor of the hall, who carried it out in a most artistic manner. The ball-room presented a very grand appearance with the green and white muslin curtains draped at the windows, and the panels on the walls, while the ceiling beams were also festooned in green and white. The room was exceedingly well lighted, and plants and flowers for the front of the orchestra were lent by Mr. R. G. Hargreaves, J.P., of Cuffnells Park, and those for the windows and other parts by Mr. H. F. Compton, J.P., of Manor House, Minstead. The floor was in splendid order for dancing, and the company were quite delighted with it. The supper room was adorned with red and white, the retiring rooms with pink and white; the cool retreats from the ballroom were lit with fairy lamps, and the tea-room was adorned in white and gold. The stewards were the Hon. Gerald Lascelles and Mr. E. L. Wingrove (hon. sec. of the New Forest Hunt Ciub), and Mrs. Lascelles and Mrs. Compton took a leading part in carrying out the arrangements, which left nothing to be desired to secure the comfort and enjoyment of the guests, who commenced to arrive about ten o'clock, soon after which dancing began to the strains of Leader’s Radelki Band, from London, conducted by Norman Denarius. The programme was as follows:—

Valse — Wein, Weib und Gesang . . . . . . . . . Strauss
Valse — Tout Passe . . . . . . . . . Berger
Valse—Veronique . . . . . . . . . Messager
Two Step — Mosquito Parade . . . . . . . . . Bendix
Valse — L’Amour et a la vie Vienne . . . . . . . . . Kornzak
Lancers — The Orchid . . . . . . . . . Caryll
Valse — Choristers . . . . . . . . . Phelps
Valse — Luna . . . . . . . . . Lincke
Valse — Les Amourettes . . . . . . . . . Dubois
Polka — Whitling Rufus . . . . . . . . . Mills
Valse — Amoureuse . . . . . . . . . Berger
Lancers — Veronique . . . . . . . . . Messager
Valse — Midsummer . . . . . . . . . Marigold
Valse — Gold and Silver . . . . . . . . . Lehar
Valse — Casino Tanze . . . . . . . . . Gung'l
Two Step — Hiawatha . . . . . . . . . Moret
Valse — Bleue . . . . . . . . . Marcis
Valse — Caressante . . . . . . . . . Lambert
Lancers — Earl and the Girl . . . . . . . . . Caryll
Valse — Blue Danube . . . . . . . . . Strauss
Valse — Eton Boating Song . . . . . . . . . Kapa [?]
Galop — John Peel . . . . . . . . . Hunt

In addition to this there were a couple of valses extra, at the conclusion of the programme, and it was not until four o’clock on Thursday morning that the playing of the National Anthem announced the conclusion of the ball, which will be long remembered by those who participated in it for the great amount of enjoyment it afforded, and the admirable manner in which it was carried out, thanks to the indefatigable exertions of the stewards. All the guests expressed their extreme pleasure and satistaction with it, and it was unanimously voted as one of the most delightful reunions of the kind ever held in connection with the hunts. The refreshment department was again entrusted to Mr. G. Etheridge, of Southampton, who gave the utmost satisfaction, his catering being deservedly praised. The menu is appended:—

Soups.
Clear Turtle. Consomme. Printeniere.
Lamb Cutlets and Peas.
Cold.
Quenelles of Chicken en Aspec.
Salmon Plain. Salmon Mayonnaise.
Roast Turkeys.
Boned Turkey and Cailles Farcie.
Roast Chicken.
Braized Ox Tongues. York Hams.
Raised Pies.
Pressed Spiced Beef. Galantine of Chicken.
Galantine of Veal.
Patties — Assorted. Lobsters Plain.
Lobster Salad. Plain Salads.
Foi Gras en Aspec.
Plovers Eggs.
Sweets.
Maraschino Jellies. Pine Apple Jellies.
Noyeau, Vanilla, and Strawberry Creams.
Meringnes [sic]. Triffles. Fancy Pastry.
Maids of Honour.
Buffet.
Tea. Coffee. Home Made Lemonade.
Claret Cup. Hock Cup.
Sandwiches — Assorted.
Cakes (Fancies), etc. Ices.
Strawberry and Vanilla Creams. Lemon Water.

The number present was 205, some fifty more than last year, and among them — and many gentlemen were in scarlet coats — were Lord Leconfield, M.F.M., Lord Wodehouse, Hon. E. Perrlepont [Perriepont?], Hon. John Scott-Montagu, M.P., and Lady Cecil Scott-Montagu, Sir Charles and Lady Darling, Miss Darling, Hon. Dudley Carleton, Hon. Gerald and Mrs. Lascelles, Miss Lascelles, Captain R. C. H. Sloane Stanley and Olivia Countess Cairns, Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke, Sir George Meyrick, Lady Meyrick, Miss Meyrick, Miss Phipps, the Count de Miremont, Hon. Mrs. Alwyn Greville, Captain G. D. Jeffreys (Grenadier Guards) and the Viscountess Cantelupe, Mr. G. and Lady Augusta Fane, Mr. B. Howard, Miss Clara Howard, Mr. F. M. Sibbald Scott (3rd Battalion Royal Scots), Mr. Camellan (Hampshire Regiment), Miss M. Bowden Smith, Miss Cumberbatch, Miss Sibbald Scott, Mr. and Miss Pitcher, Captain and Mrs. Maitland, Miss Maitland, Mr. Vachell, Mr. Noel Baxendale, Mrs. Heathcote, Miss Heathcote, Miss M. Heathcote, Miss Bainbridge, Mr. Woodyatt, Mr. Noel, Miss Laura Jones, Major Dalrymple, Mrs. Dalrymple, Miss Dalrymple, Miss Anderson, Mr. H. R. Dalrymple, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Nevile Henderson, Mr. C. L. Hargreaves, Mr. R. Gand, Mrs. Hargreaves, Mr. John Jeffreys, Mrs. Jeffreys, Miss Gwendolin Jeffreys, Miss Mildred Jeffreys, Mr. Cosmo Douglas, R.N., Lieutenant R. D. Ward, R.N., Mr. J. L. Forbes, R.A., Mr. E. Scott Mackirdy, Mr. Robert Pearce and Mrs. Pearce, Miss E. Ward, Major H. L. Powell, Mrs. Powell, Mr. Salt, R.H.A., Mr. Balston, R.H.A., Miss Inagh Frewen, Mr. W. S. D. Craven, Mr. Gerald Duplessis, Miss Duplessis, Captain and Mrs. Standish, Miss Beatrice Pulteney, Mrs. Pigott, Captain Granville, Mrs. Granville, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin Powell, Colonel Fowle, Captain Halaban, Captain Bathurst, Mr. Gillson, Lieutenant Eric Fullerton, R.N., Mr. C. Herbert, Colonel Barklie McCalmont, C.B., Mrs. McCalmont, Miss McCalmont, Miss M. Phelps, Captain A. C. Herbert, Captain and Mrs. Burns Hartopp, Miss Bodkin, Mr. Edward Hawkins, Mrs. Hawkins, Miss Abercromby, Mr. A. Bazley-Worthington, Mr. Meyrick, Mr. Nugent, Miss Morant, Captain H. T. Timson, Mrs. Timson, Mr. G. Eyre Matcham, Mrs. Matcham, Miss Jeffreys, Mr. Ralph Macan, Captain W. A. Grant and Mrs. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Glasgow, Miss Alyn Mazall, Dr. Hastings Stewart, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Butler, Miss Arnold, Mrs. Robinson, Captain Synars, Mr. N. Learmonth, Captain Warren Peacocke, Mrs. Peacocke, Mr. John Peacocke, Miss Wade, Miss Frewen, Miss Pryor, Miss Bodkin, Mr. Marriott, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, Mr. H. Fane, Mr. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Rayleigh Phillpotts, Miss Lyon, Mrs. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. Arthur L. Watson, Mr. C. H. Wilmer, Miss M. Farquharson, Mr. Merric Bovill, Mr. Skeene, Miss Chandos Pole, Colonel and Mrs. Spurgin, Captain Johnston Browne, Mr. J. Darling, Mr. Hugh Neville, Miss G. Milne, Mr. E. Martin, Miss Gossip, Mr. J. Blake, Mr. R. E. S. Pearce, Rev. C. Maturin, Major Wyndham Pain, Mrs. Wyndham Pain, Mr. A. C. Crossley, Captain Innes, Mr. L. R. Hargreaves, Miss Bryan, Mr. A. K. Hargreaves, Miss Skene, Miss Merehouse, Mr. Thornhill, Mr. and Mrs. Price, Mr. Freeland, Mr. E. Meade-Waldo, Mrs. Meade-Waldo, Mr. W. I. Whitaker, the Hon. Mrs. Whitaker, Miss Blythe, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas Scott, Major R. E. Bolton (Scots Guards), Mr. E. Harington, Miss Meade-Waldo, Miss Dorothy Meade-Waldo, Mr. Ernest L. Wingrove, Mr. H. F. and Mrs. Compton, Miss Jeffray, Mr. Farquharson, Captain Godfrey Heseltine, Mr. D. Grimmell-Milne, Mrs. Godfrey Baring, Mr. T. C. Musgrave, Mr. H. W. Eaden, Mrs. Eaden, and party, Captain Granville, Mr. A. L. Duncan, Miss Arkwright, Mrs. Crofton, Captain Ellis.

June 1905

Summer 1905: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

July 1905

10 July 1905, Monday

1905 July 10, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador hosted a dinner party:

The Austro-Hungarian Ambassador entertained the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia of Connaught at dinner at the Embassy in Belgrave-square on Monday evening. There were also present the Spanish Ambassador and Mme. Bernabé, the United States Ambassador and Mrs. and Miss Whitelaw Reid, Princess Hohenlohe, Prince Francis of Teck, Princess Teano, the Earl of Essex, the Earl and Countess of Crewe, Viscount Villiers, Viscount Errington, Viscount Newry, Mrs. J. Leslie, Miss Muriel Wilson, Mr. R. Graham, Mrs. Astor, Lady Maud Warrender, Prince Furstenburg, Count Szenchenyi, Captain A. Meade, and Miss Pelly and Colonel Murray in attendance on the Duke and Duchess.

Last week of July, 1905

Lady Cadogan hosted a children's party at Chelsea House:

Lady Cadogan’s children’s party last week at Chelsea House was one of the prettiest sights imaginable. Her grandchildren, the little Chelseas, came to help entertain the guests, and nearly all the smart women in London brought their small folk. One of loveliest little girls present was Daphne Bourke, Mrs. Algernon Bourke’s only child; and Lady De Trafford’s young daughter Violet was much admired, and Lady Maud Ramsden’s little people were among daintiest of the small children.

September 1905

1 September 1905, Friday

Society Sportswomen

The Willesden Chronicle published a piece on sportswomen, as did the Kilburn Times Hampstead and North-Western Press. The article does not list Lady Violet Greville, who did deer-stalking in Scotland, but perhaps she wasn't as good as these women or she was not socially important the way many of these women were; she was certainly not in the social networks that included some of them.

Each season sees new recruits in the ranks of Society sportswomen. Princess Charles of Denmark is a skilled shot, and as a child was taught to shoot at a target. Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg, formerly Grand Duchess of Hesse, and niece to King Edward, is another famous markswoman.

The Duchess of Bedford is a splendid shot, and so is the Duchess of Newcastle, who killed many head of big game in the Rocky Mountains. The Marchioness of Breadalbane is a first-rate rife shot and deer-stalker. Lady Loch shoots well, and many fine stags have fallen to her rifle. Lady Sandhurst and the Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke must also be included among noted deerstalkers. Lady Hindlip is another big game shot, and brought down and brought home a giraffe from her recent travels in East Africa. Lady Delamere has also secured some notable trophies from the African jungle.

Lady Wolverton, Lady Helen Stavordale, Lady Vivian, and Lady Juliet Duff are all good markswomen, and Lady Constance Stewart- Richardson is, of course, second to none as a noted sportswoman. She has shot stags in Scotland, big game in the jungles of Ceylon, and wild hogs on the plains of South-West Texas. Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew is another splendid shot, and the list also includes Lady Wickham, sister to the Marquis of Huntly, Lady Constance Scott, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, Mrs. Asquith, and Miss Muriel Wilson.

Mrs. Alan Gardner, daughter Sir James Blyth, has killed big game in the four quarters of the globe; and Mrs. George Cornwallis West shoots as well she writes or plays on the piano. The Hon. Mrs. Lancelot Lowther is a good rabbit shot, and Violet Lady Beaumont and the Countess of Warwick are deadly with partridges and pheasants.

October 1905

1905 October 14, Saturday

A "send-off dinner" for Jerome K. Jerome before his trip to the U.S. occurred at the Garrick Club "the other evening" before October 14:

Jerome K. Jerome has undertaken a six months lecturing tour in the United States. I believe that this tour will be a great success, particularly when the Americans come to realise that Mr. Jerome is not only a humorous writer but a brilliant, serious writer with very genuine pathos. His appeal on this side has not, perhaps, gone home to the English people as much as it should, but the quick-witted Americans will not be slow to recognise his talents of both kinds, nor will they fail to appreciate the significance of the fact that the other evening a send-off dinner was given to Mr. Jerome at the Garrick Club. The hosts of the evening were Mr. Pett Ridge and Mr. W. W. Jacobs, which shows that there is no such thing as literary jealousy among our best humorists.

The presence of quite a galaxy of novelists to the dinner to Mr. Jerome, including Mr. Barrie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. Max Pemberton, Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. G. B. Burgin, Mr. Arthur Morrison, and Mr. Israel Zangwill, serve to indicate the existence of a pleasant brotherhood among the writers of fiction. The readers of Three Men in a Boat may be interested to know that there were also present Mr. Jerome's companions in that famous journey — Mr. Carl Hentschel and Mr. C. Wingrove.

When I have named further the presence of three artists in Mr. A. S. Boyd, Mr. John Hassall, and Mr. Will Owen, and two journalists in Dr. Robertson Nicoll and Mr. Clarence Rook, I have given some record of an exceedingly pleasant dinner party. The essential point, however, of this enumeration of names is that many of them are among the most highly honoured of Englishmen in the United States, and that thus Mr. Jerome cannot fail to reap additional benefit from this dinner so thoughtfully given in his honour by Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Pett Ridge.

November 1905

Sometime in November 1905, "Arnold Dolmetsch was again asked to provide music for a Been Greet season in New York — an engagement that brought about his first meeting with two young actors on their first American tour, Sybil Thorndike, and her brother, Russell" (Campbell 169). Dolmetsch's return to the US; was Annie Horniman still with the Thorndikes?

1906

March 1906

5 March 1906

"Mr. Frederick John Horniman, who died on March 5, in his seventy-first year, was the son of that well-known Quaker and tea-merchant, John Horniman, who made a magnificent fortune by retailing tea in air-tight packets, and, like his father, devoted both time and wealth to charitable objects. A great traveller, both for business and pleasure, Mr. Horniman gathered togther an admirable collection of curios, and this is housed at Forest Hill in the museum that bears his name. His private benefactions were also large. Mr. Horniman, who was a Liberal, sat in two Parliaments, representing Penrhyn and Falmouth Boroughs in one. He did not seek re-election in January last." ("The World's News." Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, March 10, 1906; pg. 338; Issue 3490, Col. C)

June 1906

Summer 1906: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

December 1906

1906 December 10, Monday

Lady Dudley's sale of Irish needlework:

Quite a large number of Americans attended Lady Dudley's sale of beautiful Irish needlework at 7, Carlton-gardens on Monday. The Duchess of Roxburghe, in mouse-coloured velvets and sable, was one of the earliest buyers. Mrs. Astor was another American who bought extensively, and the Duchess of Marlborough, who visited the sale on Sunday, secured a couple of charming water-colours, "Dusk in Glasnevin "and "The Circus Clown," while Lady Essex bought the six-guinea cushion cover made at Miss Yeats's school at Dundrum.

Lady Mayo, who came over from Ireland especially to help, had a table heaped with embroidery, and Adeline Duchess of Bedford presided over the raffles, and disposed of guinea chances for an exquisite panel enamelled on silver.

Lady Mar and Kellie remained until her sister, Lady Maud Warrender, had sung her last song, and Lady Dickson-Poynder came with her pretty little daughter and Mrs. Asquith. Lady Kenmare and her daughter were selling from a central table, and the Duchess of Rutland, in deep black, Mrs. Harry Lindsay, Mrs. Algernon Bourke, and Lady Grosvenor were among those to be seen in the tea-room downstairs.

1907

April 1907

April 1907, W. B. Yeats went to Italy with Lady Gregory (Harper 80 28).

June 1907

Summer 1907: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

1907 June 22, Saturday

The annual dinner of the Correctors of the Press was held at De Keyser's Royal Hotel:

The London Association of Correctors of the Press held their annual dinner at De Keyser’s Royal Hotel on Saturday. The Chairman was the Lord Mayor, and among his supporters were Sir John Cockburn, Colonel David Bruce, Colonel Earl Church, Lieutenant-Colonel Alsager Pollock, Sheriff Dunn, Mr. J. W. Cleland, M.P., Mr. R. Donald, Mr. T. Seccombe, Mr. Francis H. Skrine, Major H. F. Trippel, Mr. Walter Haddon, Mr. W. Pett Ridge, Mr. W. H. Helm, Mr. R. Warwick Bond, Mr. F. W. Rudler, Major Vane Stow, Mr. Clarence Rook, Mr. J. Randall (Chairman of the Association), Mr. Foxen, and Mr. Feldwick. Proposing the toast of "Literature,” Mr. W. H. Helm speculated as to what would follow the banning of "Mary Barton" by the Education Committee of the London County Council. In his opinion "The Swiss Family Robinson" was a more immoral book, because beyond any other work it had fostered the Micawber view of life. (Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR [init caps large, rest sm, throughout], submitting the toast of "The Readers' Pension Fund,” apologised for appearing in morning dress. The reason was that he had been to the King’s Garden Party at Windsor, and whlle he was returning to London by motor something burst. (Laughter.) Only that morning he had arrived from Berlin, where he learned some lessons useful to people who give dinners. When the Oberburgomeister of Berlin proposed the health of, say, the Lord Mayor of London, there was an end of the business. He did not push forward the Houses of Parliament, the Navy and Army, or even Literature. (Laughter.) Being a practical people the Germans when they met for a particular purpose applied themselves to no other, and the English would well to copy them. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. RANDALL said that last year the Association helped five readers and one reader’s widow to pensions, and this year it had done the same for two readers and two widows. One of the men assisted last March had taught himself Greek, Arabic, and Sanscrit, and in leisure moments amused himself by making object glasses for microscopes and telescopes. At this very gathering there was a printer’s reader who was Hebrew scholar. (Hear, hear.) With regard to finance Mr. Randall was happy to say that this dinner would enable the Association to establish a fourth pension. (Cheers.) The Lord Mayor, Lord Glenesk (President of the Readers' Pensions Committee), the Clothworkers’ Company, and the Cutlers’ Company had contributed ten guineas each, and the total addition to the fund resulting from the dinner was £l90. During the evening excellent entertainment was provided by Miss Helena Foxen, Miss Kathleen Dwyer, Mr. T. C. Bell, Mr. P. E. Syrett, Mr. Prank Rhodes, and Mr. E. Croft-Williams, the last-named being the hon. musical director.

August 1907

Polo Week at Eaton Hall, Duke and Duchess of Westminster

On 24 August, the Queen reported about the week at Eaton Hall:

My Cheshire friends have written me a most interesting account of the polo week at Eaton Hall, where the Duke and Duchess of Westminster have been entertaining a large party, including the Duke's sister, Lady Beauchamp; his cousin, Mrs Ivor Guest, and her husband; Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson, Lord Cholmondeley and his lovely daughter, Lady Lettice Cholmondeley; and Miss Millicent Grosvenor, whose engagement to Mr Wallis, of the Scots Guards, was announced at the end of the season. Others of the party at Eaton were Lord and Lady Arthur Grosvenor (of caravan fame), Mr and Mrs Frank Bellville (who had been entertaining at Papillon Hall the week before for the Rugby polo tournaments), Mr G. and Mr C. Miller and their wives, Lord Shrewsbury, Lord Wodehouse, Lord Ingestre, Mr Osmond Hastings, Capt. de Crespigny, Mr Algernon Bourke, and several others. At Saighton Grange Lady Grosvenor's guests included Lady Marjorie and Lady Violet Manners, Lady Mildred Follet and her husband, Lord Hugh Cecil and Mr Banbury, as well as Lady Grosvenor's handsome young son, Mr Percy Wyndham; and these were all day at Eaton taking part in the polo or looking on. Capt. Miller, who helps the Duke to organise the tournament, brought with him his pack of beagles from Rugby, and when not following these in the early morning the indefatigable guests were cubhunting at dawn. This in addition to the polo matches every afternoon held on the Duke' s private ground — one of the best in England — in the beautiful park. Eight teams competed, and the play was most exciting, especially in the final on Friday, contested by the two teams that had hitherto won all the ties. These were Hotspurs — Mr Banbury, Capt. de Crespigny, Mr Nickalls, and Capt. Campbell — and Eaton Hall — Mr Percy Wyndham (the Duke's half brother), Major Hobson. Mr J. A. Miller, and the Duke of Westminster. The Hotspurs won a most thrilling game by five goals to four. The Duchess had engaged Gottlieb's delightful band for the week, and in the evening she often sang to the accompaniment of some of its members, which delighted her guests, for her voice is quite beautiful. On Thursday the party was joined by Lord and Lady Mary Crichton and Lord and Lady Hugh Grosvenor; Lady Grosvenor brought over her guests from Saighton, and there was a small dance in the evening. The day before, it being too wet to play polo, a cinematograph show was got up for everyone's amusement in the ballroom. On Saturday the party scattered, and the Duke and Duchess went north to Lochmore, and are due in Ireland later on for the horse show week. Princess Henry of Pless, the Duchess of Westminster's only sister, has been thrown into mourning by the death of her father-in-law, the Duke of Pless, to whose title and vast possessions her husband now succeeds.

November 1907

10 November 1907

<quote>On 10 November, Dolmetsch, 'awfully tired and disquieted with overwork', writes to Horne, 'longing for Florence'.

7, Bayley Street
W.C.
My concert went very well last night. Melodie quite distinguished herself, and a sister of Bernard Shaw Lucy Carr Shaw sang delightfully. …
But Symmons [sic] … did not go before 1 o'cl. and yet, by the first post this morning, I got a charming poem on Rameau. … He must have spent all night on it.</quote> (Campbell 120)

1908

In 1908 Sidney Paget died in 1908 in some "untimely" fashion (Baring-Gould II 239).

April 1908

1908 April 9, Thursday

The Provisional Committee for the Shakespeare Memorial demonstration at the Lyceum Theatre met at the Hôtel Métropole:

SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL. A meeting of the Provisional Committee for the forthcoming Shakespeare Memorial demonstration at the Lyceum Theatre was held yesterday at the Hôtel Métropole. Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., presided, and there were present : The Earl of Lytton, Mr. Percy Alden, M.P., Mr. Henry Ainley, Mr. Percy Ames, Mr. Robert Barr, Mr. Arthur à Beckett, Mr. Austin Brereton, Mr. Acton Bond (General Director of the British Empire Shakespeare Society), Mr. Dion Boucicault, Mrs. Bateman-Crowe, Professor Boss, Mr. Norreys Connell, Mr. W. M. Crook, Mr. John Cutler, K.C., Mr. J. Comyns Carr, Mr. Ernest Carpenter, the Rev. P. H. Ditchfleld, Mr. Robert Donald, Mr. A. C. Forster Boulton, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Gomme, Mr. A. A. Gardiner, Mr. C. T. Hunt (hon. secretary London Shakespeare League), Mr. Laurence Housman, Mr. J. A. Hobson. Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer, Mr. Selwyn Image, Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, Mr. Frederick Kerr, Miss Gertrude Kingston, Professor Knight, Mr. Matheson Lang, the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy, Colonel Henry Mapleson, Dr. Gilbert Murray, Mr. T. Fairman Ordish, Mr. A. W. Pinero, Mr. Ernest Rhys, Mr. Clarence Rook, the Rev. J. Cartmel Robinson, Mr. George Radford, M.P., Mr. Clement Shorter, Mr. Otto Salimann (hon. secretary of the Elizabethan Society), Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. H. W. Smith, Mr. Herbert Trench, Dr. Todhunter, and Mr. James Welch. It was agreed that the Lyceum demonstration should take place in May, and a resolution should be moved in favour of the establishment of a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespeare.

June 1908

Summer 1908: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

1908 June 21, Sunday

Very large demonstration for women's suffrage in Hyde Park coming from "seven points in London."

WOMAN'S VOTE.

SUFFRAGISTS' GREAT MARCH TO HYDE PARK TODAY.

WHITE DEMONSTRATION.

AMUSING ADDRESS TO M.P.'s. FROM RIVER LAUNCH.

From seven points in London to-day seven big prossesions will march to Park, and there jointly demand the Parliamentary franchise for women.

The whole town will be alive with demonstrating suffragists. The streets will resound with the cry of "Votes for Women." In Hyde Park eighty speakers will voice the demand from twenty platforms.

London has been divided into districts for the purposes of the mighty demonstration, and each of theee has an assembling place, from which the processions will move off to Hyde Park, as given in the following official list: —

A. — Euston-road. — Form up at 12 o'clock, east of Euston Station. Start at 1 p.m. March via Euston-road, Portland-place, Upper Regent-street, Oxford-street, to the Marble Arch.

B. — Trafalgar-square. — Form up 12.30. Start 1.30. March via Pall Mall, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Berkeley-street, and Mount-street to the Grosvenor Gate.

C. — Victoria Embankment. [sic] Form up 12.30. Start from Westminster Bridge 1.30. March via Victorla-street, Grosvenor-place, to Hyde Park Corner.

D. — Chelsea Embankment. — Form up 12.30. Start 1.30. March via Oakley-street, King's-road, Sloane-square, Sloane-street to Albert Gate.

E. — Kensington High-street. — Form up 1 o'clock. Start 1.30. March via Kensington into the Alexandra Gate of the Park.

F. — Paddington Station. — Form up 1 p.m. Start 2 p.m. March via Victoria Gate into Hyde Park.

G. — Marylebone-road. — Form up 12.30. Start 1.30. March via Seymour-place, Seymour-street, and Into the Park close to the Marble Arch.

The demonstrators will come from all parts of the country, some seventy special trains being run from the big towns in the provinces. These will be met at the London stations by white-garbed "Captains" and "Stewards," and their occupants marshalled in proper divisions.

Literature and the drama will be represented in several of the processions. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shaw will join in Trafalgar-square, and so will Mr. Pett Ridge. Starting from Euston-road will be a coach carrying Mrs. Parkhurst, Miss Beatrice Harraden, Mrs. Mona Caird, and Miss Elizabeth Robins.

Mrs. Israel Zangwill will chaperon a party on a coach from the Thames Embankment, which will include Professor and Mrs. Ayrton, Madame Sarah Grand, Miss Lillah McCarthy (Mrs. Granville Barker), Miss Marian McCarthy, Mr. Lucien Wolf, Professor Perry, F.R.S. (scientist), Mrs. H. G. Wells, Mrs. Alice Meynell, and Suffragist leaders from Sweden, Finland, and Norway. In Finland women not only have the vote, but they sit in Parliament. Madame Stromberg, from that country, is now in London attending the Horse Show at Olympia, and will be present at to-day's demonstration. Mr. H. Nevinson and Mr. H. N. Brailsford will walk in the Embankment procession.

On the Kensington four-in-hand coach will be:— Mrs. Clarence Rook, Mrs. Jopling Rowe, Mlle. Stavance (Norwegian editor and authoress), Mrs. French Sheldon, F.R.G.S., and Miss Christine Silver.

...

In addition to seven four-horse coaches — one for each procession — there will be more than sixty brakes, filled with country suffragists, and elaborately decorated. [Story continues.]

Works Cited

• Baring-Gould

July 1908

30 July 1908, Thursday

Glorious Goodwood. Cup Day and Dresses.

Cup day at Goodwood, says the “Daily Telegraph,” is always looked upon as the occasion for a display of beautiful toilettes, and Thursday was no exception to the rule: in fact, the scene reminded one more of Ascot on a miniature scale. Some very beautiful Directoire gowns were to be seen, and in all materials. There was the ever-delightful satin charmeuse, silk voile, ninon, embroidered muslin, chiffon, and hand-painted muslins in endless variety. Shantung, too, played its part, and so did broderie Anglaise, and other cool and diaphanous materials. One could not help noticing the important part that embroidery plays in modern toilettes. Some of it is very elaborate, the most fashionable being worked in floss silks, while old Oriental patterns have been copied with considerable success. Persian, Indian, and Algerian motifs were to be seen on many wearers. Marquisette is an admirable material to embroider on, and here again floss silk was used in profusion. The embroidered linens seem to grow more elaborate every year. In many cases beautiful incrustations were used half way up the skirt, and many little coats were almost covered with these elaborate designs. Gold, silver, and platinum have also played a great part in the decoration of toilettes this year, and these tinsels, when skilfully blended with colours, have proved extremely beautiful.

The great heat last week made the fashionable long satin cloaks of various colours quite unnecessary, and in their place were seen sleeveless coats of silk muslin or short jackets of Irish lace. One lady was noted wearing a little hanging cape of cyclamen-coloured satin over a white dress, and the touch of colour was very becoming. Large hats have again been to the fore, and those trimmed with aigrettes of various colours have been very plentiful, but not to the extent one saw at Ascot. A tendency to introduce antumn flowers has been distinctly noted, and more than one smart hat has been decorated, with cornflowers and poppies. The blossoms of iris, fuschia, wistaria [sic], and roses have been the ideal floral decoration, and, here again, gold, silver, and platinum tissue have played a great part. One or two mole-coloured hats, trimmed with plantinum tissue, were very becoming. The reign of the natural ostrich feather, too, continues, and wings on a very large scale have also been seen. Quills of parti-colours found many wearers, and shaded feathers, going from very dark to light tones, have been greatly in evidence. The Elizabethan ruffle, which at the beginning of the season promised to be so fashionable, has almost disappeared, and in its place were to be seen short ruffles of tulle finished off with rosettes and ends of coloured satin. Another fashionable item at Goodwood was the wearing of coloured shoes and stockings to match the gowns, the more popular being those made of suede, and one lady was wearing a gown of grey silk muslin, with grey silk stockings to match, and shoes of grey suede, with paste buckles. Much jewellery has been seen, nearly every woman having a pearl necklace, and the vogue of the emerald must certainly be noted. The Queen set the example by wearing a long emerald pendant, from which fell a cabochon ruby. Jewelled hat pins, too, have played their part, and jewelled butterflies have been very fashionable to fasten veils.

The King and Queen, with Princess Victoria and the Duke of Richmond, arrived about a quarter past one. Some very lovely toilettes were to be noted in the Royal party. The Queen chose a delicate toilette of lavender grey, with a cross-over bodice, and a small grey toque trimmed with ostrich feathers. Princess Victoria wore a delicate shade of blue, with a hat trimmed with black and white feathers and pink roses. The Countess of Mar and Kellie appeared to great advantage in white crepe de chine and a large floral-trimmed hat. The Countess of Ilchester's gown of small black and white checked muslin was relieved by a mauve waistbelt and a large shady bat, trimmed with mauve irises. Lady Helen Gordon Lennox was in white, striped with mauve, the revers of the bodice being of pale mauve satin, and ber hat was trimmed with roses. Lady Anne Lambton wore white, with a hat of dull purple flowers and leaves relieved by pink roses here and there. Lady Muriel Beckwith was in blue, and the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel wore white crepe de chine, with many upstanding feathers in her hat. The Marchioness of Salisbury chose a very light gown, with a purple hat, trimmed with a purplish-blue feather, the brim of the hat being lined with rose colour. Lady Cooper was another of the many ladies present to appear in white embroidered muslin, and her hat was trimmed with many flowers. Lady Bernard Gordon-Lennox wore painted crepe, and a flower-trimmed hat. Miss Ivy Gordon-Lennox was in girlish white, the Hon. Charlotte Knollys wore a toilette of mauve and pink and white, Lady Sassoon in black and white striped silk muslin. Viscountess Crichton was wearing embroidered muslin: Lady Juliet Duff wore a mauve neck ruff, and a pale coloured hat with a dress of white lace and muslin. The King wore a lilac tie and a pink flower, with a blue frock coat and grey trousers and a tall grey hat.

Quite a bevy of beautifully-dressed women were to be seen sitting in the shade of the telegraph pavilion, which is situated in between the club enclosure and the paddock. Here were noted the Countess of Lonsdale, in dahlia-coloured crepe and satin, and Lady de Trafford, who chose a very successful gown of black and white striped muslin, the effect being almost grey, and with this she wore a beautiful hat of pure moonlight blue, which suited her to perfection. Lady Noreen Bass, in rose-red silk gauze, had a large white hat, with upstanding ospreys, and by her side sat Lady Rowena Paterson, in white, with a hat trimmed with lilac and roses. The Hon. Mrs. Algernon Bourke chose a beautiful shade of salmon-pink [Col. 1c–2a] voile, and her hat had flowers of the same colour. By her side might have been seen the Hon. Mrs. Lancelot Lowther, in pervenche-coloured silk voile, striped with bands of satin of the same shade. Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, looked charming in white, with a mauve waistband and parasol, and mauve and pink flowers in her hat. The Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire chose white crepe de chine, slightly trimmed with gold embroidery; and yet another to be seen here was Mrs. William James, who was in ivory crepe de chine, with touches of gold embroidery on the bodice. The Hon. Mrs. William Lawson was in mauve and white striped gauze, and Mrs. Arthur James wore rose pink voile.

The scene in the paddock was as interesting as ever. Here were noted Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, who motored to the races from Portsmouth Harbour, where they entertained a party of friends on the “Kathleen.” Her ladyship's gown was most original. It was of orchid mauve silk gauze, with a short over-skirt of golden gauze, a mauve hat slightly touched with gold, and her cream sunshade was veiled in gold gauze. The Countess of March, in unrelieved black, was accompanied by her three children, Lady Amy and Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox, and little Lord Settrington. Her sister-in-law, Lady Evelyn Cotterell, in a large black and white checked gown, accompanied her also. Lady Teynham's white embroidered muslin, with a short cloak of rose pink satin, was greatly admired, and so was the black satin charmeuse toilette, with gold embroideries, on a blue ground, worn by Mrs. Turner. The Countess of Sefton wore a simple little frock of silver grey silk ninon, and a low-crowned hat trimmed with lace, and the Hon. Mrs. Cyril Ward looked very pretty in white linen, with a large straw hat trimmed with blue ribbons and pink roses.

The large general attendance included: the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Essex, Lord Albert Osborne, Lady Clifford of Chudleigh, General Sir Albert Williams, Colonel Sir Augustus FitzGeorge, Lord Wolverton, Viscount Valletort, Major Eustace Loder, Colonel Holford, Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, the Countess of Aylesford, Lady Theo. Acheson, the Hon. Cyril Ward, the Hon. Sidney Greville, Mr. Blundell Leigh, Mr. Montagu Elliott, Sir Hill Child, Lord Algernon Gordon Lennox, and Miss Ivy Gordon-Lennox, Lord and Lady Gifford, Viscount Royston, Captain and Mrs. Bingham Turner, the Countess of Verulam, and Lady Vera Grimston, Lord Somers, Major Trotter, and very many others.

Among the local gentry were to be seen: Mrs. John Orr-Ewing with the Misses Orr-Ewing (both in white), Lady Gifford in grey satin with hat to match, Mrs. Agar in grey, Mrs. W. Dundas in black, and Mrs. Hankey, Miss Leslie, charmingly gowned in yellow, Mrs. Lacaita (of whose party was Lady Isobel Browne), Miss Gladys Grace, Mrs. Bradey Frith, Mrs. and the Misses Lees (the former wearing a charming cream dress and mauve hat), Major and Mrs. Layton, Capt. and Mrs. Bellamy, Capt. and Mrs. Griffin, Miss Buchanan, Mrs. and Miss Wood, Mr. and Mrs. P. de Bathe, Lady Dorothy Mercer Henderson in white stripped [sic] ninon and a large black picture hat, Miss Millicent James in pale blue with a black hat, and Miss Drexel.

1909

January 1909

1 January 1909

Rev. W. A. Ayton died (Howe 85 10-11).

20 April 1909, Tuesday

The wedding of Lady Rosemary Cairns and Wyndham Portal in St. Margaret's, Westminster.

The marriage of Mr. Wyndham Portal and Lady Rosemary Cairns takes place on the 20th at St. Margaret's, Westminster. The bride will be given away by her stepfather, Mr. Roger Sloane Stanley. She will wear a gown of white meteor satin, embroidered with crystals and silver. The train will be of silver tissue, also embroidered with crystals.

The bridesmaids are Miss Sherborne (a cousin of the bride), Miss Glynn, Miss Comb, Miss Alex [comics panel on "Clothes to Wear During the Holidays"] Bertie (a daughter of Lord and Lady Norreys), Miss Taylor, and Miss Larnach. These young ladies will wear gowns of pale primrose and silver, with black hats trimmed with pale yellow feathers.

There are also five small bridesmaids, these being the bride's two baby sisters, Miss Lavender Sloane Stanley and Miss Diana Sloane Stanley, Lady Ursula Cairns, Miss Timson, and Miss Fetherstonhaugh. The bridegroom's nephew, Master Henry Monck, will act as train-bearer. Lord Gifford (eldest son of Lord Tweeddale, and a brother-officer in the 1st Life Guards) will act as best man. After the ceremony, which will be performed by the Bishop of Peterborough, Olivia Lady Cairns, mother of the bride, will hold a reception at 78, Harley-street.

June 1909

Summer 1909: W. B. Yeats summered with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 1897-1917 or so, until WBY bought the Tower at Ballylee. (I got this from Wade?).

September 1909

Visitors in Venice from the U.K.

Venice has become a great rendezvous of cosmopolitan society in the early autumn, and the Piazza San Marco and the Grand Canal have been full of animation all this month.

The Duke of Marlborough, Louise Duchess of Devonshire, with her daughter, the Countess of Gosford, the Hon. Algernon Bourke, Lady Lilian Wemyss, the Hon. Mrs. Page-Roberts, Mr. Gordon-Lennox, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Paget, Lady Hadfield, who motored from Lucerne, Sir Benjamin Whitney, has been at Aix-les-Bains, Sir Charles and Lady Swinfen Eady, General de Horsey, and Mr. Claud Phillips have been among the many English visitors.

Lady Helen Vincent has been entertaining at Palazzo Giustiniani. Lady Layard has returned to Casa Capella. Prince Frederick Charles pf Hohenlöhe is at his residence on the Grand Canal. Princess Edmond de Polignac is residing at her palace. Mr. and Mrs. Hummphrey Johnston are back at Santa Maria dell'Arto. Mrs. and Miss Gebhardt and Countess A. Morosini have return3ed once more.

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