{"id":15116,"date":"2011-05-20T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=15116"},"modified":"2011-05-19T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T16:29:25","slug":"monday-20-may-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2011\/05\/20\/monday-20-may-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 20 May 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very fine & bright, & not cold.<\/p>\n

Good lack! shall we ever be free?<\/p>\n

Arranged clothes & colors &c. all the morning. A message from the Duc d\u2019Aum\u00e2le<\/a> to say he is coming to day. \u2015 Lunch at 2. At 3-4 Mrs. Robinson<\/a> & Miss [Lowes].<\/p>\n

At 5 Duc d\u2019Aum\u00e2le, & a Secretary, certainly a very pleasant visit. The Duke staid an hour. \u2015 Arranged mounted drawings of 1838. At 6.30 came Archie Peel<\/a> \u2015 & Hon. ? Ashley. \u2015 At 7.45 to Sir Roger Palmer<\/a>\u2019s. (Then Knights\u2019 house \u2015 56 Portland Pl.) \u2015 room half full \u2015 no one to receive. Continual arrivals. Sir Roger Palmer \u2015 quaint old man, whom A. Peel\u2019s brother had told me \u201calways punned.\u201d A very<\/em> nice elderly lady & her daughter were most pleasant in the \u02c7[dry] wilderness of waiting & stupidity. After 8.15 or 8.20 we went to dinner.<\/p>\n

Vast gonfiato1<\/a><\/sup> servant &c.: total want of good cooking & general taste. Was badly placed, & [took me] a very [madcock] old lady.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Mrs. Peel sang very well.<\/p>\n

Walked afterwards with A. Seymour<\/a> pleasantly.<\/p>\n

All I said to Sir R. was, on his asking, \u201cDo you like music? \u2015\u201d \u201cYes, & especially when the words are so well pronounced, & the notes so distinct:\u201d \u2015 Sir R. \u201cYes a bad word is worse in a lady\u2019s mouth than elsewhere, & they should be careful in uttering notes, which are costly.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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