Journal 48, page 61

Park Hotel Cardiff.

Here at hotel-nice rooms as always when Cossie manages. Lunch of fowl &c-Gertrude Hunt at train to fetch us. Exquisite bouquet white flowers& ribbon ordered by Cossie from Eastnor Castle for my BirthDay & lovely book of photos of loved ones. She had already given me beautiful book of welcomes & a leather bag for papers& dark green costume & hat & bicycle (safety) & dear knows what not. Dear Mary B Willard sent sweet letter& white slippers for me & lavender for Coz. My little Nan sent me lovely letter & book; Mary Bancroft too; cable from Maine WCTU; from my 2 stenographers Grace Murrell & Georgia Leaney, gifts of pretty angel-vases from the maids & a letter signed by them all so kind. Mother must be glad in Heaven that I'm so cared for though "the last of a Household." But Mrs. Leavitt [ entry continues in space for 9/30] sent a bitter postal all the way from Portland, Oregon, what is the matter & how can she be made to see & know that I have always supposed myself to be her chief standby? Oh God! Help me to be good.

Worked on my proofs. Went with Bess & Gertrude for a drive to Llandoff Cathedral-flitted into the chapter house while Dean & verger were putting on their white rigging-saw a wonderful pile- too much to talk about. Admired the castle of Lord Bute& the docks& that he allowed himself to be mayor. Dined with Principal Jones-a lovely champion of our cause & a Double First man of Oxford.

October 1, 1893

Staid quiet-rising late. Isabel heavy laden with her sermon for the people. We both had tears over things we talked of that had deeply touched our hearts in relation to the Bible.

A great audience at 3 P.M. Isabel had me to sit on the platform but I never said a word. Her address was warm with a Christian woman's tenderness. She is greatly loved by the people& of right! In the eve her greatest friend here Gwellian Morgan& I had a frank talk of which much good will come. She is a noble woman-and most accomplished but so shy.

October 2, 1893

Bess& I went into the Conference a few minutes, heard Kate Jenkins-the oncoming Welsh speaker-on how to interest outsiders. She is most[?] promising. Lady H. introduced her Americans beautifully& we were warmly received by the genial Welsh people& others. We said goodbye to the Little one on the platform& leaving her & H.W.S. to go to Yorkshire& face the narrow but doubtless well meaning recalcitrants, we went our way. If I had my way I'd never leave her-least of all in a "straight"-went to see Mrs. Price Hughes about Lady B. Most curious ignorance about the aristocracy on the part of a very cultivated woman. Bess St I