From collection Frances Willard Journal Transcripts
February 25, 1893
Cables that the Gen. officers (C. & PE.) intend to make a break & show their ill will to Mrs Carse & Temple. A calamity indeed if true! To do this when the poor worn woman has gone away and I am absent is not the highest style of conduct. Of course it is difficult to judge at this distance. There is such a crisis here that I can't leave. Alas for poor humans!
February 26, 1893
Nan & I went to London & I spoke in Prince of Wales Road Chapel for my good brother J. Surman [?] Cooke & staid to Methodist love feast!
Lady H. not well & she felt it was a "work of necessity & mercy" my going in on Sunday-which thing I never do. Dear Nan & I felt that the time was short. Cossie came in late-so lovely.
[On page for Monday, February 27, 1893 entry a description of Tuesday, probably 2/28/1893.]
At Canon Wilberforces Tuesday-a wonderful man with a most gifted wife. I shall "write them up" for our paper.
[back to entry for Monday-she's probably filling in entries at a later date.]
Monday House of Commons & wonderful advance for the Government in presentation of Direct Veto Bill. Heard Gladstone, Harcourt Lawson "of ours[,]" Caine, Asquith, Goschen et als. Women speak just as well. Lawson spoke best of all. (Gladstone very briefly any way) Was recepted at John Wesley's Old church-City Road Chapel-memorable occasion-heart was full & eyes & tongue. Tea with Miss Pell in Speakers House (Parliament building. Lady Henry & her cousin Lady Elizabeth Biddulph ditto.
February 28, 1893
I said goodbye to the dear & faithful friend & helper of sixteen solaced & solacing years. In presence of the crisis at home and here and for sake of the Children's Fountain that she had been urgin me to let her go home for so long, she leaves on steamer Germanic White Star Line for America. She mighthave gone 3 days later with the Woolleys but preferred this date as the earliest after the wails by cable last Saturday. I held her in my arms & grieved to lose her! But she will return [..] in a few weeks and I must not be anxious. This is God's world all through
March 1, 1893
