From collection Frances Willard Journal Transcripts
April 3, 1893
Self Denial Week Worlds WCTU
We went to the city second class (bo't 3d class but had to change them so smoking were the crowd returning from the Easter Holidays.) I went to the reception given me in London Medical Society Rooms by Soc for Study of Inebriety. It is (wisely) proposed to establish Industrial Homes for them-my contention in America for long. My nieces-Oliver's two tall, fine giris-came over from Berlin & are Lady Henry's guests.
We went to the city second class (bo't 3d class but had to change them so smoking were the crowd returning from the Easter Holidays.) I went to the reception given me in London Medical Society Rooms by Soc for Study of Inebriety. It is (wisely) proposed to establish Industrial Homes for them-my contention in America for long. My nieces-Oliver's two tall, fine giris-came over from Berlin & are Lady Henry's guests.
April 4, 1893
No, this was Tuesday that "the foregoing" occurred, [i.e. what she wrote under Monday, 4/3 actually happened Tuesday 4/4] I wrote up hurriedly & afterward.
-Nan will soon be here-the little mindful loving, faithful one. And our Fan Barnes along with her. Am getting wonderfully through arrears thanks to days of dictation to Jubb-Jubb, Morell, & Edith. What flying is to walking, dictation is to "hand write." Glorious weather.
April 5, 1893
No such balmy, sunny spring weather in 80 years as this-so say the wise ones. Flowers out-orchards in bloom-birds back again! Sweet English birdies, posies, fields! I am in love with this same land-of my far back nativity! Isabel is with the Duchess & Alys Smith dear HWS's greatest success as a child is here with me. Has me in care! Read me to sleep from "The Heavenly Twins"-a new epoch bock-so said.
April 6, 1893
Oliver's girls doat on Somey Somerset & his beautiful ma. & no wonder! They have such softness & charm-such cosmopolitan outlook & the perfect unpretension of those who have no need to pretend! All our folks put in the day at Hampton Court but I fared on at my table & am nearer out o' the woods with my bunches of letters & ms. than in many a crowded year. O for the vigor of all the years till this one!
April 7, 1893
Isabel & I went to London after a grand morning's work. Met Sidney Webb the "scientific socialist" & his wife Beatrice Potter-brought up under influence & presence of Herbert Spencer-a most unique pair! She says "She never met any man however low but she felt his mental superiority"!! H.WS called out "And I never met one however high but I felt mine"! I guess Herbert [Herbert
