From collection Frances Willard Journal Transcripts
underlined twice] subjects women souls along side of him! Sidney is charming-broad, generous & without "Kinks." I got a grand interview from them
-went with HWS & saw Lady Mount Temple in her beautiful home looking out on park & Thames. She is a border land spirit.
April 8, 1893
I met Mrs. Russell Gurney again & with her Mrs. Temple-Cowper? We talked only of God-the Future Life &-Mother. Next I went to see Carlyle's home from '57 to '81. His poor jaded face in marble is set in the front of this "middle class"! house. It is now a dog-hospital & smells! I passed the door where Mazzini, Mill, Tennyson, Froude had entered-went into the obliterated little garden at the rear-& tho't of Thomas and Jeanie! Helas! But how he helped me in my early days to high ideals-& by these we live.
-Rode on the Thames-1st time in life-thought of Dickens who has made the River a living thing. O touch of genius with its glamour or [?] that other life.
Sat. worked-tricycled with I.S. [Sat. is 4/8 so perhaps this entry describes mainly Friday 4/7]
April 9, 1893
As Nan says "I am not velly, velly well." Red spots on tongue & throat have reappeared. I wonder toward what they tend? They came to Mother 3 or 4 yrs before she went & never left her till she left us.__________
My beautiful Cossie here with me in her den. It seems too good to be true that she should be so much my own.
Arthur Pollen is now in consultation with her about her son who is in his care & has more success than anybody else has ever had except herself. What problems throng upon that steady nature-& so brave!
-Wrote Elizabeth Scovel[,] the evangelist.
-Am hoping for Nan's safe return.
-Intricacies seem fewer at WCTU Headquarters. How will it all end? How shall we end-but to begin? God knows-& we are safe.
April 10, 1893
My nieces are guests at Priory. Mrs. Pollen has invited them. I do not know how it will work & wish we could have had them here but there are too many [else crossed out] others & the cottage is small so Lady Henry has made this arrangement. Lady H's mother goes to the White Hart Inn when here for the same reason-it is near by & belongs to Lady H.
April 11, 1893
All day in city-had a reception in London Medical Society rooms from Society for the study of Inebriety. It was a fine affair
