From collection Frances Willard Journal Transcripts
[no entries for 4/12-14/1393.]
April 15, 1893
Today my Little Nannie is to arrive on steamship Paris (new American line & finest ship afloat!) at Southampton (Do) with our Fan Barnes. I grieve not to be there but had to go to Eastnor Castle to carry out the plan for my nieces' visit and our Hannah Smith went to meet the dear voyageurs who arrived Sunday AM in good spirits & Nan in good health.
April 16, 1893
At Eastnor Castle. Lady Somers in her room mostly-Kate & Mamie[?- her nieces] Clement Pollen & Henry Somerset in the great, beautiful Hall. Gwellian Morgan full of first rate talk about heraldry as founded on History-a theme in wh. she excells. She wrote the expository book about Eastnor Castle. Lady H went to Ledbury & had a settling with the Rector who has most ignobly upset her good work for the working girls. One could hardly believe how [entry continues on into space for 4/17] much harm the rectors & vicars have done the cause of God in this quaint old town. What a long & pitiful story it would make.
-We all came up together from Eastnor Castle, Lady Somers, Lady Henry, Henry Somerset, Clement, Katherine, Mary & I. Lady Somers has been a beauty in her day & is yet for a woman well nigh seventy who has[?] just[?] made the trip up the Nile. She admires K's good looks. "I couldn't like anybody who was not so" she says,"Nor I," responds my niece.____
April 17, 1893
Hard at it-
speeches-
"the Law Suit"-
the Letters-
Dictated an interview with Sidney Webb "the scientific socialist. Said goodbye to our two girls & left them at Lady Henry's town house to go sight seeing with their brother and Arthur Symons- poet.
April 12, 1893 [Though entry is written under 4/19/1893 FEW has written; This should be 12. ]
Frank Willard (named J. F. for my honored father) came to see me- first time since his unfortunate escapades of many yrs ago-He is now 23-contributes to Contemporary Review & Century maga-is near graduation at Berlin & one of the most thoughtful & intellectual
