From collection Frances Willard Journal Transcripts
April 13, 1893 [FEW under 4/20 writes: This should be 13]
Went to Derby to Mrs. Boden of "the Friary"-a rich silk manufacturer's wife. Spoke to 3,000 people Isabel & I in great hall, finely decorated. No disturbance over direct veto though we had feared it. Saw fine picture of John Hampden wounded & riding from battle field. "He died that they might live." "He saved others-himself he could not save."
April 14, 1893 [under 4/21 FEW has written: This should be 14.]
-We went to Eastnor Castle-beautiful in the soft light & foliage of spring-with white doves over the gate & flitting in the dark evergreen trees. The flag went up as she drove in who had she been a man had been an earl as well as heir. And how fit for it she would have been! I've named her Earl Cosmos!_____
April 15, 1893 [This should be 15--under 4/22/1893]
All day the young people were going over the castle-noting its famous pictures, tapestries, furniture, curios etc. I went a bit with them in the sedan chair with a dottling donkey to draw me. Lady H. & her son had a pleasant stroll & talk about his prospects-whether he should go to Oxford now or to McKenzie River in the far North, a trip to which Arthur Pollen has been attracted by the word "unexplored" on maps of Canada! All the time how much unspoken between us of which the words: Brown, typewriter, beauty, envy, youthful foolishness, British Museum, waiting three hours at the statue," boredom ended oasis in desert of cynicism." "the prettiest thing I ever saw" "outside manners & inside manners" are the keys "to those who can understand." My heart?[?] I wouldn't for the world be back again on youth's lee shore.
April 16, 1893 [This should be 16 written under 4/23/1893 ]
A curious Sunday to one reared a Puritan. To lunch. Mrs[?] Eva Me Laren, Mrs Wynford Phillips, Hannah Smith my dear longtime comrade, & her Oxon son Logan. Mrs [......] a High caste Hindoo who was 5 years in Calcutta University & 5 more in medical college-brot over by misunderstanding of Miss Park[?]. Nan, F. & Han et all[?] went to White Hart to [... ....] We had talk of God & Heaven-Earth & Humanity-out in the lovely weather. I can not go to bowing & scraping church & dissent is-dishwater so far as I see there in R.
Little Nan & Fan Barnes arrived & to my grief I had to be at Eastnor with my [....] nieces. Stead "read my niece a lecture that will do her good"-he says.
