Today’s great question ‘have you been quinined’? John and perhaps Radford have succumbed to ‘flu while of half-boarders Marriott and Yolland complain of bad colds. Reports vary as to whether Rigaud’s have 13 or 15 cases! We drop off like … Continue reading
. I went up with Low to Colnaghi’s & Co this afternoon about the Grant picture and we were met by a courteous gentleman who said that he expected the book-keeper in a few minutes and that he would see … Continue reading
Wade has got a ┬ú60 Scholarship at Queen’s, I hear Gow was not unamusing on the subject. ‘Eh! Lets have the Scholar or you do a bit Wade’. Wade made mistakes! ‘Eh!’ says Gow ‘they wouldn’t give you ┬ú60 for … Continue reading
. I have been reading with some pleasure Ellen Terry’s autobiography, which, I think, is charmingly written and in admirable good taste. Two things have specifically interested me today in it, one when, as the girl-wife of G. F. Watts … Continue reading
I am still feeling my way gradually and trying not to assert myself much just at present but have taken the somewhat lofty view of assuming that things will go on as usual and as they should, and showing intense … Continue reading