Letters of a Dipomat's Wife 18831900 Author:Mary King Waddington General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Scribner Subjects: Europe History / Europe / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial ... more »access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: To J. K. Mersham Hatch, Ashford, Kent, Wednesday, November 28, 1883. You will say I am taking up my old habits of writing to you always from the country, but you cannot imagine how busy I have been in London since I ca1re over just 2 weeks ago to-day. We came down here Monday afternoon to stay with W.'s old college friend and cousin, Charles Monk. The house and park are charming -- quantities of large, comfortable rooms, and capital shooting. The gentlemen brought down a great many pheasants yesterday. The party in the house are Lord and Lady Abinger and Miss Scarlett, Sir George and Lady Chetwode, Mr. Leveson- Gower, a brother of Lord Granville, with a most polished courteous manner; a Mr. Price W. Powel, and a young Wm. Gladstone, nephew of the Premier. Monk has no wife, and three unmarried daughters; the eldest, Julia, does the honours very well and simply. I absolutely declined the 9.30 breakfast and asked to have my tea sent up to me. Yesterday I came down about 12, took a little turn in the garden until one, and at 1.30 had luncheon. Then we went for a drive to Eastwood, the Duke of Edinburgh's place. The house is not so large as this, but the park is charming, with quantities of deer. We had tea when we came in -- some of the gentlemen appeared and we dined at 8, all the ladies most gorgeous in satin, lace, and diamonds, the girls generally in white. After dinner we talked a little, then some of them played whist, and the young ladies sang. This morning the gentlemen have started again shooting, and I shall sit 188...« less