flighty added a note to 34 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “17: Clingendael - a 17th-century manor house and surrounding parkland just outside The Hague, Netherlands...
18: ...owned by the van Brienen family from 1804
21: walked?”
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flighty added a note to 34 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “Think it may be this chap - Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk (1847 – 1917). Took on hereditary office of Earl Marshal in 1860, job description included arranging state funerals & coronations. As he arranged the coronation of Edward VII ...”
flighty added a note to 25 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “14: looking unwell?
25: remains inclement & quite cold ?
26: in the mg: & evg: & we
27: have had to light a fire both
29: all weekend of they in June (sorry, nonsensical)
39: London ladies seem to enjoy?”
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flighty added a note to 22 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “You have become so skilled at translating Ronnie scrawl I'm often amazed by what you've decoded. My offerings are rather meagre at the mo, finding his 1901-2 handwriting v diff, sorry I hope you are not feeling abandoned!”
flighty added a note to 24 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “6th June falls outside the dates of this diary. Presume the year is 1902 and the peace Ronnie talks about is the end of the Second Boer War which concluded with the Treaty of Vereeniging, signed on May 31, 1902, between Great Britain and the Boer ...”
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flighty added a note to 22 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “27: took us into a room ?
28: in which his colud engravings are (Menpes pioneered a special form of colour etching)
30-31: Menpes illustrated his daughter Dorothy's book, World's Children (London: A & C Black, 1903).
39: King?”
flighty added a note to 20 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “36: Mortimer Menpes (1855 – 1938), maybe? Moved to Kent in 1901, Menpes was a "born raconteur...and a fixture of British high society" (Wikipedia). But he was an artist, not an actor. ”
flighty added a note to 13 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “10: James Jebusa Shannon (1862–1923)
11: 1901 portrait of Lady Marjorie Manners (1883-1946), National Trust collection.
12: 1902 portrait of Phil May, caricaturist (1864-1903), Tate.”
flighty added a note to 3 in Oct 1901 – Feb 1902 Diary in The Diaries of Lord Ronald Gower , saying “22: The painting is "The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries", 1812, currently in the collection of the Nat Gall of Art Washington. Rosebery is listed in the NGA provenance.”
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