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Thursday. July. 2. Chiswick.
The last two weeks & a half
I have spent mostly
between this place & London
where the season has begun
to die out; some pleasant
dinners & many stupid
ones.

From the 15th (Monday)
to Friday the 19th I was
here laid up by cold;
on 19th a dinner at Lady
Cowpers followed by a
concert at the Palace where
Patti & Nillson sung
charmingly.

Dined on 20th
with the [Beattes?] in
Berkeley Square; (No 50 next
door to them is said to be haunted)

[page inserted vertically] There was a [very rompy?] dinner here on
Sunday 21st. Prince & Pss. of Wales; P. of
Denmark; H. Bourke & Sir H. [Polly?]; & the
Grosvenors we dined in the room on the ground
floor & sat out after Mother too suffering
to see any of the [royalties?].

On Monday (22d
to Lords (Oxford x Cambridge) match.

On 23d a dinner
for the Wales at Stafford House followed by a
ball, which went off very succesfuly [sic]; balls
there always beautiful owing to the house.