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portrait of her, and Hendrik Anderson, the Norwegian-American sculptor, modelled an interesting terra-cotta bust.
While the sittings for these portraits were going on, her niece said to her:--
“ My aunt, I can expect almost anything of you, but I had hardly expected a success de beauty.”
Among the diplomats who play so prominent a part in Roman society, the Jonkheer John Loudon, Secretary of the Netherlands Legation, was one of her favorite visitors; there are frequent mentions of his singing, which she took pleasure in accompanying.
“January 15. We had a pleasant drive to Villa Madama where we bought fresh eggs from a peasant.
Cola cut much greenery for us with which Maud had our rooms decorated.
Attended Mrs. Heywood's reception, where met some pleasant people — the Scudder party; an English Catholic named Christmas, who visits the poor, and reports the misery among them as very great; a young priest from Boston, Monsignor O'Connell1; a Mr. and Mrs. Mulhorn, Irish,--he strong on statistics, she a writer on Celtic antiquities, -has published a paper on the Celtic origin of the Divina Commedia, and has written one on the discovery of America by Irish Danes, five hundred years before Columbus.”
Mr.Heywood and Mrs. J. C. Heywood lived a few doors from the Rusticucci in the Palazzo Giraud Torlonia, one of the finest Roman palaces.
Mr. Heywood held an office in the Papal Court, and had a papal title which
1 Now Cardinal O'Connell.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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