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Gabrielli, where I met the little knot of newly elected officers of the Council of Italian Women that is to be. Read them my report of our first meeting — they chattered a great deal.
Mrs. Sanford was present.
She seemed grateful for the help I had tried to give to her plan of a National Council of Italian Women.
I induced the ladies present to subscribe a few lire each, for the purchase of a book for the secretary, for postage and for the printing of their small circular.
Hope to help them more further on....”
“May 1.... I gave my ‘Rest’ sermon at Miss Leigh Smith's.... Afterwards to lunch with the dear Stillman Muse.
Lady Airlie and the Thynne sisters were there.
Had a pleasant talk with Lady Beatrice. ... . Wrote a letter to be read at the Suffrage Festival in Boston on May 17....”
Lady Beatrice and Lady Katherine Thynne; the latter was married later to Lord Cromer, Viceroy of Egypt.
The Ladies Thynne were passing the winter with their cousin, the Countess of Kenmare, at her pleasant apartment in the Via Gregoriana.
Among the guests one met at Lady Kenmare's was a dark, handsome Monsignore who spoke English like an Oxford Don, and looked like a Torquemada.
Later he became Papal Secretary of State and Cardinal Merry del Val.
“May 2. Have worked as usual.
A pleasant late drive.
Dined with Eleutherio,1 Daisy Chanler, and Dr. Bull; whist afterwards; news of an engagement and victory for us off Manila.”
1 Her brother-in-law, Luther Terry.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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