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Chapter 19: another European trip
In 1877 I went abroad with my daughter Maud, now
Mrs. Elliott, and with her revisited
England,
France, and
Italy.
In
London we had the pleasure of being entertained by Lord Houghton, whom I had known, thirty or more years earlier, as a bachelor.
He was now the father of two attractive daughters, and of a son who later succeeded to his title.
At a breakfast at his house I met
Mr. Waddington, who was at that time very prominent in French politics.
At one of Lord Houghton's receptions I witnessed the entrance of a rather awkward man, and was told that this was
Mr. Irving, whose performance of Hamlet was then much talked of. Here I met the widow of
Barry Cornwall, who was also the mother of the lamented
Adelaide Procter.
An evening at Devonshire House and a ball at
Mr. Goschen's were among our gayeties.
At the former place I saw
Mr. Gladstone for the first time, and met Lord Rosebery, whom I had known in
America.
I had met
Mrs. Schliemann and had received from her an invitation to attend