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Lady Charlotte Guest
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Euclid :
14 June 1853: 'Another lovely morning, Euclid tilll 8.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
: The Prayer Book
24 June 1853: 'Mr. White [doctor] came early and found Mr. Schreiber much the same [with feverish illness]. He had asked again for me and I went up. He begged me to pray with him and I read from the Prayer Book, from the Visitation of the Sick etc.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
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26 June 1853: 'Went to Mr. Schreiber before going to Church [...] I certainly thought him weaker and less well. I read and prayed as usual. How I got through it I cannot tell [...] This morning I almost broke down, but I mastered myself and went on'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
: The Prayer Book
27 June 1853: 'After breakfast [...] Mrs. Schreiber [visiting her sick son Charles] asked me if I would read to the invalid, which at her request I could not refuse to do ... He seemed more tranquil during the few minutes I was in the room, and my short prayer, part from the Prayer Book part extempore, he joined in very fervently.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales (Prologue)
6 July 1853: 'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
Bode : Ballads from Herodotus
'The strike [at Dowlais Iron Company works] being over, Lady Charlotte left Dowlais for Canford. She stopped in London on the way [...] In the evening there was "Music with Ivor [son], and some reading of Bode's Ballads from Herodotus."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
Euclid :
'At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: "Works journal till 8, then Euclid till 9."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :
19 February 1854: 'After breakfast I walked with my boys [i.e. two of her sons] to Trinity College [Cambridge]. They took me through the Great Court [...] and thence into Neville's Court, where it was proposed to beat up Mr. [Charles] Schreiber's quarters, which were 3rd door from West corner on North side of court [...] there we found him, his toilet being only just completed [...] The boys went out to order dinner [...] The oak was forthwith sported to keep out strangers, and I was at peace. Mr. Schreiber meanwhile went on with his breakfast; I sat on the sofa behind him, with Longfellow, my own Longfellow, that I found on the shelves, in my hand.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Book
: report on Parliamentary speech of Henry Layard
3 April 1854: 'At Basingstoke I got The Times, where I expected to find a very violent tirade against Henry Layard [Lady Charlotte's cousin, an M.P.], but the article was very mild and weak. He made a very strong speech on Friday night on moving of the address to the Queen on the occasion of the war, and his remarks were in denunciation of Lord Aberdeen and Lord Clarendon. I think the speech told, and I feel he was right [...] Many think he was imprudent; but one may weigh every word and every expression till one becomes a nonentity like the greater part of the rest of the world.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Newspaper
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : My Novel
19 May 1854: 'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more than ever I should wish to be as young as I feel ... The chapter in My Novel [by Bulwer-Lytton] on courage and patience is admirable. It ought to be useful to me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest Print: Unknown
: biography of Hartley Coleridge
14 June 1854 [following account of morning spent sitting for portrait to Watts, and attending two business meetings]: 'I got a hasty luncheon and started alone for my train to go to Harrow. Arrived there at 5, and made my way to Mr. Rendall's house, where I waited till past 6 in his drawing room for Augustus [one of Lady Charlotte's sons, a pupil at Harrow] to come out from school. I employed myself looking at H. Coleridge's biography which is a melancholy one'.
