GHL Diary, Oxford and London, 8-10 June 1878
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GHL Diary, Oxford and London, 8-10 June 1878
Title
GHL Diary, Oxford and London, 8-10 June 1878
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- 1878-06-08–<br /> 1878-06-10
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Oxford and London
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GHL Diary, Oxford and London, 8-10 June 1878
MS: Mrs. Robert Nuttall. Hitherto unpublished.
Saturday 8 June 1878
De Quincey. Vol IV. Went on our annual visit to Jowett: but the Holiday 79 made such a tremendous congestion at the Railway that we were two hours late and lost our portmanteau -- or rather on our arrival it did not arrive. With vague promises of its being sent on by next train we were forced to be content. It did not arrive till Sunday about 5.
Lord and Lady Abercrombie, Sir James Lacaita, 80 Wm. Sellar and his eldest daughter staying in the house. At Dinner the Bishop of
Limerick, Wallace the Hegelian 81 and several others. I took down Mrs. Wallace.
Sunday 9 June 1878
An exciting day. At breakfast beside the guests a Mr. Nash 82 -- lawyer at Manchester -- and an undergraduate. Then I called on Pattison and smoked a cigar with him and her till 1. After lunch Polly accompanied me to the Pattisons -- the Huttons and Appleton there. Talked with Mrs. H. Evening service at Magdalen. The Master walked with us. Large dinner party and people in the evening.
A farmer showing his fattened pig to the parson and thinking it right to say something pious exclaimed. Ah! sir, if we were only as well prepared to die!
The Master of Trinity 83 when his conduct was obliquely criticised by one of the junior men replied "We must never forget that none of us are infallible -- not even the youngest."
A man fussy at a funeral was asked [Who are you?] "I am brother of the corpse."
Lord Leitrim, 84 who was shot recently by a tenant, one day talking about the shooting of landlords to one of his tenants said "Well, why don't they shoot me?" "Bedad, sir, its because what's everyman's business is no man's."
The Bishop of Limerick told of an Irish priest having dragged a drunken man off the rails on which he had lain to sleep just before a train passed. The priest tried to impress on him the providential nature of his escape and when the man looked at him with a drunken stolid stare, said Can't ye say a prayer, can't ye express thankfulness? The man roused himself and thundered forth "To hell with the Pope."
Neville 85 the actor told Jerrold's repartee of rowing in the same boat but not with the same skulls -- as "not with the same oars." On being laughed at for his mistake he said "Well, a boat is rowed with oars, who ever heard of its being rowed with skulls?"
Monday 10 June 1878
The Empress of the French 86 was coming to lunch and the Master wanted us to stay, but we declined, and came home by 2 o'clock. Shortly afterwards the Blackwoods called. Dined at Sir H. Thompson's. 87 I took Mrs. Arthur Lewis 88 down. Henschel played and sang till 11.30.
MS: Mrs. Robert Nuttall. Hitherto unpublished.
Saturday 8 June 1878
De Quincey. Vol IV. Went on our annual visit to Jowett: but the Holiday 79 made such a tremendous congestion at the Railway that we were two hours late and lost our portmanteau -- or rather on our arrival it did not arrive. With vague promises of its being sent on by next train we were forced to be content. It did not arrive till Sunday about 5.
Lord and Lady Abercrombie, Sir James Lacaita, 80 Wm. Sellar and his eldest daughter staying in the house. At Dinner the Bishop of
Limerick, Wallace the Hegelian 81 and several others. I took down Mrs. Wallace.
Sunday 9 June 1878
An exciting day. At breakfast beside the guests a Mr. Nash 82 -- lawyer at Manchester -- and an undergraduate. Then I called on Pattison and smoked a cigar with him and her till 1. After lunch Polly accompanied me to the Pattisons -- the Huttons and Appleton there. Talked with Mrs. H. Evening service at Magdalen. The Master walked with us. Large dinner party and people in the evening.
A farmer showing his fattened pig to the parson and thinking it right to say something pious exclaimed. Ah! sir, if we were only as well prepared to die!
The Master of Trinity 83 when his conduct was obliquely criticised by one of the junior men replied "We must never forget that none of us are infallible -- not even the youngest."
A man fussy at a funeral was asked [Who are you?] "I am brother of the corpse."
Lord Leitrim, 84 who was shot recently by a tenant, one day talking about the shooting of landlords to one of his tenants said "Well, why don't they shoot me?" "Bedad, sir, its because what's everyman's business is no man's."
The Bishop of Limerick told of an Irish priest having dragged a drunken man off the rails on which he had lain to sleep just before a train passed. The priest tried to impress on him the providential nature of his escape and when the man looked at him with a drunken stolid stare, said Can't ye say a prayer, can't ye express thankfulness? The man roused himself and thundered forth "To hell with the Pope."
Neville 85 the actor told Jerrold's repartee of rowing in the same boat but not with the same skulls -- as "not with the same oars." On being laughed at for his mistake he said "Well, a boat is rowed with oars, who ever heard of its being rowed with skulls?"
Monday 10 June 1878
The Empress of the French 86 was coming to lunch and the Master wanted us to stay, but we declined, and came home by 2 o'clock. Shortly afterwards the Blackwoods called. Dined at Sir H. Thompson's. 87 I took Mrs. Arthur Lewis 88 down. Henschel played and sang till 11.30.
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Ghl Diary, GHL Diary, Oxford and London, 8-10 June 1878, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/94283