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also Josiah Foster who was most cordial & kind -
I remembered seeing him at grandmother’s
some years ago. Mrs G introduced me to several
other friends, all had pleasant nice faces.
Louisa has gone out for the afternoon &
I am writing in the nursery while baby
sleeps.
Monday Feb 27th. Had a brougham at 10 this
morning, went to Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co’s
brewery - vast place, went all through it & smells
of yeast for miles - at 1 we were at Mr Buxton’s
large comfortable country mansion at Layton
-stone - I saw the 9 children, 5 red headed, she
is on the way to a 10th & looks hardly older than
I do, though 36 or 37. We lunched - very well &
drove over to the homestead where Mrs Head [supposed word]
& Lady Buxton now live - two sisters of Mrs T
H. Buxton’s & both Gurney’s. We only saw Mrs Head
a fine looking grey haired elderly woman who showed
us through one of the most charming Country
homes I ever saw - immense dining room
beautiful drawing room with bow windows
library with a very large well filled green