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fine dinner & very agreable [sic] distinguished
company - yesterday lunched [sic] with the chil
-dren at Mrs Stevens - walked home by way
of the Pantheon - dined at Dr Roget’s - awfully
stupid to me but very interesting to my husband
The Dr’s son & daughter are both very refined &
agreable [sic] - handsome too - his sister an aged
lady upwards of 70 - Mrs Tweedie [?] & husband -
Dr Sharpie [sic] Secretary of the Royal Society,
Mr Welde assistant secretary & nephew of
Lady Franklin - Dr Mayo, President of the
College of Physicians & Surgeons - all nice
old fogies who almost put me to sleep at
table & I made my escape as soon as was possible.
I think perhaps I should have enjoyed myself
had I not been so terribly sleepy when I went -
but there was nothing to rouse me after
-wards. Rouse me reminds me of poor Burton
whose death I read in the Post the other
day - Did some housekeeping in the neigh
borhood, called on Mrs Shaftner, took a
bus to Brompton, Mrs Russell I found had
gone to the Isle of Wight - met Miss