Excerpt from Hospitable England in the Seventies: The Diary of a Young American, 1875-1876One of his daughters was doing bookbinding, much in vogue in London society. She remarked that, as it rained on St. Swithun's day, the 15th, it would be a wet season, according to an old superstition. About ten O'clock they took me to a little party at Lady Frederick Cavendish's on Carlton House Terrace at her request. Lord Frederick Cavendish is a younger son of the pres ent Duke of Devonshire and brother Of Lord Hartington. (lord Frederick was afterwards assassinated at Phoenix Park in I had a letter to him from my father, who had entertained him and Lord Hartington in the United States in the sixties.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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