Post 40 Eastern Promise

Last week I wrote about the Booth’s London home in Great Cumberland Place, how it was built and what it looked like from the outside. Now, I think, we should go inside. This is Antonia in 1897 at 24 Great Cumberland Place. The wallpaper is probably Morris although I have not been able to identify

Post 37 – September 1899 – In which Malcolm plays Patience and Antonia finds a young cook.

September 1899 Day 4 of Malcolm’s diary entries (in green). Rose later and put on a magnificent Toilette de Dimanche. Went to St Nicholas’s Church for morning service, sang hymn 215[1] and heard a horrid unclean ecclesiastic preach a horrid sermon and then went to refresh out souls in Knole Park. Lunch worthy of the

‘Knocked em in the Old Kent Road’ Post 30 – April 1899

April 1899 continued Charles and I shopped together in the morning. They came to tea at 18 Southwick Street and we dined there[1] with Alice Fletcher and Tom Macaulay and we all went to see ‘Lucky Star’[2]. Charles was amused. The Macnaghten family had their own connections to the theatre. Starting in 1896 Malcolm’s Cousin

‘He thought Parliament an immense waste of talk and solemnity, and the empire absurdly cumbrous.’ Post 27 – March 1899

The diary of Antonia Booth[1] Antonia Booth was my great grandmother. She died in 1952, 5 years before I was born. Diary entries are in black, commentary is in blue and footnotes are below in black. Entries are captured in months. This blog begins with the year 1898 even though the diaries start in 1894

I took to Tom who is pathetic and charming – a real Tom. November 1898 – Post 21

The diary of Antonia Booth[1] Antonia Booth was my great grandmother. She died in 1952, 5 years before I was born. Diary entries are in black, commentary is in blue and footnotes are below in black. Entries are captured in months. This blog begins with the year 1898 even though the diaries start in 1894

‘I should not like to have to eat 1000 buns.’ November 1898 – Post 20

The diary of Antonia Booth[1] Antonia Booth was my great grandmother. She died in 1952, 5 years before I was born. Diary entries are in black, commentary is in blue and footnotes are below in black. Entries are captured in months. This blog begins with the year 1898 even though the diaries start in 1894

Goodbye dear Lamplighter October 1898 – Post 17

The diary of Antonia Booth[1] Antonia Booth was my great grandmother. She died in 1952, 5 years before I was born. Diary entries are in black, commentary is in blue and footnotes are below in black. Entries are captured in months. This blog begins with the year 1898 even though the diaries start in 1894