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Vinters, Maidstone.—Invites him to see her after the first performance of Maurice’s play. Is having to spend the weekend with ‘a newly married couple and a blind paralytic’. Hopes Montagu’s meeting was a success.
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Vinters, Maidstone
Sunday May 5th 1912
My dear Mr Montagu
Yes do come Tuesday at about 5.30. I am going to the 1st Performance of Maurice’s play {1} in the afternoon, and might not be back by 5 o’clock. Mr Asquith & Eliza motored me here in pouring rain yesterday and left me to one of the hardest imaginable fates. I dont suppose ever before anyone has had to had to spend a dripping Saturday to Monday in the company of a newly married couple and a blind paralytic. Not even Waxworks.
An ornithological clergyman came to dinner and afterwards we played a gambling game for counters! I am having a delicious morning tho’, and am wondering how much longer I can stay in my room without incivility. Chess with Lady Agnes is the alternative to “Cotton Wool” and lots of letters which I want and ought to write.
I hope your meeting was a success. I dont know what will happen this afternoon. The best I can hope for is to motor to Canterbury. The worst a long walk with Waxworks; who I believe is arriving this morning.
I make a fuss but I am not really miserably unhappy.
Yrs
Venetia Stanley
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Written in pencil.
{1} Maurice Baring’s play The Double Game, at the Kingsway Theatre.
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- Baring, Maurice (1874-1945), poet and author (Subject)
- Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Bibesco, Elizabeth (1897-1945), novelist, wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco (Subject)
- MacLeod, Sir Reginald (1847-1935), knight, politician and chief of clan MacLeod (Subject)