Saturday, May 28th.
A. has gone to the country. Dined at the Club.
Sunday, May 29th.
Had luncheon with Lady Maria. The company consisted of Hollis, the play-wright, and his wife, Miss Flora Routledge, who, I believe, began to write novels in the sixties, Sir Hubert Taylor, the Academician, and his wife, and Sir Horace Main, K.C. I was the only person present not a celebrity.
Lady Maria asked me how the Housmans were. She had not seen them for an age. I said the Housmans were living in the country.
She said I must bring A. to luncheon one Sunday. "Who would he like to meet?" she asked; "I am told he only likes musicians, and I am so unmusical, I know so few. But perhaps he only likes beautiful musicians." I said I was sure A. would be pleased to meet anyone she asked. She said: "I'm sure it's no use asking him; he's sure to be away on Sundays." I said A. usually spent Sunday at Littlehampton. "Or on the Thames," Lady Maria said.
She said she hadn't seen the Housmans for a year. She heard Mr Housman had dropped all his old friends.
Letter from Guy Cunninghame to Mrs Caryl
Monday, May 30th.
DEAREST ELSIE,