. . The next evening
was the Queen's Concert, which was most charming. I sat very near
the Duke of Wellington, who often spoke to me between the songs. . .
. The next day we went with Miss Coutts to her bank, lunched there,
and went all over the building. Then we went to the Tower and the
Tunnel together, she never having seen either. So ignorant are the
West End people of city lions. . . . And now comes my pleasant
Yorkshire excursion. We left London, at half-past three, at
distance of 180 miles. This was Saturday, July 8. At York we found
Mr. Hudson ready to receive us and conduct us to a special train
which took us eighteen miles on the way to Newby Park, and there we
found carriages to take us four miles to our destination. We met at
dinner and found our party to consist of the Duke of Richmond, Lord
Lonsdale, Lord George Bentinck, Lord Ingestre, Lord John Beresford,
Lady Webster, whose husband, now dead, was the son of Lady Holland,
two or three agreeable talkers to fill in, and ourselves.
Tuesday
Lady Webster, Mr. Bancroft, and myself, went to Castle Howard, as
Lord Morpeth had written to his mother that we were to be there and
would lunch with her. Castle Howard is twenty-five miles the other
side of York, which is itself twenty-five miles from Newby. But
what is fifty miles when one is under the wing of the Railway King
and can have a special engine at one's disposal.
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