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A most excellent book, which I am reading with great delight, is Mr. Gardiner's 'Reign of Charles I. before the Rebellion. It is, to me, as interesting as Macaulay, and singularly impartial. And the Journal winds up the year with: December 12th To Foxholes. Reeve wrote on December 24th: We start this morning for Farnborough Hill.
He was no longer a young man, but he had carried his years well. He had travelled, he had occasionally shot, and always with a keen sense of enjoyment. Now, the full weight of his age told at once. His illness left him ten years older; unable to undergo the fatigue of field sports, and feeling that of travel sometimes irksome. And Foxholes afforded him a tempting excuse.
A troublesome attack of sciatica in the end of July led to Reeve's being advised to try Harrogate, whither he accordingly went in the beginning of August. He found the place possibly also the water disagreeable, and after a week's stay he went on to Bolton Abbey, to Minto, and to Chesters. By the end of the month he was back at Foxholes, where he remained throughout September.
I have been laid up for some days with a cold and gout, but have been out to-day and am better. I never remember so terrible a winter; but we hope it is passing away, though it is still freezing here. Foxholes, May 12th.
He was succeeded by the Marquis of Salisbury, who, in June, accompanied Lord Beaconsfield to Berlin to attend the Congress, from which they returned on July 16th, bringing back, in Beaconsfield's now classical words, 'Peace with honour. From Mr. Richard Doyle 7 Finborough Road, January 15th. My Dear Reeve, When at Foxholes, in August last, I began a sketch of the view from your house.
I shall cherish it alike in memory of him, and of a better man yourself, and for the strange legend about it. But I esteem the talents and good qualities of and certainly I never dreamed she was offended. And then the Journal: July 5th. Lady Waldegrave died. The news came while we were attending Lord Lawrence's funeral in Westminster Abbey. 26th. To Foxholes. August 16th.
Vous viendrez certainement a Paris cet hiver, et nous vous verrons. Je compte aller dans six semaines retrouver tout mon monde qui y est deja. Remerciez pour moi Mrs. Reeve et Hope, et croyez a tous mes meilleurs sentiments. Journal July. The building Foxholes was now going on. To Scotland, July 31st, having again taken Loch Gair. Also hired a 16-ton yacht the 'Foam. Got there on August 1st.
Fetched over 70,000L. Kirkman Hodgson gave 20,000L. for three Turners. April 13th. To Foxholes. Government House, Simla, April 29th. My dear Mr. Reeve, I think you in nowise overestimate the value of Meadows Taylor's life and work in India, and I cordially recognise the exceptional claims of the two ladies, on whose behalf you have written to me, to the grant which I regret to hear they require.
To Farnborough on the 30th. Back to town on November 4th. To Mr. T. Longman Foxholes, October 10th. I see the 'Quarterly' announces an article on my 'Petrarch. Unless Smith is the falsest of men, it will be a civil article, for he was enthusiastic in his praises of the book to me personally. But I shall not be surprised if it is another flourish of Hayward's stiletto. October 19th.
To Drury Lane to see the German company act 'Julius Caesar. July 2nd. Dinner at Walpole's to meet Archbishop Tait, Arthur Stanley, Lord Coleridge, Lord Eustace Cecil. 6th. Arthur Stanley's garden party at the Abbey. July 13th. Breakfast of Philobiblon at Lord Crawford's. Large garden party at Holland House. Great heat. 16th. To Foxholes and back. 18th, Arthur Stanley died. July 23rd.
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