Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

Michael Heath-Caldwell M.Arch
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1868 - 1869 - 1870

1868-69 - India

Julia Anna Harrison (ne Heath) - age 61/62

Rev John Moore Heath - age 60/61

Douglas Denon Heath - age 57/58

Rev Dunbar Isidore Heath - age 52/53

Emma Jane Whatman (ne Heath)- age 47/48

Admiral Sir Leopold Heath – aged 51/ 52.

Lady Mary Heath – (ne Mary Emma Marsh) – aged 42/43

Arthur Raymond Heath - aged 14/15

Marion Heath – May – aged 13/14

Frederick Heath – (Gen. F.C. Heath-Caldwell) aged 10/ 11

Cuthbert Eden Heath - aged 9/10

Ada Randolph Heath - aged 8/9

Herbert Leopold Heath - aged 7/8

Gerard Moore Heath - aged 5/6

Anne Marsh-Caldwell – aged 77/78 – (1791-1874) (Lady Mary’s mother)

Eliza Louisa Marsh-Caldwell – known as Louisa – aged 50/51 of Linley Wood

Frances Mary Crofton (ne Heath) - 49/50

Georgina Marsh-Caldwell – Gies – aged 48/49 of Linley Wood

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell – Posy – aged 45/46 of Linley Wood

Charles Darwin – aged 60

Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B. - 1869

Lady Mary Heath's diary continued by Rosamonnd Marsh-Caldwell continues - Moorthurst, Surrey, England. . .

Friday 1 January 1869
Mr. and Mrs.Harrison came to luncheon. Mdlle., Bert and Fred went in the morning to Dorking.

Saturday 2 January 1869
A. went to Croftons at Southborough Lovey day.

Sunday 3 January 1869
Rained all morning, service at home. Called in afternoon. Mr.Whatman called.

Monday 4 January 1869
Busy all day preparing for party.

Tuesday 5 January 1869
Rainy day - Arty in morning walked (Hils?) to fetch Amy. Came back with her and two Crofton boys, party in evening - (Wilbrahams, Williams), Broadwoods and Dealtrys.

Tuesday 5 January 1869
Englishman's Overland Mail
Sir L. Heath. - The Madras Times says Sir L. Heath received a salute of 11 guns, which was fired from the Battery at 4.pm yesterday, consequent on the embarkation of Commodore Sir Leopold Heath, K.C.B., on board her Majesty's Ship Octavia.

Frederick C. Heath(-Caldwell)

Lady Mary Heath's diary continued by Rosamonnd Marsh-Caldwell continues - Moorthurst, Surrey, England. . .

Wednesday 6 January 1869
Dull day - Amy poorly, boys had paper chase. R. and Amy to Coldharbour. Amy very poorly in evening.

Thursday 7 January 1869
Amy poorly - damp and rainy. Boys (played?) Arty football, hide-and-seek, (and taing paper?)

Friday 8 January 1869
Paper chase, Mr.Jardine came to see Amy.

Saturday 9 January 1869
Arty out hunting with Stag Hounds, joined the Buxtons. All the rest sailing at Pond. Amy up in afternoon.

The Weekly Dispatch

Saturday 9 January 1869

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Ada and Herbert Heath 1869

Ada and Herbert Heath in 1869

The Weekly Dispatch

Saturday 9 January 1869

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Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 10 January 1869
Amy up. Mdlle, May, Arty, Dick and Harry, Fred to Church. In morning cold raw day. Service at home for the others. All at home in afternoon - rainy.

Monday 11 January 1869
Arty went out shooting with George Whatman and shot his first pheasant. The others at pond. Rainy.
Tuesday

Monday 11 January 1869
Times of India

H.M.S. Octavia, Captain Basil Hall, arrived here yesterday, at 2.pm. The Octavia called from Bombay in December 1867, when she conveyed Sir Robert Napier and staff to Annesley Bay: she left Annesley Bay in June, and proceeded to Aden, where she remained for three weeks: from there she went to Seychelles, at which place the whole ship's company received three weeks' leave.

Captain Basil Hall and Mrs Hall,

from the photograph album of Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.

From Seychelles she went to Zanzibar, where the Sultan entertained the Commodore (Sir Leopold Heath) and officers at dinner, after which there was a grand picnic given by the different consular authorities, the Sultan kindly furnishing his Yacht for the purposes of the entertainment.

After leaving Zanzibar the Octavia went to Trincomalee, Pondicherry, and Madras. She afterwards went to Calcutta, back to Madras, Trincomalee, Kandy and Galle where the officers had an opportunity of visiting Colombo. On the 29th December she left Trincomalee for Bombay calling at Galle, Cochin and Goa.

Lady Mary Heath - 1869

Rosamond

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, SurreyTuesday 12 January 1869
Dull, scotch mist in morning. Miss Hughes and little (Jordons?) came to luncheon and staid to tea. Played with James - Arty, Fred, May and Ada with Amy toMrs. Powells party.

Wednesday 13 January 1869
Fine-ish day, children at pond. R. with Amy, Herbert and Gerard. And Mary Hawkins enquired to call on Mrs.Mortimer and Mrs.Broadwood. (Delish day?) (crossed out - Amy and I walked out and then to pond to witness James's high leaps. etc.)

Thursday 14 January 1869
Arty in morning to Dorking. R and I, Amy and Herbert, and Fred with Amy a walk. All at pond in afternoon where R. and Amy joined them and witnessed James. Dancing in evening.

Friday 15 January 1869
R. with Bertie to London to Mr.Henton. Rest amused themselves at pond. Wickham's party to which we all went.

Saturday 16 January 1869
Rainy day. Croftons left for Southborough(?) Arty out hunting with Fox hounds, joined Uncle William.

Saturday 16 January 1869
Times of India

H.M.S. Octavia, the flag-ship of Sir Leopold Heath, arrived in Bombay harbour on the 10th Jan. She will remain here until the arrival of the Forte from England

Leamington Spa

Saturday 16 January 1869 (and 29 April 1869)

Clarendon Hotel

Mrs and Miss Marsh-Caldwell, Linley Wood, Cheshire. - -

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 17 January 1869
Rained all morning. Service at home in afternoon cleared up -- and all to church. Mr.Whatman called and walked us up to Anstie.

Tuesday 19 January 1869
Times of India
Sacred Concert - His Excellency Sir Seymour Fitzgerald G.C.S.I., His Excellency Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.B.,, G.C.S.I., Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., Stewards - - - The concert will take place in the Town Hall on Wednesday, February 3rd, at 9 o'clock pm. The proceeds will be devoted to the Cathedral - - and Scotch Choirs. - -

Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, Carte de Visite, from the photograph album of Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B

Tuesday 19 January 1869
Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore)

H.M.S. Octavia. (Bombay Gazette)
H.M.S. Octavia arrived in Bombay harbour yesterday afternoon from Trincomalee. The Octavia is in command of Captain Basil Hall. It will be remembered that she sailed from Bombay in December 1867 with Sir Robert Napier and staff for Annesley Bay.

She left Annesley Bay in June, and after remaining for three weeks at Aden proceeded to the Seychelles, where the ship's company had three weeks' leave.

She then sailed for Zanzibar,and whilst there Commodore Sir Leopold Heath and the officers were entertained at dinner by the Sultan. On leaving Zanzibar she proceeded to Trincomalee, Pondicherry, Madras, and Calcutta, and afterwards returned to Madras and Trincomalee.

Having visited Colombo and Point de Galle she returned to Trincomalee, from whence she sailed for Bombay on the 29th ult., calling on the way at Galle, Cochin and Goa.

General Lord Napier of Magdala,

from the photograph album of Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.

Tuesday 19 January 1869

Commordore Leopold Heath C.B. - HMS Octavia

Inclusure 1 in No.2

The Secretary to Government, Bombay,

to Commodore

Sir L. Heath.

Sir,

I AM instructed to forward to you the inclosed copies of papers from the Political Resident at Aden, and to request that you will be so good as to favour Government with your remarks and suggestions on the important subject brought to notice by Sir E. Russell.

I have &c

(Signed) C. Gonne.

Inclosure 4 in No.2

Commodore Sir L. Heath to Sir S. Fitzgerald.

"Octavia," at Bombay, January 19, 1869

Right Hon. Sir,

IN reply to letter of the 13th instant from Mr. Secretary Gonne, and its enclosures from Sir E. Russell, on the subject of the disposal,&c., of captured slaves, I beg in the first place to inform your Excellency that the liberated slaves which Sir E. Russell expected to receive have all been landed at the Seychelles.

2. With respect to the general question raised by Sir E. Russell in his dispatch of the 24th December last, I am unable to point out any port which could be substituted for that of Aden as a primary depot for liberated slaves,without diminishing to a serious extent the efficiency of the squadron employed in their liberation.

3. It is essential to the health of the crews of our men-of-war that captured slaves who are frequently diseased, and always most filthy in their personal habits, should be landed with as little delay as possible; and it is equally essential to the carrying out of the service with efficiency that the vessels should speedily return to their cruizing ground. For these purposes Seychelles towards the south, and Aden towards the north, are well suited, and one or the other is chosen by the Commander of the capturing.....(next page?)

Squadron - Ending the African Slave Trade - John Broich.

page 86

These early stirrings of alarm among British officialdom in the Indian Ocean were just the beginning. Leopold Heath could not have truly have grasped the forces he was prodding with his new campaign. The slave trade was integral to a vast economic network that tied tightly tied together India, East Africa, Arabia and the Indian Ocean. - - -

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

On Wednesday 20th R. with Bertie to Mr.Hinton and Loundes Street.
On Saturday 23rd , R. with Arthur and Bertie to Mr.Saunders and Sir Henry Holland at Loundes Street, with Mr.and Mrs.Wickham at Victoria and came down with them, picked up Nellie and May Buxton at Leatherhead who came to stay.

Saturday 23 January 1869
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser

Arrivals - Clarendon Hotel - Mrs and Miss Marsh-Caldwell, Linley Wood.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 24 January 1869
Fine day, all to church in morning. Children to Anstie.
Monday 25 January 1869
Arty to see Croftons at Southborough.

Monday 25 January 1869
Times of India

H.M.S. Daphne, Captain Sullivan, having been reported to have fallen short of coal, and to be lying in Cochin short of provisions, Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., the Commodore,sent, on Saturday, H.M.S. Dryad, Captain Colomb, to go in quest of her and render whatever assistance she might require to enable her to come up to Bombay.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Tuesday 26 January 1869
Paper chase. R. in afternoon to see Mary Hawkins. Charades in evening.

Wednesday 27 January 1869
R. with Bertie to Mr.Hinton and with Buxtons returned with them to town.

Mrs.Mortimer and Mrs.Heathcote called.

Thursday 28 January 1869
R. to see Mr.Waterfield. Arty returned from Croftons.

Friday 29 January 1869
Mary Hawkins called. Bertie sallied to Dorking and back by rail.

Saturday 30 January 1869
Fine afternoon. Bert back to Mr.Waterfields. Arty joining with him. R, May and Gerard up to Anstie and Sand pit.

Saturday 30 January 1869
Army and Navy Gazette

Presentation to Captain Tryon R.N.
On Tuesday afternoon the Mercantile Marine Service Association presented a testimonial to Captain Tryon R.N., C.B., of which the following is a description:- It was designed and manufactured by the celebrated firm of Elkington and Co., consisted of a desert service in massive silver, comprised as follows:- A large centre piece, three feet high, representing the landing of stores at Annesley Bay. - - -

Captain Tryon, who on rising to answer the presentation, was loudly cheered, said - - - -The harmony which existed between the officers of the two branches of the naval profession, and, I may say, of all the branches assembled in connection with the expedition was most advantageous to the public service. (Hear hear.) I cannot conclude without one word of tribute to our gallant Commander-in-Chief, Lord Napier.

The country was most fortunate in being able to command the services of such a man. Commodore, now Sir Leopold Heath was Commander-in-Chief of the Naval forces. He had great experience in the Crimea , and Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, the Governor of Bombay, feared no responsibility, and took very good care that nothing was wanted. - - -

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 31 January 1869
Letter from Mary. Rainy morning and afternoon. Service at home.

Monday 1, Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3
Can't remember.

Monday 1 February 1869
Times of India

H.M.S. Daphne
H.M.S. Daphne, Captain Sullivan, arrived in Bombay Harbour at seven o'clock yesterday evening in tow of H.M.S. Dryad, Captain Colomb.

The Daphne had been slave-cruising in the Mozambique Channel and the East Coast of Africa since June last, during which time by the activity of her commander and officers she has captured eighteen Dhows.

She had the misfortune while chasing slave cruisers to get ashore twice, which will necessitate her going into dock, and she also ran short of coals and provisions. She reached Tellicherry on the 22nd inst, and from thence Captain Sullivan telegraphed to Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., the Commodore, stating the position in which he was upon which the Dryad was dispatched to render whatever assistance she might require. - - -

When off the Seychelles, small-pox broke out among the slaves on board but happily the crew have been generally healthy. - - - Among other curiosities the Daphne has brought up a fine ostrich from Zanzibar.

Monday 1 February 1869
Pall Mall Gazette

Mr Childres has recommended Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., to her Majesty the Queen for the post of Naval Aide-de-Camp, rendered vacant by the promotion of Captain Shadwell to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm the recommendation. Sir Leopold was the senior naval officer during the late Abyssinian expedition.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath in India continues . . .

1 February 1869 - Bombay
I can imagine no pleasanter life for a wife than mine is at this moment, following her husband about to all sorts of various and interesting scenes and living with him in his work - which it is so rarely in the power of a wife to do, unless she is married to a clergyman - here I am in the midst of it, and witness by eye and ear all that goes on, but the absence from the family, the children is the thorn which pricks one continually. So I shall be glad to go and sorry to leave and look back also with gratitude and pleasure to my most happy and enjoyable 6 months cruize!

Yesterday, Sunday, we went as usual on board for morning church - and met all the friendly officers - I went down to the Ward room - to have wine and chat - and then went home to repose in the cool bungalow and and read.

At 5. we had a little refreshing drive before evening service - and went down to the Apollo Bunder or landing place to see Captain Colomb towing in the "Daphne," Captain Sullivan who has been slaver-hunting in the Mozambique since June - - - the two Captains came to dine. Captain Colomb I know of old and he is a very nice man. Captain Sullivan is new to me, but is pleasant, simple and hearty like all sailors! "bless them"!!

He gave us an interesting account of his expedition and brought up freight too, Leo's share being about £20. Captain Sullivan has captured 17 dhows and over 300 slaves, they are liberated at Zanzibar but it seems rather doubtful whether we do good or harm, however slaves swim off to the ships and are starved and ill-treated on board the Arab ships - and fed and cared for on ours, they must prefer us - one should think; when once in Arabia, or anywhere else with their masters, they seem to lead happy lives, it is in their own country - as one may read in Baker's book - and in the passage that they suffer so much - and the greater part are poor little children or very young people.

The (Bg?) of Zanzibar devotes himself to a girl's and boy's school of rescued little slaves, he picks out the most promising from these living cargoes, and hopes to educate some at least as missionaries, the rest get some sort of employment here or in Zanzibar.

Tuesday 2 February 1869
Bad news. This morning brought a telegram directing Leo to haul down his pendant and retire to the humble condition of 2nd Class Commodore - it takes of £500 a year and all participation in prize money from Leo - sends back to Captain Hall and Mr.Walker and deprives the poor Secretary of £100 a year - Steward and Coxswain of £2 a day - altogether we have had a sore morning. Leo is patience itself and only gives a low whistle.

We all feel very blank, but we have no legal right to complain - but feel hurt, as it was only a sudden strange idea of the new brooms! and if done at all it ought to have been done long ago.

(Leggd?) Tourkee came yesterday to see Leo who had brought him from Muscat the year before. His is a very lovely Arab - with large soft and shining dark eyes, and charming manner but he looks a little of "the wily Arab" at times.

He talked through an interpreter, which was a great pity, as his language sounded so eloquent. He dined in the evening with the Marriotts and (Gonnes, Sonnes?) who keep house together! it was a good dinner, and very pleasant.

Leo is made an A.D.C. to Her Majesty which is to console him, but which he had a right to before! He will wear a splendid crimson and gold Sash, over his left shoulder, and when he is an Admiral, tell the children, it will be a fine thing to act with!(!) like their grandfather's scarlet robes at Kitlands!

There is no pay attached to the office, till you get up among the first five, so Leo will never get anything, most likely. We are all cynically merry over our misfortunes. Mrs.Wyatt proposes that the Abyssinian Medal should be composed of a "crescent and a cross,"

Leo is decidedly of opinion that "the Conservatives were guided by higher principles than their successors." !!!

We are going to the sailors' play, but feel in no humour for gaity!!

Tuesday 2 February 1869
Globe

Captain Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., now serving as commodore and senior naval officer in the East Indies, has been appointed one of her Majesty's aides-de-camp, vice Shadwell, promoted.

Edinburgh Evening Courant

Tuesday 2 February 1869

Mr Childers has recommended Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., to her Majesty the Queen for the post of naval aide-de-camp, rendered vacant by the promotion of Captain Shadwell to the rank of rear-admiral, and her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm the recommendation.

Sir Leopold was the senior naval officer during the late Abyssinian expedition.

Tuesday 2 February 1869
Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore)

AN INDIAN NAVY. (Englishman.) The creation of a fleet of magnificent transports for the conveyance of troops to and from India was valuable as the first step towards the reconstruction of an Indian Navy.

That an Indian Navy is an Indian necessity, few who know anything of the necessities of the Empire, will doubt. On the Bengal side the relics of the old marine are worn out and must shortly be replaced. The question thus directly arises as to what class of vessels shall take their place.

Again in Bombay want is felt, the same question has to be answered. In a recent case the political action of the Government was crippled because of its inability to command the services of a vessel of war when an emergency arose in the Persian Gulf.

Commodore Heath had good and sufficient reasons for not complying with the request made to him for a vessel, and hence many months elapsed before the Government could vindicate that peace in the Gulf of Persia which it is, apparently, its special mission to prove it cannot be broken with impunity.

On this side of India the only vessel of war worth the name is the Kwang Tung, the guard ship at the Andamans, and the late vessel of Captain Sherrad Osborne's Anglo-Chinese Squadron.

But even here the want of an efficient department is felt, for although serving in Bengal waters, a large portion of her armament is still in the Bombay arsenal. The Fero did good service, with some other Bengal vessels, in the Persian Gulf, but she is scarcely to be classed in them days as a vessel of war. The old Indian Navy was in spite of various drawbacks a service which did credit to the mother country as well as to India itself.

The chores of the Indian ocean bear ample witness to the patience and devotion to duty shown by its officers, as well as to their bravery and conduct. - - - - - -

Wednesday 3 February 1869
Essex Standard

Sir Leopold Heath, who was senior Naval Officer during the Abyssinian Expedition, and whose zealous co-operation contributed so much to its success, has been recommended to Her Majesty for the post of Naval Aide-de-Camp.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Thursday 4 February 1869
Arty out hunting. Mdlle, May and Ada to "Meet" at (Kerriches?) in afternoon. R. with May and Gerard to call on Mrs.Powell, Ladies Legge, and Mrs.Hawkins.

Friday 5 February 1869
Lovey, exquisite day, hot. R. with Arty into Dorking. Children walked to Post office.

Friday 5 February 1869
The Times of India

The Sacred Concert
Bombay Town Hall on Wednesday evening obtained en entirely new reputation - about the last which its deaf (?) architect would ever have supposed in store for him - namely, that of providing on occasion a tolerable Concert Room of capacious though ungainly proportions.

The large assembly-room of this Hall having a sharply curved centre ceiling and rows of massive pillars down each side has hitherto been the despair of orators, reporters, musicians, and vocalists. - - -

Two patrons in town, H.E. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald and Sir Leopold Heath (Lord Napier of Magdala being still on tour), arrived in good time, showing a genuine interest in the Festival; the new Lord Bishop of Bombay, the Hon. H.B. Ellis, nearly every prominent member of the Services, and all the "queens of society" were present, - - -

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Saturday 6 February 1869
All to lunch at Wedgwoods, lovely day.

Saturday 6 February 1869
Army and Navy Gazette

We understand that the Lords of the Admiralty have effected a considerable saving by altering the appointment of Sir Leopold Heath in India from a first to a second class commodoreship - thus reverting to the order of things which existed before the Abyssinian war.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 7 February 1869
Cloudy, all to Church in morning. Rained in afternoon.

Monday 8 February 1869
R. with May and Arty to London. Rainy day, and wind. R. with May to Mr.Bowman, Arty to stay at Loundes Street. Lunched there. Harry Eyres, and Henry Holland to lunch.

Tuesday 9 February 1869
Rainy day. None out. 2 letters from Mary.

Tuesday 9 February 1869 (Repeat?)
Manchester Courier

India
H.M.S. Octavia, the flag-ship of Sir Leopold Heath, arrived in Bombay harbour on the 10th January. She will remain here until the arrival of the Forte from England.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Wednesday 10 February 1869
Rainy day. Arty came back from Loundes Street.

Thursday 11 February 1869
Rained all day. Arty out hunting.

Friday 12 February 1869
Rained all day. Arty left for Marlborough.

Saturday 13 February 1869
Fine day. R. to London. Met Bertie at Clapham Junction, to Mr.Hinton's and Loundes Street. Back with Bertie as far as Clapham Junction. Georgey came to stay, arrived by 5.44. R.6.11, children a long walk and Primrose gathering.

Saturday 13 February 1869
Broad Arrow.

Her Majesty's ship Octavia, with the Commodore's broad pennant, arrived at Bombay on the 13th ult. from Trincomalee. On the following day Sir Leopold Heath inspected her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna, carefully examining the different departments; and during the two hours he remained on board expressed himself entirely satisfied with the condition of the ship, &c., and begged that the officers should be informed of the same.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 14 February 1869
All to church in the morning. Mr.Whatman called.

Monday 15 February 1869

Rosamond and Georgina called on Mrs.Wickham in afternoon. Mrs.Brodie called. Children to Coldharbour.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath in India continues . . .

Monday 15 February 1869 - Bombay.
Papa has just tried on his new "Star" which came by last mail - the insignia of the K.C.B., it does look so nice! There is also the collar of crimson ribbon with large cross like the C.B. appended to it, which is only to be worn on grand occasions, when the A.D.C. scarf comes, Papa will be very magnificent, won't he children!

Wednesday 17 February 1869 - Bombay
What did we do yesterday? Oh, Major MacDonald called, and complained of the heat - and told us also how all Europeans and mixed Europeans of every shade, were sure to deteriorate in this climate "big bones and no muscles or some disease."

The Native and Parsees are getting on so fast that the time will come when our task out here will be finished, and we not longer needed to civilize.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Wednesday 17 February 1869
All to church in the morning. Dull day.

Thursday 18 February 1869
Rainy morning. Lovely afternoon. Georgina left in morning. R. and May called on Mrs.Mortimer, others to Anstie.

Friday 19 February 1869
Lovely day. R. and Herbert to call on Mrs.Heathcote and to Dorking, and to call on Mrs.Wickham, others to Anstie. Sir A. and Lady Cotton called.

Saturday 20 February 1869
Bright day. Leila Wickham came.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath in India continues . . .

Saturday 20 February 1869 - Bombay
Yesterday was rather interesting, as we went to this prize giving at (Mr.Curtsoziers?) house, where were assembled all the young Hindu and Parsee ladies, and their Mammas and Papas, of his school.

You never saw such a bed of pretty, bright flowers as they looked, such lovely colours were their "sorries" or veils. They sung and declaimed in English, very nicely. Mrs.Fitzgerald gave the prizes and Lord Napier made a speech - which art is not in his line.

1 March 1869
After dinner a Mr and Mrs.Littledale took us to a Parsee Wedding feast - where we were led up some very dirty staircases, into a fine, well lighted saloon, where there were a number of sleepy looking Parsees seated on crimson silk sofas, and listening to the terribly monotonous recitation of 3 (Nautch?) girls, who were accompanied by two violinists and on "tom tim," now and then one of the girls advanced out of the row about a yard, making little tiny steps, and then went back again, this was done exactly the same each time, nothing you can imagine more dreary in the way of an entertainment,and this was to go on till four in the morning, without any intermission; we and these people - certainly disport ourselves in a vastly different manner!

We had champagne in a large dirty room below, and then departed - finding myself covered with cocoa - not oil - luckily I had the old Mayo dress on!

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Monday 1 March 1869

Tuesday 2 March 1869
Fine day. Children picking flowers.

Wednesday 3 March 1869
Fine day. Cold wind. All to church in the morning.

Thursday 4 March 1869
Dull morning. R.with Herbert and Gerard to London and Zoological.

Friday 5 March 1869
Lovely day. Mdlle and May to station in afternoon. Others about garden.

Lady Mary Heath in India

Sunday

It was intensely hot and I went to Church only in the evening - At the end of the service the Bishop gave us his blessing, in a peculiarly clear, humorous, sweet voice, it sounded like an angel's, really !

We had Captain de Kantzow - &c. to dinner. Captain de Kantzow is a very odd man and talks everlastingly - he brought me some barnacles from his ship's bottom, as a great curiosity - declaring they were coral, and showed me how curiously the insects worked, I thought to myself, "it is the oddest coral I ever saw," but supposed he must know - but he was soon undeceived by the slight jeers of his brother officers and Leo calmly saying "why those are barnacles Captain de K'." "Oh, are they Sir?" and he and his basin of curios quickly retired into the background.

Friday 5 March 1869
Leo and I went shopping with Sombjee and I bought a silk chinese dress for the poor little Agah, who seems like to break her heart at parting, and who having been though a little busybody and fond of gossip, very useful, honest and affectionate and docile, I wish to leave with a souvenir, and a salve to her wounded feelings.

One thing one learns very deeply, that human nature is exactly the same, whether bound in white, brown, or black - only one sort, is more ignorant than the other. An Ayah dress only takes 6 yards - she was charmed, and as I gave it to her on condition that she would not worry me with cries and lamentations, she has contained herself very well since.

I saw a horrible case of deformity, creeping along in the bazaar, one sees such, occasionally, it looked more monkey than human, with its knees turned inwards exactly the contrary to nature, it was so shocking.

We had our 2nd dinner party - Mrs.Allen and I undertook the flowers this time, and Leo having made his remarks the day before, all went off beautifully, the firey cook did himself great credit, everybody talked at a great rate, and the band kept us alive most pleasantly.

Leo gives his farewell dinner on Tuesday to about 30 of his officers, and we go on board for the same purpose, and shall be guests of the Ward room. I hope we shall not all cry!

End of Indian Letters.
Coped this last - 9 April 1877,

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Saturday 6 March 1869
Bright day and cold wind. R. to meet Bertie at Clapham Junction, with him to Houses of Parliament. Mr.Hinton. L. and I to Mr.and Mrs. Thorneycroft's School. Return back with R. to Moorhurst. Mdlle, May and Ada to Dorking.

Sunday 7 March 1869
Fine bright day. All to Church in the morning. Children gathering Primroses.

Monday 8 March 1869
Bertie left in the morning. Cold day.

Tuesday 9 March 1869
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Wednesday 10 March 1869
All to Church in morning. Cold day but brighter.

Thursday 11 March 1869
Bright day. Mary Hawkins came in the afternoon. Cold

Thursday 11 March 1869
Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore)

Destruction of Bombay Post Office (Times of India)

A fire resulting in the destruction of the extensive block of buildings heretofore occupied by the Bombay General Post Office, occurred yesterday afternoon, and at one time there were serious apprehensions lest the flames should extend to the Custom House, and the Hydraulic Press Company's Buildings, together with the Apollo Bonded Warehouse. - - -

This room was used for storing waste-paper and so on, and it is thought that one of the peons or sepoys may have been smoking a pipe, and carelessly knocked out the ashes of the tobacco - - -Most of the native employees were, as usual on such occasions, completely scared, and herded together like frightened sheep, but Mr Stuart aided by Mr Ham, of the Sea Postal Department and several volunteers, by dint of great exertion, saved all the registered and other letters, - - -

Mr Souter, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Crawford the Municipal Commissioner, Commodore Heath and many others were indefatigable in their exertions. - -

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Friday 12 March 1869
Cold day. Confirmation Mdlle, May and Ada went to it, cold.

Saturday 13 March 1869
Very cold. Mr.Wickham, Miss Julia and Leila called in afternoon. Georgina came to stay. Mary Hawkins called in morning.

Saturday 13 March 1869
Times of India

Departure of H.M.S. "Octavia."

H.M.S. Octavia, Captain Alexander, sailed from Bombay for England yesterday afternoon at half-past five o'clock. The Octavia was commissioned in 1865, and has been on this station since the early part of 1866. Commodore Heath K.C.B., the senior officer on the East India Station, shifts his flag to the Forte, which came out to relieve the Octavia. Captain Basil Hall goes home by the mail today, and Captain Alexander, who brought out the Forte, takes the Octavia home. - -

The Octavia got under weigh at 5 o'clock, and having dropped down to the Forte and Daphne to say good-bye, the crews of which ships cheered her lustily, she steamed away out of the harbour. In five minutes more she had made sail, and in half an hour, had faded away in the distance. She was accompanied to the outer light-ship by a steamer, in which were Lord Napier and Commodore and Lady Heath.

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 14 March 1869
Snow on ground. None to Church.

Monday 15 March 1869
Cold day - Mary's letter saying she would (most likely?) start on 13th May.

Tuesday 16 March 1869
Cold raw day. Georgina walked out with Mdlle. and Chicks.

Wednesday 17 March 1869
Miserable day. Georgina left for Southborough.

Thursday 18 March 1869
Tolerable but very cold - R. and chicks up to Anstie, in afternoon Mary Hawkins to tea.

Friday 9 March 1869
Cold, miserable day. Mrs.Wickham called.

Saturday 10 March 1869
Snow miserable. Mary and Mr.Hawkins called. John Barnadiston and his wife called.

Sunday 21 March 1869
Wretched day. No one out.

Monday 22 March 1869
Cold but fair. R. with May, Ada and Mdlle. to church. And the boys in bed with colds.

Tuesday 23 March 1869
Bitter wind. R, May and Mdlle. to Church. R. in afternoon to Mary Hawkins. Mdlle and May to station to meet Bertie who did not come. Ada in bed with cold.

Wednesday 24 March 1869
Bitter cold. R. to London. Bertie came home.

Thursday 25 March 1869
Very cold, snow and showers. None out. Mrs.Hawkins came to tea.

Friday 26 March 1869 - Good Friday.
R., May, Bertie and Mdlle. to Church. Children with colds to Church in evening. Lovely night.

Saturday 27 March 1869
Cold day. Snow storms. Mdlle., May, Bertie and R. walked to Church, none. John dismissed R. to Vicarage.

Morning Post

Saturday 27 March 1869

Athletics in India

Seldom, if ever, has there been such a gathering on the Esplanade as was seen on Tuesday afternoon, when the east side of Rotten Row was crowded for nearly its entire length with an assemblage of all races and classes to witness the sports, the fame of which had spread over the island for some days before.

The idea of soldiers and sailors games was originated during the late meeting of the Western India Turf Club, when a few gentlemen proposed to raise a fund for the purpose of affording some amusement for soldiers, European and native, the sailors in port, and others. - - - -

His Excellency Sir W.R. Vesey Fitzgerald K.C.S.I., his Excellency Lord Napier of Magdala K.C.B., G.C.S.I., and Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., readily consented to become patrons of the movement, and when the subscription list was opened rupees poured in plentifully.

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A large marquee had been erected within the Oval near the band-stand, with seats for the accommodation of ladies and gentlemen. This tent was filled by a gay assemblage, and was honoured by the presence of his Excellency the Governor, Lord Napier of Magdala, Sir Richard Couch, Chief Justice, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath besides members of council, judges, and other high officials. - - -

The sports commenced by trials of skill and strength in throwing the cricket-ball and putting the shot. Several natives entered the putting the 24-pounder contest, but though strong fellows, they had no chance beside the Europeans. The natives turned out strong in all the contests open to them, - -- continues...

Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell (Posy) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Sunday 28 March 1869 - Easter.
A cold day. All to church but 3 younger. Snow storms in afternoon.

Tuesday 30 March 1869
Dublin Evening Mail.

Athletics in India

The idea of soldiers and sailors' games was orginated during the late meeting of the Western India Turf Club, when few gentlemen proposed to raise funds for the purpose of affording some amusement for soldiers, European and native, the sailors in port, and others.

As soon as the proposal became known it was received with the liveliest interest and favour, and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the sports, consisting of the Hon L Bayley, Mr W Collum, Colonel S Thacker, Lieutenant Colonel C Elgee, Captain G F Henry, Mr T M Filgate, Mr H Souter, C S I; Lieutenant Bainbridge, RN; Mr A Crawford, and Mr T E Taylor, with James Dodds honorary secretary.

His Excellency Sir W R Vesey Fitzgerald, KCSI; his Excellency Lord Napier of Magdala, K B, G C S I, and Commodore Sir Leopold Heath, K C B, readily consented to become patrons of the movement, and when the subscription list was opened rupees poured in plentifully.

A large marquee had been erected within the Oval near the band-stand, with seats for the accommodation of ladies and gentlemen. This tent was filled a gay assemblage, and was honoured by the presence of bis Excellency the Governor, Lord Napier of Magdala, Sir Richard Couch, Chief Justice; Commodore Sir Leopold Heath; besides members of council, judges, and other high officials.

The road skirting Rottenrow was covered by large number of carriages, from which the occupants viewed the games; and above the mixed crowd was to be see - - -

Friday 2 April 1869
Times of India

Departures for the Gulf

H.M.S. Ships Forte, Commodore Heath; Daphne, Captain Sullivan; and Star, Captain De Rendsow, sailed from Bombay yesterday.

Some weeks since, the ships took on board three months' provisions, and on Wednesday morning the Commodore issued orders that they were to be ready for sea in twenty-four hours. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the signal was given to make sail, and shortly afterwards the Star was under weight, followed by the Forte and Daphne. The ships all left under canvas,so after getting outside they were to try their sailing qualities. There was a fine working breeze from W.N.W. and in less than an hour they were all hull down.

They sailed under sealed orders, but it is stated that they are to proceed first to the Persian Gulf, and from thence to Aden, after which they will cruise down the East Coast of Africa for slave dhows. The Forte will probably visit Zanzibar and Seychelles, and then go to Trincomalee and Madras, and be at Calcutta in the autumn to await the arrival of the Galatea, H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. The Dryad and Nymph are at present cruising after slavers on the East Coast of Africa.

Saturday 3 April 1869
Broad Arrow
Octavia, 35, screw steam frigate, Captain Basil Hall, with the broad pennant of Commodore Sir Leopold Heath, remained at Bombay by the latest returns.

Monday 5 April 1869

Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.

"Forte" at Sea, Lat. 17° 7' N. Long . 63° 28' E., April 5, 1869

Sir,

I HAVE the honour to forward, for the information of their Lordships, a copy of some correspondence on the subject of the condition of slaves captured by our cruizers. 2. I bed to suggest that information as to the distribution and condition of slaves liberated in each year should be called for from the Mauritius, the Seychelles, Aden, and Bombay, and published in the Blue Books.

I have &c

(signed) L.G. Heath

Lady Mary Heath's letter book

6 April 1869 - Moorhurst.

Dearest Mama,
I arrived horridly tired and exhausted (from my journey home from India) begrimed with coal dust and altogether one of the most wretched individuals you ever beheld, so that I felt really quite glad that I was just in time, to catch the early train down to Dorking, for you would have all been frightened at my appearance, as they were here. I am so happy to get home.

England looks so sweet and lovely and pure, and really to arrive at this pretty dear little house, and to be the proud and happy possessor of such a bunch of sweet, healthful, lovely children - their dear faces beaming with affection and goodness, makes me very full of joy and gratitude.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

April 1869.

I returned from India on the 4th, Sunday, very much fatigued. (crossed out - Posy staid till Friday). Amy Crofton came on Wednesday to go to Leatherhead Ball. George Whatman and Mr.Edelmann dined and they four went off.

Friday 9 April 1869
I went to London with May to see Mama and all at Loundes Street. Very cold. Posy went away and Amy.

Saturday 10 April 1869
Dear Bertie went back to school at Mr.Waterfield's. Douglas came and talked.

Saturday 10 April 1869
Broad Arrow

Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., Senior Officer on the East India station, has shifted his pennant from H.M.S. Octavia to H.M.S. Forte.

The Octavia was commissioned at Portsmouth in September 1865, by Captain, now Admiral Charle F. Hillyar, who obtained his flag rank in May 1867, and the vacant command given to the present Commodore Sir Leopold Heath.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 11 April 1869
We all went to Church and saw many people.

Monday 12 April 1869
Arty came from Marlborough looking very well and nice.

Tuesday 13 April 1869
Lovely weather. We all strolled about. Arty went to station to fetch Fred, who arrived all right and well. Douglas called. May and Arty rode and we walked to Anstie, very hot. Douglas and George called in the evening.

Wednesday 14 April 1869
Arty and Fred rode to Dorking shopping. Harrisons and Douglas came to luncheon. Mrs.Dealtry and Mrs.Barclay called. Fred and Arty went out fishing and May dancing.

Thursday 15 April 1869
The children practised all day for their concert, which came off in the evening.

Friday 16 April 1869
Rained. Mr.Wickham called.

Saturday 17 April 1869
Arty went back to Marlborough.

Sunday 18 April 1869
Was very wet. we all remained at home. Douglas called.

Monday 19 April 1869
People called.

Tuesday 20 April 1869
Do do.

Wednesday 21 April 1869
Fanny and Harry Crofton came to stay.

Thursday 22 April 1869
We walked to Anstie.

Friday 23 April 1869
Mrs.Hawkins, Greenwood and Barnadiston called and had afternoon tea.

Friday 23 April 1869
Christian World

AN URGENT APPEAL is made on behalf of Charlotte A Rowbotham, who for many years managed a confectionary business for her late brother-in-law at 6, Birchin-lane, Cornhill.

She in rendered hopelessly helpless by a severe stroke of paralysis, and having no relatives who can in any way assist her, she is homeless, and will be discharged from the Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. Queen's-square, Bloomsbury, as incurable.

A final in being raised to pay for her maintenance until she can be admitted by election into the Royal Hospital for Incurables.

The case is strongly recommended by Miss Marsh Caldwell. 3, Lowndes-street, SW.; Rev. Markland Barnard, Colney Vicarage, Rev. J. H. Dawes, Chaplain; and Miss Cleveland. matron, Whittington College. Highgate-hill.

Subscriptions will also be gratefully received by Miss McLachlan, 47, Victoria-road, Kentish town, N.W.

Saturday 24 April 1869
Army and Navy Gazette

Captain Basil Hall R.N., having been recalled from H.M.S. Octavia, owing to Sir Leopold Heath being ordered to haul down his first-class pennant, arrived in England overland from Bombay on Friday the 15th inst.

Saturday 24 April 1869
Staffordshire Advertiser

Linley Wood Ley, From 12th May to 12th of October, Terms as usual - Apply to Mr John Beeston, Linley Wood Farm, near Lawton, Cheshire

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Saturday 24 April 1869
Fanny and I walked to Kitlands and round by Anstiebury home.

Sunday 25 April 1869
All to Church. Douglas called and the children went a roam.

Monday 26 April 1869
Fanny and Harry left us.

Tuesday 27 April 1869
I went calling on Kerriches, Mortimers, and Emma at Kitlands, who had returned from Cannes the day before.

Wednesday 28 April 1869
I staid at home. May and Fred rode to Garlans.

Thursday 29 April 1869
I went a tour of calls with Herbert - Fred rode to the Heathcotes to spend afternoon. The others to Kitlands.

Friday 30 April 1869
I walked up to Anstie with Fred and Gerard and round by Kitlands. The rest gardened.

May

Saturday 1 May 1869
I went up to Anstie about repairs. Basil Heathcote came to spend the afternoon. Had a trifle for dinner! Mdlle. and I drove to Wedgwoods and climbed up Leith Hill - May, Ada and Fred walked down to the station with young Heathcote. Bright and fine but cold wind.

Saturday 1 May 1869
Naval & Military Gazette

On the 1st inst. Commodore Sir L. Heath with the Forte, Daphne, and Star, sailed for the Persian Gulf.

The Squadron may only be going to those waters on a cruise of observation before proceeding to Aden and the East Coast of Africa, the destination given out: but Commodore Heath has special instructions, dependent on others that he may receive from the Residents of Muscat and Bushire.

Azan bin Ghez, the Hanavi Chief, who has usurped the Imamship of Oman, still holds his power at Muscat but precariously, and the Ghaffrees, the other chief division of the Omanites, are in no wise conciliated.

Meantime Syud Selim, the parricide and banished Imaum, has been completely circumvented by his Minister, Hajee Adhmed, who, having declared himself a Persian subject, obtained the aid of one of the Shah's provincial Generals and turned Syed Selim out of Bunder Abbas, taking from him the two little war-vessels which were all the effects he had retained after the wreck of his ill-gotten power.

Expelled from Bunder Abbas, he became a fugitive; but within the last few days a message has been received from our Assitant-Resident at Bassadore on the Island of Kisham, reporting that Syud Selim had gone to Debay on the Arabian side, where he joined Sudeyree, the Wahabee Lieutenant who holds full power from the Emir of Riad. - - -

Meantime, Syud Toorkee, brother of the late Sultan and the great favourite of all the Ghaffrees of Oman, is detained at Bombay by the Government of India, while his courage and popularity which might serve the cause of order in the Gulf, "rust in him unused."

Saturday 1 May 186

Leamington Spa

Clarendon Hotel

Mrs Marsh-Caldwell and Miss Marsh-Caldwell (Linley Wood, Cheshire)

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 2 May 1869
All to church. Children played in garden. Very bright.

Monday 3 May 1869
Children all played in the garden as it was Fred's last day. Mrs.Hawkins and Greenwood called. Fred went back to school at Brighton. Read to May.

Tuesday 4 May 1869
Dreadful cold rain - all staid in doors.

Wednesday 5 May 1869
Called with Herbert and Gerard on the Barclays and Fullers. (Brokefield?) and shopped in Dorking.

Thursday 6 May 1869
Drove out calling on Lamberts and Anstie, and through wood to Kitlands with May.

Friday 7 May 1869
Went out walking with Mdlle. and all children and ponies to Anstie and Kitlands where I staid and walked back to Anstie with Emma and William and Annie.

Saturday 8 May 1869
Went alone to Brighton to see Fred and dentist for him. Picked up Mr. and Mrs.Hawkins at Horsham.

Sunday 9 May 1869
All to church but me. William and Willy called. (Whatman)

Monday 10 May 1869
Drove out calling on Cazalets and Penningtons - and Kitlands with May.

Tuesday 11 May 1869
Gerard, Ada and I went to spend the day with Mrs.Eden. Louisa and Posy and Col.Eden.

Wednesday 12 May 1869
Douglas called. I was not up. I went to Kitlands.

Thursday 13 May 1869
May and I went to London to see the Royal Academy with Adie Browne.

Friday 14 May 1869
Rained. We ran up to Anstie.

Saturday 15 May 1869
Mr and Mrs.C.Eden, Evy and Louisa came, the latter to stay.

Sunday 16 May 1869
All to church.

Monday 17 May 1869
Louisa and I drove into Dorking. May rode on Black Beauty.

Tuesday 18 May 1869
Louisa and I walked up to Kitlands and round by Anstie, home.

Wednesday 19 May 1869 -

Thursday 20 May 1869
Louisa went up to London.

Friday 21 May 1869 -

Saturday 22 May 1869
Louisa and I went to Southborough to see the Croftons. May and Mdlle. to Brighton for the day.

Sunday 23 May 1869
All to church. Douglas came.

Monday 24 May 1869
Louisa (Marsh-Caldwell) and I went to Dorking. Emma called.

Tuesday 25 May 1869
Louisa went home to Linley Wood. I dined at Kitlands.

Wednesday 26 May 1869
Children went to have tea at Bearhurst with the Cazalets. May and I staid at home after a short walk with the children.

Thursday 27 May 1869
May went off on a visit to the Croftons at Southborough. Very rainy and cold. Horrid East wind.

Friday 28, Saturday 29 May 1869
Bertie came home for an exeat. Eva and Mrs.Pennington called. Eva staid with Ada.

Sunday 30 May 1869
All to church, and we spent the afternoon at Anstie, a very pleasant day. Met George and Willy at Foxglove Corner.

Monday 31 May 1869
Children all ran about. Bertie went back to school in the afternoon. Drive to Dorking with Herbert and Gerard.

Tuesday 1 June 1869
All the children to Miss Nicholls wedding. I to Kitlands.

Wednesday 2 June 1869
Miss (Nager?) and Cazalets came to play with children.

Thursday 3 June 1869
Went out with Ada, Gerard and Herbert to call on Nicholls - Mrs.Broadwood and Mrs.Mortimer - very cold for June.

Friday 4 June 1869
Children and I to Kitlands - the former on ponies ride and tea. Mrs.Wedgwood called.

Saturday 5 June 1869

After luncheon we all went to spend the afternoon at Broome Hall.

Saturday 5 June 1869
Staffordshire Sentinel

A BAZAAR will be held at TALKE on the 6th and of July next, under the patronage of
The Countess of Egmemost,
Mrs. Marsh Caldwell,

Mrs. KINNERSLT, J. E. HEATHCOTE, Esq., Mrs. Renaud and Rev. C. P. Wilbraham, Miss Lawton, Dr, Renaud, Mrs. Turnour, Rev. A. A. Turnour, Mrs. Haslope, L. L. Haslope, Esq., Mrs. Gemmell, Rev. M. W. McHutchin, Mrs. Crole Wyndham, Rev. A Barker. Mrs. McHutchin, E. R. Walker, Esq., Mrs. Walker, Mr. Thomas Nichols,

Proceeds towards the New Organ Fund and Fund for Enlarging the Churchyard.

Staffordshire Advertiser

Saturday 5 June 1869

Manchester Deaf and Dumb School - North Staffordshire Branch.

Miss Marsh-Caldwell begs to thank very sincerely all those who have kindly assisted her in the election of Edward Sumner to the Deaf and Dumb Schools.June 1st 1869

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 6 June 1869
All to church. Very hot - summer has at length arrived. May Cazalet came and had luncheon. I and children went up to Anstie.

Monday 7 June 1869
Little Gerard's birthday. Hot, haymaking began.

Tuesday 8 June 1869
May came home from Southborough. Langs called

Wednesday 9 June 1869
We all went up to Kitlands after lunch and lessons. May and I calling first on Dealtries.

Thursday 10 June 1869
Lessons as usual, and we went to Anstie - children playing in the "Climbing Tree."

Friday 11 June 1869
Mrs.Cazalet called to invite children. They all went haymaking at Kitlands. I to (Aunt Colleys?) and Kitlands.

Saturday 12 June 1869
I, Ada, Herbert and Gerard went to Brighton, saw Fred, and returned late.

Sunday 13 June 1869
All to church. And sat in the hay afterwards. Douglas came.

Monday 14 June 1869
Walked about. Miss (Myer?) and children came, after we had had a ride and walk to Kitlands.

Tuesday 15 June 1869
Went up to Anstie and danced.

Wednesday 16 June 1869
Capt. Barnadiston called. Captain Basil Hall and Mrs Hall came to stay. Captain and Mrs. Barnadiston and Douglas dined.

Thursday 17 June 1869
Horrid day - Hall's left us. Admiral Sir Arthur and Miss Cotton called.

Friday 18 June 1869
Rained hard. Poor wretched hay! All to Anstie. Mrs Jaffray came to see Moorhurst - too small - Mdlle. (Mager?) came with little Cazalets - and brought me a letter from Mdlle. Henning.

Saturday 19 June 1869
Very cold still. Willy came. Mdlle and Amy attempted to drive to Dorking, Black Beauty kicked. We all went up to Anstie. Met Wickhams in the wood.

Sunday 20 June 1869
To church - saw all the neighbours at church door. Remained indoors afterwards, excessively cold.

Monday 21 June 1869
Very dark and rainy. Mr.and Mrs.Harrison called. Afterwards Messrs Pennington and Banks - dancing etc.

Tuesday 22 June 1869
Douglas called to hear Leo's letters. Arty came home from Marlborough for holidays.

Wednesday 23 June 1869
Roamed about all day to Kitlands and all over.

Thursday 24 June 1869
Mr.White called about Anstie. Douglas came with a map for Arty.

Friday 25 June 1869
May and I went calling on various people - I believe.

Saturday 26 June 1869
Fred came home with a First Prize for an exeat, 2 Mrs.Lee Steeres, Archdeacon and Mrs.Dealtry Douglas and Mr. and Mrs.Labouchere called.

Saturday 26 June 1869
Broad Arrow

Stations of the Royal Navy in Commission. With the dates of Commissions of the Officers in Command

Forte, 24, sc, Captain Sir Leopold Heath, 1854, East Indies

Saturday 26 June 1869
Staffordshire Sentinel

A Large Mushroom. - On Wednesday Mr J. Gater, of the Mill Stone Inn, gathered eight very large mushrooms on the estate of the Misses Marsh Caldwell, of Linley Hall, one being of the extraordinary circumference of 35½ inches.

Staffordshire Sentinel

Saturday 26 June 1869

A Bazaar will be held at Talke on the 6th and 7th of July next, under the patronage of:- The Countess of Egremont, Mrs Marsh-Caldwell, Mrs Kinnersley, Mrs Renaud, Miss Lawton, - - J.E. Heathcote Esq., Rev C.P. Wilbraham, - - Rev. M.W. McHutchin, - - Proceeds towards the New Organ Fund and Fund for Enlarging the Churchyard.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 27 June 1869
All to church - and to Anstie, met the Leslies.

Monday 28 June 1869
I believe most of the people called this day instead of Saturday. In the morning Arty and I drove about looking for houses for Crofton and to Kitlands.

Tuesday 29 June 1869
Arty and I went to London - saw Royal Academy, returned with George.

Wednesday 30 June 1869
Arty to Kitlands to Uncle Douglas. To Anstie which is let for 17 weeks to a Mr.Lyhtly.

Thursday 1 July 1869
Arty went to London, via Lombard Street and gun-smith en route to Linley Wood for a short visit. Mdlle, May and Ada a walk. I to Kitlands - little boys to hay-field - very queer cold weather.

Friday 2 July 1869
Cold still - lessons - Douglas came - and also Mr.(St.Anlize?) to look at repairs at Anstie. George Whatman called with my little breech-loader.

Saturday 3 July 1869
I don't know.

Saturday 3 July 1869
Royal Navy

Forte, 24, screw steam frigate, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath, was at Aden on the 9th ult.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 4 July 1869
All to church but myself.

Monday 5 July 1869 and Tuesday - quiet. People called.

Newspaper article
5 July *=(1866 - 1867?) Monday 5 July 1869 - quite a few articles on this case. Case thrown out.

Court of Queen's Bench, Westminster, July 5. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury)

Jacomb v. Watkins and another.

The trial of this case continued, and appeared likely to occupy tomorrow. It is an action by a solicitor at Huddersfield against Sir E. Watkin and another gentleman named Julius Thompson, lately directors of a "Humber Iron Shipbuilding Company," for alleged false representations in prospectus, balance-sheets, and reports.

The Solicitor-General, Mr Prentice, and Mr. J.C. Mathew were for the plaintiff; Sir J.Karslake, Sir George Honyman, Mr.Mellish, Mr.Hawkins, Mr. Watkin Williams, and Mr.Mellor were for the defendants. - continues - - -

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Wednesday 7 July 1869
Went to Kitlands - Arty returned late from Linley Wood.

Thursday 8 July 1869
We staid at home and went to Anstie. I dined with the Wickhams.

Friday 9 July 1869
I went to luncheon at the Parsonage to meet Sir Arthur and Lady Cotton. Very nice. Arty to ride with Anne Whatman - others to the woods.

Saturday 10 July 1869
I don't know.

Saturday 10 July 1869
Staffordshire Advertiser

Tunstall - Bazaar at Talke. - A bazaar has been held at Talke this week with the object of raising funds wherewith to pay for the new organ at the parish church.

The organ, a compact and useful instrument, costs about £175, towards which, before the opening of the bazaar, £25 had been obtained.

The ladies of the village and neighbourhood, headed by Mrs McHutchin, the wife of the vicar of Talke, charged themselves with the duty of making and collecting objects for the bazaar, and their success was all that could have been reasonably desired.

The bazaar was held in a capacious marquee, lent for the occasion by Mr J.E. Heathcote of Apedale Hall, who took this and other ways of showing interest in the enterprise. - - - Mrs Kinnersley contributed a beautiful collection of plants, and the ladies of Linley Wood were, as usual, very liberal in their patronage. - - -

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 11 July 1869
We all went to church as usual. Douglas called - after tea we wandered in the woods. Charming weather.

Monday 12 July 1869
To Mr.Craigie, dentist, with Arthur and then to see Bertie at Temple Grove. Very warm - after we came home Arty went out to shoot rabbits with George Whatman.

Monday 12 July 1869
Homeward Mail from India, China etc

The Nicobars
The following was the proclamation issued on the "annexation" of the Nicobar Islands by Captain Morrell, of the Spiteful, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government.

"I, Arthur Morrell, a commander in Her Brittanic Majesty's Naval Service, and now commanding Her Majesty's ship-of-war Spiteful, having received instructions thereto from Commodore Sir Leopold Heath C.B., commander Her Majesty's Naval Forces in the Indian Seas, acting on the requisition of the Earl of Mayo, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, do now, on this the 16th day of April, A.D. 1869, in the name and on behalf of the Indian Government of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, take possession of this Island Nangcowry, together with all others commonly known as the Nicobar Islands - that it to say, the Islands of Car Nicobar and Great Nicobar, with those lying between including Tillanchong - - - -

Monday 12 July 1869
Globe

The Star arrived at Aden on the 9th ult, where she found at anchor the Forte, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.; Nymph, Commander E.S.Meara; and Dryad, Commander P.H. Colomb, all of which had been successful in rescuing slaves, and conveying them to Aden.

There were more than a thousand slaves at Aden, all of whom were captured within a month. The boats of the Star on the 26th of May, while off Ras Haffoon, captured a dhow with 230 slaves on board.

The Nymphe caught two dhows about 100 miles south of Ras Haffoon, with above 400 slaves. The Forte took 89 slaves to Aden, which she found in one dhow. The Daphne captured two dhows with about 100 slaves; and the Dryad five dhows, with about 200 slaves.

The weather is described as fearfully hot, and several cases of sunstroke had occurred, two of which had proved to be fatal on board H.M.S. Forte. The commander had consequently stopped the men's leave. The Forte and Dryad had left Aden, in company, for Trincomalee, and the Nymphe for Zanzibar.

Colonel Dillon

Colonel Dillon,

From the photograph album of Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.

This may be the surgeon Dillon who joined H.M.S. Daphne, Captain Sulivan in July 1869 at Zanzibar

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Tuesday 13 July 1869
Arty and May on ponies and the rest in a fly went to Ewhurst - and had tea - returned late.

Wednesday 14 July 1869
Arty and I called on Lightly's at Anstie. Wickhams - Arbuthnots - very hot, all there days.

Thursday 15 July 1869
I and children staid at home. Mrs.Bright and Wickham called. Arty rode to see a friend at West Humble.

Friday 16 July 1869
Arty went to Uncle Douglas at Kitlands. Herbert and Gerard joined him there to be bathed by him in Kitlands bath.

Saturday 17 July 1869
Still very hot. I and May drove to Dorking very late in the evening.

Saturday 17 July 1869
Broad Arrow

Forte, 24, screw steam frigate, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath was at Aden on the 9th June, having conveyed 89 slaves to Aden which she had captured. She sailed on the 10th ultimo, in company with the Dryad, for Trincomalee

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 18 July 1869
All to church - and a walk in the evening.

Monday 19 July 1869
Mdlle Guignard left us. I, Arty and Ada went to Milland - leaving May to keep house with Herbert and Gerard. We returned on Thursday 22 finding young Beneke, a friend of Arty's waiting for us, he went in "The Boat" which came to pieces in the middle of the pond, and he had to swim to shore! The boys went up to Kitlands to bathe, and returned to tea. Mr.Beneke went home and Arty out with Bax shooting. I went to inspect the sheep - bought at Horsham fair on Monday 19th.

Friday 23 July 1869
Very hot - I think we staid at home.

Saturday 24 July 1869
After luncheon and our lessons and Arty's up at Kitlands, Arty driving me and May riding we went a long tour of calls. Cottons - Bovills - Powells - Barclays.

Sunday 25 July 1869
All to church - Douglas called.

Monday 26 July 1869
Lessons - Arty went to Brighton to see the Walls and Fred - and May, Ada and I drove shopping to Dorking.

Tuesday 27 July 1869
Quite cool - Bertie came home.

Wednesday 28 July 1869
May and I went to have tea with Mrs.Hawkins. Arty and Freddy came back.

Thursday 29 July 1869
Ada's birthday - Bert pulled out of the pond by Freddy. Mr.Jardine came to set Bertie's collar bone, broken at Temple Grove! Uncle James and James junior called.

Friday 30 July 1869
Forgot.

Saturday 31 July 1869
Arty and Gerard went to Mr.Craigie for teeth - horrid - came home.

Sunday 1 August 1869
Ill in bed all day. Fred, May and Ada and 2 little boys, to Coldharbour Church. Annie called.

Monday 2 August 1869
Lessons. Arty and I and Fred to Kitlands.

Tuesday 3 August 1869
Were to have had a children's party - but it rained all day. Mary Hutton came to stay.

Wednesday 4 August 1869
Three eldest boys, May and I to Kitlands for a garden party.

Wednesday 4 August 1869
Times of India

Commodore Heath to Consul Churchill - Octavia, Zanzibar, August 25, 1868

Sir, - I have taken the earliest possible opportunity since the conclusion of the Abyssinian war to visit Zanzibar, because I think the time has come for taking more energetic measures than those which have as yet been adopted for putting down the Arabian slave-trade.

2. Our treaties with Muscat (binding on Zanzibar since the separation of the two countries) date from 1843, since which time, although England has kept up a large naval force with a view of suppressing this traffic, there has been no dimunition, but rather an increase, of the number of slaves exported from the dominions of His Highness the Sultan

The export trade is carried on under cover of the local trade, which was legalised by the Treaty of 1843, and the experience of twenty-five years shows that there will be no chance of putting it down unless a very broad line of distinction is drawn between it and the local traffic.

It is with this view that I beg you will propose to His Highness the Sultan -

1st. That he should make the slave-trade a Government monopoly, and indemnify himself by its profits for the loss of the existing Custom-house duties, or else make it a private monopoly under strict inspection, indemnifying himself by a largely increased import duty.

2ndly. That the vessels employed should either be vessels of European build, or if dhows, that they should be painted a distinctive colour (say all red), and that the sails should be marked with a distinct mark (say a large black cross extending right across the sail).

3rdly. That the traffic should be confined to one part (say Daros Salam) on the coast of Africa, and one port (say Zanzibar) on the island of Zanzibar.

4thly. That all intermediate traffic by sea between ports of the mainland be forbidden, as also all direct importations from the mainland to Pemba, or other island dependencies which should be supplied solely by the Government vessels from Zanzibar.

5thly. That traffic so regulated shall be legal only, as at present, between May 1 and January 1.

It would be as well that His Highness should be made aware that I submit these proposals for his consideration solely in accordance with my general instructions to do my best to put down the East African foreign slave-trade, and that I have no special mission on the subject. - I have &c., L.G. Heath

The paper above quoted thus sums up the negotiations:- The Sultan agreed to adopt the "distinguishing mark by which dhows carrying slaves might be known;" promised that the dhows should in future be less crowded; sanctioned the seizure by the cruisers of such as should not bear the "distinguishing marks;" but declined to make a profit out of the slave-trade as suggested, and stated that to restrict it to certain limits would prove ruinous to the country.

Thus the sanctions the British Government has given to limited slave-trading is bearing its fruits in the refusal of the Sultan of Zanzibar to restrict it further. Under these circumstances addressed to him by the Paris-Anti-Slavery Conference must appear singularly inconsistent, as must the efforts of the Government to abolish slave-trading.

To persist against slavery and the slave-trade on the one hand, and to give both, on the other, a partial sanction, places the Government in a false position, to release it from which no time should be lost.

It is unquestionably of great importance that immediate and further steps should be adopted to stop the supply for slaves in Zanzibar, for it is evident the demand there (for Arabia) is the cause of the awful state of things described by Dr.Livingstone.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Thursday 5 August 1869
Miss Hughes and children came to tea and Miss Moore's called - also the Nicholls, cards in the evening.

Friday 6 August 1869
Arty and Fred to the Benecke's. All the rest of us to the school feast at Holmwood Parsonage - Mrs.Heathcote called.

Saturday 7 August 1869
Arty played at croquet with M.Hutton. The rest of us did lessons. Arty drove me to (Oxley?) Fred riding. Met Aunt E. in the lane.

Sunday 8 August 1869
Rainy weather. Did not go to church.

Monday 9 August 1869
Duke Crofton, Nellie and Bertram Buxton came for a few hours. Arty and Fred went to a cricket match at Lyne.

Tuesday 10 August 1869
Julia Heath came to stay and then went with May and I, Fred and Arty on ponies - to Friday Street Pond to a Kitlands picnic.

Wednesday 11 August 1869
Duke came again to stay and go to a ball at Dorking where we all went that evening. Arty went all day fishing, with Mr.Lightly.

Thursday 12 August 1869
We were all very sleepy, and staid playing croquet. Arty and Duke went out shooting and saw nothing.

Friday 13 August 1869
After a riotous game of indoor croquet, Arty and Duke took their departure, Arty back to Marlborough, Duke to Oxford. Julia and I went in the rain to a garden party at Leith Hill Place.

Saturday 14 August 1869
We called at Anstie and walked about the farm. Mrs.Fuller called.

Sunday 15 August 1869
All to church but Bert and Gerard. Great printing of texts afterwards.

Monday 16 August 1869
Lessons - and Julia and I went to a garden party at "Fredly, Mrs.Drummond's." a very pretty party.

Tuesday 17 August 1869
Lessons - Children busy making fern huts in the Glade - Julia and I walked up to Kitlands where I left her. Julia Harrison suddenly appeared, having had an accident - she and her husband staid the night. James jun. appearing every now and then.

Wednesday 18 August 1869
We all went to Anstibury to a party of Emma Whatman's - Miss Henning came.

Thursday 19 August 1869
Busy arranging everything. Went to Broome Hall and to Leith Hill at night - fire balloons and red lights etc.

Friday 20 August 1869
Miss Henning and children to the Leslie's to a party. I to Kitlands for a gossip with Emma.

Saturday 21 August 1869
Lessons - and then Bert, Fred and May and I went to Dorking shopping.

Saturday 21 August 1869
Staffordshire Advertiser

On Wednesday last there were great festivities at Talke, on the occasion of the annual treat given to the children of the National School in that parish by Mrs. Marsh-Caldwell.

About one o’clock the children, with their teachers, met in the schoolroom, and walked in procession through the village, accompanied by the Talke drum and fife band. After halting at the vicarage, they wended their way on to Linley Wood, where, with many friends from the neighbourhood, they were most hospitably entertained by Mrs. Marsh-Caldwell.

The beautiful grounds of Linley Wood were thrown open, and several hundreds of the parishioners availed themselves of the opportunity of strolling in them at leisure. The rest of the day was spent in dancing and the enjoyment of various sports, and at its close three hearty cheers were given for the ladies of Linley Wood, Mr. and Mrs. M’Hutchin, Mr. Wilbraham, &c.

It was universally allowed that the day was one of extreme pleasure and enjoyment, and all on leaving felt thankful that they had such a kind friend among them the Mistress of Linley Wood.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 22 August 1869
We all went to Church - and employed ourselves variously afterwards.

Monday 23 August 1869
After lessons we all went and walked about the farm.

Tuesday 24 August 1869
Lessons - Col.Leslie called, I think - and we walked somewhere or other. and got our bran tub ready for next day.

Wednesday 25 August 1869
Lesson and in the afternoon had various children. Cazalets, Penningtons, Whatmans to play - very merry indeed.

Thursday 26 August 1869
Afternoon - I went with Douglas and Annie to the Cubitt's - William met us there - very pretty and awfully hot.

Friday 27 August 1869
Miss Henning took May and Ada to Arbuthnot's school feast - 4 boys went to bathe at Kitlands.

Saturday 28 August 1869
Bertie and Fred went with Pavings to Linley Wood - we remained quietly at home.

Sunday 29 August 1869
All to church but Miss Henning.

Monday 30 August 1869
Lessons and walking.

Tuesday 31 August 1869
Lessons and out walking

Wednesday 1 September 1869
Walking and lessons - and I dined at Kitlands to meet some Canadians.

Lady Mary Heath's Letter Book

September 1869 - Moorhurst (wrong year?)

On Tuesday 1st, Emma and I took dear Fred to Brighton College, to M.Wall, the French Master- poor Fred was very gloomy and shy, but when he had seen what a dear, cheery little thing Madame Wall was, what a nice looking man her husband, and had rushed into a game of cricket, with a companion 13 years old, Keene, the son of a Queen's Counsel, with whom he fell in love directly, he came out like the sun from behind a black cloud,and was radiant and charming, and I went back much comforted.

Fred writes me word for word this morning, that "he is very happy" and so I trust his little skiff has set off with a good wind in its little sails, on the ocean of life!

The College looks well arranged, but Fred will not go there, till after Christmas.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Thursday 2 September 1869
Lessons - Afternoon I went to a croquet at the Wickhams.

Friday 3 September 1869
Bertie and Freddie came home from Linley Wood. A series of Lessons and parties - till fine weather, rain and thunder till Tuesday 14th when M.Héron Wall came from Brighton to speak to me about taking Bertie.

Wednesday 15 September 1869
Fred, Bert, May and self went to take luncheon at the Arbuthnots. Called at Kitlands afterwards. Miss Henning, Ada and Herbert and Gerard went to the Cazalets.

Thursday 16 September 1869
Fred, Gerard and I walked to call on Mrs.Cazalet. Miss Henning walked out with Ada and May. Bertie to Dorking by train - others black-berrying. I dined at Kitlands.

Friday 14 September 1869
Rain, I think.

Saturday 18 September 1869
Pouring day, nevertheless - about 8 children came and had merry games about the house.

Saturday 18 September 1869
Staffordshire Advertiser

Strayed, from the Linley Wood Ley, a twelve month-old Heifer. Any information will be thankfully received by Mr Beeston, Linley Wood Farm, Lawton, Cheshire. All expenses will be paid.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 19 September 1869
All to church - nothing else.

Monday 20 September 1869
I took Fred and Bert to Brighton College. Bert for the first time. Very sad parting with the dear boys.

Tuesday 21 September 1869
Rested - and lessons - Gerard and Herbert to Dorking with John. Self to Kitlands, the other two girls a walk with the Cazalets and two governesses.

Wednesday 22 September 1869
May 13 today. I went scrambling over ledges and tried to sketch. The other children to a birthday at the Cazalets.

Thursday 23 September 1869
Self, May and Ada and Herbert went over to Fox Warren for a visit till Saturday - Gerard went to Kitlands.

Saturday 26 September 1869
We all came home.

Sunday 27 September 1869
Self and two little boys to morning church. Miss Henning and two girls to evening ditto.

Monday 27 September 1869
Miss (Médant?) came to do dresses. I stayed at home.

Tuesday 28 September 1869
All went out walking and I to Kitlands.

Wednesday 29 September 1869
Miss Henning and Ada out. Self and May calling on the Holmwood.

Thursday 30 September 1869
Maids went to Crystal Palace.

Friday 1 October 1869
I don't know. I dined at Wickhams.

Saturday 2 October 1869

I went down to Brighton to speak to M.Wall about Fred and exams.

Saturday 2 October 1869
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette

By a letter dated August 13th, from the Forte, 24, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., she was expected to leave the Seychelles Islands for Zanzibar on the 15th, but the writer expresses great fears for her safety, and between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. she has 3 ¼ inches of water in her well.

They expected that officers as well as men would have to work at the pumps on their passage. It is supposed to arise from a leakage in the stern of the ship, which is considered to be in a very bad condition, and it is thought desirable that she should be docked on the first opportunity.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 3 October 1869
I alone went to Church.

Monday 4 October 1869
We took a stroll over the woods.

Tuesday 5 October 1869
I went to luncheon with Emma amongst our haystacks with shooters, loads of game brought in - and distributed.

Wednesday 6 October 1869
I went to Dorking with the children, May riding. Blackie rolled with her, in a great fright.

Thursday 7 October 1869
Mary Hawkins and Miss Amy Hales called - and had tea.

Friday 8 October 1869
We went a walk, I believe.

Saturday 9 October 1869
We all went with Amy Hales who came for luncheon - with Mary Hawkins up to her place - and had cider and gingerbread.

Sunday 10 October 1869
Nobody to church - and nobody came - most lovely warm weather.

Monday 11 October 1869
Mrs.Milner and Miss Hobart called and had tea.

Monday 11 October 1869
Pall Mall Gazette

Sir Roderick Murchison, in a letter to the Times, says that the statements published last week respecting the arrival of Dr. Livingstone on the eastern shore of the Lake Tanganyika is only one of the many rumours regarding the great traveller which have from time to time been brought to Zanzibar.

Sir Roderick says he has received two letters from Commodore Heath, of the East African station, and from Dr. Kirk, the British political agent at Zanzibar, both dated the 3Ist of August, stating that " the white man" had been seen at Ujiji, on the Lake Tanganyika."

If the news rests upon a true foundation," Sir Roderick adds, " our suspense will soon be relieved, for the same letter informs me that a caravan from Ujiji was expected to reach Zanzibar in a month."

Tuesday 12 October 1869
Times of India

A Naval Service for the Persian Gulf
With the mails on board the Carnatic went down a despatch from the Secretary of State for India, leaving the Punjab Tenancy Act to operate under certain instructions from himself. - -

Far more important than the Punjab Tenancy Bill was the sanction of the powers that be at home for the employment of three men-of-war in the Persian Gulf, the vessels being entirely under the control of the Governor General.

It is very unfortunate that such a despatch should have been lost at the present time, when we are sure Colonel Pelly is in a fever of excitement for which there is no medicine but the ways and means of "punching somebody's head." - - -where are those three men-of-war over whose movements Lord Mayo is to have unquestioned control? They are not at present in Indian waters, and it will take some time to send them from Portsmouth.

So far as fighting qualifications go, the Nymph, the Dryad, and the Daphne are all that is required; but we doubt whether their builder contemplated the probability of their being sent to beleaguer Muscat or Bahrein.

So far as we know these vessels are not suited for service in the Persian Gulf, except in this one respect, that they carry big guns. Besides, Sir Leopold Heath might not exactly like to give up half his fleet to Lord Mayo or anybody else. - - - -

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Tuesday 12 October 1869
A walk to Anstie Woods. Mrs.Leslie came and chatted.

Wednesday 13 October 1869

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Monday 18 October 1869
Homeward Mail from China, India and East

It is stated that Sir Leopold Heath had decided that it will not be advisable for the Galatea to pay a visit to Colombo, the anchorage not being suitable for a vessel of her size.

Monday 18 October 1869
Times of India

- - - And what can Colonel Pelly do amid the general blaze? He has neither men nor ships, and had even better not be there at all, if he is to be kept without the means of enforcing respect for the Power whose representative he is.

As for Sir Leopold Heath, he says he has no ship to spare for the Gulf at present, and has sailed away to the Suez Canal tumasha.

Tuesday 19 October 1869
Times of India

- - - The British policy is simply to preserve peace on the sea - which must now and then mean controlling the ports also - but Commodore Sir Leopold Heath says he cannot spare a ship from his squadron on this station, and or his own part thinks he cannot do better than to go to take his place amongst other magnates at the grand Egyptian spectacle of next month.

Not doubt Sir Leopold is right from the Admiralty point of view; but if there were only a small and efficient Indian Navy, British policy in the Gulf, while no more aggressive than now, would be more intelligible and abundantly more respected.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Tuesday 19 October 1869
All of us but Gerard (who joined us as well later) went to Linley Wood and stayed there till Monday 1 November.

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Tuesday 26 October 1869

Burslem - Opening of a Free Library.

The Free Library in the new Wedgwood Memorial Building was opened yesterday with a short ceremony, in which Mr J.E. Davis, the stipendiary magistrate, took the principal part. The inaugural ceremony was gone through in the free reading room, which is connected with the library, and which has been neatly fitted up for the purpose with a newsstand and several solid tables and forms.

The reading room is adorned with portraits of the Wedgwood and other notabilities. The Chief Bailliff (Mr Watkin) briefly addressed the meeting, stating that a thousand volumes had been already presented to the library, and he expressed the hope that the number would soon be largely increased. - - -

In the course of his address Mr Davis mentioned the receipt of promises of works from Mrs Marsh-Caldwell; and Mr Raskin. - - - continues

Lady Mary Heath's Letter Book

31 October 1868 (?)

Dearest Mama,
We are going on very comfortably - in spite of Gerard continually singing at the top of his voice "It is a jigful thing to die" something the little Puck has picked up, he is the (veriest?) little Puck that ever was! Mrs.Onslow was calling here on Tuesday, and she was so delighted with him, praising his eyes! his hair! and his knickerbockers. The little fellow looked up at her very queerly.

In the evening I played numberless jigs - waltzes and polkas and the children had a fine dance aided by the maids. And went to Mrs.Wedgwood to offer my long deferred compliments upon the engagement for the lovely Margaret - she managed to draw out little Ada and Gerard, and it was very pretty to see them talking away so fast, dear little Gerard, with his hat in his hand, chattering away about his cats and his kittens. Mrs.Wedgwood was very fascinated. I wish you could see him.

Poor Bert is very lonely without Freddie. I wish he was at school too. This place seems to suit them all. Ada looks pale and always will I think, but Gerard never looked so well in his life.

Herbert grows monstrously! Marion too is very well, and a nice little helper with the children. Gerard takes to his little studies kindly, but Herbert is the one that gets on. He is so steady and never forgets, but goes forward every day. His is a fine little master. I wonder what he will be.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Tuesday 2 November 1869
George, James - Messrs Watson, Barclay and Johnson came after shooting to luncheon. We went a walk to poor Anstie.

Wednesday 3 November 1869
We went up to Anstie and walked about.

Thursday 4 November 1869
Up to Anstie - Douglas called. Piano arrived - would not come into the house.

Friday 5 November 1869
Walked up to Anstie, no doubt.

Saturday 6 November 1869
To Anstie and Kitlands. Girls to Dorking with Miss Henning.

Sunday 7 November 1869
To church - Douglas called - weather mild and open.

Monday 8 November 1869
And all the week lessons, walks etc.
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Friday 12 November 1869
Dined at the Wickhams with George W and Douglas - Mrs.Broadwood called.

Saturday 13 November 1869
Fred and Bertie came for an exeat.

Saturday 13 November 1869
Homeward Mail from India, China and the East

Disturbances in the Persian Gulf

The Clyde Fired Upon.
Affairs in the Persian Gulf seem at last to have reached a crisis. Not only is tribe at war with tribe, and faction with faction, British subjects plundered and thriving towns temporarily ruined before the British Resident's face or behind his back, but the gunboat Clyde, of the Bombay Marine, has actually been fired upon - with the Resident on board, for ought we know to the contrary.

This is precisely what things have been coming to for years - in fact, ever since the disbandment of the Indian Navy.

The circumstances under which the Clyde was fired upon are not yet known, but there is no doubt as to the fact; she was fired on by a port near Muscat, and the firing was kept up merrily for half an hour. - - - and now, unless we are to abandon the Persian Gulf, leaving it to become the theatre of incessant wars and massacres, such a special service must be had.

Sir Leopold Heath, on being appealed to, had his orders from "My Lords" and had no ship to spare at this season. But Sir Seymour Fitzgerald and the Viceroy have been in consultation together, and probably with the Home authorities, and H.M.S. Daphne, at present in Bombay harbour, is now getting ready with all speed to proceed to the Gulf. - - - -

Saturday 13 November 1869
Homeward Mail of India, China and the East

Bombay
H.M.S. Forte - It is stated in the Bombay journals that H.M.S. Forte, the flag ship of Sir Leopold Heath, while cruising near Cape Guardafui, ran aground and did considerable damage to her keel.

It is supposed that the Forte had been cruising in the many bays about the Cape in search of slave dhows, which find a refuge on that irregular shore. The neighbourhood is well known, and there is a good depth of water, but great care has to be taken in consequence of the strong set of the currents. The Forte will probably soon arrive in Bombay for repairs.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 14 November 1869
To church - George Whatman came to dine.

Monday 15 November 1869
Fed and Bertie went back to Brighton. Mrs.Evelyn called.

Tuesday 16 November 1869
Ada and I made a series of calls on Mrs.Mortimer - Kerrich and Hawkins.

Tuesday 16 November 1869
Pall Mall Gazette

It has for a long time past been seen, both in India and at home, that in some sort the old Indian Navy must be reconstituted, or its place taken by some force more specially adapted to special service than the China and East India Squadron.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have hit upon a middle course, and intend to detail three gun vessels for exclusive service in the Gulf of Persia and its neighbourhood, under the immediate control of the Government of India. - -

The heat and monotony inseparable from service in the Indian seas will be aggravated in the narrow gulf to which these necessarily small gun vessels of light draught, will be confined, and but slightly tempered by the occasional capture of an Arab slave dhow. - - -

For the present there is nothing under Sir Leopold Heath's command fit for the purpose, unless he can spare the Bullfinch, now on her way out to join him.

Tuesday 16 November 1869
Sun (London)

We learn from Bombay that while H.M.S. Forte was cruising about near Cape Guardefui in quest of slave dhows, she went aground, and sustained considerable damage, a great part of her keel being torn away.

The shore in that part is very irregular, and though the water is deep, care is necessary on account of the strong currents. The slavers find a convenient refuge in the bays of the coast, and it is supposed that Sir Leopold Heath was examining them more closely than was prudent when the disaster took place. The ship will go to Bombay for repairs.

North British Agriculturist
17 November 1869

H.M.S. Forte, the flagship of Sir Leopold Heath, while cruising near Cape Guardafui, ran aground and did considerable damage to her keel. It is supposed that the Forte had been cruising in the many bays about the Cape in search of slave dhows, which find a refuge on the irregular shore.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Wednesday 17 November 1869
Self and children with Black Beauty took a tour through Anstie - Kitlands, and so home. Mrs.Pennington called.

Thursay 18 November 1869
Leo's birthday, James Harrison and Douglas called. Miss Henning took all the children to Bearhurst (Cazalets.)

Friday 19 November 1869
Staid at home.

Saturday 20 November 1869
Wen to London with Douglas and heard "Nilsson" in Messiah. Returned late. The children to Bearhurst.

Sunday 21 November 1869
Staid at home all day.

Monday 22 November 1869
Ditto - horrid raw day.

Tuesday 23 November 1869
Ada and I went to luncheon with Mrs.Heathcote at Box Hill Farm. Cazalets came to have tea. Douglas called in the morning to hear Leo's letter from Egypt.

Wednesday 24 November 1869
I went and planted trees at Anstie, home very late.

Thursday 25 November 1869
George came to stay.

Thursday 25 November 1869
Sun

Court Martial

A general Court-martial on Lieut. George Frederick Henry Rule, of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, was resumed yesterday in the officer's mess-room in the Marine Barracks at Chatham. - - -

Lieut. Rule was charged with having fraudulently appropriated to his own use £75, intrusted to him by Private Francis Rowsell, who was serving under him on board the Octavia, 35, in July last, to be place in a Post Office Savings-bank till the ship was paid off. - -

A certificate from Lord Napier of Magdala was also put in evidence and read to the Court. It was in these words: - "Lieutenant George F.H.Rule, of the Royal Marines, was recommended to me by Commodore Sir Leopold Heath for employment on shore at Zula during the Abyssinian Expedition, at a time when the services of officers were much required, and none were available with suitable qualifications from the land services.

I have no official records at hand, but I am able to state that the general report which reached me of Lieutenant Rule's services and conduct during several months of very arduous and trying duty and exposure to climate was so favourable that on his return to Bombay in the Octavia I recommended him to the Government of India for admission to the Staff Corps. - - -

A number of certificates were also read from officers who testified to the excellent conduct of Lieut. Rule. Among the officers were - Admiral C.F.Hillyar, Commodore Sir L.G.Heath, Admiral Campbell, and Captains E. Hall and J.H.J.Alexander R.N. - - - -

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Friday 26 November 1869
I took May and Ada to dancing class at Dorking.

Saturday 27 November 1869
Rain all day.

Sunday 28 November 1869
George and I went to church only - Douglas came for a chat.

Monday 29 November 1869
George and I and Gerard and Herbert drove to Garlans to lunch with the Harrisons. Mrs.Wickham called.

Tuesday 30 November 1869
Very cold and miserable, but fair, walked up to Anstie.

The Star

Tuesday 30 November 1869

Court Martial

The General Court Martial of Lieut. George Frederick Henry Rule, of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, was resumed on Wednesday in the officers' mess room in the Marine Barracks at Chatham.

- - - - -"Lieutenant George F.H. Rule, of the Royal Marines, was recommended to me by Commodore Sir Leopold Heath for employment on shore at Zula during the Abyssinian Expedition, at a time when the services of officers were much required, and none were available with suitable qualifications from the land services.

Tuesday 30 November 1869
Evening Mail.

Well then, in the front line before these damasked chairs there stood, beginning on the right, the Princess of Holland; the Khedive in his uniform of blue and gold lace - - the Empress, who looked as though her voyage on the Nile had taken her back to the early days of her young life, was in a lavender silk dress, cut low and trimmed with immense flounces of white, and a hat with a large black feather, - - and the Emperor of Austria in that incomparable uniform of white, snow-white tunic, cocked hat, with green plume, - - next to the Crown Prince of Prussia, looking a soldier every inch of all his great height. The Prince of Orange next, and then Prince William of Hesse.

On the platform behind the front row were Abdel Kader in his Arab costume, Mr Elliot, British Ambassador, Colonel Stanton, and members of the diplomatic body, Admiral and Lady Milne, Sir Leopold Heath, Captain Rich and officers of the fleet, and others. - - - -

Morning Post.
Tuesday December 1869

The Suez Canal (Cairo Nov.23)

The Egyptian saturnalia are over; the Suez Canal is opened; the fetes have terminated; emperors, empresses, and princes are hurrying off to their respective dominions, or bend on fresh "impression de voyage:" the invitees, in thousands, are fleeing the country as if it had the plague; and before the end of the week Cairo will have resumed its normal indolent aspect, Alexandria will enjoy its accustomed repose on the shores of the Mediterranean, Ismailia will revert to its hitherto sterility and desolation, and Suez will be at peace.

Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869

All who have participated in the turmoil, confusion, and chequered fortunes of the last 10 days will hail a season of rest with pleasure.

The Viceroy's guests will depart with a deep sense of his highness's princely liberality, but with a feeling of thankfulness that such invitations are so rare; kings and kaisers will welcome the privacy of their own palaces; the Egyptian State officials will breathe freely once more when all the troublesome foreigners have disappeared, and possible bow strings no longer menace their necks; railway employees will slumber undisturbed by visions of countless special trains and desperate crowds of exacting barbarian; and last, though not least, the Khedive himself will be intensely gratified to find that, on the whole, everything has turned out so well, and that he is now at liberty to repose after a round of anxious dissipation which would have tried the temper of any man, but which to an Oriental prince must have been especially irksome.

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The immense supper tent, in which covers were laid for 400, was besieged at an early hour, and the most curious scenes took place in the course of the evening, when hunger or gluttony got the better of good manners. I am thankful to say that I can exonerate our own countrymen from all participation in the unseemly struggle for food which ensued at one period of the evening.

The menu is quite a curiosity in its way, and so I give it you in extenso. I did not remain long enough myself to ascertain if its brilliant and artistic promise was fullfilled.

"Grand Soupee Donne a Ismailia, au Ball de L'Inauguration du Canal de L'Isthme de Suez, le 18 Novembre 1869" - - continues. - --

I suppose not less than 4,000 persons must have partaken of this recherche banquet; and as not more than 200 ladies graced the ball with their presence, you may imagine the havoc made in the Khedive's larder and cellar.

Champagne, hock, burgundy, claret, and beer flowed like the Nile the whole evening, and, considering the mixed character of the company, it is surprising that so much decorum prevailed.

Among the English visitors, I noticed Earl Dudley, Lord Houghton, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord George Pratt, Lord Carrington, Sir Alexander Milne, Sir Leopold Heath, Mr Elliot, Colonel Stanton, - - &c, but anything like a list of the foreign visitors it was out of my power to obtain.

The ball may be said to have been the culminating point of Ismail Pasha's hospitality, and it is appalling to think of the bill which will be presented to him when it is all over.

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Among the numerous other vessels that have reached Suez in safety I may mention three English men-of-war - the Rapid, the Newport,and the Psyche, the latter conveying Mr Elliot, Sir Leopold Heath and Colonel Stanton. - - -

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Wednesday 1 December 1869
Mrs.Wedgwood and Sophie came to luncheon - Gerard and I took a round walk through Anstie Woods.

Thursday 2 December 1869
Douglas called to read Leo's letter. George and I took a long walk - over the Holmwood and called on the Sconces - Nicholls - Lady Macdonald - Lamberts, Mathesons.

Friday 3 December 1869
We all went to the dancing class. Mary Hawkins, James Harrison and Mrs.Gibson called - George and I dined at Leith Hill Place, picking up George and Douglas.

Saturday 4 December 1869
Snowing - children played in the garden - George and I stayed indoors. Miss Henning and Herbert took a walk.

Sunday 5 December 1869
George, May, Ada and I walked to Church - Douglas called.

Monday 6 December 1869
Remained at home. no - George and I walked around.

Monday 6 December 1869
Times of India

The Gathering.
About three o'clock this (Tuesday) afternoon, the sound of cannon and the hurrahs from the yards announced the approach of somebody.

There was not long to wait, when the Prince and Princess Henry of Holland came up, and mounting the steps, were conducted by M. Lesseps and the Viceroy's eldest son to the places in front assigned to them.

Next, amid murmurs of applause from the French, Italian and German masses, came an English group, among whom one noticed Colonel Stanton, Sir Leopold Heath, and Lord Houghton.

Soon after, the British Legation from Constantinople passed, whereupon, expressions of satisfaction might be heard on every side, that England, notwithstanding her reticence, had contrived to send so many great men to Port Said on the day of jubilee. Soon after the British Ambassador passed, came the Prince Imperial of Sweden; and then the noise of trumpets announced the arrival of others. The Emporer of Austria led up the Empress of the French - - -

Tuesday 7 December 1869
Evening Mail.

Suez Canal
- - - The roadstead of Suez was crowded with shipping, all dressed in their best, and as the yacht reached the causeway and railway bank which extends from the city to the docks of Port Ibrahim, and the works of the Canal Company and their offices built out on the sands in what was once sea, the effect of the long line of ports erected on the quay, was was moreover ornamented at the steps with a very handsome triumphal arch, was singularly interesting. - - -

There were two Peninsular and Oriental ships Candia and Goleonda; there was the Forte, with the pendant of Sir Leopold Heath; there was Her Majesty's ship Malabar, waiting for her cargo of the 15th Hussars for India. - - -

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Tuesday 7 December 1869
G. and I went to Dorking to see Mr.White about Anstie.

Wednesday 8 December 1869
George and I went with Mary Hawkins to see Redlands Coombe, and had tea with her.

Wednesday 8 December 1869
Sun (London)

During the recent journey of the Empress of the French to the East her Majesty paid a visit to the Indian relief screw troop transport Malabar at Suez, and was conducted over the ship by her commander, Captain Frederick D. Rich.

As an acknowledgment of Captain Rich's attention on the occasion the Empress has presented that officer with a handsome scarf pin, set with diamonds and black pearls. The jewel is at present in the possession of the Commodore of the station, Sir Leopold Heath, pending the arrival out of the permission of the Admiralty for Captain Rich to accept it.

Thursday 9 December 1869
Times of India

OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL.
SUEZ ROADS, Nov. 20.

In the forenoon of today the procession of ships began to appear near Suez, and just before noon the Aigle, with the Empress, emerged from the canal, which a royal salute from the men-of-war in the roads announced.

Next came the Emperor of Austria in his yacht; next the Crown Prince of Prussia in his; next Prince Henry of the Netherlands in his; and after him the British Ambassador in the Psyche.

Royal salutes were thundered every few minutes, and yards kept manned. The yachts steamed about the roads, and then anchored. The Aigle anchored at once after coining out of the canal ; she took up a position near the great English troop-ship Malabar, H.M.'s S.S. Forte not being far off.

The English men-of-war, Rapid and Newport, arrived soon after. In the course of the afternoon the Empress visited the Messageries Imperiales ship the Hooghly and next the transport Malabar, where she was received by the British Ambassador Mr. Elliott, Sir Alexander Milne, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath, also Captain Willoughby, Resident Transport Officer at Alexandria, and Captain Rich and his officers.

The Empress went over most of the ship, and minutely inspected it. She seemed delighted with the arrangements, and was most affable to all she met. Some of the hospital fittings she particularly dwelt on, they being explained to her by Captain Rich and Dr. Colan, the Surgeon.

On leaving she was presented with a large-framed photograph of the ship, which she received in a most gracious manner. On coming on board the Empress was received with manned yards, and a royal salute was fired from the Forte.

On her departure for the Aigle, the men on the yard gave her three hearty cheers, and one cheer more. She looked most prepossessing.

In the evening the men-of-war were illuminated, and Suez was gaily lit up. The Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia, &c., left by train for Cairo. The Empress will leave on the 22nd.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Thursday 9 December 1869
A walk was taken - very misty. Mrs.C.Cazalet had tea with G. and self.

Friday 10 December 1869
G. and I, May and Ada to dancing lessons.

Saturday 11 December 1869
Oxford University and City Herald

A naval officer who was at the opening of the Suez Canal write:- On the Empress’s arrival at Suez, after inspecting the French transport, she visited the Indian naval transport Malabar, Captain F. D. Rich, R.N., walking round all the decks and taking more than usual interest in the arrangements for the health and comfort of the troops and the ship's company.

Admiral Sir Alex. Milne. K.C.B., Lady Milne, Commodore Heath C.B., Captain Rich, and the captains of the men-of-war who had followed the Empress’s yacht throughout the canal, were honoured by dining with her on board the Aigle, when nothing could exceed her kind and gracious manner.

After dinner she presented each of the officers with her carte de visite, asking for theirs in return, and accepted two handsome Indian screens from Captain Rich.

As an acknowledgment of Captain Rich’s attention the Empress has presented that officer with handsome scarf pin, set with diamonds and black pearls. The jewel is at present in the possession of the Commodore of the station, Sir Leopold Heath, pending the arrival out of the permission the Admiralty for Captain Rich accept it.

Empress Eugenie of France - Carte de Visite given by her to Sir Leopold Heath on board her yacht, the Aigle, at the opening of the Suez Canal, 1869

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Sunday 12 December 1869
All to church - Douglas dined.

Monday 13 December 1869
Henry Loring went away to Brighton. G. and I walked somewhere

Monday 13 December 1869
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette

Malta, Dec. 6.—Her Majesty’s ships Rapid and Newport have arrived from Egypt. Both these vessels passed through the Canal, the former with Sir Frederick Arrow, of the Trinity House, Commodore Sir Leopold Heath, Captain Cochran, about 30 officers from the Iron-clads; and the latter with Colonel Stanton, Consul-General, Captain Hillyar, C. B., and about 20 other naval officers on board. The Rapid draws 14 feet and the Newport 12.

Diary of Lady Mary Heath - Moorhurst, Surrey, continues. . . .

Tuesday 14 December 1869
Emma and I dined at the Hawkins and small Cazalets came.

Wednesday 15 December 1869
Rain - we all staid at home.

Thursday 16 December 1869
George went away to London - Bertie came home from school.

Friday 17 December 1869
May, Ada, self, and Miss Henning and Bert on Black Beauty went to the dancing and Christmas shopping - dancing class to meet again 14th Dec.
Saturday 18 December 1869
Rain and storm - Cazalets came nevertheless and acted charades.

Sunday 19 December 1869
All to church - Geroge and Douglas came.

Monday 20 December 1869
Rained all day.

Tuesday 21 December 1869
Horrid weather - Arty came home - Douglas called - Miss H. and I busy with tree.

Wednesday 22 December 1869
Miss Henning and I very busy with the Tree - Arty went out shooting with his two cousins, George and James. All came to luncheon.

Thursday 23 December 1869
George called - James Harrison called - Fred came home.

Friday 24 December 1869
Finished up the Tree.

Friday 24 December 1869
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser

Leamington Gazette - Arrivals
Clarendon Hotel - - Mrs and Miss Marsh-Caldwell, Linley Wood, Cheshire.

Marion Heath (aged 13) - at Moorhurst, Surrey

Different handwriting - (Marion or Ada) In the evening the Baxes, the servants and us had the presents off the tree, it was very pretty.

Saturday 25 December 1869
Went to church; in the evening played at cards.

Sunday 26 December 1869
We went to church.

Monday 27 December 1869
Miss Henning went to London, we went down to Gough Pond wityh Mamma.

Tuesday 28 December 1869
Skated and slid.

Wednesday 29 December 1869
Skated all day. Mamma fell down on the ice.

Thursday 30 December 1869
Aunt Posy came on a visit (Rosmond Marsh-Caldwell)

Friday 31 December 1869
Stayed at home, Aunt Posy told us a story.

1870

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