1908-01-18 Emma B. Andrews Diary Volume 15

Jan. 18. Saturday. We had the whole Devonshire party to tea this afternoon to see the find. The Duke, the Duchess, her daughter Lady Gosford, and Lord Gosford and their daughter Lady Theodora Guest - with Mr. Weigall. They looked at the gold things with great interest - at all the things in the boat, and begged for photographs of the boat and other things. The Duke, now a very old and broken man, is of course a great personage - and I was very interested in meeting him. He seemed more interested in the boat and its fittings, and was much amused with our chicken yard out on the sand. The Duchess, so celebrated in her way, was a wonderful old woman - painted and enamelled, with reddish wig, an old black hat, with painted lips - very keen to see everything. Lady Gosford very different, as nice as possible, and her husband and daughter were very pleasant. I heard the Duchess talking to Mr. Davis about how the Gorsts enjoyed their lunch yesterday in the Valley House, and I know from what she said that she intended Theo should invite them also to lunch there, and I don’t think he will be able to escape it.