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28 A History of the County of Durham. Also Durham County and
City, British Association for the Advancement of Science,
Durham, 1970, containing Sir Lowthian Bell’s evidence to
Royal Commission in the 1880s. And, Diaries of James
Losh, Surtees Society, Vol. clxxi, 1956.
28 Losh notes: ‘May 1798 entered into partnership with
Thomas Bell and Captain Thain in Alkali business.’
29 Mallets and dinner at Russclls, UBL Feb. 14th and 15 th,
1890, CEB.
Gertrude and smoking, BL.
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30 A Doll’s House, UBL to HB 1890, no date.
3i Henry James at Audley Square, BL, UBL dated March 8 th,
1890, and CEB p. 23.

4 Persian Pictures

All references to the Persian journey in this chapter are
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taken from published correspondence, BL} EBL, and CEB.
3<S Engagement to Cadogan, VC July 1892. Gertrude remarks
that the marriage was unlikely because of his ‘financial
prospects’.
37 Death of Henry Cadogan, August 1893, EBL p. 341.
37 Hafiz. She would have had access to several translations of
the poet’s works in the British Museum Library, which she
visited frequently during the years 1894-7 (see following
chapters), notably the Calcutta version of 1791 with an
account of the life of Hafiz by Abu Talib Khan Isfahani, and
an English version by H. Wilberforce Clarke published in
Calcutta in 1891. There was also a German edition by J. von
Hammer published in Stuttgart in 1812. A manuscript in
the Chetham Library, Manchester, contains a number of
poems from the Divan. There were many translations of
scattered stanzas from 1875 onward.
38 Quotation: ‘... compounded almost equally of head and
heart’, Storrs, Orientations. Arberry, CEB, Vol. 1, p. 26.

5 Family Matters

39 Billy Lascelles. GLB’s diary, April I2th-i3th, 1895. She
resumed her habit of keeping a diary of events at this point
after a lapse of some fifteen years. At any rate, the surviving
diaries end at Dec. 31st, 1878 and resume on April 12th,