1896] Phil Burne-J ones on Morris 241 



I wrote in this diary yesterday. His impersonality, his lack of per- 

 sonal affection for anyone except, perhaps, for his, Phil's, father. Then 

 I went on to Hammersmith. The coffin, a very plain box, lay in the 

 little room downstairs, with a beautiful old embroidered cloth over it 

 and a small wreath of leaves and sad-coloured flowers. It was the 

 room which was his bedroom, and where he died, with his best and 

 favourite books around him, The morning after the day I dined with 

 him, Tuesday, was a fine one and he was taken out for an airing in his 

 chair, and he enjoyed it thoroughly and said he felt well. On coming in 

 he insisted on going upstairs, but the exertion was too much ; he broke 

 a blood vessel and lay after that for the most part insensible till he died 

 on Saturday. 



" 8th Oct. — Rosebery has resigned his leadership of the Liberal 

 party. I wrote at once to Loulou Harcourt to congratulate his father. 



" i$th Oct. — I am leaving home this afternoon for Egypt, stopping 

 as usual for three nights at Gros Bois on my way. Jusserand and his 

 wife 'there, and Giovanni Borghese and young Norton, Mrs. Norton's 

 grandson, now at the Paris Embassy." 



