. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. aid she had answered fairly and squarely, and would she give somemore lectures, and whenever she spoke, they wouldcome and hear. The Croydon Socialists ! Isntit a triumph ? {To Miss Gent. Addington Park, Croydon. (1893.) Dearest child this isnt a letter. After postingup to London to be dentisted to-day, I am tooexhausted to write a letter to anybody though Iowe many— I seem to have passed into such a new phase ofexistence now since I came down here and haventseen many people. At least in one way itisnt new, but like what it was about 7 years m
. Life and letters of Maggie Benson. aid she had answered fairly and squarely, and would she give somemore lectures, and whenever she spoke, they wouldcome and hear. The Croydon Socialists ! Isntit a triumph ? {To Miss Gent. Addington Park, Croydon. (1893.) Dearest child this isnt a letter. After postingup to London to be dentisted to-day, I am tooexhausted to write a letter to anybody though Iowe many— I seem to have passed into such a new phase ofexistence now since I came down here and haventseen many people. At least in one way itisnt new, but like what it was about 7 years may sound silly but its rather like convalescing—Ithink I was very nasty during my last year at ,That sounds as if I thought I was very nice beforeand after—I suppose its latent now—or that I amnasty in a way which doesnt disturb me so wish I could think of something equivalent to bless you which didnt sound patronising. Her health now made it necessary that sheshould go farther afield, and it was thought that 150. Photo by J. Thomson.] Maggie. Aged 28. 1893. [To face page 1^0. ATHENS a winter in Egypt might get rid of the rheumatismwhich still affected her She travelled with mybrother Fred, who was endlessly kind in subordi-nating his plans to hers ; he writes— I went with her several times to Egypt, toAthens, to Florence, and stayed more than oncewith her at Aix. She was most active of all atAthens, sketching and going on expeditions, hearinglectures at the Archa:ologicaI School, helping mewith German, and herself taking lessons in modernGreek. At Athens we got up a farce, The Duchessof Bayswater, nominally to amuse English Gover-nesses and residents. Then the British Mediterraneanfleet came into Piraeus, and we said the sailorsmight come, if they would supply half the enter-tainment. This was done, and the first half consistedof hornpipes and songs. Then the Royal Familyannounced their intention of being present, and theaudience consisted of Kings and Qu
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