I had a pleasant
little dinner of nine people here yesterday-Enfields, Mrs. Sartoris, Lady
Adelaide Cadogan, Henry Loch, Robert Meade, Bertie Mitford, and Robert Bourke.
The latter was very amusing with his account of his late American tour, and
particularly of his interview with Seward, whom he describes as a dry,
irritable little personage, not to say blackguard. Bourke is much in favour of
the Confederates. He saw a large portion of their army—very fine men, well
drilled, but badly accoutred.
SOURCE: Alice
Countess of Stratford, Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville:
1857-1861, p. 415
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