Tuesday, December 8, 1914

Light Rain

Correspondence (1 of 1)

Letter #224Night
"

Gosse's dinner . . . was quite a success. . . . best of all Henry James . . . I hug my chains, if chains they are, and bless what you regard as my impotence.

Asquith recounts a dinner with Gosse and Henry James and reflects on his dependence on Venetia.

Mentioned:Edmund Gosse • Henry Newbolt • Lascelles Abercrombie • Lord Parmoor • Harold Cox • Sir W. McCormick • Henry James

Metric Analysis

Romantic Adoration8/10
Political Unburdening0/10
Emotional Desolation2/10

Thematic Tags

Dinner partyPersonal relationship
H.H. Asquith
Londonⓘ
HIS DAYDinner with Edmund Gosse.
Venetia Stanley
Londonⓘ
HER DAYHad talk with Asquith (this evening)

Official Register

1914-12-08

Top News

Daily Edition

Battle of the Falkland Islands: A British squadron under Admiral Sturdee destroys the German squadron of Admiral von Spee, sinking the *Scharnhorst*, *Gneisenau*, *Leipzig*, and *Nürnberg*,.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"Eric Drummond... said to me tonight that he thought the Admiralty made a mistake in not announcing that one of our best battleships had been blown up by a German mine off the coast of Ireland..."