Diary of Rev Edward Stevens

Visited Richard Haynes who is suffering from a quinsy. Visited Richard Austin and John Adkins’s children and John Reason.

The weather is charming. went to garden party at Rev J. R. Izat’s Wroxton Vicarage. Took Bell, Harry and Amy Ferguson.

Mr Elley away holiday making. I took Boys’ School morning and afternoon.

Fine.

The Misses Lamb, two Quaker ladies living at Burdrop, called this afternoon and gave me 5/- towards church expenses on the gound that some of their tenants, poor people, came to church. They expressed a wish that they were able to give more. They also brought a present of peaches for Rosa.

Received note from Mr Henry Walford of Banbury asking permission to shoot over allotments. I replied that he had my full permission so far as I could give any, but I feared he would not have much sport.

Bell and I called on Mr and Mrs Oddie.

Miss Dix and Miss S Dix went to London.

Glorious weather.

Mrs Maitland called today to say “goodbye”. She and her 3 boys, who have been lodging for a few weeks at Mrs Hiorns’s, leave for Ealing, their house, this afternoon.

I drove Frank and Mrs Elley to Banbury.

Frank went to Oxford to meet Miss Mawle who is to take him to Wheatley for a week. Mrs Elley saw him into the railway carriage and returned with me.

We had a lawn tennis party this afternoon which was very successful, chiefly owing to the glorious weather. There were present

Mr Oscar Shelswell
Mr Arthur Shelswell
Rev F. Garrard
Dr Routh
Rev E. Graham Jones
Rev W. Merrill White
Mr R. B. Oddie
Mr Harry Stevens
Self
Mrs Milburn junior
Miss Grace
Miss Godson
Miss Buller
Miss M. Dix
Miss Mary Thame
Miss Sophie Smith
Miss Maude Smith
Mrs Garrard
Mrs Routh
Mrs Oddie
Miss Amy Ferguson
Miss Rosa Stevens
Mrs Graham Jones
Mrs Stevens

Invited, but could not come:
Rev Mr Bradley and family
Rev Mr Coplestone and sisters
Rev Mr Mozley and Mrs Mozley
Mr Cox and sisters in law
Mr Henry Shelswell
Mrs John Shelswell
Miss and Miss S. Dix

Fine.

Rev Parkes Willy, Curate of Epwell, called this afternoon to tell me he was trying to exchange his Living in Northumberland for one in Warwickshire, the incumbent of which is Rev A. J. Humphries. He asked me whether he might refer to me. I replied that he might and that I would “say what I could for him”.