26th February, 1914

I made due allowance for Irish exaggeration...

Lilian Spender

Political observer, philanthropist and wife of Wilfred Spender

In the afternoon we 3 went to tea with the Dean of Belfast*, or rather his wife & daughter, as he couldn't be there. I think I told you Mrs Grierson is a pupil of Ted & adores him! She is going down to Dublin the moment he comes over for the Feis Ceoil to have some lessons. She made me sing...[and] declared I sang so extraordinarily, like Ted... Of course I made due allowance for Irish exaggeration, but I think she meant some of it.

* The Dean of Belfast is the senior official of St Anne's cathedral. Charles Thornton Primrose Grierson was the Dean in 1914.