July 11 Breakfast at 9. After breakfast went to chapel at the Foundlings Hospital. The service is Episcopal and is not very attractive to me but the music was delicious. The pipe organ was given to the Chapel by Handel, and such beautiful tones it has. After the service we saw the children dine. In the p.m. we went to church on Tottenham Court road, in Whitefields Cathedral. I think I have been to church a good deal for one day.

July 12 After breakfast we took a walk down to Charing Cross at Trafalgar Square. This is one of the finest squares in London. There are several monuments here in the centre of the group being that of Lord Nelson on a high granite column. We took our way along Northumberland Avenue to the Victoria Embankment. The Embankment is a lovely avenue for a mile and a half along the river from Westminster Bridge to Black Friars and cost $7,000,000 to construct. We followed the Embankment to Parliament then turned to the right as far as White Hall. Along here are many government bldgs and The Horse Guards. We visited the Royal Service Museum which contains the relics of war of the British Empire. It contains only one of America: that is the flag of the American ship Chesapeake, captured by the British ship Shannon outside Boston harbour. We spent the rest of the day in the National Art Gallery. This is on the north side of Trafalgar Square and admission is free. St. James Park just back of Horse Guards is quite worth a few hours time. At the west end is Buckingham Palace and Gardens. This is the town house of the King.

July 13 Today we made our way first along Kings way to the Strand and The Law Courts. We passed by the Gladstone Memorial and St. Clements Danes Church (1681). From here to the Embankment just below Waterloo Bridge. Again we followed The Embankment to Black Friars Bridge. Here we turned to the left up New Bridge St. to Ludgate Circus thence to our right up Ludgate Hill to St. Paul's. We were there during services which were Episcopal and not interesting but the music was very fine. Here we had a delightful 3 hours. I wish I were enough of a critic of architecture to be able to record here some worthy description of St. Paul's. I think my first impression of the vastness of it. The long dark vaulted isles filled me with awe and I was at first not inclined to move about. There is not room for me to record here any further impressions of it, but certainly one should not visit London and fail to see St. Paul's. We next found a tea room and had our lunch. London is full of tea rooms and they are very nice. A pot of tea (two cups and if you don't like it strong enough to hold up your spoon call for hot water and it will make four cups) and a large roll and butter for six pence. It is the lunch or noon day meal for hundreds of Londoners. We spent the afternoon at the British Museum which is perhaps the largest collection in the world. We made a continuous march for three hours and had only a superficial glance at each room. We then took a more leisurely look at the collection from Africa, China, Tibet and the South Sea Islands, and the mummies of Egypt. I was interested in the collection of Scabbards from Egypt.

July 14 This has been a see London day. We started the day on top of a bus and drove through the busiest streets of London. They say London cab drivers are the most skilful in the world. It must be true, for anyone who can drive through the traffic I've seen today without accident must be quite skilful We found away off in the eastern part of the city the Chapel built by John Wesley and his home. These we visited. His study can be seen and his household furniture. Just across the street is an old cemetery in which is buried John Bunyan and Oliver Cromwell. This is in a very out of the way part of the city. Here also is buried Daniel Defoe, Isaac Watts, John Wesley's mother, and brothers of Cromwell. It took us some time to drive from here to Hyde Park. This is the largest park in London, contains 360 acres and Kensington Palace and gardens adjoining it on the south contains 275 acres. Hyde Park is the gathering place for the political demonstrations of all parties. Here also are lovely drives and Rotten Row, the famous bridal path of the aristocracy of London. The gardens and park are very well kept indeed. We had a look at the Albert Memorial erected by Queen Victoria in memory of her husband costing $600,000. We left the park after lunch and went to White City at Shepherds Bush. This is merely an ordinary exhibition such as Seattle this year and the one due in Omaha, etc. It has its "pike" and fakers row etc. We enjoyed it nevertheless and only got home in time for supper.

July 15 Our last full day in London. We visited Madame Toussaud's wax works for two hours this morning. Said to be the most complete collection. I wish I had not seen it. Seems like I have been to an immense funeral. We spent the rest of the day at Regent's Park which is just by the exhibition. The park itself is lovely. Not so large as Hyde Park, contains only 475 acres. The broad walk extending from Regent Square to the zoo, about one mile, is a gorgeous walk about 50 feet wide, with magnificent trees on each side flanked by banks of bright colored flowers. The zoo is a large one and contains many interesting specimens. I think I have at last quite solved the mystery of the London underground railway, or tubes as they are called. It is indeed a most convenient system and enables one to get to any part of the city quickly, cheaply and comfortably. They are wonderfully cool and fresh, and the interchange or transfer system is so complete that with very little study one can find his way very easily.

July 16 Another wet day. If it rains so here I should never like it. We did not leave the hotel today except for a couple of hours just at noon when it stopped raining. It is a long day from 8a.m. until after midnight with nothing to do but watch it rain. Train left the station at 12.40a.m.