LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892
Notes on preliminary pages:
Store ticket for 1892: 85083.
Barr, Fk, 8 Hans Road, Brompton S.W. Abbey, E.A, Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire. Coal Owners Assn. Dodd, Albert, 13 Jameson St. Notting Hill Gate, S.W. Bolton, E.K, Model. 78 Church Street, Chelsea, London. Chapman, W. Esq. Olympia (Press). Sir Edgar Collin Boehm Bart. 11 Pont St, S.W. F.A.Channing, 40 Eaton Place S.W. & Reform Club. H.Evans, Photographer. 9 Rochester Road, Carshalton. Sir Augustus Harris, The Elms, Avenue Rd, N.W. Graham Lillie, 2 Jermyn St, S.W. George Findlay Esq. Fred Dougall Esq. Genl Manager's & Secys office, The Highland Railway Compy, Inverness. Ada Fletcher, 24 Hardcastle St, Peckham S.E. Maude Easton 18 Auriol Road, West Kens. Montagne, 17 St John St, Bedford Row, W.C. MacGregor, Archibald, 126 Campden Houses, Peel St. K.Manning, 34 Jervis Rd, Lillie Rd. Linley, Arthur, 19 Hamilton Rd, Ealing. Jones, Captn Adrian, 147 Church St, Chelsea. Hodgson, Walker, 17 Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, N.W. George M Freeman Esq, 33 Phillimore Gds. Graham, 11 Lodge Road, Park Rd. R.P. N.W. Montague, 17 John St, Bedford Square, W.C. MacGregor, Archibald, 126 Campden Houses, Peel St. Manning, 34 Jarvis Rd, Lillie Rd. Mrs Millett, c/o Mrs Stephenson Arthur Linley, 19 Hamilton Rd, Ealing. Bernard Morris 203 Strand, W.C. Möller, 10 Upp.Hamilton Terr. Möller, 10 Upp Hamilton Terr. Jones, Capn Adrian, 147 Church St, Chelsea. Maclagan, R, Stationmaster, Perth. Lang, Andrew, 8 Gibson Place, St Andrews, N.B. Milton, John 20 Wellington Square. S.W. Louie Price, 2 Goodwin Rd, Lillie Rd. Orwin, Dr, 15 Weymouth St, Portland Pl. Etty Pettigrew, 28 Musgrave Road, W.
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J.Bernard Partridge, 11 Marlborough Rd, St John's Wood. Robert Maclagan Esq, Stationmaster, Perth, Station Superintendant's Office Ormiston & Glass, 17 Bride St, E.C. R.W.Nunn Esq, Leon & Co, Muscovy Court, Tower Hill, E.C. Dr Karl Schneider, 14 Cavendish Rd, Regents Pk, N.W. James F Sullivan Onslow, Darleston Rd, Wimbledon. Sutherland, Skibo Castle, Sutherlandshire Hugh Spottiswood, 6 Middle New Street, Fetter Lane E.C. Steven, 7 Clifton Villas, Camden Square. Reed, E.T. 112 Cromwell Road, S.W. Mrs Florence Walford, 98 Gloucester Rd, Regents Pk, N.W. C.N.(or W) Williamson Esq, B & W. West, 22 Wellington Square. Claude Watney, Walsingham House, Piccadilly. Underwood & Farrant, 56 Haymarket S.W.
Friday January 1 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. Back sharp to get on with drawing of Ejected Householder & Bumble. Worked all day & got it off by 7.0pm easily. No trouble. Dined quietly after. Crackers etc etc. Champagne. Chicks delighted. Bed early.
Saturday January 2 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0. Club etc. In morning put things away & printed photos. At 2.0 rode with Roy. Could not have roan mare. Still out. Rode on chestnut pony. Very fast. Went round by Broadstairs past Montefiores & North Foreland through Margate. Down steep hill. Stopped at farm. Back Ramsgate along diagonal path. Home tea time. Wrote letters after & quiet dinner. Bed early. (Red ink: Roy rode. Fast chestnut pony. Could not get grey.)
Sunday January 3 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Breakfast. Club. Printed photos in morning. Went for walk along Parade in cloak. Met M. Many walking. After lunch Roy & self took the 3.0pm train to Margate with Tony, 1/6. Walked from Margate past Westwood. Went in. Plucked camellia. No one in at Westwood. Tony washed off wall at Margate by wave & covered with foam. Walked back to Ramsgate. Cold. Heavy clouds in distance. Tea. Wrote letters & labels etc. Quiet dinner & bed early. Met Sorby in afternoon. Told Roy & self about the Commune. (Red ink: Frost set in this night.)
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Monday January 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. Very cold. Horses came round at 10.0am. Got on, roads hard. Roy & self rode to Mount Pleasant. Too hard a frost for hounds to meet. Saw Captain Irving & Butterfield driving. Back home. Round by Minster Road. Met Tom Mayhew. Back by lunch time. Played Roy 200 game of billiards after lunch. Back. Wrote letters etc. Skemed drawing for Lang's paper. Quiet dinner & bed after. (Later note in red ink: On the 4th Jany at the Blackfriars Station of the District Railway Frederick Richards Leyland of 49 Princes Gate, S.K, aged 60. Mr Leyland lived at the convent with a Miss Worcester one of 5 sisters who had a boarding house No 17 Paragon, Ramsgate. Leyland left her 3 boys 20,000 each & £700 per annum to Miss W.)
Tuesday January 5 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. In morning did drawing of Fairies & Lady for Andrew Lang's paper on Golf. Finished by 2.30pm. At 3.0 got ready & dressed, sending George a double journey on to train with bags. Did not have pass. Roy & self walked down. Left gold. Drew cheque at booking office. Up to town. Paid fare at Herne Hill. On to St Pauls. Just 1 hour late. Cab to Salisbury Square. Changed coat & on to Beefsteak Club. Disatisfied cabby. Had dinner. Saw Leslie Ward & had salami of pheasant for nothing. Very good. Left at 8.40 & on to Lyceum, Irving's 1st night of King Henry 8th. Good stall. Many people I knew. Good play & splendidly put on the stage. After went round to back of stage. Had supper. Took Mrs Boughton in. Saw Flossy Robb. Saw Beatty Kingston's daughter, impossible name. Talk to Irving. Champagne. Left & got to Salisbury Square at a quarter to two am. Civil servant. Left cigar & to bed. Woke up bilious. (Red ink across page: 1st night of Irving's Henry 8th.)
Wednesday January 6 Salisbury Square. Woke 8.30am. Had very bad sick headache. Down to breakfast at 9.15. Very dark. Storm came over about 10.0am. Looked at books & left at 11.15. Left drawing with servant at No 10 for Swain. After strolled to the Victoria Exhibition. Stayed till 1.45. On to St James's restaurant. Had chop. Looked in to Old Masters & after into Diploma & Gibson galleries. Down at 3.45. On to Turkish bath. Used last ticket. Shampooer No 4. Head still bad & bilious. Out at 6.0pm, on to Club. Letter from Harris. Went on by cab from Covent Garden to Salisbury Square after leaving letter
3 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 for Mrs Latham. Dressed at 7.0 & on to Bouverie St. Good dinner. Guthrie, Lucy, Milliken, Bradbury, Furniss, Lehmann, Arthur, self, Tenniel & F.C.B there. Gave 2 waiters 5/- also sergeant 10/-. Left at 10.30. On to Empire Theatre. Saw Hitchings. Had box. Met Frisby & friend. Back to Garrick in fur coat. Saw Furniss, Critchett, Sterry etc. On to the Baddeley cake-cutting at Covent Gar Theatre. Saw Heilbut, Aird, Barrington, Lord Coventry, Montague Guest, Maddick (pretty woman) & many others. Kept hold of coat all evening. Left at 1.15. Blessed by cabman. Aird dancing. (Red ink across page: Baddeley cake cut by Sir Augustus Harris at Covent Garden.)
Thursday January 7 Salisbury Square. Up 8.45. Down & good breakfast at 9.10. 3 cutlets, sausages & eggs. Off by 10.40 to St Pauls. Very cold raw morning. Got out at Ludgate Hill. In to cab again. Got coat smeared. Out at St Pauls. Refused to pass me & very nearly missed my train. Just got ticket in time. Down to Ramsgate. Arrived 1.0pm. M & Roy met me, George carrying bag. Sent him to young Hodgman. Brilliant sun. Lunch. Young Hodgman never turned up till 2.30pm. Took photo of him & packing cases. At 3.0 the horses round & went off for a ride round by Westwood & along Broadstairs & across Montefiore's fields home. Intensely cold. Roy cautious in riding. Home. Tea. Developed plates. Success. Wrote letters. Dinner. Quiet & bed after. Only just got over Wednesday morning after Tuesday night. (Red ink across page: Bitterly cold in afternoon. Crool.)
Friday January 8 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club morning. Back & printed plates developed yesterday of young Hodgman. Got to work 10.45. Drew Lord Randolph Churchill sitting on Returned Empty. Worked all day up to 7.0. Sent it off. Quiet dinner. Bed early after. Did not ride today on acct of work. Weather abominably cold all day. Snow in the air which came down in the night.
Saturday January 9 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cold snowy morning. Put things away & did photos in the morning. Lunch. At 2.0 horses round & Roy & self rode to Margate along sands & home again. Difficulty at sewer with mare. Very cold. Got back at 4.0pm sharp. Took 1.20 minutes going & 40 coming back. Tide coming in. Maud had a little party, Purcells, O'Connells, Burnands & Buckmasters. M up in
4 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 room with me. Developed last 6 photos from Scotland. After expected Frank & Rosie Burnand. Only Rosie came. Quiet dinner. Chicks in next room. Talk till 10.45. Rosie & self walked to 18 Royal Crescent. Mr Ready there playing cards with Frank. F.C.B on sofa. All cold. Left 11.15 & back. Whiskey. Woke up with slight head in morning. Was to have lunched with Butterfield, forgot it. Oh! Oh! (Red ink across page: Snow on ground. Good ride on sands with Roy to Margate & back.)
Sunday January 10 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0. Breakfast. Round Club. Back & printed many photos. At 12.30 walked in fur coat with Mite, M & Roy up Parade. Saw Bill Weigall, Purcells etc etc. Back. Changed. Hurried lunch. Snow storm at 1.50. Roy Tony & self walked along sands as far as Abernethy Gap. Carved name in chalk. Met yokels & Nana's madman. Back to Broadstairs by Up Street & past Marks' house. Gas in station. Caught the 4.25 home. Very cold. Tea. Wrote labels until dinner. M seedy with pain. Bottle Saumur. Roy noisy. Quiet evening & bed at 11.30 after sleep. Read B & W. Great war of 1892. (Red ink: Very cold & snow.)
Monday January 11 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0. Breakfast. M very seedy with pain. Dull, grey wretched morning. Round Club. Cold. Roy making slide on path. Wrote Bram Stoker & Harris. Back & put photos away etc etc. Packed up lens for Meagher etc. Wrote letters. Lunch. After Roy & self went to Club & played 100 up at Billiards & 1 game of pyramids. Met shady customer (Birdmore) I used to see at Arts Club. Back & wrote diary. M going out. Illness from influenza of Prince Eddie, Duke of Clarence & Avondale. Ordered cards etc Fox & Stones & also sent Dollmeyer lens etc on to Meagher. Squared up a lot of pages from Harper's magazine. Dinner 7.45. Haddock. M better of indigestion. Thaw in evening. Dispute with Roy about Odysseus. Read Black & White. Mick barked (illeg). Went down twice to him. Bed 12.0am exactly. Put room straight. Colder.
Tuesday January 12 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0. Very hard frost in night. No hunting. Roy excited. Catapult came. Went round to Club. Heard horses past. Home & sent them back. Up in room & at last got K.Manning photos right by having dish ready on fire & developing as printed. M up in room. Roy went off to Sicklemore's pond. Saw F.C.B out
5 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 of window & walked back with him. Instruction for Lang's cut. Back. M in Roy's room. Lunch. Roy & Maud off to skate. Did drawing of Bumble in hat as Ship. Sent Bradbury photo & F.C.B wrote Devereux. Mrs Vaile in to tea. Photod Roy M & Maud in chairs at 1.45 & developed plates. At 7.0pm sent drawing off. After M up in room. Wrote letters & did small drawing Bumble (see above). Dressed 7.30 pm & Charley Burnand & wife dined with us at 7.50. Good dinner. Mrs B talked incessantly. Left at 11.0. Very cold & frost. Thawed after. M went up & blew up Mademoiselle for telling Roy ghost stories. Bed 12.0. East wind.
Wednesday January 13 Prospect Terrace. Wind S.E. Thaw. Up 8.30. Clear morning. Round Club. Walked down to see F.C.B at station. Very cold wind. Met Mr Borradaile. Ready & F.C.B going up. Back. Talk in Club to man & B & S. After to Nondescript. Home. Wrote letters & ordered Roy's book from Macmillan. M up in room. Printed & developed photo of 3 in chairs. After lunch at 2.0 Roy & self rode as far as Sportsman. Turned back on acct of road being very slippery. Changed mind & went for sharp trot as far as Sarre. Bottle of ginger beer each. Roy nearly slipped down by road leading to Sicklemore's pond. Bitterly cold wind. Rode from Sarre in 40 minutes sharp. Grey cob sold. Wire from Augustus Harris. Wrote letters. Changed & got to work on Lang subject. Quiet dinner after. Wrote up to Milliken. Great anxiety about Prince Albert Victor. Grave news. (Red ink: Did not go up to Punch dinner.) (Red ink across page: Roy & self rode to Sarre & back very fast. Roads frosty.)
Thursday January 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am & round Club. Papers grave news of Prince Albert Victor. No letter from Frank. Back & got to work on Lang's block. At 11.30 wire from F.C.B to meet him at the Garrick tonight. Wired back. Got on with drawing. At 12.30 George came up with news of Prince George of Wales death. Great shock. M out after. Maud & R on ice. Skating. Lunch. Got on with drawing & sent it off at 7.15 train. At 5.30 letter from Mrs Hammond asking M & self to dinner. Decided to go. Bother in dressing. Ordered fly & dined at the Hammonds. Mr Johnstone, Mr Borradaile & aunt. Mrs Burnand & Rosie. Mr Curling & Mr & Mrs Daniels. Squire, wife, M & self. Very good dinner. Talk of Prince & Cardinal Manning. Left at 11.0. Johnstone walked home with us. Whiskey & bed. Roy & Maud went to bed early. (Red ink: Dined at Hammonds.) (Red ink
6 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 across page: Death of the Duke of Clarence & Avondale. Death of Cardinal Manning.)
Friday January 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Out & to Club. Wrote Burnand & to theatre. Back home & got to work on British Lion & Khedive after F.C.B's letter in the morning. At 12.0 photod George for little Khedive. Developed it & got print at 4.30. Hard put to it to get done. Caught 7.0 train. Wrote letters. Dinner 7.45. Chicks there. Bottle Saumur. Read Black & White after & bed at 12.0 exactly. (Red ink: News in Black & White that Val Princep had come into £12,000 a year.)
Saturday January 16 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.30. Breakfast 8.30. Roy & self caught 9.40 S.E train from Ramsgate to London. Saw Borradaile & Johnstone. Carriage to self. Bought Vanity Fair. Caricature of self in it. Up to Cannon St. Very cold. Cab to Salisbury Square. Changed boots & on to Rules. Got hat bands. Had 2½ doz oysters at Rules. Saw Conway. Bill 13/6. Very dear. Walked to Drury Lane. Had small box. Poor pantomime. Vulgar Princess. Little Tich. Humpty Dumpty. Mother & boys in front of us 'Oh what a difference in the morning'. 4 hours of dreary pantomime. Out & walked to Salisbury Sq. Good cup of tea. Warm fire. Dressed & at 6.30 went in cab to Holborn Restaurant. Saluted by Bobby. Roy & self dined together. 12/6 bill. Fair dinner. Out at 7.40 & cab on to Lyceum. Found had wrong card. Bram Stoker kindly changed it. Good stall. No one in whole theatre I knew except Frisby. Smoke. Out 11.4. Walked with Roy to Salisbury Square. Knocked up against angry man in Strand. Back 11.15. Girl & bulldog in Square. Whiskey & seltzer. Bed 12.0. Read Haroun al Raschid. Bread & butter. Roy good & slept well. (Red ink across page: Roy & self spent day in London. Pantomime & Henry 8th. Caricature of self in Vanity Fair.)
Sunday January 17 Salisbury Square. Woke 7.30. Up at 8.0. Roy in bed. Bath & down 8.40. Good breakfast. Roy eat 3 sausages. At 9.35 went out into Fleet St for cab. Empty. Sent ragged chap for cab. Gave him 6d. Cab to Cannon St. Thaw. Streets bad. Got papers & into carriage for Ramsgate. One other in carriage. Arrived 12.10. Fly home. Went for walk on Parade. Met M & Maud. Maud walking with Weigalls. In at 1.0. Changed. 1.30 lunch. Difficulty with puzzle picture of Pals. At 2.0 Roy & self walked up past Hereson &
7 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 through St Peters. Looked at tombs. Past shallows & under railway arch. Over across counry to Margate. Roy fagged. Past Cobb & Schimmelmann's school. Up to station, caught 4.15 train & back to Ramsgate. Guard asked us to get into 1st class carriage. Tony angry through window. Met Sorby. Home. M & Maud out to tea. Wrote diary. Pipe. Very cold. Quiet dinner & bed early. (Red ink: Bitterly cold east wind.)
Monday January 18 Prospect Terrace. Slight thaw.Up at 8.0am. Breakfast & Club. M cutting sandwiches etc. At 10.30 horses round & Roy & self rode to Birchington. Ground sloppy & slippy. Roy expected hounds. Glass of stout & (illeg) at Birchington & rode through Westgate & Margate home. Along through Roy's school & St Peters. Home 1.30. Lunch. After F.C.B wrote about Wolff. Got to work on him as Matador. M up in room. Roy's last dinner with me. Was not very good. Check off at 9.30. Bed 11.0pm. colder. Played Roy 100 up at billiards from 2.15 to 3.15. (Red ink: Roy's last dinner. Rode for 3 hrs to Birchington.)
Tuesday January 19 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. Horses round at 10.0am. Roy & self last ride. Roy took Tony. Poor little chap. Found roads hard & frost. Rode down towads Sportsman & up across line. Roy got down & whacked at railway cottage door. Woman singing. Roy scooted by haystacks etc. Near house saw young Hodgman & Cuthbert. Left Roy with them & home by 11.30. Got on with drawing of Wolff as Spanish Matador. Could not finish. M, Roy & Cuthbert had cart to St Peters. Dressed & ready by 3.30 to go to town. Sent George with bags. Cart at door & thought to save time sending coat & bag. Cuthbert drove away. Great fuss & very angry & upset. Cart caught me up near station. Caught train. Up to town. Blues. Salisbury Sq 6.45, train punctual. Changed & walked to Garrick. Letter from Hawes. Called Jermyn St for violets. Dined at Bancroft's, 18 Berkeley Sq. B, Lockwood, self, Drower, Matthews, young B, Edmund Routledge, Dr Yeo & Squiff. (Sir George Arthur). So so dinner. Talk of my portrait in V.F. Walked to Garrick. Beetle, Gosse etc etc. 3 liquers of whiskey & poached eggs. To Salisbury Square at 1.20am. (Red ink across page: Up to town. Dined with Bancroft.)
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Wednesday January 20 Salisbury Square. Up at 8.30. Breakfast 9.10. Woke up with bad sick headache which lasted all day. After breakfast finished drawing of Wolff & boy fetched it at 11.0am. At 11.20 took cab to Meaghers at British Museum. Back to Garrick Club. Wrote cheque for £71.4 & sent it to Windsor. Walked to Charing X & met M & Roy at 12.10. Roy in old hat. M having so many packages went in 4 wheel cab to 58 Albert Hall Mansions. Roy & self for walk. Called Downs for hat band. Man long time trying on hat & smashed old one. Walked to Rules. Had 2½ doz 2nd oysters. Roy down. Out through Covent Garden & up to Greens aviary. Out & met Wicks driving. Walked from Rules to Kensington. London in gloom. Omnibusses crape on whips & through Park. Serpentine frozen over. Roy on edge. By long water & Round Pond. Roy left me at long walk. Went on to see Parsons. Mr & Mrs Cooch had taken house. Saw A.P out at back by Abbey's studio. Parsons to be back by May 1893. Walked through Kensington to (continued on facing page) Albert Hall Mansions. Head bad. At 5.45 M, Roy & self went in fly to Waterloo. Saw Roy off. M put me down Charing X. Walked to P.D. Washed hands. Bernard Partridge's 1st dinner. Arthur & Milliken away ill. 2 cuts all right. Went to Salisbury Sq 11.0. Read paper, The Idler. Bed & sleep 12.0. (Red ink across page: Funeral of H.R.H Duke of Clarence & Avondale. Roy went back to Eton.)
Thursday January 21 Salisbury Square. Up at 7.15. Breakfast. Felt better. Off by cab & caught the 8.26 train & down to Ramsgate. Foggy & miserable in London. Beautiful bright morning in Ramsgate. George met me & home. Mite out. My mother writing. Got to work on Lang's paper. Duffer in Picture Galley. At 2.0 rode to Sandwich. Slight frost & roads hard. Stopped a minute by bridge & back. Saw poor boy in perambulator looking awfully cold. Back through farm & home 4.0pm. Work. Could not meet M, Maud & Mademoiselle went. M home in fly at 6.0. Maud brought up Jack in the Box toys. Sent drawing off by 7.15pm train. Dinner 8.0pm. M back. Quiet evening & bed at 11.0pm.
Friday January 22 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club & sharp back. Got to work 9.45 on page of German Emperor as Jack in the Box. Worked all day & got it done by the 7.15pm train. Dined quietly at home. No
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Champagne. Slept after dinner & got on to sofa & woke up at 1.0am. Bed. Maroon fired in the night.
Saturday January 23 Prospect Terrace. Woke 8.0. Up 8.15. Dull foggy morning. M in bed. Up & round to Club. Wrote letters. Back & printed sepia nudes. Dressed at 1.30 & at 2.0 rode mare round by Sicklemore's across by left of Haine, past Tinker's Hole & across to Margate by diagonal path near Garlinge. Tide coming in. Across country by North Down & Kingsgate & home by Broadstairs & Montefiores. Hurdle put across path. Home. Dull & Miss Stancombes with M. Tea. Up in room. Posted letters. Roy's hat came back from town. Annoyed. Tore out pictures from the 'Le Nue au Salon'. Felt slight rise of temperature. Hope it is not influenza coming on. Had bottle Ayala, M Maud & self. No Graphic or Black & White or Gentlewoman sent. After dinner finished Nu au Salon. Bed at 11.15. M knocked violently. Hounds had a bye day from kennels, did not know of it. (Red ink: 3 hours good ride on mare.)
Sunday January 24 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast nine. No Club. Dull morning. Printed many nudes & developed sepia & black in separate dishes. Put them out to dry. Mite at church with Mademoiselle. At 1.20 dressed. Lunch. At 2.0 rode mare through Hareson & across by Hebelers, St Peters & up to Tower House, across to Broadstairs & walked mare to Telegraph Hut. Counted over 600 tolls of church bell till it ceased from distance. Home 3.45. Saw Conny B & Squire & Borradaile on East Cliff. Up in room. Wrote F.C.B, Arthur, Milliken etc & put up cards labelled for Fox. Not quite the thing. Sorted salon prints etc & sent to Fox. Quiet dinner. Bottle Saumur. Bed 11.0pm.
Monday January 25 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Round Club, sent George to order mare at 10.0. Rode on to Sarre. Unaccountably stiff & tired. Got to Sarre 11.15. Hounds there. Collard etc. Small field very. 1st time hunting since (blank). Left hounds at St Nicholas about 1.0pm. Very tired. Jogged home past Cleve. Still more tired before I got home. Home at 2.45pm. Tea etc. Sorted salon prints for Fox etc & after dined quietly at 7.45. Sleep after dinner. Bed 11.0pm. Bottle Ayala. Sent Sir John Gilbert fan in the morning, also salon prints to Fox. (Red ink across page: Hunted with harriers 1st time since Dec. Met at Sarre.)
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Tuesday January 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club . Breakfast. In morning bright beautiful sun. Printed about 70 or 80 photos. Developed them separately & left 30 till tomorrow. At 2.0 rode mare through Vale past Banks's & along Ramsgate Road through farm to Westwood. Wind cold. Saw Mrs Bowley. Went across country & out through village & across field through Sicklemore's Farm & home by 4.30pm. Wrote letters & sorted papers etc. Dined at 7.45. Conny Burnand dined with us. Bottle of Saumur. Saw her home afterwards. Bed 11.0pm. Warmer.
Wednesday January 27 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club after breakfast. Back home & began drawing for Lucy's paper. Photod George as boy with X bow. Developed it by 1.30pm. Lunch. Worked till 3.0pm. Dressed & after caught 4.0 train to town. Read by candle. Train punctual. Called Salisbury Sq. Changed great coat. Raining. Punch D at 7.0. Bradbury, Lehmann, self, Tenniel, Arthur à B, Guthrie, Lucy, Reed & Bernard Partridge there. Burnand away ill. Careful what I took for dinner. Roared at saying Abbey had a white elephant hung round his neck, proposed to share studio with Reed. Left at 11.10 with Scribner magazine. Read 'The Wrecker' in bed. Slept 12.0, woke 2.0 & 6.0am. Church clock chiming woke me. (Red ink across page: Went up to Punch dinner.)
Thursday January 28 Salisbury Square. Up 7.15. Bath. Breakfast, & caught the 8.26 train walking there with bag. Train punctual. Back to Ramsgate at 11.7. George met me. M at home. Got on with drawing of boy shooting at cats with X bow. At 2.0 or 1.50 rode mare across through Sickleman's Farm & by Nash. Margate, along sands to Lifeboat house, Foreland, Broadstairs & past Montefiores & Mr Wills's home. Saw Miss Stancombes's at window. Finished boy & X bow. Barely caught train. Dressed in a hurry & went to dine at Mr Wills. Poor dinner, not enough wine. Selves, Mr & Mrs W, 2 Miss Stancombes, Mr Montefiore & Mr Curling. Left at 10.45 & home by fly. Cigar, whiskey & bed. (Red ink across page: Dined at Mrs Wills. Not enough wine.)
Friday January 29 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. Up in room & got on with drawing Bismark as Snowman. Doubts about riding. At last
11 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 decided not, sent George at 11.0 to countermand mare. Meet at Sportsman, Maud & Mademoiselle went. Lunch. Felt unwell & lazy after. Just got drawing done. Able to work by daylight till 4.40. After 7.15 wrote letters & dined. Poor gray mullet for dinner. After M went to sleep at once. Woke up 11.0. Bed after. Read Century magazine.
Saturday January 30 Prospect Terrace. Woke 7.30. Bright sun for minute, grey after. Up & down Club after breakfast. Drew envelope for Bassano. Back & printed 64 photos. Developed them & lunch at 1.55. At 2.10pm took Maud for her 1st ride. Nervous at first. Rode to Sportsman. Pony wanted to turn. Led him at end of road by grass hill. Got down & altered Maud's stirrup leather. Mare very obstreporous. Pulled back. On again past coast guard. Turned up by farm. Got off after crossing railway & Tom Mayhews'. Passed by young Hodgman & a lot of boys. Then 3.40 trotted home. Maud did well. Saw M & Mademoiselle on Parade. Maud had bath. Put photos out. Wrote letters. Dined quietly. Bottle Saumur. Read magazine after. Bed 11.30am.
Sunday January 31 Prospect Terrace. Woke 8.0 up 8.30. Breakfast 9.0. Club. Saw Daniels. Back. Printed 84 photos. At 12.45 went for walk on Parade with Maud. Met Borradaile, Frank & Conny B, Winnie & Baby etc. Up & down. Lunch. More prints. At 3.0 walked with M to Montefiores. Met old M outside. Gave us key of garden. M great on the worms & sticks etc. Saw Mrs Montefiore. Old W gave me 2 cigars. Left at 4.30, parted with old M at corner. Home 5.0. Girl with very fine figure & walk. Developed 84 photos & put them out to dry. Dinner 8.0pm. Waited. Frank & Connie Burnand dined with us. Good dinner. Larks. Sleepy after. F & C. B left at 10.15. Slept after till 11.45. Up & put photos up & went to bed 12.0 am exactly. Good night. (Red ink: Mr Spurgeon died at Mentone this morning, aged 58 only.) (Red ink across page: M & self walked up & called on Montefiores.)
Monday February 1 Prospect Terrace. Woke 7.0. Up7.45. Breakfast 8.30. At 9.15 rode in old brown boots to meet at Up Street. Traction engine on hill by convent. Great southerly wind blowing all way. Times as under. Caught hounds at Sarre. Collard asked for portrait. Miss Leech out. Ground heavy. Pottered about. Met managing director of
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Granville Hotel by name Uppshall, nephew of Vailes at Slough. Told me about Clark of Westwood. Left hounds after a bit of a run at Chislet at 1.0am. Rode with Uppshall to Sarre. Put horses up. Man charged for whole bottle of cherry brandy. Left 2.0am. Rode home. Rain came on at bridge. Stables at 3.25. Home. Had bath up in room. M read about Spurgeon. Nelly Keith came at 4.40. Down to tea at 5.0. Beautiful view. Left P.T 9.15, Mount Pleasant 10.5, Sarre 10.40, Up Street 11.0, began hunt 11.7, left hounds 1.0, left Sarre 2.0, Mount P 2.35, St Lawrence 3.15, stables 3.30. Dined 8.0. Dressed. Bottle of Ayala. Read after. Not sleepy. Bed at 12.30. (Red ink across page: Hunted with hounds. Meet at Up Street. Met Uppshall. Death of Mr Spurgeon. Nellie Keith came.)
Tuesday February 2 Prospect Terrace. M woke early. Girls very late in morning. Breakfast at 8.30am. Club. Read 2 Times & wrote 6 letters, Wood etc. Back & printed 48 photos of 2 Pettigrews. Getting to end of labour. M up in room before lunch. At 2.0 Maud's second ride. High wind, her hat troublesome. Round by Westwood. Called Tassell. Gave him 2/6. Round by St Peters & past Dumpton. Jumped hurdle. Round by Park House & up road to station, S.E.R, to St Lawrence & home by Royal Crescent by 4.0 exactly. Developed prints. Tea. After wrote letters. F.C.B to come down. Letter to M from Barker. Wrote letters before dinner & bathed photos. Quiet dinner & evening after.
Wednesday February 3 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cold raw morning. Strong wind. At Club. At 10.30 got on mare & rode to meet at Haines. Rain came on. Hicks girls there. Pottered about. Found hare near Perkins. After rain came on. Uppshall introduced me to Mrs Clark, taken Westwood for 7 years. Turned to go home. Hare also turned so went on to Tom Mayhew's. Had some whiskey. Rode home & got there at 2.30. Changed & at 5.5 went round to F.C.B's. Saw him. Talk & took letters. Walked to train calling at home for tea. Up to town. Train late. 2 men got in at Faversham, one like Sir Benjamin Baker. Called Salisbury Square. After on to P.D. Bismarck cut liked. Bradbury, D.M, Lehmann, self, Tenniel, Arthur à B, Guthrie, Lucy, Reed, B.P & Millken there. Good dinner. Left at 11.15. Home & bed 12.0. Got book. Gave Guthrie Lehmann & Millken prints of Punch Table. (Red ink across page: Hunted with harriers. Wet day. Met at Haines.)
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Thursday February 4 Salisbury Square. Up 7.15. Breakfast & caught 8.26. Talk to Inspector about pass. Down to Ramsgate. Lovely sunny morning. Dapper gent got in Herne Hill. I got out into smoking compartment. At Ramsgate called on Captn Jones & arranged for life boat man to come. On home & to F.C.B's. Saw him. Back & photod man in life boat costume & self. At 2.10 Maud rode Scooty. A little nervous. Very cold wind. Rode round by Haine & Westwood & home through St Lawrence. Back by 3.45. Developed photos & after began drawing of Chaplin & Pigs. M read to me. Dined 8.0pm. Quiet dinner & bed 11.15pm. Had liqueurs Père (blank) very good. Complimentary letter from Sir John Gilbert & fan sent back. (Red ink: Death of Sir Morel Mackenzie.) (Red ink across page: Maud caught cold riding.)
Friday February 5 Prospect Terrace. Up early & at work before breakfast on Chaplin & Pigs. Round Club for 5 minutes. After got to work & finished drawing 10.45. Sent it round to Burnand. Printed photos of life boat man & at 12.0 began drawing. Tinted it. After had hard work to finish it. Put in rain the wrong way most foolishly. Only just caught train. After dined quietly & slept after dinner feeling very tired. Woke 11.30pm & bed. Strange dream of S.R.I.
Saturday February 6 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0. Breakfast 9.0. After went to Club. Read about Leyland's will & Mrs Osborne's surrender. Smoked 2 pipes. Felt seedy & heavy. Printed 50 photos in morning. Lunch 1.45. At 2.5 rode up past Wills's (saw Miss Stancombes) Montefiores, Broadstairs, Stone House (boys paper chase) Kingsgate & Margate. Upshall beckoned me in. Cooper (son of R.A.) & wife there. Cherry brandy & liqueurs. Left at 4.10pm & rode through Margate by Nash across country. Home ½ an hour late. Tea 5.0pm. Mr & Mrs Whitehead had called. Wire from Justin MacCarthy to say he can't dine tomorrow. After tea began to put papers in order to take up Robinson Crusoe again. M read to me. Dined at 8.0pm. Sent cheques to Maple & Hyam. After dinner read Madame Blavatzki's Vision aloud. My mother not well. Bed 11.45. M awake.
Sunday February 7 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Down to breakfast at 9.0am. Letter from Bradbury about Robinson Crusoe. Went to Club. Daniels
14 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 there. Wrote 8 letters. Back. Met M & Nellie K going out. After bathed 62 photos & put them out to dry. Messing about. Tired very. Lunch at 2.0. Walked down & posted letters. Back & rested. Felt very tired. At 3.0 Mite & self walked up Parade & called on F.C.B. Saw him & Mrs B. Talk of Milliken etc. At 4.0 walked to call on the Weigalls. Met Lady R & Mr W coming out. Sell about Fowler, son of Sir John Fowler. Home & along Parade. Saw M & Nellie return. Met Evans. Evans came in. Long talk. Up in room after tea. Put photos up etc. Quiet evening & dinner. Bed early.
Monday February 8 Prospect Terrace. In morning after Club began seriously Robinson Crusoe. Did one drawing & brought it down to lunch. My mother tearful. After lunch rode usual round by Nash to Margate. Kept too much to the right. Saw Upshall in pony cart. Gawks at Margate guffawed. Rode along sands to Kingsgate Gap & home through Broadstairs & Montefiores. Worked at Robinson Crusoe after dinner. Did another drawing, Crusoe singing 'My name is Jack Robinson Crusoe'. Quiet dinner & bed early after. (Red ink across page: Began Robinson Crusoe again in earnest.)
Tuesday February 9 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dressed for hunting & left at 10.0 & rode through St Lawrence & along by road at side of Rly to meet at Cleve. Spoken to by Elder like looking farmer for wheat. Got to meet in time. Introduced to Major Copeland's Indian nephew. Had very good run. Killed one hare in Quex Park & ran another to ground in chalk pit. Hounds had another good run after that. Left at 12.50 with Mr Clarke who I was introduced to. Rode home. Saw the vicar of Ramsgate & wife at St Lawrence. Home. Bath & got on with Robinson Crusoe. Quiet dinner & evening. Bed early. (Red ink across page: Best day up to now with harriers. Capital run & another afterwards.)
Wednesday February 10 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Round Club. In morning worked on Robinson Crusoe. Finished at lunch drawing of Captain & Spanish girl. Lunch. Did not ride. After began drawing of Cricket for Duffer. Doubts about going up to town but finally decided not to go up. Quiet dinner at home. George waited & bed early afterwards. Barr estate ½ year's settlement paid in by Mr Barr. (Red ink across page: Did not go up to Punch dinner.)
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Thursday February 11 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am & after Club got to work & finished drawing of Cricket Duffer by 1.0. Bright sun. Saw Burnand's cob go by. Ordered mare to be at Burnands by 3.0. At 2.15 walked round & saw Frank. Arranged to do Morley cut as Shepherd. Left at 3.0 & got on mare. Rode round by Nash & Margate & along sands & past Kingsgate & home through St Peters & by Hebelers. Home 5.25. Got on with drawing of Morley. Skemed it & looked up sheep etc. Dined quietly & read after. Nellie Keith's last evening. Milliken came down in afternoon. Alice Spain taken ill & had to go to bed. Bank book sent, £500 in credit.
Friday February 12 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0 & breakfast. Nellie's box in hall. Club & back & worked all day on Morley & Chamberlain as shepherds. Lunch. Nellie Keith left at 4.0pm. Got done just by 7.0 & sent it off. Quiet dinner. Barkers came down with the Davidsons by the Granville. Walked up to the Granville Hotel after dinner at 9.30 & saw Fanny & of all people in the world Mrs Boughton. Looked into dining room & saw Mackenzie family at dinner. After went into Billiard room & played one game with Davidson, beaten by many points. Whiskey & potash. Arranged to hunt with Barker tomorrow & to be at Granville at 10.45. Read Black & White Great War of 1892. Brilliant sun the entire day. Ideal camera kindly sent by Adams & Co. (Red ink across page: Barkers & Davidsons & horse all arrive at Ramsgate.)
Saturday February 13 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dressed for hunting. Club & at 10.25 on mare & rode up to Granville. Fine morning but cold. Saw young East. Also the Morel Mackenzies. Mr & Mrs Davidson & Fanny drove. Rode with C.O.B on London cob (Beach's) to bye day meet at Collards. Got there at 11.45. Very cold. Went in & had curacao. Looked about for hare. Introduced Barker all round. Little bit of a run. Too many hares. Left at railway line after going over meadows. At 1.15 lunch & rode home by 3.15. Left Barker. Bath & at work on Robinson Crusoe. At 7.30 the Boughtons dined with us. Good dinner. Took Boughton round to Burnands' after. Won £1 at the race game. Robson Roose, Evans's, Milliken etc there. Back 10.30. Boughton left at 11.0. Boughton delighted with Maud's drawings. Tilda arrived at 6.30pm. Letter from Mr Barr. Paid acct of £326 to credit on the 10th inst.
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Sunday February 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dull grey wretched morning & cold. Round Club. Back in room & at work. Bathed whole plate photos all (illeg). Arthur Linley & C.O.B called. Dressed carefully & walked on Parade with Tilda & Maud. Saw young Frank & young Bancroft. Back. Lunch & walked at 2.0 up to Granville. Rain & sleet came on. Saw C.O.B, Davidsons, Arthur & young Henderson. Also Davey. Talk & smoke in room. After at 3.15 walked in rain with C.O.B, Arthur & young Henderson to Broadstairs along sands & back to Ramsgate. Tea. Did 1 Robinson Crusoe drawing. Dressed & at 7.0 went in fly to dine at Granville. 8 of us at table in centre. Very good dinner. Pol Roger wine. Miss Stirling dined near us. Talk after & left at 10.0. Heavy wet. Smoke & bed at 11.30. Did not go to Burnands. (Red ink across page: Dined at the Granville with Barkers, M & self.)
Monday February 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Round Club. Pouring wet day all day & gale of wind. Driving showers of sleet & snow. Was to have gone to a meet of fox hounds at Eastry. Gave it up. Up in room & put away photos printed from Pettigrew etc. After worked on Robinson Crusoe. Note from F.C.B. Worked all day did 3 drawings. Sent them off at 7.30.. After C.O.B & Fanny dined with us. Good dinner. Left in gale & storm of wind. Bed 12.30. (Red ink across page: Pouring wet day & heavy gale the entire day.)
Tuesday February 16 Prospect Terrace. Up later. Breakfast at 9.10. Letter from Barker. Bitterly cold north east wind. Hard frost & snow. Round to Club & read case of Lord Northfield being blackmailed. Back. M & Tilda at silver. Wrote up diary & sent to Stores etc. After worked at Robinson Crusoe & nearly finished one drawing. Poodle & Cat. Lunch at 1.50 & at 2.20 walked up to Granville. Most bitterly cold. East wind very strong. Had on brown shooting boots & Fletcher cloak, gaiters etc. At 2.40 Barker & self started to walk to Margate round cliffs & Foreland etc. Very strong wind. Talk of Alderman Cotton at Stonehaven(?). Blizzard at Kingsgate corner. Got on to sands at Life Boat house & walked to Margate. Hard frost all walk etc. Frozen. Caught the Granville at Margate at 5.24 & back to Ramsgate. Bought papers & magazines. Walked up home. Fanny there. Tea & after finished R.C drawing & did one other. Dined 8.0pm. Read Review of Reviews. Bed 12.0am.
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Wednesday February 17 Prospect Terrace. Sweep here. Up 7.45. Breakfast 8.30. Sun at 1st after very heavy snowstorm. At 9.15 to 10.0 Club. Walked down to meet C.O.B. Saw Conny Burnand & Evans in train. No Barker. Back & went with magazine camera along pier & took 12 photos. Bright sun & snow. Back at 11.30 & worked on Robinson Crusoe. Did 2 drawings. Lunch at 2.0. Maud & Bibles. Barker called. Fanny in bath chair. Settled to go to the Granville to dinner. After lunch found I had not got General Booth's portrait. Walked into town. Met C.O.B & Fanny in fly for a drive. Cold raw wind. Could not get portrait. Wired Swain. Called stables & had hair cut & shaved. Back & worked on Genl Booth cut. At 6.45 dressed, 7.4 fly & up to Granville. Dined with Fanny & C.O.B. Good dinner, 2 bottles of Pol Roger. Davey still there. Game of cards after. Left at 10.30 in snow storm. Fly late. Home 11.0. Heavy snow. Gave flyman 6/s. (Red ink across page: Dinner with C.O.B & Fanny at the Granville.)
Thursday February 18 Prospect Terrace. Up in morning. Slight head. After Club worked on General Booth. Photos came at 12.0. Put head in & after lunch finished it & sent it off by 4.0pm train. Miss Whicher in to T. Mrs Barker in after & stayed on to dinner. Wire from C.O.B to say he would not come down. Sent it down to Mrs B. Rosie Burnand dined. 2 bottles Ayala '84. Fanny & Rosie left in fly at 10.30. Felt very sleepy & tired after dinner. Began cartoon of William Conqueror for Stanhope. Fox sent mounted cards with pictures. Cold raw weather. Frightfully cold at night. Wind E by S.E. Bed 11.30.
Friday February 19 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. M in bed. Round Club. Wrote letters. Back & went on with cartoon of Stanhope & William the Conqueror. Worked hard all day & tight fit to get done. Mrs Barker called in afternoon. Saw John Henry Agnew's will in Telegraph, £200,000. Left £100.000 between his children & the other £100,000 between his two sons. Blues about money. All so rich except ourselves. Dined quietly at 8.0pm. Wrote letters & sent off. Bed 11.30. Cold raw night & poor fire in drawing room. (Red ink: John Henry Agnew's will in papers, over £200,000.)
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Saturday February 20 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. M in bed. Breakfast. Cold & raw morning. Round Club 9.15. Walked to meet Barker, not there. Back. Pipe & put photos & cards away. Began R.C & re-did tail piece for Chapter 1, cancelling the Abbey composition. Worked to lunch. Mrs Worth better. Have not ridden mare since this day last week. Lunch, after continued to work. M up in room to read . Finished tail p to Chap 2 & began in afternoon frontispiece, R.C & Indians. Worked to dinner time. After dinner went to Burnands & played race game. Evans's, Ready etc etc. Won 7/6. Mrs Evans won the pool. Back 10.45. Read Farrer's Salvation Army papers in Harpers after. Servants up late, 11.30. Bed 11.45. Change in the weather. Milliken told me of change in Furniss. Roose had him just in time.
Sunday February 21 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.10. Breakfast 9.30. Put papers in order. Pouring wet morning. Wind S. Worked after Club at frontispiece, finished it by lunch time. Lunch 2.0. Wrote letters. Sent George to stables. Packed fan etc etc. George did not tell me about mare. At 3.30 rode till 5.5pm round by Montefiores & Westwood. Circled mare in field. Snowdrifts etc. Back past Granville. Enquired about Barker's going. Smack ashore on the sands. Tug at it. Bill Weigall in to see Maud. Changed & dressed. Did drawing & finished Crusoe & Savages. Dinner. After went round to Burnands & saw all seated round fire & table. Mr & Mrs Evans, Mr & Mrs Hammond, Mr Ready & Hooles. Back after pipe at 10.45. F.C.B not so well.
Monday February 22 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning & all day up to 2.0pm when bright sun. Worked in morning on Robinson Crusoe. Roy sent book back. Did drawing of Chief with foot on Crusoe's head. After lunch at 2.15 got on mare & rode to Sandwich. Glorious afternoon. Saw heifer in ditch & after man after it near Sandwich. Back at 4.30 exactly. Tea very late, M in having had drive & been to Westwood to call on Clarkes who were both out. After got on & finished Crusoe with foot on neck. Dined 8.0 & went into Burnands after. All seated at dinner. Benedictines. Talk after about Punch. Saw early copy. Not good. After home. Justerini & Brooks sent bottle of peach brandy. Hooles dressed up. Father & son in
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Tuesday February 23 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am & at 9.30 (no Club) got on mare & rode along through Manstone to meet at St Nicholas. Passed Monument sea marker. Notice board 1887: Built Trinity House, Strand 1791. Fell in with Tom Mayhew. Just late for meet, ought to have allowed 2 hours. Hounds found hare. Glorious morning & exhilarating day. Left hounds at 12.15 at Monckton. Long talk with Mrs Clarke. Jogged home all way & back to Ramsgate by St Lawrence by 1.0pm. Saw Weigall. After home 1.20 & photod at 1.30 George & brother for Roses Cordial. After lunch developed them & put plates to dry. Did one drawing for R.C, Crusoe blowing bubbles, & sent it off with letter to Bradb'y. Dined at 8.0. Weigall came. Long talk. Bill to be Prime Minister. 2 bottles Ayala. Weigall in drawing room after. Coat tails. Slept after till 1.0am. Bed. (Red ink: Weigall dined with us.) (Red ink across page: Heavenly day, bright sun. Hunted with harriers. Meet at St Nicholas.)
Wednesday February 24 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning. Turned to rain after & wet & dull all day. In morning printed 28 photos taken yesterday & instantaneous. After began Crusoe being flogged. Lunch. Milliken came in after lunch when I had just bathed photos. Took him round to Club & pointed out article in yesterday's Times on Egyptian finance. Sent George to (illeg) to station. Did not ride. Came back in after T went on & finished by 8.0pm the R.C drawing. Dined. Lydia Job mauled a rabbit. Atrocious. Slept after dinner. Maud had been to Mrs Burnand's play & came back at 11.0. Bed 12.0. Wet all day. (Red ink: Burnand went to P.D 1st time since Jany 20th. Did not go up.) (Red ink across page: Mrs Burnand's play at Ramsgate Theatre.)
Thursday February 25 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0. Most heavenly morning. Mick dirty. Row Mademoiselle & Maud. Ross sent binocular telescope. Undid it. Round to Club. Wrote letters. Sent Biltor pipe back. Special delivery letter from F.C.B. Milliken in & wire from F.C.B about German Emperor. Sent him round to Club & to look at paper & asked him to lunch. Had previously photod self for Whist Duffer. Printed & developed by 1.30. At 2.15 rode mare round by Manstone & across to Nash, Margate, & back by St Peters. Saw
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Mr Clarke in Margate & called on Bentley. Back. Tea. After worked on Duffer. M up in room. Dined at 6.30. M, Tilda & Maud went to theatre. Left alone. Round to Cub. Vaile asked me to play whist. Walked to Burnands. All out. Back & smoked & read Robinson Crusoe. M back at 11.0. Danced & great row overhead. Bed at 12.0 after 2nd pipe.
Friday February 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull foggy morning & foggy all day. Wrote letters to F.C.B & E.I.M. & sent them off by George at 9.0. Breakfast. Club. Letter from Milliken about German Emperor. Up in room & worked hard all day on German Emperor. M out at her mother's. Maud & Mamselle late for lunch, 2.0pm. No butter. Worked till 7.0. Sent block off. Milliken came in. In morning wrote to Henderson to buy me £600 worth of something. Summons sent down for Parish taxes. Summonded for last Wednesday. Mother & M lunched at Margate. Dined quietly at 8.0. Read Black & White after & bed at 11.45pm.
Saturday February 27 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning. East wind. No fire in room owing to coals not sent. Down 9.0. At 10.0 after Club got on mare & rode by Manstone to Hengrove & hunted with harriers. Found hare at 11.30 & had best run Collard ever knew without check to 12.15. Ran down to 7 Score & back to Hatfield. Lost hare. Mr & Mrs Clarke came in the middle. Left hounds at 1.15. Burnand caught me up. Said Milliken was leaving this afternoon. Through farm & was spoken to by elderly labourer. Back & sent George with mare to stable. Up in room & did 1 drawing for R.C. M read & nearly finished Our Mutual Friend. Tea & back to work. Did drawing of Crusoe & Guards at cards. Dined at 8.0 & snooze after. Bed 12.0. (Red ink: Millken left Ramsgate.) (Red ink across page: Great run with hounds. Meet at Hengrove. A1 40 minutes.)
Sunday February 28 Prospect Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Breakfast. Dull morning. Club & after in room & worked all day on Robinson Crusoe. Did Brother & Black woman walking on shore & one other. Did not go out & dined quietly at 7.45. George posted letters etc. Letter at Club from Henderson's brother saying he had purchased £700 worth of Preference Debenture Shares in the Buenos Aires & Rosario Rly. No letter about taxes. (Red ink: Stayed in & worked at Robinson Crusoe all day.)
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Monday February 29 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. Searched Times. Regained Biltor pipe. M in room & on with R.C. At 11.30 M sent up letter asking us to dine at Burnands. After worked & did Brother & Girl kissing & after ‘a little dinner’ for R.C. Lunch & did boots. At 3.30 went up to play lawn tennis at the Buckmasters. Poor game. Hicks girls there etc etc. Left 5.0. Looked at Borradaile's cobs. Home. Tea. M went to Westwood with Mrs Berry in fly. Did drawing for R.C of Crusoe in best clothes. At 7.0 dressed & went to dine at Burnands. Burgundy dinner. M & Tilda went. Race game after. Maud came in. Tilda lost. Back home at 11.0 & read ‘The Wreckers’. Bed 12.30. Very cold & heavy rain. Sleet & hail in the night.
Tuesday March 1 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.15. Dressed. Wet morning. Got on mare at 9.45 after Club. Bilton pipe episode. After rode to Westgate partly across country. Meet at station. There well in time. Went past Dent de Lion & out through a very small gate into road. Got off mare. Breakfast at Brown of Westgate. Inebriates about. Found hare in ¼ hr. Ran into Quex. Cold & rain came on. Left at 12.10pm & home by St Lawrence & Manstone at 1.0. Sent George back with mare. Lunch. Jim Moody interred at Margate today. Got to work after on Robinson Crusoe. Dined quietly at home. Very cold at night. (Red ink across page: Cold wretched day. Meet at Westgate. Hunted with harriers. Left at noon.)
Wednesday March 2 Prospect Terrace. Bitter east wind, cold & showers of sleet. Wrote letters before breakfast & sent one to F.C.B saying should not go up to town. F.C.B & wife went up by 10.0am. Back & did one Robinson C in afternoon. Did Duffer block & sent it off by 4.0pm train. Finished Atkinson & Crusoe & did drawing of Atkinson on chest after & sent it off. Dined at 8.0pm. Bottle Champagne. Read magazines after. Bitterly cold. at night. (Red ink: Bitter cold east wind set in & remained all the week. Decided not to go up to town.)
Thursday March 3 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bitterly cold east wind & frost. Began R.C & skemed girl on deck. At 10.30 special letter from F.C.B about horse, Salisbury, Balfour & Chaplin. Skemed it & got George
22 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 to help photo me as Salisbury etc. Dull day & sleet. After lunch got the plates developed & a print of each by dark. After T began drawing & got on till 8.0pm. Dined quietly. Bottle Champagne & read mags after. Bed 11.30. Very cold. (Red ink: Bitterly cold east wind.)
Friday March 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Round Club for 5 minutes. Back & got on & worked all day hard on cartoon of horse, Salisbury, Balfour & Chaplin. After finished at 7.0 sent it off. Wrote letters. Dined 7.45. Claret. In evening read magazine on California & Gulf Stream aloud. Man came with Roberson parcel at 11.0. Knocked us up. Bed 11.30. Not quite so cold but still bad.
Saturday March 5 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. breakfast. Club. Read 2 Times & took pipe for alteration & to have one made like it at Stores. Back home not quite so cold. Put things & photos away & at 12.0 got to draw R.C. Girl on deck & Crusoe.Worked till 1.30. Photod at 11.45 George again in garden for Rose's drawing. Sun shine all morning. At 2.15 rode mare along past Weigalls, Manstone & Lydden. Back way into Margate. Down into the Dane to look for the late Jim Moody's diggings. After along past Friends & Abernethys, Convent, North Foreland, Broadstairs & home at 4.40. Ordered Saumur. Changed & got to work on R.C. Worked till dinner time on initial to last chapter. M up in room & read Lord Rosebery's Pitt. Dined 8.0. Dinner late. Bottle Saumur & read Naval War in Black & White after. Bed 11.30. Fire low & cold. (Red ink across page: Not quite so cold. Sun in morning. Good ride in afternoon.)
Sunday March 6 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.40. Dull cold east windy morning. Sleet. Down 9.30. Breakfast & Club after. Back at 10.45 & up in room. Wrote diary & got to work on R.C. Letters from Robb at Club & about Queen's taxes. Worked after on R.C. At 3.0pm Maud & self went for walk with dogs to Pegwell & back by St Lawrence & past stables (Johnstone's.) Tea. Weigall came in. Up in room & finished (illeg) for Crusoe & sent them off. Dined after quietly. Very cold at night. (Red ink across page: Intensely cold at night.)
Monday March 7 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. After in room. Wrote labels & letters etc & put things straight. Bitterly cold east wind. After lunch
23 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 at 2.15 rode mare to Sandwich. All right going in bright sun but bitterly cold coming back. Felt slight snuffly cold come on at noon. Tea at 5.0. Miss Gould came in. Had brandy in tea. After up in room & wrote letters etc etc. At 7.30 Squire Hammond & Mr & Mrs Burnand dined. Good dinner. Old brandy after. Gave F.C.B pipe. Maud's drawings admired & to go in Punch. They left in the cold at 10.30. Sleep. Read after & bed 11.30pm. Marion caught cold in her shoulder & stiff neck. (Red ink across page: Intensely cold east wind. Snuffly cold came on. Hammonds & Burnands dined with us.)
Tuesday March 8 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. After sent George round to find out what time F.C.B rode. 11.30 went with him & rode round by Lydden & across path to burning mound back across by Pouces to Ramsgate Road & home. Bitterly cold. Back 12.40. Home & photod George. Developed plates after & put room in order. After lunch caught the 4.0pm train for town. Bertie Thornton got into train at Margate. Veal from Ramsgate to Margate. Very cold all way up. Train punctual to a minute at St Pauls. Cab to Salisbury Square. Changed coat & after cab to dinner at Royal Institute. Called for flower at Jermyn St. In time for dinner. Met Linton at door. Saw Spielmann etc etc. After dull dinner, dreary speeches. Opposite Arthur Severn & Corbould. Left at 11.45. Called Empire. Saw Steer. Called Corner after & back to Club. No one there. Milton. Pretty poet. Saw Salamons. After Dixey came in. Poached eggs. Back to Salisbury Square at 1.30am. Bed. All right in morning. (Red ink across page: Went to town. Dined at the Royal Institute banquet. Milton's evening.)
Wednesday March 9 Salisbury Square. Called 8.15. Woke quite early & awake an hour. Down breakfast at 8.50 & after varnished boots & out by 10.15am. Snow. Afterwards came on very heavily. Walked in misery to Club. Saw Lawrence Bradbury going to a wedding in Essex. Cleared & after walked to Edwards & Roberts. Chose some furniture. Back to Club by 12.50. Wrote letters. A blizzard of snow came on. Lunched with Salamons. Told me about selling his house. Coffee & cigars. Talk to Evans & young Bancroft. Percival (a publisher) cut in. Took me round to office & shewed me book of English Pen Artists. Out 4.0. After took cab, called 10 Markham Square. Costumes. Left & back to Salisbury Sq by underground rly. Washed & changed & round to P.D at 7.0. Put on pedestal by
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Lehmann. Small dinner. Milliken away. Suggested cartoon of the Bogyman. Tenniel & Choristers. Left with Tenniel 11.15 & bed 11.30pm. Read the Ludgate Monthly. (Red ink: Blizzards of snow. (Red ink across page: Blizzards of snow. London intensely cold.)
Thursday March 10 Salisbury Square. Up 7.15. Breakfast. Caught 8.26 carrying bags. Bitterly cold. Times. Back in room & photod self for Lord Halsbury etc. Skemed drawing. Lunch. At 3.0pm rode mare sharp ride round by Manstone & past Lydden. Snow all about. Mare balled up in fields. Home sharp by Ramsgate Road past Westwood & Banks's. Back 5.0. Tea & after did drawing of Duffer & sent it off by 8.0pm. Dined 8.15pm. Claret. Bed at 11.30. Tired. Marion's shoulder & neck still stiff. (Red ink: Sent cheque for £576.8.0 to Greenwood & Co for Rosario. Heavy snow in the morning.) (Later note in red ink: Sold above for £705.5.0 Apl 11 1895.)
Friday March 11 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Woke early. Club & round sharp without ‘Times’. Worked very hard all day (cold & dark) on drawing of Lord Chancellor, Volunteer & Stanhope. Finished 7.0pm. Cleared up. Wrote letters to Swain & W.Agnew. Dinner. Bottle Champagne. After read Great War of 1892 & bed at 11.30pm. Mite awake. Book came from Percival & Co. Mite not well. M sent for diaphoretic. Put off till tomorrow. Feverish at night. Slept in M's bed. Tilda Frick left us by the 1.15pm train. (Red ink across page: Mite not well at night.)
Saturday March 12 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. In Mite's bed. Up in room again after Club & sorted photos etc. At 12.0 began the drawing for Rose & Co. Lunch at 2.30. Rode mare round by Haine, Nash, Margate, the Dane & past Grotto & by Abernethy's (passed by brougham containing Jim A.) Redding Street, Broadstairs (drink for Mare) & along sands home by 5.0. Got to work. Saw Pa Hicks. Mite in room & better. After traced drawings & got outline. Edgar came in at 7.45. Dined 8.20 & after talk 2 games of billiards till 12.0 & bed. Fine night. Still cold. Mite in bed all day with chill & pain. Would not take oil. M got diaphoretic. (Red ink: Edgar came at 7.45pm.) (Red ink across page: Began drawing for Rose & Co.)
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Sunday March 13 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am in Mite's bed. Lovely morning. Breakfast. Club. Decided to ride with F.C.B. Wrote labels until 11.20 & after at 11.30 went for ride with F.C.B. St Lawrence, Manstone & round mill on Ramsgate Road. Lovely ride & mare went well. Home 1.0. Sorted labels, got hand camera & went out to photo public houses. Met Edgar. Back to lunch. Long talk & smoke after. Philip Burnand called with note. Mite up in drawing room. After wasted 2 hours in talk etc. Edgar left by the 5.45pm. Watched him through glass. Back in room & wrote up diary. Interrupted at 3.20 etc. (Red ink across page: Lovely bright sunny day. North wind. Good ride with F.C.B.)
Monday March 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club & at 11.30 rode with F.C.B. Went by Nash & round through Margate & St Peters. Past Abernethys. Back at 1.15 by Vale. Talk of Process in Punch. Lunch. In afternoon did letters of L.Rose & Co. Mite up in room drawing. Quiet dinner & read after. Mite re-drew girl in 18th centy costume.
Tuesday March 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. M in bed. Breakfast. Club. In morning got on with drawing for L.Rose & Co. At 11.30 rode with F.C.B. S.W gale etc. Rode to Cliff End & round home by Ramsgate Road. Passed clergyman etc. Home 1.0pm. Told F.C.B about German Emperor having ordered Punch out of palace. Heavy rain after all afternoon & night. Worked on L.Rose's drawing. Quiet evening & dinner. Mite up in room drawing. Did girl on sands. Re-drew letters in afternoon & after put tint on figures L.Rose's drawing.
Wednesday March 16 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0 & M in bed. Club. Caught F.C.B in fly & drove to station. Settled about German Emperor cut. Back home & at 11.0 got on mare & rode fast to Acol. There 11.50. Too early. Lovely morning. Met old Ackhurst & Baker, Brown's partner. Hounds up by 12.0. Mrs Cobb & small field. Clarke after. Found hare & bit of a run. Left 12.50 & back home exactly at 2.0pm. Lunch & after finished drawing for L.Rose & Co. Sent it off by post at 8.0. Dined quietly & quiet evening after. (Red ink: Rose's advertisement drawing sent off.)
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Thursday March 17 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. M in bed. Breakfast. Club. After in morning special letter from F.C.B about German Emperor. Skemed cut & sent George for his little brother. At 12.30 photod him developed & dried plates by 1.45. Lunch & printed some at 2.30. Mare came up by mistake. Rode till 4.0 round by Sportsman & up past Mayhews & home along Ramsgate Road. Passed traction engine. After tea got to work & finished drawing of Labby as ferret & rat with ‘Times’ looking on. Dined at 8.0 & sent it off by post. Quiet evening.
Friday March 18 Prospect Terrace. Up early. Breakfast. Club for 5 minutes & back to work hard & fast all day on German Emperor as small boy tearing Punch. Finished by 7.0 & sent it off. After dined quietly at home. Read Black & White.
Saturday March 19 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0. Breakfast. Club. After in room & wrote labels & printed rest of whole plates all morning. Lovely warm in room, east wind. Lunch. After at 2.20 walked with Mite & called on Weigall. Saw pictures & after by football ground to Buckmasters. Played 2 sets of tennis with Hicks's & home to T. Mite went back by herself. Wrote labels etc etc. Dined quietly after at home. Quiet evening. Read Magazine & bed. Mite complained of her back. The Wills's & Mrs Fowler in to tea.
Sunday March 20 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.45. Most lovely morning. Breakfast. Club. F.C.B ordered horse 11.15. After writing labels rode with him till 12.50. F.C.B not well. Went to Cliffs End & round by windmill to Pouces & home. Talk of Harry B. Met Mrs Fowler. Back in room. Wrote labels. Lunch & after in room entire afternoon. Wrote labels, packed box & after wrote 17 letters. Dined quietly at home, dressed & went to Burnands after. Father Dewar, the à Becketts, Borradaile etc there. Left at 10.30. Home. Read Macaulay's history & dozed till 12.15am. Bed. Strange dream of Linton in Paris. Mite not well with her back.
Monday March 21 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.45am. Dressed for hunting & down for breakfast 8.20. Good breakfast. Lovely morning. Club at 8.50. On
27 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 mare at 9.5 & rode past Sportsman for meet at Knowlton Court. Fell in with Col Copeland. C.C changed waistcoat. Very hot. Through Sandwich & on to meet by 11.30am. Lawn meet. Lovely weather. Saw Basil Peto & Miss Peto etc. Mr & Mrs Clarke & many from Thanet. Mare eager. Found 2 foxes. Shouting man. Howard, Rev Hyde Smith etc etc Collard. Lunch again at Brown of Westgate's dog cart. Left hounds 1.45pm & rode slowly through Eastry with Col C. Put up for gruel at Eastry & home thro' Sandwich. Saw pretty Mrs Brown. After left C.C at X roads to 7 Score. Passed by Clarke's horses. Saw 2 equestrians in distance. Put mare along, could not pass them. Home 4.30pm. Mrs à Beckett there. Arthur à B & Conny Burnand after to T. Dear Mite's confirmation. Late back in fly 5.35. All tired. Went round to Club & looked at Times. Furniss' letter to Radical Association. Whist going on. Back. M had been drive to convent with Mr Wills. Quiet dinner & evening. Bed early very tired. Lovely day. (Cutting glued in: In loving memory Martin Diosy 21st March 1892) (Red ink across page: All day hunting with East Kent foxhounds.)
Tuesday March 22 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club & back after. Pouring wet dull all day. Did not go out or ride all day. Packed up a good many things to go tomorrow & wrote letters & labels & worked. Little bird very ill on his perch. Quiet dinner & evening. Bed early.
Wednesday March 23 Prospect Terrace. Up early & got off by 10.0am train. Old porter made nothing of luggage. Saw Lady Hood at station. Up with F.C.B & Arthur à B. After drove in omnibus to Stafford Terrace. Mr & Mrs Reffell all right. Dirty house. Unpacked things & sent buss off. At 2.0 saw foreman carpenter. After at 5.0 took train to Blackfriars. Salisbury Square. Long talk with Clowes. After to Edwards & Roberts. Selected furniture. Back Salisbury Square. P.D. Bradbury hum about cuts for R.C. After left at (blank). (Red ink: Bird died at Prospect Terrace.)
Thursday March 24 Salisbury Square. Up 8.15am. Bilious head. Breakfast & took train to Victoria. Got box out & down to Ramsgate. Long journey. Not well. In room & after lunch George photod self for Herscheles. Rode at 3.0pm. Saw of all people in the world Dr Carr. Recognised him at once. Rode on past Westwood & had word with yokel at pigeon shooting enclosure. Home by cliff. Up in room very tired but
28 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 did cut of Salmon Fishing & sent it by post. After quiet dinner developed 4 plates. Failures. Tired after. Bed early & welcome sleep. (Red ink: Last morning at Salisbury Square.)
Friday March 25 Prospect Terrace. Up very early. M going to town. She left with Alice at 9.10. Club & after in room. Long day's work on Herscheles & Spider. Finished in time. M back at 6.0 sharp, tired. Wrote letters etc. Dinner. Bottle of Ayala. Tired & read Black & White. Bed at 11.15pm.
Saturday March 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. In room after, put all photos away. Wrote labels. In doubt about re-drawing 2 blocks for R.C. Did not. After lunch at 2.0 or 1.50 rode round by Margate (the Dane) & to the convent. Saw over it. Well planned house. Caretaker like Mrs Crutchley. Met Lillie Laver & Mr Laver in road where we used to live. Long talk. Back to tea at 4.40. Saw Conny B & Surty Parkins at Broadstairs. Dr Carr not there at tea. M went with Mrs à Beckett to call on Mrs Burnand. Walked down & saw Hills. Paid him £3.0.0. Long talk about Mr Leyland. Had haircut. After home. Dr Carr there. Awful talk. Really think he's a lunatic. Dinner. Saumur. Quiet evening after. Bed 12.15am. Wired Arthur Blunt. He could not come down.
Sunday March 27 Prospect Terrace. Woke 8.0am, down 9.0. Dull wretched morning. Sea fog. Club & after up in room all morning wrote labels till 1.0. Mite doing charming drawing. M up & read Black & White story of Brigands. Walk with Mite along Parade. Saw Bill Weigall. Talk with F.C.B. Back. Lunch. Talk with Conny & Frank B on Parade. Mother very depressed & not well. Ordered horse at 3.0pm. Left off writing this in very great hurry & dressed & went for sharp ride with F.C.B for one hour. Cold wind & misty. Back & wote labels etc. Wrote letters. Dinner quietly. After M, Maud & self went round to F.C.B's. Good evening. race game. Grain & 2 friends there. Squire etc, Arthur & Mrs à Beckett. Won 10/3, 4/6 from Mrs à B. Mite won pool. Mite up in room & finished drawing to take round to F.C.B's. Little girl. Algy Bastard there. M does not like him.
Monday March 28 Prospect Terrace. Dull morning. Cold & foggy, east wind. Breakfast. Club. F.C.B & Arther out in morning. No ride for F.C.B.
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Arthur's hat blew off. Lunch & at 3.0pm rode round by Margate past Salmons & through to sea. Bothered by steam roller. Rode home the entire distance along the sands. All right. Back at 6.15pm. Tea. Dressed at 7.15pm & after M, Mite & self dined at F.C.B's. Mr & Mrs à Beckett there. Good dinner. After race game. Won a trifle & home by fly at 11.0pm.
Tuesday March 29 Prospect Terrace. Dull morning. Cold. A'Becketts went up. Round at Club. Wrote letters. Back in room & long day packing. Emptied chest of drawers etc. Very tired. Lunch. Men from Hills came for chest of drawers etc. Took them & also 2 glass globes. Packed box also for Victoria. At 4.0pm rode for last time. Round by St Lawrence across diagonal & across to Margate by Garlinge along sands to Life Boat & then through Broadstairs. Met Tassell driving pair of horses at horse trough. Home by Granville. Saw girl meet man. Back by 6.35. Tea & wrote letters. Dinner. Tired. Bed after. To finish packing in the morning. Sent George for Haddock. (Red ink across page: Last ride on Thanet, season 91- 92.)
Wednesday March 30 Prospect Terrace. Up very early. Finished packing. Last morning at Ramsgate. George had forgotten about porter. Sent for another. Caught the 10.0am train. Up with Mr & Mrs F.C.B, Algy Bastard & Wilfred. Buss waiting. On to Stafford Terrace. Got box unpacked & sent it back. Walked after putting things away towards Punch dinner. Met Sir Benj Baker. Took cab at Knightsbridge. Small dinner. Only F.C.B, Lucy, B.P, Tenniel, Arthur & self. Milliken in after. Shewed Maud's drawing. Long discussion. Home to Stafford Terrace by cab. (Red ink: Summons from Yates Haywood & Co. Served after I had written.)
Thursday March 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head. Sorted photos the whole day. Lunch. M & all back with 36 packages at 5.35. My mother looking ill. Row on doorstep with hulking rough who had followed buss. Great nuisance. Dinner at 8.30. Bottle '74 Ivory. Bed after. Tired. M very tired. (Red ink: M & all back home again. Row with runner after omnibus on doorstep.)
Friday April 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & worked all day in more or less confusion on German Emperor out Whaling. Interrupted. Effie
30 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 called in afternoon. M went round to see for rooms for my mother. Dined at 9.0pm. Tired. Bottle Champagne. Bed 11.30pm.
Saturday April 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Breakfast at 10.0. Purnell came & at 10.30 went round to stables. Put phos away & after walked through Park to Rules. Met Underdown etc etc Stern riding etc. On & called at Ludlams. Bought ties. Cab to Rules. After at 12.55 Mite & M came in. 3 good chops & a good lunch. Went to last morning performance of Pantomime, did not know it at the time. Box D. Effie & Miss English & Spencer came in. Ta ra ra boom de ay. Left at 5.15. Put girls in cab. Called with Spencer at Club & put name down for sweep. Got letters & walked home. Dinner. Claret. After in evening snuffly cold came on, why of wherefore who knows. Fell asleep in chair until 2.0am. Bed. M asleep. (Red ink across page: Horid cold came on in head for no reason whatever.)
Sunday April 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Beautiful bright morning. A 10.10 got on mare & rode to Richmond. Caught up by man who I went to lunch with 10 years ago. Good ride round Park. Very hot. Left him at Robin Hood Gate. Across Wimbledon Common. Difficulty of getting through gate. 'No right of way' across slowly & called at Barkers. Saw him & Chamberlain, manager of line. Left at 12.30pm & rode home. Met Fanny. Dust awful & most trying. Cold bad. Home & to lunch. My mother very seedy. After dressed & at 3.20pm went with Mite to Marcus Stone's, Fildes, Hunter, Leighton, Princep, Millais, Dicksee & Boughton. Saw pictures. Home by 6.5pm. Tea & wrote letters. Dressed & went to Sir Benj Bakers to supper. Took Carlotta Addison into supper. Pug dog. Pretty little girl. Cold very bad & troublesome. Home by cab at 11.0. Very cold. Fell asleep till 12.0pm. Bed. M put Jacobs oil on chest & jujube. Woke with blister. (Red ink across page: Cold increased. Very bad at night. Had plaster. Picture Sunday.)
Monday April 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Fine morning. Down 9.0am. Saw Purnell. Wrote up diary for a week. Fine morning after. Went for ride in Park. After felt very weak & ill. Slept in chair after lunch. Put things away & cold came on on chest badly in evening. Had gruel & went to bed early. One of my old colds & very bad. (Red ink across page: Bad cold. Felt very weak & ill.)
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Tuesday April 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cold better, on the wane I hope. Rode in Park at 12.0. Lovely morning. Saw old Wyndham. Back & wrote letters. Put things away etc & quiet dinner & evening.
Wednesday April 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Put things in order all day. In afternoon Mrs Mason Jackson called on me. Walked at 5.0pm through Park & called on Peals & Tantzs. Through Bond St etc & on to Club. Got change for £5.5.0 & left it at Hobbs. Ordered new flannel suit. Wrote letter to Mr Haywood & walked on to Punch dinner. Two cuts made up & good dinner. Left at 11.50pm. Very seedy next day. My mother left in afternoon & went to rooms, Mrs Cox, 14 Edwardes Square. Said good bye. (Red ink across page: My mother left us for her rooms at 5.30pm.)
Thursday April 7 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Most lovely morning. Boy came at 11.30 with costume. Photod M for France on table. Over exposed the plates. Developed them etc. Went for ride in afternoon 5.0 to 6.15pm. Man at 14 Edwardes Square. Called & saw my mother in her rooms. Vey good. Back & home. Dined quietly & rest after.
Friday April 8 Stafford Terrace. Up early & worked hard all day on drawing of France & Germany. Did not finish till 10.15pm. Very tired & done up. Bottle wine & bed after. Roy came home from Eton at 9.25am. Had his breakfast etc. Went with his mother to Stores & lost himself.
Saturday April 9 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Up. Very tired after. At 11.10 started in dog cart with Roy & Maud & drove to Boat race. Had to go out of way a long way on acct of roads being up. Dusty. Got there at 12.0. M & Mademoiselle turned up after. All in dog cart & drove to Donaldsons to lunch. Roy & tongue. After home by tram. Saw hawk which flew on board yacht & big dog. Wirgmans, Thornycrofts etc etc. Tram car got off line & went on. Put M & Maud in cab & walked with Roy home. Saw furniture. Called on my mother & home to tea. Rest & after dinner cab to Haymarket Theatre & saw Hamlet. Good. Home by 12.0. Poor race. Oxford won by 3 lengths. Most lovely hot afternoon. (Later note in red ink:
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I went to the race with same old mare & cart by myself, March 22, 1902. Cambridge won. Roy at business.) (Red ink across page: Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Lovely hot & warm day.)
Sunday April 10 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Up at 8.30am. Breakfast 9.30. After at 11.30 rode with Roy over Wimbledon Common & Richmond Park & lunched with Barker. Roy had A1 pony & rode fairly well. After home by 4.0. Roy went after tea to call on Banbury. Arthur Linley at Barker's. Talk of Leopoldina. Spencer & child at Stafford Terrace. M seedy, cold came on. Wrote many letters before dinner. Very tired after. Bed early. (Red ink: Roy & self rode to Barker's. Lovely hot summer's day.)
Monday April 11 Stafford Terrace. Lovely fine morning. M in bed, bad cold on chest. Stayed in all day. In morning got ready for work & at 11.35 rode in Park. Saw old W. Talk of Hamlet. Back. After lunch Roy photod self for Narcissus. Developed them etc & after tea at 5.0pm went in cab with Roy & called at Hobbs. Beefsteak Club. Got letters from Haywood. Called Scotts & after on Spencer at Meistersingers. Introduced to Capn Maude. Walked home. Bottle of Ayala to do M good. After tired. Disappointing letter from Henderson about Leopoldina, Punch etc etc.
Tuesday April 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Blues. Fine morning. Sausages. Spencer came in at 11.0. Photod him & self as Club Lounger for Duffer. Weather broke, came over dull 11.30. Roy out. Wrote Sir Myles Finton. Marquis back. Man came round & said he ought to be clipped. Developed photos. Roy went to Olympia. Worked all afternoon on drawing of Spencer & self for Duffer. Dined 8.0pm. Weather dull & overcast. Very tired after dinner & as Swain did not send put off work until tomorrow. Bed early. M's cold very bad. Wrote Haywood & furniture man in morning. (Red ink: At 11.30am the weather broke & settled for cold misery & snow which lasted over Easter.
Wednesday April 13 Stafford Terrace. Up early & got on with work. Finished small block of Spencer & self at 11.0 & sent it off. After drew & finished by 9.0 drawing of Ruffian as Narcissus & Echo. Roy & Maud had supper by selves. Cold wet & miserable all day. Dined. Had 1st bottle of
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Perinet. Corked. 2nd bottle all right. Tired after. Bed at 11.30pm. M not well, cough & cold.
Thursday April 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Tired. Put things away etc. At 10.30 small chest of drawers came. On landing. £2.14.0. M in bed. Mother called & left port wine. After at 12.0 Roy & self took buss as far as Knightsbridge. Saw Finlay & old Wyndham. Walked through Bond St etc to Holborn Restaurant. Met Hossack. Lunched & after to the British Museum. 2 hours there & more. Saw Louis Fagan. Back to Club. Had tea & walked home. Dined. Most miserably cold & wretched. Snow showers etc. All colds. M & Roy went to bed 9.30, M at 10.0. Slept till 12.0am & bed after. (Red ink: Roy sick at night before dinner from chocolates.)
Friday April 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Weather dull & cold. Wretched. Breakfast. Sausages. Hot X bun. Afer put glass right for Reversing & wrote labels to lunch time. M pottering about. Lunch at 1.30. Fish etc. At 3.30 drove Marquis in dog cart as far as Horse Guards. Walked with Roy past Hotel Metropole & along Embankment as far as St Pauls. No one in City. Boys skating etc. Heard service. Walked to Garrick through Drury Lane etc. Tea. Roy had egg. Wrote letters & after walked home. Talk of Eton etc. Home at 6.50. M had been round to see my mother. Quiet dinner & evening & bed early.
Saturday April 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Room being done. Put photos away etc etc up to lunch time. After at 2.15pm went with Roy to Olympia. Saw Imre Keralfy's show. Introduced to W.Chapman. Press agency. Met Pat Stephens & went round Modern Venice in gondola. After round kitchens with Mr Lyons. Glass of Champagne etc very civil. Everything wonderfully clean. Home & got wire from Adelphi. Roy down in the mouth. After dining 7.0pm Roy & self drove in cab to Adelphi & saw play 'The Trumpet Call'. Had large box. Back at 11.45. Sausage sandwich. Bed 12.0. Bitterly cold. This day a heavy snowfall all over Kent. Exceptionally cold. East wind. (Red ink across page: Bitterly cold weather & heavy snow in Kent.)
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Sunday April 17 Stafford Terrace. Up nine am. Breakfast. After sorted photos etc. Granny came round with Mademoiselle at 11.0. Roy about swimming boats in bath etc. After lunch rode mare from 2.15 to 5.30 round by Lloyd Sq, Barnsbury & Holloway, home by Regents Park. Man at 107 Devonshire Road spoke to me. Home. Granny going. Mrs Cozens called about drawing for woman's rights. Kept talking for ½ an hour. Dined 7.45. Spencer came. 2 bottles of Champagne. Talk after about estate. Sleepy. M came down & brought me up to bed. (Red ink: Rode to north of London. Cold & heavy snow showers.) (Red ink across page: My mother came round at 11.0am & stayed till 6.0pm.)
Monday April 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. In all morning & sorted drawers. Put away all French photos. Lunch. After down with M & took costumes out of press & put them away. Roy idle & troublesome all day. Turned can of water on. Sent Roy to Granny's. Dull cold day. Wrote cheque & sent it Yates Haywood & Co, £15 odd. Put things in order & quiet dinner at home. Bed early after. Roy lost his ball on stable roof yesterday. At 5.45 heavy rain & snow cloud came over. Shortened day by 2 hours. 8 people crushed to death at Hamptead. (Red ink: Bank Holiday. Wisely did not stir out the entire day.)
Tuesday April 19 Stafford Terrace. Bright in morning but bitterly cold. Wrote labels till 12.0. M went out in carriage at 11.0 for dress. Designed 1st idea of Ill L News cover. After thought we would go to Olympia. Dined at 7.0 & went M, Maud, Roy & self & Mademoiselle. Good show & good box. Roy greedy over ices. Had gondola & left & home by omnibus. Sent Roy with letter to Mrs Chapman. (Red ink: Went to Olympia in evening. Family party.)
Wednesday April 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. In morning rode in Park at 9.15am. Brighter & warmer. Saw Bob Coward. In morning got on & designed the cover for Illustrated London News. After lunch Roy & self walked up through Park. Roy asking questions. Took cab at Hyde Park Corner & went to Maskelyne & Cooks entertainment. Very good. Old gent as proper gander. Chicks delighted. After saw M down Piccadilly. Met Spencer. Walked to New Gallery. Saw
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Carr & Hallé. After to Garrick & on to Punch dinner. Burnand away & no Bradbury. Good dinner. Reed sent sleeve links in morning. Back by cab in heavy rain at 12.0. (Red ink: Maskelyne & Cooks. Burnand away from dinner with cold.)
Thursday April 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine weather & morning. Expected Mr Jackson to call. Sent Purnell with letter to Barracks & at 12 rode in Park. Met old Wyndham. Back 1.15 & at 1.45 photod guardsman for cut. In afternoon wire from F.C.B to alter drawing. Letter came in afternoon from Editor Ill L.N & sent design for approval. Dined quietly after & bed early in evening. (Red ink: Weather clear'd. Bright sun. Photod Grenadier guardsman.)
Friday April 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. No letter from F.C.B. Fine morning, sun etc. After breakfast Roy photod self for French Soldier. Hurry. Got to work & all day on French & English soldiers. Finished at 7.0pm. In doubt as to going to dinner at the Metropole. Dressed & went. Drove up in cart. Purnell drove. Row with policeman at Northumberland Avenue. Arrived 7.50. Had good dinner. Sat next Livesay. Introduced to Keene's brother. Saw Barratt etc. Tenniel there. Left at 11.0. Called Empire. Saw Dresden, also Arthur Linley & Stanley Holden. After met Molton by chance. Garrick Club for ¾ hour & home. Saw Beetle etc etc. (Red ink: Keene's brother gave me drawings. Had snake for dinner. Jany 27, 1902.) (Red ink across page: Dined at the Director's dinner of the Gordon Hotels at Metropole.)
Saturday April 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0 am. Headache. Lovely bright morning & brilliant sun all day. Hot. Put papers etc away in morning & at 12.0 got ready photo camera. Wired E Pettigrew. Lunch. At 2.0 carriage came up & M, Maud & R went off to the Lyric Theatre. Mademoiselle by omnibus. Waited for E.Pettigrew all ready. Did not come till 3.0pm. Only just in time to get photos. Gt hurry. Left at 4.0pm & drove in cab to Lyric Theatre. Saw Mountebanks. After got sausages & carnation & on to Sackville St. Went with Maud, M & Roy to New Gallery. Out & saw M into carriage. Walked home. Roy left me & took buss. Met Tyndall. Home. Tired. Dressed & after went to Hartree's dinner. Mrs Willard did not turn up. Good dinner. Slow men. Miss Samuda. Left 11.45 & home. Bed at once. (Red ink across page: Seedy in morning. Lovely bright day.
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Photod E Pettigrew & after to Lyric Theatre. Private View of the New Gallery. Dined at C.Hartree's.)
Sunday April 24 Stafford Terrace. Up nine am. Most lovely morning & day. Bright sun. Developed & printed a great quantity of photos taken yesterday. Tired. Spoilt best one by film running. Annoyed. At 1.30 dressed & lunch. At 2.30 Roy & self drove in cart to Zoological Gardens. Beautiful afternoon. Saw Vernon & Lady Margaret, Craigie & daughter, old Phillips & Eve Phillips. Also Eton boys. Little curly headed Page. Cab to Lewis's. Saw Agnews etc etc. Walked down to see my mother. Met Mrs Paxton. Felt tired & livery. Home. Wrote letters. Dressed & drove at 7.35 in carriage to Palmers. Dined quietly. General Du Plat there. Arrowroot. Left at 11.15pm, home by carriage. Colder. Change in weather came on about 5.30pm. Clouded over. (Red ink across page: Splendid day. Roy & self went to Zoological gardens. Dined at Palmers.)
Monday April 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull. Change in the weather. Wet morning. Felt livery. Wrote letters. Worked on Illustrated News drawing. In afternoon went to varnishing day at Academy. Saw Adrian Jones & many I knew. Put on grey suit. Found it short. After walked on & called at Hobbs' tailor & let him see suit. Walked home fast after. Dined & bed early. Mite went up to Noble Smiths. (Red ink across page: Varnishing day at Royal Academy. Went up in afternoon.)
Tuesday April 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Worked all day on drawing for Illustrated London News Jubilee cover. Conrad called in afternoon. Rode in Park before dinner. Back 7.30. Quiet dinner & rest after. Bed early.
Wednesday April 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Worked on Illustrated News drawing all morning up to lunch time. After took cab & met Burnand at Press day of Academy. Saw Lucy & Lockyer etc etc, Mr Gaskell etc. Curious heavy dark afternoon & tremendously heavy rain. Sketched 2 pictures. Talk with Mrs Earl. Left at 6.30 & called Club & wrote letters. Got very wet. Cab to Punch dinner. Good dinner. Settled to do 10 Academy cuts. Wrote Blackburn & sent boy. Got cuts to do & took home with me. Home by cab. (Later note: Rode
37 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 in morning early. Did not ride again until Saty May 7) (Red ink across page: Press day at Royal Academy. Curious dark heavy tropical showers came over.)
Thursday April 28 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretched morning. Up 8.0am. Sent off Academy drawings & did Pettie's picture. At 11.30 drove up & sketched Orchardson's picture & Watts's. Saw Woodruffe & chattering man & girls at 2nd Press day. Saw Mrs Blackburn & home by cab. Got to work & did Academy cut. Boy backwards & forwards. Dined 9.0pm. Quiet dinner & bed. (Red ink across page: 2nd Press day at Royal Academy. Worked hard all day.)
Friday April 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Got on with last of Academy cuts. Did Forbes & (illeg) Leighton etc etc. At 11.30 Burnand called on cob & gave subject of Shah of Persia & Russian. Began it at 3.30 & finished 10.0pm. Dined, Champagne & bed. (Red ink across page: Private View of Royal Academy. Did not go. M & Maud went without Roy & tea at Calderons.)
Saturday April 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull wretched morning. Worked on drawing for Illustrated London News. Did but little. Early lunch. After Miss Davis's came. Bad mutton for lunch. Went in brougham & cab to Garrick Theatre & saw The Fools Paradise. Box & stalls. Curious old couple opposite. Carriage in King St. Girls went home. Roy & self tea at Club. Met old Wyndham & walked home after. Called & blew up Slater about mutton. Quiet dinner & evening after. Roy in high spirits & Tony tearing his rags up. Bed 11.30pm. In morning did last cut of Herkomer picture by 12.0 noon. Sent Roy & Mademoiselle to Stores for raquets etc. (Red ink across page: Went to see The Fools Paradise with Miss Davis's.)
Sunday May 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dull. Colder grey morning. At 11.30 E.K Bolton called & photod him on table for Time etc. Roy, Maud & M out. After Roy was rude to his mother. Photod Roy in 12 plates. M crying upstairs & did not come down to lunch. Gave Roy a good lecture & sent him up to his room. Would not take him to Sir Alfred Hickman's. At 4.0pm went to Hickmans & played tennis till 7.0pm. Christie there & young boy played badly & sniffed. Walked there & back. Dinner 7.30pm. Bottle Champagne. Roy in disgrace. Poor
38 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 little chap. (Red ink across page: Roy in disgrace. Gave him severe lecture. Finer day for 1st time.)
Monday May 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull wretched morning. Poor Roy still in disgrace. Forgave him at breakfast & got to work on drawing after for Illustrated London News. Did not ride. Developed plates taken yesterday & worked up to dinner. Quiet evening & bed after.
Tuesday May 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & got on with drawing of Illustrated London News etc. Put Time in. Played with Roy after lunch. Many people called. Fanny Barker lost her jewels in bag coming from South(?). Worked up to 6.30. Did not ride. In morning at 1.15 photod Private Clark Scots Guards & developed plates. After at 6.30 left & dressed & took cab up to Reform Club to dine with Holbrook Gaskell, Marcus Stone, Woods, Fildes, Hook Gaskell. Two others, self & an actor. Talk of Leyland etc. Left table 10.10. Pool after & smoke. Saw Mr Livesey. Looked unsuccessfully for book on British Army. Left at 12.0 & home by cab. Very cold. Roy, M & Maud & Maud Paxton went to the Adelphi & saw the 'White Rose'. Maud caught cold. (Red ink across page: Dined with Holbrook Gaskell at the Reform Club.)
Wednesday May 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bad wretched dull weather & rainy. Worked all morning on Illustrated News design for cover. Ought to finish today. Roy about & good. Went with his mother in carriage. Left at 6.0 for hard walk to Punch dinner. Changed coat. Walked all the way. Met Ryle & Newton. Punch dinner. No Bradbury. Good dinner. Wire from Furniss to say he had returned from America. Left earlier & home by cab. Roy left & went back to Eton at 7.50. Mademoiselle went with him to station. Put sentries in at side. Expected Mr Jackson to call. (Red ink across page: Roy went back to Eton.)
Thursday May 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Sent Purnell to Barkers for hat & feather boa etc etc. After got to work to finish the design for Jubilee No (cover) of News. Put Jubilee in & Times' wings & began to shade at 11.30. Sent special letter to (illeg) Jackson. Reply. Must be done. Worked hard all day & up to 10.45pm. Bothered
39 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 with head of London. Dined at 11.0pm. Depressed, weary & dissatisfied. Bed 2.0am after tired sleep. M seedy.
Friday May 6 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Fine morning 1st time for ages. In consternation about head of Illustrated News figure. Got to work at 8.0am much worried. Hurried breakfast. After took entire head out & put it in again unsatisfactorily. Sent to F.C.B & settled to do cut of birds. Maud Paxton came in & stood for photo as bird with arms extended. After M photod self. Did 2 cuts, one for Duffer, the other of birds. Finished at 10.15pm & dined after with M. Slept till 2.30am in chair & bed exhausted. (Red ink across page: Finished cover for Illustrated London News. Much worried.)
Saturday May 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Rest. 1st leisure for fortnight. In morning printed many phos of back plates. Hot sun. Found had used exhausted bath. At 11.45 rode in Park. Mare turned out with frightfully dirty mane. Saw Stone etc etc. Back & blew up Purnell. After lunch again printed photos & generally tidied up. Quiet dinner. ½ bottle of Champagne & bed early. Artists General Benevolent dinner, did not go.
Sunday May 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Beautiful morning. At 10.45 rode mare to Richmond. Hammersmith Road up. 1st Two Pins meet. Delightful ride. Sir Charles Russell QC MP, Frank Lockwood QC MP, Willie Matthews & self. Edward Lawson turned up later. Rode home by 4.0pm. Miss English there. Changed & on to play tennis. Keith there. Atrocious play. Dr Dash called. Left 7.15 & home. Dressed & dined. Snooze in chair & bed 12.0 sharp. Wrote mother. Maud's cold bad. Death of poor Tommie à Beckett in Times (Sunday) at Beaumont aged 15. (Red ink across page: 1st Two Pins meet. Delightful day & good dejeuner at the Star & Garter. Tennis after at Sir A.Hickmans.)
Monday May 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.40. Bath & rode in Park. Foggy. Cleared after & delightful ride. Saw Sir Chas Hall, Matthews etc & home with Luke Fildes. Cut plants in front. Put room in order & cleared out socks etc etc. M in bed. Wrote diary & many letters all afternoon. Put photos away & made sketches. Dined quietly at 7.45. Quiet evening. Nightmare in chair, being passed over roofs.
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Bed 1.0am exactly. Slept well. M put Waddy's bird in window & he flew on china shelf. (Red ink across page: Lovely morning 1st ride before breakfast. Luke Fildes in Row. Rest & tidied up. Dullish foggy day.)
Tuesday May 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30am. At 8.10 rode in Park. Lovely morning. Saw Fildes, Maple, etc etc. Back 9.15. Breakfast. Printed phos of Roy. Put things straight up to lunch. Alice had been rude to Maud. After smoked pipe. Read magazine. Put photos away & Maud photod self in Golf costume. Caught the 3.45 sun. Good result. Mrs Burnand called & Conny B. Bird in window. Got to work on drawing & did it up to dinner time. Quiet dinner, M, Maud & self. Slept in chair after. Bed 1.0am.
Wednesday May 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30. At 8.15 rode in Park. Saw Fildes etc. Round at canter with Mocatta. Beautiful morning. Back. Breakfast at 11.0. My mother came. Wrote many letters at lunch. After carriage ordered at 3.0. Not up till 3.30. Men brought corner cupboards. M & Maud went to Davis's & Mrs Burnand's. After finished drawing of Golf for Process. Walked up to Pavilion. Took cab to Bouverie St. Called Club. Got change. Shoolbred's cart. Furniss back from America. Very thin. Good dinner. No Lucy, Arthur or Lehmann. Eclipse of the moon. Left 1.45. Home in cab. Got no subject. Delightful evening, warm & beautiful. Mrs Medley's at home Lyric Club. Did not go.
Thursday May 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Letter from Sir Myles Fenton refusing pass. By 8.25 rode mare in Park. Up & down with Sir Chas Hall. Introduced to Oppenheim. Home by 9.20. Lovely morning. Wrote many letters. Waited for subject in morning & put things away etc etc. Mrs Paxton's at home. After in evening dressed & took cab to Lincoln & Bennetts & Hawkes & Co. Left helmets & took them back. ¼ hr late at Reform Club. Met Furniss's friend Hunter on steps. After dined with John Livesey & Harry Livesey at Reform Club. Good old brandy. Went to Prince of Wales Theatre after. Very good box, Arthur Roberts A1. Back to Reform Club & whiskey & soda. Settled to go to see Livesey's horse on Saturday 28 May. (Red ink across page: Dined with John Livesey at the Reform Club Pall Mall. Talk of Monte Carlo & horses etc.)
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Friday May 13 Stafford Terrace. Waiting about for instructions. Rode in morning early. After at 2.0pm F.C.B finally settled to do drawing of Illustrated London News. Got to work in afternoon & did a good one. Illustrated L. News & Punch on top. Finished & dined late at 11.0pm. Very tired. No photoing. Very much in doubt whether to or not.
Saturday May 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. In morning tidied up etc etc. Maud Paxton came to lunch. M & Maud P & Maud went off in cab to Court Theatre matinée. Saw Pantomime Rehearsal. Sir Thomas & Lady Lucas in stalls. Long talk to Sir Thomas. After walked to Club. Had tea & walked & cab home. Dressed & carriage to dine at Heilbuts. Chapmans kept us all waiting. Took Mrs Alexander in. Fair dinner. Burnand there & also Arthur Anderson. Left 11.30 & home by cab with M. M tired. M went in morning to be fitted with dress. Lord Mountmoore called in morning, did not see him. (Red ink across page: Went to Pantomime Rehearsal at the Court Theatre & also to dine at the Heilbuts.)
Sunday May 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dullish morning. Decided to ride up to Jack Straw's Castle. Started at noon & drove Marquis up. Spots of rain. Called on Tenniel who liked Marquis. On in rain to Jack Straw's. Many people about. Green trees. Felt headache & bilious all morning. Got there 1.0pm. Stuffy smoky room. Edward Lawson, Matthews, Furniss etc there. Young Russell. Lunch. Cold saddle of mutton. Furniss's American yarns. Left at 2.50 & home 3.30. Rest for an hour. After went to Hickmans to play lawn tennis. Good game. Fair fat strenger Christie sprained his leg. Met MacIlwraith. Back at 7.30. Dressed & Ethel English, Ryle, Stone & Guthrie dined. Pleasant evening & talk after. Broke bayonet off pistol shewing Ethel English. Bed at 12.0. (Red ink across page: Dinner at home. Royle & Guthrie, Stone & Ethel English.)
Monday May 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & rode in the park. Mary & Ethel Burnand in to lunch & tea. My mother not very well & much depressed. M called. Did photos for self as Thimble rigger etc from Purnell. Maud's cold still stuffy. Dined quietly at home. Claret & bed early.
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Tuesday May 17 Stafford Terrace. Up early & rode in the Park. After back & did photos. Walked up through Park towards Garrick Club. After called & Stone & self took cab up to Agricultural Hall at Islington. Saw the rehearsal of Horse Military Tournament. Good lunch. Met Mr Deeds & Fry of Vanity Fair. Everything behindhand. Left at 6.0 & walked with Stone to Club. Through Middleton & Lloyd Squares. Made up mind to dine with him. Wired home. Had quiet dinner at Club having washed previously & got places for Pavilion & Empire. After dinner went & heard Lottie Collins sing 'Ta ra ra boom de ay', Empire. Went 32 Wellington Square. Back to Club. Both Gills there. Whiskey & potash. Back home at 1.30pm. Stone enjoyed himself very much. Lord Mountmoor(?) called in morning at 10.30 & had very long talk. (Red ink across page: Dined with Stone at the Garrick & evening out at music halls.)
Wednesday May 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Rode in Park for ¾ hour. Saw Maple. After back & got on with drawing of Duffer & Thimble rigger. Finished it in afternoon. At 6.15 went to Punch dinner riding mare. Threatened rain. Got there 7.15pm. Bradbury in old form & bad. Windy discussion about my drawing having been processed. Bradbury bad all through dinner. Very windy & dull. Left at 11.50. Home by cab at 1.0am. Dear Maud's 1st drawing in Punch appeared in number having date 21st May. Florrie Blair called on M. (Red ink across page: Maud's first drawing appeared in Punch.)
Thursday May 19 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Sent round for Miss Paxton to come & be photod with Maud. Rode in Park after quite early. Photod Maud Paxton, Maud S & self. Got plates dried & printed by lunch time. After got to work & at Cricketing subject hard till 10.30pm. Dined & bottle of Ayala. Tired after. Bed 1.30am. In afternoon packed portmanteau ready to go to Paris tomorrow morning. Lincoln & Bennett sent hat. Boots went to Peal etc. Saw in 'Times' death of James Osgood.
Friday May 20. Stafford Terrace. Up early, 6.30. Tired. Packed portmanteau etc. Breakfast & off by 10.0am to Victoria en route for Paris. M, Maud & self down by train. Comfortable lunch on board. Nothing to pay for luggage. Blowing a stiff breeze. Met many people I knew on
43 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 board. Peter Reed, Rogers of Westgate etc. Friend of Airds. Roughish passage. Lots ill. M & Maud all right. Got to Calais. Wash & soup. Nearly missed train. One old lady & daughter who looked as old as herself in train. Got to Hotel Meurice at 8.0pm. Good room at 20F per day in entre-sol. After wash had delightful little dinner. M, Maud & self. After M & Maud retired. Strolled to Grand Café. Looked & read papers & back to Hotel. Bed 11.30. Slept well & very comfortable. Talk with M.Scheurich. Heard news of death of Brown of Westgate from pneumonia. Mr & Mrs Hook went over with us. Met them at Victoria 1st & on boat & at Calais & Paris. (Red ink across page: Started for Paris. Rough passage.)
Saturday May 21 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up early, 7.45. Dejeuner & out by 9.35. Called on Stokes, Boulevard Haussmann. Saw him & after Mrs S. Pretty rooms. Tried to call on Campbell Clark, could not find door. Strolled quietly on to Le Doyen Restaurant. Got flower in shop near Madelaine. Went into museum of Art Decoration. Fine bronzes etc. Met M & Maud to the minute. Good dejeuner. After out & to Salon. Gerome, Bellona. Good. Saw the Hooks. Vast place. M & Maud tired. Sent them off at 5.30 to call on Stokes. After strolled home. Stokes came. Undecided about leaving us. Finally took us to a Restaurant Famille de Paris & gave us a dinner. Frogs. Not bad. Very fat man next us. Out at 10.0 & went to see Cirque Nouveau, Le Roi Dagobert. Felt sleepy. Deer ran across stage & through water etc etc. Strolled home 11.30. M slept well. (Red ink: Diner francais. Escoffier & Co, 27 Boulevard des Italiens 27.) (Red ink across page: Dined with Stokes.)
Sunday May 22 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up at 8.30. Dejeuner & after M, Mite & self out in lovely hot sun at 11.20. Got carnation & after walked to service at the Madelaine. Saw the Stanhope Forbes's. Out & stroll to Grand Hotel. Looked at papers etc. Voiture to Bonvoisins, 53 Rue Pierre Charron. Saw Col & wife, Madame. Pretty children etc etc. Out at 3.15 on to Salon in Champ de Mars. Awfully close & stuffy in rooms. Walked through them. Poor statuary. Sold over photo rooms & band. One or two good pictures but poor on the whole. Voiture back to Hotel at 5.30. Rested & dressed. M, Maud & self strolled up to Restaurant La Rue. Good dinner with Ayala. Met French gent like poor Pellegrini & also Mr & Mrs Lockett & daughter. Left after talk with Lockett at 11.15. Burnt my finger with cigar. Strolled back to hotel. Bed at 12.0. M did not sleep well after
44 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 the coffee. Hot at night & close. (Red ink across page: Dined with Ayala at Restaurant La Rue.)
Monday May 23 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up at 7.45. Bath. Dejeuner. Out at 10.0am to walk to Bonvoisins. Felt heat very much. Got there 10.30. Too late for Montmartre. After strolled up to Bois de Boulogne. Saw many horses. Met Col (blank). Back & asked Bonvoisin to breakfast with us. Waited for him & also M at Le Doyen. M at last. Dispute with cocher. Had good dejeuner & after Bonvoisin left. Sketched out a plan for us. Back to hotel feeling very stuffy. Stanhope Forbes & wife called & stayed to tea an hour. After out & bargains with cochers. Took us up to Avenue Acacia for F2.50. Lots of carriages. Long disappointing walk to Cascade. Saw polo being played. M & Mite tired. No one there. Asked the gens d'armes. Fortunately got voiture back for 6 francs. Dined at Le Doyen. Saw woman in yellow & black spots etc etc. Out at 9.30. Went to café Les Ambassadeurs. 'Ta ra ra boump de hé'. Home at 10.30pm. Very hot & stuffy. M did not sleep well at night. Noises & heat. (Red ink: Poor Osgood's funeral 4.0pm today at Kensal Green.) (Red ink across page: Great heat set in in Paris.)
Tuesday May 24 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up at 7.50. M bad night & tired. Very hot & stuffy & noises in night. After dejeuner walked in heat to Louvre & after to Rue Jean Jaques Rousseau 29. Saw gun. After through Palais Royale & along Boulevard des Italiens & on to Le Doyen. Waited ½ an hour. M & Mite late. Had been to Bon Marché. After lunched at Le Doyen. Light lunch. Saw Stanhope Forbes & wife lunching with Shannon & wife. Out & sat in Champs Elysée for an hour. Funny little dogs. Very close & hot. Strolled home. M & Mite rested & after writing 2 letters finished packing & I strolled along the Rue de Rivoli. Back & dined at table d'hote at 6.0pm. Fair dinner. Out 7.0. Bill 485 francs. Paid by cheque. Mistake about wine. Left cigar case. Off by Nord railway. On & St Galmier water. Got Mite a pillow. French farewell. Very hot in train. After St Galmier & Champagne settled to sleep. (Red ink across page: In Paris. Started for home by evening mail.)
Wednesday May 25 On board train from Paris to Calais. Very close & hot. Waked up at Amiens. Sheered off when I saw M & Mite sleeping. Arrived Calais 2.0am. Started on boat & got to Dover at 3.45. Left 4.30am. Mite
45 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 looked very pale & tired. M tired. Luggage passed & good 4 wheel cab. Very heavy rain shower on passing thro' Kensington. Arrived home at 7.20 exactly. House looked all right. Breakfast. Wrote letters. Lunch. Very tired & sleepy after. Slept in chair. Very hot moist & stuffy. At 5.30 gentleman called about Raily. Stayed till 6.10pm. Dressed & after took cab all way to Bouverie St. P.D. Bradbury bad again. Very bad. Room hot. Guthrie, Reed, Partridge, Milliken, W.H.B, Furniss, à B, self, Tenniel & F.C.B there. Good dinner. Derby sweep drawn & muddled. Left at 7.50. Drove to Garrick Club. Washed. Had forgotten gloves. M came at 10.20. Drove back by Bouverie St & on to F.O reception. Rain came on. Bother with the police on rank. Saw Buckle, Lucas's etc etc, Keiths. After left at 12.0. Saw Webster etc. Great bother to get brougham. Called on Quilters & after home 1.30. Maud asleep. (Red ink across page: This the last time I ever saw poor William Bradbury. Died Thursday Oct 13th. Went to Foreign Office reception with M.)
Thursday May 26 Stafford Terrace. Up late 9.0am. Dark hot & oveny. Great rain in the night. Paper. Men from Nash doing the gas etc etc. M & Maud at 11.30 to Dr Noble Smith. Skemed Punch drawing & after Railway subject. Very hot close sultry day. Dined quietly in evening & bed early. Hot & steamy. In afternoon at 3.0pm photod Nash's 2 men for Railway cut tomorrow. Developed them & put plates to dry.
Friday May 27 Stafford Terrace. Up early & got to work after riding on drawing of Burial of the Broad Gauge. Pushed on & got finished in time to dine with Stone. M & Conny Burnand had gone on before in carriage. Got to Stones at 7.30 & had poor dinner, good wine. After went on in 2 hansoms & went to Opera. Sir Thomas Lucas had given us his box. Heard 'Manon'. Very good. Cigarettes. Dirty officious waiter. Walked to carriage in Garrick St. Sent M & Conny home & had eggs & bacon & a talk at the Garrick after. Saw Judge Bacon & Mrs Burnand at Opera. (Red ink: Went to the opera 'Manon'.)
Saturday May 28 Stafford Terrace. Up early did not ride. At 9.0am Nash's man came & stood for photo for Lancashire railway. Got it done by 9.45, had breakfast & after dressed & at Victoria by 11.0. Met Stone & went
46 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 down to Rotherfield to look at Livesey's horses. Two curious old women got in carriage. Livesey Park at Rotherfield. On in dog cart to Livesey's cottage. Lindsay Hogg there & gent with mangled ear. Lunch & after looked at superb horses. Very hot. Weather changed about 3.30pm. Drove to Mr Livesey's house. Saw Mrs L, Charley & Mr L. Stone liked house. Grapes, dairy etc. Left by 4.40 train & on to Victoria late. Home by 7.0. Spencer there. Developed plates taken in morning. Did them badly. Dined 8.0pm, Spencer with us. My mother had been. Sorry to have missed her. Tired after dinner. Bed early. (Red ink: Meet of the Coaching Club.) (Red ink across page: Went down with Stone to see Livesey's horses.)
Sunday May 29 Stafford Terrace. Up early 8.0am & on mare at 8.45. Rode to meet at Battersea Bridge & met Lockwood & Matthews. Rode to The Durdans & lunched with Lord Rosebery. Past Wandsworth, Tooting, Mitcham, Sutton etc. Lockwood's chaff about snipe & ears pierced (ladies). Beautiful fresh breezy morning. Difficulty to light cigarette. Rode on to the Derby course. Talk of Rope's dinner. At The Durdans by 1.0pm. Lord Rosebery, Christopher Sykes & Mr Hamilton there. Edward Lawson & Sir Charles Russell came over after. Good lunch. Cigars etc. Lord Rosebery showed us over The Durdans. Cast of Napoleon's head & many Stubbs & Herrings' sporting pictures. Looked over yearlings & left at 4.0pm. Rode to Tadworth. Changed things & looked at horses. Read Cavaliers & Prince Rupert. Dinner. Good. Took in Miss Russell. Had to draw John Gilpin & Turpin afterwards. Bed at 11.30pm. Ta ra da boom de hay set to Excelsior. Origin of Two Pins story of General Stores this day. (Later note in red ink: Saw Lodas as a yearling. Did not know it or Lord Rosebery either. Won Derby 1894.) (Red ink across page: Rode with Lockwood & Matthews to Lord Rosebery's at The Durdans. Dined with Sir Charles Russell after.)
Monday May 30 Tadworth Court. Up after waking at 5.0am at 5.20 dressed leisurely & at 6.10 exactly got on mare. Warm moist morning. Got to Sutton Cock Inn at 7.0 exactly. Mitcham 7.30, Clapham 8.0. Home at Stafford Terrace at 3 minutes to nine. Saw Holland on Battersea Bridge. Hot at Clapham. Drunken woman just before Battersea Bridge. Felt tired but got to work at 10.0 & worked all day on drawing for Lancashire Railway. Left off 7.0. Man from
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Waterlows called. Dressed & went in carriage to dine at Mocattas. Good dinner. Took in Mrs Sterne, a daughter of the late Sir George (illeg). Most interesting woman. Saw the Wetheralls. Home by carriage & bed at 12.0am. (Red ink across page: Rode up to town from 6.10am to 8.55am.)
Tuesday May 31 Stafford Terrace. Beautiful morning. Up 8.0am. 9.45 Miss E Pettigrew came & sat for figure in drawing for Lancashire Railways. Developed them & set out to dry. Got to work & on with drawing. Worked hard all day & dined at 8.0pm. Bottle of Perinet & bed early after. Lovely hot day. Beautiful.
Wednesday June 1 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Derby Day. Up early & hard at work on drawing for Lancashire Railway Company. My mother in at 11.30am. Not well. Forlorn. Lunch. After M went out in carriage with my mother. Worked up to 3.15 on drawing. Then dressed & went in cab to Punch dinner. Went along Embankment. Got to P.D at 8.10pm. Lucy, Reed, Arthur à B, Furniss, Lehmann, self, Tenniel & Frank there. Had cold beef etc. Left with Furniss at 11.30 & walked to Garrick Club. Supper given by Alfred Gilbert. Sat next Bram Stoker. Speech by Irving. Tadema, self, Furniss left at 3.15 very late. Home in daylight in 4 wheel cab. Letter from Reed etc. Gilly Farquhar won Garrick sweep £150 having laid £120 off. Talk with Furniss about prize fight between Slavin & Jackson. (Red ink across page: Derby Day. Finished Lancashire Railway drawing. After to Gilbert's supper at the Garrick.)
Thursday June 2 Stafford Terrace. Up later 8.30. Buzzy in head. Down. Breakfast. Read The Wrecker after & then wrote up diary etc. Wrote many letters. After sleep in arm chair until 5.0pm. Got to work & did drawing for Duffer. Finished it by 7.30pm & sent it off. Quiet dinner & bed early. Did not ride at all.
Friday June 3 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Rode for ¾ an hour in the Park. Back breakfast. Got to work & did small drawing Sir William Vernon Harcourt & Col Saunderson. After at 1.30 photod small boy in sun for Gladstone. Ethel & Mary Burnand came in. Got photo by 3.45 & did cartoon after that. Finished at 10.45 & dined. Alice inert & inattentive. Bottle of Perinet & bed after very tired. Beautiful fine
48 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 afternoon, hot sun. Annoyed to hear about Paxton having sold commode. Sold for £11.0.0. M had accident with carriage at Sir Alfred Hickman's. Marquis turned at 2 sacks in road.
Saturday June 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Breakfast. Out at 9.30 for ride in Park in white breeches. Saw Christopher Sykes. Many people in Park. Rode till 10.50. Out. Man in cart with flower pots upset by omnibus. Back & dressed in a huury. Got off in carriage by 11.55. Drove to G.W.R. Great crush at station. Got into 3rd class carriage & down to Windsor. Man like Indian prince in carriage. Dear Roy on platform. Walked to his rooms. After lunch at Aingers. Sir W.P Harcourt there. Good lunch. Young clergyman. Miss Ainger. Out with Roy & Pat Stephens. Walked to Bridge House Hotel. Missed Clowes. Back & round cricket field. Saw Moultons, Middletons, Wagges etc etc Goldie & children. After out & with Stephens to Roy's room. Had tea. Roy & paper etc. Left at 5.45 & on to Clowes's. Left Maud at launch. Roy not allowed on acct of not swimming. Walked to river bank. Stood next the Lewis's & Middletons. Procession of boats. After walked to Athens. Saw launch. Rain came on. Walked fast back to Bridge Hotel. Had W & S. Left with Maud 8.0pm. Roy & Clowes's umbrella. Waited till 8.40pm. Girl on platform. Home to Paddington. Heavy rain. Back 10.0pm. Dinner. Bed. (Red ink across page: Went down to Eton for 4th June. Tea in Roy's room. Wet at night.)
Sunday June 5 Stafford Terrace. Morning heavy & showery. Up 9.0am. Breakfast over by 10.0. Paxton called, cleverly avoided him. Put old things on & got on mare 10.45 & rode down Hammersmith Road. Road up. Heavy showers & thunder clap came on. Vivid lightning. Got under small archway for shelter with mare. Man with touzzled head gave 3 children 1d each. Out & over to Mortlake. Wet again. Sheltered. Old bull dog barking. Out into Richmond Park. Lovely sun. Rode through Park over Wimbledon Common. Caught up Beerbohm Tree & Jones. Fast along wood home. Saw No 9 Redcliffe Gds. Girl in Earls Court Rd. Home 1.40. Lunch. Enjoyed it. After changed. Put drawing room straight. Paxton called with Belgian friend. Talk of commode. At 3.30 sent Purnell to Hickmans. Left at 4.45. Began to play at 5.0, Hickmnan, self. After barrister duffer played against Miss Underhill & Hickman. Many sets. Miss U good. Dressed. M came in carriage Good dinner. Plenty of wine. After talked of Hickmans house. Left at 11.0pm.
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Asleep in chair till 1.15am. Bed. (Red ink across page: Beautiful ride in wet. Tennis in afternoon. Dined at Sir Alfred Hickman's.)
Monday June 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.55. Breakfast. Fine bright morning. Maud & Mademoiselle out. Read Idler. Wrote diary. Cleared up things etc etc etc. After wrote labels nearly the entire day. My mother came round & fell asleep. Alice & whiskey. Spencer & Percy Oakes called in afternoon. Wrote labels up to dinner time. Mr & Mrs Paxton called & dined. 2 bottles of Perinet & long long talk. Bed at 11.30. Paxton called & kept M in the morning for 2 hours. Lovely fine day for Bank Holiday. The biggest exodus on Bank Holiday ever known. (Red ink across page: Bank Holiday. Wrote labels all day. Did not stir out.)
Tuesday June 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.0am. Dressed. Breakfast at 8.0 & in cart by 8.40. Lovely morning. Drove to St Pancras. Got there by 9.20. Caught special to Chesterfield. In carriage with servants, two old men. Comfortable journey, refreshments etc etc. Out in heat. Dirty ugly people. Fat woman. Got to tent. Miss Arkwright cutting 1st sod. Wheelbarrow trundled back & speech. Met Baker, walked through town. Old butchers' shops & twisted spire of Chesterfield Church. Lunch in Stephenson Memorial Hall. Sat next Mrs Soanes. Long speeches. Sir William Long. Oh!. Out at 4.0. Magnums of Pol Roger. Caught train. Hot. Back in carriage cigars etc. Baker woke me up & we went into next carriage. Long talk with Mr Elliot Cooper. Good fellow. Cigars. Out & back London 7.20, Stafford Terrace 8.0pm. Bath & dressed. Dinner at 9.10. Went in carriage to Kings Road & on to Garrick Club. Changed cheque. Empire Theatre. Saw Fletcher, Bockardt & friend. Hitchings & also Scotch Graham. Left at 11.30. Irish outside. Supper. Talk to Wyndham, Gillie, Toole & James who looked very ill. Home at 1.45. Bed. M & Mite left for Weston sub Edge. (Red ink across page: Went to Chesterfield with Lancashire Railway Co. Great day. Lunch etc etc. Dined at home. Empire Theatre & Club.)
Wednesday June 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Bath. Boots. Breakfast 9.25. Rode in Park & along to Regents Park, Park Village & round to Lords. Back at 11.15. Hot. Wrote many letters. Posted them 1.15. My mother round at noon looking quite well. After skemed drawing for Index etc. At 4.0 left in cab for Turkish bath in Jermyn St. Had
50 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 bath. Hot weather. Punch dinner. Took Maud's drawings. D.M delighted with them. Furniss rude about cut of Gladstone. Dull. I left 11.30. Home by carriage. Very hot weather.
Thursday June 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Did not ride. Blazing hot day. In morning photod Purnell & self for Preface & Index. Brilliant sun. Worked in afternoon on drawing of Death as an Enemy to Society. Got it sketched out. Annie came & said her side was bad. Dined quietly at 7.0 by self & after drove in carriage to Lord's. On to Club. Beefsteak. Looked into Tooles Theatre & after to Club. Leslie Ward upset about engagement. Talk to Archie Stuart Wortley, Hare etc etc. Dick Grain & stories. Left 1.0 & home by cab.
Friday June 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not ride. Worked hard all day on drawing of Dissolution of London Season, Death as an Enemy. Gave up idea of Lords & worked on quietly till 10.30. Dined & bed after. (Red ink: Broiling hot day.)
Saturday June 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 8.30 rode in Park for an hour. Cooler today. Back & at 10.0 packed things, drawings etc etc to go to Weston sub Edge. Left by 1.0pm, 4 wheeler & caught 1.35. Sovereign rolled over counter. Went 2nd class. Carriage to self. Cherries. Got to Honeybourne & on Weston sub Edge. Tea. Dear M & Maud. Walk up Dover Hill after. Very hot. Dressed. Dinner. Dance. Looked over Illustrated News for 1886. Bad Furniss drawings. Bed. Rode up to Lincoln & Bennetts in morning. (Red ink: Weather cooler.) (Red ink across page: Went down to Weston sub Edge on visit to Canon Bourne.)
Sunday June 12 Weston sub Edge. Up 9.0. Cooler & dullish. Breakfast. Got to work after & began Index. Lunch. Walk at 5.0 after writing many letters. Went to Broadway & back. Policemen. Church service etc. Back 7.15. Dressed. Dinner. Dull evening. Cigar & News. Bed.
Monday June 13 Weston sub Edge. Up 9.0am. Read Cavaliers & Prince Rupert. After got on with Index drawing, Punch & grapes. Worked after lunch. Canon Bourne came home at 4.30. Tea. After walked up
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Dover Hill with M, Pig, & back. Dressed for dinner. Felt very livery. All right after dinner. Dance. Talk with Canon & bed 11.30pm.
Tuesday June 14 Weston sub Edge. Up 9.0am. Colder. In morning photod doorway. Waited for sun. After got on & finished Index. Mr & Mrs Algernon Rushout to lunch. Mrs R an invalid. Canon called on Swinburne. Good lunch. Photod horses etc after. Tea. M & self walked up Dovers Hill & along crest of hill & round back. M very tired. Rest & dressed. Dinner 8.0pm. Expected people. Did not come. Dance & bed 11.30pm after smoke. (Red ink: M & Maud & self at Weston sub Edge. Ascot. Dull weather.)
Wednesday June 15 Weston sub Edge. Up 9.0. Breakfast. Canon left 10.0am. Packed & got off at 11.40. Train. 2 girls at Honeybourne. After to London. Roy Lancaster got in at Oxford. Strand map. Home by cab. Purnell. People after Marquis. Cab to Turkish baths. Bath. P.D. F.C.B, Guthrie, Reed, Bernard Partridge, Miliken, Arthur, Furniss, self & Tenniel. Better dinner. Long discussion. Poor cut. Got no cut for self. Suggested John Gilpin. Left 11.45. Home by cab. Letters etc. (Red ink: Came back from Weson sub Edge, Canon Bourne's. M & Maud still there. Very cold weather.)
Thursday June 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Bath & rode in Park. Cold. Saw Stern, Coward etc, also Ayala. Rain came on. Home. Did not go to Ascot. Dull & cold & wet. Wrote many letters. Purnell in. M & Maud came home from Weston sub Edge at 2.0pm, catching earlier train. Had lunch etc. In afternoon put things away etc. Dined at 8.0pm with young Ayala at the Maison Dorée Club, Dover Street. Met Mr Lockett of Liverpool & jew Tresham Gilbey. Good dinner. Left 10.30pm. Cab to Empire. Did not go in. Went on to Club & wrote letters. Gilly Farquhar came in & asked me to lunch at Garrick 29th to meet Bernhardt & Miss Ellen Terry. After tired. Had welsh rabbit. Algernon Borthwick talking about Scotland. Irving & son in supper room. Left at 1.30 without paying bill. Very tired. Bed 2.0am. (Red ink across page: Dined with young Ayala at Maison Dorée.)
Friday June 17 Stafford Terrace. In morning got to work early. Many letters backwards & forwards from F.C.B. Change & change about. Stace
52 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 came at 10.40. Late. Photod him for Bismarck & got to cut. F.C B wrote & also sent 2nd cut to do tomorrow. Worked hard all day & finished late at 10.15. Dined after. M had been at Albert Hall Mansions Fine warm lovely day. M woke up with sore throat. (Cutting inserted: In rememberance Henry Vantone June 17th 1892. marked 1904.)
Saturday June 18 Stafford Terrace. Up early. In morning did little cut of Gladstone as Socrates. Tidied up. Got ready to ride to Hall Barn, Beaconsfield. In saddle 2.30pm but heavy drops of rain came on. Did not go. Got off & put it off. Sent Purnell in afternoon with bags. Dined early & went with M to see Lady Windemere's Fan. Saw Leslie Ward & sister in vestibule & we four had Lord Dartmouth's stage box. Pleased with play & cab home. (Red ink across page: Wet afternoon. Did not start as intended for Hall Barn.)
Sunday June 19 Stafford Terrace. Up early & at 9.35 on mare. Lovely morning. Rode to Hall Barn Beaconsfield. Got to Uxbridge noon exactly. Put up for ¼ of an hour at Railway Inn on acct of shower. Started 12.15. Saw Fusnedge. Passed Gerrards X church at 1.0 exactly. Through Bulstrode Park. Got off at wire fence & Hall Barn 1.45 exactly. Last 3 miles very trying. Lunch welcome. Sir George Prescott & Gus Harris there. Johnny Hare came after. Changed & played 2 rounds of Golf. Lawson & self against Hare & Sir George Prescott. After story of Mrs Langtry's naughty corner. Good Turkish bath & dinner. Played nap after till 12.0 exactly. Won 4/6. Bed 12.20. Beautiful day & lovely for a ride. (Red ink across page: Rode to Hall Barn Beaconsfield through Uxbridge & Gerrards X.)
Monday June 20 Hall Barn, Beaconsfield. Up 7.0am. Bath & out in the grounds with key camera. Went & looked for & photod temple etc etc. Back. Breakfast. After missed saying goodbye. Got on mare at 9.46. Rode through Bulstrode Park & on to Uxbridge. Man groggy. Road thick with dust. Flies & very hot. Got to Gerrards X 11.25, Uxbridge 12.30. Saw Pen Close, Guildford Villa etc. Back by train. Began tail piece for Index & at 8.0 went to Alfred de Rothschild's dinner. Sat betwen Sir Rivers Wilson & Bernard P. Splendid dinner. Agnew made hass of himself. Lord Randolph Churchill's reply. Introduced to Chaplin. Duke of Fife there. Left at 1.0. Called at Rudolph Lehmann's rooms & home by 2.15am. Wonderful day
53 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 altogether. Ortolans & Burgundy. (Red ink across page: Dined with Alfred de Rothschild. Last dinner was on May 9 1889.)
Tuesday June 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Felt a little buzzy but got on with tail piece to Index & after began the Preface. In evening the Fowlers dined with us. Quiet dinner, Fowlers M, Maud & self. Went to the Lyceum Theatre to see Henry VIII, Mite in cab with Fowler & self. Saw Mrs Millett at theatre with American gentleman. Out. Had cleared up. Walked to carriage. Called Club & got on box home. (Red ink acros page: Fowlers dined with us & went to the play Henry VIII.)
Wednesday June 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Worked on Preface drawing all day. Finished it & took train by Metropolitan railway to Punch dinner. Quiet good dinner. John Gilpin cut. Suggested it. Lucy there. Reed, Milliken, Furniss, Arthur, self, Tenniel, F.C.B, Bernard P. Gave Bernard Partridge his Bilton pipe at last. Left 12.0 & home by cab all way. Gave 3/6 never thanked for it.
Thursday June 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dark & dense heavy rain nearly the whole day. Worked & did tail piece for Preface. After small drawing, Love among the Roses, for F.C.B. Rode in the Park on mare in evening from 6.30 to 7.50pm. Back to dinner & quiet evening. Row very heavy, mare went A1. Mysterious gent had called. Would not leave his name. Left letter for him. Bed early. 1st quiet dinner for a long time. Thankful.
Friday June 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not ride. Sent mare down to Newmarket by 2.35 train with E.L's coachman. Got to work early on drawing of Dragon & Balfour & Chamberlain etc. Finished 8.0pm. Took cab & drove to Bouverie St, Almanack dinner. F.C.B, Milliken, Arthur à B & self. Very hungry, Arthur ate all my dinner. After Arthur & self went over new printing presses etc of Daily Chronicle & Lloyds. New cheeky bearded person & Australian Dibbs. Left 1.30pm & on to Beefsteak. Corny Grain there & also Archie Stuart Wortley. Home by cab 2.0am. Tired. My mother came to lunch & stayed the afternoon. Thought she was pretty well.
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Saturday June 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning. M's throat bad again. Packed bags & lunch at 1.15. Got off by cab & went down from St Pancras to Newmarket. Two funny men in carriage, one a bookmaker the other a Lord. (small drawing of face) Very familiar bookmaker. Felt seedy rather. Newmarket ½ hour late. Heavy rain. Place called 6 Mile Bottom. Lady jumped horse over fence. Fly from Newmarket up to Lawson's. Mare waiting. Got on her back rode for 2 hours. Lovely ride. Beautiful. Round the Ditch. Shilling in match box. Home by 8.0 dinner, only E.L & self. Good fish. Bottle of Champagne, too much. Coffee, cigar. Bed early at 10.0pm. Mare behaved wonderfully. (Red ink across page: Went down to Newmarket to stay with Edward Lawson. Rainy day.)
Sunday June 26 Bridlemere, Newmarket. Up 6.50. Bath. Breakfast. Bath W.C shut. Saddle 7.50. Rode with E.L on to see horses gallop. 1st ride in Lime Kilns. Saw Blundell Maple. Galloping horses. Lots of them. Trainer Percy Peck. Arranged to see horses in evening. Back. Hot sun. Breakfast. After read & wrote 14 letters. Photod in afternoon & walked on to Heath. At 5.0 got on mare & walked to Blundell Maple's. Delay. Walked along road. At 6.0 over stables. Lots of horses. Minting Queen etc etc. Maple gave £3000 for Archers house cost £14,000. Back by 7.30. Dinner 8.15. Good dinner, ½ bottle of wine. Sleepy after dinner very. Bed at 10.15pm after sitting out in open air. Lovely sunset & new moon. Silhouettes of trees etc. Slept like a top. Hot room in roof. (Red ink across page: Went to Blundell Maple's stables.)
Monday June 27 Bridlemere, Newmarket. Up 6.50. Saddle at 8.0, on to Lime Kilns. Harrow down in field. Many horses out. Good canter. Home breakfast. After wrote letters all morning. Lunch. After posted letters & went to horse sale. Saw Somerville Tattersall & Mrs T. Looked much older. Photod horses etc etc. Back. Went back with Lawson. Funny old man saying take him out of his yard. Stallion 'The Devil to Pay'. In saddle again 6.30 & rode round by July course on heath & home. Lawson rode Jubilee. On arriving home saw young Lawson Scots Guards & Malcolm (Mole) also Mrs Lawson. Tall lovely woman daughter of General Marshall. Dogs. 'Not out of the same wife tho'. Dinner. Awfully hot. Never felt the heat so. After sat out on lawn. Minstrels 5/- given. 'Look here Govr
55 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 your man gave me a hundred theres a chance for you'. Long talk with young Lawson. Bed 12.0. Hot roof.
Tuesday June 28 Bridlemere, Newmarket. Up 6.50. Bath etc, down. Hot close steamy morning. Phew. Rode with E.L on to Lime Kilns. Horses. After joined by Mrs Lawson on Jubilee. Long thighs etc. Trainer & horse. Back after canter. Changed. Packed bag, very hot. Brealfast. Iced coffee. After finished packing. At 1.0 rode mare on to Race Course after saying goodbye. Back by 3.15. Mare back. Cup of tea & caught 3.57 home. Wrote letters at station. Stuffy train home. Arrived Euston 6.20. Cab home. Poor boy outside house. Bee Barrs there. Dressed & dinner. Felt livery. Cigar & bed after. New maid at Stafford Terr. Bed 11.0pm exactly. Picked up racing shoe on race course on Newmarket Heath. Parliament prorogued for new elections this day. Who knows? Violent thunderstorm at night whilst at dinner & after. (Red ink across page: Great thunderstorm at night.)
Wednesday June 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. M seedy in bed. Thunderstorm at night. Breakfast. Wrote letters etc. Liver out of order. Wrote up diary etc. After at 12.15 went & dressed. Took cab to Garrick. There 1.4pm. Met Gillie Farquhar. Lunch put off to 1.30. Wrote letters, after down 1.35. Waited about. Lady Greville & American girl. Lord Dash, Percival, Joe Carr, self, Gillie, Ellen Terry & daughter to luncheon at Garrick. Drank claret. Left at 4.0. Home to tea. M & Bee B out in carriage, back 4.30. Tea & got to work on opening of volume, Punch plunging into sea. Great change in the weather. Quite cold today. Tilda in, Mite making dress. Academy soirée. After took cab & dined with Norman Lockyer at the Athenaeum Club, just ¼ hr late. Sat next Sandbach & Colin Hinter. Introduced to Tom Hughes. Left 10.30 & on to P.D. F.C.B & Tenniel had left. (Red ink across page: Dined at Athenaeum Club with Norman Lockyer.)
Thursday June 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Rode at 9.15 in Park. Lovely ride. Saw Stone etc etc. Also Faudel Phillips & Stella. Back 11.0. Letter from F.C.B. Got to work to finish drawing, opening of volume. F.C.B. round at noon on cob. Spencer in. Finished opening Vol 103 at 7.0. Sent off. Saw to dinner. After at 8.15 Lady Margaret Watney, V.Watney, Miss Rose Innes, Herbert Weld
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Blundell, William Stone & Bonvoisin dined. Good dinner. Bonvoisin stayed till 12.0. Bed. M tired & seedy. Bee Barrs went to Olympia with Effie & Miss English. (Red ink across page: Dinner at home to Vernon & Lady Margaret Watney.)
Friday July 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Felt all right. Spencer came in at 11.0. Photod Maud & himself. After hard at work all day on drawing Gladstone & Ireland. G.O.M in straw hat. Worked up to 11.0pm & dined. Slept till 2.0pm in chair. Bed. Spencer was to have taken Maud to Lords. Did not. Came in after & took Maud to Park. Marquis went to 11 Berkeley Sq for Vernon Watney to see.
Saturday July 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After got on mare & rode in Park & through to Berkeley Square. Saw Palmer. Marquis at 11 Berkeley Sq. Would not do. Home. After put things away. Wrote to mother & packed bags etc. Lunch. Drove in carriage to Waterloo. Saw Sylvia D.M at station. Little Sambourne. After down to North Camp. Had to change twice,Woking & Frimley. Sophy met us with grey cob in cart. Drove to house about 1 mile. Had bags unpacked & tea & 4 sets with Sophy at lawn tennis. Persian cat & dogs. Dinner 8.0pm. Edgar late. Dressed etc. Talk after & bed tired. Mite went to Barkers (C.O.B.) in morning. (Red ink across page: Went down to Aldershot with M. Hot day.)
Sunday July 3 North Camp, Aldershot. Up 6.45. Bath & at 7.30 rode grey horse over hard broken ground till 9.10am. Saw Duke's monument & over Polo ground. Flies troublesome. Back. Good breakfast. Changed. Wrote letters in grounds under fir trees. After Edgar & Sophy back. Sophy earrings. M wrote letters. Lunch. Claret cup or rather Burgundy cup. Early dinner 2.0pm. After smoke & out in grounds. Read The Depths of the Sea. Young officer came in. After tea Sophy self & Sprite walked to tomb of Napoleon the 3rd & the Prince Imperial, near Farnborough. Funny little French boys. Walked back. Sewage farm. Supper at 9.0. Cup & after smoke. Bed. (Red ink across page: Very hot day. Saw tomb of Napoleon 3rd.)
Monday July 4 North Camp, Aldershot. Up 8.0am. Bath. Edgar out with troops. Heard heavy guns. Left at 10.30 & out & fell in with militia. Took
57 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 photos. Lovely morning. Wind & bright sun. Walked across to defending party. Guns & firing. Civil young artillary officer. No more plates. Back towards home. Fell in with Edgar & Lincolnshire Regiment. Went to mess room. Good lunch. Irish stew. Cigar. Back to house. Very close & hot. (illeg). Rested on bed after bath. Roused by M & sunshade. Down & had to play 4 sets of lawn tennis. Miss & Mrs Downing there & Col Verner. Nice little doggee, Jess, found balls etc. Bother with tennis balls etc etc. Dined at 8.0pm. Good dinner. Champagne. Sleepy after. Bed at 10.50pm. Hard bed. (Red ink across page: Saw battle of militia & troops. Elections full on.)
Tuesday July 5 North Camp, Aldershot. Up 8.0am. Bath. Dull morning. Breakfast. Read McCarthy's Georges. Out at 11.0 & wandered through camp. Lost my way. Photod mules & sentry boxes etc etc. Back & into mess room. News of the Election. Hickman in, Matthews & Lehmann out. Good lunch. Slow game of billiards after. Beaten by 22 points. After home. Wet. Packed bags. Heavy wet came on. M & self home. Change at Woking. Elderly officer in kepi. Home by cab in heavy wet. Dinner. Wrote leters. Dear Maud back all right. Read papers. Bed early. Elections full on. (Red ink across page: Elections full on.)
Wednesday July 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode in Park from 9.30 to 11.20. Saw Stone with Judge's daughter. Also Mrs Lawson & young Malverden. Old Kahn. Grenadier Guards past us. Coldstreams. Home. Dressed & walked up through Park to lunch at Vernon Watneys, 11 Berkeley Square. Met Lady Rosamund & Lady (blank) also Wallop. Beautiful house. Japanese books. Out at 3.30 & on to New Gallery. Met Lord Coventry. Talk to Beck. Got carriage & put M & Maud in it. Walked to Lamb's, chose things. After to Turkish bath. Good bath. Walked to P.D, overtaken by Bernard Partridge smoking a pipe & with a brown pot hat. F.C.B, Tenniel, B.P, Guthrie, Furniss, E.I.M, self & Arthur à B there. Tenniel had had his hand stung by a fly. All swelled up. Furniss as usual. Talk of Election. Shouting when we came out. Left 12.20am. Home 1.0am. M said she woke. (Red ink across page: Elections full on. Unionists victories.)
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Thursday July 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. M complained of sore throat. Down. Full breakfast. Dull heavy morning. Bee Barrs, Effie etc in.Wrote letters etc. Arranged about mare going to Lord Rosebery's. Elections on. Not so favourable for the Unionists. Ought to have gone to Gordon's garden party. Did not. Mite disappointed. Wasted entire day writing. At 5.30 rode mare to see meet of coaches. Sell, no meet. Saw Sutherland in frock coat. Park, good ride. Saw Capn Sharp. S looking after Mrs Wilson. Home. Dined 8.0. Hamilton, Tabs & Bee Barrs dined. 2 bottles Perinet. Good dinner. H stayed till 11.30. Bed after. Mare to go to the Durdans tomorrow.
Friday July 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Got to work early. Skemed picture. Stace round by 10.0am. Photod him for Coriolanus. Got to work 12.15pm. Roy turned up at 1.0 from Eton & Harrow. M uneasy about him. After lunch Roy went back with Maud by herself. Worked on. M, Roy & Maud went to Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Back by 9.50pm. Finished work 10.45pm. Hard pushed. Bottle Champagne & bed 1.30 after exhausted sleep in chair. Elections on still. Slightly in favour of Gladstone. Mare went down to Lord Rosebery's to be covered. Purnell took her down at 8.0am. (Red ink: Roy home from Eton at 1.0pm.
Saturday July 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Tired. Dear Roy & Tony. In morning put all things away etc. Wrote letters. At 12.15 carriage took M & Maud & self to Eton & Harrow cricket match. Harrow won by 64 runs. Saw Critchetts, Fritz Jacksons etc etc. Quilter etc. M & Maud stayed. Roy & self went in cab to Criterion. Had lunch. After to German Reeds'. Saw 'Charity begins at Home'. Lord Onslow, Mrs Spofforth behind us. After walked to Charbonel & Walkers' & home. Bought strawberries. Met Archie Stuart Wortley. After dined 7.30 (called at Simmonds & Co) went to see Pantomime Rehearsal. High box & hot. After to Horne(?). Met engineer of line, 16 Airlie Gardens. Home by 4 wheeler. Eggs not boiled. Bed 1.20 pm. Better day for Gladstone in elections. (Red ink across page: Eton & Harrow cricket match. Went to German Reeds' & also to Court Theatre.) (Note in pencil: Last saw Taff R.)
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Sunday July 10 Stafford Terrace. Dull day. Up at 9.30. Breakfast. After put things in order & sorted cheques all morning. Mrs Cox called in morning about my mother. Roy went out with Banbury. Lunch. Finished cheques. Madame Alain called. Roy & Maud making row in yard. Warm & close. Carriage ordered 4.30pm. Miss Rose Innes & Mrs Robertson called. Left in carriage at 4.45. Drove to Zoo. Saw lions etc, sea lion, reptiles & monkeys etc etc. Back in carriage. Roy went round to his grandmother's. Granny wanted to see me. After wrote letters to Ainger etc. Dined 8.0. Smoke & sleep after. Woke up at 1.0am exactly. Bed. (Red ink: Roy at home from Eton.)
Monday July 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Roy in bed. Down breakfast 8.20. Dog cart round 9.35. Roy went back to Eton. Wrote letters & wrote out also Milliken's Mother Goose. Nursery rhymes for Almanack. Maud & Mademoiselle to call on Sir B.Baker. Began Almanack for 1893. In evening dinner at home. Mr & Mrs Huish, Fritz Jackson, Mite & Spencer dined. Fritz stayed up talking a long time. Good dinner. Huish pleased with drawing. 3 bottles of wine. (Red ink: Dinner at home to Huish's.)
Tuesday July 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Worked all day on Almanack '93. In evening dined at the Oakes'. Marquis would not go into the gates. Took a sister of Percy O's intended in. Next Mrs Holmes. Very slow. Talk to Douglas Gordon after. Had been at Sandhills. Left in carriage 1.45pm. Home. Gave Purnell £1 to go to Durdans at 8.0am tomorrow. (Red ink: Dined at Mrs Oakes, Derwent Lodge, to meet Percy O's fiancée.)
Wednesday July 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Worked all day on drawing of black man & Lord Salisbury. In afternoon took cab & called to be fitted on at Lamb's. Cab on to Punch dinner after. Called Lepscombes. Shut. On to Punch dinner. Furniss on about Eton. Subject of Bismarck as whale. Easy. Left after talk with Milliken. Lehmann gave me one of his books. Home by cab all way. Wet. My mother round. Tried to make her more resigned. Talk of ways & means. Purnell went down to the Dudans early & fetched mare back again. (Red ink: Mare back from the Durdans.)
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Thursday July 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Got on with work & went on to finish Salisbury & black man, did not quite finish by lunch time. After lunch Mr Davies came. Gave him sketch & also cleaned drawing of Lancashire & Derbyshire Railway. Delayed me till 4.0pm. Burnand wired & asked us to dine. Could not. Sent drawing off at 4.30. At 8.0 dined at the Pollocks. No appetite for dinner. Careful what I took. Took Miss Drummond Hay in to dinner & sat next Miss Craigie. Good dinner. Long talk with old gent after. Left 11.15pm. Home. At 5.45 rode mare 1st time after Durdans. Went to meet of 4 in hand. Saw Burdett Coutts etc etc. Good ride. Back by 7.15pm. (Red ink: Dined at the Pollocks.)
Friday July 15 Stafford Terrace. Rode mare at 8.45, 2nd time since covering, ¾ hour in Park. After at 10.0 got on with drawing of Bismarck as whale. Worked all day. Finished at 7.0 & dressed. Drove with M to dine at Fritz Jackson's. Met Mr & Mrs Joyce (Miriam Jackson) Miss Rose Innes & Mrs Robertson & one other gentleman. Poor poon dinner. Felt better. Talk to Miss R.I after. Left at 11.50 & home. (Red ink: Dined at Fritzy Jackson's.)
Saturday July 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 10.0 rode for nearly 3 hours in Park. Saw Finlay, Stone etc etc. Back & wire came in answer to mine to go to Brookwood Park. Left at 4.15 & caught train 5.5 for Ropley. Mite & self went down. M went to Percy Oakes' wedding. Got to Ropley ½ hour late. Court there. Drove to Brookwood. Flies. Tabs & Hamilton out. Dined. Did mot dress. Quiet dinner, snooze after. Bed eleven. 'Counts two on a Division'. Dull close & heavy at Waterloo. (Red ink: Went to Brookwood Park. Percy Oaks & Miss Ford married.)
Sunday July 17 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up 8.45. Breakfast 9.30. Read Burnet's History of his own Time. Very interesting. After pottered about. Got camera out. Wrote many letters, Macmillan etc. Tested my key camera after lunch. Went for walk with Mite, Tabs & H. Tea. Thought I heard pumping. Was fox cubs shut up. Dinner after another walk. Little rabbit shut in in wire fence by head. Set it free. Found mushrooms. Dinner. Sleepy after. Hamilton played. Bed 11.0 sharp. (Red ink: Brookwood Park. Wet day.)
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Monday July 18 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up 8.30. Down 9.0. Tested camera & after looked out book in Hamilton's book case. Valuable old book on the Horse. Walk with camera in grounds. Photod cow, goat & foxes. Lark with 3 fox cubs. Got out & spread about.. Men after them. After back to house. Lunch. Left 2.20. Drive to Ropley. Seymour Hayen's cart. Up to town. Heavy wet. Lady got in at Aldershot. Mite & self home by 5.45. M better. Tea. Dressed & on in heavy wet in carriage to dine with Miss Rose Innes. Mr & Mrs Joyce (Miriam) Chilean gent, Mr & Mrs Macinlay, Mr Stubbs, Mrs Robertson, Miss Rose Innes & selves. Good dinner. Oh slow slow Joyce. On to Royal English Opera House. Saw Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux Camelias. Very good. Pretty woman in stalls. Lockett Agnew & also Binns Smith. After left 11.30 & home. Not so wet. M better. (Red ink: Went to dine at the Bristol, Sarah Bernhardt after.)
Tuesday July 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 9.45 rode in Park in straw hat. Saw Hawthorn, Stone & author Jones. Rode with Jones. Hideous old woman. Back home. Developed 6 plates, 4 spoilt. Lunch. Pouring wet day all afternoon. Got to work & began replica of Burying of Broad Gauge. Finished Lancashire & Derbyshire Railway. After dined & quiet evening afterwards. Slept in chair till 1.0am. Bed. Heavy continuous wet all day. Connie Gilchrist married to Earl of Orkney today. (Red ink: Quiet day at home. Wet all day nearly.)
Wednesday July 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Dull morning. Gale of wind. Elections nearly over. Photo hut. Wrote diary & after worked on replica of Burial of the Broad Gauge. Lunch. M went to Miss Faudel Phillips's wedding. Dressed at 3.30. At 3.50 Mr Phillips called about his drawings. Delayed me 1 hour. Took cab at 4.45 & drove to Turkish bath in Northumberland Avenue. Good bath. Hair cut. Out 6.45, walked to P.D. Bradbury ill. Good dinner. F.C.B, Guthrie, Reed, B.P, Arthur à B, Furniss, self & J.T. Furniss loud aggressive & vulgar. Stayed till 11..45. Walked with Milliken as far as Waterloo Bridge. Took hansom home. Window unlocked in drawing room. Bed 12.50 exactly. (Red ink: Miss Faudel Phillips married to Mr Henriques.)
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Thursday July 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. fine morning. Did not ride. Got to work to finish drawing replica of Burial of Broad gauge. Fox sent at 10.30am. Worked up to 2.0pm. Lunch. At 2.30 rode mare through St John's Wood on to Highgate to see Burdett Coutt's stud. Baron Hirsell there, Lord Willoughby d'Evesly etc etc. Good show. Talk to the Baroness etc etc. Left at 6.15 exactly. Back home 7.30pm. Dinner. M & self drove in hansom to see play The Fringe of Society. Met the Lillys at the door. Hot. Stalls. Duffings. Stupid play. Left last act, out & home. Commissionaire disappointed about cab. Cab rushed. Home 11.30. Snack. Bed 12.15pm. (Red ink: Went to Burdett Coutts horse show. Lady Harris's garden party. Advertisement in 'Times' about Marquis.)
Friday July 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Rode in Park 8.45 to 9.30. Saw Reed & Pepys Cockerell back with grey horse. Got to work. Wrote letters. Drew drawing of Moor & Sir Ewan Smith. F.C.B called 12.0. Note about hat, Lincoln & Bennett. Worked up to 10.45. Dinner. Champagne. M back from her mother's. Sleepy. Spencer called with Hilda. (Red ink: Rode with Pepys Cockerell.)
Saturday July 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Got to work on Hat sketch for Lincoln & Bennett. Finished 11.15. Boy had been round to stables. Took himself off. Had to send Purnell to Swain's with drawing. Dressed. Left in cab at 12.55. Called with parcel at Lambs. Lost leather cigar case. Blew them up about cap. Walked to Club. Had lobster. Routledge & Lord Euston. Introduced. Never spoke a word. Ashby Sterry came in after also Foster. Hope sold Marquis. After walked very hot to Lyric Theatre. Mother, M, Mademoiselle & Mite there. Saw Mountebanks. Had 2 boxes. Met the Willards. Out at 5.20. Back with Mite in carriage from Sackville St. Rode round Battersea Park & up Earls Court Road. Home by 8.0. Dined. Beef. Quiet evening. Bed 12.0am exactly. (Red ink: Went to see 'Mountebanks' matinée. Advertisement in 'Times' about Marquis.)
Sunday July 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Rode to Richmond, Wimbledon etc on mare. Lunched with Barkers. Met the Mortimers. Pleasant lady. Left with big cigar at 2.45. Walked mare down hill. Home 4.0 exactly. Tea. My mother depressing & very discontented. Carriage
63 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 at 5.15pm. Called with M & saw Tenniel's cob. On to Zoo around 5.45. Left 6.35. Back. Carriage went to Albert Hall Mansions for Maud. Came back empty. Took my mother back. Dinner at 8.0 after writing letters. Quiet evening after. Maud back at 10.0. Read in Sunday Sun Zola's Débacle. Bed 12.0am exactly. M not well. (Red ink: Rode to lunch at Barkers. Zoological after.) (Later note in red ink: This is the last time I had lunch & talk with Barker. Only saw him once after at my mother's funeral. Died March 20th 1893.)
Monday July 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50am. Rode in Park 8.30 to 9.45. Saw Sir C Russell, Miss Russell & C.Matthews etc. Good ride with Miss R. Back breakfast. Wrote many letters. Gave cheque to Mite for £3.0.0. Wrote Livesay. Met Huish in morning who arranged to come round tonight. Got on & nearly finished drawing of Burial of Broad Gauge for Newcastle. At 6.30 Huish called & looked over drawings. Arranged for exhibition next year. Dined quietly after & bed early. Advertisement in Times about Marquis. (Red ink: Huish called at 6.30 & arranged for Exhibition in next June.)
Tuesday July 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode in Park before breakfast. Saw Mr Smith & daughters, also Mills. Oh Mills, Mills! Slow. In morning wrote Sarles etc etc. Orders for stores to Fittleworth. After finished drawing of Burial of Broad Gauge. Fox sent for it at 1.30pm. Sent it off. In afternoon put away all drawings in envelopes etc & wrote & made up many dates on them. Still some to do. Dined quietly after & bed early. Mite busy on her jacket. Lincoln & Bennett wrote to thank me for drawing. (Red ink: Finished replica of Burial of Broad Gauge & sent it off 2.0pm.) (Later note in red ink: Cheque received Aug 3 1892.)
Wednesday July 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode in Park mare before breakfast. Saw Wirgman etc. Back. Breakfast. After wrote further orders for stores, ordering brown rope etc. Lunch. M out in carriage. Mrs Herapath called. Left at 4.15pm for Turkish bath. Saw the back of Mrs H near pillar box. Cab to Turkish baths in N.A. No 8 shampooer. Out at 6.35. Walked to P.D. Very full dinner. Wore checked coat & straw hat. Furniss rude about it. F.C.B, Guthrie, Lucy, Reed, B.P, Milliken, Arthur à B, D.M, Furniss, Lehmann, self & J.T. Had written out cheque to apply for shares in Palace Theatre. After P.D thought better of it. Advice against on moral
64 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 grounds. Good cut for self. Tourist & Nationalities. Left. Walked with Guthrie & B.P, called Beefsteak Club. Saw Corny Grain, Drummond etc, also against Palace Theatre. Home in cab at 1.20. Home & in bed by 2.0am. My mother not round. (Red ink: Doubtful as to applying for shares in Palace Theatre.)
Thursday July 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am Put riding things on & after breakfast at 10.0am rode mare in Park for last time in season. Saw Finlay etc, Stone etc. Chaff about Finlay looking at Tenniel's cob. Rode until 11.30 am. Home. Lunch. Aferwards got to work on drawing of Tourist & Countries. Mite photod me in new suit at 2.0pm. Spencer in at Stafford Terr with Hilda & Daggles. Photod them ½ doz plates. Fanny Barker called at 12.45 about Mademoiselle. Developed plates. Hot sun. Got to work. Arranged subject up to 7.0pm. Dressed & took cab to dine with Stone. Got there 8.0pm. Capn Heathorn, Mr Bevan & Mr Richmond (brother of W.Richmond) self & Stone dined. Good dinner & plenty of wine. Sleepy after. Heathorn drove me home in his brougham. Talk of Dilke etc. Home at 12.15am exactly. (Red ink: Dined at William Stone's. Last ride of season on mare.)
Friday July 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & got to work after breakfast. Roy back from Eton 9.30. Looking well & good report, 2nd in class. Had to work all day hard on subject of Distressed Tourist & England etc & other countries. Hard all day & finished latest ever did. At 11.25pm sent boy off. Saw Mr Littleton in the dining room in afternoon about Marquis. In evening Roy & Mademoiselle went to see The Private Secy. Back 11.30. Mite & M did not go. Very busy over her jacket, like an Eton jacket. Emma in to work. Slept in chair exhausted till 2.0am. Bed. Sent Marquis in cart for Mr Littleton to look at. (Red ink: Roy back from Eton. Nearly poisoned at night with copper soup. Bah!!)
Saturday July 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Decided not to ride. Purnell round. Put photos away etc. Long morning. Tired. Decided to go to Fittleworth by later train. Wired Horlick & Effie. Put all photos away etc. Wrote mother. Packed bags. Put out clothes etc & gave Wolmann brown paper etc. Drew cheques etc. Just got ready only. Drove in omnibus to station Victoria. Great crowd, all very civil. Reserved carriage 1st class to Pulborough. Changed, more civility.
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Got to Fittleworth 6.30, ½ hr late. Effie met us in victoria. Drove to Con's. Very pretty maid. Unpacked. Down to river after tea. Con & Mr Skinner out fishing, Percy English also. Got into canoe for 5 minutes. Back. Dinner. Quarrelsome dogs. Roy & Maud dined in study. Dinner, bad wine. Whiskey & Apollinaris after. Smoke. Fight between old spaniel & lame fox-terrier. Row. Into drawing room. Bed after smoke & whiskey at 12.15pm. Comfortable bed. Roy hot & restless. Took clothes off him. (Red ink across page: M, self, Roy & Maud left at 3.0pm for Fittleworth. Mademoiselle Jacquenot left.)
Sunday July 31 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up 8.0am. Roy in room worrying. At 8.30 out in boat & up to Dead Man's Hole for swim. Difficulty in getting Roy into the water. Back for breakfast. Lovely hot morning. Sat out & read. Roy, M & Maud went for cruise in boat. Lunch. In afternoon sat about etc. Went for walk. Threatened rain etc. Strolled back. Bull dog out. Took photos etc. Cold supper dinner. Got bottle of Saumur. Good meal. Trod on dog who bit my boot. After read Tom Brown's Schooldays. Sleepy. Whiskey & bed at 12.30 after long yarn. Changed plates. (Red ink: Good idle day at Fittleworth. Very hot & close. Stormy in afternoon.)
Monday August 1 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up 8.0am. Roy & self went to bathe. Good swim. Back. Breakfast after. Skinner & Fritz's cousin (Kindermann) went up river in boat. Read book Cruise of Wanderer. After Roy & self went to river. Met F's cousin. Went up in boat to photo. Rowed & caught up Skinner. Got in & rowed to bridge. Landed to fish. Roy & lame man went to farm house to get milk. Cruise in boat by self. Hoisted sail. After good breeze & sailed home. Landed & photod banks of docks. Back. Lunch. Good lunch. Opened liqueur. After dozed & read. Skinner left for town. All went up at 5.0 to Jephsons for lawn tennis. Had 2 sets. Ethel English & self against Roy & Conrad. Won one each. After single set with Roy. Very hot. Walked home. Too late for swim. Changed & dined 8.15. Bottle Saumur. Cigar. Dancing on lawn. Sleep on sofa. Changed plates. Bed at 12.45am. Tired. Good sleep. (Red ink across page: Bank Holiday. Did not feel it at all. Lawn tennis at the Jephsons.)
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Tuesday August 2 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up 8.0am. Bright sunny morning. Roy & self went off with Fu to bathe. Roy jumped in. Photod. Back to breakfast. Read 'Times' after & at 11.0 went with Maud & Roy in boat as far as bridge. Sailed back. Hat fell in water. Fu & water rat. Lunch. Cold mutton etc. Percy English left at 3.0pm. Roy worrying Maud for cricket. Made up mind to work. Drawing in afternoon. All away. Maid brought tea 5.30. Dull grey evening. All back 6.15. Most went in boat although drizzling. M up in room with me where I put things. Got to work till 7.5pm. Roy came & M self & Roy went to bathe. Had good plunge. Roy argumentative & not very good. Dressed. Dinner. Chicks at dinner. Smoked after & read book on 1st Carlist War. Long talk with Con about Eddie B after. Bed 12.0am. Good sleep.
Wednesday August 3 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up 8.0. Went with Roy to swim. Grey morning. Rowed as far as mill. Breakfast. Letters. Cleared after. Cigar. Cricket. Got to work & worked all morning, M writing letters. Cheque received from Miss Noble £21.0.0. Worked on Almanack & skemed all subjects. Traced them. Worked on till 2.30pm, astonished late for lunch & scramble. Just got off by train. Roy went with me. Up to town. Saw tall handsome woman on platform at Pulborough, Mrs Macdonald. Met H.Burnand & wife at Victoria. Carriage outside. Drove to Garrick Club & walked on from there to P.D. Up stairs. Bernard Partridge left taken suddenly ill. Guthrie, Lehmann, Arthur à B, Furniss, self & Tenniel there. Good dinner. Hy F better. Left at 11.30 & on to Garrick by carriage. Wrote 3 or 4 letters & to Bourrod Valenden & Co. Home by 12.45. (Red ink: Up to town from Fittleworth.)
Thursday August 4 Stafford Terrace. Wrote many letters in morning. Darling wrote about meet etc. At 1.30 Nash's man came round & photod him for Snail & workman. Also Purnell photod self for Black Sheep at 2.15pm. Developed plates. At 4.30 drove in carriage to get Mite's present to Welby's. Back again. Called on mother. Saw her. Afterwards worked till 3.15 on drawing of men climbing into ship. Carriage at 8.30. Kept me waiting 10 minutes. Drove to Beefsteak. Dined. Saw Leslie Ward, Matthews etc. After at 11.0 went to Empire. Saw Alfred de Rothschild etc. Garrick. Met Toole in hall. Asked me to supper. Went. Sir C.Hall, Sir A.Borthwick, young
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Fernandez, Coningsby Disraeli., Joe Knight etc etc. Sat next Hall & sat till 3.0am. Home by cab by daylight. Too much snake & Champagne. Mrs Herapath in in morning asking to dinner. Did not go. Parliament met at Westminster. (Red ink: Seasons dinner at Star & Garter, Richmond.) (Red ink across page: Supper with Toole at the Garrick. Stayed very late.)
Friday August 5 Stafford Terrace. Woke 8.45. Very buzzy. No headache but unfit for work. Down. Breakfast & got to work. Very hot. Took no photos at all. Worked all day on Gladstonian Liberals climbing into Ship. My mother had carriage at 3.0 & back to tea 4.30. Wirgman called on horse at noon. At 8.0pm drove in carriage to Dawson Place & dined with Wirgman. Good dinner. Met Hadden (Hammond) Chambers, Stuart Wortley, Swan, Solomon etc etc. Did not feel up to dinner much. Good stories. Worm six feet long, Swan's story. Talk to Hadden Chambers about Eton. Left 11.30. Walked home. Took wrong turning, up Essex Villas. Home 12.30. Read 'Piping Hot'. Sleep 1.30am. Planet Mars nearest Earth, 35 million miles away. Looked at it through glass. (Red ink: Dear Mite's birthday, 17 years old today.) (Red ink across page: Dined with Wirgman 8.15. Good dinner.)
Saturday August 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Fine hot morning. Put things away. Printed photos & developed plates etc. Felt better. Purnell round. After carriage ordered & round at 1.0. Could not find my pass anywhere, much annoyed. Left 1.20. Drove to Wellby's. Chose Maud's bracelet & brooch etc. Club. Lunched off lobster etc. Changed cheque for £5. Carriage waited. Saw Chapmell. Drove back to Kensington again, could not find pass. On at 3.20 to Victoria. Caught train down to Fittleworth. Young man got in train with slight moustache. Slept heavily all way down. Out at Pulborough. Dear Maud met me at Fittleworth. No Roy. On to house. Went with Roy to swim. Did not swim self. Back. Dinner. Claret & apollinaris. Livery. Sleepy after dinner. Smoke & talk. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: Down to Fittleworth again.)
Sunday August 7 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up at 8.45. Dull showery morning. Went with Roy to bathe. Swim. Men fishing exactly at Dead Man's Hole. Back. Breakfast. After photod Conny, Mite, Eff & Miss English etc etc. Lunch. Slept in chair 2 hours. After tea wrote letters to 7.15.
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Went off with Roy to swim. Did not swim self. Men had caught few gudgeon & 2 small eels all day. Back supper. Pipe & bed. Quiet peaceful day. Con told me about HRH. P.L. Bed 12.0 exactly. (Red ink: Quiet peaceful day at Fittleworth. Dull & cloudy.)
Monday August 8 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up 8.20am. Went with Roy to swim. Recovered reeds. Good swim for 10 minutes. Back. Breakfast. Letter from F.C.B etc & about horse. Read Times. Walked up to P.O. Very hot. Could not get envelopes. Roy worried about lawn tennis. Back & wrote many letters in afternoon, in fact all afternoon. Did a little work & after at 4.0 dressed & out 5.0pm walked with Conrad to the Johnson's place for a garden party. Very hot. Talk of Sir Edgar Boehm. Got there 5.45. Roy & Maud had gone in the donkey cart. Slow gathering. Saw young Aird. Walked back with Roy & Con. Collie dog followed. M & Mite went home in the donkey cart. After called on Mrs Hawkins & had ginger beer. Back & out with Roy to swim. All others in boat. Roy swam round boat. Had a dip myself & back. Dinner. Quiet evening. Told Effie of Pat. Bed 12.0. Talk of affairs of estate.
Tuesday August 9 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up 8.0am. Roy & self went to swim. Breakfast. After begun in earnest in room, drawing for. Put in mice, duck & ram, black sheep, after lunch. At 5.0 after tea went up to cricket field with Roy. Roy bowled & little yokels about. Left at 6.45 & went M, Roy & self in boat for swim. Roy swam, I did not. Quiet dinner. Con & Effie went up to town & back to dinner. Bed 12.0 after talk.
Wednesday August 10 The Grange, Fittleworth. Up at 8.0am. Roy & self went for bathe in river for last time. Fine hot morning very close. Lunch after writing letters etc. Left at 3.0pm. Met young Huxley at Pulborough, went up to town with him. Talk of Egypt etc. Purnell met me at Victoria. Sent bags home & walked to Club. Wrote letters. Walked to near the Lyceum & took cab to P.D. Small dinner. F.C.B, Arthur à B, Reed, Lucy, self & Tenniel. Left 11.45. Suggested cut of shooting over dogs & also title. Home by cab by 12.45pm. Bradbury no better. (Red ink: Left Fittleworth.) (Later note in pencil: Lost blue cap, Aug 29,'99.)
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Thursday August 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 10.0 Stace came round & photod him for German porter & for Jack Horner, 5/-. After draped Purnell & photod him for Columbus. Developed & printed many photos. At tea time begun & finished drawing of Grouse Driving. Finished 8.30pm & took cab to Beefsteak Club & dined. Furniss there & young Lawson Scots Guards. Division of the House of Commons. Government defeated by 38 votes. Went late to Empire. Saw Milton, also Phillip Cosens. Left 11.30 & called Garrick. Sat in smoking room. One other. Waited for division. Home 12.30 by cab to Stafford Terrace. Read 'Piping Hot'. Cheque sent for £73.0.0 odd for Xtra acct. (Red ink across page: Division in the House & defeat of Government.)
Friday August 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & printed photos at 10.0. At 10.30 begun drawing of Columbus. Worked all day. My mother could not come round. Wrote note. Worked up to 10.30. Dined by self, ½ bottle of Perinet. Slept on sofa till 1.30am. Bed after. Sent Purnell to Stores for vests & tobacco etc etc. Lovely fine hot day. Wrote K.M about tomorrow.
Saturday August 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Undecided whether to photo K.M. Wired not. Lovely sunny morning. Tidied things up. Wrote letters & packed. Drew letters for Randall Davies. At 1.15 lunched, ½ bottle of Champagne. At 1.30 round to stable & to see my mother. Mother not well. Got off & caught the 2.25pm for Christ Church. One other man in train. Took Tony with me. Tony behaved and at Bishopstoke came across M, Maud & Roy after their tiring cross journey of 4 changes. Got into my carriage & on to Ch Ch. Civil station master. Roy had worried his mother. Mule panniers missing. Back in carriage & asked station master to wire. On to Elm Hurst. Roy bought key for watch. Bought envelopes. 1st view of Elm Hurst. Charming house, 1st rate. Tea & down to sea shore. Hamilton back after arrival. Roy & Miss Holland playing game ½ croquet. Dressed. Dinner. Game of billiards after with H. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: Game of Cozzare, ½ croquet.) (Red ink across page: Came down to Elm Hurst for 1st time 1892.)
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Sunday August 14 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am. Went with Roy to have swim for 1st time in sea. Tony went. Tony swam right out to sea. Tide very far out. Back to breakfast. After sat about all morning in lovely weather. Mite in hammock. Photod her after lunch & Chicks. Exposed plates twice. H & self went to look at bar of river. In afternoon after 2 hours work went with Hamilton & Roy for long walk along beach. Roy bathed. Back. Got wet. Rain came on. Dinner & quiet delightful evening. Sleepy after. Bed at 11.15pm. Played game of ½ croquet in the morning with Roy. Beat him.
Monday August 15 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am & went with Roy to swim. After going back saw Col & Mrs Sermon. After breakfast sat about & after got to work on Almanack. Lunch. After H marked single court out. Took photos of dogs & children. Worked. Tea & after played Roy two single sets. Beaten. After 2. 4 sets beaten. Dinner & game of billiards after. Hamilton beat me 2 games. Changed plates & bed 12.0.
Tuesday 16 August Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am. Roy & self went for swim. Back. Hamilton's yacht round. Undecided. H walking up & down. Decided not to go to Southampton. Worked. Photod Jackdaw after lunch. After tea played Roy 2 single sets & had lovely swim after. Back 8.0pm. Hamilton back to 8.30 dinner. Did not play billiards. Changed plates. Bed early. H & Miss Holland went to Southampton. Wrote many letters in afternoon. Roy & Maud came down to dinner & dined. Letter from F.C.B about Forbes & Watkins. Cheque for 36 guineas sent from Davies for acct, L & D & B.G. Rly.
Wednesday August 17 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am. Hot sunny morning. Bathe with Roy. Lovely morning. Back & got to work all morning at Almanack. Lunch & worked after on Almanack. Tea & played Roy 1 set. Beat him. Before played Hamilton 2 sets lawn tennis, was beaten. 4 game after, Miss H & H against R & self. Beaten 1 set & a half. Did not bathe. M drove to Airds & called on Sermon. Lovely hot afternoon. Dressed & after dinner beat Hamilton 2 games of billiards. Bed at 11.0pm. Tired. Changed 1 plate. took no photos
71 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 today at all. 2 bracelets came down from Welby, gave them to M & Maud. Lovely.
Thursday August 18 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up at 8.12. Dull morning. Went with Roy to bathe. Tide up. Lovely bathe & Tony went backwards & forwards. Two beetles fighting, one feeding on other. Breakfast. No tea. Decided to go on yacht at 10.30. Hamilton, self, Roy, M, Maud & Miss Holland went on board Columbine. Tony left with Tabs on shore. Got to yacht. Sea came in & wet Maud in dingy. Settled on deck. In ¾ hour heavy rain, squally & thunder came on. M, Maud & Miss H ill. Wretched time. Went ashore at Bournemouth at 2.35pm. Fly & caught 3.15 train. Home in heavy rain. Bought papers. Fly on to Elm Hurst. Tabs met us with Tony. Tabs & Roy playing billiards. Hamilton & Miss Holland returned 5.15pm. Still heavy wet. Wrote letters. Dinner. After played Hamilton 2 games of billiards. Beat him. Bed 1.30pm. (Red ink across page: All got caught in squall on yacht. Frightfully wet.)
Friday August 19 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 6.0am. Dressed. Breakfast. Caught 7.40am train at Hinton Admiral. Met Aird & a Mr Ward. Changed Brockenhurst. Got in pullman car. News of new Baronets & Knights. Lawson, Seager bart & Carbutt. Jaffray, Boots, Maple, Ashmead Bartlett & Douglas Straight knights. Home by cab. No letter from Scotter. All well. Got to work at 11.50 on drawing of Lawson & Labby. 'Of course my boy its the right thing to do'. Worked on till 10.45pm finished. Alice took photo of self for Labby. Dark, heavy lowering clouds all day & very black. Could hardly print. Wrote letters of congratulations in morning. (Red ink: Went up by 7.40am from Ch Ch or Hinton Admiral for work all day in town.) (Red ink across page: Dear Roy's birthday, 14 years old.)
Saturday August 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. In room. Wrote letters etc. After breakfast tidied room etc. Sent fan off & parcel to Stores. After found could not catch 12.15 train, wired Fletcher. Called & saw mother. Sad. Left after lunch at 1.40 for Waterloo. Good cab. Down by 2.15pm train. Flighty youth in train & fat square face. Pony cart met me Ch Ch. Roy away at cricket match. Got 9 wickets. Played 3 sets lawn tennis. Won 1, lost 2. Dinner, grouse from Vernon. After felt very sleepy. Played 2 games 100 up
72 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 billiards with H. Won both. H 40 points ahead in 1st. (Red ink: Came down again to Elm Hurst by 2.15pm from Waterloo.)
Sunday August 21 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.30. Roy & self bathed. Tony. Back breakfast. After read Sherard Osborn's book on Chinese naval battle 1859. Up in room & worked. Snail & Champagne bottle. Changed suit & down on front of sea. Lunch. Grouse. Wrote many letters. Sent Orton cheque for £21.0.0. After went for walk with Maud & Roy to High Cliff Castle. Hamilton went too. Met Aird party all turned & came to Elm Hurst. Party in Elm Hurst. Walked round. 1st view of Phrene Knowles. Roy H & self went as far as bathing house. Roy bathed. I did not. Back. Dinner. Changed plates. Bed 11.0. After dinner went in to Col Sermon to look at planet Mars through telescope. Did not see much. Lovely evening.
Monday August 22 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Lovely morning up 8.0am. Roy & self bathed. Breakfast. Got on with work. Roy & his uncle played cricket. After lunch Roy went on tricycle to Nugents. Maud & self went in pony cart to garden party at the Knowles'. Lawn tennis. Parson of Ch Ch Mr Bush who married Kemp Welch's sister. Miss Phrene Knowles, very handsome. Back with Mite. Roy rolling down. Went for swim in evening. Roy tired. Billiards. Bed. Roy at dinner. Voice went up. Had invited boys for tomorrow. (What am I to do!). In afternoon man brought Daniel boar hound. Photod him. Made for Ju & Colonel. Huge brute. Mr Musgrave, Wood cottage, Wood Lane, Uxbridge Road, London W. Gum boil came on.
Tuesday August 23 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am. Did not bathe on acct of Roy being tired. Worked in morning.,. Lunch. Master Nugent & boys friends (Wards) came over for Roy. After awful thunderstorm in evening from 5 to 7.30. Vivid lightning & thunder. Dined. Good dinner. Hamilton & Miss Holland went on board yacht at 1.0pm. Back again, no wind. In evening after dinner Mr & Mrs Gillson & Mrs Sermon came in to play pool. Roy divided one with me. Toothache from gum boil. (Red ink across page: Violent thunderstorm from 5.0pm to 7.30pm.)
Wednesday August 24 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am. Went with Roy to bathe. Back. Breakfast. Worked on Xmas N° all morning. Hamilton & Miss
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Holland went for sail. Back again. No wind. Worked all aftrnoon up to tea time. Game of lawn tennis after, Miss Holland, H & self 2 sets. After dinner Hamilton beat me two games of billiards by many points. Great game, 60 + 40 in excess of points. Roy went off for cricket match. Roy & self bathed after at 7.30pm. Punch dinner at the Mitre, Hampton Court. 1st time for many years. Tooth ache from gum boil.
Thursday August 25 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up at 7.30. Bathed & back with Roy. All caught 9.25 train for Southampton. Miss Holland, Tabs, Hamilton & self. Very hot. Left Tabs at Southampton to meet Mervyn. Went on board Columbine. Irish pilot & daughter Biddy on board. Got under weigh 11.0am. Sailed up Southampton Water. Took photos. Put Irishman & daughter ashore at Fort. After much delay fresh breeze. Lunch 1.45. Very hungry. Sea rough. Got to Mudeford at 5.30pm. Landed on shore. Walk to Elm Hurst. Mervyn back & at platform end of garden. Had game of tennis after tea. Roy & self against Hamilton & Miss Holland. Beaten. Roy & self bathed after. Dinner, Mervyn's birds. 2 games of billiards after. H won one & I one. Bed 11.30. Mrs Herapath came down. Toothache from gum boil. Very painful.
Friday August 26 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up at 6.0am. Dressed. Put artist's bag up & left by cart for Hinton Admiral. Caught 7.40 train. Up to town. 1 other to Woking. Train filled & Sir Reginald Wellby got in. Cab home from Vauxhall. Got home 10.55. Awfully slow hansom. Hand organ playing. No letter from F.C.B. Mr Romford & son & friend called about Marquis. Had trial of him. Letter from Frank 12.0. No subject. Did Punch yachting. Lunch. Hungry. Worked & finished 10.45 Punch yachting in 20 ton yacht. Dinner. Slept till 2.0am. Bed. Toothache from gum boil.
Saturday August 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Wrote letter to F.C.B & after tidied up room etc etc. Went round to see my mother, distressing interview. Back. Lunch. Rain came on. Could not use cart. Cab in rain to Waterloo. Caught 2.14pm. Went down all by self. Read Harpers. Fly in pouring rain to Elm Hurst. All playing billiards etc. Mother there. Dinner after long walk with M in gale with Ju & Colonel.. Peter & Lamb found mushrooms. Round by Seekins. After went with Roy for bathe. Rough sea. Back & dressed for
74 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 dinner. Good dinner. Mervyn's birds shot 1 month ago. 2 games of billiards after. H won both. Changed plates & bed at 11.30pm. Lovely view of Mars when bathing. Toothache from gum boil. Relief at 7.30pm.
Sunday August 28 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.30. Roy & self went for lovely bathe. Rough sea. Breakers. Found ladies' cap. Wreckage. Saved planks etc etc. Back. Breakfast. After pipe & addressed envelopes. Tooth troublesome. Took photo of Tabs for Monte Carlo, also of house, Gwen & Eveline. Lunch. After read Mr Welch's letter. Wrote 14 letters arranging for journey etc etc. Lovely afternoon. After tea in summer house. Took photo of family in shelter with Jackdaw catching flies. Walk with Hamilton & Roy. Round to (blank) Bunny. Ditches & wells cut in cliff to drain it. On to shore. Roy bathed. Trick of breaking stones. Tabs, Miss H & Mite along sand with Ju, Colonel & Peter. Lovely walk back with new moon. Ju thrashed. Dressed. Dinner. Slept on sofa afterwards. Changed 7½ x 5 plates. Bed 11.45pm. M & Mite packing. Toothache from gum boil still troublesome. Going.
Monday August 29 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up at 8.15am. Peter in bedroom. Roy & self went for swim. Got sea weed. Tony escaped from hut. Tennis ball. Back. Breakfast. All going off. Miss Holland left early. Mite, M & Mervyn left for town 10.45. Good bye. Roy went too. Played Roy 50 up. After wrote long letters all morning. Lunch. After played set off with Roy at lawn tennis, 4 to 1. Beaten 6 to 1. 2nd set beaten 6 to 3, was 3 games to 1 at start. Rain came on. Hamilton had wire about yacht. Cheque posted. After tea Hamilton & self commenced 500 up at billiards. Roy excited. At end of 3rd 100 self 1 to good. H made 20 & 25 breaks. Heavy rain. No bathe. Dressed. Bagged Roy into dinner. Champagne. Roy & Eton reminiscences. After dinner finished sets, 4th hundred self leading, 5th H won by 25 or 28 points. Lucky & fluky. Roy sat up. Left off 10.45pm. Looked at Bennetts cuts 1865. Bed 11.30pm. Roy hot & awake. Gum boil still troublesome.
Tuesday August 30 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0. Roy & self went to bathe. Strong wind & cold. Short bathe. Back. Breakfast. Tabs in bed with a nasty cold. Mother down to breakfast & took a walk in the wind. After breakfast put photo case up & played Roy 50 up at billiards.
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Beaten. Left at 10.45 in cart for Ch Ch. Roy went. Left him in station. Most comfortable 1st class carriage with lavatory up. Train punctual. Home 2.30. Mr Rumford refused Marquis. M & Maud & Miss Gill. Developed 10 plates, Tabs, Hamburg & Monte Carlo etc, house etc. After tea wrote 7 or 8 letters. Sent cheque for journey. Wrote diary. Organ playing. Row outside between policeman & man (cab runner.) Miss G, M & Maud went to see my mother. Dinner 7.45. Skemed Fox (Labby) & Grapes. Read papers. Sleep after dinner. Bed 11.15pm. All well, my mother better. Gum boil still troublesome. (Red ink across page: Left Christ Church after most pleasant visit.)
Wednesday August 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wrote Stores, night suits without collars. Breakfast. Developed dog plates etc etc. Got to work 10.30. Maud & M left in carriage for Mr Noble Smith 11.30. Strong windy morning. M & Maud back to lunch. Marquis went well. After M took Maud to see her off by the Granville. Met Mr & Mrs Hammond & Mrs Burnand. Got on with drawing of Labby as Fox & Ministerial Grapes. Left at 4.30 & got into cab at Kensington station. Heavy shower. Cab went round by Hornton St. Drive to Turkish baths. Had bath & hair cut. American in hot room. News of cholera. Shampooer No 8. Left at 6.50. Cab to 1st Avenue Hotel. Sergeant in hall. P.D in room 137. F.C.B, Arthur, Lucy, Guthrie, Tenniel, self & Furniss. Good dinner. Discussion about cut & Gladstone as shark. Left at 1.50. Cab home by Silver St. M in bed. Read Pall Mall. Bed 1.15am. Gum boil not healed. (Red ink: Punch dinner 1st Avenue Hotel.) (Later note: Suicide of Margaret Dartrey Doig at Dover aged 22. Threw herself from cliff 300 ft high. Father a baker living 74 Red Lion St, Holborn. This written May 17, 1893.)
Thursday September 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & got on with drawing of Labby. Worked all morning. M packing. Lunch. Finished drawing 3.15. Sent it off. Began to pack etc. My mother & Mrs Sheehy came in. Bother. Rush to pack things. Hindered. Developed Tabby by sea shore. Dined 6.15. Tilda in, left 6.45. Buss up 6.45. Purnell put things in. Got off by 7.0 & drove to Euston by buss. Jupp away. Civil guard etc etc. 1st class reserved. Got pillows etc. Bought magazines. Must provide pillows for future years. Read by reading lamp. Tumbled down. Slept at 9.45. Felt cold at night. Slept all
76 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 night on way to Scotland. Gum boil still troublesome. (Red ink: Left London for Tressady 7.0pm.)
Friday September 2 On board train from Euston to Perth. Woke up by guard at 6.0am at Perth. M & self went in for breakfast. Tall governess & children. Dull small skulled old man. Girls etc. Walk after. Mrs Nash (Miss Weston) came up. Walked about. Pretty little girl in next carriage. Trundled on to Inverness. Hurried lunch. Should not put in tin box. Inverness at 11.30. Changed. Difficulty in getting carriage. One other man in. Saw Spencer at Dingwall. On, got to Rogart at 3.15. Dull. Cold. Rain. Stayed at P.O. Wired for licence to shoot. Drove on to Tressady. Arrived 4.0pm. Lady M met us. Miss Taylor, Eaton Place. After tea found Moon (Haddock) in smoking room. Played 2 rounds of golf. Wet. Cold. Back 6.0pm. Saw Vernon. Dressed. Dinner. After fell asleep in chair. Bed 11.30. Thring, Marshall, Foot, Moon staying. Gum boil still troublesome. (Red ink across page: Arrived Tressady 4.0pm.)
Saturday September 3 Tressady, Rogart. Up & breakfast 9.30am. Heavy. Wet showers & very cold. Started at 10.30am to shoot home beat. Marshall, Vernon, self, Moon, Thring, guns. Foot walked. Birds scarce. Squelching showers. Cold. Lunch at 1.10pm. Shot over grouse on wing. Let hare off. Very wet. Cloak useful. Did not sit down. Attack of P. Started 1.40 without cloak. Took six photographs. Got terribly wet & wind cold. Sent Short Angus back for cloak. Poor sport. Back up drive by 5.0pm. Arrival of Richards & Newton. Letters. Wrote many letters. Heavy wet. Dressed by fire. Dinner. Foot sleepy after dinner. Game of whist after. Newton & self against Vernon & Thring. Lost 2/6. Changed 6 plates. Bed. Foot dragged on his back & tickled. Gum boil very troublesome. (Red ink across page: 1st day's shoot, Tressady. Cold wretched weather.)
Sunday September 4 Tressady, Rogart. Up 9.0. Breakfast 10.15. Good breakfast. Dull cold day. Pipe after. At 11.0 golf match. Scored for Foot & Newton. Thring & Vernon playing. Played one round with Moon. Self took 60. Lunch. Royle came over. Good lunch. Cold beef, chutney & rice. After lunch played 2nd round. Marshall & Richards also. Very painful attack of P all day. Rather seedy. After tea went up & saw match between Richards & Newton against Foot & Thring. R & N won by 4 holes. Lost 2/s to Moon. Suspicion of cold in head. Read
77 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 before dinner. Washed shirt etc. Wrote letters. Made offer for Ramsgate to Vinten. Wrote Roy & my mother. Dinner. Took Miss Taylor in. Good dinner. Claret. Game after. One of things guessed other side of moon. Pipe after. Sleepy. Bed 11.50. M stayed up. Washed shirt. Did not change plates. Read ¼ hr & bed 12.15. Gum boil on wane. (Red ink across page: Golf match all day on Tressady links. Rather seedy all day.)
Monday September 5 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.30. Had woken up in night, P. Richards in bathroom. Down 9.10. Early breakfast. M late. Vernon, Marshall, Richards, Newton, Thring, went to shoot the Brora. Foot to fish. Self in smoking room. Still bad with P & suspicion of cold in head. Horrid. Moon left 10.30 for 11.15 train. Saw train. Read most interesting article on Empress Eugenie extracted from 'An Englishman in Paris' by Archibald Forbes. Completely altered opinion of Empress. Read also Lynch Law in Sun Magazine. M came down noon. Read Times. Death of Mr William Agnew. After lunch worked & did drawing of Hat & Parasol. Packed it up & sent it off & wrote many letters. Dinner. Took Lady M in. Music after dinner. Dryhurst played. Dryhurst arrived in afternoon. Whist after dinner. Won 1/6. Gum boil nearly gone. (Black ink border: Poor Tony killed by Ju at Elm Hurst at 9.30am.)
Tuesday September 6 Tresady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast nine am. Lovely morning. Took phos of all going shooting etc. Golf positions etc. Bright sun. Did not go to shoot. Stayed in smoking room & worked. Did 'Inns & Outs', easy outline. Bothered after. Lunch. Down again to work. Shootists back at 5.0 after a good day. Had not finished. Went up in bedroom, packed block & finished. Lady Fitzhardinge, the Duke of Wellington & Countess of Westmoreland called. M came in with news of poor dear Tony having been killed. Wrote letters. Dinner. Sat next Miss Taylor. Game of Nebuchadnezzar after dinner. Whist. Bed 1.30. (Red ink with black ink border: News came of Tony's death.) (Red ink across page: Stayed in, did not go shoot. Most beautiful day.)
Wednesday September 7 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast 9.0am. Read after. At 10.30 drove in break to Dornoch to play golf. Lady Margaret, Miss Taylor, M, self, Vernon, Richards, Dryhurst, Foot. Picked up Ryle at the mound. On to Dornock. Picturesque links. Lunch in rain.
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Played against Dryhurst & Miss T with us. Won. Handsome man asked after Vernon. Wretched little boy caddie. Pretty little girl caddies. Left off at 5.0. Took 2 photos. Went into church at Dornoch. Skeleton of giant & tombs of Earls of Sutherland. Long inscription. Old man playing organ. Drove home by 7.45. Dinner. Games. Slept on sofa. Did not play whist. M won sweepstake La Fleche for St Leger. (Red ink across page: Lawn tennis at Dornoch.)
Thursday September 8 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast 9.0. After decided for great Golf tournament. Newton & self T'd off against Thring & Vernon. Played 12 holes before lunch. Won by 5 holes. Divided 5. They only won two holes. At 1.0 got camera & took photos of Marshall, Dept etc. Richards & Marshall beat Foot & Dept. Lunch. Doubts about lawn tennis. Had to play 2nd round Newton & self against Richards & Marshall. Played 12 holes. Just won by one hole & the match at 5.0pm. Tea. Read The Wreckers. Letter from Mite & long one from Tabs describing poor Tony's death. Very much in pain from P & tired. Dinner 8.0. M had been with Lady M & Miss Taylor to call on Lady Fitzhardinge. Met the Duchess of Wellington & Countess of W. Golf dinner. Made speeches about old King Canute & Marshall etc etc. Game after dinner. Wrote out & filled in with adjectives. Whist. Won 6d. Up at 11.50. Changed plates & read Times about Eastern Papyrus. Bed at 1.0pm. Game of adjectives. (Red ink across page: Great Golf Tournament all day.)
Friday September 9 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast 9.0. Felt bilious & off feed. Rest after breakfast & at 10.30am went with Vernon W & Newton to shoot over dogs. Up road & past Scotts to right. Took small loch for duck. Old woman & umbrella. Shot one bird well, another on wing. Lunch at 1.30. Lovely day. Rest. Felt better. Started 2.30 & walk home. Pointers. Young dog. Shot at sea gull. Got home 4.30 & had tea. Very hot bath. Rested & read book on Mormons. Letter from Hamilton. M in at 6.0 had been for drive with Cheesenut. Miss Taylor went fishing with Foot, Dept & Thring. Richards & Marshall shot rabbits. Wrote diary. Dinner. Took Miss T in. Talk of Ballooning etc. Good dinner. Long talk to Newton about Petersburgh. After wrote about books & riddles. Dryhurst. Why is stalking like a baloon? because the higher you get the less you see of it. After whist. Won 1/6. Thring & self against Vernon &
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Newton. (Red ink across page: Shoot with Vernon & Newton. Fine lovely day.)
Saturday September 10 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.15am. Breakfast 9.0. M down very late. Started in break at 10.0. Took 1 pho. Fine very windy morning. Drove to Murray's cottage. Started shoot 6 guns 11.40. Craig Nafaer. Lunch 1.40. Very cold & windy. Vernon & Thring Newton, Richards, Marshall & self. Poor shoot. Birds scarce. Back after I shot 2 grouse & 6 hares. Total bag 2½ brace of grouse. Worst on record. Back to Murray's cottage 5.0pm. Milk. Home. Rain. Hot bath. M not returned, wrote letters & diary. Dinner. After Dum Crambo. Words etc acted, Inebriating, Smoking Room. Cut out for whist. Did not play. Read Scotsman. Whiskey. Bed at 12.0. (Red ink across page: Long wallk. Shoot 6 guns. Poor sport. Fine windy day.)
Sunday September 11 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.45. Pain & something disagreed with me last night. Breakfast 9.30. Not well. Got out & went to sun dial. Read The Wreckers. Up in room, M got mixture. (illeg) rhubarb etc etc. Took some. Out on links. Sat with Ryle. Took 8 photos. Ryle came over to breakfast 10.15. After lunch better. Beef & brandy & soda. Played Colonel Bogey with Dryhurst. 1st round got 1½ hole. After stopped by very heavy rain. Got coat. Miss Taylor running in. Changed up in room. Read Rocky Mountains. Tea 5.15. M laid down. Out after on links. Lady M & Miss Taylor playing. Put guard round hole with Dryhurst. Back. Letters fom Barker & Lydia Job. Lydia gave notice. Wrote letters. Dressed. Dinner. Took Miss T in. Very slow dinner, Miss T distrait. Cigarette. Long dreary music after. Sleepy. Foot smoked 4 whiffs of a cigar after a year's abstinance. Sleepy. Bed 11.45. Tired. Did not change plates. (Red ink across page: Quiet. Fine day. Ill in the morning & day spoilt. Heavy rain in afternoon.)
Monday September 12 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.30. Breakfast 9.30. After Foot left. Waited in smoking room & waved adieu. Went with Dept & played for 8 rounds at golf. Wet dull morning. M in. Changed things. Late for lunch. After continued golf. Score below. Beat Dryhurst. M out Lady Margaret & Vernon. Miss T & Thring & Newton went off to fish for trout. Heavy wet came on. No letters at all. Wrote many letters & diary. Letters to railway people & also cheque for Roy's
80 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 term, £79.1.5. After changed plates & down to dinner. Took Lady M in. Good dinner. Speeches after about Asquith MP. Dum Crambo after & looking for thimble. Billiard room after. Played whist, lost 3/s. Bed. (Red ink: Golf match score) (Drawing showing score in table form). 15 up, 2 holes. (Red ink across page: Golf match day with Dryhurst.)
Tuesday September 13 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.45. Breakfast 9.30. Trouts etc. Read Red Letter Stories after. Dryhurst, Thring & Richards went to Lairg. After played 9 holes at golf. Vernon W & self with one hole. Per hole beat Newton & Marshall by one hole up. Lunch. Cut out & fitted cuts for Robinson Crusoe. After strolled down to burn to try & photo sheep. Scott & Pincher came. Could not get near sheep. Back. Met Miss Taylor & Marshall going fishing. Vernon marking lawn tennis lawn. M had letters from Mite & Tabs. After tea played round of 6 holes golf, M & self against Lady M & Vernon. Lady M & Vernon beat us by 2 holes up. Back. Struggle to get letters off. In morning at 11 went to see spate at burn with Vernon, Marshall & dogs. Newton joined us. Photod them. Dressed. Arrival of Lady Frances Fortescue. Read 'A good conscience' to M. Dinner 8.30. In by self. Games after of Questions. Whist. Richards revoked. Lost 2/s. Bed 12.0. Read Red Letter story 'Keilland'. (Red ink: Very wet all night.)
Wednesday September 14 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.45. Breakfast. After at 10.30 played 4 rounds of golf of 5 holes. Dryhurst & self versus Miss Taylor & Newton. Won by 1 hole. Scurry to change things. At 11.45 went in break to Loch Craggie for picnic. Lady M, Lady F.F, Miss T, M, self, Vernon, Dryhurst, Newton & Marshall. Richards & Thring went on in morning. Games of words. M mounted pony & rode to loch. Hot walking. Rain came on. Lunch in picturesque spot. Took 4 photos. Rocks. Richards & I in boat. Good take of fish, 17. After walked round, photod. At 4.30 back by pony with M. Break & back by 5.15. Tea. Letters. Played 6 hole golf with Dryhurst. 3 up each, did self No 5 in 4. Others playing & Lady F walking round. Back. M in chair. Finished letters & wired to Mrs Oakes. Dressed. M not well. Dinner. Last dinner Tressady. Took in Lady M. Long talk about Lawson. Game of Dum Crambo after. Leap frog etc. Played cards in D.C. Whist after. Won 1/6 from Vernon (not paid), 3/6 2nd rubber, lost 3/s last rubber. 6d to the good. Bed 11.45, no, 12.45am. (Red ink across page: Picnic at Loch Craggie.)
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Thursday September 15 Tressady, Rogart. Up 7.30. Packed. Breakfast 8.30. Smoked etc. After got away 10.30 exactly. Goodbye. Omnibus. After at Rogart waited ¾ hour. Train in 11.45, carriage reserved for Duke of Wellington. Richards & Thring with us. Noticed goodbye with sheets etc at Lairg. Duke of W got in. Lady Fitzhardinge said goodbye to M. On. Lunch at 1.30 at Dingwall. Spencer Ada & 2 chicks met us. Talk. On. Saw Lockett Agnew & wife. Inverness 2.30. Carriage through, M stayed in. Talk to Lockett Agnew. The Duke (very fat man) walking about. On to Nairne. Richards & Thring left us. Saw Ethel English & Mrs E. Long run to Perth. Dark. Perth at 7.30. M would stand by boxes. Duchess of W said goodbye to her. Had scotch broth, bought scones etc. Started in reserved cars to Euston at 8.0. Civil guard. Dinner. Slept at 10.0. Fairly good night. M slept well. Euston late, 8.15. Off by 8.30. Home by 9.0. Purnell met us. (Red ink: Carriage through from Rogart to Perth.) (Red ink across page: Left Tressady on return south.)
Friday September 16 On board train from Perth to Euston. Woke at 6.30 Got to Euston late at 8.15. Home S.T at 9.0. Purnell met us. Luggage off. Breakfast. Letter from F.C.B through Swain. At 10.0 subject came. Parody of Turner's picture, Fighting Temeraire. Got to work 12.0. Worked hard all day till 9.45pm. Dinner 10.0. M very tired. Edgar called at 6.30. Talked business. Mervyn called at 8.30, left 9.0pm. Slept in chair. Bed at 12.0. Tired. ½ bottle of Champagne from yesterday. (Red ink across page: 1st day back at Stafford Terrace from the north. Lovely weather.)
Saturday September 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10. Lovely morning. Purnell round. Wired Maud. Answer back, going to Mrs Paxton's today. After writing at 10.30 developed 2 doz ¼ plates. Sent Milliken's picture back. Lunch. In afternoon worked away at Xmas N°. Put in a number of dogs & bull dog. Did not go to my mother. Wrote. Thought of going to Calais tomorrow. Saw Purnell. After dined quietly at 8.0 by selves & bed early.
Sunday September 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Most lovely morning. Decided to go to Calais. M in bed. Left S.T at 10.15, on to Victoria. Same drunken
82 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 man changing carriage. Down in brilliant sunshine to Dover. Across in Victoria to Calais. Took 1 hour. Two curious model girls & some men screwed walking up & down. Calais at 2.15. Lunch in buffet. Good. Walk in town. Had not been there for 30 years, 1862-1892. Reflections. Jeering French at towslely headed model. Back in Victoria at 3.40. Met George Lewis, son etc etc. Good run back. Fair girl. Quantities of hair. Dover 5.15. One other man in carriage. Got to Beefsteak at 8.0. Curious guardsman with bad cold & trawling friend. Dined. Bad D(illeg). Leslie Ward in after. Had been to Brighton. Went at 9.15 in good cab & fetched M from Albert Hall Mansions. Mervyn there. Goes to Ch Ch tomorrow. Home 10.45. Bed. (Later note in red ink: See next run, Sunday June 2, 1895.) (Red ink across page: Went to Calais & back on Victoria. Most lovely day.)
Monday September 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Engaged Purnell by the week & sent him for mare in the afternoon. Developed 2 doz plates of steamer etc etc. Got on with dogs etc of No 4 in Xmas N°. At 1.0 photod Purnell in bright sun. Developed plate etc etc & put in (illeg) after. Printed phos at 2.0pm. M strolled at 3.30 to see my mother. Long talk with her. Alice Linley there. My mother decided to leave Mrs Cox. Pity. Worked till 8.0pm. Dressed in 1 stud shirt & dined quietly at 8.10. Slept after. Missed Tony at & after dinner. Bed 11.45pm. (Red ink: Most lovely day. Worked Xmas N°.)
Tuesday September 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Purnell round. Dull morning. After breakfast developed 1 doz plates. Got to work on Xmas N°. Put woman & glass etc in in No 4. Lunch. More plates. M out & called on Mr Lowndes. After tea work till 5.45. At 6.30 dined. Wrote Brown of Fine Arts etc etc. Letter from Mr Carter about room for my mother. At 7.25 went in cab calling at Garrick to Drury Lane. Saw 'Prodigal Daughter'. Mr Cox & young Donelly came into stalls. After saw Claude Watney. Asked M & self to supper at the Amphytrion. Play very good. Real race & horses. Saw Gus Harris, Latham etc etc. Supper. Very good. Oysters, chicken etc etc. After Claude sent us home in his cab. Letter from Barker refusing to act as trustee. Bed 1.0am. (Cutting glued in, death of Edward Kendall Crace, 20th Sept. Note by L.S: 'Times' Thursday Nov 3, 1892) (Red ink across page: Went to Drury Lane. Saw Prodigal Daughter. Supper with Claude Watney at the Amphytrion.)
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Wednesday September 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head. Decided not to ride. Breakfast 8.45. Extremely heavy rain afterwards. M writing about rooms for mother & to Edgar. Worked all morning. Very dark & heavy wet. Lunch. M pottering. After M looked for Tom Jones, could not find it. Never thought of The Foundling. M read it. Gave up thought of Turkish bath & decided to walk. Worked up to 5.15pm. Scarf back from Dyers. M & self started to walk. Took checked cape. M left on corner of Albert Hall Mansions. Walked on through Park after extremely heavy wet came on. Got soaked. Called Club. Saw Joe Knight. After walked to P.D. F.C.B, Lucy (paid me sovereign) Reed, Furniss, self, Tenniel. Chaff about slow utterance. Talk after. Pleasant dinner. No subject. Cab to Garrick. Wrote letter to W.Birt, G.E.Rly. On home. Read paper & bed.
Thursday September 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not ride. Commenced work on drawing of Herbert Gardner as Countryman. My mother round at 11.30 looking very well. Lunch. Effie came in at lunch time. Stayed. Borrowed 10/s of M. M & Effie went out. Persuaded Effie to stay. Wired Conny & also Claude Watney. Effie & my mother at dinner. Finished drawing of Gardner by 3.0 & sent it off. Commenced drawing of Academy in Arctic Regions. Silly drawing. After dinner saw my mother home in 4 wheel cab. Took same cab on to Lyric Theatre. Had box M. Saw most stupid opera called Cigarette. Fat tenor, 2 silly soldiers etc etc. Imitation of Irving. Left before last act. Home. Eff & M went to bed sharp. Mr W.Birt, manager of Great Eastern Railway Co, kindly sent me pass to Beccles & back. Death of the Duke of Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle.
Friday September 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & got to work sharp on Academy Glacier. Effie left at 10.0am. M round at her mothers. Persuaded M to go down to Con's. Finished drawing 1.45. Lunch. Sent it off. Pack bags etc & left by 3.5 in slow hansom cab to drive to Liverpool St. Took exactly 45 minutes to get there. Only just in time to catch train. Bought papers etc. Cup of tea at Colchester. Saw Mr Parish at Ipswich. On to Beccles. Crowd. Civil porter. Claude Watney's carriage waiting. for me. Called at P.O, wired M. Got envelopes etc etc. Arrived Redisham Hall 7.30. Claude met me. Dressed. Nice bedroom with lovely old silver glass with coins
84 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 round it. Mr Spottiswood (S. guards) & Miss Lake, governess to Claude's cousins the Hewitts there. Good dinner. Champagne. Billiards after, Mr S a good player. Had played for Oxford. Billiard room very large, cost £4,500. Many pairs of elephants tusks etc etc. Shot in 1872 in Africa. Late Squire's name Garden. Bed at 12.0. (Red ink across page: Went down by Great Eastern Railway to Redisham Hall.)
Saturday September 24 Redisham Hall, Beccles. Suffolk. Up at 8.15. Bath. Breakfast. Dull wet morning. Put old shooting coat on. Break round at 10.15. Drove for partridge shoot. Very deep ditches & difficult to climb over. 2 keepers. One tall, one sturdy & stout. Shot. Good lunch by farm. Pilsner beer. Talk. On again. Shot all afternoon. Old man of 75 had built large house in 100 acres of land. Wiped Spottiswood's eye with bird & shot another over trees. Hares. Long wet walk in turnips etc etc. Back through park at 6.0pm. Tea. Dressed. Snooze on sofa. Dinner. No Champagne. Miss Lake. Talk of Chile. Billiards after. Mr S gave me 20 out of 100. Beaten 2 games. Claude asleep on sofa. Read 'An Englishman in Paris'. Bed by 12.15am. Slept like a top. Dream of Maud Paxton. Bag: 16½ brace partridges, 8 hares & 2 rabbits. 3 are a lease or leash of partridges. (Red ink across page: 1st day partridge shoot, Redisham Hall.)
Sunday September 25 Redisham Hall, Beccles. Up 8.30. Breakfast 9.15. Children, 3. Pongo & Rachel & elder girl looked thirty. Lovely morning. Photod steps etc After read 'Englishman in Paris'. Lazy delightful morning. Lunch. After writing letters photod garden etc etc. Read again. Looked at library. Read up to 7.0pm. Lighted lamp in billiard room. Dressed. Dinner 7.45. No Champagne. Good talk & stories. After down to billiard room. Played one game with Claude. Beaten by 3. 1 game with Mr S, 30 out of 100. Beaten by 6. After pipe. Bed at 12.0. Curious circular staircase to billiard room, 31 steps. (Red ink: Quiet restful day at Redisham Hall.)
Monday September 26 Redisham Hall, Suffolk. Up 8.15. Bath & dressed. Breakfast. Miss Lake & eldest child going. Photod sofa & sheep etc. At 10.15 started to walk. Went with 2nd keeper. Very hot. Many birds. Shot 1 & hit its head. Did not shoot so well. Lunch at 1.0pm. Photod group. Donkey named Stanley. On again. Many turnip fields. Guns
85 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 frightened wagon. Man fell off. Story of Emperor of Russia giving boy £300 by keeper. Boy was shot slightly. On over same clover as Saty. Knocked gun against Claude's & dented barrel. Pity. Got a long shot after. Left off through park at 5.30. Bath. Dressed. Tea. Liqueur of brandy. Off by mail phaeton. Splendid horses. Caught 6.15 Beccles. Man took traps. One other in carriage, got out at at Ipswich. Candle in carriage effective. Read Times etc etc. Harpers cut of W.B.Frost. Got to London 9.15. Took cab to Walsingham House. Mistake. Drove to Lyric Club. Supper at the Meistersingers. 2 bottles Champagne. After to Claude's rooms. Many sketches of Keene's & D.M. Home by cab 12.30pm. Letters. Bed 1.15pm. Alice up, & Purnell. (Red ink across page: 2nd day shoot Redisham Hall & back to town after. 14 brace partridges, 1 hare, 2 rabbits & wood pigeon.)
Tuesday September 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Bath. Did not ride. Letter from M. Read paper, Englishman in Paris etc etc. After wrote diary & got to work at 11.0am. Worked on all morning. Lunch. Worked after. Lady came to look over house. Developed 4 plates of Britannia, Ilford, taken on Monday 26th. Back to work. Wrote my mother sending cheque for £10. At 6.0 M back from Fittleworth. Had not been feeling very well. Dined at 8.0. Dressed. Read Englishman in Paris. Bed 11.20pm. Stalls sent for Thursday next.
Wednesday September 28 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Up 8.0. Breakfast 8.40. Cold birds. Not one single letter. No ride. Told Purnell to put mare in carriage. Bright sun. Got to work on at 9.45am. Worked all day at Xmas N°, up to 5.15pm. At 5.45 started to walk to P.D through Park. Gates closed 6.15pm. Called Club. After took cab off stand near Goffs & to P.D. F.C.B, Lucy, Reed, Furniss, Arthur, Lehmann, self & Tenniel there. Tenniel a bad cold. Good cheery dinner. Left at 11.30. Cab home. Hummed at 3/s. Bed after reading at 1.0am. (Red ink: Walked to Punch dinner. News of Bradbury better.)
Thursday September 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30. Rode in Park for 1st time at 8.30 exactly. Mare slightly lame. Went off. Bright sun. Met Rook & friend. Talk of mare. Sharp round twice. Home. Changed. Worked all day on Xmas pages. Letter from F.C.B about new subject, Gladstone as Snowdon & Duke of Argyle. Dear Mite arrived home at 1.0pm. M went to meet her at Victoria. M had carriage. Called
86 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 on my mother, could not get in. Dined at 7.0pm & after M & self drove in carriage to Savoy Theatre, 1st night of new opera, Haddon Hall. Poorish libretto. Saw Sir Arthur Sullivan. Man next us guffawing all evening. Laughed outright. Burnand came & spoke to M. Frightfully wet going & coming back. Saw young Lucas. Poor done up horse. Just got home. Smoke & bed at 12.0. (Red ink: 1st night Haddon Hall. Frightfully wet. Drove Marquis.)
Friday September 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wet dark dull morning. Did not ride. At 9.30 sorted photos etc. After at 10.45 skemed Gladstone & Duke of Argyle. Decided to take photographs. Purnell round at 11.30. Photod him in checked suit & at the top of the steps. Developed them & put out, governess called etc. After lunch got to work & worked hard all afternoon until 9.30 when finished drawing. M & Maud went to see my mother, very well & cheerful. After Maud Paxton arrived about 5.30pm with a Baroness. M drove the Baroness away in carriage. M, Maud & Maud P dined at 8 sharp, self at 9.30. After smoked & read magazine. Fell asleep till 1.30am.when went to bed. Tried Vitalis Italian wine at lunch for 1st time.
Saturday October 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Breakfast. Maud Paxton down at 10.0. Got to work on Xmas number. Put in more dogs etc. Frightfully wet, wired to say should not go to Eton. Disappointed. Cleared up at 12.20 just as we should have started. M, Maud & Maud Paxton went to Tooles Theatre. Saw the Barrie play 'Walker London'. Back & rested in afternoon. Worked on with Almanack up to 7.0pm dinner. After walked up to Comedy Theatre. Had cocktail at Criterion. Saw fat man. 'Oh what a difference in the morning'. After saw The Private Secretary. Laughed very much. Saw Woodall's brother. News of Fred Thornton, out in Buenos Ayres. Left before piece was quite over. Eric Lewis. Back in very good 4 wheeler cab, like a fly. Short of Apollinaris at night. Read paper & bed after pipe. Took glass of Carlowitz instead of whiskey. (Red ink: Went to see 'Private Secretary'.)
Sunday October 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Decided not to ride in the morning. Worked all morning. M & Mauds were going to church. Came on heavy wet. Poured all morning & afternoon. At 4.30 dressed & put on shooting boots & gaiters & walked to Garrick in shooting cape.
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Cleared up at 4.50pm. Bright sun. Got to Club at 5.10. Cup of tea. Saw Antony Jones & old Walter Lacy. Got cigar & wrote letters. After walked home hard. Back in 55 minutes. Bath & dinner. Smoke & read extraordinary Norwegian story in Review of Reviews. After smoke sleep & bed at 1.0am. (Red ink across page: Frightfully heavy wet all day. Cleared in evening.)
Monday October 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dressed for ride. Had breakfast 1st, met Mona Kemp. On into Park. Rode with Jones (Adrian). Talk of Leighton & Sculpture etc etc. Saw Mrs Dominet. Out & back. Long day on Xmas pages. Begun to shade at 4.45 after tea. Put in black sheep etc etc. Maud lying down. Quiet dinner, 2 Mauds, M & self at 8.0. Cigar & sleep after. Worked for 1 hour after dinner. Bed 12.0am. Mrs Cox wrote about fires, 6d a day.
Tuesday October 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.56. Bath. Lovely morning. Rode & met Fildes. Out 8.25. In top of Row at 8.38. Rode with Coward. On horse lent by Romer Williams, grey mare. Wants £250 for it. Mare A1. Had shoes removed. After mare a little fresh. Passed Baker & caught up by Mona Kemp. Out & back. Enjoyed breakfast. Got to work 10.10am. Sent Purnell to Stores. Drew cheque for £6.0.0. Bought cigars & wine. Lunch at 1.10pm. 2 Mauds had been shopping. M out & blew up Barkers. Bought ugly flowers. Purnell back with 16/7d change out of £6.0.0. Worked on drawing for Xmas number. At 8.0pm Sir Benjamin Baker, Mrs Kemp, Mona Kemp, Maud Paxton & Mrs Stone dined. Mite in next room. Good dinner. 3 bottles Deutz & Goldermann & one of Ayala '80. A.B.C puzzles after. (sketch of puzzle) Stone's advice to Mite. Stone left with my best umbrella. Pouring wet all day & evening. News of Bergheims. (Red ink across page: Dinner to Sir B.Baker, Mrs Kemp etc etc.)
Wednesday October 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am. Rode in Park. Rainy misty morning. Saw Coward on grey horse belonging to Romer Williams (mare) bought at Lincoln fair. Stumbled at gate to Kensington Gds. Rode twice up & down with him. Back at 9.15 sharp. Breakfast. Slight head on. Worked all day on Xmas number. Finished 1st page at 11.0. Sent it off & 2nd at 7.15pm. Lunch. M & girls went to National Gallery & New Gallery. Left at 7.50 & took cab all the way to Punch dinner. Roads up. Old man driver. Arived 7.25, late.
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Oysters. F.C.B, Lucy, Reed, Milliken, Arthur, self & Tenniel there. Good dinner. Cut for death of Lord Tennyson. No cut for self. A.B.C puzzle. Talk afterwards to Tenniel & Milliken about state of firm etc. Gloomy. After took cab who knew the way from Bouverie St home. 3/6. Bed 12.30am. (Red ink: Lord Tennyson dying.) (Red ink: On the 5th inst, suddenly at Whitchurch near Reading, T.W.Angell, late Post Master S.W District in his seventy second year. 'Times', Monday 10th.) (Cutting glued in: Death of T.W.Angell.) Poor Angell left £300, only £100 to each of his boys.
Thursday October 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 8.30 rode in Park. 1st real fog. Met Coward & talk to Cahill. Back 9.15 exactly. Maud P overslept herself. Breakfast. Changed. Drew cheque for M, £25.0.0. Went on to work all day on No 3 of the Xmas N° pages. Could not quite finish. At 7.0 dined & at 7.45 carriage came up. Got on box & went, M, Miss Paxton & self. Cold & inclined to rain. Went to Lyric Theatre 1st night of Burnand's 'Incognito'. Theatre full. Blasé critics. Saw Edwardes & also Justin Huntly McCarthy etc. Man with grizzled beard slanging Hy F. Got 4 wheeler man 1/3. Charley Burnand, Conny & Mrs C.B. Home at 12.30. Maud Paxton had a headache. (Red ink: Death of Lord Tennyson.)
Friday October 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Down. Did not ride in Park, mare a mash. After got to work & worked all morning on No 3 of Xmas N°. Worked up to 1.30. Took head of Lady Bountiful clean out. After at 1.0 subject came from Milliken. Chose to do Anglo-French Boat Race. Got to work at 2.0 & finished at 7.30. Dressed & went to dine at the Bakers. Met Mr & Mrs Simmonds, Mr & Mrs Scrivens, Johnny & Mrs Bergheim, Arthur Lewis wife & 2 daughters, nonentity from Harrow etc. Took Mrs Bergheim in. Arthur Lewis' wife. Dull doz. Good dinner. ABC puzzle. After music left at 11.40. Home by carriage. Bed at 12.30am. (Red ink: Dined at Sir Benjamin Bakers to meet Bergheims.)
Saturday October 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine morning. Did not ride. Put things in order. At 10.30 photod Maud Paxton, 12 plates. At 11.45 dressed. Carriage at 12.30. Drove to Great Western Rly. Marquis lame. Caught 1.0 train. Cold, did not take coat. Carriage to selves. Went down to Windsor, M & self. Roy met us 1.45, on to White Hart. Lunch. Steak etc. Very bad & dear, 12/6. Saw Mrs Harrison
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& Cecil H at lunch. Out at 2.35. Went over the State Rooms Windsor Castle. Waterloo Chamber. Lovely October afternoon. Roy rather dirty & untidy. After over St Georges' Chapel. Found just time to catch train. Heavy clouds. Good bye to Roy. Left. One gentleman got in at Slough. Straight to Paddington. Went by Met'n Rly home. M went to Butts. Tea. Pipe. Slept from 6.15 to 7.30. Dinner. Remains of bottle of Tuesday's Champagne. After game of guessing. M to bed at 10.15. Self slept till 1.10am. Bed. 2 Mauds went to see 'The Prodigal Daughter' at Drury Lane. Back at 5.45pm. (Red ink acoss page: Went to Eton to see Roy.)
Sunday 9 October. Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Wet morning. Breakfast. 1st Walls' sausages. Sent Purnell with note to my mother. Read Sunday Times. At 10.45 got to work on 4th page of Xmas N°. 1 year today since Leslie Ward came & photod self. Worked up to1.15pm. Cleared from raining. Dressed & put on buff breeches. At 2.15 rode mare to Wimbledon. Walked almost all way to common. Got off mare, on through top of Roehampton Lane & across common. Met Murray the publisher & friend. On through Richmond Park & trotted from Sheen Station. Stiff. Home 5.15. Miss Clarke there. Tea. Stale cake. After wrote 7 or 8 letters. Dinner. Read Review of Reveiws. Bad attack of P. Painful. M, M & Maud Paxton & self had games. M went to bed at 10.15. Self 11.50am. Tired. (Red ink across page: Rode to Wimbledon & Richmond.)
Monday October 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Sausages. Read Times. Letter from Tabs offering poodle. Death of poor Tom Angell in Times (see 5th ). Fine morning. Coldish. Worked for 1 hour & then at 11.30 rode in Park. Saw Stone. Met Adrian Jones at corner of Park. Long walk up & down with Finlay. Decided to go to Buffalo Bill's tomorrow. Home 1.30. My mother round & looking wonderfully well. Lunch. Maud Paxton left with M at 3.30pm. Worked all afternoon & up to 8.25pm on last page of, set of 4. Dined hurriedly. Plate kept hot. Eat Spanish onion which disagreed with me dreadfully. Up after dinner. Games of words. Maud sharp. Madame Maack arrived & one large box.
Tuesday October 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Felt sick. A tremendous turn out. Undigested dinner. Down 8.45. Breakfast. 1st morning of Madame Maack's. At 9.40 got on mare & met Finlay & rode to Buffalo Bill
90 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 show. Saw ponies for sale. Rode round sloppy rings. After left & rode to Park. Mare fresh. Saw Mrs Warre. After talked to Aldhous. After in Park. Saw Stone, asked to dinner. Barclay caught me up. Oh! so slow. Out 11.40. Saw Mrs Inverarity. M down seeing cook. Wrote letters. Worked in afternoon. At 7.0 started to walk to Stone's rooms, Members Mansions. Bought violets at Butts. Walked as far as Belgrave Square. After dined with Stone. Champagne. On to Gaiety Theatre. Mite & Madame in box. Stone, self & Claude Watney. Poor feeble piece. Put Mite & Madame in cab. Claude W, Stone & self had supper at Garrick. Sir James Maitland's wandering stories. Called Claude's rooms. Saw Spottiswood. Had too much Champagne. Home after walking with Stone to end of Piccadilly. Home 2.0am. Finlay bought pony for £12.0.0 from Buffalo Bill. (Red ink: Saw Fred Leslie last time.) (Red ink across page: Dined with Stone at Members Mansions. After went to Gaiety. Saw Cinder Ellen up to date. This is last time I saw Fred Leslie. May 21st 1894.)
Wednesday October 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Buzzy in head & seedy very. Down breakfast & after read Times & dozed for 1 hour & half. Rode at 11. Saw Stone. Both laughed at last night. Re-introduced to Mrs Oxenham. Rode till 1.30. Home. Had sent Purnell to Buffalo Bill, sale on. Lunch etc. At 4.10 went with M in carriage to Embankment near Charing X Sation. Spoke to Purnell about crossing cab. Had Turkish bath. Strange man hovering about getting in. Good bath. Fat youth & satellite. Good shampooer, No 4. Delay about hair cutting. Out at 7.0. Cab to Bouverie St. Good dinner. F.C.B at Ramsgate. Arthur, Guthrie, Lucy, Milliken, Lehmann, self & J.T. Subject for Dairy made up. Talk of poor Bradbury. Left 11.30. Tenniel gave me lift as far as Marble Arch. Cab home. Runaway pony & cart in Bayswater Road. Home at 12.15am.
Thursday October 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Felt better. Began drawing for Dairy & Farmer etc. At 10.30 photod Mite & Purnell photod self. Developed them at 11.45. Rode in Park. Stone out. Long talk with Mrs Oxenham. Saw Finlay & Wyndham. Back to lunch at 1.30. Found wire from F.C.B about Poets. Annoyed. Wrote letters. M out in carriage. After wire from Lawrence Bradbuy to say his father died at (blank) this morning. Wrote letters & afterwards got to work & skemed poets & Punch. Hurried drawing. Dined 8.0 & wrote letters
91 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 from table. After rested & bed early. (Red ink: Death of William Harwick Bradbury.) (Cutting glued in: death of William Bradbury. Times 17th inst).
Friday October 14 Stafford Terrace. Up very early & got to work, put in Swinburne before breakfast. Worked on after. Sent Purnell with note to Lincoln & Bennett & Claude Watney. Worked on drawing of Contending Poets. Lunch. Finished at 5.20pm. Dressed & dined 5.50pm. Carriage round at 6.45 & drove along Embankment to Liverpool St. Mare hot. Caught 8.0pm train for Beccles. Youth in carriage. 'Now do try hard' for guard to get to Norwich. Changed Ipswich & got to Beccles at 11.15. Carriage. Arrived Redisham at 11.45. Introduced in a fit of laughter to Mr Stanhope & Potter. Had cold beef & whiskey & soda. Bed at 1.0am. Read Secret Life of Napoleon. (Cutting glued in: death of Thomas Eykyn. Times 15th inst.)
Saturday October 15 Redisham Hall, Beccles. Up at 7.45. Breakfast 9.0am. Started to shoot. 4 guns, C.W, self, Stanhope & Potter. Very hot walking at first. Took waistcoat off. Good shoot in bit of a wood. Got 6 birds in 5 minutes. Lunch at farm. Coloured print of the Pope etc etc. Out. Only fired 5 cartridges after lunch. Got 2 birds & 1 rabbit. Back. Bag 4. 39 pheasants, 16 partridges, 2 hares, 1 rabbit. Tea. Bath. Read an article on Utopia in Contemporary Review for Jany 1890. Very cold. Down to dinner 8.0. Very good clear mulligatawney soup. Champagne etc. Down billiard room after. Talk. One game with C.W. Bed at 11.45. Read Life of Napoleon by Scott. Candles burnt out & book on the floor. Woke 4.0am. Poked fire & replaced candles etc etc. (Red ink: Good day's shoot at Redisham Hall.)
Sunday October 16 Redisham Hall, Beccles. Up at 8.45. Bath etc. Down at 9.45. Breakfast by self. After to billiard room & got out book about Carthage. Read. Potter & Stanhope came down. Read all morning & wrote letters. Lunch. Heavy rain. Read & packed. Others went for walk. Lost 10/s. Looked everywhere. Tea at 6.0 & left 6.30pm. Carriage to Beccles. Caught 7.6pm train. Man asleep in it. Lighted candle & read nearly to London. One other at Colchester. After very bad cab at Liverpool St, brutal driver. Beefsteak Club. Saw Sir James Murray & Leslie Ward, Sergent etc. Good drawing in Gil Blas. Had haddock & steak. Left by carriage at 11.45. Purnell met
92 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 me driving mare. Home with traps & 2 hampers of game. Bed 11.45am.
Monday October 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down & found had to catch 10.8am at Victoria. Took cab 9.45am, drove Victoria. Went down to Wandsworth Common. Cold. Read D.T in seat for nearly ½ hour. Put on gloves. Walked up & out 11.0 exactly. Arrived at Oak Lodge, Nightingale Lane for poor Bradbury's funeral. Saw Charles Agnew, all young Agnews etc. Lawrence B upset. Went at 11.30 in mourning coach with Sir Robert Romer, D.M & taciturn individual in coach to Norwood cemetery. Many employees. Tenniel, Milliken, etc joined after. Noakes etc. Impressive service. Bright cold day. John Leighton (Luke Limmer) made a scene. Lawrence Bradbury affected. Walked back to station with Tenniel, Guthrie, Romer, D.M, Lucy, etc. Saw Sketchley & wife. Back to Victoria. Cab to Garrick. Hungry. Lunch. Talk with Campbell Clarke, George Alexander & 'Punch'. After went to Covent Garden & Drury Lane. Left letter. Heavy rain. Back Club. Tea. Dr Burney (illeg) at 5.15 walked home. Wrote 2 letters. Dinner 7.20. At 8.0 went in carriage to Opera. Saw Orfeo & Cavalleria Rusticana. Pellew came in box. Out late. Saw Bill Ransford & Alfred Watson. Home 12.0. Bed 1.0am. (Red ink across page: Poor W.H.Bradbury interred this day at Norwood. This corresponding day last year he was at Gil à Beckett's funeral.)
Tuesday October 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Breakfast 9.0. Fine bright morning but very cold. Read case of Dr Neill (poisoning). Put on coat & breeches, thick coat & at 11.30 rode in Park. Saw Stone & introduced to Miss Baxter. Stone left, had to ride down Row with her. Lunch & in afternoon began drawing for calendar. Cancelled the Jany & got in to Seasons. Slept in chair after lunch for 1½ hours. M went out. Conrad came. Tea. Dinner. Snooze after dinner. Very cold. At 11.0 walked up to Lewis's party for Silver Wedding. Saw O'Callaghan, Mrs Heilbut, Mrs Turquand etc etc. Hosts of others. Left with Hunter at 1.15am. Walked home. 'Ellen Terry came in'. Mrs John Wood said above. Stayed & soliliquised at Upper Phillimore Gardens. Home. Read paper & finished whisky. Bed 2.30am. Woke up next morning with sore throat. (Red ink across page: Arthur Lewis's Silver Wedding party.)
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Wednesday October 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Woke with slight sore throat which went on all day. At 11.45 out & rode in Park. Saw Finlay, Stone etc & Mrs Heilbut, Mrs Drummond etc, Col Dash. Rode round Park with Finlay & home 1.30pm. Changed. Dressed. Lunch. After until 5.0pm skemed calendar. At 5.0 left & walked to Punch dinner. Sore throat all day. Called Club & wrote to Cole & Sons. On to P.D along the Strand. Called at Goffres & selected 2 arm chairs from the Lyric Club at Barnes. £8.0.0 for them, worth £16.16.0. On to P.D. F.C.B, Lucy, Bernard Partridge (1st time since July) Millken, Arthur, Lehmann, self & J.T. Got subject of Lord Rosebery. Made slip of moose for muse. Left at 11.15. Back in Tenniel's cab to Marble Arch & home by 12.15. Gave man 2/6. (Red ink: Sore throat bad all day. Turned to cold after.)
Thursday October 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cold in my head, woke up with it. Passed from sore throat. In morning skemed figure of Lord Rosebery. At 12.0 photod Purnell in robes. Developed them. M & Maud out. Lunch 1.30. After at 2.30 wrote list out for M's stores & at 2.45 rode mare past Buffalo Bill's & on to Wimbledon. Lots playing golf. Lovely ride in Richmond Park. Saw Duke of Teck, Princess Mary & Princess May. Bowed. 4.15pm stags rutting. Out & trotted home through Mortlake. Back 5.30. Conrad here in great pain. Cup of tea & put things away. After dressed & received in morning room Mr & Mrs Finlay, Mr & Mrs Fildes Mr & Mrs Bergheim. Good dinner, wine etc. 2 bottles '84, 1 '80, 1 '74. Capital dinner & good company. Talk to J.H.B after about photography & also his oil wells. All left at 12.10am. Bed at once. Cold in nose bad all day. 2 chairs came from Goffres £8.8.0. (Red ink across page: Dinner at home. Mr & Mrs Bergheim, Finlays, Fildes.)
Friday October 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Bright lovely morning. Breakfast. Summing up of the trial of Neill. Mite off to draw. Printed 6 proofs of 3 whole plates from Purnell yesterday. Got to work 10.30am. Begun drawing & worked up to lunch time. After lunch put in outline & began to shade at 5.30pm. M out in carriage. Worked on till 10.0pm when finished Lord Rosebery as Peer with Garter. Wrote letter to Cole & sent it off by Purnell. No answer. Dined at 10.10. Had ½ bottle Ayala 1880 left last night. Cold in head very
94 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 bad. Nose stuffed & almost impossible to work. Could not taste or enjoy my dinner. Had ½ wine glass of whiskey after & M came down & woke me up. Bed. Douche of carbolic for nose. Felt tired & seedy. (Red ink: Cold in head very bad all day culminated at night. Nose stuffed up.)
Saturday October 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cold slightly better. Easier in head. Down & read paper. Colder weather. Read account of trial of Neill for poisoning girls. At 11.30 rode mare. Stopped & talked to Cole & Sons clerk. Cold. After saw Finlay & Stone in the Row. Dawdle with Finlay. Trot after with Stone. Talk of Miss Maple. Saw Joshua after. Home. Lunch. Maud & stays etc. After at 3.15 went with M in carriage & drove up to Camera Club. Arrived 3.45. Saw photos & after J.S.Bergheim. Stayed ½ hour & after went up & viewed studio. Dark rooms etc. Back at 4.30. Called Walls. Very cold. Called P.O & got envelopes. Home. Sat in chair without changing coat or trowsers & slept before dinner. Dinner 7.30 after lazy evening. M, Maud & self read Miss Clark's Jupiter & his Satellites. Slept. M down, carbolic acid & basin of gruel. (Red ink: Cold in head very bad all day.)
Sunday October 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Down. Put on Lamb's check suit. Sausages. At 10.10 out & round for mare. Left 10.14. Back again to change suit. 2nd start at 10.40pm. Lovely bright sun but very cold wind. Went through Mortlake & across Richmond Park. Stags rutting. Mare A1. Over common & called on Barkers. Not there. Started home at 12.50. Got home 1.40. No Purnell at stables. Home 1.45. My mother there. Looking well. Cold beef. Fresh mustard. M & her list of accts after lunch. Went up & marked trees. Down, did not go to call on Hunter or Mrs Tait as promised. Quiet dinner & bottle of Italian wine Asti. Quiet peaceful evening after. Read Jupiter & his Moons & bed early. (Red ink: Cold better today.)
Monday October 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wrote letters. Breakfast. After looked over papers etc. Got on with calendar. At 11.30 rode mare in Park. Met Mrs Heilbut at corner. Rode 3 times up & down. Cold wind. Saw Finlay, Stone etc. South American horse & boy on one of Buffalo Bill's. Back 1.15. Mare a little lame. Purnell took cape round. Home & in afternoon got out calendar & put in Punch.
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Dined quietly at home & quiet evening in drawing room after. Bed early. (Red ink: Cold wind in morning.)
Tuesday October 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Got up with a headache over eyes, lasted all day. In morning early got on with the calendar. Headache. Lunch. Fire in stove for 1st time. Put in figures behind Punch. Rather bothered. Headache. Took effervesing draught. Evidently bilious. Dined quietly in evening & M, Maud & self at my end of room after. Finished Jupiter's Moons. Bed quite early 11.15pm. (Red ink: Headache all day. Woke up with it. Unaccountable. Very cold east wind.)
Wednesday October 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dense fog in morning, cleared at noon. After at 11.45 M went in carriage with my mother to Ealing. Maud did not go to class. At work on drawing of Monte Carlo girl. Worked self on calendar. Not very well. Nellie Keith called & had tea. M not back. At 3.30 to 4.0 Mounteney Jephson called to look at polo cart. Walked round to stables & got knife & got coachman to go into stables. Shewed him cart. Would not stay to tea. After at 5.30 walked to Benjamins. Was fitted with great coat & suit. Walked on to Punch dinner. Called Club. 6.55. Saw Arthur Blunt & Peregrini. Walked on past Drury Lane to P.D. Arrived 7.15. Cold draught. Tenniel, F.C.B, Lucy, Guthrie, Bernard P, Milliken, Arthur, D.M, Lehmann & self there. Chaff about Doetsch. Stayed till 11.15. Shewed Maud's drawings. Tenniel put me down in Piccadilly by Walsingham House. Cab home. Round by Brompton. Read Evening paper. Bed 12.15. Collared Millken's Century. (Red ink: Curious taste in mouth.) Nana came in morning & stayed all night.
Thursday October 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. down. Posted cuirassiers to Tenniel & wrote letter. Breakfast. After wrote 12 letters & began drawing for for Gladstone as Huntsman & Whip. Pouring wet all day. Worked on Huntsman & drew horn. M & Maud went out. M complained of Purnell's driving. Worked up to 8.0pm. Mervyn came & stayed to dinner. Left in pouring rain. Sleepy after dinner. Bed 11.30pm. Nana still here. Mrs Cox called & long talk with me. (Cutting glued in: death of Edmond Kittoe. 'Times' Nov 12, 92)
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Friday October 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Got on with work on Gladstone hunting. Photod Purnell in morning in hunting cap. Developed them & put to dry. Very hard day's work all day & much pushed to get done. Finished at 11.0pm & sent it off. Dined & had ½ bottle of Perinet wine. M very tired. Bed 1.30pm.
Saturday October 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Put all things straight. Very mild fine morning at intervals. Stranger called to see me. Turned out to be Scone of Peal's & Co. At 11.30 got on mare & went rambling ride over Campden Hill, along Bayswater Road & round Park. Saw Major Cooke. Carriage accident top of Marble Arch. Decided to ride to Blackfriars, did. Through Horse Guards & along Embankment back to Chelsea. Home by 1.45. Dear Roy there, looking well & back from Eton. Lunch. Dressed. Put frock coat on & felt cold. Roy, Maud & Madame went in Met Rly, M & self in carriage to Court Theatre & saw The Guardsman. Arthur Blunt good & Miss Caroline Hill who I recollected in 1864 was also original Cynisca in Pygmalian & Galatea. Saw Dr & Mrs Roberts & Dolly, also Mrs Alexander, the De la Rues etc etc. Spoke to George Alexander, Chudleigh etc. After Sir Thos Lucas saw Roy & Lucas's son. Put M & Maud in carriage at top of Sloane St. Straw down. Roy & self walked to Jermyn St & bought 2½ lbs sausages. (continued on opposite page) Roy & self walked back as far as Knightsbridge. Cab home. & dressed & dined. After at 7.30 cab to Drury Lane & saw for 2nd time 'The Prodigal Daughter'. Front row of stalls. New orchestra. Funny clarionette. Lots of Eton boys. Saw Mrs Warre. Out & walked to Garrick. Saw Johnny Toole & Routledge. Had ginger beer etc. Cab home. Supper & Roy to bed. Felt hot at Garrick. Thought I was going to have return of cold. Did not, thankful to say. Bed 1.0am.
Sunday October 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dear Roy all right. Decided not to ride in morning. Got to work on calendar. Put in head of Autumn & also Winter. At 2.10 after lunch rode mare to Putney. Trotted up hill, across common & thro' Richmond Park. Mare fresh. Plucked holly. Back exactly 4.45. Purnell not there. Jolly came out. Not in work. Home. Mrs Harry Burnand and child there. Mite making tea. M came back with Roy having made mistake about soirée at the Natural Hist Museum. Dressed at 5.30 & after put in wine amphora
97 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 in calendar & top of plinth. At 7.15 started to walk to Mrs Heilbut's dinner at 78 Gloucester Terrace. Came on to rain at door. Mrs Sington went in with me. Took Katie Lewis in, next Lady Monckton. Good dinner. Arthur Anderson, Taits etc. Talk of shooting. Miss Hepworth Dixon after & palmistry. Shewed Heilbut puzzles. Heavy rain. Cab home. Gave cabby 3/s. (Red ink across page: Dear Roy home. Dined at Mrs Heilbut's in evening. Took Lady Monckton in.)
Monday October 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head. Got to work on calendar. Put in letters & foundation etc etc. Roy went back to school at 9.40am. Lunch. Felt drowsy & livery after. Read Terible Tales & did not work till 3.30 pm. After got to work & commenced to shade calendar. Put in Punch etc etc. Worked up till 8.0pm. Boy going backwards & forwards. Could not finish. Sent Swain 14/s for mags & got Scribner etc etc. Quiet dinner & evening after. Strong cigar. Cheque sent from Mrs Smales. Went quietly to bed at 11.30pm.
Tuesday November 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 9.30 got to work on calendar. Boy came 10.45. Sent him to Lincoln & Bennets. Back one. Worked hard all day, thought should finish at 11.0. Sent boy back to Swain at 4.15pm. After worked on till 8.10pm when finished it. Sent it off & thus finished the Xmas Number on this 1st day of Novr, 3 weeks earlier than usual. Mr Calderon called. Ethel English etc. Dined. 8.20pm. Quiet evening in chair after. Woke up at 12.0 & bed. Nightmare. M woke me up. Dream of staying at house & bed on floor. Purnell fetched easel from Albert Hall Mansions. Weather colder. (Red ink: Finished the Xmas N°. for '93.)
Wednesday November 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Bath. Lawyers letter from Clarke & Son. Dense white fog. Candles at breakfast. Maud & Mervyn's easel in dining room. Gave M cheque for £25.0.0. M's seal came home altered. Great success. Maud settled to draw next me at 11.0am at her own easel. M went out at 11.0. Tried gaiters on, a failure. After wrote letters etc etc. Maud at work. Lunch. Worked & skemed Legion Lang's post. Dressed at 3.0 & left at 3.30pm. Walked up through Park & across Park Lane to Benjamins. Called & complained of suit. On to Turkish bath. Saw fat youths. Out 6.45. Wet & rain. Walked to Punch dinner. Terrible accident on Great Northern Rly. News of it. Good dinner. F.C.B, Guthrie, Lucy, Reed, B.P, Milliken, Arthur, Lehmann, self & J.T there. Talk of Sullivan's
98 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 joining after. Got Bird subject. Left with Tenniel at 11.30 & after put down top of Piccadilly by Isthmian Club. Home by cab. Read 19th Century. Waddy & Evelyn Fletcher arrived 2.0pm.
Thursday November 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Letter from Jephson refusing cart. Most lovely morning. Skemed cut after breakfast of Chamberlain as Bird Catcher. Photod at 11.15 Purnell. Developed ditto. M & Maud out shopping. Waddy & Evelyn about. Fur coat got moth in it again. Brushed it, will never have another. Printed photos taken Purnell & at 2.10 rode mare to Wimbledon. Looked at 34 Jarvis Rd. Lovely afternoon. Mare fresh. Lots of golfers. Mare a bit lame. Through Richmond & home. Beautiful moon, nearly full. After dressed & got to work 5.30 on Post Legion. Finished 8.15. Dinner. Bottle of Burgundy. M went up 10.30 after playing L'Enfant Prodigue. Slept till 12.0. Bed. Beautiful day. (Red ink: Lovely afternoon. Beautiful moon.)
Friday November 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Mite not very well. Dull morning. Got to work 9.30. Mite went round to drawing. Worked on at drawing of Chamberlain as Bird Catcher. Lunch. M went out in carriage 3.30pm. Worked all afternoon & up to 10.45 when finished cut of Bird Catcher. See Chamberlain shooting in Sepr 20, 1889. Then finished at 8.30 but had worked on it the day previously. M back 8.30pm. Dined 10.50. Quiet dinner & bed after. M on sofa for ¼ hour. No whiskey. Had a bottle of curious old white Carlowitz. Slept in chair afterwards. Dropped cigar & went up to bed at 1.50am. (Heavy black ink border: My mother slightly unwell at Ealing in day time. At 7.0pm Alice L put mustard plaster on. Went up shortly after, my mother unconscious. Died quite peacefully and without pain at about 10.0pm.) (Cutting glued in: death of Frances Sambourne. 'Times' Nov 8, 1892.)
Saturday November 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Very tired in morning. After breakfast Scone called & tried spats on & took instructions for trees. Went up & put photos away etc. Man doing creepers. At 11.30 on going up to dress wire came for address to Mrs Reffell. Wired to Ealing. Mrs Cox came round 1.45 with wire, news of my poor mother's death. Great shock to me. Maud back at 12.0, M 12.20. Decided to go to Ealing. Went round to see Kenyon at 1.15pm. Boots hurt me. Cab back. After lunch at 1.50 got on mare & rode to Ealing. M
99 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 went in carriage. Got there 2.50. Saw Arthur, Alice. Learnt my mother had died about 10.0pm, Dr Potter being with her. Unconscious ten minutes after Alice saw her last & never rallied. Poor mother her trials at rest. After talk with Arthur got on mare at 4.0. Blood red sunset. Rode past Osterley Park & into Hammersmith Road. Donaldson passed me. Home at 5.15. Tea, minutes after Purnell home. Mare very fresh at home. M had 2 letters from Edgar saying total defalcations of Welch was £12,500. M wrote letters & I went out & posted them. Met Val Princep & Fildes by Barkers. Bought black paper. Home. Wrote letters. Paid Purnell. Saw Mr Kenyon, his father died. Settled for interment if possible on Tuesday. Dressed. Dinner 8.0pm. Sad. My poor mother's body arrived at 9.20pm. Laid in morning room. M & self in drawing room. Bed at 11.10pm. (Red ink across page: Very sad day. Heard at 11.45 of the death of my poor mother. Went to Ealing.)
Sunday November 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. M went down. Dull morning. Put on black riding boots. Purnell round. Sent wires to O'Callaghan & to Barker. Breakfast. Could not ride on acct of heavy wet. Wrote letters all morning. Weather cleared. Lunch 1.30. At 1.50 rode mare to Wimbledon. Left letter at Barker's & home across common. Got off at seat bottom of hill. Thought of my poor mother. Through Richmond. Lots of people. Mare rushed & very fresh. Home at 5.10. Sharp trot up hill in wood. At 5.30 Miss Rose Innes called. Dressed. Stayed till 7.0pm. Maud at her grandmother's. Back at 7.15. Dinner 7.45. Wrote more letters & one after dinner. Read & went to bed at 11.0 sharp. M better. Both had better night.
Monday November 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down. Foggy morning. M down after. Sent Purnell with greatcoat to Jermyn St. Wallis sent for Roy's trowsers. Maud at work on line drawing. Could not to my great grief find one single letter of my poor mother's since 1889. Looked over papers etc. At 12.30 rode mare in Park. Met Miss Thomson & her brother. Home 1.30 after asking at Kenyon's to alter date. Lunch. Persuaded M not to go out. Dear Maud & Madame went to be fitted. Maud in tailor-made dress. Mervyn came in. Sent letter round. Wrote letters, Edgar etc etc. After sent Purnell to Stores. Wrote Store orders out. Dinner at 7.45. Quiet. Much colder afterwards. M went to bed at 10.15, self at 11.30pm. Met Mrs
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Herapath in Kensington near Orton's old house. Wandering distraught. Did not ride mare from this date to Dec 23rd .
Tuesday November 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Had bad dream of interment. Down. Purnell's coat not arrived. Letters from Woodseat & Mr Glossop. Wired Mr Glossop & sent Purnell for coat. Very foggy morning. Put wreath on poor mother's coffin. M down at 9.45. Roy home 10.30. At 11.10 started in carriage for Highgate. Dull raw cold foggy morning. Got there at 12.30. Passed Arthur Linley on road. Saw Mervyn. Marquis very hot. Service in chapel. Walked up to grave. Saw my father's coffin distinctly. All over. Put Fanny Worth's wreath on my mother's coffin. Dropped it in. Beautiful wreaths. My father's mother, my sister, my father & mother in the one grave. Left. Mervyn, Roy & self in carriage. Passed Barker & Arthur. Drove to Garrick. Many trams. Wrote letters to F.C.B & Mrs Carter. Had lunch. Chicken etc. Waiter's mistakes. Roy & self walked home. Called New Gallery etc etc, Walls. Home at 5.30, M there. Found my mother's last letter to Roy & looked out The Shadowless Man. M read it to Roy. Wrote letters & diary. Quiet dinner, M, self, Maud & Roy. Word game after. Bed at 11.0pm. Roy & self saw Mr Gladstone at the top of Jermyn St. Roy ran back & saw him.
Wednesday November 9 Stafford Terace. Up 8.0am. Roy in bed. After Maud at work on drawing of a letter from Monte Carlo. Wrote letters etc etc all morning. Roy about & very good. At 10.30 Alice Linley came to lunch. At 2.15 M & Alice went to Mrs Cox's to get my poor mother's effects. Very sad. Roy out & posted letters. Wanted magnet. In afternoon Mite finished her drawing. M & Alice back. Wrote letters & orders for Stores etc etc. Roy received the gold swiss watch that his grandmother had. My poor mother had £25 in notes, £2 in gold etc etc. Roy very good with his mother. I left at 5.40 & walked to Punch dinner calling at Club. Saw Walter Lucy. Said he intended to live to 100. On to P.D. There 7.5. William Agnew & the 2 new members of the Firm, Lawrence Bradbury & Phillip Agnew there. F.C.B, Guthrie, Lehmann, Milliken, Reed, D.M, Arthur, Tenniel & self. Dullish dinner. Speech by F.C.B. Talked to J.T. All left about 10.30. Shewed Maud's second drawing. Liked very much. Left with Tenniel in cab at 10.30 after talk with D.M & Milliken about Furniss. Home at 12.0 by cab from top of Piccadilly, 2/6. Read evening paper news of death of the Duke of Marlborough. Slept in chair until 2.0am. Bed. M all right.
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(Red ink across page: 1st appearance of Lawrence Bradbury & Phillip Agnew at the Punch dinner.)
Thursday November 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Letter from Hartree. Dense fog. Candles at breakfast. Sausages. Mite, M down after. Altered Maud's drawing & sent it. Boy came with photo of Cleveland at 10.0am. After writing letters got to work on cartoon of Cleveland & Eagle. Lunch. M went in carriage to try to be fitted after lunch. Had to turn back. Sat in chair in drawing room after lunch. Dozed till 3.30. M back. Went on with drawing. Edgar called at 5.0pm. Long talk. Dressed 6.30. Dinner 7.15. At 7.50 started by cab to Lyceum Theatre. 1st night of King Lear. Centre of stalls. Got there 8.30 after calling at Club for liqueur of whiskey. Passed in Row Mrs & Miss Beatty Kingston, Lockwoods, Miss Young. Sat between O'Connor & Weymss Reed. Oh dreary play. Over 11.15. Speech from Irving. Difficulty about coats. Went round to back. Burnands there, Mary, Conny, Frank etc, Mr & Mrs F.C.B. Talk to H.Dickens, Lawson, Greys, Hume Williams, Abbey & wife. Mrs Perugini & Miss Hogarth. Champagne. Mrs & Miss Routledge, Irving etc etc. Left 1.30am. Very thick with fog. Got hansom. Carefully down Kensington Rd. Cab on pavement. Drove by mistake to Essex Villas. Home 2.15am & bed very tired.
Friday November 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Got to work as soon as possible on drawing of Cleveland & Eagle. Very foggy morning. Doubts of being able to get to Brookwood. Wire from Fletcher about gun pads. Sent Purnell off to Purdey's. Back 1.0. M packing. Lunch & finished drawing 3.0pm. Cart up 3.45. Got traps in, rather rush. Goodbye to M & Mite. Purnell drove me to Waterloo in cart along Cromwell Road & Tite St. Fog cleared by Buckingham Palace. Arrived at Waterloo 4.30pm. 35 minutes to wait. Wired Hamilton. Bought English translation of La Débacle & papers. Down in comfortable carriage to self to Ropley. Civil guard. Had to wait 10 minutes for groom with cartridges. Drive to Brookwood, took 1 hour. Stones on road. Felt depressed & livery. Brookwood at 8.40. Dinner. Did not dress. H & Tabs all right. Poodle. Cigar after & bed at 10.45pm. Very tired & glad to get there. (Red ink across page: Went down to Alresford after finishing work.)
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Saturday November 12 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up 8.30. Breakfast. At 10.0 started for shoot. Tabs drove me in small pony trap & wee pony. The brothers Wilson arrived, one with spaniel. Met at Fox Inn 10.30am to shoot. 6 guns. H, self, 2 Wilsons, Mr Dutton, Mr Higgins. Higgins No 1, self 2, whisker Wilson 3, moustache Wilson 4, Dutton 5, Fletcher 6. About 24 drives. Many birds. Dull grey foggy muggy day. Got 2 hares. Lunch 1.45pm. Beer, Irish stew. Felt very dull & depressed & tired all afternoon. H disappointed in shoot. About 18 brace, 4 hares, 1 pheasant. Left off at dark, 5.0pm. Drove home. Wilsons had whiskey etc. Changed things. Dressed. Looked in vain for Shakespeare vols. Dinner at 7.30. Cigar & pipe after. H settling with keeper. Bed 11.30. Many thoughts of my poor mother & regrets had no photo of her at the last. (Red ink: Shot with Hamilton Fletcher at driven partridges.)
Sunday November 13 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up 8.20. Read Life of Duke of Marlborough. Breakfast. After read book of Colonel Howard Vyse on the Pyramids of Egypt. Printed blue iron photos. Not much good to me on acct of time. Walk with Tabs & chicks. Chrysanthemums. To horses & kennels. Curious puppy, x between Irish mother (terrier) & a dog found in an Afghan's tent. Back. Wrote letters before lunch. Lunch at 1.15. Poodle & tricks. Sent cheques M & Clarke & also after consideration drew a cheque for £50 & sent it to Mr F.K.Barr. At 3.0pm Tabs & self, Ju, Colonel & Taggs went for walk to Seymour Haden's. Slight drizzle. Cup of tea there & talk. Mr S.H's son composing a comic opera!. Oh! Oh! Left at about 4.30 & walked back to Brookwood by 5.0pm. Taggs running after rabbits. H had 2 cups of tea. 2nd tea. Paper & read. Dressed & dined at 7.30. Capital bouillon basse soup. After read Thackeray's story about 'Fatal Roots'. Poor. Dozed with pipe & bed 11.0pm. Read 'La Débacle'. Soon asleep. Woke about 7.0am.
Monday November 14 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up at 8.15. Down. H at breakfast. Off by 9.15. Had breakfast after with Tabs & Chicks. Last night's pipe after & read N.American Indian book etc. Walk with Tabs. Made out golf ground. Back at noon. Got gardener, 7 rods & 7 flower pots & made golf course. Beautiful morning very hot & warm. Bluebottle flies about etc. In after losing golf ball. Lunch. Pheasant
103 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 etc. Chicks left dancing. Smoke & read. Drowsy. At 2.45 Tabs came. Gwen had been naughty & put to bed. Played 2 rounds of golf with Tabs, 7 holes round. Poodle led by strap but quite good after & left balls alone. Ju & Colonel lazily following after. Left off before last hole 4.30pm. Wrote M, Purnell etc. Tea 5.0pm. Long talk with Tabs by fire after of Weatheralls etc etc. Tabs left 6.0pm. Read various books etc until 7.30. Dressed. Tabs angry about the new puppy not having been sent for. At 8.30 Hamilton arrived with new puppy, a dear little thing. Dined at 8.40, ½ bottle Champagne. Quiet evening after, Tabs nursing puppy. Cigar. Bed 11.0. Read La Débacle.
Tuesday November 15 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up 8.15. Tabs going off to town 9.15. Breakfast with H. Letters from M, Barr, & others forwarded. Also from Claude Watney asking me to go to Redisham Hall. Wrote letters. Looked at Hogarth Before & After. Sent wires off 11.15. Wrote letters 11.45. Packed bags & left 12.40. Pony cart late & no game came up. Got to station 5 minutes to spare 1.15pm. Puppy all right. On to town. Singular looking lady got in at Esher, hair off forehead. Like Mrs Blake used to be. Got to Vauxhall 3.0pm. Ordered cart for 3.30pm. Saw Purnell. Drove to Victoria Station & sent puppy off. Saw Mr Green. Paid 3/7d. On home. Posted letters at Knightsbridge. Many letters. Found 8.0pm train to Beccles taken off. Annoyed. Wired & wrote letters. At 6.0 went & had hair cut. Long talk with Belshaw, 1/3. Back. Very heavy rain. Purnell back at 7.0 with information about hotel. Ordered carriage to be at Beefsteak Club at 10.15pm. Took cab there at 8.15 in pouring rain. Dined. Had impl pint Burgundy etc. Sat opposite Lord Wharncliffe & Archie Stuart Wortley. Talk. Left & drove in carriage by mare to hotel, Liverpool St. Got room & bed by 11.0. Cheerless. Read circulars of Rly. Sleep by 11.15pm.
Wednesday November 16 Gt Eastern Hotel, Liverpool St E.C. Called at 4.12am, woke at 4.0. Up in dark & had shave etc etc. Down 4.30am. Hurried breakfast & off by 5.10 train for Beccles. Changed at Ipswich. Uncomfortable journey. Tried to sleep. Headache came on. Arrived Beccles at 8.30am. Sent wire off. Claude's carriage met me. On to Redisham Hall. Bath & changed. Pouring wet. Breakfast. House party. Capn & Mrs Hewitt, Mr Watney (cousin of C) Mr Stanhope, Hugh Spottiswood, Mr Potter, self & tall young man with thin legs. Policeman with beaters. Pouring rain. Had bad bilious headache
104 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 all day & put it down to the Burgundy last night. Lunch at farm. Curious old man with distorted face. Left off at 4.30. Shot about 210 pheasants. Many hares & rabbits etc woodcock. 8 guns. Back to house, policeman following. Had bath & after dressed. Went to billiard room & had tea. Up in room & laid down on bed till dinner time. Down. Mrs Hewitt looked well. Band playing Cavaliera Rusticana etc etc. Down to billiard room after. Talk to Mrs Hewitt. Did not play billiards. Cigar & up to bed 11.55pm. Read story of Rudyard Kipling's & put light out & to sleep at 12.20pm. Hugh Spottiswood played curious silver instrument like clarinette & horn. (Red ink across page: Great pheasant shoot Redisham Hall. Left London 5.10am.) (Cutting glued in: drawing of man titled 'The Prisoner - sketched at Bow St'. Notes in L.S's hand: Respited from Nov 8th for a week. Neill P.M.G. Oct 17 1892. Executed Tuesday 15 Novr 1892 at 9.0am.)
Thursday November 17 Redisham Hall, Beccles. Up at 8.30. Bath etc. Down to breakfast at 9.30. Better morning. Started shooting at 10.45. Went after duck. Shot 7 myself. Awful country, wet etc. After for pheaasants. Not so good as yesterday. Shot rabbits, hares & pheasants etc etc. Back to Hall for lunch. Felt better. Out again at 3.10pm & back to same cover. Not so good. Mrs Hewitt went with us. Capn H 28 cartridges & 27 birds picked up. Left off at 4.20 & on for duck again. Got to house 5.0pm. Changed in hurry. Rush. Down in billiard room to say goodbye. Saw keeper (Shepherd) Got away at 5.35pm. Drove to Beccles, caught 6.15. No birds with me. Up to town. Read by candle, Review of R's. Guttered. Carriage to self. Arrived Liverpool St at 9.15. On to Beefsteak Club. Got supper 9.48. Saw Leslie Ward. Talk of work, Guards baronet etc. etc. D'Oyley Carte. Wrote letters. Home by carriage at 11.30 from Club. Found M in bed. Letters from Milliken, F.C.B etc etc. (Red ink across page: 2nd day's pheasant & duck shoot Renisham Hall. Up to town after.)
Friday November 18 Stafford Terrace. M & self in spare room. Up 8.0. Down. Breakfast. After skemed cut for Ministers in Fog. Purnell came round & carried camera to stables. At 10.55 photod 4 wheel cab. After developed it & went out with hand camera to photo lamp post & roads up. Mysterious letter from F.C.B, 'Do the cut'. Got to work after lunch (partridge) again went up & made sketch as the hand camera photos were failure. Bright sun after lunch. M out at her
105 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 mother's. Long awful rush at work after lunch & on till 11.10pm. M back at 9.0. Worried about F.C.B's letter 'Strange things are happening'. Dined 11.20, lobster, steak & bottle of Ayala 1878. M & self went to bed 12.14am. Very tired & utterly dissatisfied with day's work. Ought not to have gone to Beccles had I known. (Red ink: Awful worry day. Mysterious letter from F.C.B.) (Later note in red ink: Oct 30, 1897. Five years after no strange things happened at all.)
Saturday November 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Back in bed. M dressing. Bothered with F.C.B's letter & bad cut yesterday. M went out in carriage at 10.0am. Put all photos etc etc away & packed things for Ramsgate. Purnell round. Drew cheques for Emma & Purnell. Lunch. Chop & bird. After at 2.20 small buss round from Charing X. Got off 2.45 & drove to S.E.Rly. Down to Ramsgate. Read by candle. Disgusting old man got in with a cold at Ashford. Out at Ramsgate. Fly to Prospect Terrace, 4/s. Sad as reminded so much of my mother. Went out after seeing & feeding Barnabas. Bought stamps & haddock. Dinner at 8.0. Opened wine. Cigar after. Lovely mild evening. Band. Slept till 11.30. bed. Mite awake. Mite cold in the night. Got box from Vintens & unpacked it. (Red ink: Came down to Ramsgate by S.E.Rly, 1st time season 1892-3.)
Sunday November 20 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0. Mite had been cold in the night. Barnabas up in bed. In room no fire. Breakfast. Large haddock. Birds out. Round Club. Read critique of Irving's Lear in Ill.L.N. Back. Put camera up & also got dark room ready etc etc. Found had left artist's bag in London. Wrote diary etc etc. Went for stroll at 12.45. Met M, Mite & Madame. Saw young Frank, Conny, Miss Hood etc etc. Beautiful bright sun. After walked down to station & bought papers. Lunch 1.50. Read Referee with cigar. Barney playing. Went for walk with Maud 3.0pm. Saw F.C.B, Lady Lawson driving etc. Round by Pegwell & Weigalls. Saw Lady Rose & Rachel W. Home. Met Mrs Gould, Miss Hollingshead & Mrs Borradaile. Tea. M & Barny up in room. Wrote letters, diary etc etc. Dined quietly, M, Maud & self at 8.0pm after posting letters. At 9.15 Mite & self went round to Burnands. Father Regan there. Mr & Mrs Hammond & Rosie back from Ireland. Squire's Irish joke. Poor. Left at 10.45pm. Broke glass. Slept in drawing room till 12.15pm. Bed after.
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Monday November 21 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0pm. Bright sun. Down at 8.30. Round Club after, 1st time. Wrote letters ordering papers & sent cheques to Kennedy & also to Knightley. Paid Club subscription & after went to Vinten. Had talk with Vinten. Paid cheque for house. After bought nails etc etc. Back. Met M, Mite, Miss Hood, Mrs Pugin etc. Looked in Club & read Truth. After back. Put up bench for photoing. Lunch. M & self went over stable. Very dreary. On to F.C.B's. Walk to Club & talk about Punch affairs. So so. Back to house. Developed some photo plates of Miss Paxton taken Saty 8 Oct as a trial & some of Redisham Hall etc. Worked. M in room. Puppy. Terrible blues all day. Doubts of future. Dinner 8.0pm. Posted letter. Mrs Hollingshead dined with us. Very poor dinner. Bad cutlets & birds. Heavy & sleepy after. Did not go round to F.C.B's. Bed at 11.15pm. M came down for me. (Red ink: Fred Leslie first felt typhoid coming on.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Mayo. Times, Thurs Dec 1. 92.)
Tuesday November 22 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Puppy brought up & sleeping peacefully with M in room. Bath too hot. Breakfast. Club. Very cold wind & dreadfully dull morning. Read Times & paper on Crust of Earth. Met Louis Fagan. Brought him in. Letter from F.C.B. Answered. Birds came from Claude, 3 wild duck, 3 pheasants. Got to work & drew after the (illeg) of Abbey, illustration to Lang's paper. Worked till lunch time. At 2.30 went to Club to meet F.C.B. Waited till 2.45. Down & saw him. Skemed subject for Monetery Conference, battle of the Standard. Back. Found Fagans at home in 5 Prospect Terrace. Many people called. Talked till tea time. Up & hurriedly finished drawings after. Dined quietly, M Maud & self.
Wednesday November 23 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dressed & packed things. Breakfast. Sent William Agnew with things to station. Went to Club. Got F.C.B's letter. Saw Conny B & F.C.B in fly. Walked quietly down to station & went up to town with F.C.B & Conny. Read Rudyard Kipling's letter in Times. Very good. F.C.B & Club letter, 'Don't you do it again'. Carriage met me at Victoria. Mare lame. Called at Clark's about saddle. Home, all well. Got to work & skemed tournament for Monetary Conference. Wrote M. At 5.50 went in carriage to Peals about spats & then to Benjamin. On to Club 6.57pm. Took cab from Bow St to corner of Bouverie St. P.D. William Agnew, Milliken, Reed, Lucy, Guthrie, F.C.B, J.T, self,
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Arthur, Lehmenn & Philip Agnew. Felt depressed. Passage of arms between F.C.B & W.A about the Sergeant. Young A prompted his father. Says we have no confidence in him. My cut altered to Knights apart fighting. Left & walked along Embankment with Lehmann & Guthrie. Guthrie 'Were all going to get the sack'. Back for carriage & on to Club. Home after Garrick. This night had the Xmas N° given out. Complimented on my work.
Thursday November 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wrote letter & sent Purnell off to Mays for suit of armour. Also wired M & wrote letters. Dull foggy morning. Purnell back at 11.0 with sack of costume. Had not skemed subject. Back at 12.20 & photod him in dull foggy morning. After developed plates & just got 2 prints before dark. Sent carriage for M at 4.30pm, Charing X. M back at 6.0pm. Ordered carriage at 7.15. Up at 7.25. Purnell complained had had no dinner. Drove to Pagani's Restaurant & M & self dined. Felt indigestion, anxious & tired. Woman in small room. Came on to rain. After at 8.20 had cab on to Comedy Theatre. Got box & saw The Arabian Nights. After home by hanson. Curious mare, fast goer & put her ears right back. No vice. Home, letter from Mr Brown of Fine Arts asking for drawings of Xmas number. Up in room, comfortable. Fine evening. Paper & bed tired. M all right. (Red ink: M came up from Ramsgate. Dined at Pagani's.)
Friday November 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am. Down. M in room. Wrote letters to Tenniel, Swain etc. After at 9.30 got to work on drawing of 2 Knights fighting for the Standard of Currency. At 10.10 a M.Desprez called on me about a shirt etc. Wanted drawing. Man x between Gilbert the sculptor & Hare. Went on with drawing. M went out in carriage at 11.0. Dark dreary morning. Worked on & on. M back to lunch. Wrote letters & went to her mother's at 5.30pm. After worked on to 11.15pm. M back at 8.30 & very sleepy. Dined 11.20pm & had bottle of Ayala 1884 & after smoked & complacently looked over Almanack. No evening paper. Bed at 1.30am. Wrote Mr Brown about drawings for Almanack in morning. (Red ink: Fred Leslie plays for the last time at the Gaiety Theatre.)
Saturday November 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. M no bath & headache. Down, sent Purnell with note to Tenniel about his cob. Breakfast. After put drawing room tidy all photos away etc etc. Selected &
108 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 cleaned up 5 drawings for Brown, Fine Art Socy. Wrote letters etc. Purnell back, no answer form Tenniel. Lunch. Whiskey & Apollinaris. After dressed & at 2.30pm carriage with Marquis came up. Left 2.30. Rain came on in Piccadilly about Park Lane. Called Walls & got sausages. On to Charing X. Heavy rain. Caught 3.25 for Ramsgate. Waited 25 minutes. Very heavy rain. Lit candle. Dropped down twill. Same disgusting old man got in at Ashford as last week. At Ramsgate tremendous rain. M came back in buss. I walked, just time to dress. Bought cigars. Mr & Mrs Fagan dined with us. Fairish dinner. Good pheasant. 2 bottles of Dumeny '84, 1 Burgundy. Cigars. Talk after of Richard Garnett. F's left at 11.15pm. Fine night. Starlight.
Sunday November 27 Prospect Terrace. Up at 9.0. Puppy in bed. Washed him. Up in room. Breakfast. Sausages. Round Club. Saw only Daniels come to Judgement. Wrote 7 letters. Out 11.50. Back at 12.15. Went for walk on Parade & met Mite, Madame, Flossy Hood & Conny B etc etc. Home. Gave poor woman 6d. Took puppy out for 1st time. Lunch. After M & self walked up to call on Fagans. Interesting illumination by L.F. Walked by Broadstairs on to Stone House & back to station. Home by train. Tea at 5 Prospect Terrace. Long talk to Louis Fagan after & great anecdotes about poor Pellegrini & the Prince of Wales etc etc. Fagan left at 6.30. Up in room & wrote 2 letters. Posted them. Went too far for Post Office. Dressed. Dined, M, Maud & self. Bottle Saumur. After M, Maud & self all went to F.C.B's. All sitting in circle. Bessie H, Squire, young Fearon etc. Old Evans there. 1st look at Robinson Crusoe. Spoilt by old blocks. Left at 10.35. Home. Window undone. M knocked. Bed 11.30. Wrote Tenniel about cob in morning.
Monday November 28 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.15. Bath etc. Puppy in bed. Down. No letters. Club by 9.30. Sat till 11.55 writing letters. Wrote Will Bingham. Fagan came in. Made a sketch. Posted letter to Mr Glossop. Letters from Mrs Buckmaster for tennis. After got to work & skemed drawing for Oyster & Sparrow. M in room. Lunch. Whisky & soda. M went out to Fagans & called with them on the Montefiores & Wills's. Developed 12 plates taken 25th. Maud up in room with me working. After did drawing of Cat(?) & Oyster to Follow. At 6.0pm Miss Parkin called with black & tan terrier. Too old, 4 years. M back at 6.30. Posted drawings to Swain. Quiet dinner, M, Maud & self. Strolled to Club after dinner & went up into
109 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 card room & looked at the Xmas N° of The World. Very bad. Drivvelish. Men playing cards. After back home, Madame in drawing room. M & puppy. Read. Snooze on sofa & bed after at 11.30pm.
Tuesday November 29 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. After Fagan came in. Decided to photo him. Dull morning. Got him all ready by 11.45. Took his portrait & also books & self on bench. Developed them & as much as could do to get a print. Fagan came in in afternoon & I sent Alice for acid (a long time gone). Developed the prints. After set to work & did drawing of Man in Prison for Lang's paper. Dinner at 7.30pm. Madame dined with us & after M, Maud, Madame by selves all went to F.C.B's for children's play, Mr Burnand's birthday. Self dresed after dinner & went by 9.15pm. Good little play. Baby, Mary & Winnie, Phillip & Cuthbert. Phillip a gend'arme. Good company. Lady Lawson, à Becketts etc, old Mr Gould. Champagne. Talk to Borradailes & all left at 11.45pm. Bed. M & Maud & Madame & self walked home. (Red ink across page: Mr Burnand's birthday. Went to see children's play after dinner.)
Wednesday November 30 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Put things up etc. Breakfast. William Agnew carried things to station. At 9.30 club & after strolled down. Met young Frank & Franklin carriage. F.C.B late. All up to town. F.C.B, Arthur à B, Frank, Franklin & self. Look at Phil May's annual. Carriage met me Victoria. Marquis very excited with trains etc. After drove home. Summons for 5/6 from Gillham. Unexpected. Emma had to go & get lunch. Finished drawing commenced yesterday afternoon for Lang's paper. Ordered carriage at 4.30 & drove to Turkish baths. Had bath & afterwards walked to P.D. Called at Whistlers in the Strand & looked at guns. On to P.D & arrived up stairs in time. New Sergeant. Phil Agnew & Lawrence Bradbury at bottom of table & sat together for 1st time. Milliken, B.P, Reed, Lucy, Guthrie, F.C.B, Tenniel, Arthur & self there. Left at 11.15. Went by carriage. Called Garrick club. Wrote Lincoln & Bennett & home. Fire in room & read Pyramids. Letters etc. Bed 12.30.
Thursday December 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head. In morning early skemed the drawings for Rhodes Colossus putting in breeches before breakfast. At 10.30 Purnell photod self on table. Heavy rain came
110 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 on. Lincoln & Bennett sent helmet. Just got it developed dried & printed. Could not ride Tenniel's cob on acct of heavy rain. At 4.15 dressed. Called De Vere Gardens. Carriage at 6.55 & drove on to Beefsteak Club. Had dinner. Talk to Elliot & Weedon Grossmith of word competition. Dr Bird next me. Marquis of Granby, Lord Onslow, Leslie Ward etc etc. At 10.20 went to Empire Theatre. Southern & Viennese beauties. Saw Jean de Paleagol. Out & on to Garrick. Carriage fetched me. Angry with Purnell for not driving Marquis. Explained about shaft. Home. Fire in room. Read Pyramids & sleep at 1.0am. (Red ink: 1st D.V.)
Friday December 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast & after sent Purnell on Marquis to Tenniel & after to F.C.B's. Dull morning. Foggy with sun struggling through. Got to work on Rhodes Colossus & on with it; all outlined by 4.30pm. F.C.B wrote 3 times to do 2nd cut, would not break off. Decided to do it tomorrow morning. Lunch. No beef tea in afternoon. Worked till 8.30 when dined. Large lobster. Too large. At 9.15 went on with drawing & sent it off by 10.0pm. Smoked cigar & dozed in chair. Had ½ bottle Ayala 1885 & some whiskey after. Went to bed very tired at 12.30 after sleep in chair. (Red ink: Did good cut of Rhodes Colossus.)
Saturday December 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30. Down & got to work on sketch of Labby & Gladstone for Process. Hurried breakfast & after finished drawing by 11.50. Sent it off. Then dressed & tried Tenniel's cob. Went quite quietly. Enlargement of off hind legs. Sent him in harness to Tenniel at 1.15. Lunch. ½ bottle Ayala '85. After printed & wrote names under mount for Almanack drawings. Finished by 3.15. Packed things. Wrote a letter or two. Tea & at 4.30pm cart came with Marquis looking very well & handsome. Drove to Victoria calling at Walls for sausages. Caught the 5.15pm train & down with 2 young men. One had a Sucher candle which came down & squirted grease all over him. The other got out at Faversham. Ramsgate porter home. Sensation, great fall of cliff opposite Cap'n Vailes'. Home. Mrs à Beckett there. Dressed. Dinner. Bottle of Champagne. Very tired after. Slept 1 hr on sofa & bed after. Mrs à B fetched by nurse. Bed 12.0.
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Sunday December 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Good sleep. Very tired. Breakfast. M in bed. On to Club. Letters (many) after fluster could not find my letters of last night. Wrote Tenniel etc etc. Out dressed in brown knicks to station to meet Milliken. Did so. Superinten't explained about trains. Arthur à B & Milliken in fly. Arthur pleased with Colossus of Rhodes. Home. Lunch. After walked up to call on the Fagans. Saw oval machine & illuminations. Fagan, Milliken & self walked to Dumpton Gap & along sand home. One of the most beautiful winter afternoons ever saw. Beautiful clouds sunset & full moon (nearly) rise. Splendid. Back to P.T for tea. Mrs Fagan there. Long talk & story of print proofs. They left at 6.30. Up in room & wrote letters to Times advertisement etc. Dressed & dinner 7.45. Burgundy. Milliken & self walked to F.C.B's after. Very cold. F.C.B quiet. Mite there. Bessie H & Mrs B sharp words. Left 10.30. Home. Talk with M about E.A.Poe. Bed 11.45pm. (Red ink across page: Lovely winter afternoon. Cold set in.)
Monday December 5 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down. Breakfast. Lovely bright sun. Cold. Frost in night. Millken down 8.45. M in bed. Out to Club. Wrote letters etc. Sent Forbes cheque. After went into town. Saw Hodgman's man & called ironmongers. Also on Wastall & ordered wine. After 2 wires, one from Tenniel one from Victoria. Wrote up diary till lunchtime. Down & after at 2.25 went for walk with Fagan & Milliken. Met F.C.B. On to Pegwell. Saw Squire & Borradaile. Stopped at farm house. Squire hollered behind me. Walk with S & B as far as X roads. On with M & F to 'Sportsman'. Round & across railway. Fagan told story of the pugilist. On home thro' top of Ramsgate by water works & Johnstones'. Home. Tea. Mrs & Miss Vailes there with squeaky voice. Long talk with Fagan about cammoristas, maffiers etc etc. He left at 5.35. Came up to work. Begun Spons calendar. Worry letter from William Agnew etc. Wrote letters & dressed in great hurry, went with E.I.M to Burnands to dinner. M & Maud had gone on. Talk of Africa. Bessie H, self, F.C.B, Mrs S, E.I.M & Rosie & Mrs B. Mrs B amused at joke. Great snow. Race game. Arthur à B won it. Home 10.45. Slept till 1.30. (Red ink across page: Dined at 18 Royal Crescent. Worry letter from W.Agnew. Heavy fall of snow at 8.30pm.)
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Tuesday December 6 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Dressed quickly & went to G.P.O & sent off wires to Green & Tenniel. Bought envelopes & back to breakfast. Got paper at Club & found apologetic letter from William Agnew. All right about the picture after all. Back home. After to Club. Long yarn from Fagan about the Arts Club & share etc. Ass of an individual said Punch's Xmas N° not good. Back & up in room & began Spons Calendar at noon. Lunch. At 2.15 went with Vintern's man to look at stable etc. Back. Very raw & cold. Snow on ground & more coming. Wires from Worrall & Tenniel. Got Punch with 1st Process drawing in it. Milliken went to Fagan's & had coffee & cigarettes. Worked on Spons' drawing. After rushed to Club to get cigars & back. Louis Fagan, F.C.B & Mrs B dined with us quietly, also Milliken. F.C.B greatly interested after with Fagan's talk about poor Pellegrini. Anecdote about letter & 3d bit. Hospital nurse. Fagan & F.C.B on stairs. After left Fagan talked on to Millken & self. Left 11.30. Bed..Very cold. (Red ink: Death of Fred Leslie, comedian, 5.0am Tuesday Dec 6.) (Red ink across page: Snow on ground.)
Wednesday December 7 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down. Put things up. Milliken at breakfast. Fine morning. Walked down to Granville 10.0am. Millken, self & F.C.B went up to town together. Guessed at missing word. Nothing in Times. Parnell met me with dog cart at Victoria. Home. Lunch. Lord Frederick Hamilton called at 3.0pm. Had worked on Spons' drawing from 12.30 to 3.0pm. After tea. Walked up at 5.30pm to Punch dinner. Called Club & saw in window at Goff's octagon oriental table. Bought it for £4.5.0. On to Punch dinner. Furniss had had interview with Agnes & Bradbury & behaved badly. P.D. Great success of my Process drawing. Had out & handed round. Agnew, Milliken, Lawrence Bradbury, Reed, Guthrie, B.P, F.C.B, J.T, self, Arthur à B, Furniss & Lehmann, D.M, (thirteen). Left at 11.15 & home in dog cart. Purnell said a Mr Cumming had been to see Marquis. Mr C subsequently never turned up. (Red ink across page: Interview with Lord Frederick Hamilton. Punch dinner, 13 at it. Furniss overhauled by F.C.B & agreed.)
Thursday December 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head. Sent Purnell round back after going up to to Chappells for flageolet. Got back at 11.0 &
113 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 photod him for Street Musician. Developed them. Cold. Had sent wire to Mrs Millett. Came at 11.35 & sat for Preface drawing. Cold in head & thinner. Looked miserable. Lunch. Felt very tired & sleepy afterwards. Woke up & begun drawing after tea. Left off 5.30 & dressed. Walked up to Savoy Restaurant. Called Club & also Goffs. After to Savoy. Wandered over hotel. Finally met Ayala. Talk in drawing room. Finally his nephew came late. After dinner (very good) drove with Marquis to Court Theatre. Saw Lockett Agnew & wife at restaurant. Saw The Guardsman for 2nd time. Met Chudleigh upstairs & Ayala very much pleased. Left & on in carriage by mare to Spielmann's, 16 Porchester Terr. Lots there. Met Pettie & McWhirter in doorway. Guthrie, Milliken etc etc. Introduced to Walter Crane. Saw Hugh Thomson smoking clay pipe. Left 11.30 & home by carriage. Gilbert elected an R.A. (Red ink across page: Dined with Ayala at Savoy Restaurant. Saw The Guardsman afterwards.)
Friday December 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Breakfast. After got to work at once on drawing of Musician & Stafford Terrace. No letter from F.C.B. Worked on. Lunch. After got finished by 7.45. Wrote on it for Process. Bothered over head of figure. Wrote Swain & dressed & after walked up to Mr G.M.Freemans, 33 Phillimore Gdns. Dirty roads. Dined. Curious wife, hair over eyes. Red headed daughter. Padgett there. Lovely house. Good dining room. Pictures. Bronzes etc. Champagne. Talk of 'Punch' & game of billiards after. Slow. Electric lights. Settled for stable. No mention of Marquis. Left at 11.45 & home to bed. Read paper & Pyramids. Very cold. (Red ink across page: Dined with G.M.Freeman at 33 Phillimore Gardens.)
Saturday December 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am. Down. Wrote letter to Whistler etc etc. After breakfast sent Purnell on mare to Tenniel's. Got to work to finish Spons Calendar. Purnell back & photod me in fur coat for Preface. Developed them, 1 from Purnell. After finished Spons drawing & sent it off by boy at 1.30pm. Lunch. Printed photos taken at 11.0am. Dressed & left in carriage at 2.35. Drove to Walls. Got sausages. On to Victoria. Ethel English just behind me. To train. Saw F.C.B. Declined to have anyone in carriage. Down with E.E, one other couple in carriage. Got out at Broadstairs. On to Ramsgate. Tea. Went into town to see Tenniel's cob. Very nervous. On & wired Tenniel. Called ironmonger & bought
114 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 haddock. Home. Dressed & fly on to Montefiores for dinner. Took in very handsome woman, Mrs Berry. Good dinner. Talk to Mrs Cohen about Athens etc. Pool. Billiards. Singing. Left at 10.45pm. Home. Read paper & dozed in chair till 12.25. Bed. (Red ink across page: Met Ethel English. Came down. Dined with Montefiores.)
Sunday December 11 Prospect Terrace. Up at 7.0 & breakfast. Wind in the west. Fine morning. Out to Club. & after went down to Hodgmans. Had saddle put on Tenniel's cob & after rode to ½ way house Sandwich. Saw Cuthbert Burnand. Lent me stick. Called P.T. M saw cob. Burnand caught me up on grass & after rode away. Met Squire, young Frank & Cuthbert. Home by 12.45. Rode with F.C.B. Talk of Furniss. Stayed at end of Parade & saw Mite & Ethel English. After changed & put on blue suit. Walked once up & down Parade. Home lunch. After felt tired. Up in room. wrote letters & diary. Felt very sleepy after. Dozed. M up in room at 4.15. Tea. Fagan & Perkins in. Fagan up in my room at 4.30pm. Worked after & skemed Shirt Trade drawing. Dressed 7.20pm. Wrote Tenniel, Times, Gilbert & Clowes. Quiet dinner. Puppy wild. On to Burnands after. Wet. Quiet evening. Saw Herkomer's 2nd portrait of F.C.B in reflection. F.C.B pleased with E.E. Home 10.30. Mite & self went back way & got home 1st. Read Scribner. Bed 11.30. Plates still hypo on them after fortnight. (Red ink across page: Rode Tenniel's cob for 1st time.)
Monday December 12 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.15. Breakfast. Dull morning. Round Club. Letters. Fagan came in. At 11.0 cob came round & got on at P.T having bought cane stick just before. On to Burnands. Missed him. Went on. Man on a hoss. Rode round by Westwood & along by Dumpton Park & back. Great difficulty to get cob by the Gas Works. Rain came on. Met M & E.E. After home. Lunch & after got to work on Shirt Trade Mark. Worked till 7.15pm. Dressed & went to dine at Arthur à Becketts. Met Mr & Mrs Hamilton, Mr & Mrs F.C.B & little Miss Harrison. Mite M & self went. Mrs H very gray woman. Table turning etc etc cards. Room very cold. Felt cold & expected to get one. F.C.B stayed till 11.40, then we all left. Pat & Giggles in bed. Home. Went up to bed at 12.10pm. Letter came from East asking me to dine at 8.0pm at Granville. Accepted.
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Tuesday December 13 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Washed floor. After dressed for hunting & down breakfast. Ethel English & M going to Deal for day. Club. At 9.30 got on cob & rode across country to Birchington. Sturdy little chap. Got there at exactly 11.0. Saw Collard & old Ackhurst etc etc. Tom Mayhew. Found hare. Cob got dreadfully excited & wanted to go. Took him away. Did not see F.C.B. Left 11.50 & home across through Acol & past Cleve Court. Home 1.0. F.C.B not back. Talk to Ashley & looked at pony for Roy. Back. Passed Mrs Berry. Called Club & on to lunch. Changed things. Miss Harrison with Maud. Up in room after. Read paper. Dozed & wrote letters until 4.30pm. Tea & got on with Shirt drawing after. M back 6.15 from Walmer. Worked till 8.0pm. Did not finish drawing. Bottle Burgundy for dinner at 8.15pm. After M, Maud, E.E & self hunted for thimble. Bed at 11.15pm. Very cold all day. (Red ink across page: 1st ride of meet of hounds. Harriers 1892-3.)
Wednesday December 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.15am. Breakfast. Pouring wet day. Round Club. Read Times. Missing word stopped. Back 10.5. Posted letteres. Up in room. Fire nearly out. Got to work on Shirt drawing. M in room. Finished 12.0. Delay in packing it up. Sent it by William Agnew who took Mrs Armstong's (the cook's) box. Lunch 1.30. Maud distrait about patterns etc. Back in room & outlined Preface. Packed things. Puppy barked at glass. Off by 3.35pm train. Carriage very full, 2 at Margate & 3 at Westgate. 2 got out Herne Bay. Read by candle & after up to town. Purnell met me at departure platform. Drove to Club & ordered carriage at 11.0 Bouverie St. Quiet dull Punch dinner. F.C.B at Sir Henry Thomson's to meet H.R.H. Arthur, Tenniel, self, Lehmann, P.Agnew, L.Bradbury, Milliken, B.P, Reed & Guthrie there. Wrote letter for robes to Ede & Son & Swain. Drove straight home. Fire in room. Letter from Maple & Co etc. Bed 12.30am.
Thursday December 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine morning. Skemed subject of Judge & M.P. Desuner(?). At 10.30 robes came from Ede & Son, Chancery Lane. Photod Purnell & after at 1.0 Emma photod self in evening dress for Index. Got them developed & printed early. Worked. Put in gas chandelier etc etc. At 5.30 dressed & called D.V.G. Carriage fetched me 7.15. Drove on to Garrick. Got violets
116 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 at Covent Garden. Hare & Furniss at club. Drove to Brooks'. Dined with Lockwood. Met Sir Douglas Straight, F.C.B, Bancoft, Hare, Daddy Levy, Joe Parkinson, Willie Matthews, self, Lockwood & Arry Furniss. Good dinner & A1 wine, Pol Reger 1880. Left at 11.10 to drive to Colin Hunters. Mr Harper of New York, McIlvaine, Orchardson, William Black, Colin & self. Lost 35/s at poker. Left 12.30 & home. Walked with Orchardson. Told me of selling his house. Fire in room. Read papers & bed at 1.15am. (Red ink: 2nd D.V.) (Red ink across page: Dined with Lockwood at Brooks Club.)
Friday December 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & got to work after breakfast on drawing of Judge & M.P. Roy came back from school at 9.15pm. Had 3 sausages for breakfast. Sent him after to his grandmothers. Had words with Purnell at 8.15. Sent him with Marquis in cart to shew Mr Lubbock. Came back at 11.0. Sent Roy with him up to Hyams to get covert coat & to be left at Albert Hall Mansions. Got on with drawing. Lunch. Roy back at 4.0pm. Gave him letter to go to the Adelphi Theatre with Mervyn which he did. Finished drawing at 7.30 & sent it off. Dressed & drove in carriage (last time) to Reform Club. Dined with Lehmann. Good dinner. J.R.Robinson, Anstey Guthrie, Barry Paine, E.I. Milliken, Ernest Lehmann, Arthur à Beckett, Guy Campbell, Walter J.James, E.T.Reed, Anthony C.Deane, Richard W.Turner, H.Wiere, T.Wemys Reed, A.C.Lehmann, F.C.B, H.W.Pym, A.Conan Doyle, L.S & about 3 others. Sat between Robinson of Daily News & Conan Doyle. Talk after to Guy Campbell. One got drunk. Home by cab at 1.0am. All right. Bed. Answered letter to Mr Despriez about drawing & posted it at 2.15am, so was all right. Marquis sent to Mr Lubbock to try. (Red ink across page: Dined with Lehmann at Reform Club.)
Saturday December 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Slight head. Down. Put things away etc etc. Developed & prints of self for Toby jumping through Hoop. Roy back at 10.30pm. Sent him to be measured at Benjamins for breeches. Back at 1.0pm. Got things together & left in cart after lunch at 2.30. Drove Marquis for the last time. Went well. Bought 3lbs of sausages at Walls. Caught 3.25 train & down to Ramsgate. Carriage to ourselves. Fly home. M delighted to see Roy. Had forgotten his pot hat. Dinner. Quiet evening. Ethel English sang & we looked for thimbles. Bed at 11.0pm. Slightly bilious all day. George Williams examined Marquis in the morning, passed him
117 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 sound. (Red ink: Drove Marquis for last time.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Robert McIlwraith.)
Sunday December 18 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dressed. Roy's 1st morning at P.T. At 10.0 after writing letter at Club to F.C.B went on Jumbo to call on Ingram at Westgate. Good ride. Cob went well. Got there 11.15am. Long talk with Ingram about new paper & his family affairs. Lunch. 2 boys. Many birds, albinos & laughing jackass. White jackdaw flying about. Very funny. Left at 2.10 & rode to Margate & home past Montefiores. Home by 4.0pm. Ashley waiting at Hodgmans. After at home Sorby there. Tea & talk. Up in room & did drawings for Lang's paper & sent it off by Roy at 7.30pm. Dressed & dined. Mr & Mrs à Beckett, Mr & Mrs Fagan, Ethel English & Conny Burnand at dinner. Good dinner. 1 bottle of Burgundy & 2 of Dumeny's. Good talk. Music. Roy lounged in chair after. All left at 11.30pm.
Monday December 19 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am & after visit to Club back & commenced Preface. Ethel English left at 1.15pm. Paxtons came. Got on with Preface & lunch 1.45. Mr Paxton, Basil & Maud P there. At 2.10 Roy & self rode for 1st time to Margate. Roy on poor old Shuffler. Passed Mr Schimmelmann's & saw Mr Edwards. Roy sheepish. Home by 4.0pm. Paxtons at tea. Up in room & went on with Preface. Got complete outline done. Dinner. Bottle of Burgundy. Did not work after dinner & glad I did not. Bed at 10.30pm. (Red ink: Cheque received for Marquis £45.0.0. Hard at work on Preface. Marquis sold & sent to Mr Lubbock. 72 Cadogan Gdns S.W. The Rookery, Down, Farnborough. R.S.O. Kent.)
Tuesday December 20 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am & got to work after going to Club for ¼ hour on finishing Preface. Begun to shade at 10.15am. Worked on. Roy went with harriers at 10.30 with young Hodgman. Dull foggy morning. Got on & Roy back at 1.45. Sent Preface off by William Agnew at 3.15 after wiring Swain twice. After did tail piece for Preface. Children's party at home. Mr & Mrs Fagan calld. Dinner 7.40pm. Bottle Saumur. Maud at Mrs Banks' school play. Roy & M playing with puppy. Mite back very late. Bed at 12.15pm. (Red ink: Hard at work on Preface.)
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Wednesday December 21 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.15am. M very tired in bed. Roy in hot bath. Breakfast. Club. Cuthbert & O'Reilly came in for Roy. Club. Wrote Clowes & Mr Lubbock. Back & did Index in the morning, Punch jumping Toby through Hoop. Lunch. Roy rode Jumbo at 2.0pm for 2 hours. Went well. Up in room & finished Index. Sent it off by W.A at 3.10. After did tail piece & sent it by Roy 6.45pm. M up in room. Roy at geometrical drawings. Dinner 7.30. Bottle of Burgundy. Quiet evening after. M very sleepy & tired. Bed at 11.15 exactly. (Red ink: Finished the Preface & Index for Vol end of year.)
Thursday December 22 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fog. Bath. Washed Barney. Breakfast. M decided to go up by 9.40 S.E train. Left at 9.20, Roy carrying bag. Club. Wrote letters etc. Dense fog. Wrote M & back home. Wrote letters. Changed & put on brown knickerbocker suit. Went with Roy to Hodgman. Paid him £10.0.0 balance of acct one & ordered horses. Bought twine & stamps etc. After home. Played Roy 50 up at billiards. Changed to riding things. Lunch. At 2.15pm rode cob & Roy the Shuffler. Past Manstone, Westwood & by East Cliff home by 4.0pm. Tea & went down to station. Waited in cold east wind one hour. Talk to station news agent. Mare arrived one hour late. After drove to stables. All wrong. No light, dropped key. Purnell back with self in cart to Vintens & Fitchews, on to Blackburns also. Home. Wrote letters, changed things. Wind set in to S.E about 1.0pm. Up in room & wrote letters. Dined 9.45pm. Maud & Roy, I alone. Whiskey & soda. Roy & self sat in front of fire in drawing room. Very cold. Slept & went to bed 11.30pm. M went up to town. (Red ink across page: Bitterly cold east wind set in. Death of Montague Williams Q.C.)
Friday December 23 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0. Most glorious sunrise. Up in bath room. After Club etc. Wrote letters to Xmas card people etc. Tom Smith crackers came. Wrote at home & after skemed 2 drawings for Ingram's Sketch. Ordered horses 2.15. Roy rode cob, self mare for 1st time since Novr 7th. Went across country to Westgate. Past Nash & Garlinge. Called on Ingram & left letter & wires. Rode past & through Westgate & to Birchington. Roy dropped his cane. Mare lashed out at cob. After rode in bee-line to Ramsgate & through Sickleman's Farm home. Left mare at stable. Went on to Vintens about gas & walked with him to gas works. After home. Very cold
119 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1892 east wind by south. Up in room & did 6 more designs for Ingram's Sketch. After Roy went to meet his mother at S.E.Rly. M back at 6.30. Finished sketches & wrote to Tenniel about cob. Roy posted them. Dined at 7.45. Bottle Ayala. All in drawing room. Bed after 11.0pm. Very bitterly cold & hard frost in the night. Heard of death of Montague Williams Q.C. (Red ink across page: Roy & self delightful ride across country.)
Saturday December 24 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0. M in bath. After good breakfast Club. Wrote thanking for Xmas cards etc. At 10.10 posted them after talk to Fagan. At 10.20 went round to stables. Rode mare & Roy cob. Most bitterly cold. Burnand, Frank B & Cuthbert rode & caught us up by farm house. Rode to Sandwich far too fast. Roads very hard. Troubled with P. Back at 12.30. Left F.C.B at farm also. Home to stables. No water & lock. Went to Vintens again. Bought Roy corn plasters & corn stuff. After home & lunch. After to Club & played 1.100 game of billiards with Roy. 96 - 100. Roy won. Back house. Roy's breeches arrived. Tried them on. Got on deck chair to rest when Ingram arrived. Saw him. Talk for ¾ hour. Horses 30 years old. Tea. Settled with Purnell. Wrote diary. Still bitterly cold. Went on writing letters till dinner time. After M, Maud, Roy & self dined quietly. Bottle of Saumur. After up in drawing room. Roy & puppy playing with ball. Bed 11.30. M curled in a ball. Mite still up.
Sunday December 25 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.45. Up in room. Lovely sunrise. Down breakfast. Presents all round. Beautiful morning. Roy & self & Barney went round to stables to see horses. Back & on to Club. Saw Fagan & Edwards. Talk of station servant who got 18 months for distilling. Home 11.0am. Wrote 6 letters till 12.30. Mite & self & M went onto Parade with little Buckmaster. On into Susie à Beckett’s. Walked up & down. Met Conny B & Charles B & wife etc. Miss Chards. After back. Mite, Milliken & Arthur à B lunch. Opened Carlsbad plums. After went with Roy at 3.0pm & called on Fagans. Attack of P. Lovely walk. Very cold wind. Went along pier. Frozen salt water. Back at 4.30. Fagans in to tea & photos up in room. Wrote Emma. After dinner at 7.15. Dressed. Cold after dinner. M, Maud, Roy & self went round to F.C.B's. Felt seedy after smoking big cigar of Lehmann's. Harold Powers at F.C.B's, Hammonds etc etc. Speeches by Powers after & presents given away. Got a lovely Letts diary. Roy did not think much of H.P. Left at 11.30 & home. Very cold. (Red ink across page: Most lovely
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Xmas day ever recollect. Very cold, nearly east wind but brilliant sun the whole day.)
Monday December 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Read Times. Talked to Edwards & Fagan. Fagan told story of his Italian servant who had been to prison for distilling. At 11.30 got on mare at door & rode with Roy on sands. Caught up by F.C.B near Broadstairs with young Frank. Desperate ride along sands to Margate in most lovely weather. Brilliant sun all day. Through Margate & past Westwood & Haine home. Troubled with P. Roy went to look at Sicklemore's pond. Back by diagonal path. Home. Lunch. Maud Paxton & brother there. Up in room after & begun drawing for Vol 104. Sent Roy with young Paxton to football. Dinner 7.30. After M, Maud P, Maud & Roy went to Burnands for children's play. Sat & smoked. Read Walcheron Expedition. On to F.C.B's at 9.0. Play. Audience. Danced after with Molly O'C. Oh! Iley & Mrs Purcell. Supper. Smoke. Got very hot. All left at 12.0. Read Moonstone & bed after at 1.45am. (Red ink across page: Most lovely day. Brilliant sun. Splendid ride to Margate & back.)
Tuesday December 27 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Clouds came up early. Change in weather. Breakfast. Club. Roy sleepy. After at 10.15 photod Mite & Maud Paxton in classic dress for Sketch. Developed them. At 12.0 rode with Roy along sands. Mist & rain came on. Met F.C.B & Cuthbert coming back from Broadstairs. Back at 1.30. Wet. Changed things. Lunch. After round to Club & played Roy 100. 99 all. Met Milliken & Arthur. Poor Illiken. Back in room & went on to finish opening of Vol for 104. Worked till 7.30. Could not finish. Dinner. Bottle of Burgundy. After thimble game, 2 Mauds & Roy. Went to No 14 Royal Crescent, Miss Hollingshead's party. Won 2/6 at race game. Mrs à Beckett gambled. Harold Powers with cap on from cracker. Left at 11.30. Read Moonstone & bed. M Madame Bovary. Wonderful. (Red ink across page: Dull weather set in. Cold & miserable.)
Wednesday December 28 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. No boots ready. Breakfast. Very poor. M in bed. Purnell carried bags to station. Walked. Drizzle of rain. Went up to town with Mr & Mrs H.Powers & F.C.B. Very cold & thick fog all the way up. Chaff & talk about Spencer Brunton & Algy Bastard & wife. Town. Cab to Stafford Terrace. Very cold.
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Finished opening Vol drawing after lunch. Begun Lang's paper drawings. Dressed at 4.15 & walked D.V.G. On to Punch dinner 6.30. Cab to skate shop & on to Bouverie St. Punch dinner. F.C.B, Lucy, Reed, B.P, Illiken, Arthur à B, self & Tenniel. Talk of Cruikshank. After sat with Milliken & Bernard Partridge. Left 12.0. Called Beefsteak. Bad cab. Saw Leslie W, Sir Fk(?) Arthur, Arthur Blunt etc. Left 1.0. Home by 4 wheeler, 3/6. Intense cold & fog & discomfort. W.C's & all pipes bath etc frozen. Bed 2.0am. D.V.G. Foot. (Red ink: 3rd D.V.) (Red ink across page: To town. Very foggy & wretchedly cold)
Thursday December 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down. Foggy. Intensely cold in room. Piled up fire. Shivered with cold. Finished drawing for Lang's paper. After skemed Shirt drawing. Put shirt up & drew from it. Worked till 5.30. Dressed & at 6.15 walked to Bristol to dine with Miss Rose Innes. Called Butts for flower & selected pine. Waited ½ an hour at Bristol for Jack Robertson. No Bret Harte. Good dinner. Miss Lehmann, Miss (blank) Norman Forbes Robertson, J Robertson & wife, sister & husband, Miss R.I, self. On to Theatre in cab with N.F.R. Box. Saw 'About Town', Arthur Roberts. Very pretty girls. Saw Hugh Spottiswood. Left at 11.30. Home straight to Kensington. No whiskey. 'You musn't'. Bed 12.15. (Red ink across page: Dined with Miss Rose Innes at the Bristol. Saw Arthur Roberts at the Gaiety after. Most bitterly cold.)
Friday December 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Dark & foggy. Down. Breakfast. Got to work at 9.45 on drawing of Shirt & Demons after. Dense black fog came on. Very bad. Boy at 12.0. Sent him for sausages. Lunch 1.45. Finished drawing 2.15. Changed & off by hansom at 2.45. Caught Granville. Down with Mrs Burnand. Read Harpers magazine. Story of Spanish girl & Burke. Ramsgate. No cart. Had fly home. Cart at top of hill. Roy no collars. Home. M seedy with stiff neck, very bad. Went to Club & wrote letters. Saw Sorby. Back 7.30. Wrote 3 more letters. Purnell posted them. Dined. Bottle of Burgundy. M tired. Quiet evening. Maud Paxton & Maud back at 9.30 from the Pugins. M went up 10.15, self 11.30. Bed. Very cold. (Red ink across page: Got work done easily & home to Ramsgate by Granville with Mrs Burnand.)
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Saturday December 31 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.15. Roy in bath. Sausages. M in bed. Round Club. Wrote Jennings. Got registered envelopes. Home 10.30. Printed 2nd photos. Began Ingram's drawing. Designed Pall Mall drawings. Worked till 1.15pm. Lunch. Roy at Club. After at 2.10 rode with Roy to Point seeing Margate along the sands. Looked at names cut in cliffs. Men with guns. Back at 4.15. Tea. Back in room & worked on Ingram's drawing. Got outline on paper. Dinner. Bottle of Burgundy. Quiet evening after. Roy & self ought to have gone to the O'Rileys. Maud & Maud Paxton there. Roy asleep on the sofa. Slept the New Year in. Mite back after 12.0. Stayed up late talking with Maud P & not in bed till 1.45am.
Entries in cramped handwriting for the first 20 days of 1893 fill the end papers of this diary. These entries were later copied (with only small changes) into a new diary for 1893 and can be read in that volume.
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