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Notes on preliminary pages:
(Red ink: Store ticket for 1889 61061)
Candles for reading lamp, Vegetable wax S.S.6's 3/9 per packet. No good, sperm wanted.
Miss Gill, 2 King's Road, Brownswood Park, N. George Finlay Esq, General Manager's Office, L & NW Rly, Euston. G.M.Rich Esq, Station Master, Euston. Fred Dougall Esq, The Highland Railway, General Manager's Office, Inverness.
Models: Miss Etty Pettigrew, 7 Musgrave Crescent, Walham Green Miss Lily Pettigrew. Grove, 174 Brompton Road, S.W. Mrs Stephenson, 34 Jervis Road, Lillie Road, West Kensington S.W. Meg Dartrey, 109 Eaton Terrace S.W. Miss L Price, 2 Goodson Road, Lillie road, West Brompton S.W. Nellie Hall, 3 Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill, S.W. Tall & slight, good figure. Adah Fletcher, 18 Goldsmith Residences, Goldsmith Road, Peckham S.E. (Crossed out in red ink.) No good (added in red ink.)
(Red ink: Abbey's housekeeper, Martha Keevil.) Hamilton Bruce, 4 Eccleston St, Chester Sq. Archibald McGregor, 126 Campden Houses, Pell St, Kensington. P.C. 305. F. Weldon, 108 Victoria Street S.W. Charles A Howell, 91 Southampton Row, Russell Sq, next Bedford Hotel W.C. E.Coleman Esq, Veterinary Surgeon, Tooting. Iodine charges. Caron D'Ache, 59 Rue de la Tour, Passy. Address for boots in Paris: Coquillot, 10 Rue de la Bourse, Paris.
Book on South Seas from Curacoa Wiseman: A ride through the disturbed districts of New Zealand, together with some account of the South Sea Islands, being reflections from the journals & letters of Lieut the Hon Herbert Meade R.N. Edited by his brother. London, John Murray, Albemarle St 1870.
Tuesday January 1 (Red ink: Dreadful black fog.) Up & breakfast early & went by Metropolitan Railway to Waterloo in fur coat to attend funeral of Hamilton Fletcher's little baby at Winchester. Met Pollock, Mervyn & Hamilton. Dense fog at railway. Down to Winchester. Lovely day there but cold. Cold in head came on during day. Funeral. Name of Kensington & Bugle after. Snapp officiated. No lunch.
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Took Mervyn & gave him some at Black Swan after looking in at George. Back to town. Sleep. Fog better. Home by 4 wheeler & hansom. Dressed & followed M to Arthur à Beckett's. Slow evening. Shilling in pudding. Next Mrs Boys. Home by mare in carriage. Cold came on badly at night. (Red ink across page: Hard frost.)
Wednesday January 2 Cold very bad in morning. Chest sore. Tidied up things. Wrote letters. In afternoon walked to Punch dinner. Met Spencer. Called Briggs about stick etc. Agnew at dinner. Magnums of Ayala. Home with Guthrie in carriage. Very cold. (Red ink across page: Hard frost.)
Thursday January 3 Dull cold morning. Cold better, but bad. Photod Jolley pm, Gladstone & Mandoline. Sent for mandoline & costume to May's & Chappell's. After dinner slept 1 hour & went to fetch Maud from Messels. Very cold. Cold bad. Took Dummy down to supper, Parsons & small German. Home at 12.15am. Maud all right. (Red ink across page: Very cold.)
Friday January 4 Up & worked on Gladstone & Mandoline. At noon F.C.B wrote to want 2nd cut. Did it after 5.0pm, Captn Shaw & London. Dinner 10.45 & bed after sleep. (Red ink across page: Very cold.)
Saturday January 5 In morning went with M to Private view of Old Masters at Burlington House. Saw Humphrey Ward, Horsley, Aird etc etc. Lunch at St James's. Saw Biddle. After went to see 'Sweet Lavender' at Terry's theatre. Guthrie & Maud & Roy joined us. Minnie Ha Ha. Missed carriage on Embankment. Took 4 wheeler. Found carriage. Sent Maud & M home. Roy & self walked home. Called on Stokes at Metropole. Saw Telegraph working. Boat race on Tyne. Bought cream & sausages at Crafts. Home. Quiet evening. Small room after. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink across page: Very cold.)
Sunday January 6 Hard hard frost. Up & went with Maud & Roy to Round Pond with Tony. Saw skating. Lots on ice. At 12.30pm drove mare to Barker's & lunched at Wimbledon. Arthur Linley, Aunt Alice, Davidsons & Mr Coghlan there. Home in afternoon. Hamilton & Ada came in at 4.0pm & dined after with Conrad & Effie & Spencer. Chicks dined at small table. Pleasant evening. Up late. Whiskey. Talk of estate with Spencer. (Red ink across page: Hard frost. Skating.)
Monday January 7 Early in the morning dear Roy fell in the hall at garden door & broke his nose on the oak box. Bled very much & shook him. Brave boy. At 12.30 walked up to Club. Spoke to policeman in Row & walked all way up. Got hot. Lunched at Club with Grain & Evans. Fog came on. On to Covent Garden theatre. Met M & Chicks in Box 98. Had it changed. Saw Bear & Dog. Carriage in King St. Sent Chicks & M home. Cup of tea at Club. Saw Hare. Walked to
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Knightsbridge. Got eggs at Crafts. Met carriage at French Embassy & home. Dinner. Quiet evening. Wired to Harris about Baddelley. No celebrations. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink across page: Very cold.)
Tuesday January 8 In morning frost broke. Pass sent for 1889 from Forbes. Roy better. M went out. Wrote letters. (Red ink across page: Frost gave in.)
Wednesday January 9 Lovely morning. Got on mare & rode to Kingston. Met Richmond A.R.A. Dull. Bad lunch. Garrulous horse keeper. Mare fresh. Cold. Home through Park. Back in afternoon. Rested. After drove & dined at Tom Eykyns. Met Barkers, Madleys, whiteheaded bore etc etc. Home at 11.0. No smoke.
Thursday January 10 In morning wrote letters & waited for letter from F.C.B. Telegram from Swain. No subject, after 2 letters from F.C.B. Boy called & photod him in rain for Rosebery. Worked all afternoon. Wire to have dined with Stokes. Dined quietly at home. Did not work after dinner.
Friday January 11 Long hard day's work. In morning finished Rosebery as Crossing Sweeper. After photod Stace as Bismarck. Also Jolley & self tug of war. Finished tug of war at 9.15. Bottle Saumur. Bed 1.0pm. Slept after.
Saturday January 12 Worked all morning. Finished at 1.0 drawing for Punch, Bismarck & Snakes. Abel Watmore bought Barker's horse. Annoyed. Went round to stable. Snow wet. After lunch 4 wheel cab with Chicks to Savoy theatre. Guthrie came in. Saw Banks & Twiss. Delighted with Yeoman of the Guard. Walked to Club. Cab 8115. Bad horse. Tea. Listen to Harris. Home. Omnibus at Knightsbridge. Quiet dinner. Read Nights. Bed 11.0pm.
Sunday January 13 Up at 9.30. At 10.30 rode mare to Richmond. Met Barker's groom at Robin Hood Gate. Hard ride through Park. Parted at Barnes Common. Home. Tony spoiled Newmarket boots. (Red ink: By lifting his leg, Jan 11 '96.) Lunch. Put clothes in order. Wrote letters. Wrong headed candle. Chicks down to dinner. Maud blotted desk. After dinner went in carriage to Alexanders. Met Mrs Charles Ingram, Mrs Earl etc etc. Home 1.20am. Pleasant evening.
Monday January 14 Very cold raw day. Stove smoked. Guthie sent children slides. Wrote letters. Abbey's invite. Rode in Park in morning. Looked in at Empire. Saw Ray Lancaster. Cheque sent by Collingridge, £84 only. Went in afternoon to call on Mrs Fk Barr, 8 Hans Road. On by cab to Stores. Saw manager about studs. On to Lady Freake's at home. Good fiddling. Arthur Blunt, Burgess RA. Home by carriage. In evening went on to Chesters at home. Met Lintons, Mrs Harley & daughter, Brandon Thomas's etc etc. Claude. Very late. Home at 5.15 from Temple Kensington at 4.0am.
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Tuesday January 15 Rode in Park in morning. Good fresh canter after late last night. Took Maud & Roy by cab to National Gallery (very dark) & on to Exhibition of Stuarts. After called Charbonel & Walker & on to Fine Art Society. Saw Japanese things. On home by tea time.
Wednesday January 16 In morning rode. Tallard called in morning, delayed me riding. Wired about cheque to Collingridge. At 2.0 went with Chicks to Court Theatre & saw Goody Two Shoes. Carriage put me down at Sloane St. Walked on to Punch dinner. Tea at Club. Met Bancroft. Furniss elected to Beefsteak. Sent him a wire. Chaff about wire & Stock Exchange. Saw Tallard again in shop. Bradbury bad. Went home in carriage at 12.0am from Bouverie St.
Thursday January 17 Letter from Collingridge in morning. No cheque & more worry. Wrote letters & rode in Park after. Galloped home. Humbugging about work. Burnand wrote for Speculative subject. Wrote letters all afternoon. In evening dined with Osgood & Abbey. Farewell dinner to Millet. Good dinner at Arts Club. Called on Lawson & selected nails etc. Cards after at Osgood's. Lost £2.0.0. On home at 2.30am with Colin Hunter.
Friday January 18 Up early & waited for F.C.B about work. Much worried. Had to wait until 12.30 to begin Punch Notes. Worked all day & finished 10.15pm. Dinner. No wine. Bed 1.0pm. Sent Jolley twice to F.C.B with mare.
Saturday January 19 (Newspaper cutting pasted in, death of Katherine Monro.) Fine. In morning at 10.0 drove in dog cart to see Lord Mayor. Took Roy. Folkestone slipped on asphalt. Jolley drove him after. Saw Lord Mayor & also Soulsby. Unsatisfactory interview. On with Roy to church, Holborn. After to British Museum. Sent him home & walked to Club. Lunched. Saw Beetle & Jones. After went on to Avenue Theatre & saw Arthur Roberts in Nadgy. Took cab on to George Lewis's. Saw him about Collingridge case. Back to theatre & on in carriage to Grosvenor Gallery. Called at Charbonel & Walker & had chocolate. Saw Georgy Boehm. Sent M home. Roy & self walked home.
Sunday January 20 Dull wretched morning. Dear Roy disappointed about going to church. Rain came on. Spencer came in, stopped lunch & dinner. Rode mare in afternoon to Wimbledon. Saw Abel Watmore & home. Mare very sluggish. Tea. Put things straight. Bottle of Saumur for dinner. Sleepy. Spencer stayed till 12.30pm. Bed 1.0pm.
Monday January 21 Dull foggy wet day. Rode in Park in morning. After at 2.15pm took cab & drove up to call on Sir George Pringle at Athenaeum Club. After went down & saw Alfred Porter Esq at 10 Whitehall Place. Called at Suggs in the rain. On to Club. Saw Bancroft & Hare. Furniss joke. Met M. Called Welbys & Burnetts
4 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 etc etc. Home. Rain. Wrote letters and tidied drawers. Quiet dinner. Bed 11.0pm. Maud broke looking glass in afternoon.
Tuesday January 22 Fine morning. Up 9.0am. At 9.50 Furness came titupping up. Round to stable. Rode mare to Barkers. Had horse out. Rode through Common & over fences. Through Park. Home. Lunch. Wrote letters. Sent negatives away. In afternoon commenced to scheme Spirit of Speculation. After drove to Delarue's. Good dinner. Small children. C.Burnand, Mrs Alexander, Mrs Lance Speed, a couple & Mr Fairfield there. Saw Lance Speed's book. Hum! Smoke & home by carriage at 11.15pm.
Wednesday January 23 Mare had a mash. Worked in morning on Game of Speculation. Did not ride. At 2.0 went with M & Roy to Drury Lane Pantomime in carriage. Roy sat between us. Put M & Roy in carriage for home at 5.15. On to Club & had cup of tea. At 6.0 called on Sugg at Charing X. Talked for an hour. On to Punch dinner. Good dinner. D.M there. Home at 12.0 by self.
Thursday January 24 Worked hard all day on Spirit of Speculation. Did not ride. At 6.30 took Met Rly to Mansion House to Lord Mayor's wonderful dinner. Great gathering. Sat next Roland Whitehead. Deputy Hulse. Saw Boehm. On in cab to Beefsteak. Did not go to Osgoods. Home in cab at 1.30pm. Talk of Furniss.
Friday January 25 In morning got up quite early worked & finished Game of Speculation. At 3.10pm sent it off. Got on mare & rode in brown boots to Battersea Park. Met sub art editor of 'Times'. Twice round. Home. Dressed & dined at Boehms in evening. Took Lady Fanny FitzWigram in. Lady Lawrence, Lady Harrison etc etc. Fairish dinner. Gilbert (sn) there. Talk with Boehm after. Settled to ride. Home at 11.30pm. Very slow dinner. Chicks naughty with red hot poker. Lawrence had to interfere.
Saturday January 26 (Red ink: Stone's engagement, 21.1.96.) Maud cried about last night in morning. Most lovely spring morning. Put photo house in order. At 12.15 rode in the Row. Saw Lockwood & wife. Also Wyndham & Finlay. Mr Stone & Miss Hogg engaged. Home. Promised to take Chicks to zoo. Maud disappointed me. Gave it up. Miss Walford lunched with us. Walked up to Club. Called on Mr Graves at Reform Club. On to Garrick. Left card on Farrow & Jackson. Cup of tea & muffin. Wrote letters, one to Thresher & Glenny. Walk to Reform Club. Saw Mr Graves. Talk. Cab home. Dressed. Carriage on to Stokes' dinner at Hotel Metropole. Met Mrs Moon & son. Also Major (blank) Mr Weldon etc. Dull dinner. Home 11.0. Knocking on door over way.
Sunday January 27 In morning cold again, frost. Chicks with Minnie left at 9.45 for church at Holborn. At 10.15 went to stables. Called on Guthrie. Boehm met me. Delightful ride. Fog. Home by Lillie Bridge. Chicks not back till 2.15 from
5 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 church. Very cold. Wrote letters. Put boots right. Played Roy a game of chess. Angell called. Dressed after & dined with Heilbutts. Good dinner. Corney Grain, Grossmiths, Beerbohm Trees, Mrs Monckton, Dr Stoker & wife, Shakespears & little old lady I took in. Left at 1.0. Grossmith a breakdown. Joe Hunter's dinner to Col North at Garrick.
Monday January 28 Wind shifted. Warmer. Rode in Park at 11.45. Fine morning. News from stranger of O'Shaunessy who had accident. Saw Matthews & Bartlett. Home. Dressed. New boots. Took dear Roy to station in hansom. Saw M & him off to Thanet. Met Mrs Boys, Tommy went down. On to Club in carriage. Walked to Gaiety & also called Mrs May. Back. Cup of tea. Very tired. Read about Gravalotte & Rasonville. Dressed. Dined. Saw Weldon etc. On to Gaiety. Saw Faust up to date. On to Empire. Saw Phil Cosens, another Stirling & Frank Burnand. Back to Garrick. Oysters. Beetle, Toole & Irving there. Home at 1.0 sharp.
Tuesday January 29 Up nine am. Warmer & rain. Gave up hunting. Began drawing for Furnivall's Inn. Dined quietly at home with Maud & Mother & went to bed early. Nightmare in chair after dinner.
Wednesday January 30 Dear Roy went back to school from Westwood. Rode in Park in the morning. Worked & did small drawing of Furnivalls Inn. Finished it. Walked to Punch dinner as far as Percy Edwards Watchmaker in Piccadilly. Took cab. No Bradbury. Quiet dinner. Carriage met me at 11.45. Called Beefsteak. Wrote subscription to Club & letters to Lincoln & Bennett, Carding & Stace. Home 11.45pm. Saw Conway & Brookfield. Miss Walford in to lunch & took Maud out. Mistake about stalls for Princess’s matinee.
Thursday January 31 In morning prepared for Germany & Samoa. Stace called early. Put him off. Sent to Vicat Cole's etc etc. Photod Stace at 1.30 & Jolley also. Developed & got prints in time. Worked & sketched out drawing at 7.45. Left & dined at Rider Haggards. Took the Baroness in to dinner. Slow nobodies. Dull. Home at 11.0. Annoyed by letter from Jacksons about their durned mantelpiece. Answered it etc. Went out twice. Read paper & bed. News of death of Prince Rudolph of Austria.
Friday February 1 Up at 7.0am & worked all day till 5.0pm on drawing of Germany & Samoa. After tidied up my things & dined at home with Maud & Mother. Drove in carriage at 9.15pm to the Pavilion. Saw Frank & Harry Burnand, also Allen Godfrey. Called in at Empire. On to Garrick. Saw Gillie Farquhar. Talk of his landlord. Good laugh. (illeg) song of Col North. Home at 1.30pm after talking with Beerbohm Tree. Thermometer 72° in my room with small fire & window open. News of suicide of Austrian Prince Rudolph.
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Saturday February 2 Fine morning. Bright sun. Rode at 10.30 in Park. Forgot chest preserver. Very cold wind. Home at 1.20. Stace came. Photod him as Irishman. At 3.0 cart at door. At 3.30 after putting up photo things drove to Groves' in Brompton Road. Left photo things. After on to Club. Saw Irving. Cup of tea & wrote letters. Drove home by Fulham Rd, called Redcliffe. After cab to Beefsteak. Saw Alfred Reed, Senally etc. Dined. Bottle Burgundy. On with Reed to Garrick Club. Supper. Sat next Irving & Joe Carr. Great (illeg) of (illeg). Slipped out & home 2.0am.
Sunday February 3 Woke up with snow on the ground. Cold. Hesitated whether to ride. Decided not. Breakfast 9.0am. Jolley in. Walked to Brompton Road. Met Coward & went into his stable. Saw chestnut horse. Met Dartry & photod till 1.0. Home to lunch. At 2.30 rode to Roehampton & over Common & through Richmond Park. Home. Dressed. Cup of tea. Read & sleep. At 7.30 left for Hotel Continental, Kinsmen dinner. Sat next Parsons. Good dinner. Macmillan & Frederic, Irving etc. Talk with Colin. On to Osgood's rooms. Lucky at cards. Cleared whole week's X. £9.0.0. Home at 2.0am with Colin. Talk of gold mines.
Monday February 4 In morning at nine thirty read papers. Heavy snow showers. Disappointed about photographing. Maud & Mother went out. After lunch went to met Polly. Jolley late with carriage. Met Polly at Victoria. Train 2 minutes before its time. Home. Went for ride at 4.10pm. Sharp frost. Row freezing. Boy on pony. Home. Worked till dinner. Quiet evening. Bed early.
Tuesday February 5 Up. Dull wretched morning could not photo Jolley. Carriage out in morning. Photod Jolley at 2.30pm.for G.O.M. 'You are old, F.W.' At 4.30 rode for 1 hour in Park. Home. Bought lobster. Dined quietly in evening. Bed 11pm. Lots of callers, Nellie Keith etc.
Wednesday February 6 Did not ride. Wet. Ought to have met Colin Hunter. M & Maud went out in carriage & saw Furniss riding. Began 'You are old father William'. After lunch walked as far as Marble Arch to go & call on George Lewis. Saw Sultan's knife. Cup of tea. Read. Battle of Langersalza & sports. Charley Burnand, Furniss. Walked on to Punch dinner. Small dinner. F.C.B going to Monte Carlo. Left 11.45pm. Very wet. Home by self in good silent hansom.
Thursday February 7 In morning at 9.15 Jolley said Stace was coming at 10.15. Photod Stace as Hercules. Developed plates & copied photo. After got to work on drawing of Hercules & Lychas (Bismarck). Worked up to 7.30pm. Dined quietly at home. In evening at 10.0pm drove to Airds at home. Very cold & slippery. Kept carriage. Saw Marshall Tweddle, old Abernethy etc etc. Riviere. Home by 11.45pm. Evelyn Coward in with Maud.
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Friday February 8 Dull morning. Up at 8.15. At 8.45 began to work on Bismark & Geffcken as Hercules & Lycia. Worked all morning. Governess called. M delighted with her. Rain & dull heavy day. M & Maud went out in carriage. Finished work 5.10pm. Tidied up. At 7.30 walked to D.M's dinner. Snow. 19 Porchester Terrace. Good dinner. Tadema, Osgood, Parsons, Joe Carr, self, Abbey, Black, Colin Hunter, Sargent, Boughton & D.M. Left 11.15. On with Black to 54 Bedford Gardens. Game of poker. Lost £3.12.6. Home 2.0am.
Saturday February 9 Bitterly cold in morning. Seedy. Photod Jolley as Chamberlain etc, Gladstone. At 11.30 rode mare round Battersea Park & after in Row. Saw old Wyndham. Very cold. West wind. Home. Wired to Sadger at Prince of Wales Theatre. No box. On to Court Theatre. Saw 'Manon'. Met Mrs Parkinson Wright. Put down at Duke's statue. Walked up to Club. Saw Bancroft. Cup of tea & muffin. Arthur Blunt. Walked home. Tall girl. Bought Pall Mall. No dress. Dinner. Sleep after dinner. Bed 11.0pm. Notice in St James's Gazette. Minnie left at 8.0pm. (Later note: Wyndham must have slipped up at Albert Gate & broke his leg.)
Sunday February 10 In morning up after long night's rest. Very cold & hard frost. Colin Hunter came round on his stuffed stay horse. At 11.30 walked with Maud & Tony up the Park. Saw pauper couple. Heavy snow came on. Wrote letters. Snowed all the afternoon & evening. Quiet dinner at home.
Monday February 11 Stafford Terrace. In morning grand 6 inches of snow on ground. Worked on Swan Sonnenschein's drawings. At 3.30 walked through the snow to 10 Ely Place to call on George Lewis. Saw him about cheque for Lord Mayor's drawing. Settled for £25. Walked to Garrick & home by Knightsbridge. Could not get sausages. Quiet dinner & bed.
Tuesday February 12 Worked on Swan Sonnenschein's drawings all day. Quiet evening. Dined at home. Did not go out all day. Mrs Joachim called & spun a long anti matrimonial yarn. 'Marriage a failure'. Fine sunny morning. Printed a lot of back photos for cold platinotype process in Bath Room.
Wednesday February 13 Worked on Swan Sonnenschein's drawings. Miss Gill called to have tea. Very heavy wet. Walked in mackintosh to Punch dinner. Felt feet wet & shoes leaked. Called at Miller's & also at Brigg's & Sugg's. On to dinner. Good dinner. Guthrie there. Home by carriage.
Thursday February 14 Waited for subject. In the meantime finished the outline of Swan Sonnenschein's two drawings. Letter from Arthur about Smith & Workman. After quiet dinner went in carriage to Gilbert's at home. Met Mrs Medley, Miss Neilson etc. Good evening. Heard of Wyndham's accident. Mrs Charles
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Ingram. (Red ink: Lady Dorothy Nevill's rude reply about never seeing Punch. Boughten admired cut of Geffcken.) Cab home at 2.0am.
Friday February 15 At 10.0 Stace came round. Photod him & self for Smith & Punch, & Jolley as Workman. Worked very hard all day & finished at 10.30pm. Dined. Bottle of Ayala & bed at 1.30pm after sleep in chair. Miss Gill arrived with her box at 4.0pm. Piano moved up to nursery.
Saturday February 16 Stafford Terr. In morning tidied up things etc. Decided to drive to Club & call at Benjamin's. Cart round at 11.45. Got dreadfully wet. Hat spoilt. Called nowhere. Straight to Club & sent cart back. Sat by fire & read Bismarck article in Contemporary Review. Dried shoes. Lunch. Talk with Gillie Farquhar, Grossmith, Montague Williams & Evans. Also with Alex Macmillan snr. Bad cigars. Cab to Victoria. Met Polly. Down to Ramsgate with Charley Burnand, Conny & Hammond's niece. On to Westwood. Quiet dinner. No postman came. Wrote Schimmelmann.
Sunday February 17 Westwood. Up at 9.15. Lovely morning. Sent gardener with note to Schimmelmann to ask for Roy. Roy had influenza. In morning walked round Warren with Mervyn. Glass of beer at 1.30. Note from Schimmelmann came. Walk to Margate. Hot fine sunny morning. Saw dear Roy. Cold bad. Knocked over saucer & glass. Sch & his pictures. Back thro Margate to Westwood. Lunch. Letters. In afternoon walked round by Joss's Gap to Ramsgate with Mervyn. Hot. Called Burnands. Walked on to meet cart. Tassel met us top of hill. Back Westwood. Supper. Read Mr Porter of Texas. Bed 11.0pm.
Monday February 18 Westwood. Up early. Worked all day on Swan Sonnenschein's drawings. Walk in afternoon in grounds. Had lamp lit & worked on after dinner. Read Mr Potter of Texas. Bed 11.30pm. Lovely bright day.
Tuesday February 19 Westwood. Up early. Worked all day on Swan Sonnenschein's drawings & after dinner. Finished them. Edgar came in afternoon. Stayed dinner & off at 8.0pm. Contract note from Henderson for £300 came. Talk of S.J.H's reversion. Dull day. Should have dined at the Seasons dinner at Blanchards Beak St. Forgot all about it.
Wednesday February 20 Westwood. Up at 8.30. Put things up & caught 10.14 from Margate. Cold. Drove in cart. Up with one other. On to Stafford Terrace. Cart met me. Drove self. Pass book. Dear Maud. Worked all afternoon on Feby. Sent drawings off at 1.30pm to Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Paternoster Sq. Walked to Punch dinner. Small dinner. Arthur, Tenniel, Millikin & self. Professor after. Sleepy. Talk of the 'Times' & Parnell. Carriage fetched me. On to Beefsteak Club & home. Letter from Frank & Bradbury. Have won 1000 louis at Monte Carlo.
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Thursday February 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Got on with cut for Feby. Worked all day & put figure in. At 4.0 rode the mare. Sluggish at first & very skittish after. Home. 1 hour more work. Dressed & went in carriage to dine with John Penn at Windham Club. Met Aird, Willen, Penn, Russell etc. Good dinner. Mutton chop. On to Garrick. Sat with Irving, Hatton & Joe Carr. Saw Arthur Blunt. Home by cab.
Friday February 22 Stafford Terr. Up at 8.45am. Rather seedy. Got to work early & worked all day on France & Sidi-Carnot cabinet making. Finished at 8.30pm. Milliken in to dinner. Good dinner. Buss called at 10.20pm for Wandsworth. Picked up à Beckett & poor little Lucy. On to Bradbury's. Slow dance. Took Mrs Du Maurier in to supper. Mrs Agnew & Palms. Smoke & talk. Home at 3.30pm. Hand got jammed in door. Jemmy Osgood's birthday. Dinner at Parsons. Colin H won £40 from Brisbane. Day of the smash up of 'Times' witness 'Pigott'. Conrad called in looking very seedy.
Saturday February 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Much colder. Down to breakfast by self. Maud seedy in bed. After breakfast finished corner of block sent back by Swain. At 12.0 tidied up & packed things. Wrote letters. No telegraph forms. Maud seedy at lunch. Drove self to Club. Posted letters main office. Very cold changed coat for fur coat. Lunched with Weldon. Caught Granville for Westwood. Talk with Carr about Colin Hunter's £40. Met Conny Burnand & Jackson. Down with train. M met me at Margate. Got developer etc. Called & saw dear Roy. Westwood. Printed photos.
Sunday February 24 Westwood. Up 9.45am. Breakfast. Very cold & snow. At 10.45 started for walk. Past Friends & through farm on to sands by lifeboat. Cold & sleet drifts. Inspected Gap at Stone House. On to Broadstairs. Beer & biscuit & cheese. Landlord been at Buenos Aires & Rosario. Back to Westwood through St Peter's & churchyard. Across country round the Warren. Changed things. Lunch. Walk with M after in grounds. After tea wrote letters for 3 hours & cleared nearly all off.
Monday February 25 Westwood. Up early & caught 10.14am from Margate. Carriage full. Veal put us into engaged one. Disagreable maid & little child. Home comfortably 4 wheeler. In afternoon rode to Richmond Park & over Wimbledon. (Man like a tree reading in Park). Home by Putney. Worked before dinner & sketched out figure for months. Wrote letters to Linton etc after dinner.
Tuesday February 26 Very cold. Worked in morning on months cut for Feby. At 5.30pm went round to see Colin Hunter about model in the morning. Jolley away a long time with getting things. Wire from Linton. Very cold. Thought would go to Fancy Dress Ball but too cold. Boots would not fit. Quiet evening. Did not work after dinner. Boy brought lutes from carrier.
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Wednesday February 27 Up early. In morning went at 10.0am to Colin Hunter's to photograph Miss Dartrey. Came late. Colin came in from riding at 11.0am. Finished 11.30. Helped Colin. Home. Developed the photos & got to work. Put in Bismarck etc. Walked to Punch dinner at 6.10pm. Got there 7.20. Bradbury & Furniss, D.M. Home by cab. Excited at night about the Burmah Ruby Mine.
Thursday February 28 Up early. Worked hard all day on page for month. At 7.50 drove to Pollock dinner. Cold room but a good dinner. Judge Pollock, General Beadle etc. Miss Drummond Hay. Home at 10.30pm. Worked for 3 hours on drawing & bed at 2.0am.
Friday March 1 Up early & began work at 7.45am on drawing of Month. Worked all day till 4.15pm when finished in a way. Tidied all things up. Dined after quietly & bed early. No champagne. Very cold.
Saturday March 2 In morning wrote a letter or two. Spencer came in. Walked up to Club with him. Called Barrans, H.Sotheram & Co etc. On to Club & lunched on boiled mutton. Not very good. Grossmith & model locomotive. Prince Leiningen. Smoke after with Evans. Home in carriage. Rode mare 5 times round Park. Very cold. Home. Morris sent cigarettes. Smoked one. Dressed & walked up to Abbey & Parsons’. Roller dinner. Smoky room. Johnny Hare. Great card night matching William Black. Sovereign against wall. Bitterly hard frost. Spent the early part of this day at Abbey & Parsons. Great gamble night. Brisbane owed Colin Hunter £180. Won £16.10.0 tossing at sovereigns. Colin Hunter owes me a fiver.
Sunday March 3 Up at 10.0. Dense dark fog in morning. Impossible to ride. At 12.0 walked to Club & called on Parsons. Saw him. Abbey still in bed. Walked thro' Bayswater & Kensington Gardens to Club. No fringes. Lunched on 2 doz native oysters & stout. Weldon, Beetle, Blunt, Sterry & self. Talk of jade stone on Sterry's stick. Walked home. Caught up Roscoe & 2 little girls. Miss Montalba there. Stayed till dinner. Quiet dinner & bed at 11.0pm. Tired.
Monday March 4 Stafford Terrace. Bitterly hard frost. Very cold. Up to breakfast. Maud bad pain in side. Took cab to Garrick & dined with Tenniel at Garrick. D.M, Millikin, Furness & self. After went to Savoy Theatre. Good Evening. Back to club. D.M whiskey. Matched Charley Burnand. Won 2/6. Home by cab, put Charley down.
Tuesday March 5 Roller & Miss Huxley married. Cowards at tea with Maud. M & self drove at 2.0pm to see Huxley marriage & Roller. Called D.M's after. Had tea. Home. Quiet dinner.
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Wednesday March 6 Worked Andersen. Suggested cartoon of Salisbury nailing colours. Bradbury unbearable at Punch dinner and pitched into Guthrie. Home early with Guthrie in cab. Paid cab. M went to Grosvenor with her mother.
Thursday March 7 Worked on drawing of Eagle & Osprey. In evening dined at the Montefiores. Sat next Mrs Spielman. Met Mr Levy, man with moustache etc. Took Bushy Park lady down to dinner. No smoke after dinner. Bah! Home after, smoke.
Friday March 8 Hard pouring wet day all day. Worked hard on drawing of Eagle & Osprey. Finished it at 4.30pm. In evening took cab & dined with Fancourt Barnes at the Conservative Club. Met Morris. Game of pool after. Empire, Garrick, & home 1.30. Barnes & Col Jones, oh!
Saturday March 9 Most lovely spring morning. Warm & beautiful. Mother back from Ealing. In morning rode to Richmond & Wimbledon. After lunch took Maud to see 'Paul Jones'. Seat in box with stranger. Lovely Miss Ayres Huntingdon. After could not find carriage. Home by Park St. Called on Tabs. Bought ham, eggs etc & flowers, envelopes. Quiet dinner.
Sunday March 10 Rode in morning to Richmond & Wimbledon. Home to lunch. Wrote letters after. Many letters. In evening Hamilton Fletcher, Tabs, Mervyn & Guthrie & Bee Barrs dined. Cold at night. Good dinner & cheerful evening. Bed 11.30pm.
Monday March 11 Up early. In morning put on dress of Cromwell. Jolley photod it. Rode in park after with Mrs Gilbert very fast. Developed plates after. Printed some. Quiet dinner at home.
Tuesday March 12 In afternoon at 3.0 drove in brougham to House of Commons. Heard Lawson, Beresford etc speak. Herbert Gardner. After dined with Aird at Junior Carlton. Saw Hume Webster. Noisy man at dinner. After to lecture on House & meeting by Bartlett Burdett Couts about roads. After to see Pickwick. Headache. Garrick. Home.
Wednesday 13 March Up early. Rode before breakfast. After worked on Andersen drawing, 5 mermaids. At 6.30pm drove in cab to dinner of Royal Institute. Sat between Sir Vincent Barrington & Harry Quilter. Good dinner & singing & Comyns Carr made excellent speech. On to Beefsteak with Abbey & Sterry. Wrote letters & home. Tony bitten by stray dog at 12.30pm.
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Thursday March 14 Up 8.0am. Rode in Park before breakfast. Saw Coward. Afterwards waited about for F.C.B's instructions. Came at 12.0. Subject France & Duc d'Aumale. Went round to Jolley. Photod him & self after 2.30 pm & got copies all right. At 7.45 drove to dinner at Mrs Medley's. Took Mrs Binns Smith in. Met the Firths. After on to Moccatta's dinner and home by 12.0am. Very good dinner.
Friday March 15 Up early. Did not ride. Worked all day on drawing of papers of France & Duc d'Aumale. Finished 6.30pm. Tidied up. Dined & sleepy after dinner. Burnand wrote for 2nd block. Did not work after dinner. Bed 11.0am.
Saturday March 16 Up early and at 8.30 got to work on small block of Prince of Wales & Colonial & Imperial Institute. Finished 12.45am. Sent it off. Tidied up. Henry Sotheram & Co, 35 Piccadilly, sent Detailles book. Got photo things ready. Rode at 5.0pm. Saw Coward. Bought lobster. Quiet dinner. Got photo things ready. Bed 11.30pm.
Sunday March 17 Up early & worked all the morning photographing Detailles book. Finished at 3.0. Very dull day. Rode in afternoon at 5.0 to Wimbledon Common. Mare sluggish very. Home. Wrote letter and went to so called supper at Bakers. Met Stirlings (no Mackinnons) Mr & Mrs Hargroves, Murray & wife & handsome couple. Hamo Thorneycroft. Good meal. Home at 11.30. Read Watertons Wanderings. Slept. Bed 12.50am.
Monday March 18 Up early. At 9.30am began & worked till 3.30 and finished photographing Detailles book. M went out in carriage & wasted afternoon calling on the Friths. Maud's cold bad. Lunch. Spencer came in. Rode at 5.30 to 6.30pm. Posted letters. Sent Mr Whitehead cheque for Mr Woods. Quiet dinner at home.
Tuesday March 19 Rode before breakfast. Met Rook with Coward. Worked on Andersen in morning. In evening drove in cab to 'Faust up to Date'. Mistake about carriage. Good box. M left me at the Grosvenor. Met Abbey. Awful bad supper. Made ill by it. Home 2.0am. Grossmith, Grain, Hare, Charles Allen etc did things. Met Macmillan.
Wednesday March 20 Up early in morning. Felt very ill. Sardines upset me. Rode with Rook who told me about à Becketts. Met Coward and rode in Row until 9.30am. After worked on drawing for April. At 5.30 walked to Punch dinner. Bradbury um! Asked me to lunch at Devonshire Club Saty. Home very early with Guthrie. M & her cousin went to 1st night of German Reeds. Up when I returned.
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Thursday March 21 In morning did not ride. Too wet. Looked over family papers & wrote letters. Mother very tired. In afternoon began drawing of Elephant & Eel. After took cab & dined at Century Club. Met Mr Nourse & Mr Arthur Warren, 19 Brompton Sq. On to Corinthian Club after. Supper. Home 2am.
Friday March 22 Up early. Did not ride. Worked on Harcourt & Balfour as Elephant & Eel. Finished 6.30pm. Quiet dinner. Did not work after. Bed 11.30pm. Mother & Miss Gill went to Barnbury to the Carters & returned at 8.30pm.
Saturday March 23 In morning a most lovely day. Bright. Had to sit & do drawing of Tomb of Met Bd Wks. After rushed up & photod Miss M. Cart met me 54 Bedford Gds. On to lunch with Bradbury, 10 minutes late. Good dinner. Beat Bradbury at billiards. Met Spencer in Piccadilly. On to Prince of Wales Theatre. Fetched Maud & M. Home in cab. Rode 1 hour. Mare awfully fresh. Met Coward. Home. Dined. Dressed after dinner. Carriage on to Sir William Hardman. Phonograph. Col Gourrand. M tired. Bunch, Frith, Madame Desanges. Home 12.0. (Red ink across page: Photod many photos Kate Manning.)
Sunday March 24 In morning up at 9.30am. Rode with Coward at 10.30 to 1.30pm. Good ride. Jumped the mare. Home. Rain. Lunch. Developed 18 Manning plates. Spencer worried me & cigar given. After wrote lots of letters. Mr & Mrs Tweedie called. Quiet dinner. Bottle of Saumur. Sleep after dinner. Bed 11.45. No whiskey.
Monday March 25 Got up at 7.45 to ride. Pouring wet. Sent Jolley up to Abbey's. Wired Miss Manning. Posted letters. Worked on month page. Dined early & went with M to see Richard III. Mistake about carriage. Front row of stalls. Talkative woman. Called Club. Saw Col Jones & Welman. Home by carriage.
Tuesday March 26 Rode before breakfast. Worked on month page. At 2.15 took dear Maud to Niagara. Met Thorndyke Nourse & Misses & Mrs Huntingdon. Tea. Sweets. Home. Called at Heilbronners. Home. Colder. Quiet dinner. Emma cross about milk. Saw Mrs H Levy on coming home. Drove cart. After drove cab to Critchetts. 1st there. Dinner. Did not know a soul. Talked to one lady all the time. Nice eyes. Home 11.0 by carriage.
Wednesday March 27 Gave mare a rest. Mother went to St Neots. Worked on month's page. Photod Miss Manning at 11.30 to 1.30. Lunched with Abbey. Walked to Club. On to Punch dinner. Congratulated on drawing of Elephant & Eel. Bradbury bad. Home with Guthrie by cab. (Red ink across page: Photod Kate Manning.)
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Thursday March 28 Rode in morning early. Worked all day on month's page. At 7.15 went to Orchardson's dinner. Met Col Jones, Pettie etc etc. Good dinner. On to Garrick. Home by 1.30. Talk with Tom Thorn. Welsh rabbit. Very sleepy.
Friday March 29 Up early. Did not ride. Worked hard all day on month's drawing. Got done at 7.15. Awful grind. Quiet dinner at home. Bed early. Bad lobster oh! oh!
Saturday March 30 Up early. Worked & did Punch as Beefeater. Ride at 12.15 on mare to Putney & on to Barnes. Saw Boat Race. Cambridge won easily, 2½ lengths. Home by Hammersmith. Lunched late 2.30. Developed plates. Worry wire from F.C.B whilst at lunch. Declined to go to Bouverie St. Wired Swain. Found it was drapery. Quiet dinner. Bed early. M & Maud went to Mrs Goodalls.
Sunday March 31 Dullish morning. Nevertheless rode by self to Wimbledon & Richmond. Caught up by Guthrie's friend. Home 1.15 to lunch. Developed 30 7½ x 5 after. Wrote letters in afternoon. Keith called. Ought to have dined at Carbutts. Bottle of Ivory. Changed champagne. Sleep after dinner & bed early.
Monday April 1 Mervyn's 1st night at Islington. Dullish day. In morning rode at 8.15 to 9.30pm. Met Boehm & Mills. Asked Boehm to dinner. Home, tidied room & got ready for the dinner all day. Table put up at 5.0pm. Printed menus. At 8.15 Tenniel, D.M, Guthrie, Boehm, Fildes, Watney, Barnes, Abbey, Colin Hunter & Comyns Carr dined with me. Excellent dinner. 13 bottles of wine drunk. Woods & Charley Burnand in after. Roulette. Lost £3. Watney owes £3, Abbey £4. Bed 3.0am.
Tuesday April 2 Up at 9.15am. Breakfast at oval table. Caught 10.10 train & down & hunted with Queens. Down by self. Meet at Chalfont St Peters. Deer turned out. Mare excited. Good run nearly to Harrow. Put off at drop fence. Saw Charles Heron. Introduced by Way to Lord Coventry. Talk of Hamilton Fletcher. After 2nd deer turned out left. Called Bull Farm, Gerrards X. Accident with ladies' ponies & whip (Bartlett). Mrs Lomax. Run to Fulmer & on to Slough. Tea. Caught 4.20pm home. Mrs Cole here. Mervyn & F.W. Spencer dined. Asparagras & crab. Very sleepy.
Wednesday April 3 In morning did Richard III (Mansfield as Knave.) Began the Robinson Crusoe. After at 5.50 walked to Punch dinner. Cab at Piccadilly. Row with Furniss about Academy & British Art. Home with Guthrie at 11.30. Bad horse.
Thursday April 4 Up & rode in Park. Met Vernon Watney. Worked after at Birds, Beasts & Fishes all day. Quiet dinner. Bed early.
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Friday April 5 Up early worked all day on drawing of Birds Beasts & Bat. After quiet dinner. Bed early.
Saturday April 6 Up early. Did Boulanger as Fish. After walked to Club. After lunched. Grain, Robertson, Grossmith, Beetle etc. On to Criterion Theatre. Met M & Maud. Saw 'Still Waters run Deep'. Home by carriage. Rode in Park. After quiet dinner. Bed early.
Sunday April 7 Slight east wind but lovely morning. Rode round Wimbledon & Richmond. Fire on Wimbledon Common. Jumped ditch. Home. Lunch. At 2.00 walked with Maud to Fildes, Stones, Hunters, Leighton, Princeps. Carriage to Millais, not showing. Red roses out of Folkeston's ears. After to Wells, Dicksee, Boughton. After to Pettie, Goodall, Riviere, McWhirter, Marks, Davis & Morris. Home. Quiet evening. Sleep.
Monday April 8 Dull morning. Rode 8.30am. Saw Ld Chas Beresford. Home. Mervyn back. Read right though Robinson Crusoe. Determined to go hunting tomorrow. Quiet day. M discovered Queen's Hounds would not run on account of death of Duke of Cambridge. Quiet dinner by selves at home. Wrote letters.
Tuesday April 9 Intended to go hunting. Stopped on acct of Duchess of Cambridge's death. Wet wretchedly cold & miserable day. Worked on Robinson Crusoe. Did one (1st) initial. At 1.0pm sent wire to Mervyn & went to Farmers & bought cardboard. Dined early & went to see 'The Weaker Sex' at Court. Saw Mrs Faudel Phillips & Miss P. Left cigarette case. Poor play but well acted. After Jolley not up with carriage. Very angry & got feet wet. Called 13 Stanhope Gardens. Mrs Inverarity's at home. Dull & stupid. Saw Gantz & Miss Webster. Mrs Black, O Lor! Home 12.30. Whiskey & pipe. Lost cigarette case.
Wednesday April 10 Up 8.30. Breakfast. Mervyn in bed. Dense cold dark fog. Black as night at midday. Books heavy. Very wet day. Worked on Robinson Crusoe. Did 2nd drawing. At 6.10 started to walk to Punch dinner. Got as far as end of Park. Cab to Club for coat & to Bouverie St. Punch dinner. Bradbury bad. Home with Guthrie. Good cab.
Thursday April 11 This day at 10.30 to 11.0 as dark as the darkest night. Mervyn made up as General. Prepared for Lord Advocate & Haggis. Cleared up & photod self as Scotchman. In afternoon did Jolley with saucepan & Mervyn as General. Mervyn left us. Roy came home from school at 1.0pm with Tassel. Wired to Wilson Barrett. Seedy all day. After drove in cab (bad white horse) to Princesses' Theatre & saw 'The Good Old Times'. Home at 11.30pm. Another bad horse. Little broken down one. Bed 12.0am.
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Friday April 12 Up early did not ride. Photod Jolley at 10.30 in robes of Lord Advocate. Awful hurry to get done after. Finished 8.35pm. Dined. Bottle of Lanson & bad lobster. Bed 11.0pm.
Saturday April 13 Dark morning. Put room in order. At 10.45 rode to Kew to see the Funeral of the Duchess of Cambridge. Rainy & gale. Back by 11.45. Changed & took cab to Club. Lunched. Saw Sir C Drummond, Blunt & Weldon. After met M & chicks at Gaiety Theatre. Saw Faust up to date for 3rd time. Walked with Roy home. Called Covent Garden, ordered fish. Bought fruit & flowers. Got chamois horse crop. Brandy cocktail at Criterion. Met carriage in Park. Home. Worry letters from Burnand & Swain. Dined at home quietly.
Sunday April 14 In morning rained hard. Roy could not go to Church. Rode round Richmond & Wimbledon. Caught up Coward & Vandam on Putney Hill. Home. Did photos. Dined at Colin Hunter's. Met Fletcher, Bannerman etc etc Rider Haggard. Won £2.0.0 Home 1.45pm.
Monday April 15 In morning photod Jolley as King of Servia & self as Cook. After worked hard all day on it. Roy woke with a barking croupy cough.
Tuesday April 16 Worked hard all day on King of Servia & Cook. Finished at 5.45. Got on with small block. Did not work after dinner. Roy's cold settled into a cough. Coughed incessantly all night. M up with him.
Wednesday April 17 Up early & worked. Did block of Beer & Champagne. Cleared up & in afternoon rode round Wimbledon & home at 7.0pm. Told Jolley to get cane. Quiet dinner. Bed early. Dear Roy quieter night.
Thursday April 18 Made cage for Soda. At 12.0 rode in Park. Saw M & Maud, General & daughter, Finlay & Heaton. Home. Tidied up. Quiet dinner. Roy down. Toothache came on. Bad night all night with his toothache. M up with him all night. Great agony.
Friday April 19 Up early. Walked at 9.30 round to Orton's. Saw him about Roy. On to dentist with Maud after breakfast. Bright sunny morning. Printed photos. At 1.0 dentist (Herbert) came & took out dear Roy's tooth. Awful fangs. Spencer in with little girl. Stayed to lunch & Mervyn also. Bottle Chateau d'Eveque. At 5.0 rode round Battersea Park. Met American journalist on tricycle. Quiet dinner at home. D bad.
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Saturday April 20 In morning printed photos. At 11.45 drove M in cart to top of Row. Saw Finlay & Maud's little girls. Walked down & up & on to Club. Lunched. Saw Jones & Pinero. Talk with Evans after. Called before lunch at Lyric Theatre & also Edwards & Roberts. After lunch wrote letters & at 5.30pm rode mare home. Found she had cracked heel. Dined. After went up to see premiere of 'Doris'. Poor play. Chaytor, Savile Clark etc. Called Club. Talk (unknown) with Campbell Praed. Home by cab.
Sunday April 21 Lovely morning. Could not ride on account of mare's heel. Printed photos in morning. After walked with M & Maud up Row. Home in cab from Knightsbridge. Found S.J. there. Round to stable. Walked on to Club. Lunch. Gillie & salad. Wrote letters. Walked home. Tea. Developed prints. Quiet dinner. Bottle of Dumeny. Bed. Roy better.
Monday April 22 Lovely morning. Roy naughty in morning with his mother. Jolley married this day. Printed heap of photos in morning. Lunched at home. After at 3.0 went & played tennis with Bartlett, son, & friend. Home. Lovely afternoon. Spencer in. After Spencer dined with us. Schnaps.
Tuesday April 23 Most lovely morning. Roy not so well in the night. Printed in morning reprints of Detailles French Army. After got to work on Mermaid drawing. Worked all day on it.
Wednesday April 24 Worked all day on Mermaids. Finished it at 5.30 & sent it off by post. After walked to top of Row. Got Pall Mall. Woman gave me credit for 1d. On by cab to dinner. Guthrie’s last ride to Kensington. After good dinner F.C.B read Charles Keene's letter. Wrote letters. Bradbury as usual. Home with Guthrie at 11.45pm.
Thursday April 25 In morning all right. Photod Jolley at 11.0 as Chamberlain & Churchill boxing. M & Maud out in carriage. After worked on in afternoon & after dinner until 11.30pm. Bed 12.30.
Friday April 26 Up & on with drawing of Churchill & Chamberlain. Photod Jolley again. Waste time. Also self for Millais. Spencer in & about all day, went with M to Stores & Covent Garden. Quiet dinner. Worked after dinner for 1hr. Bed 11.30pm.
Saturday April 27 Up & worked on Millais & Starving picture. Finished 11.30am. Went up to 54 Bedford Gardens. Photod Dartrey. On to Club in bad cab. Lunch. Pilsner bier & boiled beef. Saw Hare, Grain, Gillie, Beetle, Millais etc etc. (Asked to dine by Wingfield.) On to Adelphi Theatre. Saw 'Harbour Lights' with Roy, M & Maud, Miss G. After walked as far as Park end. Carriage. Headache.
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Changed plates. Quiet dinner. Bed 11.30pm. Sleep after dinner. (Red ink across page: Photod Miss Dartrey.)
Sunday April 28 Up in morning. Dull wretched wet day. Developed 2 doz French Army plates & ½ doz Dartry. Spencer & Daggles in to lunch. After walked up to 54 B.G & round to stable to see mare. After walked with Chicks to top of Row. Met Millais (Same place as M & self met him in 1879, 10 years ago.) Messels, Col Ward Bennett & Heathorn, Maud's little girl & home. Got wet. Cakes. In evening played Roy ½ a game of reverse. On in cab to dinner of Tweedies. Met Trees, Bloomfield, Morris etc. Phonograph. Nice young man. Home by carriage 11.0. Good cigar.
Monday April 29 In morning printed French Army. At 3.15 drove M to zoo with Roy. Passed D.M's. Saw Silvia & May. Drove to Varnishing Day at R.A. Saw Sylvester etc, Chester. Both bores. Stayed till 6.45. On to Club. Dressed. Dined with Lewis Wingfield & Sterrey. On to see Claudian. Poor. Joe Knight. After looked in at Empire. Back to Garrick. Irving, Toole etc there. Home 1.0pm. Col Jones. (Newspaper cutting pasted in: In memoriam George Maule Allen. Apl 29 '97.)
Tuesday April 30 Up. Worked all day on drawing for month. Put in figure. Spencer in to lunch. Developed 1doz French Army. Quiet dinner at home. Did not go out. Worked after dinner for 2 hours. Bed 12.10am.
Wednesday May 1 Dull morning, very. Up & worked on page for month. At 12.15 went up to 54 Bedford Gardens to photo models. Back at 2.20 to lunch. Annoyed with Jolley's coat. Met Mrs Crawford on steps. Dressed. Talk with Mrs Crawford. On to Criterion Theatre, met Spencer, Miss Gill, Maud & Roy. Saw 'Two Roses'. Good. On to New Gallery. Lots of friends. Saw Chicks into carriage. On with Spencer to Criterion, met Hosack. On to Club, met Furniss. Wrote 2 letters. On with Furniss in cab to P.D. Good dinner. Bradbury all right. Talk of Paris. Sat till 12.0. Guthrie's umbrella. Furniss in rage. Walked to Beefsteak, saw Macmillan. Welsh rabbit. Home 1.30. Letter from Aird. Bed 2.0am. (Red ink: Photod Miss Manning & Miss Price.)
Thursday May 2 Worked hard all day on page for April. Gave up Anderson Critchett's at home & worked till 12.0am after dinner. Quiet dinner at home. Bed 1.0pm. (Newspaper cutting: In Memoriam William Thomas Restell, George Maule Allen. 1907.)
Friday May 3 Got up early & worked hard on page for April. Finished at 3.30pm. Took Maud to Private View of R.A at 4.15. Block in Piccadilly. Got there 5.10. Saw Hook etc etc. At 6.30pm went to carriage in Park. Saw Edgar & Sophy. Lovely evening. Queen's Drawing Room. Home. Quiet dinner. Bottle Dumeny. Bed.
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Saturday May 4 Lovely hot, warm day. Tidied up & at noon rode in Park. Met Sir Edward Sullivan, Joshua & Mansfield. Afterwards home. Up with Chicks & M in 4 wheeler & Hansom to Princess's Theatre to see Claudian. Earthquake. Drabble. Oldcurry. Carriage close to. Walk with Roy to Marble Arch. On through Park. Home. Quiet dinner. Changed plates. Spencer came in after. Schnaps.
Sunday May 5 Lovely morning. Up. Roy pretended to be asleep at 10.15. Drove Roy & M to Victoria. Met the Faudel Phillips on platform. Back home in cart. Up to 54 Bedford Gardens Studios till 3.0pm. Photod Kate Manning & Louise Price. Back home. Mrs Macdonald there. Thunder. Walk with Maud as far as bottom of Row. Met Critchett. Home. Wet. Rested & tidied up. After went by Metropolitan Railway to Hon Lewis Wingfield, 14 Montague Place. After dined. Hare, Bancroft, Toole, Wingfield, Orchardson, Beetle, Gillie Farquarson, Hawley Smart, F.C.B, (Montague Williams absent) self. Good dinner. Indian photos after. Torture. Limpet carving. On with Toole & Gillie to Garrick. Home at 2.0am. (Red ink: Lewis Wingfield took flash photograph.) (Red ink across page: Photod Kate Manning & Louise Price.)
Monday May 6 Most lovely day. Bright hot warm sun. Up in morning. Rather seedy. Down at 9.0 for breakfast. After sent check to Wimpey for taxes. Developed 14 plates taken yesterday. At noon rode in Row. Caught up Sir Ed Sullivan. Rode with Bartlett. Saw Maud, Kiki & May. Up the Row sharp with Mrs Delarue. Saw Miss Brenck. After home to lunch. Man at blinds. A 3.45 drove in cart to Charing X Pier. Met Jones & Birch. Awfully crowded boats. Greenwich. R.A Club dinner, Birch's guest. Met Vicat Cole. Handsome White. Anonymous letter. Old Montefiore's speech. Back to town. Cope, Swan etc. On to Black's rooms with Birch till 3.0am. Lost £1.0.0 at cards.
Tuesday May 7 Up pretty early. Felt rather seedy. At 12.0 rode in Row. Saw Wirgman on good horse. Band. Mansfield upset, 'Kingdom for a horse'. Very hot. Home. Lunch. Drove Maud in afternoon round Park, saw Princess of Wales. Home. Kept cart & drove to Lucy's dinner, 11 Queens Mansions. Met Mr Gladstone, Lord Charles Beresford, David Plunkett, Lord Granville, Tenniel, D.M, self, F.C.B, Furniss, Mr & Mrs Lucy. Most interesting dinner. Great charm of G.O.M's talk. Homer, Jews. Lord Charles Beresford in the navy. Left 1.30 & home with F.C.B in cab. Dropped him at Brompton Road. (Red ink: Gladstone dinner written about by Lucy, 25 November 1908.)
Wednesday May 8 In morning did 1 doz French photos & girls. Worked & did 2 drawings for Robinson Crusoe. At 2.30 went up to Abbey's & photod girl in stays etc, Louise Price. Lovely afternoon. At 4.30 went to Campden Hill Lawn Tennis Club. Played 3 sets with Bartlett, son & girl. Dog cart came up for me at 5.45. Home. Changed. Duller afternoon & colder. Drove Maud through Park & St James's St. Saw Princess of Wales. On by river to Bouverie St. Miss Gill late.
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Punch dinner. Bradbury bad. Heard of Charles Keene's illness. After left with Furniss & on to Lady Rosebery's. Home after walking to the Garrick with Furniss. Welsh rabbit.
Thursday May 9 Waited for Frank's letter. Rode in Park. Met Wirgman in morning. Photod Jolley for Balfour & Golf. Worked on it. After in afternoon gave up having cart. Drove in carriage at 7.30 to Alfred Rothschild's dinner. Wonderful evening. Sat next Sir Rivers Wilson & F.C.B. Introduced by Millais to Lord Randolph Churchill. Smoking concert afterwards. Spanish singer & F.C.B. Arthur Roberts & Coborn's comic songs etc etc. Left with Guthrie at 2.0am. Home by cab together. (Red ink: Arthur Roberts talking at counter to Sir William Fraser. Fits of laughter. Told by Guthrie Jany 1896.)
Friday May 10 Up early in morning & finished Jolley as Balfour. Did not ride. After at 4.30 began Britannia & Vulcan. Langleys arrived at 3.0pm. Worked. Dined at 8.0pm. Hamilton there. Bottle of Dumeny. Worked after dinner until 11.30pm on block (Red ink: Death of Mr Thornton senior.) M came back from Westwood at 12.35. Lawrence went to meet her. Poor Roy. Death of Mr Fd Thornton in paper.
Saturday May 11 In morning got up early & went on to work at Britannia & Vulcan. Finished 10.30am. After put things straight & at 1.0pm took cab to Aird's. Packed bag & sent it by carriage. At 3.0pm Jolley smashed the ferncase. Lunch at Airds. Sat next to Mr Mitchell & Marcus Stone, Burgess etc, Woods etc etc. After rain came on heavily. Took cab to Savoy Theatre. M, Midge & Maud there. Saw Yeoman of the Guard for 3rd time. Heavy rain. M went home in carriage. Walked to Club. Called at Whistlers. Dressed. On to Metropole, Artists Benevolent dinner. Sat next Clayton & Dalziel. After to Century & Arts Club. Talk with Haynes Williams about Furniss. (Red ink: Died Novr 1908.) Billiards with Colin Hunter, Woods & Lethbridge, David Murray.
Sunday May 12 Dark wretchedly wet morning. At Arts Club till 2.15pm. Home with Colin Hunter. Last cab. At 10.15am rode with Wirgman to Richmond Park & Wimbledon. Jumped mare. Found out about window being broken in ferncase. After took Midge, Maud & M to Tattersalls. Saw Lord Coventry. Hamilton's horses. Walked back. Sleep before & after dinner. Liver bad. Bed at 11.0pm. Long rest. Bottle of Saumur. Saw Sophy & Edgar at Tattersalls. Also Boehm girls & man.
Monday May 13 Wet day & dull. Early breakfast. Langley went at 9.15 to Tattersalls. Letter from dear Roy saying he was miserable at school. Wrote Roy. At 10.45 drove Midge in cart to Tattersalls. Saw Hamilton & Secker etc. Horses out. Walked up to Garrick C. Wrote letters to Mother etc. Lunched on chop & asparagus. Claret etc. Back to Tattersalls. Miss Scrimageour. Met M, Midge & Sophy. Fairly good sale of Langley's horses. Tattersall sold himself. Horse I fancied
21 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 fetched 95 guineas. Left at 3.30. Home by cab & up to play lawn tennis with Millington & daughters. Dull heavy weather. Back at 7.15. Dressed. Cab to dine at Doetsch's, 7 New Burlington St. Met Sir Robt Jardine, Millikin, Lucy, Schneider, Howells etc. Promised a dog. Lovely pictures. Wine '74 galore, claret, port, whiskey, Oh! Talk of Fuseli's drawings. Portugal. Home at 1.30am. (Red ink across page: Doetsch's dinner.)
Tuesday May 14 Dull heavy morning. Fog & dark. M & self overslept ourselves. Down 9.15. Developed many photos. At 12.0 rode in Park. Met Wirgman, also Mrs Delarue. Down Constitution Hill to look at people going to Drawing Room. Heavy mud. Saw Faudel Phillips's daughter. Home. Lunch. M & Midge out. After lunch developed many photos. Wrote up dairy. Many callers.
Wednesday May 15 Very hot. Lovely weather. Maud & M & Midge went to last matinee of 2 Roses. Walked in afternoon to top of Park with drawing for Bradbury. Met Lord Rosebery. Took cab at Hyde Park Corner for Punch dinner. Argument. Bad subject Irish to draw. Tilda came to supper. Went up in afternoon & played game of tennis with Bartlett, son & girl.
Thursday May 16 Rode at 9.30. Met Wirgman, asked him to go to Richard III. Maud Midge & M & Miss Gill went. Photod Jolley as Irishman & self as Priest. (Later note in red ink: Also Jolley for athlete, Lawson, weights.) Very hot fine weather. Worked on cartoon. Worked on drawing of Lawson as Parliamentary Athlete & weights. Finished it in afternoon. (Later note in red ink: Sold this to Mrs Lawson in 1892 (this should read 1891) for £10.10.0.)
Friday May 17 Up early & worked on cartoon of Irishman & Priest. Landlord & tenant. Found I should be unable to finish cartoon. Scrambled to get work done. Wrote to Swain put it off. Drove in carriage and dined at Sir Bruce Seton's. Good dinner & evening. (Red ink: Took Mrs Coleman in.) M sat next Collier. Back home again. Not up to work after dinner. Bed 1.0pm. After Sir Bruce Seton went to Quilter's at home. Met lots of people, Miss Wilkinson etc. (Red ink across page: Dined at Sir Bruce Seton's.)
Saturday May 18 Up early & finished cartoon of Archbishop & Irishman. Got it off. Rode in Park. Met little Miss Faudel Phillips. Rode with her. Back. In afternoon drove M & Maud in Park. Left M at Grosvenor. Back through the Park. Tremendously crowded, heaps of carriages. Back to quiet dinner at home. Midge left for Cheshire.
Sunday May 19 In morning up at 9.15pm. Rode by self at 11.0 over Hammersmith Bridge. Met Phillip reporter. Back through Putney. Rain came on after. All afternoon squared up French Army etc & books. M at her mother's at Grosvenor Hotel.
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Did not return to dinner. Maud & self dined together. Finished after dinner. Quiet evening. M back at 10.0pm. Bed.
Monday May 20 In morning printed French Army. Rode in the Park with Miss Faudel Phillips and Mrs Delarue. Back. Lunch. In afternoon went up with M & Maud. Left M at Mrs Boughton's play. Mrs Labouchere, Lady Monckton & one other. Petticoat Government. On with Maud to tennis court. Played 3 sets. Home at 7.30pm. Quiet dinner.
Tuesday May 21 In morning rode from 9.30 to 10.30am. Printed French Army photos. Piano tuned. After wrote to Augustus Harris about opera. Drove up with Maud at 5.0pm to call on Miss Wilkinson, Lord Rosebery & Alfred de Rothschild. Called & ordered new coat at Benjamins. Home. Dressed. Dinner. Up in good cab to opera (Carmen). Good seats. Saw Joe Carr & Watson Poland. Home by bad cab. Supper at 1.0. Mrs Rainbow & Mrs Warre called.
Wednesday May 22 In morning rode in Park.9.30 to 10.30. Awfully hot weather. Met Solomon in all his glory. Arranged to ride next Sunday. After home. Printed photos & finished French Army. In afternoon worked & did drawing for Robinson Crusoe. After went to Punch dinner by train. Walked from Blackfriars. 1st talk of Paris double number. Long dinner. Obstinate Guthrie. Home at 1.30am. (Let water out of aquarium & lost all the minnows etc, Golden Rudd, at 3.45pm)
Thursday May 23 Awfully hot. In morning photod self for Scotchman (Piper). After at 12.30 got on mare for ride. Awfully hot. No one in Park. Met Jones & Stone (William Stone MA, fiancé of Miss Hogg). Walked mare up & down. Home & got on with work. Worked after dinner until 11.30 on Scotchman. Bed 1.0am. (Red ink: It appears I hardly knew Stone at this time. L.S, June 27 '96. Just heard from Stone at Cairo, Shepheards, 22 Nov 1908.)
Friday May 24 Up early. Worked all day on drawing of Scotchman piping round the house. Finished 8.10. Dined 8.30. Worked & schemed out Fancy portrait of Drummond Wolff at the door. Bed at 12.30pm after reading Col Quarich.
Saturday May 25 (Red ink: Trooping of Colours. 1st meet of 4 in hand Club.) In morning up early. Worked & finished Drummond Wolff at the Door. At 11.55 mare brought round. Missed seeing trooping of the colours. Rode right down to it. After along the line of carriages to meet of 4 in hand Club. Saw Tattersall, Aird, Miss Levy etc. Met Hickman, rode with him. After came across Sayce at crossing. Anecdote of his brother being bitten by an asp. After met Findley & also Lockwood QC, MP. Saying of Punch staff only man and (illeg) not keeping horses. Mare browsed & I did not feed her. After home. Met Spofforth. At 3.0 up to Gardens & photod stupid Adah Fletcher. Back. Tea.
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Cart with M & Maud round Park. Left bag at Hickmans for tennis. Got out at Abbey's. Walk home. Quiet dinner. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Photod Adah Fletcher.)
Sunday May 26 (Red ink: Boehm made a Baronet.) Up at 9.45. Breakfast. Dull morning. Solomon in all his glory came round at 10.15 sharp. By 10.30 got away & rode round through Barnes & Mortlake round Richmond Park over Wimbledon & home. Jumped the mare over ditch. Home. Very wet. No tennis. Death of the Earl of Caithness. Put French Army in order at 7.0. Dressed to go to Mrs Campbell Praed's. Cab. Very heavy rain. Met American Harrison Merivale, Memphis etc etc. Long talk. Left at 12.15am. M long talk with Mrs Merivale about authors & with American doctor about germs. Back by 4 wheeled cab in heavy rain.
Monday May 27 Very heavy rain all night & nearly all day. In morning tidied up. Wet. At 12.45 ordered cart & drove self to Benjamins. Had things tried on. On to Club. No Tenniel. Lunch with Milliken. Talk about H.F. After went to look at Muybridge's studios, Craven St, Charing X. Walked home. Called Cutler & Reeds. Dressed after cup of tea & had carriage, driving mare on to Mrs Harry Levy's. Slow dinner. Jew cad took M into dinner. Sat next Mrs Levy. Talk of Roy & schools. Jopling Rowes there. Smoke. Home at 11.0 dissatisfied. Developed girl with harp in the morning for May month.
Tuesday May 28 Fair in the morning. Printed girl with harp & French army etc. After at 12.30 rode in Park. Mare stumbled. Rode with Mrs Delarue. Met old Wyndham for 1st time after his accident. (see Saty Feby 9th) Home. Put out prints etc. Ena Mackenzie came in room. Worked on May month. After drove in carriage to 1st Avenue Hotel. There 7.15 to the minute. Waited about. At 7.32 Weldon arrived. Seasons dinner. Good dinner. Left at 11.15, on to Sir Chas Russell's. Saw Parnell, Blunt etc etc. Home at 1.30am. Lost pearl stud.
Wednesday May 29 M in bed. Up 8.0am. Wet morning. No letters. Sent Jolley to look at horse. Walked through Park at 5.45pm. Noticed all frock coats fluffy. Called Cutler & Reed. Walked on to Punch dinner. Felt stuffy. Very quiet dinner. Bradbury all right. Talk with Tenniel after. No Furniss or Guthrie. Tenniel's cab put me down in Piccadilly. Lord Hartington's at home. Great crush outside Devonshire House.
Thursday May 30 In morning rode after breakfast from 10 to 11.0am. Met Miss Phillips & Fuller. Home. Worked hard all day on drawing of May month. Did not go out after. Dined quietly at home at 8.0pm. Sleep after dinner.
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Friday May 31 Up at 7.30am. Worked hard all day on drawing for May month. Finished 8.0pm. Quiet dinner. Bottle Saumur. Bed 11.30pm. M seedy. (Red ink: Gertrude Burnand died, 18 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate.)
Saturday June 1 Lovely morning. Up 8.0pm. Printed lots of photos. At 12.0 rode to meet of 4 in hand Club. Met tit up Lewis etc, Bolding. Spencer in, M & Spencer went. Maud & Miss Gill. Spencer in to lunch. M & Miss Gill went to Spanish Exhibition 1st day. Lovely day. Letters from mother etc. Spencer M & self drove to Park. Took cart on to call on Benjamins & also Cutler & Reed. Short called on Grego. Gt confusion R.I. Arranged for drawings. After went back to Park by Piccadilly. Sat with M & Spencer. Saw Marquis of Waterford in chair. Home. Quiet dinner. Bed 11.30.
Sunday June 2 Up 9.0am. Most lovely hot day. Did not ride. Printed up back photos & large number until 3.0pm. Very hot & brilliant sun. At 4.15 M Maud & self went to Hickmans. Played tennis with Noots etc. M & Maud dull. Weary walk back in hot sun. Dined at 8.15pm. Quiet dinner. Dressed. Carriage came round at 11.0pm. Went to Mrs Campbell Praed's. Drove mare. Met Mrs Finch Hatton etc etc. Little play. Young Heron Allen etc.
Monday June 3 Up early. Finished printing photos. After began Eiffel Tower for Paris number. Rode at 5.30pm. Had to ride hard to call on Peals, Benjamins & Cutler & Reed. Back through Park. Saw Stella Phillips. Home. Very hot. Miss Bournes there. Dined. 2 bottles Dumeny. Cab & carriage on to Lyric Theatre. Saw 'Doris'. Poor play. Saw the Bournes off. Home with M in cab by 12.0pm.
Tuesday June 4 Bright lovely morning. Early breakfast. Rode from 9.15 to 11.0am. Met Stella Phillips, Mrs Joachim etc etc. Miss Phillips' mare lame. Home. Worked on Eiffel Tower. Put in grouse. Lunched at home. Mrs Cocherell & child called. At 4.25 drove Folkestone to Davis's to play tennis. Maud went. Called at Hickmans for bag. Met Coleridges etc etc. Good game. Home by 8.0pm. Howell had called & left dog, Ella. Dined. M gave up going to Tademas. Dressed at 11.0 & went to Finch Hattons musical evening. Met Miss Brinck, Weigall, Dicksee etc etc. Slow evening. Stammering man. Home 1.30am.
Wednesday June 5 Derby Day. Most beautiful morning. Letters from F.C.B (Gerty's death.) New dog came round. Maud to go to Westwood. M & self drove in great heat at 12.30 to station (Euston) to go to Herkomer play. Saw Forbes-Robertson, Tenniel, Wyllie etc etc. Slow afternoon. Left M with Davis & Orchardson. After went up with Tenniel & Halswell by 5.30pm train. Walked from Euston to Punch dinner. No F.C.B. Guthrie there. Good dinner. Volunteer subject. Home 12.30 by cab.
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Thursday June 6 River trip. Awfully hot day. Hot enough for a sunstroke. In morning photod Jolley for Volunteer. Also doggies. After worked on cut. At 7.30 drove in carriage to dinner in Park Crescent. Costers. Met Dresden, Raphael, silly Miss Lee, lovely Mrs Macfarlane. Great thunderstorm. Vivid lightning etc etc. Carriage late. Mare curved at lightning etc etc. Home by 12.0pm. Good dinner & wine. Miss Gill went for her Holyday early. (Red ink: Sold drawing to Sir James Whitehead, June 1894.)
Friday June 7 Up early & got on with drawing. A'Beckett called in morning. Thunderstorms all day. Worked all day, did not ride. Finished 9.0pm. Quiet dinner. Bottle Saumur.
Saturday June 8 Up early. Did small cut of Hogarthian Puck. Change in the weather. Finished by 11.45. Packed things etc & went down at 4.30 train to Shorncliffe. Drove in dogcart to Charing X. 2 others in carriage. Arrived all right,. Saw Mrs Warne at station. Drove to Edgars. Nice little house. Sophy. Dressed. Dinner. After dinner walked up hill to Mess. Awfully hot & done up. Long talk with Colonel Carlton. Back home at 12..15. Sat up late. Recognised place where we were assaulted in Sandgate in 1864. Carpenall, Buchan, Thomson, Parker, Oswald, Earnshaw, self.
Sunday June 9 Up early & went for walk. Dull morning. Talk with boatman about tempest. Back. Breakfast at 11.0. Rode Edgar's black horse to Hythe. Called Jury. Beer. Nice house. Well known. Back across country to Folkestone. Started at sheep. Saw Mrs Warre. Lunch. Changed things. Walked into Folkestone to see boat in. Met Sir Thomas & Lady Lucas & Poland. Boat in. Tea with Poland. Back along lower road. Lift. Penn's old house. Home to Sandgate. Wrote letters. Dinner. Edgar's wedding day. Champagne. Pipe & talk. Looked over Cornhill & Good Words. Bed 11.30pm.
Monday June 10 Up early. Walk. Gale & rain set in. Rained all day heavily. Started for walk in afternoon. Utterly spoilt new ulster. Frightful rain. Wrote many letters, store orders etc etc. In afternoon could not ride. Dressed & went up at 7.45 to dine at Mess. Coat too wet to put on. Col Carleton, Major Blake etc. Beaten at billiards, Edgar also. Newbery good at the Banjo. Young Marsh like Sir W Wiseman. Cleared up. Left 12.20 for home. Straight to bed. I'd rather not say, Sir she said.
Tuesday June 11 Up early. Wire to Jolley. Decided not to go up till 2.5. Breakfast. After at 10.30 rode Sophy's mare Stella. Very good hack. Lovely morning. Rode to Folkestone upper road along by public park & back to town & along sea road back to Sandgate. Through town. Met M & Sophy. After back & packed. Lunch. Little girl. Caught the 2.5 train. Sleep up to town. Jolley met me. Called Cutler & Reed, Scotts & also Ulster House. Changed ulster & they kindly
26 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 offered to make a new one. Blue. Home to Stafford Terrace. Spencer called. Worked. Dined at home. At 9.30 to Pavilion & Empire. Fire at Empire. Beefsteak after. Furniss there, Brookfield telling yarns. Home 1.40am.
Wednesday June 12 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Worked all day on Eiffel Tower & birds. In afternoon walked to Punch dinner through Park. Met 'Dash'. Also Mrs Macdougall. Took cab at top & on to Punch dinner. Row with F.C.B & Bradbury. 'Its a strike’ about doing so much for Double Number. Home. Called Beefsteak. Saw Ward. Gave him address. Home by cab. Wrote letters.
Thursday June 13 In morning worked all day on Birds & Eiffel Tower. Near finished the outline & began shading. Spencer called. Dined at 8.30 quietly at home. Called Charton St, Delamont. Carriage at Victoria. Very hot weather. Drove on to Drabbles at home. Saw Barkers, Hunters, Sterne etc etc, Lowe, Bartletts, Liveseys etc etc. Home by 1.30pm. Good dance.
Friday June 14 In morning still went on working at Birds & Eiffel Tower. At 3.30 commenced hurried drawing of Balloon & Alexandra Park. Finished 11.10. Quiet dinner. Bottle of Ivory & bed. Did not go out.
Saturday June 15 Up & went on with drawing of Eiffel Tower & Birds. Finished at 3.0pm. Burnand wired. At 3.30 to 7.30 did Fancy Portrait Eiffel himself. Drove in carriage to Morton Lathom's dinner. As dark as November & very heavy rain. Sat next Mrs Hallé & Lady Bearne. (Red ink: Bergne.) Good dinner. Tumbling Bear & Parrot after. Home in heavy wet by cab. Bed at 11.45pm. (Red ink: Dined at Morton Lathom's. Met Lady Bergne.)
Sunday June 16 Stafford Terrace. Up quite early. Packed portmanteau. Drove in cart to station. There 10.43. Met by F.C.B & Bradbury. Caught 11.0 train. No Tenniel. Lawrence Bradbury went instead. Delightful run down to Dover. No Guy D.M. On to boat. Lucy & wife. Flannels & sprig of corn. Lovely passage Calais Douvres 62 minutes. Calais. Hot saloon. Guthrie & old woman in lavatory. Tap. Twiss water & splendid lunch. Smoke after. Amiens & on to Paris. Sleep. 1st view of Eiffel Tower. Awfully close & hot. Hot buss. Changed on with Bradbury to Durands Cafe. Met Stokes & wife back from Grand Prix. Stokes feverish. After strolled to Grand Hotel. Late for Stokes. Met Maclure, 'Agnews opponent', Livesey etc. On for 5 minutes to Eden Theatre. Milliken paid. Back to Grand Hotel & home to bed. Room with Furniss. Awfully hot. Slipped between bed & wall. No 72 room.
Monday June 17 Paris. Up 8.0am. Cafe & pistolet. Met Ledger. After Furniss & self went to Exhibition. Cab. Railway. Wonderful Eiffel Tower. On to Spiers & Pond restaurant. Cocktail. Sculpture. Met Davis, Thorneycroft, Armitage & Deschamps. Met the whole tribe bar Guthrie & D.M. After hesitation lunched
27 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 on top of 1st etage of Tower. Good lunch. After Lawrence & self went to 2nd etage. Arthur Milliken & Furniss walked. Arthur ill. Could not go up higher on account of crowd. Down & on through Eastern part. Egypt, Algiers etc. Dancing. Hot. Met Milliken, Dearacher. On by self & back by rail. Walked past obelisk. Back to hotel. Wrote letters. After Bath. Called on Tabs, away, Hotel de France at Bath. After took cab to Cafe des Ambassadeurs. Cabby ignorant of it. Same table as '84. Lovely girl & 3 men. D.M delighted. Lost stud. Back to hotel. Changed studs. Walked to Grand H, orange drink. Supper at Americaine. Lawrence, Milliken, Furniss & self. Furniss cross. H.R.H. Whiskey. Bed 3.0am.
Tuesday June 18 Paris. Up in morning 8am feeling awfully seedy & head lasted all day and spoilt my day completely. At 10.0am started with Lawrence Bradbury & Exhibition. Gave up idea of going to top of Eiffel Tower. Went to 1st étage. Back & paid one up. American ladies who we met after at Victoria in cage going down & silly man. On after to pictures. Lost Lawrence. Very ill & seedy. Saw Thorneycroft & Armitage etc. After sat about & got the breeze. Joined luncheon party late. Could not eat. Heilburt. After met Bonvoisin & Caran d'Ache. Rush through the galleries after F.C.B etc. After trouble & heat went on to the Algerian part with Bonvoisin. Tunisian dance. Indecent. Agnew, Milliken indignant etc. F.C.B dropped out. On met Caran d'Ache, D.M Guthrie, Heilburt etc. Java girl, Turkish Constantinople girl etc. Hot. After returned & Furniss & self to fiacre to Louvre. Bought gloves. Undecided Furniss etc. etc. Back. Dressed. On in fiacre to Le Doyen. Dined. Good dinner. On in cab at 10.30 to the Cirque Molier. Great fun. Awfully hot. Up in Garrite(?) Kindly treated. Met Bonvoisin. Girl & cupid. Fencing etc etc. La Busta. Good. After great scramble & feeling very ill got Furniss. Never bothered about own fiacre. Took 1st one. Very cold & caught cold from it. Put Bonvoisin down at Malherbes. On to hotel at 2.0pm exactly. Divided whiskey & thankful to get to bed 3.0pm after packing.
Wednesday June 19 Paris. Up 6.15. No bells. Rang away. Coffee in restaurant. After met Bradbury & Lawrence. Waited for Milliken. Awfully hot in buss. On to station. Felt so so. Back to London. Lunch aboard train from Amiens to Calais. Good passage. East wind. Dover. Guy D.M on to London. Delay about baggage. Met Major Pellew. On home by cab with portmanteau. Changed. Bath. M & dear Maud back. Drove to Punch dinner. Cold came on. Long talk. Back by cab comfortably. Bed 12.0am exactly.
Thursday June 20 18 Stafford Terrace. Up & put things straight. Wrote diary etc. Drew picture for Bradbury & began Paris drawing, Up in Clouds. Cold very bad came on. Ascot cup day. Liveseys at home. Hollands at home. Gave both & all up. Worked quietly at home & bed 11.0am tired out.
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Friday June 21 Up early & on with Paris cut. Finished it by 9.10pm. M went to Tuers at home at 10.15. Very hot. Fell asleep in bath of perspiration. M back at 12.30. Bed 1.0pm.
Saturday June 22 Up early & began Queen at Agricultural show. Finished it 1.0pm. After Burnand wired & had to alter block from Toby to self. Tidied up. Put all photos away. Rode at 6.0pm. Met Stone. Midge in. Wired to Globe. At 8.30 went to Globe Theatre. Saw 'Faust up to date' 4th time. Met Langleys, Madame Desarges(?). After on to Joshuas. Jane Haden. Supper. Oscar Wilde, Finlays etc etc. Home 2.15pm. Bed 2.45pm.
Sunday June 23 Dull morning. Burnand wrote whilst in bed. Jack came in after with letter. After rode to Putney & along river. Had to jump post & rails. Risky. Home. Changed. Langleys in to lunch. Hot. After on to Lewis's. Played tennis. Colliers etc etc. Pellew, Dr Stoker. Home after. Dined 7.45. Quiet evening. Liver bad. Sleep. Bed 12.30pm. M broke coffee pot. (Red ink: Rode this ride again Sunday June 1894 on Cob.)
Monday June 24 Dull morning. Undecided what to do. No letter from F.C.B. Finally rode at 10.30 in Park. Met Bartlett. Called on Fletcher at Alexandra. Saw H. Back home. Wrote letters. Frog etc etc. Developed 26 plates. Midge & Tabs came in. Lovely evening. Sent Pearks cheque. Drove M in Park. Maud had Dolly Roberts in to tea. Quiet dinner at home.
Tuesday June 25 Up in morning. Letters from F.C.B. Rode in Park 9.45. Met F.C.B in cab. Round Park. Home at 11.15. Developed photos etc. Ham & Tabs in in afternoon. Undid bad portraits. Mrs Nichol called. Drove in Park, Maud M & self. After drove self dressed to Miss Thomson's 57 Onslow Square. Good dinner. Mrs Plowden, lovely woman. Poynter. After went to Major Carpenter & Sir Thos Lucas's at homes. Walked home. Bad smell.
Wednesday June 26 In morning rode at 7.45. Very hot in Park. After called on Miss Thomson & left letter for Academy Soirée. Home. Put up things. At 12.45 drove cart to Agricultural Hall. Saw John Penn. Called for Hamilton Fletcher. Saw Jones(?) Very hot. 3 good seats. Cab with M home. Put down in Oxford St. Very hungry. Tea & eggs. Ladies in Club. Paid for Derby sweep. Wrote letters. Dressed. After walked to Punch dinner. Bought flower. Never used it. Punch dinner. Good dinner. Arthur à B angry with Furniss. Very hot. On after with Furniss to Academy Soirée. Good. Aird etc. After to Mrs Williamson’s. No champagne. Walked home. (Red ink: Drove cart to Agricultural Hall with Folkestone.)
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Thursday June 27 Up 8.15. Rode at 9.30. Met F.C B & Miss Thomson. F.C.B's horse bad cold. Home. Photod Jolley as Boxer. After developed plates etc etc. Very hot. Got to work at 4.0pm. Worked till 7.30. Dined quietly at home. Did not go to Liveseys or Hollands at home.
Friday June 28 Up & worked all day. Burnand called on horse. Sent Jolley to Burnand. Finished at 7.30 drawing of Fight between Bill & Peer. Mrs Lewis wrote to ask us to dinner. Dined there at 8.15pm. Met Hendersons, Mrs Schiff, Sutherland MP etc. Good dinner. Home 11.30. Rivière's dinner. Did not go. Engagement of Princess Louise of Wales with Earl of Fife.
Saturday June 29 Up & worked on small block of Prince & Earl of Fife. Finished 1.10pm. After changed plates. Spencer called in uniform. Went at 2.30 to photo Miss Price. Boy followed me on & had to put kilt on Cupid. After finished photos saw Parsons. On home. Dined. After went to Duchess of Abercorn's reception. Saw heaps of people. Smoke with Baumann. Dolly in carriage. Called Garrick. Saw Taff Reed. Said looked like 'old gentleman'. Home 1.50 exactly. (Red ink: Photod Louie Price.)
Sunday June 30 Lovely fine morning. Up at 9.0pm. At 10.45 rode over Wimbledon Common through Camp & down hill. Home 1.45pm. After walked with M up to Lewis's. Did not play. Mistook girl Lenard for Col Lenard. Lovely afternoon. Walked M down to corner. After went on to Hickmans. Played 5 sets of tennis. Hickman familiar. Back home by cab. Called for photo things at 54 Bedford Gdns. Home 7.45. Dressed. F.C.B's there. Langleys & Fletchers. Quiet dinner. Great laugh over M's story Lutwig. Ticklebury Brown.
Monday July 1 SHAH ARRIVES. Fine morning. Developed girl taken on Saturday & others. After at 4.30 rode to see the Shah enter London. Rode to Thames Embankment & on to Bouverie St. Missed the water part. On to Buckingham Palace & to Row. Met Mrs Delarue & Stella Phillips. Home after. M had cold & throat. After dinner went to Hares Theatre. The Garrick. Saw 'The Profligate'. Poor play. Royal Princes there. Immaculate servant. Home by cab 12.0 Good cut in Punch.
Tuesday July 2 Fine morning. Rode after breakfast. Saw Mrs Delarue & Mrs Plowden. After worked June month. Spencer in all day, lunch & up to dinner. Took M to Parsons & Ionides. At 7.30 drove to Linton Horrock's dinner. Great fuss about Shah at Opera. Great sight. Sat next Col Allen, Parsons, Furniss, Ledger etc. 50 dined. Left 11.45. Bother to get to Club. Saw Arthur Blunt. On to Sir E.J Reed. Missed M. Stayed ½ hr & home.
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Wednesday July 3 HENLEY. In morning got on with drawing of June. Spencer called. Gave him card to go to Bouverie Street. SHAH in the City. Worked & did drawing of Girl & self. Rode to Punch dinner at 6.0pm. Sent Jolley on. Furniss drawing of Punch people. Very clever. Laughed. Arthur cuts Furniss. Good quiet dinner. Home by cab. Looked at 3/-.
Thursday July 4 HENLEY. Up latish. Rode from 9.45 to 11.0. Saw Mrs Delarue. Back. M's cold bad. Worked all day on June notes. Worked after dinner. Shah! at Empire Theatre. (Later note: Might & ought to have gone to Empire Theatre. Either Gus Harris or George Edwardes could have given card. Missed a good thing. 2.0am, Friday Nov 22, Ramsgate, after finishing Almanack.)
Friday July 5 HENLEY. Up. Mare a rest. Worked hard all day & finished page of June. At 7.30 went & dined at the Ionides. Met Kemp Welch's & Lionel Robinson. After called at Albert Hall. Saw Mervyn, Russian Col & Spencer. After drove in carriage to Grosvenor Gallery. Ralli at home. Slow & awfully hot. Home at once. M tired. Shah! at Albert Hall.
Saturday July 6 Fine morning. Lovely. Tidied up. At 12.30 drove in dog cart & mare to lunch at Barkers. Very hot. Went through Camp. Good lunch. Mr Coghlan, Mrs Hillyard. Met Miss L Rice, Renshaw & Barlow. Across to Alderman Sir Whittaker Ellis. Electric boat a failure. Threatened storm. Home. Quiet dinner. Bed. Malcolm Khan's party to Shah!
Sunday July 7 Up & did not ride. Developed some prints & tidied up. At 3.30 went to Lewis's played tennis. Maud & M went also. After home. Quiet dinner. Bed early. Bottle Saumur.
Monday July 8 In morning rode after breakfast at 9.45. Dull & rainy. After developed 12 plates. Wrote letters. Sent Income Tax paper in. At 4.0 carriage drove me to Queen's Club. Played 5 sets with Reed & friends. Walked home in rain. Dined. At 8.0 drove to see Captain Swift. M delighted. Reed there. Home in wet. Letter from Gammages.
Tuesday July 9 Lovely morning. Rode 9.30. Met Mrs Delarue & Mrs other Delarue, Janet Lewis etc. Home. Did 12 plates. Wrote letters. Mary Burnand to come. Mary came & stayed late. Worked on Robinson Crusoe. Did 2 drawings. Pouring rain. After dinner dressed & at 10.45 went in pouring rain to Lady Boehm's at home. Capital evening. Mrs Carpenter, Mrs Whistler etc, D.M. Good looking man etc etc.
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Wednesday July 10 In morning at Lady Boehm's. Home 2am. Dance. Up 10am. Went on to work at Robinson Crusoe. Sent Bradbury cheque & 3 drawings. Walked to Punch dinner as far as top of Park. Met Plunkett & dog. Cab to Bouverie St. Left 10.30. On to Club. Dressed & on to Sir Richard Webster. Slow at home. Glee singers. Home 1.0am. Walked. Jolley missed with carriage.
Thursday July 11 Up & began drawing for Lion & Poodle. At 1.30 started & walked to lunch at Lady Burn's. Met Lady Tenterden, Mrs Jeune, Irving, Colonel Melit(?) etc etc. Left 5.0pm. Home & went on with work. Dined. No appetite. Worked after dinner. After on to Anderson Critchetts at home. Capital evening. Great heat. Mrs Stevens, Lucys at supper. Faudel Phillips's. Mrs Tweedie & Shilling & Kay. Home 1.0 by carriage. Fine.
Friday July 12 Up early. Very dull day. Worked all day on Poodle & Lion. Mrs Lewis's garden party. Thunderstorm came on. Did not go. M went at 5.45. Home 6.30 by carriage. Finished drawing at 8.30pm. Dined quietly at home. Wired to Strand Theatre. House full. Quiet dinner. Bed early. Read City of Brass. Heavy rain 4.0am.
Saturday July 13 In morning rode at 10.0 in Park. Awfully slushy. Met Stella & Faudel Phillips's, Mrs Delarue (2), Romer Williams. After home. Tidied up. Developed the last of batch of plates. After at 2.30 drove Folkestone through Camp to Barkers. Capital tennis. M & Mr Coghlan went to Renshaws & Lewis & Hillyard. Won every set. Dr Page, Mr & Mrs Holland & young Patten etc. Good games. Rain at 8.0pm. Dinner. Pool. Left at 11.30. Home 12.35 by dog cart.
Sunday July 14 Up 10.0am. Read Observer. Wrote letters & tidied up. Dull wet morning. After at 1.25 walked to Guthrie's new rooms, Duke St Mansions, Grosvenor Sq. Met Milliken on the steps. Good lunch. Champagne A.H etc etc. After cab to Hinkmans. Terrell there, very poor game. Very tired. Piles. Walked home. Hot very. Dressed. King Salter & also old Angel dined. Good dinner. Very tired. Stayed up till 12.45 talking. Palmistry.
Monday July 15 Up at 9.30. Breakfast. M off to Connie's at Pulborough. Rode in Park at 10.10am. Met Solomon, Miss Thornton, & rode home with her. Got off horse. Married lady. Brandy & soda. Home. Changed. Tired very. Spencer came in to lunch. Wrote letters. After Spencer sat about & read. Left at 4.30pm. Did Bulldog drawing for Robinson Crusoe. At 6.15 cart came up. Drove to Club. Called Hobbs & paid bill. On to Victoria & met M. Home by cart. Quiet dinner & bed 11.0pm. No whiskey.
Tuesday July 16 In morning went on with Robinson Crusoe. Printed whole plate photos of girls etc. After Miss Walford came for lunch. Spencer in again. Bothered M. At
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3.15 drove Fanny Barker to Mr Coghlan's, 12 Bolton Gardens. On to play tennis with Reed party. Tall pretty Miss Ridley. Roscoes. Dull rather. Cart back at 6.10pm. Passed Donaldson. Home. Dined. Went to Strand Theatre. Saw Aesops Fables. Met Johnson, Mrs Tomlin, Copley Ray, Herman Pugin etc. Sent M & Miss Walford home in cab. Walked on to Beefsteak. Saw Leslie Ward writing letters about teams(?). Grain, Brookfield etc etc.
Wednesday July 17 In morning worked. Printed ½ plates. After did 2 drawings for Robinson Crusoe. Late for Punch dinner. Spencer in again. King Salter called in afternoon. Took cab all way to Punch dinner. Furniss imitations of Agnew & Irving. Lucy wrote for Boulogne. Stayed till 12.30. D.M. Home by cab 1.30. Heavy thunder storm all day.
Thursday July 18 In morning worked. Wrote letters. Disarranged room & shifted piano to take photograph on top of steps of Mrs Gladstone. Hot, dark, close & stuffy. Developed prints & printed them afterwards. Worked & did small block of Huntsman & Falconer. Worked after dinner. Bed at 1.0pm.
Friday July 19 Finished small block of Huntsman etc etc. Up early. Worked all day at drawing of Gladstone & wife. Only finished in greatest hurry. Dressed & went to dinner at Arthur à Beckett Tyrrel's. Slow evening. Stayed 11.30. Home. Coins, fans, etc etc. Florence Walford left.
Saturday July 20 In morning wired to model. Too dark to photograph. Wrote many letters & put bath room in order etc. Lunched at home. Rode at 2.45 to Wimbledon to see prizes given away. Sat on horse. Saw Lucy & wife. Called Col Tulley. After rode home down hill through Richmond Park. Met Pugin on tricycle. Passed Mrs Jeune at Hammersmith. Home by 7.30. Called Farmers. Quiet dinner at home and bed early.
Sunday July 21 Up early & drove at 9.0am to Charing X past Club & Covent Garden. Met Lucy, wife, Mrs Bram Stoker, Dr & Mrs Roose, Arthur à Beckett, Furniss. Down to Folkestone. Too rough to cross to Boulogne. Snack at hotel. Drive past Sandgate to Lucy's house at Hythe. Back. Hot. Lunched in Winter Garden. After saw steamer in. Caught train. Back to town. Cab home. M there. Heron Allen called. Quiet dinner. Bed early. 2 twins like each other. Routledge & daughter & also Tenniel there. Talk of Pitlochrie.
Monday July 22 In morning at 9.30 rode mare in Park. Met Bartlett. Home by 11.0am. Called up at 54 Bedford Gardens. Wrote many letters. Worked after at Robinson Crusoe. Did Crocodile. After dinner slept & went on to at home at Lady Blomfield's. Enjoyable evening. Met Mrs Neville & Mrs Beerbohm. Angel took me on to Arts Club, one other only there. Home 2.30am.
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Tuesday July 23 In morning down at 9.0am.Wrote 14 letters. Did first drawing of Robinson Crusoe. Spencer in to lunch & dinner.. At 3.15 rode to Robt A Horlick. Mare sluggish. Through Richmond Park & up Kingston Hill. Hoppingwood Farm, New Malden, close to Coombe House. Got there 4.55. Spencer met me. Disappointed about house. Cup of tea. Rode up by Hebden, home. Thunderstorm came on. After got home dry by 7.30pm. Dressed & dined 8.0pm. Mrs Bergheim, Mr & Mrs Farquhar & Spencer dined. Bed after sleep at 1.0pm.
Wednesday July 24 Finer morning. Down nine am. To photo at 54 Bedford Gdns. Sent Jolley to Barkers. M to lunch at Mrs Skerrow's. Went up at 11.30 to photo Miss Dartry. Met Boughton. Kept waiting 1 hour. Poor model. Awkward dresses. Bitten in arm. Dark day. Lunch sent up. Back 2.30 by carriage. M still away at Skerrows lunch. Back in afternoon. Sleepy & tired. Walked up the Park towards Punch dinner. Called Garrick. After had coat & tennis suit tried on by Hobbs. Furniss there. Imp(?). On by cab to dinner. Bradbury expressed wish to go on board 'Teutonic'. Stayed late. F.C.B left for Gordon. Cut settled, parody of Orchardson picture. Called Beefsteak. Talk with Blunt about Clowes. (Red ink: This is the last time Dartry sat to me. Committed suicide in Sepr 1892. Threw herself off Dover cliff.)
Thursday July 25 In morning rode in Park. Saw Miss Thomson. Did cut of Duke of Cambridge & one small one. Wired Ismay about Bradbury. After in afternoon very wet. Val Princep's garden party. Young Elmer Speed engaged to Miss Leyland. Drove M to dinner at Zoological Gardens. Slow & livery. Oh! so slow. Furniss president. After called with Jones on Furniss. Carvings & drawings. Home by cab at 12am. Fair night.
Friday July 26 In morning up & worked all day on drawing of Parody of 'Fool & his Party' etc. Finished at 9.50pm. Bottle of Ivory & bed.
Saturday July 27. TEUTONIC. Up at 5.0am. Breakfast. Drove cart to Euston in early morn. Caught early 7.15 train easily for Holyhead. Thomson (Cornelius) & Parker, Engineer to Lloyd in carriage. Good company. Sleep. Draught in eye. Arrived Holyhead 1.35. On board by 2.30. Famished. Good lunch by 3.10pm. Sir Edward Read, Lord Stafford etc etc. Changed cabin. Old 'Fox'. After lunch changed things & walked about. Admiral Gough inspected ship. Dinner. Dressed. Smoke. Young Ismay. Down in engine room. Turned in at 12.30pm. Boys danced & sang etc. Gave one 1/-.
Sunday July 28 TEUTONIC. Up at 7.0am. Cup of tea. Bath in ladies room. Sea fog dense. Breakfast 8.30am. Bad service. Lots of ham after. Walked about. Saw ship. Service in cabin. Boys' band etc. Wrote many letters. Elsie Venner. Lunch. Good. Introduced to Cook. Sat next both days Mr Tipping Director L.N.W
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Railway. Ramble about ship. Read etc. Dinner. Speeches. Mr Ismay, Sir Ed Harland, Forwood MP & Royden MP. After smoke & talk. Say admiralty. Whiskey in Thomson's cabin. Robinson, editor of 'Fair Play'. Turn in at 1.15am.
Monday July 29 TEUTONIC. Woke 7.0am. Bath. Unwell. Slight head. Dressed. Breakfast 8.30. Good. Ham etc. Lovely sun etc. Nearing Liverpool. Arrived 10.30. On to tender with Weekes, or Wicks, in cab. Straw hat. L & N.W Rly Hotel. Got ticket. Walked in town. Got Bally Durandu. Parrot. Tour hall. Lunch. Sir C Russell. Caught train. Sleep. Saw Maud, Dora & H at Crewe. Took Maud in. Home cart. Awkward. Dressed. Dined at Crawfords. Met Jerningham, Mrs Gosse etc etc. Forgot to pay cab. Home by carriage 11.30pm.
Tuesday July 30 Stafford Terrace. Dear Maud home. Got to work on month's page. Pushed on with it. All together at home.
Wednesday July 31 Stafford Terrace. Working on month's page. Sent carriage to meet Roy at noon. Dear boy came home looking well. Worked on page. At 5.0 drove in dog cart to Scotts & Cutler & Reed, also Benjamins. Called Whistler about gun. After drove to Punch dinner. Sent trap back. Burnand's last dinner before going to Ilfracombe. Stayed to 12.0 & home in cab.
Thursday August 1 Confusion in morning. Spencer in. Got dear M & Chicks & Jane off at 1.20pm for Ch Ch. After buckled to work & got on with month's page. Dined at home & went after to Pavilion & also Empire. Saw 2 girls dressed alike with Tax Card Red. On to Club. Wrote letter. Met H.F, went up to play pool. Won 11/- but lost all & more turning to Charley Burnand. Lost 24/-. Back home at 2.30am in cab to Stafford Terrace. Jolley took mare to Mr Horlick's.
Friday August 2 Up early. Worked hard all day at month's page. Lunch by self. Spencer was to have dined. Finished by 9.0pm. Dined & bottle of wine. After had brougham & called Club. Drove back. Rain came on which turned in awful gale & squalls of rain & spoilt review tomorrow. Bed 12.0am.
Saturday August 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.0am, Drove to Waterloo in carriage. Pouring rain. Awful gale & day. Down in House of Lords train & on to Enchantress. Met Mr & Mrs Jeune, Col North, Leighton etc etc. Good lunch. Review given up on account of gale & rain. Lord George Hamilton, Lady George, Captain Vine, Ashmead Bartlett etc etc. At 2.0pm went round the fleet & up & down. Landed at 4.30pm. Lost train up to station by buss. Boy had basket of herrings knocked off buss by man in thick spectacles next me. Met Spencer & Ada & McCloughlan at station. Caught 6.43 on to Ch Ch. Had to wait 1¼ hr at Brockenhurst. Got Muddiford at 11.0. Dinner. Molesworth. Pipe. Bed.
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Sunday August 4 Muddiford. Up 9.30. Lovely day. Mooned on shore & read about Paraguay. Lunch. Gwenny. Looked at Elmhurst. After had telescope out. Then at 4.0 long walk with Roy, Maud, Tabs, Molesworth & Hamilton. Shied stones. Had to climb cliff & pull dogs up. Left M reading. Dog fish. Back. Cup of tea. Dinner. Bottle wine, Ayala. Sleep on verandah after. Bed early, 10.45pm.
Monday August 5 Muddiford. Up 6.0am Breakfast. Caught the 7.30am train from Ch Ch & on to Portsmouth. Youth in train. Heard of Bedford Hotel. Called. Left bag & got room. Washed, dressed etc. Down in buss to dockyard. Went on board 'Enchantress'. Had glass of beer & biscuit in Captain Vine's cabin. People came on board. Pritchett, Admiral Wodehouse etc. Girls etc. Steamed away about 1.30pm & went to Cowes. Lords of Admiralty went on board the Victoria & Albert. Funny sight. Admiral Bartlett. Naval inspection. Fine sight saluting etc etc. Admirals & Captains on board Royal Yacht. Back to Cowes. Yankee man o' war saluted. Emperor went ashore. (Mr Gibb of Sandhills died) After back to Portsmouth. Cold. Whiskey & soda etc. Talk to Pritchett. Back to hotel. Chop & ale. Walk to the music hall & tuned in to bed 11.0pm.
Tuesday August 6 Portsmouth, Bedford Hotel. Up at 7.0am. Breakfast, poor. Had opera glass mended. Called station found out about trains. Walked to yacht. Funny jewelled stick £15.15.0. On board. Started at noon. Out to sea. Magnificent sight. Fleets saluted. Man lost overboard. Landed in hurry. Lady Tryon. Young cub, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett. Over at 4.0pm, back to Portsmouth. Said goodbye. Caught 6.43 train & on to Ringwood. Delay at Fareham. Met Scrimageour at Bishopstoke. Colonel in carriage. Long drive to Ch Ch by pony. Very tired. Sleepy. Supper. Whiskey & soda. Polly. Bed 12.15am.
Wednesday August 7 Muddiford. Up 9.15am. Breakfast. Molesworth's head. Went on shore. Roy bathed. Rain. Heard of Gibbs' death. Back. Changed. Hurried lunch. Drove to Ch Ch. Awful rain. Hard. Got very wet. Caught 1.37. Up to town. Carriage met me. Jolley brought hat. On to Club. Wrote letters etc. Walked with Tenniel to Punch dinner. Bradbury bad. Good dinner. Lucy there. Stayed till 11.45. Walked to Beefsteak. Talk to Joe Knight & Blunt. Home & bed 2.30am. Fine night.
Thursday August 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. Verdict against Mrs Maybrick. Spencer came in. Worried round. Photod self as Prince of Wales and Jolley as Emperor of Germany in uniform. Lunched by self. Worked after. Went after quiet dinner in carriage to Gaiety Theatre. Saw Faust up to date by country company. After to Garrick. Played 4 pools. Home at 1.30am.
Friday August 9 Stafford Terrace. Up & worked. Got on with Emperor & Prince. After Spencer came in and divided lunch with me. Got on with work. Threatening letter came signed G.E.Simons from Sun Office. Could not make it out. Wrote to George
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Lewis & sent cheque for Accident Insurance. After great hurry to get done. Just caught the 4.55 at Waterloo for Ch Ch. Old man in train. Thought of Servin & Duke of Cambridge cut. Pony trap met me. Train punctual. Stinking fish. Stopped at station & wrote cards. After to Capisthorne. Dinner. Champagne. Looked at moon & Jupiter with 4 moons after. Bed at 11.30pm. Hamilton's man Francis not well. Gave him whiskey shot.
Saturday August 10 Muddiford. Up Breakfast 9.0am. Out with Roy on sands. Went to bathe. Good seas. Dogs. Saw 2 girls washed about by waves. Sea rough. Letter from George Lewis came in morning confirmed about Simons. After went into Christchurch in boat. Roy, Molesworth, Ham & self. Molesworth duffer rowing. Very wet. Tea at shop. Girl. Roy. Walked home. Sand eels before dinner. Caught a lot. Quiet dinner. Sleep. Bed early. See index for book, South Sea Islands.
Sunday August 11 Muddiford. Up early. Breakfast. Moon about. Lunch. After went at 4.0 for walk along sea shore with dogs as far as brook. M & getting down cliff. Dammed up brook. Molesworth Roy & self bathed. Home. Tea. Read books. Dinner. Champagne. Sleep after. Bed early.
Monday August 12 Muddiford. Up early. Breakfast. Went along shore. Bathed with Roy. Pretty dark girl & children. Back. Bowled with cricket ball. Hamilton's man Francis knocked up & doctor sent for. Great scare, measles. In afternoon went to Mr Knowles, lawn tennis party. Girl driving & in black. Played 1 set. Fell down. Walked home. Very pretty girls. Dinner. Sleepy after. Slept on chair. Bed 11.15pm.
Tuesday August 13 Muddiford. Settled not to go to Ryde Regatta. Bathed with Roy in morning. Ju left clothes. After back & walked with Hamilton round Elmhurst. Lunch. Read book after. At 5.0pm went sand eeling & to catch eels. Back by boat. Forgot time, back 7.45. Dressed in hurry. Dinner. Mr & Mrs & Miss Knowles to dinner. Pretty girl. Boy & Jane united (Yes, that's how we do it!) Look at moon. Stayed till 12.0. Cocks fighting, Simons & self. Bed 12.30.
Wednesday August 14 Muddiford. Up 8.0am. Packed. Got off in dull weather by 11.15 train from Ch Ch. Hamilton drove me. Carriage to self. Poured with rain. Jolley met me. Drove to Club. Saw Evans & Arthur à Beckett. Lunched. On to George Lewis's. Drove in rain to Mansion House. Took out summons against Simons. Back to Ely Place & on to Club. Sent Jolley home. Wrote letters. Cup of tea. On by cab to Punch dinner. Only Arthur, Tenniel & Milliken there. Good quiet dinner. Left at 12.0am & cab home. Still wet but finer.
Thursday August 15 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Wrote letters. Boy came with Chaplin portrait. No photo. Sketched drawing out. At 1.0pm drove in carriage to meet
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M & Chicks up from Christchurch. Luggage left behind. Jane came up by later train. Drove to Victoria. Bad lunch. Had to go home. Left M. Back & worked. Had dinner by self. Drove up after in carriage & called at Prince of Wales' Theatre & saw Paul Jones. After to Club.
Friday August 16 Stafford Terrace. In morning got to work on Chaplin & Agriculture. Lunched at home. Finished at 9.15pm. Dressed. Dined. Bottle Pol Roger. Drove in carriage to Club. Tired. Played pool with Gosse & Power (Irish MP.) Kept carriage waiting. Left 2.0am. Lost 18/- black pool. Home. Spencer came in in morning.
Saturday August 17 Stafford Terrace. Spencer called in morning. In morning cleared up room. Put all photos away etc & at 1.0pm drove in cart to Club. Called & got fishing tackle. Lunched at Club. Saw Spencer & Col Jones. Coffee & cigar in Strangers Room. After could not take Spencer in cart, no back seat. Drove to Victoria caught train to Pulborough. No Conny. Bargained with boy for 2/6. Drove to Fittleworth. Roy with German nurse. Home. Saw Polly & Chicks. Walk by river. Frogs. Dinner. Whiskey. Bed.
Sunday August 18 Fittleworth. Breakfast. Walk with Roy to look for frogs & snakes by river. Stroll on to hill. Back to lunch by 1.15pm. Eddy Boehm there. After sat on lawn. Fine afternoon. Fished. Went for long walk with Conny & dogs etc. Back, dinner. Sleepy after. Eddy Boehm left in trap. Went to Inn to see him off. In morning went into Swan Inn & into farmyard & saw old 'Punch'. Quiet evening. Cold in corridor. Bed 11.15pm.
Monday August 19 Fittleworth. In morning wrote many letters and posted them in afternoon. Roy & cricket. Got worms in afternoon & went to fish in Dead Man's Hole. Very deep. Clergyman's daughters. No bite. Home. Quiet dinner & bed. Put fishing tackle up.
Tuesday August 20 Fittleworth. Wrote letters in morning. Lunch. In afternoon went for long way along river to fish. Saw man catching eels. Young Turner. Live bait. Back home. Walked with Roy up to cricket. Fielding. Dull & cold. Quiet dinner & bed early.
Wednesday August 21 Fittleworth. Up at 7.0am. Caught 8.35 from Pulborough. Conny drove me. Cold morning. Carriage to self. Up at Victoria 10.30am. Jolley met me. Wet. On to Club. Changed. Got flowers. At 12.0 on to Mansion House. Met George Lewis. Saw Simons smoking pipe. Case tried before Sir Anderson Lusk. Good fun. Examined. Arthur & Col Jones in court. All over by 12.30 to 12.55pm. Drove cart to Club. Wet. Lunched. Evans. After heavy rain. Home. Dull & sleep. At 4.30pm tea. Walked in wet to Punch dinner. Arthur, Tenniel, Lucy & self. Quiet dinner. At 10.15 went to Aquarium to see Samson. Too
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Thursday August 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Photod Jolley as Lord George Hamilton & self as Admiral. After began Fancy Portrait, Grace as Bat. After at 7.0pm or 6.55 drove in carriage to Devonshire Club. Ayala's dinner. Met Nephew & old Froyle. Stayed till 11.0pm. Good dinner. On to Garrick. Played pool with Weldon, Charley Burnand & Gosse (filthy hands) till 1.45pm. Home by cab 2.0am.
Friday August 23 Stafford Terrace. In morning got on with cut of two Admirals & Lord George Hamilton after finishing Fancy Portrait of Grace. Wire from F.C.B at 10.30. After breakfast printed in brown the proofs of Jolley as Lord George Hamilton & J & self as Admirals. Got to work on cartoon on paper of Admirals & finished at 10.0pm. Lunched & dined at home. Bottle of Ivory '74. Drove in carriage to Club. Stayed ½ an hour. Martineau & O'Dowd playing billiards. Very sleepy. Drove home. Folkestone slipped on asphalte.
Saturday August 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Worked & did small block of Smith & Tithe Pig. Finished 1.0pm. Put things in order & photo apparatus up. Lunched at home. Finished bottle of Ivory. After caught train 3.55 for Pulborough. Past Cutler & Reeds. Closed. Storm. Victoria. Full carriage. 2 men at cards one with arm in sling like a young Arnold. Arrived Pulborough. Walked. Trap & Miss G caught me up. Went with M & Conny to Jephsons. Squirrel & pretty Miss Rose. After home. Chicks. Dress. Dinner. Turners came in. Roulette. Bed 11.30pm.
Sunday August 25 Fittleworth. Up at 9.0am. Fine hot sunny morning. Photod bull dog & Chicks. After lunch sat in garden. Long walk with Conrad after at 4.30 to 7.30pm. Changed things. Long talk after. Quiet evening. Bed 11.40pm.
Monday August 26 Fittleworth. Fine morning. Photod bull dog again. Young Turner Con self & Roy at cricket. Wrote letters. Went up to fetch M from ladies' cricket. Lunch. Sat & read. Conny making rabbit run with Maud. Quiet dinner. Up at cricket field in afternoon. Roy playing etc.
Tuesday August 27 Fittleworth. In morning caught the train at Pulborough for picnic. Effie & self, Con & Roy. Got out at Arundel. Hot. Met Sir E Boehm. Up river. Boats. Clergyman & wife. Lunch with John Constables. Roy too much cup. Cricket. Home by boat. Train to Pulborough. Left M & Roy. Up to town. Jolley met me with cart. On to Club. Dined with Charley Burnand. Billiards etc. Home.
Wednesday August 28 Stafford Terrace. Up & worked hard all day on drawing of seasons, month's page. Drove in cart at 5.30pm. Called Cutler & Reeds, Burnet etc etc. On to
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Punch dinner. Charles Keene dined 1st time since Jany '88. Tenniel, Keene, Arthur & self only. Home by Tenniel's cab to Piccadilly. Cab on home. Bed 12.15am. (Red ink: Must be Keene's last dinner. L.S. January 27, 96.)
Thursday August 29 Stafford Terrace. 1st night of Middleman. Up & continued to work on month's page. Lunch at home. Collins (photo man) called. Gave him Hamilton's negative. At 7.10pm drove in cart & dined with Charles Hartree at 22 Ryder St. Tete a tete dinner. Ceylon photographs. Cab to Club after. Played 3 games with Charley Burnand billiards. Lots at Club. Comyn Carr, Beerbohm Tree etc etc. Home by 1.30am cab.
Friday August 30 Stafford Terrace. Up & worked hard all day on drawing for month. Lunched & dined at home at 10.45pm. Drove to Club. Kept carriage. Saw Arthur. Row with F.C.B about cut. Arthur denied himself supper till 12.0. Home by cab 1.30pm. No billiards. Bangs. Saw Ian Jacks at Club with friend Tyndall.
Saturday August 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 10.30am went up to 34 Bedford Gardens & photod Miss L Pettigrew. Back by 1.30pm. Lunch. Put things in order & packed bags etc. Very hot. Finished by 6.45pm. Sent Jolley off in cart & took cab to Club. Dined. Impl pint Pomery. Saw Say, Col Atkinson, Christie, Bangs etc etc. Drove in cab to Euston. Provisional station master Mr Jupp civil. Met Lomas. Bought magazines. Coupe to self. Cold in night. Whiskey. Sleep. Ought to have rugs always.
Sunday September 1 On board train. Woke up Stirling. Breakfast Perth. Good carriage to self on. Brown shoes got dirty. Wash. Lunch just before Forres. Good. Stranger in carriage going to drive a long way from Lairg. Knew Tressady. Out at Lairg. Bottle Appolinaris spilt in bag. Arrived. Delay at Post Office. Wrote cards. On to Tressady. Introduced to Nesbit as 'Simms'. Ryle, Foot, Vernon, Claude, Thring, self, Bowls. Walk to dogs. Dressed. Bath. Good dinner, Ayala. Whist. Lost 5/-.
Monday September 2 Tressady. Up 8.30am. 1st day's shoot over dogs. Claude Watney & self. 18½ brace, 12 before lunch. Few hares. Back dinner. 'Nisbet Simms' gone. (Thring, Vernon & Foot had good shoot along home beat.) Round table. Whist. Lost 5/-. Lovely hot day. Bed 11.30pm.
Tuesday September 3 Tressady. Up 8.30am. 2nd day's shoot with Vernon alone over dogs. Good day. Quiet lunch. Belt chaff. Piping hot. Very hard climb over Broom Hill. Back through bracken. Shot rabbit & last grouse. Very done after. Lunch. Home. Dinner. Letters. Won 4/6 whist. Bed 11.30. Catlin's North American Indians.
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Wednesday September 4 Tressady. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. Stayed with Vernon. At 11.0 began drawing of Balfour & Detectives. Lunch. Finished at 6.30pm. Sealed it up. Drew in spare bedroom. Mexican photo pictures. Foot, Claude & Thring went shooting home beat. Home early. Lawn tennis. Bad attack of P. Swelling in nostril came on. Dinner. Lost at cards.
Thursday September 5 Tressady. Up at 8.30am. Breakfast. P still bad. 3rd day's shoot over dogs. Foot, Vernon & self. Good lunch. 'He tried to keep his spirits up by pouring spirits down'. Good walk. Finished at Angus's cottage 5.15pm. Spring welcome. Home & good 4 game lawn tennis. Vernon & self against Foot & Claude. Lost 3 sets. Dinner. Lost 5/- at cards. Foot's dissertation on planet Venus being weighed & pigeonholed.
Friday September 6 Tressady. Up 8.30pm. 4th day's shoot over dogs. Claude W, Thring & self. Over home moor. Long 6 mile walk before shooting. Frightfully hot. Worked home. Lagged behind & got W & W on pony. Lunch on open hill by spring. One bottle short. Home late. No tennis. Worst day. Very tired. Over warren & down by stables. Dinner. Foot on ventriloquism & Edison. Cards. Won 1/-. Bed 11.45pm.
Saturday September 7 Tressady. Up 8.30. 5th day's shoot. Long drive to Murray's cottage. Foot, Thring, Claude, Vernon & self guns. Ryle walked. Line shooting. Got right & left. Foolishly put on shoes. Great agony from blister. Spoilt day. Lunch by Byone. Foot put in the burn. Long long walk after. Footstool. Finished down by Murray's cottage. Welcome milk & whiskey. Tired & sleepy in drag. Home. Tea. Mr Robinson ('The Hobb') Douglas & Richards arrived. Larger dinner (9). Extraordinary hands at cards. Won 16/6. 6 Go bang. Bed 12.0.
Sunday September 8 Tressady. Up 9.30. Breakfast. Nostril better. Breakfast 10.0am. Most lovely day. Read 19th Century. Gentle bowls. Lost. Wrote up diary in drawing room. Letters etc. Old 'Hobb'. After quiet lunch (such roast beef) went up with Thring to play quoits. Beat him easily. After read 'Cawnpore' and dozed. Vernon woke me up. Major Weston called. The Moufflon, old Scott & friend. Whiskey. After cricket (with my stick - spoilt it) bowls & in for dinner. Claret (the only day). Whist after. Lost 2/6. Bed 11.45.
Monday September 9 Tressady. Up 9.30. Breakfast. 6th day's shoot. Drove to Murray's cottage. Mr Robinson, Thring, Douglas, Foot, Vernon, Richards & self. Line shooting. Long pull up hill to start. Ass Donald, 'We're waiting for Mr Sambarn'. Lunch by Burnie. Long walk. Hobb behind. Home. Letters. Dinner. Whist. Won 6d.
Tuesday September 10 Tressady. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Dull & rainy. In morning wagonette up. Drove self & Thring & Donald. Brake. Along road to Loch Craggie. Met Ross,
41 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 fisherman keeper. Got frightfully hot walking to loch. Boat gravelly shore. Beautiful loch. Thring caught 1 fish, 1½ lbs to lunch time, 3 after. Read Cawnpore. Left 3.45 & walked by self with fish to Donald in trap by road. Drove home by self. Grouse in trap. Home up hill. Lawn tennis. Ryle & self against Vernon & Claude. Won easily, 2 sets. Ryle's birthday. Dinner. Felt livery & low. Proposed Ryle's health. Whist. Lost 2/6.
Wednesday September 11 Tressady. Up 8.30. Breakfast. No shoot. Off day. Went up to room & lit fire & worked & did Gladstone on top of Tower (Eiffel). Lunch. Finished 3.45pm. Vernon came up & took me off for lawn tennis. Home tournament. V.Watney/Richards beat Foot/Douglas, easily. Thring/Sambourne beat Ryle/Claude, 2 sets to love. 6.3, 6.1. V.Watney/Richards beat Thring/Sambourne, 2 sets to 1. 6.3, 6.4, 2.6. Brandy & soda. Dinner. Whist. Won 2/6. Foot went to bed early. Dull cloudy day.
Thursday September 12 Tressady. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. 7th day's shoot. Dull day. Claude W, Foot & self drove to shoot Langwell drive. Over dogs. Long Angus. Stalked grouse over wall. Poor sport. Foot to go after lunch. He stopped on. Stopped at road 5.30. Long Angus offered to carry all the game Foot shot going home. Letters. Dinner. Whist. Won 6d. Bed 11.30. Foot & Mr Robinson last night.
Friday September 13 Tressady. Up at 8.30am. Breakfast. Wet day. Old R in bathroom. Mr Robinson & Foot left in omnibus at 10.30. Saw them off. Foot's hat. Old R swell, flower & white hat. Turned & walked up hill in rain. 6th day's shoot. Long walk in rain. Photo group. Shot badly. Water in boots. Claude W, Vernon W, Richards, Thring, Douglas & self guns. Line shooting. Wet lunch. Mackintosh. Home early by barn. Tea. Wrote letters & diary by fire. Dinner. Whist. Won 9/6. Bed 11.45.
Saturday September 14 Tressady. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. Thring left. 9th day's shoot. Started early & drove to Craiggie Wood Xroads. Vernon W, Claude W, Douglas, Richards & self guns. Shot woods for black game, 2½ brace, 22 brace grouse, many hare. 1 snipe shot by self. 1st was shot. Lunch near place lunched 6 years ago when talk of Miss Wilson. Shot better after but missed many birds. Finished by Murray's cottage. Lots of birds on hill. Whiskey & milk. Home. Last look at Rock. Letters. Tea. Dinner. Whist. Won 8/6. Slept. Too cold at night. Bed 11.45. Apple pie bed. Dryhurst. The department arrived.
Sunday September 15 Tressady. Up 9.0am. Breakfast 10.15am. Most lovely morning. Gentle bowls. Read magazine articles & Lawrence Oliphant. Wrote letters. Lunch. Beef again. After sat & photod. Groups by Vernon on lawn. Trap round at 3.30. Dryhurst & self drove & called on Westons. Pet farm, owl & parrot, Major X, Miss W. Back. Met Claude & Douglas. Walk up drive. Got Schimmelman's account for Roy, £44.16.9. Sent cheque. Wrote last letter to M. Fire. V &
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Claude came in about luggage. Dinner. Champagne. Cards. Won 1/-. Packed in afternoon.
Monday September 16 Tressady. Up 8.15am. Breakfast. Finished packing. All up to say goodbye. Vernon, Richards, Douglas off to shoot. Dryhurst walked. Talk with Foot. Flowers. Tips. Off with Claude in buss. Extraordinary man with yellow boots at Rogart. Little Hodgson in train. Pert small boy. Good lunch. Offered tongue, beer etc. Gave me trout fly for cap. On to Inverness. Carriage to selves till Forres. Others in. By dusk got to Perth. Basin of soup. Scotch maid. Carriage reserved. Goodbye to Claud. Dinner. Bottle champagne. Good pipe. Sleep after. Read Times. Used champagne over from lunch Sept 1st, still good.
Tuesday September 17 On board train. Woke up 6.0am. Lovely morning, colder. Arrived Euston at 7.15. Got cab without delay. Drove home. Arrived at 7.50am. Letter from M saying not to go to Pulborough. Put things in order. Wrote up diary etc. Lunched at home. Cold grouse etc etc. Did some photo plates. In afternoon walked to Garrick intending to dine. No dining room. Dined Beefsteak. Carr, Watson, Blunt, Bancroft etc. Redcliffe Gardens. Garrick supper. Talk Joe Knight, Jones etc etc. Cold. Home in cab 2.0pm.
Wednesday September 18 Stafford Terrace. In morning up early. Went at 11.0am to Bedford Gardens. Photod Miss Etty Pettigrew. Lovely morning & bright sun all day. Finished 2.30pm. Lunch grouse at 2.50. Dressed. Walked to Turkish baths at 5.25pm. Had bath. Met Eykyn & Frisby. Carriage called baths 6.45. On to Punch dinner. F.C.B, Tenniel, Furniss, D.M, Arthur & Milliken there. Good dinner. Easy cut. Called Beefsteak. Saw Brookfield, Beetle etc. Home 1.15pm. (Red ink: Photod Etty Pettigrew.)
Thursday September 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Dull wretched rainy grey day. At 11.30 photod Jolley for Chamberlain shooting cut. After sent Jolley to meet M & Chicks. Back in omnibus from Fittleworth at 2.45pm. Lunch. Fowl etc etc. Fire. Cold. Went on with drawing. M drove in rain to Stores with Roy. Went on with work. Dinner 8.30pm. Bed 11.0pm after. Cold.
Friday September 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Worked on Chamberlain shooting in Brown. (Grouse.) Roy went with M in rain to Hyams. Intended to go to Haymarket Theatre. Photod Jolley in sunshine at 1.30pm. Sun ¾ square. Edgar called at 6.30 to 7.0pm. Finished drawing very carefully 8.30pm. Dined. Did not go to play. Vernon's last grouse.
Saturday September 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Packed etc. Caught 11.25am train to Ramsgate with M & Roy. Carriage reserved. Lunch in train at Whitstable. Roy & plate. Roy's luggage out at Margate. On to Ramsgate. Dull & wretched. Gloomy. Met Tassell. On to Vinten's. Looked over houses. Montague Williams etc.
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Wretched stabling. Drove after to Westwood. Walk round, grapes etc. Back to Margate. Left Roy at Schimmelmann's. No one there. Still Miss Allen, Schimmelmans. Back to station & home by train 6.40pm. Cold. Dinner. Bad lobster. Steak. Did not go to Augustus Harris's. New Drury Lane. Maud & Miss G to 'Paul Jones'. (Red ink across page: 1st night of Ruy Blas & the Blasé Roué at Gaiety Theatre.)
Sunday September 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.45. Breakfast. Bright morning but very cold. M & Miss Gill went to church. Jolley & brown shoes. Lunch at home. After M Maud & self went for walk in Park. Sat down. Bakers strike in Park. Home & quiet dinner with Maud. Bed early.
Monday September 23 Stafford Terrace. Very cold. Developed some plates in morning of Miss Pettigrew. Printed them after for month's drawing. After early dinner went with M to Haymarket Theatre in cab. Saw 'A Man's Shadow'. Fat woman tumbled down in stall near me. Mr & Mrs Turquand & Peter Reed. Home by cab. Cold. Had to go down into cellar & get whiskey. Lawrence did not leave it out.
Tuesday September 24 Stafford Terrace. Dreadful wet day all day. Began drawing for September month. Man called from Stores about training ivy & Virginia creeper. In evening M & self went to Gaiety Theatre in carriage after dinner. Good box. Met Woodruffe. Good opera glass. Saw Ruy Blas. Met Claude Watney & young Tattersall. Leslie's imitation of Irving. Home by good cab. 'I thank you sir'. (Red ink across page: Leslie Ward died Dec 6. 1892. Irving wrote & complained of Leslie imitating him in skirts.
Wednesday September 25 Stafford Terrace. In morning worked on month's page. Put in figure easily. Men began creeper trimming. Jolley went to fetch mare from Horlick's & was away all day. Left at 4.30pm for Turkish bath. Walked with cape through Park. Met lots of police at Kensington Palace. After in middle of Row saw Prince Albert Victor & Prince George of Wales. Had Turkish bath. On to P.D. F.C.B, Lucy, Tenniel, Furniss, Arthur, Milliken & self. Matched Furniss after dinner at Savoy. Home by cab from Strand.
Thursday September 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Worked all day on drawing for September month. Jolley brought mare round to look at men doing creeper. Fine day. In the evening M & self dove in carriage to Adelphi Theatre. Saw Alexander in piece 'London day by day'. Home by cab. Delay in getting it at theatre.
Friday September 27 Stafford Terrace. Creeper being done by men. Up at 8.30 & worked all day on drawing for month of September. After at 9.30pm dined. Bottle of Ayala. News from Paris of Bronze Medal. Bed 1.15pm after sleep. Pictures came back from Humourists Exhibition. Tony round.
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Saturday September 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. After breakfast put photos away etc etc. After in bath room. Packed bag for Turkish Bath. Whiskey & Apollo. Maud & Jane went to Richmond to see Nana. At 12.30 walked thro' Park to Club. Called & saw Vernon Watney. Called Briggs. After found that Wellby's was shut up, could not buy M a present. Lunch at Club with Arthur à Beckett. Comyn Carr after in smoking room. Walked down to Savoy Theatre. Arthur Blunt looking at Dickens. Saw Yeoman of the Guard. New girl. After walked with M & Miss Gill to Charing X. On to Jermyn St. Bath. Dined at Club. Beetle, Arthur Blunt, Sterry. First night of 'The Dead Heart'. Sat next Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Millet & Abbey. Supper at back. Mrs Delarue. On with Abbey & friend to Garrick. Furniss. Home at 2.0am.
Sunday September 29 Stafford Terrace. Home about 3.0am from Garrick. Tony in basket. Lovely morning. M's birthday. Tony in bed. In morning hung pictures etc etc. Tidied up. After slept after lunch. At 4.30 walked with Maud up the Row & back. Dull coldish afternoon. At 7.30 went in carriage to 54 Bedford Gds. Supper at Abbey's. Mr & Mrs Carr, Mr & Mrs Harold Roller, Mrs Frank Millet, Abbey, self, Onslow Ford, Sylvia Roller, yankee & wife, White. Walked home.
Monday September 30 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Began & hung pictures etc on stairs all day. Finished by dusk. M had pain in side come on. Quiet dinner at home. Read magazine after. Worked on finishing Samoa drawing.
Tuesday October 1 Stafford Terrace. In morning worked & went on finishing Samoa drawing. Dull wet day. Could not find MS of Robinson Crusoe. M had pain in side. Did not go out in carriage. Bed at 12.0am after reading magazine. Ashby Sterry was to have come to see me. Put him off.
Wednesday October 2 Stafford Terrace. Stupidly put watch on a day by mistake. Breakfast. After finished Samoa drawing. Began after lunch Little Mermaid. At 4.30 walked to Turkish bath in blue suit & brown shoes. Met Cahill. Had bath. Walked on to Punch dinner. Bradbury lost his voice. Paid for 12 tickets for bath. Used one. F.C.B, Arthur, J.T, H.W.L, E.I.M, H.F, & self there. Good dinner & talk. Home by cab. Tony between doors.
Thursday October 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Let watch rest. Breakfast. Emma complained of Tony. Jane impertinent to M. Went on with Andersen drawing. Finished Andersen drawing in afternoon & then M drove me in brougham up to Savoy Hotel. (Red ink: Dinner at Savoy Restaurant at Hy F's expence.) Met Furniss, à Beckett & F.C.B. Dined trial dinner at Furniss's expence at Savoy Restaurant. Chef M Francois. Sir A Sullivan, Doyley Carte etc etc. Good dinner but cold. Expensive liqueur brandy & cigars. Left 10.0pm. Saw John Hollingshead. On to Empire with party (same). Saw New Ballet & Blondin donkey. After gave up going to the Corinthian Club. On to Garrick with F.C.B
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& Furniss. Bancroft & Bolton there. Joe Knight. Back at 1.0pm in cab with F.C.B.
Friday October 4 Stafford Terrace. Up. Very hard day's work on stupid subject of Gladstone shadow & Europe. Jack Burnand called twice in morning. Hard at it & unsatisfactory. Finished 11.0pm. Had bottle of Ayala & bed exhausted. Caught up the lost day in watch at 9.10am.
Saturday October 5 ALMANACK DINNER. (Red ink: The last Almanack dinner 15 Nov '99.) Stafford Terrace. In morning got up early. Sent Jolley with coat to Mitre. Took train down to Witchford. Ely station. Met Mr Beldon at Ely. Lunch. Sole & fowl etc etc. Went on to Witchford in brougham. Saw horses & one likely to suit. Back to station. Saw Banker, Tenniel's friend. Back to town. Very cold. Got out at Temple. Walked to Punch dinner for Almanack. Saw F.C.B etc. Shortest Almanack dinner on record. Novel & not judicious suggestions from H.F & F.C.B. Furniss imitated Parsons, Spurgeon etc. Home by cab from Strand at 12.15pm. Got Artists wine & sport book.
Sunday October 6 Stafford Terrace. M at Worthing. In morning down 9.15. After breakfast went up to Parson's studio & took a lot of photos from Miss E Pettigrew for the remaining months. Fine bright morning. Lucky. Home at 2.0 to lunch. After at 3.0 rode mare for 1st time since July to Barker's. Dull & wet. Got wet & to Barker's about 4.30pm. Abbott & wife, manager Gt Southern Buenos Aires there, 2 children. Mr Coughlan & Alice Linley. Stayed to dinner. Good dinner & champagne. Rode home in the wet. Home by 11.0pm. Mr Coughlan gave me the Stylographic pen I write this with.
Monday October 7 Stafford Terrace. 1st night of Bungalow. Up early & went in carriage & caught 10.0am train for Brighton. Down in Pullman car. Foreigners. Met M at 11.30, took cab by the hour. Called Jenner & Bell. Saw Wingfield's house. Too small. Many others. Lunch at Muttons. Oysters & beef steak. Saw Mrs Pickering in flat. Back to Winkworths. Goodbye to M. Caught 5.0pm train. Youth with legs all over cushions & window. Walked to Beefsteak. Had dinner. Carr there. Watson, Drummond. Sir George Arthur droll about Music Halls & Women. Wrote letters. Offered Beldon £85 for horse. Also 40 guineas for Brighton house. Saw Arthur à Beckett. Also that Ransford had been proposed for Steak. Home 1.30pm.
Tuesday October 8 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. In morning photod self by Jolley for Music Hall picture. Developed it & all the plates taken on Sunday for months. Dined quietly at home & in evening went after very much debating with self whether I should to Pavilion. Saw good ventriloquist. Walked to Garrick. Wrote many letters. Supper. Charley Burnand & young Russell there. Also Scotch. Home at 1.15am by cab.
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Wednesday October 9 Stafford Terrace. In morning rode after breakfast. Met Spencer & walked up Row with him. 1st time met him since August. Home. Worked on Music Hall drawing. Walked at 4.45 to Turkish Bath. Got there 5.35. Had bath. No refreshment. Cab on to dinner. Tenniel & finished cigars. Home by cab from Strand. Cold came on in morning. Told F.C.B about Ransford.
Thursday October 10 Stafford Terrace. Woke up with nasty sniffly cold. Developed in head after. Up early. Worked & finished drawing of Music Hall & dancing. After began drawing of Johannesburg & Gold Fairy. Pouring wet day.Wired to Beldon about horse. Polly returned from Worthing in afternoon. Maud went to fetch her. Heard from Brighton (Winkworth) against taking house. Wrote letters in evening with cheques to Kennedy, H & K Knightley & City of Glasgow Life Assurance.
Friday October 11 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Cold bad in head. Worked all day on Johannesburg & Gold Fairy drawing. Wrote Beldon about horse. Cold wet day. Finished at 10.30pm. Sent drawing off. Sent Jolley on mare to Tenniel. Bottle of Ayala & bed. Chest rubbed.
Saturday October 12 Stafford Terrace. Up. 8.30am. Cold bad in head. Rode mare in Park. Called on Peal & Co. Saw Mr Stone. Back. Met Bartlett & son, J.A Jones. Mare fresh. Home. Changed. Walked up to Garrick. Saw Sir Chas Drummond. Good lunch. Evans. Carriage called with M & Maud. On to Turkish bath. Out at 7.0. Long bath. Walked home. Dinner at 8.0 quietly. Bird. Bed 11.0pm after hot whiskey. (Pencil note: Stopped Ransford.)
Sunday October 13 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning but foggy. Up at 9.30am. Cold better. Breakfast over by 10.30. Spencer in with Douglas. At 11.30 rode mare to Wimbledon to call on Barkers. Found Fanny & C.O.B alone. Lunched. Good cigar. Talk. Home by Wimbledon Common & Richmond Park. Lots of people. Home. Tea. La Grousse with Maud. Wrote letters. Dined quietly at home with M & Maud. Read Innocents Abroad after. Hot grog & bed at 11.30. Dream about tiger & tree. Woke up & touched watch for 3.20am. A.Reed etc etc.
Monday October 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 am. Letter from Beldon saying horse would arrive 10.30am St Pancras. Rattled Jolley. Got on mare at 9.35am & rode to St Pancras. Fog & thick. Met horse porter. Unknown man at Gower St took off hat. Home by roundabout slippery streets by 12.15pm. Put photos away. Jolley round at 1.20 on horse. Rode him myself. Wired Beldon. Lunch. Wrote letters. In afternoon began Almanack & squared up copy for Robinson Crusoe, putting ants in. Dined quietly at home. Hot whiskey. Pleased with Punch. Bed 11.30. Bad nightmare at 1.5pm. Dream of enchanted castle. Maud & 'Middleman'.
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Tuesday October 15 Stafford Terrace. In morning up at 8.0am. Went at 9.15 with Jolley to Wilkins to have horse vetted. Found he had a bad cold. W would not pass him. Back & into Park. Met Soloman & also man on horse with running harness for rein. (Sketch of horse in running harness.) Back home. Read paper. Wrote letters. Miss Walford in. Sketched out Calendar. Wrote Barker. In evening at 7.30pm drove in carriage to see the 'Middleman'. Good play by Henry Arthur Jones. Saw 2 Americans, Vanderbilt, Sir Thos Lucas. Home by cab. 2 men on box of 4 wheeler. Dear Maud's first play at night.
Wednesday October 16 Stafford Terrace. Worked on drawing for Almanack (Calendar). At 3.15 M went to Westwood driving Folkestone last time. Maud went with her & came back. Heavy rain. Put mackintosh on & walked through Park in the heavy rain. Wired to Jolley to bring collar etc etc up to Turkish baths. Called baths. Very full. Major Carpenter there & also Heseltine. Had cab on to Punch dinner. Still very wet. Tenniel, F.C.B, Lucy, Furniss, Milliken & self. Had poor cut to do, 3 Judges. Home with F.C.B in cab. Put down at Albert Gate.
Thursday October 17 Stafford Terrace. Rather seedy in morning. Worked on 3 Judges after lunch. Wrote letters. Printed photos for months. Rode in Park in morning. Saw Mrs Delarue & Wyndham. After quiet dinner at home took cab to Empire. Saw Sir G Arthur, Humphreys, Ward & Lowe. On to Club. Had grilled ham. Sir James Maitland, Gosse & Joe Knight there. Talk of Gillie Farquhar. Home by cab at 1.15am. F.C.B & Tenniel & Lucy dined at Doetsch's. (Red ink: Must have had box at Empire. Met Montague 1st time Nov 15, '99. May 28, 1907.)
(Loose sheet of paper, Directory of Artists. Confirmation of correct address.)
Friday October 18 Stafford Terrace. In morning got on with 3 Judges. Lunched at home. Dressed at 7.10 & walked up to Beefsteak Club. Dined. Smoked circles from glasses. Leslie Ward. Vanity Fair sold for £27,000. Home by cab in wet. F.C.B Charley & Frank dined at Garrick. Folkestone sent in to Tattersalls at 3.0pm. Looking groggy.
Saturday October 19 Stafford Terrace. In morning put things in order etc etc. Packed bags & took cab to Garrick at 1.15pm. M & Miss Gill to go to see 'Doris' at Lyric by carriage. Raining. Carriage called for me at Club 2.45. On to catch Granville. One betting man in carriage got out at Broadstairs. M met me with Tassell at Ramsgate. Came across Schimmelmann's boys. Dear Roy ran to meet us. Saw him off. Vinten shut. On to Westwood. Saw Mother & also Mervyn. Wrote cards & letters etc. Read after dinner. Bed.
Sunday October 20 Westwood. Up 9.30am. Dreadful wet day all day. All morning read & wrote letters. Dear Roy came at breakfast time in carriage. Wrote to his Grandmama. Mervyn & self walked at 3.45pm to Ramsgate. Left letter at
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Vintens. On to look for stabling. Called Burnands. Saw F.C.B, Mrs B, Arthur à Beckett & wife, Conny Philip & chicks. Glass of ginger & gin at Inn & walk home in dark. Supper at 8.0. Roy went back at 9.0 with M in carriage. Read Malthus on Population. M back at 11.0pm..
Monday October 21 Westwood. Up 9.0am. Dull morning but finer. Wrote letters etc. Folkestone sold at Tattersalls for 16 guineas. Read Malthus. Battledore. At 2.0 went with M in dog cart to Ramsgate to catch the 4.0 train to London. Called Vintens. Looked over 5 Prospect Terrace. Also on to Miss Ashleys. Met Mrs Hammond & brother. Back into town, decided to go back to Westwood. Called Post office, Bligh & Hills, after Vinten again, & M to Florence Cottage. Back to Westwood. Passed Banks's carriage. Wrote letters. Wire from Jolley about Folkestone. Dined. Champagne. Good steak. Read Malthus. Bed 11.0pm.
Tuesday October 22 Westwood. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. Mother not well. Game of battledore & shuttlecock. Drove to Margate in dog cart with Tassell. Up by 2nd class. Old lady & biscuits. Delay for porter. Carriage met me. Home. Dense fog. Tony exuberant. After lunch got on with calendar for Almanack. Wrote letters. Still undecided about Thanet. Jolley brought horse round. Quiet dinner at home. Bed 11.0pm. Polly came down in dressing gown. Wrote letters. Letter from Mother about whiskey.
Wednesday October 23 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning but brighter. Wrote to Vinten to take house, 5 Prospect Terrace. Got on with calendar in morning. After lunch also. M went in carriage to call on Boehms. Left coat at baths. At 4.30pm walked up to Turkish baths. Good bath. Young fellow & Captain (naval) there. Noisy. Sent Jolley in morning to Arthur Cox, Miss Levy's solicitor, about stables Margate. Came back without answer. Still undecided about Thanet. After bath raining. Took cab to Bouverie St along Embankment. P.D. F.C.B, J.T, A à B, Guthrie, Milliken H.F & self there. Talk of Doetsch. Good dinner. Home by cab from Bouverie Street. Wet night. Letter from Cox. Fell asleep in chair for one hour. Woke 2.0am.'Wont wash clothes'. Bed.
Thursday October 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast 8.30. Wrote many letters. M & Maud went out for shopping. Jolley brought horse round at 12.30. Cold still bad. Got on with calendar. After began Rouge Dragon. Wired to Irving to know about going tonight. No seats vacant. Quiet dinner at home & bed early. Death of poor Prof Percival Leigh, born 1813.
Friday October 25 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Got on finished Rouge Dragon & after did Wellington subject G.O.M. Photod Jolley & self for Calendar, Jolley also for Wellington. Worked hard all day. Finished earlier 10.30. Quiet dinner. Bottle of champagne, Ayala. Bed 1.0pm after sleep.
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Saturday October 26 Stafford Terrace. Horse's cold still bad. Tidied up & worked. Rode for 1 hour 12.30 to 1.30pm in Park. M & Maud went to Lyric Theatre to see Doris. Worked on Calendar. Put Aquarius in etc. In evening dined at home & took carriage one way to Lyceum & saw 'Dead Heart', M & self. Got away easily & home by 11.30. Dull & foggy. Sent horse to Williams. Still would not examine him.
Sunday October 27 Stafford Terr. Pouring wet day all day. Could not ride. Intended to go to Barker's. Stopped in all day & worked on Calendar. Quiet dinner in evening. Bed early. Spencer came in in afternoon. Very depressed. Same old game.
Monday October 28 Stafford Terr. Dull & wet. Worked on Calendar. Muggy. Prof Leigh buried. Missed funeral. In afternoon Jolley & self rode towards Wimbledon. Jolley turned off with new horse round by Roehampton home. Rode home thro' Wimbledon & Richmond. Mare tore thro' Park. New road at Sheen Gate. Home. Dinner. Quiet. Bed early.
Tuesday October 29 Stafford Terr. Great fuss in morning. M, Maud, Miss Gill, Lawrence & Jane, Tony & Birds also with 1 omnibus full & 1 cab (4 wheeler) all got off at 11.30am for S.E Rly for Ramsgate. Disturbed etc. Worked after. Bothered with Gemini after in afternoon. Worked till 8.0. At 8.45 went in carriage to Beefsteak Club. Dined. Paintings & miniatures. Salisburys Sec’y. (Red ink: Schomberg Mc Donnell). Savoy. After to Empire. Slow. On by cab to Lord Mayor's Ball. Saw Lady Nottage, Lucys, Humphreys, Moncktons. Parker, engineer. Supper. On to Beefsteak Club. Arthur Blunt, Julian Storey & James. Home by 2.45am. Too much.
Wednesday October 30 Stafford Terrace. Sun out & most lovely morning. Worked on Calendar. Put Gemini in. After at 12.15 Jolley & self rode in Park. New horse great success. Still a cold. Back home. Lunch. Just going to get boots off when Blathwayt called. Interviewed. Walked on to Turkish bath at 4.35pm. Left coat with Jolley. Saw VanderWeyde & Carpenter in bath & small boy. On to P.D. in cab by Embankment. Good full dinner. Agnews, Brad'y, Tenniel, F.C.B, Lucy, Furniss, Milliken, à Beckett, Guthrie & self. 1st after poor Professor's death. Left at 12.0 home. Pouring wet night. Furniss stories of Irving, Joe Knight. Last Turkish bath up to end of year.
Thursday October 31 Stafford Terr. Lovely morning. Bright sun. Thermometer in room 65° without fire. Bothered with flies, so hot. Sent Jolley to tax gatherer. Wrote & sent cheques to Brainsby & Corben. To do month's pictures. Began month's picture & worked all day until 7.0pm. Put in figure of French horn. Not successful with head. At 7.30 walked to Tom Eykyns. Dined there. Mrs Eykyn. Talk of Broadley etc. Photos. Left 10.45. Home. Bed early & sleep. Woke in night. Sent carriage to Corbens.
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Friday November 1 Stafford Terrace. Worked hard all day on October month. Fine day. Had horse put in harness. Drove him round Terrace. Finished cut 10.15. Dinner by self. Slept in chair till 1.0pm. Bed. Sent Jolley to Stores. Got hunting flask.
Saturday November 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. In morning Jolley came in. Gave him cheque to take horses down etc. Worked, put in globe of Calendar. At 11.30 dressed & walked at 12.0 to Wright's Lane. Saw Mr Foyer. Back. Wired. Cheerful London. Home. Finished bonnet of Gemini. After packed up. Lunched at home. Got off by 2.35. Caught Granville. Altered to 3.25pm. Stout woman & husband in train. Man with dog. Window open. Down to Ramsgate. Tassell met me. To Prospect Terr. Dear Roy there. Walked round to stables. Jolley discontented with rooms. Back. Dinner. Wine not good. Smoke & rest after. Bed.
Sunday November 3 Prospect Terrace, Ramsgate. Wet morning. Up 8.15. Roy a cold in bed. Coughed. Down 9.0am, walked round to stables. Back. Called Club. Breakfast. Back to stables. Very heavy rain. Puppy round. Puzzles. Wrote diary. Found out to great disappointment had left the Calendar drawing in town. Worked. Did letters for Almanack. After wrote many letters & posted them. Dined quietly at home. Bottle of Parinet. Changed things & walked to Burnands in wet. Chaff about knickerbockers. Miss Hollingshead there. Back home. Fell asleep in chair till 1.0am. Bed.
Monday November 4 Prospect Terrace, Ramsgate. Still dull morning. Roy woke up with stiff neck. Would not get up. Trouble with him. Breakfast at 8.0. Dear Roy left with Miss G for Ramsgate at 8.30am. Still dull. At 10.15am went to stables & mounted mare. Jolley rode Marquis. Caught up F.C.B & Lilley (with dog) on hired horse. Rode over towards Westwood. Mare fresh. Caught hounds at Quex. Lilley left. Hunted. Horse admired. Home at 12.45 with Mrs Hammond. Home at 2.0pm. Lunch. Hungry. In afternoon read paper. After Miss Gill met train & got parcel by 5.30. Worked on Calendar at 7.30. Rush with M for Burnands to dine. Blueknicks. Hammond in after. Home after cigar by 11.0pm. Bed 12.0. Tired very.
Tuesday November 5 Prospect Terrace, Ramsgate. Lovely bright morning. Up early. Went into town after breakfast & sent wire to Cheerful. Bought Telegraph. Called station about wine. Home & worked 2 hours on Calendar. At 12.30 rode Marquis as far as Broadstairs & back. Fine action. Met Miss Hollingshead & Conny B. Home to lunch. Tried wine. Wire from Cheerful. Worked all afternoon until 3.0pm on Calendar. Dined 8.15. Chianti liqueur. Walked in with M to Burnands. Lilley & Dr Robson Roose there. Miss Hollingshead. Chaff about ear. Home. Cold. Bed 11.30pm. (Hammonds dinner party. Weigalls, Warres, Whiteheads, Gays etc etc.)
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Wednesday November 6 Prospect Terrace. Woke up at 6.30 with pain in tum tum. Bad. Thought it was wine. After better. Breakfast. Maud & sardines. Jolley packed wine & sent it off. At 11.40 finished Calendar for 1890. Sent it off by Jolley. Began 2 pages for Almanack. Fixed them up with brown paper & sketched scroll. At 3.50 went to station. Sent Jolley with things to station. Caught 4.0pm train. Reading lamp. Gosse (Pimples) got in at Margate. Talked loud etc. Train 20 minuted late. Up to St Pauls. Cab to Bouverie St. Good dinner. D.M there. Sat latish. Home to Stafford Terrace by cab at 1.30.
Thursday November 7 Stafford Terrace. In morning up & decided to photo bath chair. Went round to stable. Shockingly untidy. Poor wretched bath chair man. Got man & took photos. Man hurried away. Gave him 2/6. Back home. Developed them & printed. Worked in afternoon on drawing Lord Rosebery as Chairman. Man came up & wanted more money. Bothered Emma. Would not give it him. At 7.15 dressed & took cab to Paganis. Man with bottle nose. (sketch of face.) Met Furniss. Fairly good dinner 13/-. After to Empire Theatre. Saw tumbling etc. On with Furniss to Garrick. Gosse came in. Pimples. Home by cab at 1.30pm.
Friday November 8 Stafford Terrace. Up & worked hard all day on Rosebery & bath chair. (Later note: This cut came too black.) Barely finished in time to take cab to go to Barnum's banquet. Sat between Furniss & Oscar Wylde. Fancourt Barnes, F.C.B, Sherrif Harris etc. Sala's speech. Walked with Furniss after to Beefsteak. Sala there. Backed out at 1.30. Home by cab. (Sketch of face) Article appeared in Pall Mall Gazette about 'How I do my Punch pictures'. (Pencil note: See 2nd Barnums dinner, Dec 30th.)
Saturday November 9 Stafford Terrace. Lord Mayor's Day. Dull morning. Up & put things away. Instructed Emma about meeting me at Victoria. At 11.30 took cab to go to Bouverie St. Passed bath chair man. Had it out with him. Stopped at Westminster Bridge. Hard walk to Bouverie St. Hot. Met Arthur & Lewis Coward. On to Fleet St. Issuing office. Arthur dyed beard. F.C.B chaff. Mr & Mrs Percy Reeve. Noakes, Phil Agnew & F(illeg). Lunch. Walked up parallel St to Chancery Lane. Got cab. 'Dam' row with stranger. On to Victoria. Saw Emma. Carriage to self. Barely caught train. Down to Ramsgate. Jolley met me. Went in town. Bought brush, pears etc. Quiet dinner. Very tired.
Sunday November 10 Ramsgate. In morning went lovely ride on mare by Westwood & home past Granville. Could not find stabling (Levy's). After at 12.45 dressed & went to meet Arthur Blunt. Came down with F.C.B. All in F.C.B's fly with Tony. Lovely morning. Lunch. Music. Walk to Convent with Maud & Arthur & round Pegwell. Robson Roose. Peppermint drops. Back. Worked. Arthur wrote letters. Dressed. Dined by selves. M, Arthur & self went to F.C.B's after. Felt dreadfully drowsy. Home. Pipe & grog. Bed 12.30am. Arthur reading Coquelin's Molière.
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Monday November 11 Ramsgate. Arthur Blunt at breakfast. Threatened wet. Band round to stables. Arthur decided to go up by 12.0 train. Sent Jolley with his things. Began the 2 Almanack blocks & worked all day. Put Marquis in cart & got Polly in for 1st time. Drove up & down.
Tuesday November 12 Ramsgate. In morning got ready & went to St Nicholas on mare. Lovely morning. Passed Mrs Dixon in pony trap. Hunted. Jumped mare. Pretty girl with Jackson. Miss Chapman. Back by 2.15pm & got on with page, Africa. Altered face. Dined quietly at home. Sleepy after dinner. Bottle champagne. Paragraph about self in Pall Mall apropos of Duke of Wellington's uniform at Waterloo.
Wednesday November 13 Ramsgate. Went to Club after breakfast. Wrote long letter to Pall Mall Gazette. Saw F.C.B pass in fly. Wrote to him & sent Jolley with letter. Back & got on with Africa. Put Zebra in. Quiet dinner. Sleepy after.
Thursday November 14 Ramsgate. Letter from F.C.B to stay at Ramsgate. Club in morning. Worked hard all day on Africa. Put in Ostrich etc etc. Quiet dinner at home.
Friday November 15 Ramsgate. Walk after breakfast to Club. Looked at papers etc. Wire from F.C.B in morning. Worked all morning on 'Africa'. Put men in, niggers. Letter appeared in Pall Mall. 8.15 dinner. Bottle of champagne. Bed after going into Club. Sleepy. Jolley & self rode out. Marquis coughed so bad sent him back. Rode round to Dumpton & across potatoes & past Granville. Mare tore along.
Saturday November 16 Ramsgate. Fine morning. Worked all morning on 'Africa'. Lunch at 2.15. Rode mare round by Westwood & across Dumpton. Fresh & horsey. Home at dusk. Mrs O'Connor & friend there. Got on with Africa before dinner 8.15. Looked into Club after. Read Lockyer's article. Back 11.15. Ought to have dined with Osgood. Did not go up to town.
Sunday November 17 Ramsgate. Dull morning. Did not ride. Sent Jolley out with horse. Mare a rest. Worked all day hard, 'Africa'. F.C.B called in afternoon. Anonyma out. Side shook hands. Went on working till 8.15. After went into F.C.B's with M. Miss Seton, Hammonds, young Fearon. Talk of Buenos Ayres. Lilley etc there. Home at 11.15. Butterfly puzzle.
Monday November 18 Ramsgate. Up 6.0am. Decided not to hunt. Began shading of Africa. Worked hard all day. At 7.15 dressed & went to dine at Sebag Montefiore's. Slow & dull. Mrs Jones, Miss Ross's mother. Rosses. Hicks. Flute etc. Hardcastle. Clergyman. Back by fly at 11.0pm. Smoke. Sleep & bed.
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Tuesday November 19 Ramsgate. Lucy's dinner, F.C.B going up. Duller & colder. Wrote to F.C.B. In morning after breakfast went as far as Club. Back & did not ride or go out. Worked all day & up to 11.0pm on finishing Africa. Put photos away & tidied up etc. Pipe & grog in own room. Grey day all day. Marquis getting slowly better. Walk with M after dinner as far as Pugins. Back & finished drawing & packed up. Borrowed palm from Pugins. Bed 1.0am.
Wednesday November 20 Ramsgate. In room putting photos away. Guiness announcement, gift of £250,000 to poor. Dull grey morning. Cold. Breakfast. Club. Wrote Swain, Peal, Wratton & W & Osgood. Began 2nd drawing in earnest. Decided to tint drawing. Sent Polly for brushes. Put tint all over. Worked hard. Rode to Broadstairs at 2.15. Very cold. Mare galloped along sands. Met 2 Miss Thompsons at gate of Prospect Terr. Jolley came out with sponge & leather. X. In & on to work up to 2.30. Put Polar Bear and Aurora Borealis in. Bottle of champagne & bed after sleep in drawing room. Wonder how I can finish block.
Thursday November 21 Ramsgate. Up 8.0am. Breakfast & on to Club. Annoyed with Wratten & Wainwrights letter. Wrote 4. Posted them. At 10.0am got to drawing. Finished Statue of Pole by 1.0pm. Lunch. Put birds etc etc in. No ride. Worked on all afternoon. Letters from F.C.B at 7.0 for 5 figure cut. Dinner. Quiet. After worked from 9.45 to 12.40. Finished drawing. Tidied up. Whiskey. Smoke. Did block up. (Sketch of Polar Bear.)
Friday November 22 Ramsgate. At 12.40 am finished last Almanack page for 1890. Polly sitting up. Fire in room. Cold. Gas bad. Up at 8.0. Packed books. Caught 10.0 train. Went up with Lilley. Dull morning. On by cab to 18 Stafford Terr. Stove alight. All well. Looked over letters. At 2.0pm began block of Guinness & 3 workmen, Ritchie, Rowton & Plunkett. Finished after hard push (had to take quart pot out) at 11.10pm. Dined. Sleep in chair in dining room. Bed at 1.30pm. Tired & not well.
Saturday November 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Warmer, much. Tidied up & put things right. At 12.45 took cab to Scott Adies. Got rug, ordered suit. On to Club. Called at Wellbys got 2 little brooches. Into Club, lunched. Had chop. Eat it all. Coffee. Fog in Garrick St. Cab to Victoria. Met Frank Burnand & also next door neighbour of Peto's (Westgate). Talk in train, down to Ramsgate. Tassell met us instead of Jolley. Took young Frank's things in to Royal Cres't. Walk in town. Called Hills. After dressed. Dinner. Gave M & Maud brooches. Barrie Hollingshead & Connie Burnand dined. Mervyn down by Granville. After dinner Doetsch called (F.B.) On to Mrs Burnand's. Didn't feel well (headache). Lots there. Home. Bed 11.30pm.
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Sunday November 24 Ramsgate. Up 9.0am. Dressed. No fire. After breakfast rode Marquis to Westwood. Saw Tassell. Got wet. Met Hammond, F.B, young Seton. Walk with Maud in souwester round harbour. Home. Lunch. Wrote letters. Boots. After on with Maud to Hammonds. Slow. Mr Hall & fiddle. Back. Wrote many letters. Dinner. Rosie Burnand in. Quiet dinner. After began to blow. Walked round to F.C.B's. Concert going on. Lots there. Stayed till 11.20pm. Mary uncontrolled. Home. Terribly windy & gusty. Round by back way. Tony barked. Sleepy. Whiskey. Bed.
Monday November 25 Ramsgate. 'Nucleous' dinner, Arts Club 7.30. Up early. Blowing gale. Jolley round. Told him not to go to Sandwich. (sorry after.) Breakfast. Went to Club at 11.0. Left to find harriers at Birchington. Late for meet. Rode round Quex & on to Sea mark. Annoyed. After bore towards Hop Poles (Sandwich Hop Poles). Saw hounds. Mr & Mrs Martin Thomson etc etc. Bit of a run. Cold wind. Mare very fresh going & tricky. Left off at 1.30. Collard fixing for Wedy. Home with the Thomsons. Back by 2.45pm. M away in carriage with Mervyn. Called on Roy. Tea, toast. Spoilt brown boots. Undecided whether to go up to town or not. Decided not. Wired by Jolley. Wrote many letters. Tony bitten at 3.40pm. Maud cried. Quiet dinner & decided to go to bed early. M went at 10.0. Self & Mervyn after sleep 11.15 & glad to do it. (Note across page: Did not go up to the Nucleous dinner.)
Tuesday November 26 Ramsgate. Up early. Lovely morning. F.C.B went up to town. At 11.30 rode young Marquis round by Montefiore's. Met M & Mervyn. Marquis wanted to turn at station. On to Broadstairs & home by Upton. Lunch. After looking out of window put Maud on Marquis for 1st time. Jolley walked her up & down. Rain. Tassell came. Lilley came in for shelter. (illeg). Worked all afternoon on month (November). After dressed quickly & walked in the cold on to Lilley's dinner. Mr & Mrs Lilley, selves, Mervyn & Conny Burnand. Slow. Row. Cigarettes. Russian. Short dinner. Home 10.30. Called Club. Great laugh after whiskey. Bed 12.0am.
Wednesday November 27 Ramsgate. Bright morning. Cold. Up 8.0am. Dressed to hunt at kennels with harriers. Mervyn left. Delay about his luggage. Old man took it. On to stable with stick. After to Club. Great snow set in at 10.10am. Countermanded horses. Back. Maroon fired for fire at 1.10pm. People running. Worked all morning on Novr. M read 'Diamond cut Diamond' for illustration. Lunch. Currie chutnee. After vacillated about going up to town. Read Telegraph, Lord Euston case. Decided not to go. Went for walk with M at 4.0 to 5.0 along pier with Tony. Bought oxalic acid. Home. Tea. Work. Acid a success with boots. Wrote letters, Boehm, Watney etc. Sent patterns back to Scott Adie. Worked on with month's drawing. Very cold. Dined quietly at home.
Thursday November 28 Ramsgate. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Fine morning. Worked on month's page for November. Put in quart pot & nutcrackers etc. Lunch. After at 2.0 rode mare
55 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 up past Banks' School. Past Westwood & Miss Friend's farm to past Abernethys & home thro' Upton. Mare fresh at train & in A1 form. Bitterly cold. Home & on with drawing. M finished ms of 'Diamond cut Diamond'. Read Frith. Dinner by selves. M spoke to Miss Gill about giving up chairs. Read 'Queer Stories'. Fell asleep till 12.0. Bed. 1st night of 'La Tosca', Garrick Theatre.
Friday November 29 Ramsgate. Burnand's birthday. Up 8.0am. Put things up for town. Breakfast. Went round to Club. Back. Annoyed because cart was not there. Walked down to station. Up to town by self in train. Victoria. On home in hansom. All well. Stove. Letters. Got to work 12.30. Put in fog figure & hair. Boy. Lunch. Changed things. Worked on. Finished by 9.0pm. Dressed. Dinner. Fur coat. Cab to Empire. Dull. Saw Harry Burnand & Frank. Saw ballet, Garrick. 4/- returned from W & W. Supper. Sir A Borthwick, Cartwright, Gosse, Gillie & Macdonald. Long talk with Solomons. Agnew 60,000 year. Left at 2.15am. Home by hansom. Read Max Schlesinger's London. Fire. Turned round for sleep at 3.0am.
Saturday November 30 Stafford Terrace. Dense fog in London. Up a 7.30am. Swelling in nose. Headache. Dark. Fire still alight in room. Down. Put photos up. Breakfast. Sent Emma for cab at 9.45am. One other in carriage all way to Ramsgate. Law papers crackled. Brilliant hot sun in Ramsgate. Jolley took bags. M & Maud & Tony met me. Walked up to house. Met Miss Ross & young Montefiore. Changed things. Pork lunch. Rode at 2.15pm to Margate past Abernethys. Saw boy clout girl at Brown Jug. Rode after him. Old swell & dog cart. On to Margate. Round School. Saw dear Roy. Looked cold. Football. Bad tongue. Roads up. On past Infirmary & across country thro' St Laurence home. Tea. New piano. Read papers. Called Club. Saw Weigall & Vaile. Little Miss Weigall with Maud. Mervyn down by Granville. Walk in town. Burnand's new cob came down. Doetsch, Frank B, also Connie Burnand in to dinner. Talk of Lilly & dances after great row.
Sunday December 1 Ramsgate. Swelling in nose painful. Most lovely morning. Bright sun. Cold. Breakfast. Club. At 10.35 rode mare to Sportsman. Inspected Port's brickfield. Blocked. Glass of beer. Jumped mare over ditches. Very fresh on turning round. Home. Wrote letters. Lunch after. At 2.15 drove with Maud in cart to Westwood. Carriage turned at St Lawrence. Westwood. Dull. Hill. Tassell. Back past Haine's home. Weigall at door. Walked to end of pier. Tea. Upstairs & wrote order for the Stores. Dinner. Maud dined. At 8.15 round to Burnands. Children's play. Clever little Winnie & baby & Ethel. Phillip in uniform as footman. Larks about. Very cold. Home. Whiskey. Bed. Young horse very hot at Westwood.
Monday December 2 Ramsgate. Very cold in morning. Breakfast. Round to Club. Changed things & got on mare 10.25. Met Mrs Hammond. Caught Burnand & Lilly up. Burnand's new cob. Grey, good looking. Cold. As far as Mount Pleasant. Round past
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Whitehead's home. Very cold. Jolley at house. News of Mervyn taken ill. Mervyn in my room. Lunch. Mary Burnand there. Frightfully cold. Read 'Queer Stories'. After went round to Club & wrote letters. Back at 5.0 to tea. Miss Hollinghead & Connie & young Roose there. Up in room. Read Frith. Dressed. Mrs Pigott & Lillys came to dinner. 2 bottles champagne. Long talk. Tony. Bed. Frightfully cold. Nose very painful. Blues.
Tuesday December 3 Ramsgate. Up 8.30. M in bed. Dressed for hunting. Brown boots. Hard frost. Took em off again. Went to Club. Wrote letters. Nose very painful, 4th day. Did not ride in morning. Began Mermaid for Andersen. New process. Lunch very bad. Brutal currie. Rice atrocious. Out & on mare. Rode past Truscalls & Westwood on past Friends & to sea shore by life boat. Along shore home by 4.0pm. Frank Green there with Mervyn. Connie Burnand came in after. Nose painful. Worked. Rigged up lamp. Letters from Buchanan & Aird. Began drawing on compressed paper with lines. At 7.30 went by self to dine at Hammonds. Good dinner. Lillys, Bessie Hollingshead, self, F.C.B, wife, Connie & Rosie. Sketched Connie. Stayed till 11.45 talking. Home. Cold very.
Wednesday December 4 Ramsgate. Very cold. Nose painful. Worked in morning. Saw F.C.B go up with Bessie H. & Mrs B. On to Club. Home. Worked. At 12.30 rode with Jolley round Dumpton & along by Haine & home. Marquis pulled. After lunch put up things & worked on Mermaid drawing. Caught 4.0 train up to town. Read Frith's Reminiscences. Punch dinner. Bradbury's voice better. Guthrie, Lucy, Gill etc. Talk after dinner about interviewing. Furniss 3, Milliken 2, Tenniel 1, & self 4. Home by cab from door. Aird's daughter sent Princess Mary's book. Got it signed. Furniss appeared in 'Pall Mall'.
Thursday December 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Man from Coopers called 9.15am. After at 11.0 Ayala. Long talk. Worked. Began Portuguese monkey & map of Africa. Wrote D'oyley Carte. In afternoon at 7.0 dressed & cab on to Baker's dinner. Cold. Good dinner. Prof Grevin & wife, Mint & wife. Col Lloyd & wife. Captain Dark. Actress. Left 11.30 & home. Walked into Captain Dark. Bed 12.0am. Read 'King Solomon's Mines'.
Friday December 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Got on with Portuguese monkey & map of Africa. Thought I might catch train for Thanet. Gave it up & finished work at 6.0pm after boy waiting. Took cab to Garrick Theatre. Asked for seat. On to Steak & dined. Good dinner. Talk of Ivory, Goldberg. Bought up Gamboge. Joe Carr & F.C.B. F.C.B in court all day about Society Herald libel case.Went to see 'La Tosca'. Forbes Robertson good. Mrs B.B bad. Saw Parker & Christmas Levy wives. After to Garrick. Joe Carr, Beetle & friend, Gillie. Gillie & Beetle. Beetle tight. Abbey, Furniss there. Gosse. Stayed till 2.35. Too much whiskey. Furniss hid wrap. Home by cab.
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Saturday December 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Heavy snow falling. Decided to remain in town. Down 9.15. Looked up Blaque's letter. Wrote to America. Tidied up etc etc & stayed in all day. Lunched at home on a chop & spotted dick. At 7.0 dressed & took cab to Garrick Club & Charing Cross. Good noiseless hansom. Got order cashed at Charing X. After lunched at Steak. Algy Bastard & Loftus Thornhill there. Weedon Grossmith. On after to Savoy. Leslie Ward there. 1st night of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Gondoliers'. Dress circle. Heaps of friends. Mrs Archie Wortley etc etc. Walked to Garrick. Supper opposite Campbell Praed. Introduced Australian D'Arcy. Talk with Sir James Mackintosh. Cab home. Cold. Bed 2.0am. Osgood won 2/s matching.
Sunday December 8 Stafford Terrace. Emma woke me 7.0am. Up 9.0am. Packed & after breakfast bad cab to Victoria. Cold & raw. Met Mr & Mrs F.C.B on platform outside. Down to Ramsgate. Stylographic pen. Children met F.C.B. Walked to 5 Prospect Terr. After rode past Westwood & round by Montefiore's in sea fog. Mare fresh, very. Wrote letters etc etc.
Monday December 9 Ramsgate. Dull heavy rain. Up & Club after breakfast. Saw F.C.B's pony. Did not ride in morning. Worked on Mermaid process. At 2.30 rode mare round Westwood & home by Dumpton. Heavy wet. Saw clergyman at Montefiore's. Went on with work in afternoon. Blanche Cole came. Quiet dinner. Sleep. Bed 11.30. Picked up sparrow. Mrs Wise called at Prospect Terrace when I arrived.
Tuesday December 10 Ramsgate. In morning after Club rode mare to meet at Garlinge. Overtook F.C.B on pony. Ground heavy, very. Found hare. Home with Mrs Hammond. Rest in drawing room. Tea & on with work. Put circle in. Bottle of champagne. Cork tight. Knocked bottle neck off. Wet. On to Burnands after with Blanche Cole & M. Back 11.15. Slept till 1.0am. Death of Mr Cosens at Lewes.
Wednesday December 11 Ramsgate. Lovely morning & warm. Club. Wrote letters. Ordered Port Wine from Westalls. Saw F.C.B, Mrs B & Rosie group. Worked on Mermaid process. Rode Marquis round by Hare & Hounds. Back home. Lunch. Marrow. Dressed. Drew cheque. Caught 4.0 train from Ramsgate. Man in train got out Margate. On to St Pauls & to Punch dinner. Bradbury old form. Violent. No Guthrie or Lucy. Made up 3 cuts. Did not get my own. Home by cab with F.C.B. Gave me 1/-. Warmer weather. Found all right at home. Bed 12.30.
Thursday December 12 Stafford Terrace. Up in morning. Put things in order. Finished chalk drawing & went to Macmillans. Burnand's boy called & dropped letter about Boulanger into the letter box. Did not get it. Began in afternoon Boulanger cut, did not go on. At 4.30 began to dress & at 5.30 walked as far as Scott Adie's in evening dress & fur coat. Had things tried on. On to Garrick. Saw Bangs. Gave me
58 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1889 letter. After walked on to Bristol, Ayala's dinner. Private room. Old Foozle, Comyn Carr etc etc. Tristram Gilby, young Gilby, young Ayala. Good dinner. Exceptionally good. Cab to Empire. No electric light. Saw young Montefiore coming out. (Red ink: See Oct 17. Perhaps this evening. 15 Nov 99.) On to Garrick. Supper. Ham etc. Saw Borthwick & also Campbell Praed & Darcy. Weighed 13s 5.0. (Red ink: Praed waggled me.) (Red ink across page: Ayala's dinner at the Bristol.)
Friday December 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Letter from F.C.B about Excelsior. Very poor subject. Did what I could. Finished 7.15pm. Cab to Sir Morel Mackenzie's. Dinner. Frederick Harrison, Farjeon, Fildes, Sutherland, Edwards, 2 Foozles, young Mackenzie & self. Good dinner but slow as a snail. Talk to girls after. 2nd one very pretty & draws, eldest American letter. Lady Mackenzie. Cab home with Fildes. Dense fog. Cab on to curb in Bayswater Rd. At last home. Asked Fildes to Ramsgate. Fire in room. Pall Mall. Bed 12.15pm. (Red ink: This is the last cartoon I drew on the wood. L.S. July 24, 1894.)
Saturday December 14 Stafford Terrace. Decided not to go down to Ramgate by 9.45. Looked out drawings & put things away. Send 7 Punch drawings & 6 Water Baby to Bangs for Scribners. Lunched at home & caught the 3.25pm train. Mervyn & Frank Burnand got in train. Carriage full. Sleep down. Florence Walford met Mervyn at Ramsgate. On to Prospect Terrace. Tea there. Frank B came in. Quiet dinner. Blanche Cole there.
Sunday December 15 Ramsgate. Fine morning. Muddy very. Rode Marquis to Westwood. Fine action. Man hollered at Montefiore's field. Hass. Saw Mother. Home. Lunched. Road bad. Saw clergyman. In afternoon worked hard on page for Dec'r for Punch. Quiet dinner. Sleep after. Did not go round to F.C.B's.
Monday December 16 Ramsgate. In morning after breakfast Club. Got on Marquis & caught F.C.B up. Rode round by Westwood. Parted at Sangsters. Too fast for me. Home by 12.15pm. After got on with drawing for Dec'r. Quiet dinner at home. Blanche Cole. Sleep after. Bed 11.30pm. Hounds at Sarre. Influenza cold came suddenly on in afternoon. After bottle of champagne at dinner. Had carbolic at night & turps put on chest.
Tuesday December 17 Ramsgate. Cold better. In morning round to Club & wrote letters to Bangs, Bradbury & Macmillan. After home & worked all day on Dec'r month's drawing. Finished it 6.45. Sent it off by 7.15 train. Dined after. On to Burnands after dinner. Very hot close day & evening. Stuffy. Felt seedy. Played dominoes & also cards. Saw Rider Haggard's new book. Home 11.15pm. Blanche & M still up. M came down after. Depressed finance.
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Wednesday December 18 Ramsgate. Depressed finance. Up & went to Club. Read paper. Saw F.C.B go up to town. Wrote Smith, J.G.Davis, A.Davis etc etc. Hammond came in & told me of meet at Ebbsfleet or Sarre. Got on mare & caught up North Buckmaster. Mare fresh very. Found hare & ran round meadow & out & about & across line several times. After had sherry etc at Tom Mayhew's. His wife out with Colley. Found another hare & left them running. Hacked home. Conny B having her portrait taken by Blanche Cole. Criticisms. Up, changed. Planet puzzle. After went with Mervyn & had hair cut at Frenchmans. Club & wrote letters. Sherry & bitters. Back to dinner. Conny dined. Bottle champagne. Read Pall Mall. Slept after to 12.0. Bed.
Thursday December 19 Ramsgate. Lovely bright warm day. Breakfast at 10.15. Cart came round. Sent it with B.C's luggage to station. After went Club. Drove to Margate past Abernethy's. Bad roads. Called for dear Roy at 11.0 exactly. Schimmelmann. Heard Roy had taken 1st prize in chess. Through Margate. Met Tassell at Stokes's farm on horse. On to Westwood. Green. Saw Mother. Gave Roy cheque etc etc. Back to Ramsgate. Horse went beautifully. Home. Round to stable. Saw the Hoods. Harry Hood. Lunch. New clothes came home from Scott Adie's. Roy at lunch. Worked on Blaque's book till dinner time. After read at dinner. Quiet evening by selves after dinner. Dear Roy & Maud dined.
Friday December 20 Ramsgate. Breakfast. Went to Club. Wrote letter. Posted it & walked to buy 2 cigars at Norris's. Back to stable & got on Marquis with help & started to get to Sarre to hunt. Wind & rain. Turned round on account of the cold at X roads & back by lower road past Col Whitehead's house. Got home 11.50. Round to Club. Cold. Read Times. Home. Lunch. Put new things on. Walked with M & Maud to Hammonds. Shirley Whitehead there. Settled for dinner. Met Jolley. Back & worked all afternoon on Blaque Book. Dinner. Selves. After took Mary & Ethel back to Royal Cres't. Back. Looked into Club. Read. Back 11.0pm. (M landed poor Tony one for nothing after dinner.)
Saturday December 21 Ramsgate. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Round to Club. Roy, Mary & Ethel B out for walk. Worked in morning on Blaques book. Lunch. Rode at 2.15 on mare in new suit. Up past Montefiore & to Broadstairs & home along sands. Again got on with work. Finished at 7.35. Dressed. F.C.B & Mrs F.C.B, Mr & Mrs Hammond, dined with us. Wet night. Called in afternoon at Wastalls & ordered wine. Good dinner. Bad brown soup. Burnand’s joke apropos of puppy. Mange. Dog in the manger. Quiet evening, all left early, 10.45. Mrs F.C.B glad of wine. Smoke & whiskey after. Bed 11.50pm.
Sunday December 22 Ramsgate. Up 8.15. Breakfast 9.0. Round to Club. After at 10.25 home. Looked out for Squire. Missed him. Caught at Club. Squire, C.Burnand, Borradaile, Roy, self & Master Tony went for walk to Broadstairs over cliff etc etc. Very warm 53° out in air. Wet & very muddy. Fine after. Dr Walters of Broadstairs died at 10.0am. Called at Borradailes. Dogs. Engravings. Cat.
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Canaries. Walk back. Fly drove fast to Hebden round corner. Back Ramsgate. Wrote letters at Club all afternoon. Read Socy in London. Mervyn dined with us. After dinner M, Mervyn & self went to Burnands. Cigars. Game of dominoes. Bessie Hollingshead lost 3/1d. Dance. Back by fly. Read Punch & Socy in London. Bed 12.15am. (Note across page: Found out name of man at Dumpton Gap. Bathes every day winter & summer. Price. Formerly proprietor of Albion Hotel.) French-Brewster divorce case decided in favour of Mrs F-B.
Monday December 23 Ramsgate. Up 8.0am. Roy slept in dressing room. Roy up for bath, Tony in bed. Up. Breakfast. Club. Times. At 10.30 rode with F.C.B round by Broadstairs & past Kingsgate House to Westwood & home along the Ramsgate road. Could not find subject for next week. After home. M gone to Westwood. Cart ordered. Whiskey & Appolinaris. Roy & chess. Read paper. Lunch. After lunch worked on Blacque's pages. Chicks dressing for Ball. Went round for Jolley. Trains late. Miss Gill making mess with turps. Sailor suit just in time. Lawrence in town for collar. Chicks off 5.55. Dinner. No dress. Celery salad. Quiet. Read magazine after. Chicks back at 11.12pm. Roy dreadfully tired. Put to bed. Did not go out.
Tuesday December 24 Ramsgate. Up 8.30am. Chicks in bed. Down to breakfast. Frightfully wet & windy day. Read Times at Club. Wrote Mother etc etc. Letters from F.C.B. Doubtful about subject. Posted letters & ordered carbowitz at Wastalls. After home. Finished 1st page of Blacques. Lunch. Miss Norden in. Round to Club. Read Morning Post. Letter to F.C.B. Wrote & sent letter up to town by 4.0 post. Got on mare & took parcel. Rode along sands to Broadstairs after train. Back along cliff past Montefiore's. New moon. Man lashed pony up hill. Home. Jolley turned up 7.30 for letters. M & self dined. Chicks to bed. M made up stockings. Diaries came. Round to Burnands after dinner. Played dominoes & tiddlywinks. Home at 11.15. Fine night.
Wednesday December 25 Ramsgate. Saw sun rise over clouds. Lovely morning. At 9.0 breakfast. Children's presents on breakfast table. Walk to Club. Letter to F.C.B. Hammond, C.Burnand, Frank B, young nephew, self, Tony & Roy went for long walk to Broadstairs (met Price.) Called Borradaile. Whiskey & soda. Past St Peter's, Cocksedges & Westwood. Haine & home by Ramsgate Road. Tony quarrelsome with Bobby. Not a cloud in sky. Late poor lunch. Roy's cake. Tiddlywinks. Walk with M & Maud to call on Pugins, Hammonds (met F.C.B.) Old Waynes(?) at Hammonds. Called Hood. Home. Tea. Worked after. Wrote letters. Worked on page for New Year, skemed it. Conny & Mr Ready came round & asked us to go into Burnands after dinner. Dined at 7.0pm. Miss Gill, Maud, M, Roy & self. Champagne. Round to Burnands after. Great evening. F.C.B distributing presents. Danced. 'Faust up to date' dance. Delightful evening. Home at 11.30pm. Most lovely weather. Bright hot sun, fresh breeze, cloudless sky all day.
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Thursday December 26 Ramsgate. Boxing Day. Dense sea fog in morning. Breakfast. Club. Papers late. At 10.45 got on mare & called F.C.B. Getting on cob. F.C.B upset with weather. Went off alone along Sandwich Road. Left him at Warre's. Got to meet at Star Inn. Westwood. Ass at gates. Caught hounds. Over or under bridge. Run past Friends & to Convent. Saw Borradaile & Hammond. Martin Thomson. Pottering run at North Down. Saw Abernethy. On to St Peter's. Left hounds at Nash. Home & worked on page for New Year. Dined 6.0. Mervyn there. Upset about bird being lost. X at dinner. Round to amateur theatricals at Burnands. Children. Miss Hollingshead & Mervyn. Frank B etc. Dance after. Whiskey. Children tired, left with M & Miss Gill 11.15. Back with Mervyn at 12.0am. Whiskey & talk. Bed 12.30. Slept with Roy.
Friday December 27 Ramsgate. Roy in bed. Up early. Breakfast. Club. Wrote letter to F.C.B & sent by Jolley. F.C.B left Ramsgate for good for town. Back & worked all day on page for New Year, John Bull smoking. Got done 3.30pm. Sent it off by Jolley at 4.15. Walked with M & chicks to Mrs Pugin's. Cold east wind. Varnished boots & put things straight. At 6.0 again walked round to Mrs Pugins. Missed M. Dance of children & Blind Man's Buff. Squire hilarious. Mistletoe. Rosie Burnand knocked her face against piano. Break up. Walked back with Maud, Roy & Miss Gill. Called for football. Went to Club. Sherry & bitters & got cigars. Dinner 7.30pm. Children with us. Roy forgot himself & ill in night also. Smoke after dinner. Sleep & bed 11.30pm. Much colder. Frost in night. Bird found in curtain. Cold east wind.
Saturday December 28 Ramsgate. Up at 8.20. Breakfast. Club. Old Hanks there. Cold. Read Times. At 10.35 got on mare at Club. Rode to meet at kennels. Past Mrs Hammond. North Buckmaster & son rode with me lower road. Whiskey & water at Collards. Met Rosalie Thornton in cart. Found hare. Pottering day. The Squire walked & turned up again at St Nicholas with Rev'd Forbes. Home in cold. Caught Martin Thomson up. Mare a stone in heel. Home with Mrs Hammond. Cup of tea 4.0pm. Roy ill last night. Burnands all went to town. Dined quietly at home. Read after dinner. Sleep. M came in & out four or five times. Bed 12.30. Very cold. Frost at night.
Sunday December 29 Ramsgate. Woke 8.0am. Lovely sun. No clouds. Cold. Down 9.30. Breakfast. Club. Wrote many letters. Squire came in ready for church. Home. Roy by himself. Worked. Put in bird etc. Heine to his mistress. Walk round pier & harbour with Roy & Tony. Lunch. Good leg of mutton. Read book of poems. Squire, Miss Florrie Hood, nephew, & Miss & young Roose called. Walk with Roy, Tony & them to Broadstairs & back. Cold. Lovely evening. Roy won 1/s running to Telegraph House. Home. Read poems. Tea. Hard frost. Finished drawing for Blaque. Put in snow etc & drew Cupid flying. Quiet dinner. Bottle of Perinet. M & self walked round to Hammonds. Nephew asleep on sofa. Talk of Burnands. Home after. Cold. Read Lady Brassey's book.
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Monday December 30 Ramsgate. Up at 8.0am. Intended to have hunted with the East Kent. Frost prevented. Snow on the ground but thawed after. Went to Club & wrote letters & posted them. Met Hood & young Rooses. Home. Finished Cupid. Cleaned up drawings & sent them off by registered letter to America. Packed up. Lunch. ½ bottle champagne. Put up all things after & walked down to station & caught 4.0pm train. Jolley went twice with cart. Talk to Veal at station. Got to town. Boy met me & took things home in cab. Cab to Beefsteak. Changed coat. Civil commissionare. Looked in. Saw Grain. On to Victoria Hotel. Met Col North going in. Sat next Monckton & Heron Maxwell. Stories after dinner. Yates, Watkin, Cunliffe Owen, Sherrif Harris. Barnum's grandson Harris after. Col Edis & Oscar Wilde. Left with Lord Kilmony, on to Beefsteak. Beetle, Arthur Blunt etc etc. Home by 2.30am. Heard Broadley had bolted.
Tuesday December 31 Stafford Terrace. Woke up at 9.45. Very seedy in morning after Barnum's dinner. Down 10.15am. Breakfast. Put all photos away etc & wrote letters. Lunched quietly at home. After walked up to Tudor Exhibition. Ran against Spencer corner of Bond St. Took him in. Saw Mrs Taylor (older) Wycliffe & Lister, Lady Monckton, Conrad & Eddy, Dolly Storey etc etc. From there to Club. Left Spencer Piccadilly Circus. Called on Wellby's paid account & got 2 bracelets for M & Maud. After gave Cole Xmas box & walked on to Punch dinner after writing to Mr Forbes & M. Called at shop for old arms & on to dinner. Full dinner all there but Gil à Beckett, Agnew & C.K. Talk of Broadley. Felt rather seedy. Influenza about. Tenniel X & pitched into Frank. At 11.20 went in cab to 54 Bedford Gardens. Very slippery. Saw New Year in in a cab, just as passing Kensington Church the clock struck. On to Parsons. Mr & Mrs Harrison there. Pretty woman. Parsons' brother, Harold Roller, the Boughtons, Colliers, etc. Very cold in dining room. Left after pulling crackers etc. Mrs Harrison & convolvulus hat. Smoked . (Sketch of figure in hat, smoking.) Left at 2.0am. Walked home. Back 2.20. Seedy & afraid of influenza. (4 small cuttings from The Times: In loving memory of William Henry Cremer who died December 31,1889. Marked with dates in L.S's hand 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898.)
Notes on Memoranda page:
Wine merchant: Holdsworth & Blackburn (Burgundy people) 49 Pall Mall.
Burne & Turner, Leadenhall Street. Col Jones recommends.
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