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Notes and addresses in front of Diary:
Store Ticket for 1901: 109234.
Christmas Cards, see Raphael Tuck Mrs Bingham, 15 Kenbourina Rd, Sharrow. C.L.Devitt, Warnford Court, E.C. H.Davey Browne Esquire, Arts Club, 40 Dover St, W. J.R.Gotz, 215 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. P.Meagher, 172 Pentonville Road, King's X, W.C. Cpn Adrian Jones, 147 Church St, Chelsea, S.W. Lamb Hotel, Ely, Z.Morpel or Z.Morpez. Frank Moyes, propriator. Bernard Partridge, 149 Church Street, Kensington, W. Parkhursts Antique Furniture Shop, 116 Station Road, East Grinstead. Taxes, late Mr Fisher. George Howe Esquire, Office of Surveyor of Taxes, Wrights's Lane, Kensington, London, W. Raphael Tuck & Sons Limited, Raphael House, Moorfields, City, E.C. Gustave Tuck Esquire. E.T.Reed, 17 Fitz John's Avenue, West Kensington, W. William Spooner & Co, 379 Strand, W.C. L.Raven Hill, Battle House, Bromham, Wilts, Nr Chippenham. Stamp, Edwin. was W.Bishop Esq, Officer in charge, Kensington, Young St. March 29 1901. John I.Thorneycroft & Co, Church Wharf, Chiswick. Thorneycroft Donaldson Esq. Mr Stace, 46 Carminia Rd, Bedford Hill, Balham S.W. Allan Ross & Co, Waterbury Watches, 66 Holborn Viaduct. E.C.
Tuesday January 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Dull morning & coldish. Went usual round C.H. Saw no one. Times New Year honours. Aird made a baronet, Lord Romer a G.C.B, only ones I knew. Nothing in any letters. No congratulations, no nothing. Busy all morning. Weeded out things that are useless from cupboards etc. Miss Gill came. Had fitted the small Hare camera ready for use. Lunch. After from 2.0 to 3.45 or 4.0 developed about 30 plates taken of Miss Hall in French Republic dress on Saty Decr 22nd. Burnt seven or eight old painting frames in room. Wrote letters after 5.0pm & diary. (Red
1 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 ink: Dull day. No congratulations, no nothing.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Ernest Pheasant to Hannah Ashplant.)
Wednesday January 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Walk round Campden Hill. After in morning got small camera ready. Lunch. At 2.15 went by Met.Rly to call on Meagher 172 Pentonville Road. If horrible when Du Maurier knew it what of it now. Walked past Claremont Square & Mrs Sheehy's. Saw funeral horses at show. Then thro' Exmouth St & on to the Foundlings. Called at a shop & bought a table. Talkative man. Then strolled to Garrick. Tea. Saw Lawrence Bradbury. Tips: Cole 5/6, C.C 10/s, waiter 10/s, sergeant 10/s & 2/6 cabman, 2/6 Wilkins. Strolled to Punch dinner. Called Whistlers & also saw Lewis the bronze man. Sir Wm A, O.S, R.L, A à B, J.T, self, F.C.B, A.G, H.W.L, B.P, L.B, & new man, Raven Hill, for 1st time. Affecting evening. Tenniel made speech, & W.A & F.C.B. Very touching. No sort of reference whatever to me. Left with Tenniel at 11.0 by cab & bus. Home 11.45. Roy just came in from Midge's. Sat & read Westminster. Bed at 12.45. Cold & raw. Miserable. (Red ink: Tenniel's last Punch dinner. Affecting speech.)
Thursday January 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.25. Dull foggy morning. Cold. Went for walk C.H. After Roy getting off for Pyt House. Skemed subject of Kitchener & John Bull. Stace came 11.45. Photod him Otley & self. M went to Mr Rose's to see Lord Robert's entry into London. After came foggy & dark. Extreme difficulty in getting a print of phos. Had to give up at 3.30. Mr Meagher called. Also man from Elliot & Fry's. Could not get a print of self. Up in room & worked on 1st central official cartoon from 4.30 to 8.15 when M & self dined quietly. Roy out at Mite's. Bed tired after snooze. (Red ink: Lord Roberts enters London. At work on 1st official cartoon. Great difficulties as to light.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Alexander Keith.)
Friday January 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out for usual walk. Pitch dark all day. Impossible to enlarge or do anything so went on to work. Mr Blair called at 12.30am. M & Miss Gill. After went on & finished at 9.15. M, Roy, Miss Gill & self dined after. Not very tired. Smoke & snooze. (Red ink: Worked & finished first official cartoon. Great difficulty as to light. Very dark. My 56th birthday.) (Cutting glued in: Court Circular.)
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Saturday January 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Did not go out. Printed some blues in morning. Finer. M had mislaid Academy ticket for Old Masters. Lunched at home & left after & walked up Park. Bus to Garrick, rear. On after to the Garrick Theatre. Sat next M & saw a children's play, Strewelpeter. Grossmith Junr & Kitty Loftus. Mr Douglas & Shorter & his wife in theatre. Out. Put M in carriage & to Athenaeum. Wrote letters & tea. Then after home by bus. Roy out. He dined with Mr Blair & went to Mrs Dane's Defence. M & self had quiet evening & rest after. Very cold at night. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of Strewelpeter at Garrick Theatre.) (Cuttings glued in: Deaths of Duncan Graham; Alfred Jackson; James Stern.)
Sunday January 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Bitterly cold east wind. Out for walk. Gave old woman 6d. Back & all morning printing & sorting. At 12.30 took M up Row, going by bus to Hyde Park Corner and walking home. Met Mr Blair. Blizzard of east wind. M & feather. On reaching home saw dear Mite in cab. Lunch after walked at 3.0pm to the Athenaeum. Wrote letters in room below until 5.45. Cornered by Canon Harford about the Queen's anthem. Up in drawing room & again wrote letters till 7.0pm when left & home by bus. Dressed. Mr & Mrs Isadore Spielmann dined, Maud & Lennie & Roy. Lennie had been delighted by his visit to Pyt. Bed at 12.45 after reading. M felt the cold very much. (Red ink: Mr & Mrs Spielmann, Maud & Lennie dined.)
Monday January 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Out for walk. Snow on ground & sleety snow. Met young Manley & sister. Gave Roy £9.0.0. He left for City & to go to Haywards Heath with Lennie. Frightfully cold all day. Put things in order etc. Mended chest of drawers etc. Packed bags. 2 men came at 4.0pm from the Daily Mail to interview me. Stayed until 6.0pm. Mr Howard delivered small satinwood table in the morning room, 2 vases & a small figure, £14.0.0. Roy back at 6.45. Did not go to Haywards Heath. M & self dined quite quietly. Roy back from dining with Mite at 11.45. Bed. Very cold & threatened snow. (Red ink: Interviewed for 'Daily Mail'. Satinwood table came for morning room.) (Cuttings glued in: Court Circular. Obituary of Lord Leconfield.)
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Tuesday January 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Very tired. Down. Finished packing. Roy off to City. Frightfully cold & snow. Goodbye to M & left in cart 1.0am. Crocodile bag not down. Flurry. Great difficulties in driving to St Pancras. Blocked roads. Got to station. Left 12.5. Down with a Mr Fitzgerald who had been devil to Frank Lockwood. He shared my lunch cheerfully. Omnibus at station. At Bylaugh at 5.0pm. Tea. After wrote letters. 16 at dinner, Mr & Mrs Bulteel etc. Took Miss Moore. Boy playing organ & piano with mechanical instrument. Looked at Pannell's book after. Bed at 11.50. Very cold. Mr & Mrs Loame, Mr & Mrs Bulteel, Miss Moore, Miss Merriman, Miss D'Arcy, Billy, Mr Hand, Mr Fitzgerald, Captain James, Mr & Mrs D'Arcy, self. (Red ink across page: Went down to Bylaugh Park to shoot in the snow.) (Cutting glued in: Court Circular.)
Wednesday January 9 Bylaugh Park, East Dereham. Up at 7.45. Breakfast 8.30. Down. Great pain in loins. After started 9.30pm. 7 guns, drove 6 miles. Lovely day. Slight snow but after warmer. Good lunch. Best day ever had. Got 47 pheasants, 1 hare, 1 duck, 1 partridge, 50 in all. Left off at 4.0 & drive home. Tea. Wrote letters from 5.0 to 7.15 & diary. Took Miss Merriman in to dinner after. Played 100 up with Mr Hand. Won. 1st cartoon of mine in 'Punch'. Lost 100 game with Mr Bulteel. Bed at 11.45pm. (Red ink: Best day's shoot at Bylaugh Park ever had. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Alan Charteris, Jany 11; notice of LS's 1st cartoon in Punch. W G, Jany 9, 1901.)
Thursday January 10 Bylaugh Park, East Dereham. Up 8.0. Breakfast 9.0am. Wore covert suit. Many letters. Drove to Foxley Wood. Mr Marriott, Mr Head, Captain James, Mr Fitzgerald, D'Arcy, self, Owen, Billy. Got 29 pheasants & 14 rabbits. 43 head. Not lucky in being placed. Ladies to lunch. Sat between Miss Moore & Miss Merriman. Accounts of self in Daily Mail & Daily Graphic & last night's Westminster Gazette. Lovely sunset. Rich orange. Left off at 4.20 & home 4.45. Tea up in room & for 2 hours writing letters. Dressed. Down for dinner. "Who dat a knockin at de door?" Took Mrs Loamas in. Long talk. 2 games of billiards after with Mr Head. Lost both. Got to 99 in the first. Billy marking. Bed at 11.45. Took 2 C.L.L.P. Many notices in papers on my cartoon etc etc. (Cutting glued in: Court Circular.) (Red ink across page: 2nd day's shoot at Bylaugh Park.)
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Friday January 11 Bylaugh Park, East Dereham. Up at 7.45. Breakfast 8.30. Black sausages. Started at 9.30 & drove 12 miles. Guns, Mr Head, Mr Fitzgerald, Mr Loamas, D'Arcy, self, Mr Bulteel, Cap'n James. Fairly good shoot. Very foggy day all day. Got 28 head in all. 1 jay, 1 hare, 26 pheasants. Lunch in farm cottage as two years ago. (Dec 1, 99.) Left off 4.0pm. Bird fell on my loader's head & punctured his cheek. Home 5.10. Tea. Letters from Lady Jeune & Thompson. Up in room. Wrote from 5.40 to dinner time. Went in by self to dine, Mrs D taking the agent Garnett. Good dinner. After played 100 up with Garnett. Beaten by 2. Bed at 12.0 & read. Tired. Butler's name George Watkins. (Red ink across page: 3rd day's shoot at Bylaugh Park.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Lucy Greive; Court Circular.)
Saturday January 12 Bylaugh Park, East Dereham. Up & breakfast at 9.10am. After man packed. All left at 10.0 am. Goodbye. Drove to station with Mr Head & Fitzgerald. Forgot my travelling rug. Up to town. Got scramble lunch at Ely. Goodbye to Miss Moore & the Bulteels. Otley met me & we drove home by 4.0pm. H.R.H expected to arrive at station. M seedy & in chair. Tea & after filled inks etc & put room ready. Roy went to the pantomime with Mite & Lennie, dining there. M & self dined quite carefully by ourselves & bed after. Read & snooze. Felt sleepy. (Red ink: Came up from Bylaugh Pk after delightful visit.)
Sunday January 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. After walk round C.H. No pence to give to old woman. M in bed. Evelyn Coward came. Roy in room. After wrote many letters in morning. Lunch at home. Developed 2 doz plates of Mrs King. Tea. Colder. Again wrote. Posted letters self. After Lennie, Mite, Roy, M & self dined. Good dinner. They left at 11.0. Read & bed. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Samuel Lewis. Mon Jan 14. Will of Samuel Lewis. Jany 18.)
Monday January 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.25. Walk round C.H. Saw Manly & his sister. Still letters of congratulation. After in morning wrote & left at 11.50 & up by train to the C.C. Called May's & settled about costumes. Lunched at the Garrick. Scoones, Wyndham. Black cat with two kittens. Out & at 1.45 photod Miss R Morgan for 1st time.
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Girl like Miss L.Williams & Olive Tucker only taller. Out at 4.0 & to Turkish bath. Hair cut & home by bus. M in after. Wrote & dressed. Just going out when Punch with Bernard Partridge's 1st cartoon appeared & also a stupid worry letter from F.C.B. On by bus to the Savoy. Dined with 'Sir De la Rue' & after to see the opera 'Patience'. Sat between Lady De la Rue & Mrs Pollock. Wedderburn there also. Called at Athenaeum & home by bus. Read paper. Intensely annoyed by Burnand. (Red ink: Worry letter from F.C.B. Dined with the De la Rues at the Savoy. Went to see 'Patience' for 2nd time after.)
Tuesday January 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.25. Slight head. Walk round C.H. Roy at breakfast. In moning packed bags. Wrote Phil Agnew & Burnand. Lunch & left in cart at 2.10. Caught the 3.25 from Liverpool St to Wickham Market. Comfortable lavatory carriage to self. Got there all right. 2 men who turned out to be Lord Orford & Captain Hankey. At Euston Park 6.0pm. Tea. Mrs Lucas. Talk & cigarette. Dinner. Sat next Mrs Lucas. Yarns in billiard room after. Guns in house, Lord Orford, Capt'n Hankey, Gen'l Grove, Edward Wagg, self, Lucas. Bed 11.30. Cold at night. (Red ink: Went down to Wickham Market to shoot. General Sir Coleridge Grove.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Gerald Geiger to Mary Powell.)
Wednesday January 16 Euston Park, Wickham Market. Up at 7.45. Breakfast at 8.30. Off 9.30. Paragraph of mine in the 'Times'. Drove about 7 miles. Guns, Lord Orford, Captain Hankey, Mr Edward Wagg, Genl Grove, self, Lucas. Fair day. Partridge drive to begin with. Got 2, Lord Orford seven. After in whole day about 28 head, 3 partridges, 1 hare & 24 pheasants. Left off 4.0 & drove to small station (Parham) & home. Civil station master. Took out & dried guns. Little dog who had been bitten. Home from Wickham Market. The train quite punctual 8.5. L.S. Otley met me. At Bouverie St at 8.20. Had some food & to Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, P.M, A à B, R.L, O.S, P.A, R.H, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Lehmann agressive. Got cut of Lord Roberts & Mayor. Left & walked with B.P to Garrick. Wrote letters & home by bus at 12.30. Roy home after me. (Red ink: Shot at Wickham Market. Went to Punch dinner afterwards.)
Thursday January 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am & walk. After schemed subject. Sent Otley to May's. At 12.15 photod him for Mayor & Lord Roberts.
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Enlarged photo from Pull Court. Developed & got prints by 4.30pm. Worked till 8.30 when dined. Florence Blair staying with us. Quiet evening & bed at 12.0 very tired. (Red ink: Worked on 2nd cartoon since succeeding Tenniel.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Herbert Pickersgill to Amy Horlick.) Easton Park, Pound Farm, Gt Glemham. Guns: Col F.A Lucas MP, the Earl of Orford, Genl Sir Coleridge Grove KCB, Captain Hankey, Mr E.Wagg, Mr L. Sambourne. 193 pheasants, 28 partridges, 22 hares, 12 various. Total 261.
Friday January 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out for walk. After by 9.30am got to work on cartoon & at it all day till 9.0pm when it went to The Boltons. Letter & wire from F.C.B. Quiet dinner, M, Miss Blair, self, Roy. Rest in chair after. (Cutting glued in: Health of the Queen.)
Saturday January 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Dull rainy morning. Out. 2 dogs attacked me on my own doorstep. Letters. Put room tidy. Looked at cameras & also enlarging machine. No good. Lunch. M & Miss Blair went to San Toy. Developed about 48 plates taken Monday 14th, Miss Morgan. Baby & Mite came. Baby lovely. Tea. Wrote letters. After dined at home with M & Florrie B. Roy went with Lennie & Mite to Terry's Theatre & saw Alice in Wonderland. On at the Vaudeville. Self went up by cab & to the Globe Theatre, 1st night of revival of Sweet Nell of Old Drury. Ethel Burnand came out on stage for 1st time. Stall by self. Good play. Well acted. Saw Mr & Mrs Phil May after. Strolled on to Garrick. Lennie & Roy supper with me. Lord Sandhurst & Coningsby D'Israeli there & Fletcher Moulton, Coupé & his half brother. Tree had a supper & Beetle screwed. We left at 1.15am. Roy & self home by cab. Great & increasing anxiety about Her Majesty the Queen. (Red ink across page: Went by self to revival of Sweet Nell of Old Drury. Lennie & Roy to supper after at the Garrick.)
Sunday January 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.15 & out. After breakfasted. Printed blues & developed plates. All most anxious about Her Majesty. Left at 1.15 & went up in cab by self to lunch with Lennie & Mite at the Carlton Hotel. Lennie, Mite, Roy, Miss Blair, M & self. Sat next Mrs Merryweather's party. Also saw young Hamilton. After seeing M & F.B & Roy into carriage went over to the Athenaeum & wrote letters the whole of the afternoon up to 7.0pm. Wrote a very long
7 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 letter to Phil Agnew about business. Left & home by bus. M, self, Lennie, Mite, Roy & F.B dined. Long talk about 'Punch'. Lennie sang songs from the 'Iolanthe'. They left at 11.0pm. Snooze & bed. Her Majesty slowly sinking. (Red ink: Lunch with Lennie & Mite at the Carlton. Met Mrs Merryweather & party.)
Monday January 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round C.H. Great anxiety about Her Majesty. Wired Seaman to meet him at Bath Club. Off by 11.15 & up to C.C. Photod Miss Morgan for 2nd time. Felt faint by (illeg) Water etc. Got all right again. Out & after to Garrick & then on to Spooners & to the Bath Club by bus. Met Owen Seaman who had Turkish bath as my guest. After to dine at Bellini's, Hanover Hotel. Very good dinner. A doctor friend of Seaman's there with a woman. Both left at 8.30 & I went on to the Prince of Wales's Theatre & joined M & Florrie Blair in box to see 'English Nell'. Very disappointed with play. Dear Mite there also. Roy had been to drill his men at Haywards Heath. Went to Garrick after play & wrote letters & home by cab after. (Red ink: Dined with Owen Seaman at Bellini's after Turkish bath.) (Red ink across page: M, Roy & Miss Blair went to see English Nell at the Prince of Wales's. Roy did not go.)
Tuesday January 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out for walk. Began to design Britannia. Went on when worry letter from F.C.B. Hoping putting in all figures etc. Set to work & designed double page between 2.0 & 5.0pm. Wrote Burnand & wired. Dined at 9.0 & at 9.45 went round in cart & saw F.C.B at 27 The Boltons. Settled for my design. Back & to bed. Death of Her Majesty the Queen about 6.0pm. Frightful rush all day & much worried.
Wednesday January 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. Breakfast. Foggy morning. Up in cart at 9.15 to C.C & luckily Miss Langley & Miss Hall came. Made studies from them till 12.0. Waited 20 minutes for cart. Home at 1.25. Developed some plates. Roy & self to lunch at 2.15pm. Otley helped me to develope & print enlargements from 2.30 to 5.0pm. Got nearly all when up to work. Put in crown etc etc. Worked till 9.0pm. M looking on. Dined. Ought to have worked after dinner. Roy, M & self & Florrie Blair dined. Did not go to the Punch dinner. (Red ink: Photod Miss Langley & Mabel Hall at the
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C.C. Developed all afternoon.) (Red ink across page: Did not go to the Punch dinner.)
Thursday January 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk after early. Photod wreath & did 4 enlargements. At 12.0 on to work. Put India & Canada in & all afternoon at it. Worked all day up to 9.20 when dined & again up to work from 11.0 to 2.0am when to bed very tired. Mild delightful weather. Sent Otley back with wreath to Kenyon. (Red ink: Worked after dinner from 11.0 to 2.0am on Memorial Cartoon.)
Friday January 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk. Band playing dead march. All day hard at work on double page. Worried. Doubts as to getting it done. Bothered with head of figure of England. Took it out. Baby to lunch. Up & at it & worked harder than ever in life & finished at 9.45pm. Sent drawing off to F.C.B at Boltons. Roy & Florrie Blair dined at Midge's. Had ½ bottle of champagne & felt better for it. Snooze till 1.0 & to bed utterly tired. (Red ink: Worked hard all day on Memorial Cartoon. Great push to get done.)
Saturday January 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 or 9.0. Very tired after work. Did not go out. Roy to City. All morning printing blues & tidying up till T time. Soaped drawers etc. Left & up to Garrick by bus. Smoking. Called C.C. Law, Weldon & others. Talk to a shaved man like Coupé. To Athenaeum & home by bus. Got sausages. Quiet dinner M, F.B, & self. Roy at Glovers. Lovely day like spring. Bed at 1.0 after snooze.
Sunday January 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Walk. Gave old W 6d. Lewis's house all repainted. Breakfast 9.45. After printed blues. Took M for a walk up Row & sent her home by bus. To Garrick. Lunch. Saw Dixey, Bence Jones, Butte, Weldon. Talk of Baccarat case. To C.C. Changed plates. To Athenaeum. Wrote letters from 4.0 to 7.0. Tea. Saw Lockyer. Home by bus. Dinner, M, self & Florrie Blair. Great westerly gale all day. Everyone in mourning. All flags ½ mast high. Read after & to bed after snooze. (Red ink: Great westerly gale.)
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Monday January 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Walk round C.H. Very wet & muddy. Tip came. After back, breakfast. In morning put things straight etc. M out in search of certificate for Furrell. Left at 11.0am & to C.C. There 11.45. At 12.0 photod for the 3rd time Miss R.Morgan. Poor nervous shy model, good hair & head. Out at 2.30 & to Garrick Club. Wrote to F.Barr acknowledging cheque for £325.0.0. Out. Called Hunter & Sands & got bag. Home by bus. Tea up in room & wrote letters. M back at 6.0. Dated & put away all photos. Roy had smoked in the dining room. Dinner, M, Roy , Miss Blair & self. After extraordinary worry letter from F.C.B. Unaccountable. Punch came at 6.0. Cartoon came well. In chair till 1.0pm. Did not get to sleep for two hours. (Cutting glued in: Death of the Rev H.R.Haweis.)
Tuesday January 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Had not slept well on acct of Burnand's idiotic & unaccountable worrying. Out & for walk. Sharp frost. Back & dressed. Sent Otley to Captain Adrian Jones 147 Church Street Chelsea S.W. He back by 11.45. Left at 12.0 & walked there. Took 16 photos of 4 horse Chariot of Victory. Horses heads (3) & small group. Had luncheon & tea there. Back at 5.0. Mite at the door. Up in room & wrote diary. After dressed & walked to dine with Mite with Roy. L & Mite , M & Roy, self & Florrie B. Good dinner. Champagne. After the pianissimo. Left 11.0 & walked home. Bitterly cold. (Red ink: Photod chariot & horse & lunched with Adrian Jones. Bright sun. Dined with Mite.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of the Rev H.R.Haweis. Jan 30.)
Wednesday January 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20am. Walk round C.H. After breakfast wired Agnew about seeing him tonight, could not. Developed a lot of head plates & took them up & put them in bath etc & also the horse chariot photos taken yesterday. Dressed & left at 5.30 & up by bus to Bouverie Street. Prepared for a row with F.C.B. Saw him at 6.30. Long jaw. Nothing came of it. Phil Agnew in who congratulated me on drawing of last week at dinner. F.C.B, self, A à B, R.H, O.S, P.A, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Arthur à B gave me the opportunity of pitching into G.R.H's drawing which I did with a vengeance. Left at 11.0. Walked with Guthrie to Piccadilly. Chat about F.C.B. Home 12.0. Wrote & posted to Lilford Delph. (Red
10 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 ink: Official interview with F.C.B at Bouverie St. Nothing came of it.)
Thursday January 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & walk round C.H. After breakfast skemed subject of His Majesty the King & Punch. Model Mr Lilford Delph came at 11.50. Photod him in robes etc & enlarged a little print of the throne. Self as Punch. Developed & enlarged. Got to work from 4.30pm until 8.50 when dined. Quiet evening after, M, Roy & self. (Cutting glued in: Death of Graham Clowes.)
Friday February 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Out. Breakfast 8.30 & got to work 9.30am. All day drawing His Majesty & Punch. Finished at 7.45 & sent it off. M, Roy & self dined. Quiet evening after. Very cold. To get up early tomorrow. Poor Mr Richardson of Belfast died, aged 56. Tumour or peritonitis. Told me by Mr Carter coming from shooting. Ballachin, Thursday Aug 29 '01. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary Rev George Bourne, Feb 1.1901. Death of Stephen Wombwell.)
Saturday February 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.20am. Dressed. Bath & after at 7.15 breakfast. Mite carriage at door at 7.40. Drove to Mite's, Roy & self. Roy in uniform. Mite & self left at 8.0 & drove to Mr Allen's in St James's St. Lovely rooms. There 8.30am. Waited at window from 8.30 to 11.30 when her late Majesty's funeral procession passed. Most pathetic scene. Reversed arms, muffled drums. The coffin on a plain khaki coloured gun carriage with a silk Union Jack & the crown of England on the top. Saw the King, the German Emperor & the Duke of Connaught. Cold. A dog moving about looking at the procession. Vast reverential crowd. Great crush. Many people taken in ambulances. Left at 12.45. Saw Mr & Mrs Armstrong etc. Went out with Colonal Hill. Met Abbey in Stafford St. On to Arts Club. Lennie came out.Walked Mite home. Park all trodden & heaps of dirty scraps of paper. Walked on after leaving Mite. Roy back & went to Glovers. Developed about 22 plates of Miss Morgan taken on January the 28th. Tea with M & up in room after. Put all things away. Wrote diary etc. Bitterly cold. Met Florry Blair in Argyle Road. (Red ink across page: Witnessed with Mite funeral of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria from corner of Pall Mall & St James's Street.) (Cuttings glued in: In memoriam Leslie
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Ogilvie 1902. Death of Thomas Fenn Feb 5 1901. In memoriam Thomas Fenn.)
Sunday February 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Out for walk. Gave O.W 2d. After in morning printed a lot of blue photos. Evelyn in & took M for walk. Left at 12.45 & walked up Row to Garrick. Met Cartwright & his wife. Not seen him for 8 or 9 years. Lunch. Met Beetle, most amusing. Also one of the Herald College men. After chat to "My name's Waring". On to Athenaeum after & wrote letters from 4.30 to 7.0pm. Home by omnibus. Quiet peaceful dinner M & self. Miss Rose Innes had called.
Monday February 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. Round C.H. Bitterly cold & dull London grey morning. Decided not to photo Mrs King. Wired. After developed a number of plates of heads etc. Squaring up & tidying all day. Did not go out. Roy to remain at Glovers till tomorrow. Her Majesty laid to rest at Frogmore. M & self dined quietly & rest & read after. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: Final burial of Her Majesty the Queen at Frogmore.)
Tuesday February 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & out. Cold raw miserable snowy morning. Breakfast M & self after. Printed head & statues taken this day week at Jones's. Mite came, after Tabby. German Emperor & the King passed through London. Left at 2.30 & went by Met Rly to Bouverie St. Had interview with Phil Agnew & Lawrence Bradbury. Not at all a pleasant one. Demurred at my asking for more. Altogether not quite satisfactory. Left at 4.30 & walked on to Mays. Called Burnets & tea after at the Garrick. Home by bus. Met Cope in the bus. Dinner. Lennie, Mite, Roy, M & self, also Florrie Blair. Mr Johnstone came in after on the eve of going to Africa. Lennie upset about Mite not wiring. They all left by 10.45. Rest in chair till 12.45am. Bed. Very cold & miserable. (Red ink: Interview with Phil Agnew & Lawrence Bradbury. Oh! Lennie, Mite , Roy & F.Blair dined.)
Wednesday February 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10 & out. Cold raw & ½ frozen snow. Girls going to school again. M out in carriage. Up in room & wrote, also developed photos. In afternoon went up by bus to Punch dinner. There early. Saw F.C.B. Stupid old Arthur objected to Punch. He
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"likes Tenniel's Punch". Dinner. F.C.B, self, Phil May next me. R.L, R.H, O.S, L.B, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Got awful cut to do of King & Queen. Wrote letters from Punch table & left with Guthrie etc. Home by bus. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Lucy Hammond- Chambers. Death of Annie Shakespeare.)
Thursday February 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & walk round C.H. After skemed subject of King & Queen & Minsters with x'd swords. Mr Lilford Delph came at 11.45. Otley to Mays at 12.45. Photos L.D & Otley for King's robes & x'd swords etc. Also dear M for the Queen. Developed & got to work 4.30 to 9.20 when M & self dined quietly. Roy at Mite's. Letter to buy the cartoon in Memorial Number. Also from Sir James Whitehead. (Red ink: Sold cartoon in Memorial Number, also the King. Should have dined with Sir Henry Thompson.)
Friday February 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out. Got to work at 10.0 & at it all day up to 8.15 when finished cartoon of King & Queen & the Ministers with x'd swords. M, Roy & self dined at 8.20 & quiet evening after. Letter from Phil Agnew offering me £120 a year more. (Cutting glued in: Death of Edmund Dubois.)
Saturday February 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Out for walk. After in morning put things away etc etc. Lunch. M & self went up in carriage to the Haymarket Theatre. Saw delightful play 'The Second in Command'. Well acted. Miss Sylvia Carlisle good. Put M in carriage & back & talk to Cyril Maude. After to Athenaeum & wrote letters. A big dinner on. Home by bus & M & self a quiet dinner. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of 'The second in Command'. Very good. (Cutting glued in: Golden wedding: Isaac Scarth to Mary Walker.)
Sunday February 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Out for cycle for 1st time since (blank). In morning printed blues etc. After took M for a walk up the Row & back by bus. Saw Sir Fk Dixon Hartland & Lady D.H. & also Henderson & son etc. In afternoon developed 2 doz plates taken Novr & Dec 1900. Tea & left by bus for Athenaeum. Wrote letters. Back to quiet peaceful dinner with M. No one called. Roy at Glovers. Bed at 11.30pm.
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Monday February 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & walk round C.H. Bitterly cold. Breakfast. After all morning writing etc. Left at 11.45 & up by cab to C.C. M out in carriage. At 12.30 photod Miss R.Morgan for heads & classic dress. The 4th sitting. Out at 3.0pm & to Sands & Hunters. After to Bath Club. Hair cut. Saw Sydney Catton. After Milne. Out at 5.30 & home by bus. Mrs Galbraith had called. Very cold. Wrote letters. At 8.0 Midge, Dora, Lennie, Mite, Roy, M & self dined. Good dinner. Cartoon in Punch not so good this week. Bed at 11.30 after reading. Had been to Athenaeum to vote for Harrison. Had free tea. (Red ink: Lennie, Mite, Midge & Dora dined.)
Tuesday February 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Out for walk round C.H. Very cold. Bright frosty sun. After from 10.0 to 11.15 printed 100 blues. 2 men from an Art Journal came & detained me until 12.35, when dressed. Hasty lunch. Left at 12.55 & by cab to Euston calling for dear Mite. Went down to Herbert Herkomer's. Schutz Wilson & Johnson in train. Sant & wife, Mrs & Miss Walter Crane, Frampton etc etc. Young Rivière. After seeing enamel of the German Emperor etc left at 4.0 & home to Euston at 5.20. Back in Mite's carriage. Mrs Fildes at our house. Bad news of poor Colin Hunter. Dressed & walked to Mite's. Met Roy on hill. Dinner. Mrs Allen, Miss Rose Innes, Roy, M, self, Lennie & Mite. Very good dinner. Music. Left at 11.20. Home by carriage. (Red ink: Mite & self went down to Herkomer's. Dined at Mite's.)
Wednesday February 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out round C.H. After in morning tidying up. Developed last plates in stock. Donnelys & I.E Jessop. After lunch before leaving for Punch dinner wrote on mount for Sir James Whitehead's drawing of the King. Left it with Johnson & by bus to Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, A à B, R.L, O.S, P.A, P.M, B.P, H.W.L & A.G there. Easy subject of motor car & road up. Home by bus from Fleet St.
Thursday February 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out. Took key camera & photod yard where flats are building on Campden Hill. Bitterly cold. After breakfast skemed Motor Car subject & Road Up. Out with camera again 11.0am. At 11.45 photod Otley on table for Balfour &
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Salisbury. Got all prints by 4.30 & up in room. Worked till 9.20 when dined with M. Roy out. Bitterly cold all day. Bed at 12.0 after rest. (Red ink: Bitterly cold. Took last photos with old lens in hand camera.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Edwin Hohler, of a daughter.)
Friday February 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out for walk. All day at work on drawing of Motor Car & Streets Up. Finished 7.15pm. M & self went to dine at Sir Fk Dixon Hartland's. Met one Archbishop of York & sub Dean of Windsor Chapel. Slow dinner. No smoke. Bitterly cold. Promised Mrs Dixon Hartland Dickens' signature. Home by carriage & to bed. Roy had been to dine at the Carlton with the Galbraiths & went to see 'Peg Woffington'. (Red ink: M & self dined at Lady Dixon Hartland's. Spelt reorganisation wrong.) (Cuttings glued in: The wife of John Stone, of a daughter. Death of Agatha Evill.)
Saturday February 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out. No, did not go out. Roy off to business & Glovers after. After breakfast got off at 10.15 & up by bus to the C.C. Photod M.H for America. Looked much better. Out & lunched with Bourchier at the Garrick. Saw Jones's brother & many others. Sorby etc. After to Criterion Theatre for matinée of The Noble Lord, M & self. Good. Miss Spencer Brunton, Sangage(?). Wrote letters at the Athenaeum & after home by bus. Rain came on in the afternoon, the frost giving. M & self dined quite quietly & bed after at 12.0. Saw Dr Harrison at Athenaeum. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of The Noble Lord.)
Sunday February 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Out for walk. Coldish. Dogs caught me up on Campden Hill. Breakfast. M in bed. Printed blues & developed box of photos let drop on stairs yesterday. Not so much spoilt as I thought. Lunch, M & self. Heavy squelching snow squalls. Tidied up. Wrote diary etc etc. Tea with M. After went up by bus to the Athenaeum. Wrote cheque to Tom Brown & others etc. Back & M, Mr & Mrs Gill & self dined quietly. Slow (illeg). They left at 10.45. Read & to bed after.
Monday February 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round C.H. After a dull wretched day. Printed blues - no, tidied up & Otley & self moved
15 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 the sofa in spare room. M in bed. Lost key of door. Developed a great many photos taken Saty & previous Monday. Did not go to town or use the carriage. M & self dined quite quietly. Roy at dinner. Bed 12.0 after rest. Found out had left a G out of Army Reorganisation. Wrote Brightmore. (Red ink: Moved sofa to back room.)
Tuesday February 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Walk. Bitterly cold & dark. After in morning developed 2 doz, no, 1 doz plates & looked out drawings for the Art Record. Lunch & at 2.45 left in the carriage leaving M at home. Called Garrick & ordered an expensive dinner. On to 313 High Holborn, Watsons & to Allan Ross's who undertook to make an alarm clock. Back calling at Jewell's & to Club. A wire to say Mr Devitt could not dine. Tea. Met Teddy Clowes. Sent wires & to C.C. Changed plates. Wrote 3 or 4 letters & to Garrick. Changed & at 8.0 Lennie & Roy dined with me. Good dinner. Clowes joined us afterwards & we all went on to box at the Alhambra. Saw cinematograph of Her Majesty's funeral. Good ballet. Out, Garrick again. Gillie Farquhar. Home at 12.0 by carriage. Slept till 2.0am when to bed. Cold miserable weather. (Red ink across page: Gave dinner at Garrick. Mr Devitt could not come. Lennie & Roy. Mr Clowes came to our box at the Alhambra.)
Wednesday February 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Out for walk. Back. Wrote Devitt. M in bed. Corrected proofs of an article in Art Record. Printed blues of heads. Wretched morning. Tooth gum boil hurt me. All afternoon putting things away etc. Left dressed in dinner jacket at 6.10 & to Punch dinner by busses. Went & talked to F.C.B about the word reorganisation spelt wrongly. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, O.S, P.A, P.M. E.T.R back 1st time since beginning of year. H.W.L, A.G. Gave F.C.B a Bâton pencil. Got easy subject & left 10.15pm & home by bus. (Red ink: Gave F.C.B a Bâton pencil.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Robert Rising to Constance Edis. Marriage of Gustav Natorp to Louise Chalk. Death of Amy Leyborne Popham.)
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Thursday February 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & walk round C.H. No photography to do at all. In morning developed a lot of the heads of R.M & after lunch schemed subject of Hicks-Beach as Hawk & Birds. Worked up to 9.0pm when dined, M, Roy & self. Snooze & bed after. (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Dayrell Crackenthorpe, of a son. The wife of W.H. Du Buisson, of a son.)
Friday February 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. After all day at work on drawing of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach & birds. All day up to 7.15 when finished & sent it off, or 7.30pm. After M, Roy & self dined quite quietly at 8.0pm. Read & snooze after. Bed 12.0pm. (Red ink: Did a very good cartoon.)
Saturday February 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & breakfast. Did not go out. After in morning left at 10.30 & up to C.C. by bus. Photod a Miss Seton, Abbey model. No good, waste time. Out at 1.0 & to Garrick. Lunch. Saw Bangs & Bence-Jones. Also after Clowes & Lord Edward Cecil. Out to the Royalty Theatre. Met M. Bother at changing seats. Pretty girl near with longish nose, hair down forehead. Strong well acted play by Frank Harris, 'Mr & Mrs Daventry'. Out & by carriage to Hyde Park Corner. M to Mrs Medley's at home. Dressed. Tea & by 2d tube to Holborn Restaurant. There 6.50. Dined with the New Vagabonds Club as their guest. Zungwell in chair. Col Fitz George & many others. Had to make speech. Next Zungwell & Douglas Sladen. Left 10.50 & home by 2d tube. Man sang song of 'Bird on high, sorry that cows don't fly'. Home 11.50 & to bed. Cat in the room. (Red ink across page: Went with M to matinée of Mr & Mrs Daventry. Good play.)
Sunday February 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am & breakfast. After left at 10.20 by bus to Victoria. Down to Dover, lovely X'ing. Met Lord Glenesk. Long talk. Anecdotes about Court. Lovely villa at Cannes. Scotch mountain. At Buffet saw Major Ricarde Seaver, also Dr Messel & Merry W. Also Adelina Patti next table with Baron Caderstrom. On board Payton & Freshfields. Long talks up in carriage with Ricard Seaver & Messel. Yarns & talk about South Africa. Home 8.30 & quiet dinner with M. Minnie waiting. Bed 12.15 after snooze. (Red ink: X'd Channel. Met Lord Glenesk & Major Ricarde Seaver.)
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Monday February 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Out. Fine morning. Warmer & brighter sun. Thought aquarium was stopped up. Wrote letters etc. M out. Left at 12.30 & up to C.C at 1.30. Photod M.Hall in evening & Spanish dress. Out at 4.0 & called Hacketts Pall Mall office. Not in. To Sands & Hunters & after to Miles for 2 flannel suits. After home by bus. Dressed & at 7.20 M, Roy, self, Mite, Lennie & Maud Paxton dined. All went to the Savoy after & saw 'Patience', myself for the 4th time since revival. Saw Rose Innes. After left & went to supper with Lennie & Mite at Savoy. Funny little man singing. (small sketch of man) Did not enjoy it. M & self left at 12.20 & home by the carriage. Snooze & Roy back 1.30pm. Bed. (Red ink: Seedy with cold.) (Red ink across page: Went to the Savoy Theatre. Lennie, Mite & Maud Paxton. Supper after which upset M & self for weeks.)
Tuesday February 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Out for walk. C.H. After Roy down. In morning got ready. Printed ½ doz photos & left at 11.30pm, Met Rly. Went to Kings X, called on Meaghers. To Hitchen with Mite & Lennie. Nasty sort of irritable cold on me. Horrid. At Hitchen walked to the 'Sun' & had a badly served lunch etc. After to Phillips. Did not feel well at all. Left Mite & Lennie & walked to 'Sun'. Clear out, & then strolled up to the house. Dire confusion & dirt etc. Crowd of people. Lennie & Mite did not bid for anything. Back to Phillips's. Bought a thermometer & barometer in satin wood. Tea & a bun at the station & back to town. Up home by Met Rly. M & self went to dine at the Spielmanns. Very good dinner & good wine. Took Mrs Jessell in. Enjoyed dinner. Back 10.45. Roy had taken Maud Paxton to the Court Theatre. Cold bad but better for the dinner. (Red ink across page: Went down to Hitchen for Winchester Clowes' sale with Lennie & Mite. Dined at the Spielmann's after.)
Wednesday February 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am & walk. After all day putting things straight etc. Printed blues etc. Finished heads of R.M. In afternoon Meagher called about camera enlargement. Long talk between 3.0 & 4.0pm. M had her dinner by herself. Roy dined at Mite's. Went by bus to Punch dinner. Complimented on cartoon last week. P.A, P.M, B.P, A.G, F.C.B, self, A à B, O.S. Got cut of Jack the Giant Killer. Wrote Stace & home by bus. Bed at 12.30.
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Thursday February 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. Lovely day all day & like spring. Schemed subject of Jack & the Beanstalk after. Stace came at 11.30. Photod him for medieval costume & enlarged. Finished by 2.30 & up in room & worked till 7.30 when dressed & went by carriage to dine at Lawrence's 23 Eaton Square. Took Mrs Lowther in to dinner & sat next Lady Playfair. Very good dinner. Cough very troublesome. Home by carriage & woke poor M. Bed 1.0am. Roy went to dine at Mite's & found me asleep in chair. (Red ink: Dined by self at Charley Lawrence's. Took Hon Mrs Lowther in to dinner.)
Friday March 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. After all day at work on Jack & the Beanstalk. At 12.45 Mr Allan Ross called of 66 Holborn Viaduct with a clock & battery. Went on & finished 7.45pm when sent it to the Boltons. Dined M, Roy & self. After at 10.30 walked to Lowther Lodge. A very dull at home & nothing to eat or drink. Introduced to several ladies. Bridge being played. Home by bus. A woman followed me to gate of house. Cheek. Bed 1.0am. (Red ink: Went to at home at Lowther Lodge.)
Saturday March 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Out for walk. Breakfast. After Roy lost his gloves. Wrote letters theatres etc. Turned out a very wet morning. Printed a lot of blues & lunch at 1.15. At 1.45 up in carriage to the new Apollo Theatre & sat for a 2 hours & more trashy piece called the Belle of Bohemia. Shuffling of seats & very narrow stalls. Put M in carriage & to C.C & Garrick. Saw Gillie Farquhar & put Lennie's name down for the Club. To C.C. & changed a lot of plates. Home by bus. M & self dined quietly at 8.15. Rest & sleep after & good night. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of 'The Belle of Bohemia'.)
Sunday March 3 Stafford Terrace.Up at 8.45. Doubts as to going to Calais. Decided not to go. Went for walk. Coldish March wind. In morning put things away. After took M for walk to top of Row & home. Met Waley etc. Conrad looking dreadfully ill to lunch. After put electric bell up & developed 12 plates Mabel Hall. Hailstorm. Had a headache & cough troublesome all day. Looked thro' the Sketch.
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After at 8.0 Miss Rose Innes dined. She did not go till 11.20pm. Bed 12.0. Took 5 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: Miss Rose Innes dined.)
Monday March 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out. Very wet. Man called about things bought at Hitchen at 9.30. Gave him £1.0.0. Wrote letters etc etc. After all day tidying up & tore out Sketch etc. Cold still bad. At 7.0 Mite, Maud Paxton, Lennie, came to dinner. Lennie very seedy. Confusion at dinner. Roy in late. M, Maud Paxton Mite & self went in Mite's carriage to Lyceum to see King Henry Vth. Bad driving. Poor play. Robson stupid as Welshman. Sent Mite, M & Maud P home in Mite's carriage. Roy & self in 4 wheeler. The last time I will give a dinner for the play for Lennie & Mite. Lennie did not go. At 4.30 Otley & self carried up chest of drawers in my room. Great bother to do it. Very hot & tired. (Red ink across page: Went to see King Henry the Fifth. Lennie went home.)
Tuesday March 5. Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out round C.H. No, walked to G.P.O. Wired. Wet dark morning. Felt very seedy with cold. After all morning putting things straight. Lunch. At 5.0 went in carriage to Miles's & had coats etc tried on. Then to Bath Club. Had Turkish bath. Out & at 8.0 dined with Galbraith at the Junior Carlton Club. The Hackney dinner. Sir Jacob Wilson & Langley, Harry Livesey, Galbraith, self & three others there. Sat & talked till 11.15 when home by carriage. Langley had been hunting all day. Row in the House of Commons. Irishman carried out by the police. (Red ink: Dined with Galbraith at the Junior Carlton Club.)
Wednesday March 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round C.H. Cold still bad. In morning put things staright etc. Sorted papers & after lunch at 1.0 left 1.30 & by carriage to see the Pantomime. Miss Lessing good. M & self stalls. Saw a man, took it for Joe Carr's brother! Complimented me on Jack & the Beanstalk. Out & M in carriage. Tea at Garrick. Called Sands & Hunter & Camera. No bag in Studio. Out & to Garrick. To Punch dinner. Felt seedy. Claret. F.C.B, self, A à B, R.L, R.H, O.S, L.B, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, A.G. Good dinner. Got cut of arming St John Broderick. Left 10.45 & home by bus. M & Roy had dined at Lennie's. (Red ink: Dropped black glove.) (Red ink across page: M & self went to see the Pantomime at Drury Lane.)
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Thursday March 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. Wet. Rainy & gusts. After schemed subject of Broderick & John Bull. Sent Otley to May's for knapsack. At 12.0 photod Stace & Otley. Lunch. Enlarged all by 4.15. In room & worked up to 8.45 when dined quietly, M, Roy & self.
Friday March 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out for walk. Met old woman & band. After at work all day on drawing of Broderick & John Bull. Sent enlarging apparatus to Meagher. Finished at 8.30 exactly. Midge round. Roy M & self dined. Quiet evening & bed 1.0am after snooze. Cold a little better 1st time for fortnight.
Saturday March 9. Stafford Terrace. Up 8.33. Out for walk. Roy off to Glovers. Dull grey cold morning. Wrote cheques & letters & sent account in to Darlings £55.13.0. After lunch by carriage to the Royalty Theatre & saw Mrs P.C in 'The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith'. Matinée hats. Out & M home in carriage. To Garrick. Called C.C & Sands & Hunter. Tea at Garrick & home by bus. M & self had quiet evening & dined together. Bed 12.0 after snooze. Roy at Glovers. (Red ink: M & self went to see The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith.) Sunday March 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Walk. After in morning put things away & printed a few blues. At 12.30 M & self walked up the Row. Put M in bus & after bus to C.C. Left parcel. Walked to 18 Berkeley Sq & lunched with Bancroft. 9 guests. (Red ink: Lunch at Sir Squire Bancroft's.) (Plan of table seating) Self, H.Beerbohm Tree, Onslow Ford RA, B, A.W Pinero, Joe Comyn Carr Esq, George Alexander, C.Gill QC, Lady B, Sir Charles Jessel, Charles Wyndham. Good lunch. Yarns etc. Left at 4.0 & walked by Bath Club to C.C. Adjusted lens. After to Athenaeum. Wrote letters until 7.20. Home by bus. M & self dined quietly.
Monday March 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk. Very cold. Frost. After in morning wrote letters etc. Wrote on hat boxes & also after lunch tried Meaghers camera. Then mended candelabra & Empire chairs etc, Electric light. M out in carriage. After all afternoon writing etc etc. At 8.0 Sir Norman Lockyer, Lennie, Mite, Maud P, Roy, M & self had a very pleasant dinner. Bed at 12.0. They all left
21 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 by 11.0. (Red ink: Sir Norman Lockyer dined. Lennie, Mite & Maud Paxton.)
Tuesday March 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10 & out for walk. Dullish morning. After mended M's sofa & dated blues etc. Left at 12.45 by bus to C.C & after to Garrick. Lunch. Opposite Dot Boucicault & young Bancroft. Coffee. Talk of (illeg) with Col Jones. After to C.C. at 3.30. Photod E.J. Dull unsatisfactory afternoon & lenses all wrong. Out 5.0 & called Sands & Hunters. After to Bath Club. Had bath. Then at 7.5 to Bristol. Met M & Miss R.I. Dull gloomy room & waiting. Bad dinner. Miss R.I had 2 bottles of Champagne & 1 of Claret wasted. On to Wyndhams Theatre. Saw Mrs Dane's Defence. An unsatisfactory play admirably played. Went round to see Wyndham. Put M & Miss R.I in carriage & home by self after going up to Studio for packet at C.C. Home. Roy out. Met Conrad at Empire & Roy & Conrad went to Romano's. Cold at night. (Red ink across page: Dined with M with Miss Rose Innes & went to the Vaudeville after.)
Wednesday March 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Walk. After the whole morning putting things straight etc etc. Florence Walford to lunch. Left in afternoon at 5.45 & by bus to Piccadilly. Called at C.C. No letters. On to Sands & Hunters & the Garrick. Saw Bernard Partridge. Wrote letters. On to Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, O.S, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L & A.G. Long discussion. Got cut of Cossack, John Bull & Germany. Home by bus. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Hannah Scott-Moncreiff.)
Thursday March 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out for walk. After letters skemed subject of Cossack & John Bull & Germany. At 12.0 photod Stace. Sent Otley to Barkers & May's. Got enlargements by 4.0 & tea. Worked until 8.30 when M, Roy & self dined quietly & bed after snooze. (Cuttings glued in: Public dinner proposed to honour Tenniel. Bernard Partridge's cartoon purchased by Duke of York.)
Friday March 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out for walk. After writing letters at work all day on drawing of Cossack & John Bull & Germany. Finished at 9.0 very late. M & self dined quietly. Roy with Lennie &
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Maud & went to see The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith. Bed at 12.0am. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Sir John Thursby.)
Saturday March 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out. After cold in morning. Put room in order. Lunch 1.30 & M & self by carriage to the Vaudeville & saw Alice in Wonderland. Lady & little boy in front. Very good. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum. Out & M in cab. To Garrick & wrote Stone etc etc. After got sausages & home. M & self had quiet dinner by selves. Read book on Venice after. Bed 12.0 after snooze. Cold east wind. Dog went down to Lennie. Taken by Mite. (Red ink: Ricky went down to Glovers. M & self went to see Alice in Wonderland.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Jane Freshfield.)
Sunday March 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Out short walk. Left in black at 10.20 & by bus to Victoria. Down with Villars to Dover & after good talk about French etc over to Calais. Saw Merry W & Harry Dickens etc. Good lunch. Payton & Day. Freshfield. Long talk coming up with Sir Weymss Reid. Story of Joe Parkinson & the lady on board ship the Hottentot Venus. Russian trip. Lady & husband in smoking carriage. Crowded train. Home by 8.45. M & self dined quietly. Bed after at 12.30 after snooze. (Red ink: Crossed channel to Calais & back. Met Weymss Reid.)
Monday March 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk. Cold east wind. Letter from Waley enclosing £16.16.0. Wrote letters. After all day at home writing & putting things straight etc etc. At 8.0 Mite & William Stone dined. Roy & Lennie at drill. Good dinner & Stone T.T.T. Roy back in uniform at 12.30am. Bed. (Red ink: William Stone dined.) (Cuttings glued in. Death of Lady Cotton.)
Tuesday March 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & out for walk. After all the morning testing apparatus etc, tidying. In all day. Roy back at 6.30. Left in rain & misery to dine at Garrick. Roy & self in cab. Fritz Jackson, Mr Devitt, Lennie, Roy & self dined. Dinner cost £1.0.0 per head. Went to the Hippodrome after. Animals good, rest poor. Jackson left 10.45. Back to Garrick & had a business talk with Devitt. Nothing much came of it. Home with Roy in hansom. Bed 1.0am
23 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 or 1.30 rather. (Red ink: Gave dinner at Garrick to Mr Devitt & Fritz Jackson. Heavy rain.)
Wednesday March 20 Stafford Terrace. Up a6 8.15. Walk round C.H. Still wet & cold east wind. Miserable. In morning squared prints etc. Seedy. Lunch. At 3.0 Mr Meagher came & took away enlarging apparatus. After left at 6.0 & up by bus to Punch dinner all the way. P.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G, F.C.B, self, A à B, O.S. Long discussion. Got cut of Peace & Boer. Left at 10.45 & home all way by bus alone. M & Roy back from dining with Mite. Cold wet & miserable.
Thursday March 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. After all morning skeming Boer & Shambock & Peace. Sent Otley to May's. After photod Otley for Boer at 12.45. Enlarged. Failure of process plates. Finished by 4.45. Work till 8.45. After M & self dined quietly. Roy took Mite to dine at the Spielmanns. Lennie could not go. Took 2 C.L.L.P. Bed at 12.0.
Friday March 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & walk. After writing all day at work on Peace & Shambock Boer. Finished at 7.45. Great scramble. Hurriedly dressed & dined at the Suttons. Took a Mrs Rob't Green in. Oh!. Next Mrs Maurice Hewlett. Did not know it. Miss Webster there. Left 11.15 & home by carriage. Snooze. Roy in at 1.0. Still very cold. Dream of Tabs. (Red ink: M & self dined at the Suttons. Met Maurice Hewlett.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Harold Power.)
Saturday March 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0 or 8.30 & out 9.0. Breakfast. Roy & salmon. Still very cold. Wired Galbraith to put off going to Calais tomorrow etc. Sent Otley to Her Majesty's. Otley came back with 3 stalls. Lunch & M & self left in the carriage at 1.30 & to Her Majesty's. Saw delightful play, Twelfth Night. Miss Lily Brayton as Viola. Most beautifully put on the stage & Tree's Malvolio admirable. After put M in carriage & to Garrick. Met Mr Bull for Mr Totty. Tea. Called at C.C. Changed plates. Little Tom Thumb there. After fell on curbstone. Home by bus. M & self a quiet dinner & restful evenig. Very cold at night. Roy, Lennie & Mite went to see 'The Belle of Bohemia' & to supper at the Savoy after. Bed 11.30am. Dream of the birds being killed. (Cutting glued in:
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Death of the wife of Monsieur de Ayala.) (Red ink across page: M & self went to see Twelfth Night.)
Sunday March 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Out & round down Holland Walk. Roy left his latch key in the door. A dull gloomy & miserable day. Sorted letters etc. After at 12.15 walked with M up to top of Row. Bitter wintry wind. Put her in bus & walked past Green Park & thro' Pall Mall to Athenaeum Club. Looked at Lord Ellesmere's house. Wrote letters for 4 or 5 hours. Lunched. Saw the Archbishop of York. Left at 7.15 & home by bus. At 8.0 Mrs Torquand & Mite & Lennie & Roy dined. A pleasant evening. Bitterly cold. (Red ink: Mrs Turquand dined.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Caroline Hammersley.)
Monday March 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Usual walk. After the whole day tidying etc. Wrote labels. Bitterly cold & snow storms. Mr Meagher called about camera. Roy stayed in all day on acct of a severe cold. Very troublesome & wretched at dinner time. All to bed at 11.0pm. Read & snooze after. (Red ink: Bitterly cold. Bitterly cold weather.)
Tuesday March 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Usual walk. Afte all day writing labels etc. Roy stayed in bed all day with his cold. Left at 7.30pm & walked to dine with Mrs Warre at Rowland House. Took Mrs De Paes in. Leslie Ward & wife. Also a Mr Poole & good looking wife. M & Mrs Heilbut etc. Sat next Mrs Ward. Good dinner & evening. Home by carriage. Put up the barometer in morning room. Also luggs on one on landing & the concave glass. Dinner table very crowded at the Warres. (Red ink: Roy in bed all day with cold.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Charlotte Yonge.) (Red ink across page: Dined by self at the Warres.)
Wednesday March 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Usual walk. M remained in bed & Roy up to lunch time. Bitterly cold. Wrote labels etc. Left at 6.0 & up by bus to Punch dinner. Called C.C & walked from there. Overtaken by E.T.R. Punch dinner. Phil Agnew, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, O.S. Got cut of Irish Serving Maid early. Left at 10.40 & home by bus. Bitterly cold. A very pretty
25 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 girl in bus. Up to Pavilion. Tip tillted. In black. (Red ink: Letter to May's never reached them.)
Thursday March 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for walk. After skemed subject of Irish Girl & Punch. Had been to Town Hall in High St & tried new camera for 1st time. The one altered by Sands & Hunter. Partial success. At 12.0 Miss Langley came. Otley back from May's without costume. Letter miscarried. Developed & enlarged. All ready by 4.30pm. Worked up to 7.45 when dressed & went by carriage to dine with Lady Lawrence. The Arthur Lewis's, the Bergheims, Mr Lindo, a young man name MacBride, going in for drawing. Took Miss Lawrence in. Good dinner. Talk to (illeg) Bergheim after & left at 11.5. Home, taking MacBride. Intense cold. Cold snap culminated. Roy went to City in morning after being absent 3 days. (Red ink across page: Dined by self at Lady Lawrence's. Very cold.)
Friday March 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out for walk & after by 10.0 all day at drawing of Irish Girl & Punch. Finished by 8.30 & sent it off to F.C.B. Roy went to dine at Mite's & Lennie's. M & self dined quietly. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. Bitterly cold. Freda in bed all day ill. (Cutting glued in: Oxford and Cambridge boat race.)
Saturday March 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Change in weather at last. A SW gale & heavy rain. Out for walk. Roy went to City. The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Did not go. Another letter from F.C.B. Wrote letter for Mr Galbraith at 12.30. Pouring wet all day up to 3.30 when cleared. M up in my room. Busy labelling photos. Roy went to dine at the Messels & to Alhambra after to see last night of R.G.Knowles. M & self dined quite quietly. Bed at 12.0. Nightmare in night. Freda in bed all day. (Red ink: Pouring wet. Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race.) (Cutting glued in: Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race; scores since 1829.)
Sunday March 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Walk. Gave old woman 6d. Got very wet. Breakfast. The whole morning sorting & writing labels. Roy off in uniform to Lennie's for a funeral. Lunch M & self. After Mite came in. M & Mite left at 3.0pm in carriage to go & see pictures. Up in room & re-did the labels of countries. Tea. Dressed &
26 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 walked up to the Athenaeum Club. Saw Christie, A.R. Back by bus. Very hungry & enjoyed dinner, M & self. Roy back at 11.30. Bed 12.15am. Weather warmer. Freda in bed still. Filled in census paper. (Red ink: M & Mite went picture seeing.)
Monday April 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Out on cycle 1st time in year before breakfast. Called Lennie. Could make no one hear. After in the morning wrote labels etc. Lunch at home. Left at 2.0 & up by bus to C.C. At 3.0 photod Mabel Hall in Union Jack as Britannia. Many photos, 54. Ethel Warwick came at 4.45 for her. Out. Tea at Garrick after calling Sands & Hunters. Walked on to Punch dinner. Cold afternoon. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, O.S, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, Long discussion. Took from 8.30 to 11.10 to make up the 4 cartoons. Self got S.A cooks & Sir Michael Hicks-B & Pelican. Suggested by self. Partridge Art & Statue & the Fashion of Bridge v. Whist. Left 11.15 & home by bus all way. Bed after reading Westminster 11.15am. (Red ink: Punch dinner for Easter.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Constance Palmer-Samborne.)
Tuesday April 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Park after breakfast. After sent Otley to May's. Stace came 11.30am. At 12.0 photod him for John Bull & Otley for Sir Michael Hicks-Beach & also a cooking foreground. All good. Developed. Got done at 3.50. After drew outline & got well forward. M & self dined by ourselves at 8.30pm. Quiet evening after. Did not dress. Bed 12.0. Roy back & found me asleep. (Cutting glued in: The wife of Cyril Maude, of a son.)
Wednesday April 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out on cycle. Round by Boltons. Saw F.C.B. Said I had not (illeg). Home & got on with drawing of Sir Michael Hicks-B & John Bull. Finished at 8.0. Sent it off to Boltons. M & self dined quietly & bed at 12.0 after snooze. (Red ink: Finished Easter Week cartoon.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Richard D'Oyley Carte.)
Thursday April 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Park. Lovely day, bright sun. M packing to go to Glovers. After at 10.0 went out & photod a dancing bear & Frenchman in Stafford Terrace. Left in cart at 12.0 & drove to the Zoological Gardens. Photod 15 phos &
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1 background of pelicans. Saw Mr Bartlett (one eye) after. Left 1.10. Saw street children, 2 girls digging one another. Went back & took two extraordinary good snapshots. Home to lunch 1.45. M left at 3.0. Bother to get 4 wheeler. Went off in a hansom. Developed many plates. Roy out. Dinner at 7.45 & after Roy & self went to Pavilion. Eugene Stratton, Marie Loftus & Miss Duggan. To Garrick. No one there. Home at 11.45 by very fast hansom cab, a mare. Bed 12.30am. (Red ink: Went to Zoological Gardens. New camera great success.)
Friday April 5 Stafford Terrace. Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Cycled round Park. No one about. Got up with a headache which lasted the whole of the day. Dull grey day all day except at 4.0 when it cleared. In the morning took photo of Otley for Keeper & began to enlarge. Lunch. Burnt hole in the lid of key camera. All the afternoon enlarging. At 4.0 took a fresh photo of Otley. Developed & enlarged. Worked from 3.0 to 6.0 in yard. Otley round again. Roy & self dined quietly at 8.0pm by ourselves. Quiet evening & bed after. M at Glovers. (Red ink: Bad livery headache all day.) (Cutting glued in: In memoriam Adolph & Sarah Saphir.)
Saturday April 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Wet morning. Roy down first. Out for walk. After ordered Otley to take Roy in dog cart at 10.0 for Waterloo. Saw him off. Up in room. Drew cheques & tidied up etc. Lunch at 1.0pm & left 1.15 in cart for Victoria. Not a very great crowd. Down by self to Horley. Lennie's carriage met me. At Charlwood 3.30pm. Met baby. M better. Stroll round grounds. Tea. After a walk to Greenings. Back 7.0. Vick could not get thro' wire fence. Dressed. Dinner. Lennie playing after. Sleepy. Bed 11.0pm. Put up mirror in dressing room. Repaired. (Red ink: Roy went to Pyt House. Self came down to Glovers.)
Sunday April 7 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.45. Good bath. Breakfast 9.30. Bright coldish morning. Read Undine & Constant's Napoleon etc. L, M & Mite to church. Had heavy half headache. Went to meet Mite at church. Mr Messel & young Loring & Otty came to lunch. Heavy dark clouds & rain after. At 5.30 Lennie & self went for a long walk up hill past Mr Heron's & took the dogs. Back at 7.50pm. Bath & dinner. Walk did me good. Pianola. Took 3 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: Very seedy with liver. Long walk at 5.30 to 8.0pm.)
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Monday April 8 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.30. Breakfast 9.0. After in morning wrote letters etc. All left at 12.0 for Nymans. Lennie & self in dog cart with a brown mare. Mite, M & nurse & Baby in the brougham & pair. At Nymans to lunch. Dull. A long haired little girl there, a Miss Brember. Easter eggs after. Children. Very pretty little girl, daughter of Dr Parker. Left after tea. Lennie & self drove home by the foot of Rusper Hill. Back at 7.0. Dressed. Dinner. Pianola & after took 3 C.L.L.P. Bertie Gibbs called in the morning. M told him to go round to the back door. (Red ink: Went to Nymans.)
Tuesday April 9 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 7.50. Bath. Breakfast. Lennie off at 8.30 to business. Got to work all day at drawing of Pelican & Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Lunch. Frightfully yawny & slack after. Got all outline ready. Change from lengthways to upright. Lennie back at 6.0pm. Went for walk as far as common & turned back. Came across short cut. Dinner. Pianola. Took 3 C.L.L.P. (Cutting glued in: Obituary William Woodall. Tues Apl 9, 1901.)
Wednesday April 10 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 7.50. Lennie off. After got to work at 8.30. Bothered with head of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. No it was tomorrow (Thursday) in the shading. Took it out. Today put in outline up to 3.30pm. Dressed & left in victoria by self to go to Red Hill at 4.20. Met Lennie. Was 10 minutes late. Went up to old curiosity shop & Lennie bought a lot of things. Self nothing. Back. A most gorgeous sunset. Lovely. Dressed in M's room. Ruth & Harold Messel to dinner. Mite & L, self & M. Champagne. Felt frightfully sleepy after dinner. Pianola. Took 2 C.L.L.P. Brown horse bolted with Pugh in the morning. Hurt his hand. (Red ink: Went to Red Hill to meet Lennie.)
Thursday April 11 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 7.50. Lennie off. Breakfast. Ruth Messel & Harold left 10.15. Up in room to work at 9.30. Began shading & at it all day up to lunch & to 6.10pm. Lennie back. He & Mite busy packing. Went for walk & got caught in heavy rain. Both dogs with me. Home across country by Greenings. Fell down & got in a mess in wood. Quiet dinner. Lennie said he had married an heiress. Brought him £50. Pianola & bed after smoke at 11.0. One C.C.L.P. (Red ink: Frightfully wet nearly all day.)
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Friday April 12 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 7.50am. Bath. Lennie left saying goodbye. Bother about the carriage. Mite decided to go by the 11.0, then she & nurse & Baby left. At work from 9.0 or 8.30am to 1.30 on shading drawing of Pelican & Hicks-Beach. Lunch M & self. After at work for 1/2 an hour. Packed drawing up & changed & walked with M as far as Post Office. Then on to Horley with Ricky & Vick. Sent drawing off by the 4.43 & walked back. Takes 1 1/4 hrs each way. Nurse & Baby passed me. Home 5.45. Tea. Wrote diary. M & self dined quietly. Bed 11.30 after snooze. (Red ink: Lennie & Mite left for abroad. Walked into Horley & sent off my drawing.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Edward Watkin.)
Saturday April 13 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. Breakfast 8.30. Wrote letters & posted them at 10.45. A pouring wet morning. Wire from Vaus. Wet the whole day & heavy wet. Underlined in red my diaries. Wrote etc up to 5.45pm when went for walk round common & to Hohler’s lane. Back 7.20. Dressed. Dinner. Wire had come from Roy to say that he was to X channel tomorrow & would not be down. M & self dined quietly. In Lennie's little room. Bed 12.30 after snooze etc. (Red ink: Horribly wet day all day.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Sir Edward Watkin.)
Sunday April 14 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.30. Breakfast 9.0am. Letters came on Sunday morning for the 1st time. Baby fretful with his teeth. Stuck pars etc in diaries & underlined in red. No, wrote letters nearly all mornig. A great many. Lunch. Short walk with M & posted letters. Lazy louts in village. Back at 4.30. Went for walk same as last Sunday up lane to Mr Heron's. Met young Gibson. Picked up an old carter's whip. Home 7.15 by Greenings. Lovely evening. Dinner 7.30, M & self. Read Strand etc after. Bed 11.15. Vick in chair.
Monday April 15 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.15. xx. Breakfast 8.40. Bright sunny morning, coldish. After went on all morning sticking pars in diaries. At 11.30 a Jury summons came forwarded from London. Lunch. Wrote letter to Binns Smith etc. M & Baby went out in carriage at 3.30pm. Finished pars at 5.0pm. Broke a basin in bath. Wrote letters. M & Baby back 5.15pm. Tea. At 5.30 M & self went for walk towards Caryll Ansdells. 'Horrrid gypsies about'. Went on by
30 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 self. First heard the cuckoo at top of hill 6.0pm. Met the postmaster. Back 7.15. Dressed for 1st time without candles. Dinner. After very sleepy. Read Elizabeth & her German Garden. Bed at 11.15. Dreamt of China. (Red ink: First heard the cuckoo 6.0pm!!!. Heard it Saty April 21, 1900, 12.45pm.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary, Sir Edward Watkin.)
Tuesday April 16 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.10. Breakfast 9.0. M down late. A good Punch. After bright sun & heavy strong hail showers & high wind. Was to have dined with Mr Devey Browne at the Arts Club. Wrote to give it up. No news from Roy or Otley. Baby not well with cold & teeth. Again sent summons back to Pyt House, Tisbury. No evidently returned from the Post Office. Wrote many letters up to lunch time. After took M for walk round the fields etc. Great sport a rabbit killed after long course with the 2 dogs. In & after tea walked to Ifield & back. 2 pretty girls 12 & 13 & a fire with bushes etc. Back at 7.15pm. Very muddy. Dressed & dinner. After no sleep. Looked at French books & read a rubishy detective story. Bed 11.20. Slept well. (Cuttings glued in: Death of R.F.Sketchley. Thursday Ap 18. Death of Mary Ledger.)
Wednesday April 17 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.5am. Brighter morning but cold. Summons for jury again returned from the Post Office. Letters from Roy etc. Oranges. Dogs playing. Baby not down. After put things up. Lunch. Dr Parker came. Got away & to London by 4.0 train. Otley met me. Drove to Bath Club. Hair cut. Out, walked to C.C & Garrick & then to Punch dinner. Tenniel there first time since he left. F.C.B, J.T, self, R.L, O.S, L.B, B.P, W.W.L. Got cut of Johnny Bull. Tenniel left, not his old cab. Home by bus & to Stafford Terrace. All as usual. Roy out. Bed 11.30am. (Red ink: Tenniel back at Punch Table. First time since 2nd January.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Ralph Williams to Mabel Wheat. Marriage of Charles Bergne to Agnes Langshaw. Death of William Quayle. Death of David Barker.)
Thursday April 18. Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out on Roy's cycle looking for an automatic machine. Went round by Fulham Road & Lillie Bridge. Back. After went down to Addison Road. Took snaps of machine. Back & schemed subject. Stace & a boy came at 12.0. Developed. Otley helped me after lunch, all finished by 4.0pm. Tea & on to
31 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 work. Roy & self dined & left in the carriage after & went to the Alhambra. Saw Bill Weigal & Johnny Graham (sat next J.G.) Good equalibraist. Out & home in cab. In dining room. Bed. (Red ink: Went to the Alhambra with Roy.)
Friday April 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out for walk. After all day at work. Lovely day. Bright sun. Finished drawing of John Bull & the War Automaton at 7.30. Dressed & dinner by self. Roy dined at Midge's. Left & by cab to the Palace Theatre. Roy met me at nine. Young Taylor there & also Ponsonby (Claude). Out & in carriage. Called Garrick & home. Photod a school girl in the morning outside Kensington Board School. (Red ink: Went to Palace Theatre with Roy.) (Cuttings glued in: In Memoriam George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron.)
Saturday April 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out walk. Roy off. Hurridly packed after. Empire clock got over wound. Left at 11.20 & drove to Marylebone. Roy only just caught train. Judge Snagge. Down to Sheffield. No whiskey. Bother with attandant. Arrived Sheffield 4.15. Letter from Howlden. Roy & self drove to see my aunt. 84 years of age. Does not look more than 65. Long talk with her & Lily. Excitement in Sheffield about football match. Dressed. Kept Howlden waiting. On to the Cutlers Hall. Long dinner. The Duke of Norfolk in cloak of honour. The Lord Mayor to President Mr Senior. Met a Dr & à Beckett. (illeg) card from F.C.B. Phil May drunk, made a speech. Got away at 10.45. Caught train to Renishaw. Headache. Mrs Howlden sitting up. Renishaw lovely house. Roy played game of billiards. Ghost episode. Roy in haunted room. Ghost wringing hands, noises, owls etc. Roy would not face it & slept in my room. Bed 2.0am. Slept fairly well. Woke with slight headache. (Red ink across page: Went down to Sheffield with Roy. Saw my aunt Elizabeth (84). Sheffield Press Club dinner.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Henry Surtees, of a daughter.)
Sunday April 21 Renishaw Hall. Up 9.0am. Lovely cloudless hot day. Down. Breakfast 9.50. Good. After looked over house. Insured for £50,000. Lovely tapestries, furniture, pictures, bronzes. Left in cart at 10.45. Lovely drive, hilly. Went to Norton Church, Chantry's cottage & on to Jordanthorpe. Dispute about (illeg). Pond in front filled up. Just lawn as I remember it in 1852. Men recovering from
32 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 the Press Club evening last night. Took photos. Then on to Bole Hill. Cannot remember the exact size of house. So much smaller. Same pond etc. Young Sheffielders in Bole Hill. After left. Glass of beer at Bagshawe Arms & drove home. Dinner lunch at 2.30. Good champagne, Ayala 1882. After stroll round grounds. Tea. Goodbye. Back to station & goodbye to Howlden. To Sheffield. Wash at hotel. Back to London. No matches. Last match for pipe. Roy & self got out at Nottingham & dined in train. Dinner very good. Talkative old man & silent engineer. Otley met us. Loaded cart. Lights jumped out. Police. Home 11.30. (Red ink across page: Magnificent weather. Drove to Norton from Renishaw Hall. Back to town in evening.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary Dr Charles Tanner MP. Tues Ap 23. Death of Adela Ram.)
Monday April 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Out for walk. Met nurse & governess in black. Back. Roy to City. Packed hurriedly, after left at 10.5 in cart & drove to Victoria. Had to change at East Croydon. Down to Glovers. Cart met me. Mrs Messel there. Long talk. Poor M in bed. Lunch. After wrote many letters. Found that cycle had been used. At 5.0 rode to East Grinstead 12½ miles. Fair in the town. Called shop kept by Arnold. Bought an old spy glass. Back at 7.40. Good run. Dinner 8.0 after bath. Showed M the photos of Renishaw House. Bed 11.30. M about servants. Nightmare about a horse biting. (Red ink: Cycled 25 miles to East Grinstead.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of James Hamilton to Mabel Sang.)
Tuesday April 23 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.15. Breakfast 9.0. Looked over Bank book, can't make it out. Dear Baby well. Wrote letters. Nurse posted them. After packed & left M in bed & to station in pony cart with boy. Hairs of pony came off. Train punctual. To the Garrick. Lunch with R.L. Talk to Joe Carr. To C.C at 3.15. Photod Mrs King. Not well & much thinner. No good. Out & to Garrick for tea. Wrote M etc. Home by bus. Very hot & close. Dressed & left by cab to 20 York Terrace & dined with the Edward Pollocks. Took Lady De la Rue in. Dull dinner. Story of Mrs Derek Keppel & the straw in front of house. Home at 11.15 in carriage. Roy up in dining room. Straight up to bed. (Red ink: Dined with the Edward Pollocks. Took Lady De la Rue in.)
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Wednesday April 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Out 8.30 on Roy's cycle 1st time. Round Park. Breakfast 9.15. Roy off for a busy day in the City. After looked over Bank book & wrote letters. Printed 150 blues & after lunch developed plates taken Sunday. 20 spoilt & 2 unused. India rubber plant put out. Lovely hot day, thermometer over 70º. In afternoon after tidying & writing drove in the carriage, calling at C.C for plates & flag. To Spielman's, 14 Newcastle St, Strand. Looked over stock & selected chest of drawers. Walked to Punch dinner. Phil Agnew back. Phil May boosey & talking of Drew the bisquet makers. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, P.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, O.S there. Left at 11.0 & home by bus. Got subject of King Coal. (Red ink: Cut down India rubber plant at 5.0pm.)
Thursday April 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out on Roy's cycle. Round by Earls Court. After skemed subject of King Coal. Sent Otley to May's. At 11.0 photod Stace for King Coal & developed & enlarged. Work up to 7.0pm. Dressed & left in carriage to Mr Henry Thompson's. A very dull dinner. Sat next Sir Trevor Lawrence. Mr Justice Mathew. An ass of a Sir Something next me, never spoke one word all dinner. Fk Greenwood Dean of St Paul's & that is all I knew. Very dull. Left at 11.0 & home by carriage. Freda had left the electric light burning in dining room. Roy out at Pavilion & he called Garrick & had a talk with Chudleigh & young Hicks. Mistake about Bernard Partridge's photos. Freda never gave them to boy. B.P had to wire, sent Otley. (Red ink: Very dull dinner at Sir Henry Thompson's.) (Red ink across page: 1st night of Guthrie's 'The Man from Polankley's')
Friday April 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on Roy's cycle. Went round Park. Met Bertie Gibbs. Home. Bright but colder. All day at work on King Coal. Finished at 8.30pm. Mistake in sending it to the Boltons. F.C.B's letter came too late. Roy dined at Midge's. Dined by self & rest in dining room after. Roy back 11.30 by carriage. Bed. (Red ink: Chatham 2nd Preference went up 3 or 4.)
Saturday April 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & out on Roy's cycle. Went thro' Holland Rd & up Notting Hill. Great changes. F.C.Coombes 17 Princes Road No.6. Back 9.0 for breakfast. Roy to go to Oxford this
34 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 afternoon. Wrote letters etc & put phos away. Printed blues of Renishaw. Got off in cart at 1.25 & to Charing X. Down to Red Hill. Pugh met me with butcher's cart. At Glovers 4.0pm. Mr Marriott there. M & Baby well. Walk round & at 6.20 cycled to Crawley & round by Lowfield Heath home. Put up a gun for rats but did not shoot. M & self dined quietly. Very sleepy after dinner & cold. Much colder. Bed 11.15. Slept well. (Red ink: Came down to Glovers at 4.0pm. Newson planted cuttings from india rubber plant.)
Sunday April 28 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.20 & out on seat over the water. Breakfast 9.20. Baby amusing. Bright but cold. The whole morning writing many letters. Lunch. After took M with Ricky for walk thro' the wood & to Greenings. Back over fields. After wrote more letters & at 5.30 cycled into Crawley & posted them. Post goes out at 7.30pm on Sundays. Thro' Rusper, dangerous hill. Took the 2 dogs & tried to get a rabbit. No good. Dinner 8.0. After to bed 10.30. M in Nurse F's room. Slept well.
Monday April 29 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 7.30am. Bath & packed. Breakfast 8.30 & off with Nurse & Baby & M in victoria at 9.20. Drove to Red Hill. The belly band got away from the shaft. Steep hills. Caught train by a few minutes & up to town. Otley met me. Called C.C & Standens & then on home. Changed. Wrote letters & lunch. At 2.0 left & by bus to R.A Varnishing Day. Long afternoon there. Saw Abbey, Mrs Perugini etc. Incident of Sargent's picture of Sir George Sitwell. Recognised the commode & tapestrys. Out 6.0 & home by bus. Changed. Roy dining out with Hogan. Dined by self & went in cab to the Shaftesbury Theatre & saw a stupid piece called The Fortune Teller with a girl called Miss Neilson in it. Felt unaccountably sleepy & heavy & not well. Went straight home in the carriage. Bed. No smoke.
Tuesday April 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out round Gloster Road & up Queens Gate (never again) on Roy's cycle. Back breakfast. After in morning wrote letters etc. Man putting up shelves etc. Lunch at 2.0. Off by bus & to C.C & Garrick. Called May's. Got Pierrot costume. At 3.30 photod B.J for Pierrot etc. Interrupted at 4.45 by another wanting Studio. Out 5.0 & after to Bath Club. Good Turkish bath. Saw Roger Wallace. Out & by bus 1d to 42 Ashby
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Gardens. Dined at Lucy's. Sir Redvers Buller, Mr & Mrs Chamberlain, Miss Balfour, Sir William Pollett, Mr Fletcher Moulton, Mr & Mrs Harry Lawson, Sir Edward Sassoon. Interesting talk with Chamberlain, about pyramids & theatres, & to Sir William Pollett. (Red ink: Mrs Lucy's dinner to meet Chamberlain.) (Plan of table seating) H.W.Lucy, Miss Balfour, Sir Redvers Buller, Mrs H.Lawson, Fletcher Moulton QC, Mrs Lucy, Mr Chamberlain, self, Sir W.Pollett, Sir E.Sassoon, H. Lawson, Mrs Chamberlain. Home by carriage. Called for bags at Bath Club. (Red ink across page: The Lucy dinner after Turkish bath.)
Wednesday May 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10.Out for walk round Campden Hill. Gave Roy cheque, also servants wages. After all day writing my revised report for the Paris Exhibition 1900. Dear M back at 6.20. Just missed her as left for the Punch dinner by bus at 6.15. Called at Spillmans. Then to P.D. F.C.B, self, A à B, Lehmann, Owen S, Phil A, B.P, E.T.R, Lucy, A.G first time since 20 March. Good dinner. Got cut of St John Broderick & Labourer. Left early for home. M not yet in bed. (Red ink: Punch dinner. M back from Glovers at 6.20pm.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Robert Leake.)
Thursday May 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Wrote letters. Sent Otley off to May's for costume, did not come back until 12.30. Annoyed. Model came, Mr Browning. No good. After a man from Nash's. Photod Otley & Nash's man & Browning for Labourer & Sergeant. Developed. Got all ready by 4.30. Worked from 4.30 to 7.15. Left in carriage & dined with Mrs Mount Batten, Mornington House. Took a Miss Scott Batty in. Also Sir Kenneth Mackenzie. Good dinner & good company. Sir K.M told me about Maud Easton. She was 19 when sitting to me in 1891. Just married. Very interesting. Mrs M.B was a Mrs Picknell before. Conrad Cooke told me all about her on Sunday following this. Her husband died 6 months after marrying her. (Red ink: Dined at the Mount Battens.) (Cutting glued in: Death of James Raggett.)
Friday May 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After got to work on drawing of Agricultural Labourer & Mechanic & St John Broderick as recruiting Sergeant. Finished at 8.30pm. M & self dined quietly. Roy dined at Hogans. Roy's last day in the City with Mr Devitt. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. Very tired. (Red ink: Roy
36 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 leaves Mr Devitt.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Lady Gladstone, wife of Sir Thomas Gladstone.)
Saturday May 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. After wrote letters. After got ready & left with M at 11.45 in carriage. Drove up to the Prince of Wales's Theatre & got 2 stalls for 'The Man from Blankleys'. Then to Academy Private View with M. Lots I knew. Talk etc. Out & to Criterion. A poor lunch. Curious parti carré next to us. Dark girl & dark man. Out 2.40 to Prince of Wales's Theatre & saw The Man from Blankley's. Good. Hawtry A1. Miss Bateman good. Out & back to R.A. Saw Conrad Cooke. No, saw him in morning. Had sent Lucy's home in the carriage at 12.30pm. Got fruit & salmon. Wrote letters & put things away. Dinner. M, Roy & self the 1st time since (blank) Quiet evening & bed 11.30. (Red ink: Royal Academy Private View. Went to matinée of 'The Man from Blankley's'.)
Sunday May 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0 xx. Breakfast & after Roy & self went at 10.20 to Victoria. Down to Dover. Met Douglas Gordon in train, & on boat Conrad Cooke with a friend, a doctor. Good lunch. Overcharged. Paid F51.20. Also met Spearman. Back after seeing Payton. Up to town by selves. Slept all the way. Dinner, M, Roy & self. Read The Man from Blankleys. After to bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: Roy & self crossed to Calais & back. Met Owen Seaman & also Douglas Gordon.)
Monday May 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Very sleepy. Cycled round Park & met Gibbs. Back. Roy late for breakfast. After in morning wrote letters, aranged for dinner on 21st. Developed 3 doz plates Miss Langley & Miss Hall. Trained the jasmine & vine on wall & rose tree. Lunch. Roy off at 3.0pm for Chichester. Developed 2 doz more plates. Tea. Had rested for an hour after lunch, 3.0 to 4.0pm. Callers. After dressed & went with M to dine at the Fairfax Rhodes's. Took Mrs Playfair in. Delightful talk to Mrs Mordaunt Snagge. Home with M in carriage. Paper & bed. (Red ink: Roy went down to Chichester for training. M & self dined at the Fairfax Rhodes's.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of John Hartree. Marriage of Louis Paul to Mary Blanche Vicat Cole.)
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Tuesday May 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Earls Court. After all day putting things straight, developing etc etc. The tub with champagne cases etc caught light & burnt up. Great difficulty in putting it out. Quiet day all day. Did not go to see Mr Hackett. M & self dined alone & bed after snooze. Coldish.
Wednesday May 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Park. After all morning & day putting things straight etc. Left in afternoon & by bus to call at 6.30 on Mr Hackett about Pall Mall magazine cover. A very nice man. On to Punch dinner. Dressed. F.C.B, self, R.L, Wm Agnew, B.P, E.T.R, A.G. Very small dinner for the time of year. Got cut of Gorst. Left at 10.45 & home all way by bus leaving Partridge’s cut not settled. Left Punch dinner & took cab to the Royal Society & attended the conversatione. Long boshy talk with Crompton. Saw Roger Wallace & others. Wonderful sea animalcula giving light from bottles. Home at 11.30 by bus from Royal Academy. (Red ink: Went to the Royal Society.)
Thursday May 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am & cycled round. No, went for a walk with hand camera to the back of Kensington Square & took about 8 backgrounds for cut. Found what I wanted. Back & skemed subject. Had developed the hand camera plates when Otley came back with gown & cap for drawing of Gorst. Photod Otley & 2 small boys. Developed & enlarged & by 8.30 had nearly all outline in. M & self dined quietly & rest after. Bed 12.0 after snooze. (Red ink: Very heavy rain & dark in the afternoon. Enlarging apparatus got very wet.)
Friday May 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out on Roy's cycle. After all day at work on Street Boy & Gorst. Finished at 7.0pm. Roy back from Chichester at 6.0pm. Dressed & in cab to dine at the Anderson dinner at the Whitehall Rooms. Sat next Willie Forbes. F.C.B, Lucy there etc. Many I knew. Good speeches by Lord Selborne & Sutherland & Lord Ruthmore. After got away & home on top of a bus. Saw Threlfall & he promised to send me some '42 brandy. Also Mr Dillon Croker looking frightfully old. Read & to bed at 1.30am. (Red ink: Got work done & dined with the P & O. Sir Thos Sutherland and the Anderson dinner.)
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Saturday May 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.0am & packed etc & after breakfast at 8.15am got off in a bus with M at 9.15am. At Great Central Rly much too early. Comfortable carriage down to Sheffield. Changed for Eckington. Ass of a porter never put out our luggage. Had to be wired for. Stanley Howlden, Margery & Arthur Linley & Tatters met us at station. Drove up to the Hall. Had tea. Shot at some stupid iron things let off by 'Nick' an old uncle. After shot at rooks. Self got 8 with shot gun. Altogether about 70 were got instead of 400 as Howlden had said. Back. Dressed leisurely & a good dinner. Took Mrs Howlden in. Mr & Mrs Allen, Stanley Howlden, Arthur Linley, selves & a terrible old uncle & aunt. Game of pool after. Divided one & starred 3. At 2nd won 1d. Bed at 12.30am. Huge fires. (Red ink: M & self went down to Renishaw. Boshy rook shoot.) (Red ink across page: Went for 2nd time to Renishaw Hall.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of G.H.Macdermott.)
Sunday May 12 Renishaw Hall. Up at 9.0am. Breakfast 9.45. An almost perfect day. Cloudless & hot all day. After in morning up to 1.0 took photos. Mr Allen, 2 Mr Howldens & Arthur Linley walking around. Terrible old uncle. A heavy Corp dinner luncheon at 1.30 to 3.30. Took champagne & Port wine. Out again & took a few more photos. Having given the dining room 1 hr exposure went down to lake. Tea & at 5.30 Arthur Linley, M & self were driven to Norton. Lovely drive. Saw church, Jordanthorpe & Bole Hill. Back at 8.0. Dressed & supper dinner. After close game of billiards with Arthur, beat him by 8. Bed at 11.15pm after whiskey. Opened Apollinaris & sat in chair in my room. Huge fires. (Red ink: At Renishaw. Photod all day & drove to Norton in the evening. Coldish.)
Monday May 13 Renishaw Hall. Up at 8.0 & down 8.45. Saw them all off, Mr & Mrs Allen & Arthur & Stanley Howlden, also Mr Howlden. Had opened the door where prayers were read. After M & self breakfasted. Then strolled round grounds & took 10 photos & one in the hall. Read 'She'. Refreshments & off by 12.10am, self walking with Margery to station. Poor Tatters. Left & to Sheffield. Lovely day. Coldish wind. Caught the 1.41pm back. No carriage to selves, M & self in luncheon car. Good lunch. Polite man with papers. Otley met us. Home in bus. Freda had completely broken the glass dish of centre piece. Changed plates & put photo things right. Wrote
39 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 diary. (Red ink: M & self returned from Renishaw Hall. Lovely hot day.)
Tuesday May 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Tired. Out round Park on Roy's cycle. A lovely morning. After developed all photos taken at Renishaw & also ½ doz of Sir William Pearce's yacht taken 1893. No good. Lunch. All afternoon dating & writing labels for naval series with Foxes next labels. Wired to Alexander. After dined at 7.30. Confusion getting off to theatre. Had good hansom & drove to St James Theatre getting there at 8.45. Mr & Mrs Burnand there. Saw a stupid play by Esmond called 'The Wilderness'. Silly. Back home by carriage & to bed at 12.30 after reading paper. Man from Maples finally put the Empire candlesticks right. (Red ink: M & self went to see 'The Wilderness' at the St James's Theatre.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Geoffrey Millais to Madeline Grace. The wife of Moses Woolland, of a son.)
Wednesday May 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.25am. Cycled round Earls Court. Saw the whole of Tattersalls house down, flats to be built. Back. Breakfast. After M & her allotment for the B.G.S. Wrote letters. Printed a good many Renishaw prints. Lunch. After developed 18 of Mrs King. The harlequins unaccountably spoilt. Put room in order. Lovely day all day. M out in carriage. Went on putting things straight until 5.30 when dressed & left by bus for the Punch dinner. Pretty girl got out Bond Street with deep voice. Called Clarks. Robey the singer had bought the swords & (illeg) there. Sir W.A, L.B, B.P, P.M, F.C.B, self, A à B, R.H, & R.L. Cut made up quickly. Self got Grandfather Clock. Left & home on top of bus. Guthrie had influenza. (Red ink: Beautiful weather.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary George Conquest. Wed 15 May.)
Thursday May 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Cycled round Park. After got ready & schemed cut of Clock & John Bull. Got Emma's clock out & Stace came at 11.30. Photod him & clock & got all developed by 4.0pm. Worked till 6.30 when dressed & went with M to a very bad dinner at the Café Monico. Tabs there & Edgar & Sophy. Went after to the Hippodrome. Missed the Alhambra & offended Slater. Back in carriage leaving Tabs at the Berkeleys. Bed 12.30. A wasted evening. 2 chests of drawers came in from Spillman's at
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5.30pm. (Red ink: M & self had a very bad dinner at the Café Monico with Edgar & Sophy.)
Friday May 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & walk round Campden Hill. Met a model. No good. Round by Holland Walk & hard at work all day on drawing of John Bull & Clock. Finished by 9.0pm & sent it off. M & self dined by ourselves. Very tired & done up.
Saturday May 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Very tired. Did not go out in the morning. Put things straight etc. Otley sent to Midge's to put Dora off going with M to the Schwanns. Rest after lunch. At 5.0 went on cycle to Brentford & to Zion House. Twickenham & home thro' Richmond Park. Met man next door driving. Saw the chestnuts in full bloom at Bushey. Lovely. A splendid little girl for a model at Putney. Wish had found out. Home 7.45. Girl going fast along Fulham. Caught her up. After had very good dinner & enjoyed it. Snooze till 12.30 when to bed. M seedy. (Red ink: Went for cycle ride to see the horse chestnuts at Bushey.)
Sunday May 19 Stafford Terrace. up 9.0. A lovely morning, no wind. M in bed. Put wine right & electric lights. After developed 6 Mrs King in Union Jack & 6 plates taken June 1893 of Sir William Pearce's yacht. Wrote reminders for dinner on Tuesday. After dressed & left in carriage at 1.40 & lunched at Mrs Pirie's. Sat next Mrs Carlyle, a very charming American, & a Professor. Very good lunch. Back in carriage. Mr Molesworth there. After at 4.45 went on bicycle with raquet to Sir Alfred Hickmans. Played several sets with Sir H & young Hickman. Slow. Cap & Mrs Galloway called. Poor little Miss Trench ill with diptheria. Back at 7.30. Dressed & M & self dined quietly. Rest & snooze after. (Red ink: Lunched at the Pirie's. 1st day's lawn tennis at Sir Alfred Hickmans.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary James Pratt. B & W May 13, 1901.)
Monday May 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Park. After all day putting things straight etc. Man came from Treloars & put fresh felting down on stairs. Round table put out. M in bed. Wrote menus in afternoon etc etc. Dressed & left at 6.0 for the Punch dinner. Went up by bus. Called Camera Club. 2 letters & walked on past Lincolns Inn Fields to Bouverie St. Met Lewis the bronze
41 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 man who gave me a cigar. To Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, P.A, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Made up cuts quite easily. Self got Hicks Beach as Country Gentleman accosting Miss Economy, or rather Miss E accosting him. Left 10.45 after talk & by bus all the way home. (Red ink across page: Punch dinner earlier for Whitsuntide.)
Tuesday May 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled right ound Park. No, went to Boltons & saw F.C.B. On steps, going to have operation. Home. Schemed subject. Sent messenger boy for costume. Carriage at 10.30 & Evelyn Coward went & kindly shopped for me at Whiteleys. After at 1.0 stood for me as Miss Economy. Also Otley at 1.20. Got plates & enlargement by 4.0 & on to work till 7.0pm. Saunders & another came at 8.0. Dinner to 10 men & self. All went off well, good dinner etc. 4 magnums of Ayala '84 drunk, 3 bottles of '74 & 1½ Chateau Y'quem. Most left by 11.0pm. Galbraith 11.30. Fildes stayed on talking till 1.0am. Self got to bed at 1.15am. Very tired. (Red ink: Home dinner to 10 men & self. Great success.) (Plan of table seating) C.E.Galbraith, Col Lucas, H.W.Lucy, G.W.Wolff M.P, Hon Schomburg MacDonnell, self, Sir Norman Lockyer, Dr Conan Doyle, Luke Fildes R.A, W.K D'Arcy, Sir A Hickman M.P. 11 can just be squeezed in, 10 is much better. (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of J.Fletcher Moulton to Mary Henry- Davis. Marriage of Charles Regnart to Edith Pitcher. Marriage of Arthur Short to Ethel Maas.)
Wednesday May 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & cycled round past Kensington High School. After got on with drawings of Sir Michael Hicks Beach & Miss Economy. Worked all day & finished at 8.30 when M & self dined quietly by ourselves & bed after. Mrs Bosanquet came to rechauffé lunch & swallowed Chateau Y'quem & food. M took her in the Park after.
Thursday May 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.40 & down after dressing leisurely at 7.30. Breakfast. After went by bus to Charing X. & down with 3 others to Dover. On board saw Cap'n Dixon & Sir Edward Reed. Xd also long talk. Lovely crossing. Pretty fair girl with large mouth like Florence Toole. At Calais only ¼ hr to get lunch & cigars. Back on boat again. Met Lennie & Mite from Paris. Lovely trip back. Woman clinging to a man. Decks wet. Got carriage for them
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& up to London. M on platform. Lennie just missed his train by a minute. Drove home with M. Otley had broken his whip over the mare. Dressed & went walking over Campden Hill by 2d tube to the Messels. 10 minutes late. Had sat down to dinner. Next to Mrs Farquharson & Mrs Simmonds. Fair dinner. After long talk to Simmonds about M.Easton. Mrs Sington quite distant. Back by 2d tube & by Campden Hill. Home, read paper & bed. (Red ink: Went over to Calais to meet Mite & Lennie. Dined at the Messels.)
Friday May 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out on cycle. Went round Kensington Square & after to Messels to ask how Muriel was. Saw Ruth & Mr Messel. Home. M going to Glovers. Put things straight etc & after lunch at 3.30 M left. A great difficulty in getting a cab. Back in room & put things away. Dated blues etc. Dined by self at 7.30pm. After went by cab to Empire & saw Yvette Guilbert & a Butterfly ballet. Got a chair in dress circle. To Garrick & home by carriage. Tired. Bed at 12.15am. (Red ink: M left for Glovers. Went to the Empire Theatre.) (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Sydney Stonham, of a daughter. Death of Sydney Stonham.)
Saturday May 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Did not go out. After breakfast wrote Otley's cheque & put bags up. Left by cab at 10.30am & to C.C. Photod Miss M.H & Miss E.W. Out at 1.0 & to Garrick for lunch. Saw Jones & Whitby etc. Coffee. Walked down to Charing X with bags. Otley met me. To Horley, no to Red Hill, where Pugh met me. A great fire had been at Red Hill. 2 men got into the train at Croydon, one like Webster had a shop ablaze. Drove to Glovers. M, Lennie & Mite & the Hohlers playing croquet. Miss Venning there. They left 6.30pm. Went into field & dogs ran a rabbit to earth. Dug it out. A doe in young. Dinner. Curious liquor. Pianola. Sleepy after. Bed 11.0. M did not sleep well. (Red ink: Paid Cole £1.0.0 for Garrick sweep. Came down to Glovers.)
Sunday May 26 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.45. Bath. Breakfast with Lennie & Maud. Frames & boxes put out. A dull dark cold heavy morning. Horrid. After Lennie Mite & M went to church. Wrote letters & cut slips out of 'Times'. At 12.30 left in 4 wheel dog cart for Nymans. M, Mite & Baby & Nurse in brougham. After lunch read The Ivory Gate & felt very sleepy. Walked with Lennie to the wood & Keepers Cottage, lakes etc. Little duck ill with eyes closed. Left
43 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 after tea & home thro' Peas Pottage, Coldham etc. Diner. Pianola after & bed 11.0. Slept well. (Red ink: Went over to Nymans.) (Cutting glued in: Death of James Brander.)
Monday May 27 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.45. Bath. After breakfast sat about & read all morning. Looked at pigeons etc. Lunch. A band of yokels came on to the lawn & played. Lennie & Mite went to play croquet at the Hohlers. Left on cycle at 4.30 exactly & took 1 hour to get to Horsham station. Lovely ride back through Rusper. Home 7.0. Conrad had arrived. Went up into fields & got a little rabbit. After dinner pianola. Unpleasant about man servant refusing to do work. Lennie upset. Bed at 11.0pm. Slept well. (Red ink: Cycled to Horsham. Conrad came to Glovers in afternoon.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Hilderbrand Harmsworth, of a son.)
Tuesday May 28 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 7.30. Bath. Gave it up to Lennie. Lennie off for 1st time since Friday April 12th. Letter from Roy. No good my going to Chichester. In morning wrote diary etc & after at 12.30 cycled into Horley. Got time table etc, Times. Back. lunch. After rested & slept in Lennie's room on acct of the heat on lawn. At 4.30 tea. Read about Pompeii. At 6.0 met Mite & Lennie. Walk round the fields. Dinner. Pianola. Bed 11.15pm. (Red ink: Quiet idle day at Glovers.)
Wednesday May 29 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 7.45 & down breakfast. Frightfully hot. Lennie off to City. Wrote letters etc all day. In afternoon drove in the victoria & caught the 4.41 train. Changed at Red Hill & got to Charing X at 6.30pm. Otley met me & drove to the Garrick. Had drawn a horse called William 3rd. Walked thro' Covent Garden. To Punch dinner. Tenniel came looking older. Told me he was breaking up. F.C.B, J.T, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, L.B, B.P, E.T.R, A.G (better). Got subject of Good Old Li & the Downy Dowager. Home on the top of a bus. Pretty girl in front. Rain came on. Felt giddy from smoking. Went straight up to bed at 12.0am. Rained all night. (Red ink: Left Glovers for town.)
Thursday May 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Seedy rather. Cycled round Park. Sent Otley to Lincoln & Bennetts & Cording & Mays. At 12.0 photod Stace & Otley for China betting subject. Developed & got
44 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 all ready by 4.0pm. A dull dark grey morning wuthout sun. After worked all afternoon to 8.15 when dined. Went by cab to Alhambra & saw La Tortojana & ballet. Home by carriage from the Garrick Club at 11.45pm. Bed. (Red ink: At work in town by myself. Went to Alhambra in evening.)
Friday May 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & cycled round Earls Court. After got to work all day on drawing of Empress of China & Good Old Li. Finished at 9.0pm when dined by self. Too tired to go out afterwards. (Red ink: Work all day. Did not go out. Very tired.)
Saturday June 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Did not go out. Breakfast. A tailor from Barkers called. No good. After put things away & squared up. Felt very tired. Dear Mite came at 12.45. Lunched & at 1.45 we left in carriage & drove to the Temple & witnessed the marriage of Miss Lopes & Archibald Bence Jones. Saw Lady Blomfield & the Crackenthorps, also many others. Drove home. Called C.C. Changed & drove on to Victoria. Caught the 5.3pm down to Horley. Saw Mr Marriott at Victoria. Arrived Charlwood, Conrad & Lennie out gardening. Rain set in. Good dinner. Champagne. Quiet evening & pianola after. Bed 11.15. (Red ink: Went with Mite to wedding of the Hon Susan Cordelia Lopes & Mr Archibald Bence Jones. To Glovers after.)
Sunday June 2 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 9.0. After down. Most lovely morning. Delightful idle day. After lunch went on cycle & posted a great many letters (30) at Crawley. Back 10¼ miles in one hour at 6.15. M, Mite & Lennie, Conrad, self, Nellie, little Vic & Ricky went up to Greenings. Back at 6.30pm. Dressed. Quiet delightful dinner & evening. Bed 11.0pm. Caught my heel in the door & broke the skin. (Red ink: Quiet day. Cycled to Crawley. Answered advertisements.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Walter Hancock to Ada Hollebone. Obituary of Lt C.V.Keyes. Times July 16th.)
Monday June 3 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. Lennie off. Got letters. Wrote letters. Got off by 10.15 from Charlwood for Horsham. At H 11.20. Ginger beer. Left cycle & left H at 11.45 for Chichester. Arundel Castle. Lovely. Roy met me. Had a pony trap up to barracks. There 1.0. Excellent lunch. After saw men at physical drill. Called
45 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 on the Col & his wife & after a smoke & talk strolled with Roy into the town. Called at a shop & saw lovely old cross & went in to the Cathedral. Met Major Scaife. Left after talk with Roy by 5.24. Gentleman in train asked about Horsham Hotel. Left at 6.40 & cycled thro' Rusper to Glovers. A mile shorter by Rusper. Back 7.45. Dressed. Dinner M, Mite, Conrad & self. Lennie & Nipper back at 10.15pm from Volunteering. Bed 11.30. Col Kilgour, Major Scaife, Major Farrell, Captain Meaken, Captain Selmer, Captain Hawper, Lt Humphrey, Lt Thos Luscombe. (Red ink across page: Went down to Chichester to see Roy. Lovely summer day.) (Cutting glued in: Death of General Wolff.)
Tuesday June 4 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.0. Lovely morning. Lennie & Nipper off. M & dear Baby on lawn. Baby amid buttercups. Wrote letters etc. Magnificent weather. After all day read & wrote letters. Lennie back. He & Con watering plants. At 7.30 dressed. At 8.0 Mr & Mrs Ansdell dined. Champagne. Sleepy after dinner. They left at 10.45. Smoke & bed after. (Red ink: Ansdells dined at Glovers.) (Cuttings glued in: Murder of Captain Keyes. Advertisement: Young lady wanted to sit for costume studies...... Apply by letter only, E.S, 23 Charing Cross Rd.)
Wednesday June 5 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 7.50. Breakfast. Lennie away. Got ready after & cycled at 10.15 to Reigate. Conrad going with me to Ansdells. Derby Day. Lots going. Lovely weather. Called at Wooley's & got 2 plates & a dessert service. Back to town & Otley met me taking cycle. After to Garrick Club to lunch. Excitement as to William 3rd winning. Stopped in smoking room. Jones, Joe Carr, Scoones. Young Collard there. At 4.0 or 3.45 Cole came in & said Vladovski had won, my horse 2nd. Wrote M. To Bath Club & had hair cut. Called after at Briggs & got umbrella & parasol. Met Cap'n Moon. Punch dinner after stopping at corner of Chancery Lane. Sir W.A, L.B, B.P, E.T.R, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, O.S (back). Tenniel querulous. Got cut of Canada. Cut made up for Partridge of Tenniel's banquet. Otley took me home in cart. (Red ink across page: Derby Day. Vladovoski won. Got £18.5.0 second horse Garrick sweep.)
Thursday June 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled to Redcliffe Gardens. Saw No 17. After Lillie Bridge & back home. Breakfast. Sent Otley to
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Mays & wiring. At 12.30 photod Miss Langley for Canada & Lilford Delph for Brodrick. Developed & got them ready by 4.0. Tea & at work. My tooth hurt me very much. Sort of gum boil. Dear M back at 6.15 from Mite's. Dined quietly M & self at 8.30pm & bed quietly after. (Red ink: Tooth very painful.) (Cutting glued in: Participants in the Derby Stakes.)
Friday June 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Cycled round by Lillie Road & home Nevern Square. Wrote many letters. After at work from 10.30 to 7.30pm on drawing of Canada & St John Brodrick. Finished 7.40. Dressed & left by carriage & dined at the Johnson Fergusons. Took a Lady Evans in. Mr & Mrs Pilkington there. The Dixon Hartlands etc. Tooth bothered me. Home with M in the carriage. Lanced my gum. Bled very much. Smoked cigar & bed at 12.15am. (Red ink: Dined at the Johnson Fergusons. Met the Pilkingtons.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Thomas Bond.)
Saturday June 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled to Chelsea Embankment. Back. Breakfast. Lovely morning. Put things away. Left at 1.30 with M in carriage & saw 'The girl from up there'. Not so bad. Poor Edna May fainted at end of last act. Put M in carriage. To Garrick Club, had tea. After walked thro' covent Garden to Drury Lane. Back & home by bus. Met old Hume Williams in bus. 79 years old. Called Butts & home after. M in room. Had been to Midge's & Spofforths. We dined quietly together & quiet evening after. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self went to see 'The Girl from up there'. Edna May fainted. Met old Hume Williams in bus. A bore.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Thomas Bond.)
Sunday June 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am & walked in & out of Terrace, Essex Villas & Phillimore Gds. Back. Breakfast. Lovely morning. After cycled as far as the Earls Court Ex'n. Back. Up in room & put things straight. Edgar & Sophy called. M & self & E & S went in bus to Hyde Park Corner, I paying. Walk in park & home by cab. M & self lunch. Rest. After on cycle at 4.45 to Hickmans, played till 7.20 when home & dinner. M & self dined quite quietly. Rest & bed after. (Red ink: Played tennis at Sir Alfred Hickmans by self.) (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Charles Ganthony, of a son. Death of Robert Wantage.)
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Monday June 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out on cycle round Earls Court. After in morning skemed Index. At 1.0 whistled for Otley & took 2 photos of me. After lunch. At 2.0 left Edgar who walked with us & M & I went to entrance of Exhibition. Back. Sent Roy £15 in notes. In afternoon went on to work on Index. Drew in Stonehenge. M & self dined quietly together & bed fairly early at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Began Index for Vol 120.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Walter Besant; long obituary.)
Tuesday June 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Cycled round by Redcliffe Gardens. Arranged for sitting. Back. In morning worked on Index heading. After dear Mite came at 12.45. Lunch together. Left by bus & up to Garrick Club at 3.0pm. Called May's. Got cheque for £18.4.9. for portion of Garrick sweep. Saw Bangs, Judge Snagge & after Hugh & Cyril Spottiswood. Left & to C.C. at 3.30. At 3.45 photod Miss M Haydon, good model, for French Republic. Out 4.30. Wrote letters at Club. Left costume at May's & to Punch dinner. Phil A, B.P, H.W.L, A.G, E.T.R, F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, R.L, O.S there. Got subject of General Muddle. Left at 10.45 & home all way on top of bus. Lennie just gone to bed. (Red ink: Punch dinner earlier.)
Wednesday June 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Bath & cycled round Bayswater. Lennie off to business. In the morning schemed subject & after at 12.15 photod Stace for Genl Muddle. Otley had been for the costume at May's. Developed etc. Rain in afternoon. Rested an hour & at 6.30 got ready to go to the Tenniel Banquet. Lennie & I left at 7.15 & drove in cab there. Heaps I knew. A remarkably good dinner. Lennie & Mr James Speyer. Delightful speeches by Mr Choate & Arthur Balfour. Left at 11.20 & looked in at Burnands on our way home. Took Mrs Harry B in. Cold damp tent. Miserable. Left & home in cab. Bed at 2.0am. Poor Tenniel broke down. (Red ink: The Tenniel Banquet. Lennie went with me. Admirable in every way.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Robert Buchanan.)
Thursday June 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out on cycle past Kensington Sq at 8.50. Little girls schooling. Back breakfast. Lennie off at 9.45am. Wrote letters. Evelyn Coward here at 10.45. Strong west wind. Leader in the Times about Tenniel Banquet. Went on to work all
48 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 day on drawing of Old General Muddle & War Office. Left in the afternoon & went up to the Garrick Club to try & forward Lennie's election. Saw Jones, Tree, Marshall Hall, Garner etc, also William Stone. Also called at Barkers on my way back to be fitted. Looked in to a Café Chantant. Saw Mrs Smale. Back to work. M & self dined quietly. Wire came at 6.30 to say Lennie not elected. Very much annoyed. (Red ink across page: Lennie not elected at the Garrick Club.)
Friday June 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & down breakfast. Lennie off to the City. Went out at 9.30 for a walk & met Miss M.R. Likely to be good sitter. Back home at 10.10 & all day at work on drawing of Old General Muddle. Finished 8.0pm. Roy came up from Chichester at 5.30pm & had tea. Finished drawing at 8.0pm. All dined together, Lennie, Mite, M, Roy & self. Tried the Australian wine & after quiet evening & bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Roy back from Chichester.)
Saturday June 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & cycled round Park. Back breakfast. Lennie off to Glovers leaving Mite. In morning worked on Index. In afternoon went up to the C.C. Changed plates. Saw Joe Carr at the Garrick. Appeared annoyed at Lennie's non-election. Home by bus & M & self dined at the Cameron Corbetts. Took rather an aesthetic lady in to dinner like a Burne Jones picture & sat next to Mrs Parke Smith. Mr Elliott there. Rude wife. Home 11.15. Lennie & Mite went to see The Girl from up there & Mite stood Roy a supper after. Home by bus from Strand Law Courts. (Red ink: After M & self went to dine at the Cameron Corbetts.)
Sunday June 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am & out for walk. Gave old woman 6d. In morning worked on Index & practically finished it. Rest. Roy & self went in a cab to play tennis at Sir A Hickmans. A very good player there name of Mears. Beaten every set. Quiet dinner M, Roy & self. Mite went back to Glovers at 11.30am, Roy taking her in fly. (Red ink: Roy & self played tennis at Sir Alfred Hickmans.)
Monday June 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Cycled round by Earls Court & Redcliffe Gardens. After in morning sent the Index off & began the tail piece at 4.0pm & began the title page. Looked out photos. Roy
49 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 out to dinner. M & self dined by selves. Quiet evening. Roy back very late. Dora came in afternoon at 4.0pm. Took 4 photos of her. She dined with M & self after quietly. (Red ink: Photod Dora in morning dress.)
Tuesday June 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Something wrong with cycle. Walked round Campden Hill & met Mr Chesterton. After all day scheming title page. Rested & pottered all afternoon. A letter from Brightmore saying Preface next week. Very much annoyed & put out. Wrote to Alan & Co. Left at 5.45 in carriage for Richmond. Got there 6.40. Dined all Punch staff together. Poor dinner. Baby & Nurse Francis came up at 3.0pm. Roy went back to Chichester at 7.30. (Red ink: Alderman Sir Whittaker Ellis's dinner, Punch Staff.) (Plan of table seating) Ald'n Sir Whitr Ellis, Mrs Burnand, Phil Agnew, Mrs Raven Hill. Romer Williams, Mrs Reed, self, Mrs A.B, Sir W.Agnew, Lady Ellis, F.C.Burnand, Mrs Sambourne, E.T.Reed, Raven Hill, A à Beckett. Home 10.45 by carriage. Wrote letters after.
Wednesday June 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.15 & down in yard & enlarged Britannia before breakfast. After got to work all day on Britannia. No, in morning got up at 7.30 & enlarged the Britannia etc for Title Page. Hard at work. Decided to do the Dove & Britannia. Mite to lunch. Had to give up going to judge drawings at S.K. Lunch 1.15. Took cab to C.C at 1.45 & at 2.45 photod Miss M.R for studies. 1st sitting. Left 4.0 & home 4.15. Tea & worked till 6.30. Wrote letters etc. Left by bus. Wet. To Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, O.S, L.B, B.P, H.W.L. Talk of Tenniel Banquet & left by bus 10.45. Home to bed. Locked Lennie & Mite out & had to come down. (Red ink: Ought to have examined drawings at South Kensington. Hard pushed to get Title Page for Vol 120 done. 1st sitting of M.R.)
Thursday June 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Worked 1¼ hours before breakfast. After skemed subject of Campbell Bannerman piping & Harcourt as Welsh Woman. Sent Otley to Scot Adie's. Went on with drawing of Britannia & Dove & got outline complete. At 12.50 photod Otley as Scotchman & as Weshman for Harcourt. Developed etc & got all ready. Back at work again at 5.30 to 8.30 when finished the Title Page. M & self dined quietly. After at 11.15 walked round to the Kensington Palace Hotel & was at a Ball given
50 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 by George Agnew for coming of age of his son. Saw heaps of people, the Lewis's, Mrs Lanarch etc. Took Mrs Forbes Robertson in to supper. A very pretty daughter. Introduced Lockett Agnew to Mite. Left at 1.15 & walked home. Bed at 1.45 very tired. Lennie & Mite with us. (Red ink: Fletcher wrote asking me to join the Joyeuse on Saturday.) (Red ink across page: Ball at the Empress Rooms. Coming of age of George Agnew's son.)
Friday June 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Tired after last night. Cycled round Redcliffe Gardens. After all day at work on cartoon of Campbell Bannerman playing Pipes. Got at it 10.15am & finished 9.30pm. Rather bothered with head of Harcourt & C.B & did not like drawing when finished. Dear Mite, M & self dined at 9.45pm. Bottle of champagne & had fan blowing it was so close. Very tired. After bed 12.30. Electric light burning. (Red ink: Hard at work all day on Campbell Bannerman as Scotchman playing Pipes. Shortest time this year of doing a cartoon.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Admiral Sir Anthony Hopkins. Death of Charles Hulse.)
Saturday June 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Walk round Campden Hill. Very close & stuffy. Back. Wrote letters & tidied room. Mite packing to go home. All morning putting things away. Lunch at 1.0 & Mite left at 1.30. Rested an hour & then dressed. Went up by bus to C.C. Met Mr & Mrs Spofforth. Photod R.M for sleeping Britannia. Out 6.30 & home by bus. Dressed & left 7.55 for dinner at the Braunsteins. Mr & Miss Moberly Bell etc. Remarkably good dinner & very pleasant company. Lost 15/s at bridge. Oh! Kept carriage 2 hours & home 12.30. Snooze till 2.0am. (Red ink: Mrs Braunstein's dinner. Very good.) (Plan of table seating) Mrs Braunstein, Mr Moberly Bell, Mrs (blank) L.S, Miss Gardiner, Mr Braunstein, Mrs S, Mr (blank) Miss Moberly Bell, Metaxoseek Chargé d'Affairs. Frightfully hot evening. (Cutting glued in: Obituary Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins.)
Sunday June 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.30. Breakfast. Walked in & out of terrace, Durham & Essex Villas etc. A S ½ gale blowing. Wire from Fletcher for Conrad's address. Developed last week's plates etc. Rest after lunch & at 5.0 went up to Hickmans. Little Miss Trench out in garden. Played Sir Alfred 5 single sets of lawn tennis. Beat him by 4 sets to one, or 5 sets to 1. Left 7.0 & home on bicycle. Not a soul had called. M & self had a quiet peaceful evening & bed
51 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 at 11.30 after reading. (Red ink: Played single sets against Sir A.Hickman. Beat him 4 or 5 sets to one.)
Monday June 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Earls Court. After got on with drawing for Vol 121. Enlarged the sleeping figure & all photos of Miss M.R taken on Wednesday last. Put Punch in armour in etc & the general outline. At 7.30 dressed & M & self went in carriage to most excellent dinnner given by Mrs Medley. Took a Mrs Hutchinson in to dinner. Sat next a Mrs Beit. Left at 11.0 & home by carriage. Mr & Mrs Lester Reed senior there. (Red ink: M & self dined with Mrs Medley & a most excellent dinner too.)
Tuesday June 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Earls Court etc. M preparing for her at home. Busy all morning. Mite up at 12.0 with roses etc. Worked all morning & part afternoon on drawing for Heading Vol 121. Went down at 4.45 & M had 80 people. Huge at home for us. All went off very well. Miss Gardiner came. Went on to work after seeing the Partridges later. Dined 8.30 on cold collation. M, Mite & self. M very tired. Great credit to her. (Red ink: M's at home day. 80 people came. A great success & all M's managing entirely.)
Wednesday June 26 Stafford Terrace. UP at 8.15 & cycled the reverse way down Earls Court & past Boltons etc. Met Freddy May. Back. Breakfast 9.10am. After all morning at work on drawing for Volume 121 & lunch at 1.30. Left 1.45 & cab to C.C & Garrick. Got change for cheque & saw Phil Agnew. At 2.45 photod M.R for 2nd time. Likely to be good useful figure. Much better. Out 4.30 & went on to Bath House Piccadilly. Too late for marriage of Miss Euan Smith. Missed M. Took champagne on top of tea which subsequently upset me. After to Athenaeum Club, 1st time since April. Then to Punch dinner. F.C.B (not well) Sir J.T, self, A à B, R.L, O.S, P.A, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Most came in very late. Got cut of Boar Hound & Balfour. Left at 10.45 & home by bus. Lennie & Mite had dined at the Pollocks. (Red ink across page: Miss Euan Smith's marriage.)
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Thursday June 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30am. Worked one hour on drawing for Heading Volume 121. Got up with pain in S & violent indigestion. Uncomfortable until after breakfast. Lennie off to the City. Skemed subject of Balfour & Boar Hound. Sent Otley to May's for costume & at 12.15 photod him. Tabby & Gwen came to lunch. Gwen grown a very nice looking girl. Developed & enlarged. At 4.30 back at work on the drawing for Volume 121. Finished it at 7.15pm & went on with the other. After M & self dined quietly at 8.30pm. Lennie & Mite dined with Mr Geiger. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Edward Man. Death of Stephen Ram.)
Friday June 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.20. A pain in S & violent indigestion, same as yesterday morning. With great difficulty did an hour's work before breakfast. Lennie down late & upset at not having been called. M could not blame her maids. Up in room & at work all day from 9.45am to 9.0pm when finished drawing of Arthur Balfour & Boar Hound. Dined after shaving & dressing at 9.25, M, Mite & self. Was very tired after, nevertheless took Mite to Lady De la Rue's at home. George Grossmith & many others, Judge Bacon etc etc. Left at 1.15am & home. Smoke & to bed 1.45am. (Red ink: Took dear Mite to the De la Rues at home. Very tired & done up.)
Saturday June 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.40. Very tired. Walked with paper round Campden Hill. Mite packing to go away. Lovely morning. Wired to not use Studio. Put things away all morning. Dressed & much astonished to find Roy turned up at lunch. He went to the Wimbledon lawn tennis. After M & self left in carriage & went to the Criterion Theatre & saw a Japanese play played by Japanese actors. 2 plays, the Knight & the Geisha & another. Out. Put M in carraige. To the Garrick & after to the C.C where changed plates etc. Took plates home. Called Butts & to S.Terrace. There 7.45. M & Roy & self dined. Roy left & out at Hogans. Violent thunderstorm at night. (Red ink: M & self went to see Japanese play together.)
Sunday June 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.15 & out. Close morning after the thunder shower. Wandered with Observer in & out of Terrace & sat down in Holland Walk. Back. Breakfast at 9.45. After wrote
53 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 letters etc etc all morning. Lunch. Good bye to Roy. Rest & at 4.45 went on cycle & played many sets of lawn tennis. His grandson & self against Sir A & his son. 2 sets all, 4 sets. No, beaten by 5 sets to 3 in the end. Jules Mumm '74 wine for cup. Left 7.15 & home by cycle. Roy left at 5.45 for Chichester. Heavy rain all night.
Monday July 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. X. Out for walk round Campden Hill. Breakfast. Letters. Filled in Income Tax paper for £820 & sent Otley with it. Close hot muggy morning. Could not find any means for last 2 years of filling in papers. After developed 14 plates & 8 of Miss Haydon. M out in carriage. All afternoon trying to scheme the Almanack page. No good. Very good drawing of mine in Punch. M & self dined quietly at 8.0 & peaceful evening after. Letter from F.C.B about my opening page of Volume. (Red ink: Dull muggy weather.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Bessie Waring.)
Tuesday July 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & out in gale to end of Radcliffe Gardens. Back breakfast having met Geilgud, Mrs G & Miss Casella after. Put room straight etc. M out in carriage. Dressed in frock coat at 11.45 out 12.15 & to C.C & Garrick. Lunched. Saw W.Stone. Sir C.Jessel, Jeyes etc etc. Out 2.15. Door of Studio locked & had to be burst open. Dark dull day. Study from Miss M.R. Out 4.30. Tea at Garrick. Called & paid bills at Sands & Hunters & also Turnbull & Asser. Mrs Calvert in bus. M told me bad news of dear Baby. Floods of rain coming home. Mite did not come up. M & self dined quite quietly & had read & snooze after. Bed at 11.30pm. (Cutting glued in: Obituary Mrs Matthew Arnold. July 1)
Wedneday July 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am & cycled round Earls Court. Back. All day scheming subject for Almanack. Dear Mite & Baby came up to lunch & Baby went to see Dr Victor Horsley. She left in afternoon. Dressed & went by bus to the Punch dinner. Phil A, B.P, H.W.L, F.C.B, self, A à B, & O.S. Long discussion. Could not get ideas discussed of Almanack. Left at 11.15 & home all way on top of bus. (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Dion Boucicault to Irene Barnes.)
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Thursday July 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Cycled thro' Earls Court short way. Saw Nevern Square. After breakfast sent Partridge his photos & skemed subject of Campbell Bannerman steering the Liberal Yacht. Sent Otley to May's & to Cordings & got photo & enlargement by 4.0. Mrs Welby in to lunch & dear Mite also. M & Mite went to Lords. Worked up to 8.30pm when M & self dined quietly. Bed after rest.
Friday July 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & cycled round Earls Court after writing Burnand rough notions for Almanack. At work all day on drawing of Campbell Bannerman steering the Liberal Yacht. Did not finish till 9.20 when dined with M & had a bottle of Perinet. Bed after very tired. Very hot all day.
Saturday July 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Very tired. Did not go out. All morning sorting Times & squaring up etc. Lunch at 1.45. M out in carriage. Left on top of bus at 2.15 for the C.C. Little girl like the Wallop family with most lovely red hair. Changed plates & on to tea at the Athenaeum. Wrote Sir Evelyn Wood etc etc. Out at 6.15 & home by bus. Again a pretty girl of 15 with hair in 2 plats would make delightful model. Dressed & dinner. M & self went in good 4 wheeler to the Court Theatre & saw 'Women are so Serious'. Very good. Ellis Jefferies, Fred Carr etc. Sir Felix Semon in box. Little lame man from Ramsgate spoke to me. Home by the carriage. Read 'The Tomb of his Ancestors' by Kipling. Bed at 1.0am. Spoilt 8 plates by leaving them open in dark room. Wore no waistcoat. Uncomfortable. (Red ink across page: M & self went to the Court Theatre.)
Sunday July 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.30am. M to remain in bed. Cooler. Otley & new rug. After sorting plates etc tried to scheme the page for Almanack. Lunch. Rest upstairs after & left on cycle at 4.45 after seeing Midge with M. Gave Midge 2 photos of Dora. Have several very good sets. Sir A & his son against a young man & self. We were beaten 3 sets to 2. Good cup. Left 7.15 & home. Quiet dinner M & self & rest after. Bed at 1.30pm.
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Monday July 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & cycled round Earls Court. Met F.C.B in the morning. Had sent ideas for quadruple page of Almanack. Letters passed to & fro. After home & got page schemed at last. All day pottering about. Got on cycle again & went to F.C.B's with letter. Broke the step to get on cycle & hurt my ancle. Caught F.C.B on doorstep going to theatre. Settled the quadruple page. Home & dressed & M & self dined by ourselves quite quietly. Bed at 11.30 after. Sent a letter to Sir Thos Sutherland in morning.
Tuesday July 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & cycled round Earls Court. All day scheming subject of quadruple page in earnest. Got it roughed out properly at last. Had thrown away a large quantity of old plates which were taken away. M in bed but I took Dora to Lady Carbut's at home. Left by cab at 7.40 & had a very pleasant dinner at the Rouths. Took Miss Carlisle in. Met the Huttons & a gentleman from Xeres, also a Wallop. Left at 12.0 after keeping the carriage waiting 1½ hours. Home. (Red ink: Dined by self at the Rouths.)
Wednesday July 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Cycled round Earls Court. After in morning went on with subject of quadruple page. M in bed. Left at 12.0 to lunch with Phil Agnew & Lawrence. Met them 1.30pm. After at 2.30 at the C.C. Photod Miss Reid for 4th time for Knowledge. Out 4.30. Frightfully hot. To Garrick. Wrote a letter or so & at 6.15 dressed. Put jacket on & straw hat & to the Punch dinner. L.B, B.P, E.T.R, F.C.B, self, A à B & O.S. Left at 10.30 & back to Club. Changed & took bag to Bath Club. At Lady Tweedmouth's at home, saw Haldane, C.B & most of the politicians of the Liberal side. Lucys, etc etc. Out & walked back to the Bath Club. Met Schomberg Macdonnell in Piccadilly. Long talk. Cab home at 12.0am. Bed 1.0. Had slight headache all day. Answer from Sir Thos Sutherland about the 'Somali' trip. No good. (Red ink across page: Lady Tweedmouth's at home.)
Thursday July 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. M in bed. Cycled round Nevern Square. Back & schemed subject. Sent cheque for £10.10 to Taylors & answered their letter. At 11.40 photod Otley & self for Split Coat. Developed & enlarged by 4.30pm. Went on to work till
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8.30, M reading in my room. M & self dined quietly & bed at 12.0 after snooze. Dear Mite lunched with us.
Friday July 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & out. Walk round Campden Hill. After wrote letters & all day at work on drawing of Campbell Bannerman & Split Coat. Finished at 7.30. Dressed & went by cab to dine at John Penn's. Mr & Mrs Lucy, lady & 2 daughters, Mr Renshaw, John Penn, self. Curious dinner. Left at 10.30. Penn's advice about 16 bore guns. Cab at corner of Athenaeum & home. Dropped my hat. Frightfully hot day. Thermometer 82º in my room. Weather changed about 5.0pm. Roy came up from Dover & went to the Eton & Harrow match. Bed at 11.30. Frightfully restless at night. No doubt that for once the Champagne got into my head. Could not get any Apollinaris. (Red ink: Dined by self at John Penn's.)
Saturday July 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 leaving M asleep. Had been very restless in the night & woke poor M. Felt very buzzy. Got away at 10.0am & up by a cab to the C.C. Photod Miss Hall & Miss Warwick for Xmas page. Cooler. Out at 1.0 & home by cab. Had to change cabs. Dear Mite at lunch. Rested 1½ hours after lunch. Cooler weather. Roy at Eton & Harrow match. After developed plates taken this morning & on Wednesday. Otley returned & could not get seats for Gaiety or the Avenue. Dined M & self & Roy. Roy went to the Alhambra in carriage. Bed at 11.30 after reading Buffalo Bill. (Red ink: Went to the Alhambra, M, self & Roy.)
Sunday July 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.40. Out on cycle at 9.10 & took note to Burnands about the Royal Society's Club. Cooler with N.E wind. After printed phos in morning. Still a little seedy. M & self lunched together. After from 2.0 to 4.0 rested & slept. Bret Harte called. Left on cycle at 4.40 & left note on Dora. After to Sir Alfred Hickman's for last Sunday's lawn tennis. Played many sets with Mr Galloway, Tom H & a young man. Left 7.10 & home on cycle. Bath. Dressed & at 7.50 Col Bosanquet, Mrs Bosanquet & D.D Bosanquet, Roy & Dora dined. Cup etc. Dozed in chair till 12.45 when to bed. They left at 11.0. Played at Hickmans 6 consecutive Sundays running. (Red ink: Col & Mrs Bosanquet dined with us. Last Sunday's tennis at Sir A Hickmans.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Ann Forbes.)
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Monday July 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & out on cycle past Earls Court, school & Nevern Sq. Back 9.15. Settled to accept Mrs Watney's invitation. After Dora came at 11.40. At 12.15 photod her for the figure of Knowledge. Mite came. Both at lunch. After a rest from 2.30 to 4.15. Enlarged until 7.0pm when dressed. Left at 7.50 in carriage to dine with Bernard Partridges. Very pleasant evening & a very good dinner. (Plan of table seating:) (Red ink: Bernard Partridge's dinner. Good.) (Plan of table seating) F.C.Burnand, Mrs B.Partridge, Sir Bruce Seton, Mrs Burnand, self, Lady Seton, Bernard Partridge, Mrs Sambourne. Stayed till 12.0 when left & home in carriage. Took Partridge poor Joe Payton's blue coat. (Cutting glued in: Marriage arranged between Dudley Marjoribanks and Muriel Brodrick.)
Tuesday July 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & cycled past school & Redcliffe Gds. Saw Nevern Sq. Back. Breakfast. Warm again. Man from Nash's called. After in morning went on with Xmas page drawing. Blazing hot. Rested after lunch. Enlarged from 4.30 to 7.0pm. Miss Rose Innes called. Dressed & M & self dined at the Ainsworths. Sat next Lady Busk. Took Mrs A in. Corked wine. Man who married Huish's sister. Left & home in carriage at 11.0pm. Smoke & bed. Talk to Sir (blank) (Red ink: Dined M & self at Mrs Ainsworths.)
Wednesday July 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Earls Court & Nevern Squre, 5 miles. After wrote letters. Took photo of Astronomical instrument in Kensington. Back. Called Barkers. M out. Lunch 1.30. Mr Bosanquet was to have come. Left 1.45 to C.C. Study from Miss M.R, 'The Lesson'. Out 4.0 & to Garrick to tea. Wrote letters. Dressed leisurely. Most awfully hot, 85º in shade. Bath. To Punch dinner. Streets hot. F.C.B, self, R.H, O.S, P.A, B.P, H.W.L, Got Bathing cut. After left at 10.15. To Garrick. Sat in hall overcome by heat. Changed & to Bath Club. Left bag. To an at home at the Grafton given by Mrs Emerson & Bainbridges. Saw many friends. Miss Carlisle, the Burns, Roger Wallaces etc, Lucys of course. Col Edis. After left at 11.50. Saw Herbert Weld Blundell at the Bath Club. Cab home. Posted letters. 5th M.R outside dress x. (Red ink: Went to Bainbridge's at home at the Grafton. Awfully hot.)
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Thursday July 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am & cycled round Earls Court. After writing letters got to work & skemed subject of Lord Rosebery & Liberal Party swimming. At 11.45 photod Lilford Delph & Otley. Developed & enlarged by 5.0pm. Up in room & got on with drawing up to 8.30pm. Intensely hot all day, 82º in room. M & self dined quietly & bed at 12.0 after snooze.
Friday July 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round Earls Court etc. After all day at work on a most successful cartoon for next week 'Deus in Machina'. Lord Rosebery & Liberal Party. Finished easily at 8.15pm. Dined at 8.30. Roy up from Dover at 5.0pm & out to dinner. M & self had quiet dinner & to bed 12.0pm after. Intensely hot all day. Thermometer 86 in room, or rather 82º. (Red ink: Roy came up from Dover.)
Saturday July 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Intensely hot all day. Cycled round Earls Court. After in the morning put things away & squared up etc. In afternoon enlarged a number of prints for Xmas page up to 7.0pm. M & self dined & after went in a cab to the Vaudeville Theatre & saw a pretty little piece called Sweet & Twenty by Basil Hood. Harry Dickens & his daughter in the next box. Very hot. Home by the carriage. Smoke & to bed. Roy went down to Arundel for his training in the afternoon. Bernand, Lucy etc went for the 'Somali' trip. (Red ink: M & self went to the Vaudeville. Saw 'Sweet & Twenty'.)
Sunday July 21 Stafford Terrace. up at 8.45am. M decided not to go across channel. Very close & hot. Left by bus to Charing X. Called C.C. Down to Dover, 3 others in carriage. Xd to Calais. Saw Cap'n Dixon & Mrs Dixon. Harry Dickens & self over together. Delicious breeze going over. There 2.30. Saw Merry W. Little waiter going for holiday, gave him 2/s. After left 3.25 instead of 3.45. Very close going back & threatened storm. Up from Dover, Dickens & self. Hezeltine got into the carriage at Herne Hill. London 7.0pm. Home by bus. M did not expect me so early. Wrote 2 letters. Dinner, cold. After M & self walked in & out of the Terrace etc. Intensely hot. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. (Red ink: X'd to Calais by self.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Samuel Pope.)
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Monday July 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Earls Court & Nevern Square. Back. Letters. After put rugs etc in yard & photod them for background of picture for Xmas No. Rest after lunch. At 4.0 tea. In yard & enlarged up to 7.0pm. M back. We dined quietly together & to bed at 11.15 after snooze. Also photod & enlarged from Poynter's picture. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Samuel Pope.)
Tueday July 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Machne in road making noise. Down. Drizzling with rain. Went for walk round Campden Hill. Empty houses. People away. After in morning wrote letters etc & went on with drawing for Xmas. M went in carriage to Stores. Left at 12.20 & up by bus to the Garrick. Lunch. Saw Carr, Stone, Sir Charles Jessel, Jones etc. Phil Agnew complimentary over my cartoon. Left after smoke. To C.C 2.15. Took study from Miss M.R for Xmas page. Out at 4.45. Talk to Thompson Lyons. Home in cab. Tea. Up in room. My boards came at last. Cut boards etc. After Col & Mrs Welby selves & Miss Rose Innes dined. 2 bottles of Lanson. They left at 11.15. Shewed Mrs Welby my original drawings. Bed at 12.0 after reading paper. 6th M.R. 1st x. Col & Mrs Welby & Miss Rose Innes dined.
Wednesday July 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Earls Court. After all day at work on drawing for Xmas page. Roughed it in on cardboard. In afternoon dressed in jacket & went by bus to the Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, O.S, P.A, P.M, B.P there. Long talk. Got horse subject & Balfour. Discussion about Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode for a subject. After left & to Garrick Club. Carriage there with coat. Went to Academy Soirée, keeping the carriage. Saw Mrs Sington, Lady Poynter, Stones, Richmonds etc. William Stone made £30,000 out of Eric's. Home & to bed. Burnand absent from the Punch dinner from today till Sepr. (Red ink: Royal Academy Soirée.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary Mrs Kruger; obituary William Monkhouse. July 22.)
Thursday July 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Cycled round Earls Court. A fine sunny morning. After breakfast skemed subject of Balfour & Horse. Sent Otley for jockey's dress. Went round at 11.50 & photod the old mare. A storm coming on. Mr Delph came 12.30. Delayed till 2.30 by frightful storm. Dark as November & lightning
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& heavy rain. Very great to do to get done. Enlarged in pouring rain. Dear Mite came at 5.0 from Littlehampton & stayed. M, Mite & self dined quietly at 8.30pm. Rest & bed after. Very much annoyed at getting cheque returned from Devereux. Went up after dinner & wrote to Sir George Lewis. (Cuttings glued in: The wife of William Hartree, of a son. Death of infant son of William Hartree. Report of affairs in Natal.)
Friday July 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Heavy wet in the night. Walk round Campden Hill. After at work all day on drawing of Balfour & Horse. Finished at 9.0pm when dined with M. Mite left in the afternoon. Quiet evening after & bed after snooze.
Saturday July 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Walk round Campden Hill. After in morning put things away & squared up. Snatched a photo from bust of Minerva after lunch. Enlarged 4 or 5 photos. At 3.30 dressed & left with M in carriage & drove to the Guildhall & saw the Spanish pictures. Put down at the Athenaeum Club & wrote to a Mr Herbert about Devereux. Out & sent cheque for £9.10.0. Home in bus. Bought plums. Roy back at 8.15. M, self & Roy dined. Quiet evening afterwards. A dull rainy day. (Red ink: M & self went to see the Spanish pictures.)
Sunday July 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.15. Walk round Campden Hill. Gave old woman 6d & got a blessing. In doubt as to Xing Channel. Did not. Got on with Xmas page all morning & put in principal figure. After lunch 2 hours rest. At 5.10 went on cycle thro' Nevern Sq & to Reed's & stayed an hour & a ¼ with him. Saw Sir Edward etc. After home thro' Melbury Road. Did 1 hour's work. Dressed & M & Roy & self dined. Bottle of Lanson. Long talk over Roy's affairs. Not very brilliant. To bed at 12.0. Strange dreams. M slept well. (Red ink: Called on Edward Reed.)
Monday July 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Cycled round Park 1st time for a very long time. Lovely morning. Poem by Rudyard Kipling in 'Times'. M packing to go to Mite's. Lunch at 12.30. Had worked & put in columns. M & Roy left at 1.15 for Victoria to go down to Charlewood. Left at 2.0 & to C.C by cab. Waited till 3.0 when Miss M.R came. Photod in costume & out 4.15 & went to Cordings,
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Lincoln & Bennetts & to Bath Club. Could not get hair cut. To Turnbull & Assers & to United Services Club. Wrote a letter & on to Punch dinner. Burnand away for his holiday. A à B, self, O.S, B.P, P.M. Got Chinese subject. Cart waiting. To Garrick Club & wrote letters. Home. Took sword & Union Jack etc from Club. Bed at 12.30am. By letter Aug 27, 28. X twice.
Tuesday July 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Earls Court & Nevern Square. After skemed subject of Li Hung & the Powers. Sent Otley to May's for a costume (Chinese). At 12.15 photod a boy Otley got for the Xmas page & the Greek helmet etc. After Otley at table & as Chinese. Developed & enlarged. Got to work & at it till 8.45. Dined by self. Too tired to go out. Bed at 12.0am.
Wednesday July 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Earls Court thro' Nevern Square. After all day at work on drawing of Chinese subject, Li Hing & the Powers. Finished 9.0pm. Dined & after Otley drove me up to the Alhambra. Saw Sir Alfred Hickman. Kept cart waiting. Whiskey & soda at the Garrick & home. (Red ink: Went by self to the Alhambra. Saw Sir Alfred Hickman.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Theophilus Bernand. July 31.)
Thursday August 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & cycled round Park. Short turn. Put all things away & after enlarged Boy & accessories for Xmas page. Lunch & got away in cart at 5.15 & caught the 5.55 for Horley. Crowded station as the King had left for Cowes. Cart met me. Cycled to Glovers. Got there 5 minutes before the party returned from Goodwood. Lennie, Mite, M & Roy, Miss Violet Phillips, Conrad & Mr Clements. Very hot & close in evening. Good dinner. Pianola. (illeg). Talk & bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Went down to Glovers.)
Friday August 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Bath. Breakfast with Lennie. He off to business. M & self arranged my little room & up at work after all day. Put in astronomical instrument, tripod etc. Went for cycle ride round by Mr Heron & home 9 miles with Lennie & rode Ricani's machine. Good dinner & bed. Pianola in evening.
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Saturday August 3 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. Bath. After breakfast. Worked nearly all day. Put in background of pillars etc. Roy off to a cricket match at Lowfield Heath at 11.0. Lunch at home. Afterwards they all left & went to the concert. I went on cycle at 6.0pm. Nettie followed me to the village & had to take her back. Violet Phillips left at 2.0pm & Mr & Mrs Hemming came in the evening. Saw cricket match or end of it & introduced to a Mr Hennessy. Miss Vanning. Trap did not come for M & Mite etc. Cycled round by Horley & found them all back home when I got back. Dinner 8.20. Champagne. Pianola. Talk & bed at 11.0pm. (Red ink: Cricket match at Lowfield Heath.)
Sunday August 4 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.30. Bath. Read Fortune of the Rougons before breakfast. After all the morning writing letters. The others at church. Good lunch. Read & felt sleepy. Up in room & worked from 3.30 to 5.0pm. Traced tiger skin & put it in. Mr & Mrs Hohler, Miss Venning, Mr Venning, Mr Mordaunt & a Mr Dent on a motor all came to tea. M & Mite went for a run on the motor car. Left with Mr Hemming at 5.30 & cycled to Crawley & back by Rusper. Very good cycle ride. Changed & dinner. Sat next Mrs Hemming. Talk. Told Major Ricards Seavers' story. Good music. Lennie sang. Bed 11.45pm. (Red ink: M & Mite went for a most dangerous ride on a strange motor car.)
Monday August 5 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. M not very well. 2nd bath. Dear Mite's birthday. Up in room at work after breakfast. At 10.0am put in tiger skin in Xmas drawing. All left for Nymans at 12.10am. Lennie, Mr & Mrs Hemming in one trap. Con, M, Mite, Roy & Mr Clements in another. Worked till 1.30. Put Boy in. Solitary lunch. Ricani waiting. After a rest put the columns in etc. At 6.30 cycled to Crawley. Could not see them coming back. Returned along the Brighton Road & past Mr Hohler's. Troops of cyclists. Home 7.40. They did not return from Nymans until 8.10pm. Dinner. Mite's birthday. Champagne. Music after. Mite tired. Bed at 12.0am. Clements talking. (Red ink: Mite's birthday. Worked all day, rest at Nymans.)
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Tuesday August 6 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. Lennie & Mr Hemming off to the City. After got to work all day on drawing of Xmas Quadruple. Put in seat & also drew in pencil principal figures. Lunch. Roy & Con putting etc. At 6.30 cycled by self reverse way round by Mr Heron's etc. Just 1 hour. Dinner. Music after. Lennie sang. Mite not well & upset at the music & smoke. Talk etc. Bed at 11.30pm. Mr Clements left in the afternoon. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Charles Krabbe. Death of Stella Boore.)
Wednesday August 7 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. Down. Breakfast. Lennie off to City. After worked all morning on page for Xmas. Put in principal figure etc. Roy & Con putting etc. Lunch. After packed & picked some laurels. No bay tree in all the garden. Left at 4.15, Con driving me to Horley. Changed Red Hill & up to town. Otley met me. Got to Charing X at 6.40. Strolled to Punch dinner. A à B, self, Lehmann, O.S, B.P, H.W.L, P.M. Got subject Germania & Britannia. Left 10.45. Bus to C.C. Took cab with bag home. Horse fell down at Piccadilly Circus. Home by 12.0am. Letters & bed.
Thursday August 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Met cycling round park George Agnew on horseback. Told me of his wife's illness. Breakfast home. Schemed subject of Britannia & Germania. At 11.30 Miss M.Hall came & made studies, also for tomb. Had made a laurel wreath. Developed by lunch. After enlarged & got to work at 5.0pm & put in drawing & outline of weapons etc. Dined by self at 9.0pm. Read after & bed at 11.30.
Friday August 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Back breakfast. After wrote Sir E.Wood & also wrote on drawing for Lord Rosebery. At 11.0 got to work again on drawing of Britannia & Germania & the Empress Frederick's tomb. Worked all day. Put in perspective. Roy back at 5.0pm from Glovers. Worked up to 9.45 when Roy & self dined. Very tired after. Bed 12.0pm. Very close & hot. Muggy all day.
Saturday August 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Very tired. Down. Letter from Sir E.Wood & Roy's papers came in for Portsmouth. After at 11.0am
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Roy & self went to the Zoo. Photod Owls etc. Back 1.30 roundabout way as roads up. Lunch at 1.50. Developed plates. Enlarged & took Partridge's heads he lent me. Decided not to go to Glovers. Wired at 6.50. Dressed & left with Roy & to Garrick Club, calling Daly's. Had very good dinner, Ayala1889. After to San Toy. Miss Irving pretty & good, rest poor. After to Garrick. Saw Arthur & Pat à Beckett. Supper & home by cab at 12.45am. (Red ink: Roy & self went to the Zoo. Dined at the Garrick & went to San Toy.)
Sunday August 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Breakfast 8.30. Put up bags & gave Roy cheque. Paid books & Otley. After sent Otley with bags to Charing X. Left & caught the 1st 9.15am bus. Extraordinary girl inside talking to conductor. Stared. Out at Charing X. Walked back to United Services Club & got paper. Caught the 10.15am train down to Red Hill. One other in carriage. Wagonette met me. Drove to Glovers & caught them just as coming from church. Miss Clifford with Mite & M. Talk to M. Lunch & wrote 7 or 8 letters after. Rest & at 5.0 cycled 21 miles with Lennie to Peas Pottage, Horsham & back by Rusper. Saw Pucks Croft & met Weller, old coachman. After home, bath & dressed. Dinne. Music & bed. X. Vic's little puppy born, 1 alive, 1 dead. (Red ink: Went down to Glovers. Saw girl in bus.)
Monday August 12 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.30. Bath. Lovely morning after heavy rain at night. Wrote 2 wires, Wolff & Watney, & sent them off, going on cycle before breakfast. After wrote diary. In morning worked. Lennie did not go to the City. Were to have cycled to East Grinstead. Mrs Heron & an old gentleman called to tea. Too late. Cycled round up by Caryll Ansdell's & short turn home. Self went up hill & back. The Hohlers came to dinner. Champagne & music after. Small opera glass refused to work. Bed at 11.15pm. Mrs Reffell left for a week's holiday. (Red ink: Hohlers came to dinner.)
Tuesday August 13 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 89.0am. Down. Breakfast. Miss Clifford. Lennie off to City. Up to work 9.30. Mysterious message to M, Mr & Mrs Hohler wanted to see her. Thought it was Mr M senr. Poor Lennie & coachman thrown out of trap & might have been more seriously hurt at Horley. Uncomfortable. Lunch, Lennie on chair.
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Played 1 game 15 up with Miss C at raquets. After Mr & Mrs Messel called. Went up to work. Put in head of Art & Science. Tea. Cycled to post & up hill & after waiting for Miss C to play went short round reverse way. Dinner. After Miss C recited. Poses of Photographer etc. Read. Lennie to bed 10.30, self 11.15. (Red ink: Lennie & coachman thrown out of dog cart. Bond the coachman.)
Wednesday August 14 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.30. Breakfast 9.0. Lennie not down. Lovely morning. After breakfast worked all morning on Xmas Quad. Lunch. Miss Clifford ate an inordinate amount of chocolates. Thought she would never finish. Put things up & tidy & left in wagonette by coachman to catch the 4.40 train. Up to Charing X. Otley met me. One letter. To Punch dinner. A à B, self, R.L, P.A, B.P, H.W.L,. Good dinner. Got Lord Kitchener cut for self. Gave them the title of the Uncommercial Traveller. Left & by bus to United Service Club. Wrote letters. Home by bus at 12.am. (Red ink: Went up to town from Glovers.)
Thursday August 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & walk round Campden Hill. After wrote letters & skemed subject of Lord Kitchener & Tommy Atkins. Sent Otley to Stohwassers. He was a long time coming back the things having been sent to the United Service Club. At 12.30 photod Otley for both. Developed. Lunch. Minnie cooking. At work 4.30 to 9.0 when dined. Did not go out. Bed 12.0am.
Friday August 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Cromwell Road & round to find Warwick St. Close to Abingdon Road. Back. Breakfast. After to work all day on drawing of Lord Kitchener. Photo turned up at 12.0am. Finished at 9.0pm. A difficulty about the legend of cut. My yesterday's letter not posted. Dined by self on grouse etc. At 12.40am rung up by a wire from Arthur à B. Bed. Tired.
Saturday August 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0, no, 7.30. Breakfast 8.15. After wired M & decided to go by the 4.0pm train. Lucky I did. Printed blues immediately after breakfast. Put room in order & wrote letters etc. Lunch 1.15. Left by bus to the Garrick. Wrote Railway Managers & Mr Brooke. By green bus to Victoria. Otley met me with bag.
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Wrong carriage. To Horley. Newson only met me in a butcher's cart. M very angry. Took M for a walk to P.O. & wired we could not go to Nymans. Went for short cycle ride up hill & round by road to Ansdells. Diner 8.0. In little room after & read & snooze. Bed 12.0.
Sunday August 18 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 8.30. x. Breakfast 9.0am. After (illeg) & brilliant sun the entire day. Very hot. Up in spare room at 10.0am & worked on Xmas Quad till 1.30 when lunched. After read. Sat out & wrote letters. M read Memories of the Courts of Europe by Swinburne. Rested an hour. Tea. From 5.0 to 6.15 worked. Too hot in room. Took M for a walk round. Left at 6.50pm to post letters at Crawley. Post goes out 7.30pm. Back in an hour. Bath. Dinner. Read after. Bed at 11.15. Hot in the night. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Lady Margaret Ismay. Death of Harriot Arrow.)
Monday August 19 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 7.30. Breakfast 8.0. M not down till 8.30am. Roy's birthday. News of poor Lady Margaret Ismay's death in the Morning Post. Very hot again. Very hot all day. Went on with Quad after lunch. Read H.Swinburne & snooze till 4. Shifted into front room. Took out & re-drew owl. At 6.10 took M for walk thro' the wood over hill & dale. Back 7.10. Did not cycle. Dinner. No grouse. Read after & snooze. Bed at 12.30pm. (Red ink: Roy's birthday.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary Edmond Audran. Obituary Lady Arrow.)
Tuesday August 20 Glovers, Charlwood. Up 7.0 & breakfast 8.0pm. Letters. My cartoon not so good as usual in Punch. Found cycle was punctured. Worked on Quad 9.15 to 1.30. Put Boy's head in again & details. Trees etc. Lunch. Read for an hour. Much cooler & wind. At work 3.0 to 5.0. Drew little Roman urn in at 4.15pm. Tea. Expecting Lennie & Mite back. As I thought letter came from Mite to say Lennie not so well. At 6.10 took M for a walk to P.O. (forgot change) & up to Greenings & across home. No cycle ride. Dinner 8.0. Read Mrs Earle's book on Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden. Bed 11.0. x.
Wednesday August 21 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 7.0. Breakfast 8.0. Lovely morning. Mushrooms. Wrote letters from 8.30 to 10.0pm. (illeg) & wasps which have been feeding on a particular plant. After in morning
67 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 wrote letters & went on with drawing. Put in leaves of foliage etc. Lunch. Packed traps. Frightfully hot sun. Got flowers. M & self left at 4.0 in carriage, M going on to Victoria. Self changed at Red Hill. Charing X 5.40. Called C.C. 2 letters. To Garrick & after to Punch dinner. A à B, Raven Hill, Owen S, Phil M & B.P & R.L. Got cut of Madame La République & letter from Czar. Long time over Partridge's. After left. Discussion about the work of Everard Hopkins. Arthur a hass! Home by bus. M at home all right. (Red ink: M & self returned from Glovers.)
Thursday August 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. After wrote type letter & wired to Miss Hall. She could not have come, being on tour. Skemed subject of Madame la République reading letter. Selected a plate. M made a wreath of flowers. At 12.0 enlarged & took 8 phos of flowers. Bothered with slide. Spoilt 4 plates. Otley found 2 boxes of R.Field Dodgson's plates. Will try them. Enlarged etc till 4.30. Up in room at 7.0. M & self dined at 8.30pm quietly by ourselves. (Cutting glued in: Death of Robert Shone.)
Friday August 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. x. & out for walk round Campden Hill. After went on to work on Madame La République & Czar's letter. Lunch 1.30. M left with Otley at 2.0pm for Pyt House. On to work. Bothered with head & hair of Madame la République. Had sent Otley to Stores for (illeg) & photography etc. Tea. Finished 9.15pm. Dined by myself & rested after in drawing room. Vey hot. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: M left for Pyt House.)
Saturday August 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Tired. Walk round Campden Hill. No letter from M. After had hair cut & shave. Printed wreaths taken Thursday. After put in the perspective of the floor in Quad drawing. Lunch. Photod vase of flowers & also made a little go-cart of hour glass etc for Boy. Photod it. Developed. Drew cheques etc & from 4.30 to 6.30 went on with Quad drawing. Took the figure out of Science completely, it was wrong in perspective. Dressed at 6.40. Black suit. Wound clock. Dined. Sent Otley at 7.30 on to Euston with bags etc. Self left at 8.20 & drove there in a hansom, 3/s. Got there 8.50. Saw Mr Brook. Carriage all ready. Left at 9.0. Read to 10.30 when lay down & slept. Coldish at night. (Red ink: Left London for Ballechin.)
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Sunday August 25 On board train from Euston. Woke at Carstairs. Long way before one gets to Stirling which is quite close to Perth. Wash. Surley porter. Would not have him. Met Sir Wm Dalby. Breakfast with him & Prof Corfield who I have not seen since 1876. On to Ballinluig. Trap met me. At Ballechin at 10.30. Wolff. Motor car being repaired. Introduced to a Mr Harrison & also Mr Harland. Wrote letter & unpacked. Dull watching lawn tennis. Too much lunch. Uncomfortable rest after. A Mr Williams came over on a bicycle. Motor car would not start but left at 4.30, not back till 6.30. Wrote six letters. Went for walk. Heard motor in distance. Took wrong turn. After to top of wood, heavy bracken. Back 7.30. Pitheatly. Bath. Dinner. Took Toots in. After pianola & billiards. Lost about 1/3 at pool. Bed 12.30. Woke many times in night. Also a Major Robson & his wife. (Red ink: Arrived at Ballechin.)
Monday August 26 Ballechin, Ballinluig. Up 8.15. bath. Tooth hurt me. Breakfast. Wet morning. Wrote M, Mite etc. At 11.30 went to Aberfeldy on motor, 25 miles hr. Mr Schwabe, self, F.May & engineer. Delightful ride. Had to stop 10 minutes up hill to get engine to go. Back 12.45. Wrote Arthur. Put boots on. Lunch. After loafed about. Major Robson blown up. Rode white pony up hill to moor. Started shooting 3.20. Strong wind. 6 guns. Freddy May, Harland, Robson, Harrison, Schwabe, Sambourne. Almost the 1st time in life shot nothing. Missed even a hare. Left off 6.30. Home 7.15pm. Dinner. Mrs Harrison on Mrs Beecher Stowe. After a fire in billiard room. Pool. Lost 6d. Bed 11.30. Slept better. (Red ink: 1st ride in a motor car. Very poor afternoon's shoot.)
'Your year of Presidential deeds Abruptly ends this week at Leeds If fated to be dubbed or slighted May future years be un-benighted.'
Tuesday August 27 Ballechin, Ballinluig. Up 8.10. Major Robson & his wife left at 6.0am. Down. Breakfast. Blowing hard. After breakfast felt rather seedy. Thought had cold coming on. No shoot. Motor went in for a Miss Bond. Areophany. Wrote many letters. A mooching wasted morning. Started immediately after for ferreting rabbits. Got 12 for 19 shots. 2 shots at a woodcock. Mr Harland & Schwabe each got
69 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 a woodcock. Walked home by 6.15. Tea after waiting. Bath & dressed leisurely. Black tie. Took no one into dinner. The Harrisons & Schwabe's last night. In billiard room after. Beat young Harland a 50 game. No pool. Bed 11.30. Slept fairly well. Mary Bond arrived. (Red ink: Rabbit shoot in afternoon.)
Wednesday August 28 Ballechin, Ballinluig. Up 8.15. Breakfast. Mr Schwabe had left early before breakfast. Mr & Mrs Harrison left at 10.0. Letter from M & from M.R. answering queries. Left on white pony at 11.0. Harland had gone in motor. Rode to far beat, H following. Started shooting 12.0. H got a blackcock. Missed a simple bird. Too blown to be any good. Lunch by a hut. Frightfully cold wind & rain. Began to walk 2.0pm & kept on hard walking till 6.15pm. Only got 1 brace of birds all day. Harland 2 brace of grouse & 1 of black game. Home 7.30. Saw Wolff. Pitheathly. Dressed. Mrs & Miss Coates & a young man named Barker had arrived. Took Annie Coates in to dinner. Gone off. Danced after. Banjo & young B. Took one whole pool & divided another. Won 6/6. Plumped F.May's ball into right top pocket. Bed. Read Tristram of Blant. Sleep 12.30am. A very hard day. (Red ink: Letter answering queries. Shoot of far beat with young Harland.)
Thursday August 29 Ballechin, Ballinluig. Up 8.30. Tired. Breakfast. Imitated motor car. Got off after writing M at 10.30 on white pony & rode right up to far moor, getting off a mile before. Walked up with young Harland. Rest. Mr Barker, Freddy May & Mr Coates followed. 2 parties, May & self & young Barker & Coates & Harland. Only got one bird, May one also. 2 picked up. 3 brace for 5 guns. Lunch on hillside. Rain came on 1.0pm. Kept on all day. Midges. Talk to young Barker about Col Larking. May asleep. Long walk after & walk all way nearly home. No birds. Tea & bath in room. Dressed leisurely. Dinner. Took Miss May in. After match burning trick & in billiard room. Young Barker lost a lot of money over 6d on a ball in a circle. After game of 5's. May & I against Coates & Harland. We were 10 to love. They beat us 12.0 up. Barker hurt his hand. Bed 11.45. Candle burnt out in the night. (Red ink: Bad day's shoot. Very wet.)
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Friday August 30 Ballechin, Ballinluig. Up at 8.15. Bath. Breakfast. Much finer. Letter from M enclosing one from Roy & Mite. Left on pony at 11.15, Miss Coates, her brother & young Barker going. Began to shoot at 12.0pm. Got 2 very long shots before lunch & blew one bird to pieces Oh! Lunch. Black ants. Miss C went on after.Young Barker gave up & went to sleep. Got 3 more birds & a hare. Frightfully thirsty at tea time 4.45. Rested by spring. Good drink. After walk home got another bird. Home 7.0pm. Wolff had had his face lanced. Letter from M, going home. Written on Thursday. Dressed. Washed checked breeches, had fallen into hole. Dinner. Took Miss May in. Dance for ½ hour. After stupid billiard game. Young Barker lost a lot in backing number for 6 pockets. Bed at 12.0. (Red ink: Best day's shoot. Miss Coates going.)
Saturday August 31 Ballechin, Ballinluig. Up 8.20. Slept well. Fine moning. At 10.0 F.May, Mr Coates, & Mr Harland went off to long beat. Young B not up. letter from M.R. postcard & one from Lehmann. Packed & tipped. Went down at 11.10 & had delightful motor ride. Toots. M Gustav Schwabe & self & driver as far as Blair Athol. Thro Pitlochry. Wired Baby. Home 1.45. Lunch. Wasp in beer. After packed. Played 1 set lawn tennis. Miss Coates & I v. Schwabe & Miss Bond. 5 games all. Beaten by 1 point. Back 4.10. Changed. Finished packing. Tea. Wolff in hammock. After left in carriage, Miss Coates driving, at 6.10pm. Motor left earlier. Goodbye at station. Had to wait 1 hour & a quarter. Did not get to Perth till 8.20. Dined at Hotel. Met Mr Williams who was at Ballechin last Sunday. After left by 10.5pm train. Drunken people about. Slept uncomfortably. Cold in the night. (Red ink: Motor ride to Pitlochry.) Station master William Hamilton.
Sunday September 1 On board Train from Perth. Arrived Euston 1 hr & ¼ late. Otley met me. Home by 10.20. Dear M on steps. Breakfast & unpacked. Got to work at 12.0pm. Took out figures. At 4.30 took M for a walk up the Row & back. Dined quietly. Up in my little room after. Bed 11.0 x.
Monday September 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & out. Round short turn in Park on cycle. Breakfast, M & self. After to work. Put in the 2 figures of Art
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& Science again & in afternoon drew boy's toy wagon. M & self dined at 7.0 & left 7.45 in 4 wheel cab for the Comedy Theatre. 1st night of 'When we were Twenty One'. Mr & Mrs Nat Goodwin. A preposterous play, well acted. Sat next or next but one Claude Ponsonby, Mrs Tree etc etc. Fildes came & spoke. M asked him to dinner on Sunday. Left at 11.0. Some difficulty in getting cab. Home. Stupidly took whiskey. Upset me. Bed 1.30am. (Red ink: M & self went to see 'When we were Twenty One'.)
Tuesday September 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 with bilious headache. Lasted all day. Walk round Campden Hill. Back. All day at work on Quad. Put truck for boy & flowers in. Sleep for 2 hours after lunch. On till 6.20. Dressed. Dined at 6.50 & left with M in same cab to the Gaiety Theatre. Saw 'The Toreador'. Stupid. Crowded stalls. Young man like Royalty in row in front of us. Nero to the left. Out earlier. Got cab & home. Took no whiskey. Bed 12.15am. (Red ink: M & self went to 'The Toreador'.)
Wednesday September 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Tired. Gale blowing. Walk round Campden Hill. Picked up seeds like torn buttons. Breakfast. Man from Stores came about clocks. Up in room. Wrote diary. After all day at work on Quad. Felt very livery. Left at 6.0 & walked the entire way to the Punch dinner, calling C.C. A à Beckett, Owen Seaman, Bernard Partridge & self only. Very long time making up cut. Not till 11.0pm, after Partridge's. Left 11.30 & home by bus from Fleet Street. (Cutting glued in: Death of Edward Clowes.)
Thursday September 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & cycled round Park, past school. After skemed subject of 2 Emperors & Loubet. At 12.10 a model called Cox came & photod him for Emperor. M out. Mite's dressmaker at work. Developed & enlarged & began work at 4.30pm. Worked to 8.30, M reading in room. Dinner. Last grouse & bed 12.0am. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Henry Weld Blundell. The wife of Hamo Thorneycroft, of a daughter.)
Friday September 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round short turn. Band playing. Wrote letters till 11.0. M in bed. At work all day up to 9.30 on drawing of German & Russian Emperors. M & self dined quietly. Bottle of old Heron, thin claret. Bed 12.0 tired.
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Saturday September 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Walk round Campden Hill. Picked seed up like a button with threads. Put all photos away etc & after developed all back plates in tray in hut, also 3 films. Delighted with films. Up in room after. Worked from 3.30 to 6.15 on Quad. Began to shade. Dined 6.35 with M. Had a partridge. Left at 7.30 & by cab to Apollo Theatre. Met L.Fildes at door. Saw Kitty Grey. Very good. Only the 2 Rubens's that I knew at all. To Garrick. Sat fom 11.30 to 1.30. Supper. Kendal, Joe Knight, another. H.B.Irving & Arthur Gill, Fildes & self. Left at 1.30. Home & to bed 2.0am. Very tired. News of attempted assassination of President McKinley. (Red ink: Fildes & self went to premiere of Kitty Grey.)
Sunday September 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Very tired. Went for walk round C.H. After in morning put 3 or 4 letters for journey north & after printed blues developed yesterday, M.R etc. Lunch with M. After photod green vase. Went into lavatory & forced my last double upper tooth out. Perfectly sound & good but could not bite on it. Developed 1 doz plates taken May 25th, Miss H & Miss W. Up in room. Tried to rest. Dogs barking etc. Very close & hot. After began the shading of Quad page. Worked from 4.30 to 8.0pm. M & self dined quietly after. No birds. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Lost my last double tooth alas.) (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Arthur Pollen, of a daughter. The wife of E.B.Sclater, of a son. The wife of Harold Stringer, of a daughter. The wife of Ernest Thorn, of a son. The wife of Tristram Ellis, of a daughter. The wife of H.O.Vincent, of a son. The wife of James Whishaw, of a daughter.)
Monday September 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Cycled short turn round Park. Cart in the way in Hornton St. After in morning wrote letters & at 10.30 went on to work at Quad page. Shaded heads of Truth & Justice. After lunch developed 1 doz plates of Mabel H & Miss W taken May 23rd. (May 25th) Rest & went on with drawing from 4.30 to 8.0pm. Dined M & self quietly & to bed 12.0 after snooze.
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Tuesday September 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am & cycled round park short turn. After all morning writing letters, packing etc. Lunch. Put photos away in order. Saw Nash's foreman. Also had printed blues developed yesterday. Tea. Had my hair cut. Back. Refilled the Hypo pots. Up & dressed & M & self dined at 6.10, sending Otley off in a 4 wheeler with luggage to Euston. Left 6.50. Dispute at door about a 4 wheeled hansom cab. Freda had gone out & got a nondescript ½ hansom & ½ 4 wheeler. Very comfortable. To Euston. Squared luggage with a little difficulty. Talk to Mrs Brook & got off 7.45. M laid down at once. Read with magnifying glass till 11.0 when went to sleep. Slept fairly well & woke at Kingussie. (Red ink: M & self left London for Tressady.)
Wednesday September 11 On board train for Inverness. Woke 7.45, Kingussie. Made breakfast off cold coffee etc. Inverness at 9.15. Coupé reserved. Waited an hour. Bought papers. Left 10.20 & arrived Rogart 1.40. Letters & drove to Tressady. Lady M, Rosalind & Sylvia & a little Aberdeen terrier named 'Stingo'. Lunch. After rested in smoke room. M lay down till 7.30. Richards & Vernon came in, had been stalking for a stag. Tea. At 5.30 to 7.0 walked to spring & the back of the hills. Saw 4 lots of grouse. Moved table. Wrote diary. After took Lady M into dinner. Game of guessing 2 words, M very bad at it. Bed 1.15. M slept well. Roy came up from Portsmouth. Finally left the Regulars. (Red ink: Arrived at Tresady for last time.)
Thursday September 12 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0. Breakfast 9.0am. After got off at 10.0am in break with Rev A.K.Douglas. Drove to the Brora. Long walk up hill. Began to shoot 11.30. Got 1st bird. After various grouse & self a lovely blackcock. Lunch. Shot very well. Got 5 birds one after the other without a miss. 18 brace altogether. Self got about 14 brace including the blackcock. Left off 6.15pm. Drove home. Long milk & soda. Bath & dressed. Dinner. Next Lady M & Sir R. Wycroft. Game of Jacobi after. Very tired. Smoke & bed 11.0. Restless. M did not sleep well. Eat a biscuit in the night. Roy went down to Glovers. Felt seedy rather in the morning. (Red ink: Shot with Douglas. Good day.)
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74 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 ber 13 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.0. Breakfast 9.0am. After goodbye to Rev'd A.L.Douglas who left 11.20 & train past 12.15pm. Went up to a large room in the front & worked on Quad all day. Vernon & Richards shot 114 rabbits. Wycroft went fishing. Ryle arrived in the afternoon. Lady M, Rosalind & M went with Sir R.Wycroft, who did not fish after all, to the Games at Lairg. Not back till 7.0pm. Letters. One forwarded from M.R. Went for walk down drive before dinner. Dinner. Claret. Talk after. No games. Bed 11.15pm. Slept well. Game sent off to Mite & Mrs Burnand. (Red ink: Worked all day.)
Saturday September 14 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Checked suit. All started 10.0am. V.W, Ryle, Sir R.Wycroft, Richards & self went to woods for black game. Strange. 8 got out of 2nd wood. Lovely black cock. Self got 2 & 1 grey hen. After walked by lock. Shot a snipe. Nelson went into the water. Lunch & talk of South Africa. On after to old wood of rainbow. 2 roe deer shot, 1 by Wycroft & 1 by Vernon. After walk over the hill home. Back by 4.45. Tea at 5.0. News of McKinley dying. Lady M & M went to call on the Minister. Poor Stingo lost. Wrote 5 or 6 letters in big room. Dressed at 5.30. Bath. Dinner. Took Lady M in. Good dinner. Went up for small cigars. Game of bridge after. (Red ink: Blackcock day.)
Sunday September 15 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0pm. Dream of being an unpopular Prime Minister. Breakfast 9.0. Stingo came home. Had been at the clergyman's. Went up in room directly after & worked all the morning up to 1.30pm. Put in Fig tree, Globe & Owl. Lunch. After talk to Sir R.R & Ryle. At 3.0 a game of cricket with the children. M played. Carried stump out both innings. After up in room again. Put in horoscope. After waited for letters. Only one. News of President McKinley's death. Went for walk round warren & through wood. Rain tapping. Saw Mrs Murray & a pretty young girl. After back 6.30pm. Dressed. Colder at night. Good dinner. Cold beef. After guessing game. The Zambesi Highlanders. Bed 11.10 after smoke. (Red ink: Cricket on lawn after lunch.)
Monday September 16 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast 9.0. Discovered wrong shadow in Rivière's picture of Lions. Started 10.0am. Sir R.R, V.W, self & Richards & walked the Forkins & 2 small locks. Snipe
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& duck. Self got before lunch 2 hares & 2 birds. No, 1 hare & one after lunch. Long day's tramp. Shot in all 3 grouse, 2 hares & 2 rabbits. Same wood beaten as on Saturday. A hawk shot. Back 6.0pm. Tea. Bath. Wrote letters. Ryle left at 12.0 noon. After good dinner. Champagne. Game of bridge after. Not sleepy. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Long tramp for very little shooting.)
Tuesday September 17 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Dull & cloudy. Breakfast. After at work on Quad. Put in central figure & head. All day at it. Lunch. Graphophone after. Waited for letters. Worked from 3.0 to 5.30. Put in line background. Walk with Vernon up to seat in wood. Wrote letters & cheques. Dinner. Bridge after. Felt very sleepy. Sleepy in smoking room. Bed 11.30pm. Was completely bowled over by Nelson going to wood. (Red ink: Worked all day.)
Wednesday September 18 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Bath. Breakfast. Richards to fish at Lairg. Up in room & work at Quad. Shaded boy. Almost in despair over it. Got it right at 12.0pm. Lunch. Letter from Mrs Burnand. After Lady M, M, Sir Richard & children went for drive. Told V go south Monday or Tuesday. After back to work on Quad till five 30. Lady M gave me a piece of cloth for a shooting suit. Went for walk with Sir R.Rycroft round burn. Wrote letters & cheques. Richards got 2 fish. Dinner. Sir R.Rycroft's last night. Good dinner. Took claret. Haunch of venison. Bridge after. Lady M & self & Vernon & Richards & Sir R.R. Bed 11.15pm. (Red ink: Worked all day.)
Thursday September 19 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. M slept well. Had been raining in the night. Down 8.45. Read Daily Telegraph. Breakfast. Good sole. Vernon & Richards went to shoot. Sir Richard Rycroft left at 11.20. Up in room & at work on Quad. Put in tiger skin, floor & background. A long day. Lunch. Lady M, M & self went for walk. Work again at 3.0 to 5.30. Put in pillars 2nd shading feet etc. After tea out for walk over moor. Same as on Wednesday 11th. New moon. Back & wrote letters etc. Dinner. Took Lady M in. Small round table & a fire. Game of bridge after. Bed 11.30. M's hand hurt her from wasp sting. (Red ink: Worked all day.)
Friday September 20 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.15 & bath. Breakfast. Smelts. A blowy windy morning. In doubt as to shooting the Brora. Richards
76 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 decided not & we went rabbit ferreting in morning in wood & worked round the hill where I shot with Vernon in 1895/6. Left off 1.15. Lunch. After waited for letters. Only a postcard & Store letter. Out at 3.0 & back to shoot. Lady M & M & Rosalind went for drive. Vernon met us on the hill at 5.30. Back 6.0pm. Tea. News of 3 guns being taken in the Transvaal. Noticed a rock to photo in a line with Keeper's Cottage beyond kennels. Bath & dinner. Champagne. Game of bridge after. Smoke & bed. M did not sleep well. (Red ink: Richards & self rabbit shooting.) (List) Total bag 56.
Saturday September 21 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.10. Breakfast. After Vernon & self left at 10.0 in break & went to Murray's cottage to shoot the Brora. Very long walk all day. Left off 5.55pm. Did not get many birds. Home by 6.50. Letters. No news from London. Champagne. Nearly fell asleep over bridge. Sleepy in the smoke room. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Vernon & self shot the Brora. Last day's shoot ever at Tressady.)
Sunday September 22 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.10am. Breakfast 9.0. Lovely day. Read book on bees. Up in room & at work. Put back shading & did the flowers. Lunch. Cricket after. Vernon self & Rosalind v.Richards, M, Lady M & Sylvia. Were beaten. I made 38 2nd innings. After back to work. Put in marbling of pillars & light on pillars. Tea. Vernon & I walked up to look at the reservoirs. Letters at 6.30 etc, news. Disasters in the Transvaal. After dinner game of letters. Single & double. Richards went straight up to bed. Talk to Vernon & good bye. Felt very wide awake. Letter from Hickman. (Red ink: Worked & cricket after.)
Monday September 23 Tressady, Rogart. Woke up at 5.0. Richards going out & Vernon. Did not get to sleep again till 6.30. Strange dream of huntsman killing dogs & G. Up 8.15. Breakfast. Lady M, M & self. Slight drizzle of rain. After tried type writer. Looked at game book. At 10.0am got to work. Took out Boy's hair. Put in hair of Knowledge etc, letters on cart etc. Lunch. After waited for post. Lady M, M & the children went for a drive to Murray's cottage over moor & had tea. Back to work at 3.30. Put in chair back shading, Owl's rest etc etc. Knocked off & packed it up at 5.5pm having worked at it here 7 full days. Out after tea & walked towards the manse. Saw break.
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Got in. At 6.10 went for last walk over the hill. Put the gull & curlew together. Back by burn. Good bye to hill. Bath. Wrote diary. Dinner. Lady M, self & M. Game of number patience after. Smoke in smoking room. Sat there till 11.45pm. (Red ink: Last day Tressady.)
Tuesday September 24 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.15 & breakfast 9.0. After wrote letters etc. Man packed. Goodbye to Lady M. Met children on road. Loud people from Scotts on platform. Coupé reserved. On slowly after waving to Bonar Bridge. Saw Vernon & Richards. Gave me the Scotsman. Inverness. Saw Yates Thompson. Left & on. Tea at Aviemore. Long run to Perth. Train stopped for 20 minutes. Perth. Confusion of luggage. M said she would not dine but ate a very good dinner & drank ½ a pint of Pitheathly water. Walked about station. Train punctual. Met Col Denny in carriage. William Hamilton civil. Off 10.10. Woke 7.0. Train an hour's late at Euston. Otley met us. Home in cab. Had very good lunch of cold grouse etc. (Red ink: M & self left Tressady for ever.)
Wednesday September 25 On board train Perth to London. Woke in Hertfordshire at 7.0. Fairly uncomfortable night. M slept well. Otley met us. Train 1 hour late. Home 9.50. Letters. Breakfast. Bath. Shave. Left 11.45 for Garrick & C.C. Lunch. Saw Seymour Hicks & Joe Carr, Scoones etc. After at 2.15 to C.C. Too dark to photo. Out at 3.45. On to A.W.Miles's. Walked back to Garrick by 5.0. Met M.R & a lady in Regent Street. Tea in Liberty's. Wrote letters till 6.15. Wash. Changed collar. After bought 2 bags at Moss's. Walked to Punch dinner. Phil Agnew, F.C.B, self, R.H, O.S, P.M, H.W.L, Anstey Guthrie, back 1st time since June 26th. Long discussion after. Got a John Bull cut. Left at 10.30 & home outside an omnibus. Roy back home. Bed 12.0. Had to have breakfast by the electric light, so dark. (Red ink: Back to London.) (Cutting glued in: Silver wedding, Henry Dickens to Marie Roche.)
Thursday September 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Cycled round Park. Had to go by Knightsbridge on account of the Park under repair. Back 9.10. Saw Roy 1st time since August 11th. Most lovely sunny morning. After skemed subject of John Bull waking up Salisbury. Sent Otley to May's. At 12.15 photod Stace & O. The sun nearly off the yard. Developed & got to work on outline at 4.0. Worked till 8.0. Dined,
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M, Roy & self, at 8.15pm. Talk & bed after. (Red ink: Did good drawing of John Bull waking up Lord Salisbury.)
Friday September 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. x. Out on cycle round Earls Court. Met F.C.B. 19 Redcliffe Gardens to be let. Back & at 11.0 after writing got to work all day. Finished drawing at 9.10pm & sent it off. M, Roy & self dining. Excessively tired. Bed 12.30 after snooze. Very warm & close weather.
Saturday September 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Very tired. Did not go out. Roy off to City & M packing to go to Glovers. Wrote many letters. Came across my mother's tin box. After put things straight. M packing. Lunch. Very tired in afternoon. M left for Glovers with Otley at 3.0pm to catch the 4.0pm train. Rest till 4.30 when worked on Quad. Scratched out for flowers & put Punch on the jar. Dined at 6.30 & Roy & self left in cab at 7.35. Called Bath Club for Lennie. Found him at the Arts with Uncle Marcus. Said goodbye as he was going to Perth. Left & on to the Garrick Theatre. Had box to see 'Iris', a most powerful play. Mr Ash very good as Amaldanado. Out & to supper at the Garrick. Met Furniss who was attending a supper party. Left at 12.30pm & home by cab. Foggy. (Red ink: Roy & self went to see 'Iris'.)
Sunday September 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45, breakfast. The most beautiful day I ever remember at the time of year. Brilliant sun all day. Roy & self started on cycles for Glovers at 10.45, arriving Reigate 1.40. (Sutton 12.15.) Good lunch at the White Lion. Curious people. My cigar case stolen off the table by a German waiter. Left at 3.0 & at Mite's 3.50. Very hot & tired. Dear M's birthday. Mite a little seedy. Bath & dressed. Very good dinner. Champagne. M, Mite, Roy, self & Conrad. Music after & bed, 11.30pm. M slept with Mite. Restless at night. Strange dream of acrobats. (Red ink: Roy & self cycled to Glovers. My cigar case stolen.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Marie Underdown.)
Monday September 30 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.0. M came into my room. Went down to see Roy off at 8.30. Breakfast. After wrote letters, Mrs Cameron Corbett etc. Walked to Post Office with M. Talk of drains of house. All the children poisoned. Lunch at 12.0 & at 12.45 Conrad drove
79 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 me with cycle to Reigate. Very hot & muggy. Came across Captain Marshall at the station. Up to Charing X. There 3.30. Otley met me & took cycle home. Walked (calling at C.C.) to a W.Miles, 12 Brook St. Frightfuly hot. Clothes tried on. Back home by bus by 5.15. Tea & worked till 7.45 on Quad. Put in flowers. Roy & self dined 8.0 & left at 9.15 & by cab to the Alhambra. Saw some wonderful cycling, round a fence. Back by bus by 12.30. Thick misty fog. Bed 1.0am. (Red ink: Back home. Roy & self went to the Alhambra.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Frederick Waddy.)
Tuesday October 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Roy down. Gave him cheque for £20. Cycled past school girls etc. Breakfast. Cold. Wrote many letters till 12.0 after. Lovely morning. Worked all day on Quad drawing. Put in hair etc. Dined 6.30 & Roy & self by cab to Lyceum Theatre to see Sherlock Holmes. Mr Hogan came into large Box A. Saw young De la Rues in stalls. Out. Roy & Hogan went off somewhere. Called Garrick. Lipton. No race. Home by bus & bed. (Red ink: Roy & self went to see Sherlock Holmes.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Edith Roose.)
Wednesday October 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Pouring rain. Went for walk round Campden Hill. Got very wet & had to change things. No, this was Friday next. Still it was wet. Worked on Quad in morning. Lunch & took cab after to C.C. At 2.30 photod M.R for classic. Failure. Dark. After out at 4.0 & called Briggs & got a shooting rest. On to call at dentist, Hepburns & then to Garrick. Wrote M who had wired not coming till tomorrow. To Punch dinner. A à B, self, O.S, P.M, H.W.L, A.G. Good dinner. Got cut of Brodrick & home on the top of a bus. Roy out. Kept me awake making a noise. He went to the Empire Theatre.
Thursday October 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round C.H. After in morning schemed subject of Brodrick & Yeoman. Sent Otley to Stohwassers for hat. Photod O & man from Nash's at 12.0 & developed & enlarged by 3.0pm. Up in room & on at work. Dear M & Mite came back from Glovers at 5.30pm. Quiet dinner, M, Mite, Roy & self. Roy arguing with Mite. Bed at 11.0pm. (Red ink: M & Mite back from Glovers.)
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Friday October 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. After work all day on drawing of Yeoman & Broderick. Finished easily at 6.45. Packed. Dined M, Mite, Roy & self. Got off at 9.0pm with Otley & cab to St Pancras & went down to sleep at the Lamb Inn, Ely. Could not get to sleep on acct of the ¼ hrs chiming. At last did about 2.0am. Got very wet in walk & had to change my things. Roy went to Albert Hall in my 4 wheel cab to hear Sousa's band. (Red ink: Went down to Ely to go on to Hockwold after.)
Saturday October 5 Stafford Terrace. Called at 7.15. Breakfast 8.0pm. Good. Took photo of Inn & off by train 8.47 for Lakenheath. Brougham met me & drove to Hockwold Hall. Lawrence, his brother, Mr Walter Burns, Mr Drury, Mr Graham Stuart & self guns. Phil Burne Jones & also Mr Nevil there. Started 10.0am. Good shoot all day. Delightful lunch in tent. Shot about 33 head, 240 got altogether. Heavy wet at the finish. Home. Tea. Mrs Lawrence & Mrs G.S long time to dress. Good dinner. Bridge playing after. Bed at 11.15pm. Tired. Slept well. (Red ink: Good day's shoot at Hockwold Hall.)
Sunday October 6 Hockwold Hall. Up 8.15 & down. Breakfast at 9.30. Heavy wet up to noon. Drew an umbrella & self in Mrs Lawrence's book. Out at 12.30 with camera. Churchyard etc. Lunch at 2.0pm. After left with Mr Drury at 3.45. Thunderstorm. Train to go to Liverpool Street. Tried to wire. Pleasant journey. Otley at L.S. Cab home. All well. Edgar, Sophia, M, Mite, Roy & self dined. 2 bottles Perinet. They left 10.45. Very cold after dinner. Bed at 11.30. Tired. (Red ink: Up to town & back home from Hockwold.) (Cutting glued in: John Broadwood & Sons registered as a private limited company.)
Monday October 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round & called to enquire how F.C.B was. (illeg). A bird outside. After all morning & afternoon on Quad. Took out hair bodily at 6.0pm & put it in again. Shaded grey dress for centre figure & put figures on Owl pot. At lunch Roy came back feeling ill. Sent for Dr Orton who sent him to bed. M, Mite & self dined together & bed after snooze. (Red ink: Roy very seedy.)
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Tuesday October 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & out on cycle by school. Roy in bed all day. Dull day but warmer. All morning at work on Quad. Finished it at 1.15 & packed it up. V & C never sent at 12.0. Wired at 2.0pm. From 2.0 to 4.0 developed plates taken at Hockwold Hall & of M.R. After tidied room & put phos away. M, Mite & self dined. Snooze after dinner. Bed 12.45am. Roy better this morning. I am thankful no developements. (Red ink: Finished Quadruple drawing for Punch Almanack.)
Wednesday October 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Lovely morning. Bright sun, strong west wind. Roy in bed still. Cycled round by school. Called on Mr Burnand. Better. Wrote to Mr Matherson for passes etc. After left at 12.0 & by bus to Bond St. Behind a girl I could not see. On to Mr Hepburn's at 9 Portland Place. Had wax model taken of my mouth. Left & to C.C & Garrick. Had a hurried lunch. At C.C 2.15. At 2.45 Miss M.R came. Not well. Out at 4.0 & on to Bath Club. Had a Turkish bath & then strolled on to Punch dinner calling Moss's. Phil Agnew had seen my drawings at the Garrick. Punch dinner was overtaken by Lucy. Phil A, A à B, self, R.H, O.S, P.M, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Got subject of John Bull & the new Ameer of Afganistan. Left after a talk with P.A & O.S about my Quad drawings. Home on top of bus. Roy still in bed. (Red ink: 1st called on Mr Hepburn, dentist.)
Thursday October 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round by school & Earls Court. Back. Schemed subject of Ameer & John Bull. Sent Otley to May's & after at 12.20 photod Stace & Otley for picture. Developed & enlarged. A fine morning. Mite & M busy. Roy in bed still seedy. Worked from 4.30 to 8.0pm when dined. After at 11.30pm Lennie returned from Scotland looking very well. Got to bed 12.30pm. (Red ink: Lennie returned from Scotland.)
Friday October 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out. Got on cycle & off again & went for walk. Lennie about & to lunch. Mite & he went out. Worked all day. Mr Hogan called on Roy & Mabel Wallace. Lennie & Mite left at 3.0pm. Went on to work & finished drawing at 7.15. Dressed & packed things. Dined 8.10pm. Tilda had arrived. Prawns. Left in a 4 wheeler for Glovers. Only caught my train at
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Charing X by a minute. Bond met me at Red Hill & drove to Glovers. Lennie & Mite up with a Bull puppy called Bill. Bed at 12.30. Did not get to sleep for ages. (Red ink: Went down to Glovers after dinner, driving from Red Hill.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Major-General Frederic Cotton.)
Saturday October 12 Glovers, Charlwood. Called 7.0am. Very tired. Down 8.20 & after left 8.50 in wagonette, Bond driving. To Nymans. Picked up a Mr Elliott. Got here at 9.45. Picked up dear Baby. After started to shoot. Beaters etc. 4 guns. Rev'd Stephen Boyd, Mr Elliott, L & self. Lovely hot day. A youth called Firth joined us. Asked to be intoduced to me. 47 in all shot, self got 7 pheasants, 7 duck & 10 pigeon. Left off at 5.0 & on to house. Felt the walking up hill. Tea. Little girls about. Dr Parker there. Left with Mr Elliott 6.20 & dropped him at Crawley. On home. Cold. Got to Glovers 7.30. Dressed & dinner. No dress things left by M, taken up to town. Good dinner. Champagne. Very tired & sleepy after. Fell asleep in drawing room. To bed at 11.0 & slept well. (Red ink: Good day's shoot at Nymans. Slept at Glovers.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Major-General F.C.Cotton.)
Sunday October 13 Glovers, Charlwood. Up at 8.45. Down 9.15. Very tired. Fine morning. Felt rather seedy in the morning. Wrote ½ a dozen letters, to Midland Rly, Johnson-Ferguson etc & left on cycle at 12.10 to post them at Crawley & to wire. Could not wire. Nipper came over to lunch. After we threw assegais. He left at 3.0pm. At 4.0 Lennie, Mite, Con & self & little Vic went for walk in the wood. Tea after. Read Catherine 2nd of Russia. Hot & stuffy in the little room. Dinner. Good. Music after. Talk in little room & bed at 11.15pm. Slept well. (Cutting glued in: Death of Spencer Brunton.)
Monday October 14 Glovers, Charlwood. Called 7.0am & down 8.0. Packed. Put a little silver inkwell in Lennie gave me. Very pleased with it. Goodbye to Mite. Left 8.30 & Con drove to station. Up to Victoria. Tom Hohler in train. Cab home by 10.30pm. M in bed with a cold. Roy better. Fine day. Photod a child for my picture. Developed & enlarged after lunch. Sent Otley to Stores for cartridges etc. Wrote letters after. After got on with drawing of heading for Xmas number. M, self, Tilda & Roy dined. Quiet evening after. (Red ink: Back to town. Did heading for Xmas number.)
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Tuesday October 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10 & cycled round Earls Court. F.C.B gone to Ramsgate. Back & wrote. Breakfast. All day at work on the 2 drawings. Tail & heading. Quiet dinner in the evening. M, Roy, Tilda & self. Bed early after.
Wednesday October 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill. After all day at drawing for head & tail piece for Xmas number. Roy got off after lunch & went to Tabs. Finished a drawing at 3.30 & another (tail) at 6.0pm. Changed & left by bus all way to Bouverie St, Punch dinner. A à B, self, Lehmann, O.S, L.B, P.M, E.T.R, A.G. Got very good cartoon to do of Lord Rosebery as Mouse & Lion in Net which I suggested myself. Soon made up. Protests against Hopkins cartoons. Left at 10.45 & home all way on top of a bus. Very warm weather. Bed at 12.0 after reading. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of the Duke of Berwick. T. Thurs Oct 17. 01.)
Thursday October 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycle round Earls Court. After writing letters etc got to work at 11.0 on Lord Rosebery as a Mouse & Lion. Took no photos & made no enlargements. Sent Otley to Stores for cartridges etc. M, Tilda & self dined quite quietly. M finally decided not to go to Springkell.
Friday October 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. Wet. Worked all day on the Dormouse & the Lion & finished at 7.0pm. Dinner 7.30. Had changed. Left & caught the 9.20 train from St Pancras. Station master civil. Had most comfortable carriage & slept well after a time. Got to Carlisle at 5.0am, train 1 hour late. (Red ink: Left for Springkell.)
Saturday October 19 At Carlisle, 5.0am. Coffee at the refreshment room. No hot milk. After walking about got off at 6.5am & arrived at Springkell at 7.15am. Fire in room. Bath etc. Dressed & to breakfast at 8.30am. Col Royds down. All left at 9.0am & drove a long way. 6 guns. 2 Fergusons, self, Col Royds, Mr Pilkington & Lord F.Bruce. Began with good drive. Did not know had to shoot pheasant after. 12 drives all day & a bit of a walk. In last drive but one got 6 partridges. Left off at 5.0 & drove home. Dropped my Waterbuiry
84 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 watch on pavement. Dressed. Took in Lady F.Bruce. Good dinner & talk. Very tired after. Sleepy in smoke room. Bed at 1.30. Strong cigar. Miss M.Brenner, Lord Charles F.Brudenell Bruce, Lady F.Bruce (Margaret) Col & Mrs Royds, Col & Mrs Moorsom, Charles & Mrs Pilkington. (Red ink: Arrived at Springkell.)
Sunday October 20 Springkell, Ecclefachan. Up at 8.0. Bath first. Breakfast 9.0am. After wrote letters & took photos of the house at front & Hall. Most went to Kirk. Lunch at 2.0pm. Wrote letters again. After took a walk with Mr Pilkington to the little ruined church. Back. Smoke. Long talk with Mrs P after tea. Dinner. Took Mrs Royds in. Stopped from going in front of Lady Frederick. After looked at animal book. Bed after pipe. Changed plates in bath room. Strange dreams, Miss Rose Innes in a wood & Paris students, bottle of Eu de Vie & Abbey's studio! (Red ink: Photographed house at Springkell.)
Monday October 21 Springkell, Ecclefachan. Up at 8.0. Early bath. Copied name from book. After breakfast got off by break 10.0. Long drive. Wore Lady Margaret's suit for 1st time. Shooting betwen Col Royds & Johnson Ferguson. Got about 18 in course of day. Friendly cat at lunch. Left off at dusk & home. Took Mrs Ferguson in to dinner & sat at the end of the room. After a game of bridge, self & Mrs Pilkington v. J.F & Mrs Royds. Bed at 11.30 after smoke. Got a bad bottle of Apollinaris at dinner. Oh! (Red ink: Shot at Spingkell.) (Table of game shot over three days, total 496.)
Tuesday October 22 Springkell, Ecclefachan. Up 8.0. Bath. Breakfast. Letters from M & M.R. Photod helmet. Lovely morning. Off at 10.0 in cart. Talk to Lord Frederick about Herbert W.Blundell. Began to shoot. Grouse driving. Got a right & left & bird sitting on ground after. Good drive just before lunch. Got only about 17 in all. Missed a pheasant coming over a tree at the last. Drive home. Tip to Keeper. Changed & wrote M.R & Arthur Linley etc. Dinner. Went in by myself. Next Mrs Royde & Mrs P. Games with Mrs Pilkington after. Beaten. Bed 11.30 after smoke. (Red ink: 3rd day's shoot Springkell.)
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Wednesday October 23 Springkell, Ecclefachan. Up at 8.0am. Re-packed bags. Breakfast. All preparing to go. Wrote letter. Left after saying goodbye at 9.45am. In carriage with Col Moorsom & Mrs M. Incident of book of tiles passing (illeg). Got into carriage at Kirtlebridge with a father & son going to shoot Carlisle. Goodbye to Lady Frederick Bruce, the Pilkingtons etc, Col Royds etc. Went into Carlisle & bought a fish ivory stick at pawnbrokers, & discovered little shop. Bought 2 more there. Left at 11.50 & to London. Very good lunch. 3 men got in at Leeds. All had been on Lipton's yacht. At St Pancras 6.30. Otley met me & put me down at Garrick. Wrote letter for Life Insurance. Called C.C & to Punch dinner. Phil A, Phil M, B.P (back since Sep 18) H.W.L, E.T.R, A.G, Arthur à B, self, R.L, O.S. Suggested hunting cut & got it. Left 10.45 & home by bus. Colder. Roy not back yet. Dear M in bed. Mrs Rickery, St Cuthbert's lane, Carlisle.
Thursday October 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. x. Cycled round by Earls Ct. Wet roads. Back. Breakfast. Wrote letters & skemed subject of Lord Salisbury as Master of Hounds. Decided must photo, so did so in wet from Otley for Salisbury & enlarged some hounds & prints. Went on with work till dinner at 8.0pm. Roy came back from Pyt House at 11.0am. At dinner M, Tilda, Roy & self. Roy argued so it made his mother quite ill. They went to bed at 10.45, self after snooze. Very tired. To tired to work after dinner. M read Sir Richard Calmady to me all afternoon. Very good. (Cutting glued in: Death of Arthur Penrose.)
Friday October 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.0 & worked on Salisbury as Master of Hounds in a fog. Breakfast 8.45. Dear M upset with Roy's arguing last night. Better after. Went on with work & found I could not catch the 5.5 train, so wired all round. M left at 3.0 for Mite's, taking Otley. Wrote & posted letters. On with work & finished 7.15pm. Dressed & packed. Roy & Tilda dined at Midge's. Dined by self & left at 8.55 for St Pancras, Otley's cab. Caught the 9.50 & down to Ely. Cab to the Lamb Inn. Sleepy Boots. Bottle of Johannesburg water. Bed at 12.45. Lay awake again & woke with a fiendish headache. Roy went to business. Absent since Monday Oct 7th. Hamilton Langley left for South America. (Red ink: Went to Lamb at Ely, 2nd time.)
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Saturday October 26 The Lamb Inn, Ely. Woke up at 7.30 by maid, instead of 7.0am. Got up with a frightul headache which lasted all day. Hurried breakfast & drove to Station. Very much annoyed at leaving my silk wrap behind. Got to Hockwold at 9.30 am. Little girl on platform. 2nd breakfast. Mr Howard Mossley (brother of Arnold M) Mr Fleetwood Wilson, Col Lawrence, C.N.Lawrence & another. 6 guns with self. Began in dense fog. Nothing for 1st 3 beats & also the last 3. Got only 13 head all day, 7 partridges & 6 pheasants. Back by 5.15. Lady Dorothy Nevill & Lady Dash. Tea. Up in room & bath. Wrote diary & letters. After to dinner. Clergyman there. Sir Stephen Fleetwood Wilson, Col Lawrence, Lady Dorothy Nevill, Lady Dash, Hon Mrs C.N.L, C.N.L & self. Very good dinner. Cigars & watched bridge after. Had cigar & up to bed 11.15. Took 4 C.L.L.P. slept well, very tired. Bag of week to own gun only 48 head. (Red ink: Partridge drive, Hockwold.)
Sunday October 27 Hockwold hall, Brandon. Up at 8.0. Bath. Down 9.15 & went for 2 mile walk. Breakfast. Lady Dorothy Nevill's wonderful yarns, Duke of Wellington & Chamberlain. After wrote many letters. Walk with C.N.L & Col L. Lunch. Cigar. Photographed just before cigar by man from Brandon. After went for walk with Sir (blank) Stephens & Col L. Back. Tea. Lady Dorothy's yarns about the D'Arcys. Up in room & wrote letters again. Pipe. Dressed leisurely. White waistcoat. Dinner. Took Lady Helmsley in. They played bridge after. Lady Dorothy N, Mrs C.N.L, Mr Fleetwood Edwards & self played match spillikans. Talk to F.E about Broadley. Bed at 12.0am. Read 'Antiquity of Man' by Edward Clodd. 3 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: At Hockwold Hall.)
Monday October 28 Hockwold hall, Brandon. Up at 8.0. bath. Dressed heather suit. Good breakfast. Began to shoot 10.15am. 5 guns. C.N.L, Col L, self, F.E, Sir L.S. Delightful day. Pheasants driven into 2 covers & then back again. Twice repeated, once before & once after lunch. Lunch at house. Lady Helmsley left. Best shooting day I ever had. Total bag 83 head: 74 pheasants, 3 partridges, 3 rabbits, 2 pigeons, 1 hare. Left off at 4.15. Back to tea. Partridge killed itself against wire in last beat. Tip to Head Keeper, Howlett, £1.10.0. Loader 10/s. Mr F.E & Col L left at 15 past 5pm. In room. Wrote
87 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 diary & letters. (Table of game killed over two days.) Self got 83 head. 10 under my average for the 2 days.
Tuesday October 29 Hockwold hall, Brandon. Up at 8.0. Delightful bath. Breakfast. Letter from M. Got off after saying goodbye to Lady Dorothy & Sir A.C.Stephens with C.N.L at 9.50. Up to town. Left lovely morning & ran into beastly dark fog. Otley met me. Cab dawdled along Fleet St. Called C.C. New hall porter, Hill. After lunched at Garrick. Saw Sir F Dixon Hartland & many others. Waited at the C.C from 2.15 to 3.30 when left. Called Mr Hepburn the dentist. Many women about. Left at 4.30 & home at 5.10 by the 2d tube. Wrote letter to M. Invite from Hamilton Fletcher. Dined at 7.0 & Tilda, Roy & self went by Otley's cab to see rotten piece called 'Are you a Mason?' at the Shaftesbury. Trash. Left before it was over & home by cab. (Red ink: Went to see 'Are you a mason?') This day as dark as pitch by fog.
Wednesday October 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill. High wind. Lovely morning. After wrote letters. Returned permits to L & N.W & C Rlys. Lunched at 1.10am. Tilda a piece of grit in her eye. Got off at 1.35 & went by busses to C.C. Wire from M.R very ill. Called May & left lens. On to Athenaeum. Wrote letters. To Bath Club. Called L & B & Cordings. Turkish bath. Out & walked to Punch dinner thro' Long Acre. Sir Wm.A, L.B, B.P, A.G, A à B, self, R.H, R.L, O.S, Good dinner & talk. Got subject of 'Critic'. Home by bus, Turnham Green. Roy back 12.15. Bed. Letter from Lennie settling that Roy goes to America. (Red ink: This day as bright as summer by high wind & sun.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of John Starley.)
Thursday October 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Out on cycle. Gale from N.W & bright sun all day. Went through Nevern Square. Sent Otley to May's. Schemed subject of Salisbury as Lord Burleigh for the Critic. Stace came at 12.0. Had him on the roof. Wind too strong so went down. Photod & developed. Tilda out. M wired at 4.0 to say not coming till tomorrow. Otley took things back to May's. Got to work at 4.35 after tea. Worked till 8.10. Dressed. Lost a silver stud. Quiet dinner, Tilda, Roy & self. Slept till 12.20 when to bed.
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Friday November 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Out on cycle. Strong east wind. Past school. Called & asked if Mrs S still lived Oakfield St. Yes. Back thro' Nevern Sq. Lovely bright morning. Roy got his papers for the Teutonic. After got to work all day at Lord Salisbury as Lord Burleigh in 'The Critic'. M back at 4.0pm from Glovers. Lovely day. Finished at 8.45pm. Dressed. Dinner, M, Tilda, self & Roy. Roy at 'Patience' after. Bed after snooze. (Red ink: M returned from Glovers.)
Saturday November 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.15am. Breakfast 8.0am & off at 8.30, Mr De Pass calling in a T cart. To Victoria. Down to Eynsford. Lovely day. Foggy in London. Many guns. Morphy with (illeg) cousin of de Pass. Shot at 10.0. Only got 1 hare before lunch, after 8 pheasants & 2 rabbits. Toil up hill. A Mr Hellmuth or similar name, clean shaven. Left off 4.30. Tea & back to town. Home by cab with 2 birds. Dinner, M & self, Tilda & Roy. Cold at night. Snooze till 12.0 when to bed. (Red ink: Went down for day's shooting with Mr De Pass.)
Sunday November 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Great scuttle to get ready & off by 9.40. Roy roused up. Left by Otley's cab & on to Charing X. Down to Red Hill. Bond met us. Drove to Glovers. Motor car stopped on the road by Police. Passed us at corner going to Glovers. There at 12.20. Lennie, Con, Evelyn Coward & dogs. Little black dog, Fritz. Too good lunch. Brilliant sun. After rest went for walk. Baby in perambulator, Mite in bath chair. Lennie & self went on with dogs. Lovely sun but cold. Taken short. Home by Greenings. Tea. Read Eric Parker's book, 'The sinner & the Problem'. Good. Dinner. Music after. Lovely fire. Very cold. Bed 11.0. Nightmare in the night. Dream of Sir E.Boehm driving a coach. Woke up 1.0am. Lit candle. (Red ink: Roy & self went down to Glovers.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Henry Kemmis and E.J.Lonnen. Nov 2)
Monday November 4 Glovers Charlwood. Up at 7.45. Good bath. Breakfast 8.30. All got off 9.20. Baby came in trap. Barely caught train. ¼ hour wait at Red Hill. Did not get home till 12.45. Called C.C & got letters. M.R very ill. S.T, Tilda just leaving. Dense fog in London. Frightful after the lovely morning left at Glovers. The fog continued the whole
89 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 day. Developed after lunch 12 plates of Mabel Hall & Miss Warwick, May 25. After up in room & squared prints. Roy back. Frightfuly cold. Quiet dinner. M, Roy & self. Did not go out. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. (Red ink: Very cold. Last invite to Glovers (Sep 22, 1902) (Cutting glued in: Death of Mme Maurice Sand. Nov 4, 1901.)
Tuesday November 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Dense fog all day more or less. Walk round Campden Hill. After breakfast Roy packing all day. Sent Otley to Stores in afternoon. Lunch. After left & went up by bus, outside. Called at Miles's about knickerbockers & after walked to C.C & Garrick. Bothered to get little strap for gaiters. Got some in a fishing tackle shop in the Haymarket. Called Grants, Lincoln & Bennett's & home after. Early dinner at 6.30 & after M, Roy & self went in Otley's 4 wheeler to the Lyceum Theatre & saw Sherlock Holmes for 2nd time. Midge & Dora in box. Very foggy again. Home by same cab. Sandwiches & bed. Woke up in the morning with headache & most violent indigestion. Why? Why indeed? (Red ink: M, Roy & self went to Lyceum & saw Sherlock Holmes 2nd time.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Alice Gulliver. Death of Campbell Praed. Obituary Campbell Praed and photograph.)
Wednesday November 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am. Got up with a beastly headache & violent indigestion. Why? indeed. Doubts as to going with Roy. Left after walk round Campden Hill. Cold & fog. At ten in Otley's cab & to Euston with Roy to see him off to Liverpool. Messel there. Hogans with lunch. Servant in livery. Lennie came at 9.40. Goodbye. Home in cab. Wired M.H. When at home fog cleared. Wired again. Roy had left his receipt or thought he had. Could not find it. Sent Otley to White Star Office. Left at 12.45 & after wiring by bus to C.C & Garrick. Lunch. Saw Phil Agnew. To C.C at 2.0. Waited till 2.45. Wire from M.H. Out & called White Star Office. Back & at 3.30 photod M.H. Not much good. Out 4.15 & to Garrick. Tea & wrote leters. Saw Lawrence Bradbury. To Punch dinner. Up in room. A à B, self, R.L, R.H, O.S, P.A, E.T.R, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Cut of France for me. Wrote Chappells & May's. After home by bus. Cold. Raw & foggy. Letter from Income tax Commissiare on putting up assessment. Bed 12.0. M in bed. (Red ink across page: Saw Roy off at Euston for America. Lennie & he left. Fog in London.)
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Thursday November 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Still foggy & cold. Poor little bird had been ill yesterday. M gave it brandy. Walk in fog round Campden Hill. Breakfast. Wrote Tax office, Wrights Lane. Sent Otley to Chappell's & May's. Schemed my subject. At 12.30 photod Otley for French Horn & Sultan of Turkey. Developed & enlarged. Mite was to have come to Stafford Terrace but wired to say was not well. Mrs Fildes & Midge & Dora called. Worked up to 8.30pm, M in room. Dined quiely, M & self. Read & snooze. Bed at 12.30am. Felt all right after Punch dinner. (Cutting glued in: Obituary Mrs Henschel.)
Friday November 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Walk round Campden Hill. Still foggy but clearing. M preparing to go to Glovers. Worked all day on France playing French Horn & Sultan. Lunch. Nurse Francis up about dear Mite. M left at 3.0 for Glovers. Worked on till 9.30pm when finished drawing & dined. Snooze after till 1.30pm. Bed. Weather set in warmer in the morning.
Saturday November 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Out on cycle round Redcliffe Gardens. Met a regiment of Hussars from Hounslow going to Lord Mayor's Show. After breakfast put room in order. Packed. Wrote to Mr George Howe about Income assessment. Lunch & got off in Mrs Marcus Stone's old 4 wheeler at 2.0pm. Row between 2 porters at Waterloo. Comfortable journey down. Arrived Tisbury 5.30pm. Wired M. To Pyt. No one there but Hamilton, Tabs & Gwen. Mr Hilton there. Tea. Talk. Dressed. Dinner. Bed at 11.0pm. Slept well. (Red ink: Went down to Tisbury to shoot with Hamilton Fletcher.)
Sunday November 10 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.20. Bath. Out for walk. Dark, coldish. Breakfast. Wrote letters etc. Walk round with Hamilton. Lunch. Wrote more letters. Walked round covers & in to tea at 5.15. Col Auburton there. Up in room & read. Coldish. Dressed & after dinner good music & bed at 11.0 after smoke. Colonel Auberton.
Monday November 11 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up 8.5. Coldish. Bath. Dressed in Stohwasser suit. Breakfast. Lovely morning. Guns arrived. Mr Morrison MP of Fonthill, Mr Shaw Stewart, Mr Schwann, H, self & Col Auberton.
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Began 10.30, Schwann late. Got in the day 21 pheasants, 1 rabbit, 1 woodcock. The only woodcock got this season here. Back to house to lunch. Good. After many beats & one over the pond for duck. Talk to all the guns. Back 5.10. All left. Changed & wrote 5 letters & diary. Rain kept off all day. Went down & had 2 games of fives. Mr Gordon & Miss Schwann v. Gwen & self. We were beaten 2 games. Up in room & dressed. Dinner. 8.0. Took Tabs in. Good. H had madeira out. Singing & dance after. Bed 11.0. Blew hard in the night. (Red ink: Good day's shoot at Pyt.)
Tuesday November 12 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up 8.10. Furious gale raging, torrents of rain. Bath. Breakfast. Out before. H decided not to shoot, impossible. Wrote several letters. Played 2 games fives same as yesteday, Gwen & self won both. Miss Schwann left at 12.0 on her cob in torrents of rain. Went on writing. Lunch. Wrote, & read Trilby. H & self went for walk, 3.45 to 4.45 towards Shaftesbury. Met the Butlers & dogs. Back. Smoke & read. Dinner. Tabs a bad sore throat. Madeira. Bed at 11.0pm. (Red ink: Raging gale all day, could not shoot.)
Wednesday November 13 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0. Bath (cold). Breakfast. A grey day but wind dropped. Packed & left all square. Off at 10.0. A Mr Fox Pitt & a gentleman from India with a black moustache came, Col Auberton & self. 5 guns. Went & shot towards Tisbury. Missed a pheasant in a lane. After all day got 15 birds. Good lunch in a barn. Talk of Harris tweeds. Came on to rain immediately after. Left off at 3.0. Got 3 birds & then 3 more. H gave me 4 & 1 woodcock. To station with Col Auberton. Changed boots. Carriage to self all way after Salisbury where had cup of tea. Otley met me & got to Punch dinner at 7.15pm. Good. L.B, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A à B, self, O.S, all that were there. Suggested subject for Partridge, London Tuberculosos. A beastly one for self. Wet. Home by bus. Disagreable journey. Home 11.40. Read & to bed. M awake. (Red ink: Shot at Tisbury. Up to town.) (Cutting glued in: Death of K.M Henriques.)
Thursday November 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20am. x. Out for walk round Campden Hill. Back. Colder. Breakfast. After skemed subject of Chamberlain & Effigy being burnt by the Foreign Powers. Otley got a mask & flag. Photod by 1.30. Developed & enlarged by 3.30. Wrote letters.
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M went to Mite's. Old wide-awake hat mislaid. Got to work after writing letters at 4.30. Worked up to 8.30pm & dined at 8.45. Weather set in much colder. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. (Cutting glued in: Sale of Thackeray's old house, 2 Palace Green. £14,500. Oct 30)
Friday November 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. Band. Wretchedly cold. Got to work after breakfast on drawing of Foreigners burning Effigy of Joe Chamberlain. Lunch. M out. Back at 2.0pm. Had been to Midge's who was very ill. Worked up to 9.0pm when finished. M in my room. Dinner 9.15pm. Snooze & strange dream. Woke up & did not know where I was. recognised room after. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Colonel J.H.Mapleson. Appeal for support of the widow of the late Colonel J.H. Mapleson.)
Saturday November 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & walk round Campden Hill. Foggy morning. After all morning looking over 'Times' & putting things away. Nurse Milly & Mite came at 1.0pm to lunch. M & self left at 1.45 & by a 4 wheeler to the Garrick Theatre & saw 'Iris', I for 2nd time (Saty Sepr 28). Out. Fearful fog. M & self walked to Knightsbridge, getting sausages on way. Lost at bottom of Piccadilly. Civil policeman. Home by bus. Dear Mite there. A beastly headache all day. M, Mite & self dined quietly. Had the woodcock shot on Monday. Most excellent. Quiet evening after. Dense fog. Took 5 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: M & self went to see 'Iris'. Fearful fog on way home.)
Sunday November 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Walk round Campden Hill. Still bitterly cold. Gave old Xing sweeper 6d. Back. Breakfast. In morning wrote & looked over illustrated papers. Walked at 12.0 with M to top of Row & back by 1.40pm. Met Mrs Fritz Jackson, Mrs Parr etc. After up in room & most uncomfortable snooze in chair. Woke cold. Tea in Mite's room. After walked to the Athenaeum. Wrote Lady Dorothy Nevill etc. Walked nearly all way back home, making 8½ miles in day. Felt better. Dinner M & self. Mite up in her room. Bed at 11.30 after reading Mrs Bagot's 'Links with the Past'. Very cold. Took 5 C.L.L.P.
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Monday November 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.25. Bath. Cycled round & called on Midge. Very ill. Roads bad for cycling. Breakfast. Weather warmer. To call on Mr George Howe about Taxes. Did leave & have an interview at 11.0. Man like Weedon Grossmith. Settled for assessment at £850 per year at most. Out & back. Developed a few plates. In afternoon skemed the cartoon for Lightning. Wrote letters etc. M & self dined quietly togather. Mite upstairs with her tooth. Bed 11.30 after snooze. Took 4 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: Interview with Mr George Howe about Income Tax.)
Tuesday November 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & cycled round Park all way round & called on Midge. Westerly wind & quite warm. Back. Breakfast & after developed some plates of May Hayden. Skemed Index & settled for Lions & Animals performing. M seedy in bed. Mite's tooth very bad. Sent for Mr Dentist. Maud Paxton called & Ellie Ritchie. Quiet dinner with M & self at 8.0pm & after read to bed. Took 3 C.L.L.P.
Wednesday November 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled round by Earls Ct & School. Little Composure. After back. Breakfast. M in bed. Maud still very seedy with her tooth. Developed photos of Springkell & in afternoon skemed cartoon for Lightning. Left at 5.30 7 by bus to Piccadilly. Called Athenaeum. Letter from Lady Dorothy Nevill. Walked to C.C. Got 2 letters & on to Garrick & then walked to the Punch dinner. F.C.B back, 1st time since Sepr 25th. Very full dinner, 13. All there except Lawrence Bradbury. Sir W.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G, F.C.B, L.S, R.H, A à B, R.L, O.S, P.A. After tiresome discussion got subject of Airship to do, Partridge John Bull. Left 10.40. F.C.B looking much older. Home by dog cart. Bed 12.30am. Weather quite warm.
Thursday November 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Park. Called to ask how Midge was. Back. Breakfast. After skemed subject of Liberal airship. Photod Otley & enlarged prints. Used the 2 7½ x 5's had had so long. Great difficulty in enlarging owing to wet. Began drawing at 5.0pm & worked up to 8.30pm when dined with M. M in bed all day up to lunch. Mite's tooth getting better. Bed 11.30 after snooze. Weather quite warm.
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Friday November 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out on cycle past School & Earls Court. Muddy. Back 9.25 & breakfast. After all day on drawing of Liberal Airship. Sent Otley in afternoon to May's for Harlequin's costume & fairies. M up in room. Finished at 9.0 & dined 9.15pm. Mite better but not down. Bed at 11.30 after snooze.
Saturday November 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & dressed at once. Walk round Campden Hill. Breakfast. Left M in bed & Mite & went by bus to C.C. Called Sands & Hunter for lens. At 12.0, ¼ hr late, photod R.W. Disappointed in appearance & poor model. Out at 1.30. To Garrick. Lunch. Came across William Stone & Bence Jones who said I looked well. Well, eat something or took something at lunch which made me very ill. Whiskey & soda, never again. Out 2.30 after talk to Bangs about Tenniel's drawings for Lalla Rooke. To Daly's Theatre & saw San Toy. Stone, young Reid, grandson of Col Rich,. Dora, M & self in box. Good. Out & left Stone. To Garrick. Tea & wrote letters. Left at 6.40 & called C.C for heavy bag & on to Walls for sausages. Home by bus. Got fruit. Bad pears at Butts & dined 8.10. Violent headache & fit of indigestion came on. Mite with letters from Lennie & Punch Almanack came. My work good. (Red ink across page: M & self had box at San Toy. Dora there. William Stone came in.)
Sunday November 24 Stafford Terrace. Up a 9.15. Down 9.45. Did not go out. Foggy. Frightfully seedy with violent indigestion from yesterday's lunch. Why? Who knows. M in one bed, Mite in other. More or less seedy all day. At 12.15 went for walk in bath chair with Mite. Met Col Reid & grandson. Mrs Lewis (Seligman) the Gills etc. Back. Lunch. After all afternoon in room. Developed in cold photos taken yesterday. Spencer called at 4.0pm. Up in my room. Dinner. Had a better pheasant. Seedy right up to going to bed at 11.30pm. Death of poor Arthur Lewis at 9.30pm. See acct Thursday 28 Novr. See Sat Nov 4, '97. (Red ink: Very seedy all day.)
Monday November 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Walked round Campden Hill. Cold raw & foggy. Met old Captain & governess walking fast. Back. Breakfast & after photod Cox for Harlequin. Enlarged that & photos taken Saturday. Went on to work at 4.30 to 8.0 on cartoon
95 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 for Lightning. Dinner. Mite down for 1st time. Long letter from Roy. Bitterly raw & cold after. Bed 12.0 after reading Wells's stupid prophesies.
Tuesday November 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Mite sent Otley with cable. Out on cycle round Earl's Court. Twice had to turn for carts round corner. M down to breakfast After wrote Mr Workman about photo frame dispute. Photod Otley for figure of Steam & enlarged by lunch time. Evelyn Coward in to lunch. Baby came to my room looking well. Worked all afternoon & up to 7.15. Dressed. Walked up to dine at Lord Alverstone's. M followed in carriage. Very cold. Took young Webster's wife in. Sat next a Miss Mellor. 18 to dinner. M had Mr Justice Darling, Lord Chelmsford. Sir Fleetwood & Lady Wilson etc. Music after. Ruminated on the rooms I recollected Mr & Mrs S.S.B in in 1877. Left at 11.0. M unfortunately got a chill & had swelled face tomorrow. (Red ink: M & self dined at Lord Alverstone's.)
Wednesday November 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Earls Court. After back & went on to work all day on drawing for Lightning. Put girl's head in etc etc. Left at 6.10 & by bus to top of Piccadilly. Changed mind & on to C.C. 2 letters. Walked thro' Covent Garden & bought rose, 2d. Bus to Punch dinner. F.C.B, self, A à B, R.L, O.S, L.B, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Not one single word said in praise of my Quadruple page. Only commendation to B.P. Lehmann had got letter about Ayton Castle. Chaff. Very long weary time in making up cuts. At 10.30 got Lord Rosebery & Chamberlain to do. F.C.B wanted Tommy Atkins & a German soldier shaking hands. Left in weariness at 11.0 & to dog cart waiting below. Called at the Athenaeum Club & wrote 2 or 3 letters & home. Got Mr Lilford Delph's address from my desk & posted letter. Read W.G & to bed tired at 12.45am. M seedy with a swelled face.
Thursday November 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Earl's Court & after skemed subject of Rosebery & Chamberlain. At 11.30 Mr Lilford Delph came. Photod him. Enlarged & got ready. Worked up to 7.10pm when after writing V.& C & Brightman dressed & walked over Campden Hill to dine at the Messels. A bad dull dinner. Took Miss Gow in & sat next Mrs Sington. Talk of poor Arthur Lewis. From Mrs L he had lunched with her at a friend's & feeling
96 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 indigestion went home. She called on two other friends. He stayed at home instead of dining at Mrs Geilgud's & had a plate of soup & two poached eggs. Mrs L stayed in drawing room & went up 1½ hrs after. No one in room & gas burning in the dressing room. Found poor A.L dead on his face after folding up his coat & waistcoat. Home by carriage. Smoke & bed 12.0. (Red ink: Dull dinner at the Messels.)
Friday November 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Fine morning. Cycled round by Earls Court. Worked after breakfast & all day up to 9.10pm on cartoon of Rosebery & Chamberlain. Hon Dudley Marjoribanks & Miss Brodrick married. Memorial service for poor Arthur Lewis. Quiet dinner by self. Mite had had hers. M in bed all day. Very tired. Snooze after until 1.0am. Mite seedy in the night.
Saturday November 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Tired. Walk round C.H. After breakfast sent Otley to C.C & the Athenaeum. Went on to work all day on cartoon for Lightning. Returned stalls to the Haymarket. M up at 3.0pm. & came down to dinner. A slight cold & sore throat came on just about 6.30pm. Took some ammoniated quinine. Had enjoyed lunch very much & eat a good dinner. Bed at 11.45 after reading Strand Magazine. (Red ink: Cold 1st began by tickling & sore throat.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Edward Eyre, formerly governor of Jamaica.)
Sunday December 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.10. Woke with slightly increased sore throat. Out for walk. 6d to old lady Xing sweeper. Breakfast. After at 11.0 left & walked up through Park to Hyde Park Corner. Bus to C.C. At 12.0 photod Miss G.Noble. No good. Out 1.30 & to Garrick. Lunch on cold beef, ½ bottle Pommard. Coffee & O.B. Wrote 6 or 7 letters. Sullivan & Col Jones came in. Left at 4.0 & walked home. Buller demonstration in Hyde Park. M & Mite in Roy's room. Bret Harte had called. Sore throat all day. Went on with cartoon for Lightning & shaded old man, arms, face, lamp etc. M Mite & self dined quietly & read after book on Africa. (Red ink: Cold slightly developing.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Ex-Governor Eyre.)
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Monday December 2 Stafford Terrace. Up a 8.20 & cycled round Park. Past Mrs Farquands, D.M's etc. Breakfast. After all day at shading drawing for Lightning. Worked till 8.10pm. M, Mite & self dined quietly. Invite from Lucas came to shoot. Bed at 11.50. Had chest rubbed. Cold thick & heavy in head. (Red ink: Cold went up into head.)
Tuesday December 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Tired. Cold more in head. Cycled round Park. Saw George Agnew, wife & daughter. Back. Threw gloves through window at M. Death of Governor Eyre. Breakfast. After by 12.30 finished drawing for Lightning. Boy fetched it at 12.50. M & Mite out. Boxes about. In afternoon went on with Index drawing & got on with it. Callers. Worked up to 8.15 when M & self dined quietly by ourselves. Snooze & read after. (Red ink: Cold still bad all day.)
Wednesday December 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Nasty cold came on. Woke up with throat sore but cycled round Park & home. Weather quite warm. After at work all day on drawing for Index which I finished at 5.30 & sent off. Left & to Punch dunner by bus. Lennie & Roy to arrive Euston 12.30am. Went all way to Punch dinner by bus. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B. O.S, R.A, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. A pleasant dinner. F.C.B said that Charles Warner the actor had shewn him great kindness in Norway. What a statement! Left feeling seedy with cold very, & had chest rubbed when I got home. Lay awake & heard Lennie arrive who went up to Mite's room between 1.0 & 2.0am. Percy Oakes called in morning. Went down to see him. (Red ink: Cold very bad all day. Lennie & Roy back from America.)
Thursday December 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & cycled round park all way. Lennie down to breakfast. My cold bad, very, so I could not cycle. Walk. Lennie's first morning back. Did not see Roy till lunch time. Skemed subject of Pro Boer & Peace & sent Otley for a trombone & hat. All day at work. Very seedy with cold. Left off at 7.15 after a cup of beef tea & drove with M in the carriage to dine at Colonel Welby's. Took a Miss E? in to dinner & sat next to Lady Buxton. Pleasant dinner. After a Russian cup of Colonel Welby's fell over. Enjoyed dinner. Home with M in carriage. Mite had gone to Gloucester Terrace in the afternoon. Bed at 12.0 after smoke.
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(Red ink: Cold heavily on chest in morning. M & self dined at Col Welby's.) (Cutting glued in: Wills: Lord Morris & Charles Stephens. Dec 4, 01.)
Friday December 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & walked round Campden Hill. After to work all day on drawing of Pro Boer & Trombone & Peace. Rather bothered to get done. Did not finish until 9.30pm. M & self dined quietly. Roy still at Mite's. Bed very tired at 12.30am.
Saturday December 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & walk round Campden Hill. Stalls from Tree's came. Sent Otley round to Lennie's after & the whole morning tidying up etc. Passed proofs of drawings for Lightning. Lunch 1.15. At 1.45 M & self in carriage to Her Majesty's Theatre & saw The last of the Dandies. Much affected by it. Man like the Agnews & also like someone else in box.Young Warner very good. Sent M home & tea at Garrick. No letters at the C.C. Back by bus & got a pine without flavour & grapes ditto. Home. Wrote letter or two & quiet dinner, M & self. Read after & bed at 11.30. Weather quite warm. (Red ink: M & self went to see The Last of the Dandies. Good.)
Sunday December 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am & breakfast after walk round C.H. Gave O.W 6d. Wet. After at 12.30 took M for walk round Flower Walk & back. Lunch by ourselves. Up in room & skemed & drew & nearly finished tail for Index. Dinner to be 7.30. Wasn't. Was taken off my work. At 8.0 (illeg) Lennie, Maud M & self & Con all dined. Roy argumentative about America. Patience played after & they left at 10.15. Con & M to bed at 11.0. Read paper on the Parthenon & to bed tired at 12.15. x.
Monday December 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Gale in the night & beastly dog barking. Down & walk round C.H. Con to breakfast. Talk of Newson. After finished drawing for tail of Index by 11.45. Then skemed & photod Otley for terminal figure title page. After developed. Mite came to lunch & Con. Enlarged after. A snow storm at 3.45pm. Maud left. Conrad went back to dine at Mite's. Up in room & on with work on terminal figure title page. M up also. Very cold north wind set in.
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Tuesday December 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & walk round Campden Hill. Breakfast. Con went out. At 10.30 Maud Paxton came & very kindly sat for Britannia. Developed & enlarged & up in room to work. All day at it up to 8.15. Bothered over Britannia's face. Got it right after. M, Con & self dined quietly. Roy dined at Mite's. Bed at 11.30pm after snooze & reading. (Red ink: Photod Maud Paxton for Britannia.)
Wednesday December 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & walk round Campden Hill. After at work all day on drawing for title page Volume 122. Finished it at 5.30pm & dressed. M & Roy went to dine at Mite's. Roy at Empire & got locked out. By bus to Punch dinner. Called C.C. Got letter from M.R & called Garrick. On again by bus. After P dinner. L.B, B.P, H.W.L, F.C.B, self, A à B, R.L, O.S. 4 cartoons made up. Pleasant dinner. Left at 11.15 & home all way by bus. Posted letters to May & Delph. Locked Roy out. Conrad left in the afternoon. (Cutting glued in: Marriage to take place, Lord Stavordale and Lady Helen Stuart.)
Thursday December 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round C.H. Frightfully wet all day & S.E gale. Could get no satisfactory results for working from. Sent Otley to May's & Mr Delph called 11.30. Photod him as Hamlet in the wet. Developed & enlarged & got to work 5.0pm. Worked till 8.15 & M, Roy & self dined together for 1st time since he came back from America. Bed at 11.30pm. Very tired. (Red ink: Very difficult photoing Delph as Hamlet in the wet.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Joshua Fielden to Dora Ismay.)
Friday December 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round C.H. Letter from F.C.B. (all previous engagements must give way etc.) Answered. After all day at drawing of Hamlet. Awful weather. Dark & dismal. Bothered with Rosebery's head. Took it out. Roy dined at Mite's. After finished very tired at 9.0. Dinner M & self. Roy back 11.30. Bed 12.0. (Red ink: Silly letter from F.C.B.)
Saturday December 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Very tired. Brighter morning. Walk round C.H. Met Ricky. Roy's arm bad at breakfast. After at 10.45 photod Otley for Soldier & Stace for Father Xmas. Developed & enlarged by lunch. Mite at lunch. In room after for work. Had wired
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Galbraith. Lennie in my room in the afternoon. Roy Lennie & Harold M went to see 'Iolanthe' & supper after. Mite dined with us. I worked up to 8.20 when M & Mite & self dined. Read after. Letter from F.C.B by last post about sacrificing business to pleasure. Rot. M read in my room in evening, Madame Junot's memoirs. (Red ink: Worked hard all day.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Arthur Gill.)
Sunday December 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.45 & out. Dull morning. Bright after. Gave old W 6d. Breakfast. M walked over to see Midge. Roy at Club. Worked hard the entire day on cartoon of Father Xmas & soldiers in blockhouse. Finished at 8.45. Put travelling things on & to dinner. Mite, Lennie, Roy, M & self. Mite not well after dinner. Went up at 10.0pm & worked another ½ hour & got away in the dog cart by 11.10pm. Drove to St Pancras & caught the midnight train for Dumfries. Had most comfortable carriage & only waked by man asking for ticket. Got to Dumfries at 7.15am. Cold in the night. Received a wire from Galbraith at 10.0am. (Red ink: Left after dinner & went north to Dumfries.) (Cutting glued in: Death of George Akhurst. Akhurst 69 years, 57 in 1888, 60 in 1891.)
Monday December 16 On board train from St Pancras to Dumfries. Awakened at D. Dark. Galbraith's trap at station. Drove to Terregles. There 8.0am. Dressed & bath. Cold frosty morning. Down. Breakfast 9.15. Dora & ladies, Miss Dangerfields. Mr Heriot, Mr Dove etc. Welcome from G. Started 10.15 & walked to hill covered in snow. Delightful shoot all day. Bright sun & no wind. Got 25 pheaants, 1 rabbit, 1 pigeon. Lunch at Bankside. Walked back. No papers. Lord Rosebery made his great speech at Chesterfield. Felt tired. Bath & changed. Tea. Sleepy. Bitterly cold in room. Rested for 1 hour. Dressed & dinner. Took Mrs G in. Good dinner. News of poor parrot's death in February. Puff billiards after & Miss Dangerfield sang. Very sleepy. Bed at 11.45pm. Slept well. Mr & Mrs Keswick, Mr & Mrs Fortune, Mr Dove, Mr Heriot, 2 Miss Dangerfields, Dora Langley & self. (Red ink across page: Lovely day's shooting in the snow & hills in Terregles.)
Tuesday December 17 Terregles, Dumfries. Up at 8.15 & down 9.0. Wrote M. A grey cloudy morning. No frost. Breakfast. Left at 10.0 for shoot round house. 6 guns. G, self, Mr Dove, Mr Heriot, Mr Keswick & another.
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Started up in corner of cover. Got hare & 6 pheasants. Ladies came out. At 2nd beat got 2 missed 2 badly. After walk round with beaters. Good shooting at corner. 3rd beat did really well. Got 15 P & a woodcock & that with ladies standing by. Lunch. Good fowl etc. (illeg) & gloves. Rain came on & bitter wind. Worked round to end of shoot. Saw Charles Maxwell & wife driving in smart omnibus carriage. Finished at 4.35. Got to self 48 pheasants, 6 hares, 1 rabbit, 1 pigeon, 1 woodcock. 57 head. Bath. Tea. Smoke. Read Lord Rosebery's speech. Afraid my cartoon out of it. Dressed. Not so cold. Took Miss Dangerfield in. Most interesting girl. Sang delightfully after & reverberated a chord on piano. Mr Heriot & Mr & Mrs Keswick had left. Talk in smoking room after. Bed at 12.0am. Talking to Fortune, Dove & Galbraith. (Red ink across page: Delightful day's covert shoot at Terregles.)
Wednesday December 18 Terregles, Dumfries. Up at 8.15. Tired. Bath. Dressed & packed. Breakfast. Eat 3 sausages. After signed a paper for Miss Dangerfield. Left with Mr Dove at 10.20 & drove to Dumfries. Well appointed carriage. Stupid little grinning girls at station. Comfortable carriage. Mr Dove got out at station beyond Carlisle. Posted letters. Bought Punch etc. Lunch. Good. Got to St Pancras at 6.30. Otley there with cart. Home. Dear M there & Roy. Changed & all 3 dined together. Cold. Read & to bed at 11.30pm. Wrote 5 or 6 letters. (Red ink: Arrived home from Dumfries.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Lady Ellis. Death of Elvira Henderson.)
Thursday December 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. x. & round C.H. Very cold. After breakfast wired Molloy & also wrote letters. Printed ½ a dozen blues & after put up camera. Sent Otley to 55 Great Marlborough St to workshop of Mr Streeter etc & followed on by 2d tube. Called & took 4 photos 1.10 to 1.40. Out & walked to C.C & the Garrick. Lunch next a barrister, Lawrence B & Phil Agnew. After in smoking room. Col Arthur Jones there & Wyndham. Coffee & liquer. After walked to call on Mr Hepburn. Had upper set fitted & left with them in. Most uncomfortable. Back to Garrick & had tea. Looked at Furniss's book. Called C.C for bags. Home by cab. Room reeking in smoke. Felt depressed & not very well. All gloomy. Dined rather with difficulty & after to bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Photod shop of jewellers in Great Marlborough St, Mr Streeter's. First had denture fitted.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Lady Ellis.)
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Friday December 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Had kept denture in all day & night. Out. Gave old woman 6d. Breakfast. After skemed subject for opening new volume. Photod Otley & developed plates taken yesterday. Bitterly cold. M to Mite's in carriage. Left in a 4 wheeler & to Victoria at 3.45. Met Tait in train. Also Lester Reed. Down to Crawley. Great confusion at the station. Walked on far beyond Peas Pottage. Overtaken by carriage & to Nymans. Mr & Mrs M, Muriel, Barney, Ruth & Hilda. Lennie & Mr Pooner came after. Mr Hunter Blair & Eric Parker. Dressed. Dinner. After played a game of billiards with Mr H.B. Beaten by 5 points. Candle & bed. Very cold. Read Mademoiselle Ixe. (Red ink: Went down to Nymans to shoot.)
Saturday December 21 Nymans, Crawley, Sussex. Called at 7.45am. Man actually lifted the eiderdown. Dressed & breakfast at 8.30. Out 9.45. 5 guns. Lennie, Eric Parker, Mr Hunter Blair, Mr Pooner & self. New keeper Mclaren. Shot with 2 guns. Got 14 pheasants & 7 duck. Felt depressed & seedy in the morning.Why? Back in house 4.0pm. Changed. Mrs Sington there. Tea & all left except Mr Eric Parker & back to Victoria. Very cold journey. Drove in Lennie's carriage to 27 Gloucester Terrace. Good dinner. After saw Mite & home by cart. Roy up. Punch came. Good. Dear M in bed. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: Shot at Nymans. Evidently cold coming on.)
Sunday December 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0. M in bed. Foggy morning. Otley forgot to get sausages yesterday evening. Out & walk up Hornton Street & Holland Park. Roy not down till 10.30am. Cleaned guns. Also enlarged photos taken Friday for opening volume. Very great difficulty to do so owing to fog. Gave ¼ hour. M in bed. Roy & self dined together. Tough pheasant. Bed after reading, 11.30pm. Skemed cartoon for New Year, King & coins. Also began opening of volume page. (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Lt Loring, of a son. Death of Lady Lyndhurst.)
Monday December 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Walk round Campden Hill. After breakfast got ready to photo. A fine morning but cold. Cox came at 11.30 & Stace 12.30. Photod them for New Year cartoon. Developed & enlarged after. Very cold. Finished at 4.0 & up in
103 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1901 room. Went on with opening volume page, Punch & crown. Drew it in. Roy dined with Lennie. M & self dined quietly by ourselves. Bed. 11.30 after reading. (Red ink: Quite quiet. At work on King & Coins.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary Lady Lyndhurst. Dec 23. Death of E.Onslow Ford. The wife of Frederick Wicks, of a daughter.)
Tuesday December 24 Stafford Terrace. Down late, 9.15. Did not go out. Felt it all day. Went on to work all day on drawing for opening volume. Put in Crown etc etc. Bothered with Toby. Roy went round to dine with Lennie in the evening & they went to the Pantomime Rehearsal. M out in carriage in afternoon. M & self dined quietly together. Claret & a small bottle of Burgundy. Bed at 11.30. Nasty feverish cold again. Not so bad as before. (Red ink: Nasty feverish cold came on.)
Wednesday December 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & walk round Campden Hill. Heavy snow rain & bitterly cold underfoot. Gave old woman 1/s. Met no one. Dreary & horrid weather. Breakfast. Roy & self sausages. After worked the entire day up to 8.0pm on opening Vol 122.. Finished it at 5.0pm. M & Roy at Mite's. M back 6.0. Roy & Lennie called on Hogan. Dinner M, Roy & self. Bottle of Ayala 1889. After read the Contes Drocaliques de Balzac. Good. Bed 12.0. Chest rubbed. Felt cold from snow all day. (Red ink: Absolutely uneventful Xmas Day.)
Thursday December 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Fine lovely bright day. Walked round Campden Hill. Breakfast. M down. Discussion about books. After in room. Wrote diary. Photod Otley's little girl who cried. After Otley. Developed & enlarged. Went on with drawing of the King & his Coins. Conrad in to lunch. Still bright sun. Roy out on cycle. Lennie came in in afternoon. Sat in my room. He & Roy went to the Drury Lane Boxing Night of Blue Beard. Worked on & dined at 8.30pm & M & self had simple dinner waited on by Freda. After went up in room & worked from 10.0 to 12.15am. Put in Royal arms etc, carpet. After read Contes Drocaliques de Balzac. Roy back 1.15. M put 2 glycerine lozenges in my mouth as Roy came home. Long time getting to sleep. (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Joseph Noel Paton.)
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Friday December 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Bright cold morning. Walk round C.H & after breakfast wrote a letter or two. Got to work at 10.0 & finished Royal Crown, Volume 122. Sent it off. 10.45. After at 11.0 went on & put the King in in outline for cartoon King & Coins. Fairly successful. Lunch. Began to shade at 4.0pm. The clock had stopped, thought I had another hour. Finished at 9.20pm & sent it off. Cough & cold very heavy & troublesome. Dined 9.40 & had a bottle of Ayala 1889 wine. Did me good. Roy dined at Lennie's. Bed at 11.45. M knocked. Had mustard leaf on chest. Slept well. (Red ink: Bad cold came on.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Sir Noel Paton.)
Saturday December 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out for walk round C.H. Slipped down in Phillimore Gardens. Road very slippery. After the whole morning putting phos away & dating etc. At 1.0 lunch. M & self left in the carriage at 1.40 & to the Vaudeville Theatre & saw a charming play called Blue Belle. Margaret Fraser in it. Very pretty. M & self delighted. Put M into the carriage at King Street & to C.C. Letters. On to Garrick & had tea. Wrote a few letters & to Seymour Hicks. Lost one of my best black gloves. Left 6.15. Pouring with rain. Bus to Kensington. Californian oranges & pears in again. Bought fruit. Home. M back. Conrad had been to lunch with Roy. (Red ink: M & self went to see Blue Belle at the Vaudeville.)
Sunday December 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.15. Out. Zig zag walk up Terraces. Back. Lovely morning. Decided to go to Calais. Left 10.10am & by bus from Kensington Church to Piccadilly. Ugly woman in bus. Walk to Charing X. Found train at Victoria. Cab there & caught it by ½ a minute. Douglas Gordon in carriage. To Dover. Squall of rain. Saw Churchward. Very pretty tall girl. Did not X. To Lord Warden. Good lunch. After saw McIlvaine. Walk on pier. Waited for Belgian boat & left 3.30. Up to Charing X at 6.0pm. Bus home by self. Good light in bus. 'Phos' light. M in drawing room. Wrote ½ a dozen letters. Roy back. Lennie & Will Oakes had called & Daggles. Roy back in evening & M, Roy & self dined quietly together. Roy great on Edgar Allan Poe. Bed 11.30 after snooze. (Red ink: Went down to Dover woth Douglas Gordon. Did not X Channel on acct of squalls of rain & wind.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Amalia Stohwasser. Funeral of Edward Onslow Ford. Funeral of Sir J.Henry Gilbert.)
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Monday December 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & walk around Campden Hill. Quite warm, 50º. Wet. After Roy went to City. Put room in order etc. At 12.0 went & had interview with Mr W.W.Richardson at Bank. Found I was about £500 better off than I thought. Back. After lunch developed May Hayden décolleté & legs of M.R. Dated photos. Dined at 7.0 & M & Roy went by carriage to His Majesty's Theatre to see The last of the Dandies. Self followed outside bus & on & called C.C. Letter from M.R. On to theatre. Harold Messel in box. Large sumptuous box. Saw play & out & home by carriage. Smoke & to bed. (Red ink: M, Roy & self went to see 'The last of the Dandies'. Harold Messel in box.)
Tuesday December 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Dark & damp. Usual walk. Roy to go to Nymans. Settled about his guns etc. Otley to take his bag by 5.5 to London Bridge. Gave Roy his check. After M went to Mite's 11.45am in carriage. Self up to Garrick & C.C. Lunched with Seymour Hicks. Story of the waiter from Garrick spitting on old Crabb's oysters. Out & to C.C. Waited until 3.5, an hour, when M.R. came. Too dark to take any but 2 morning dress photos. Out & to Bath Club. Xmas box to bathroom attendant. Turkish bath & hair cut. Home. Walked to Knightsbridge, bus home. Not a soul had called on poor M. M & self dined quietly. Put denture in, not quite so uncomfortable but horrid all the same. Nice letter from Phil Agnew. Railway pass for 1902 from Mr Vincent C.Hill. Bed at 11.15, M knocking. Slept the New Year in.
Addresses and notes on back pages:
Great Central Railway: General Manager Sir W.Pollitt. Scy O.S.Holt, Genl Managers Office, London Road Station, Manchester Station Manager, Marylebone: W.Monckton.
Midland Railway General Manager J.Mathieson Esq. Secy A.L.Chantes, office Derby.
Great Northern Railway
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General Manager C.Stead. Secretary W.latta, Kings X.
Glasgow & South Western Railway David Cooper General manager. St Enoch Station, Glasgow.
Highland Railway Company T.A Wilson General Manager. Inverness.
Caledonian Rly Company Sir J.Thompson Generl Manager 302 Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
R.Millar Esquire, (illeg)
Sir James Thompson, Wm Hamilton (for Perth) Inspector West Coast Railways, Perth Station.
Great Eastern Railways General Managers Office, Liverpool Street Station. S.F.S Gooday Esquire.
Palace Theatre: Charles Weston, Philip Yorke. Drury Lane: Arthur Collins, Sidney Smith. London Hippodrome: Henry W.Garrick Cranbourne St, Leicester Sq, W.C. Poss Representation.
Lester Elliott, 9 Museum St, High Holborn W.C. W.G.Browning, 121 Sumaton Rd, West Hampstead.
1st went to Camera Club April 6th, 1893. (List of models and dates.)
C.Richards. Tuesday Feby 15, '98.
2 Cookes. Tuesday Mar 1 '98
L.Cooke. Tuesday March 8 '98,
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Tuesday March 15 '98 Tuesday March 29 '98.
Derben. Wednesday March 8 '93 Saty Apl 15, '93 Wednesday Sep 12 '94.
Green. Sunday Dec 17 '93 Sunday Mar 11 '94 Monday * April 1 '95 Wednesday * Nov 20 '95 Wednesday * Apl 29 '96 Saturday * Dec 26 '96.
Rose. Mrs Sands Oh! Sunday Aug 19 '94 Monday Nov 26 ‘94 Sunday Mar 10 '95 Wednesday Oct 30 '95.
Easton. Saturday Aug 1 '91 Saturday Aug 8 '91 Thursday Aug 20 '91 Wednesday Sep 30 '91 Sunday July 30 '93.
Pettigrew. Monday May 4 '91 Wedy Aug 5 '91. Saty Aug 22 '91, 2 Miss Petts.
A.Fletcher. May 7 '93
Mrs King & Derben. Saturday Apl 15 '93.
Mrs King. 1: Thurs Mar 16 '93 2: Saturday Apl 15 '93
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3: Wednesday July 12 '93, 4: Wednesday Apl 18 '94 5: Wednesday Jany 16 '95 6: Sunday Oct 13 '95 7: Monday Mar 25 '96 8: Wednesday Oct 31 '00, 9: Tuesday Apl 25 '01.
Rose Woodcock. Saturday Nov 23 '01.
Langtrey. Wednesday April 4 '00 Thursday April 12 '00 Wednesday Jany 25 '01.
Gordon. Saturday Nov 5 '98 Sunday Jan 15 '99.
Lofthouse. Monday Sep 23 '96 Wednesday Sep 30 '96 Friday Jany 15 '97 Tuesday Mar 15 '98 Wednesday Dec 21 '98.
L.G. 1: Wednesday Oct 6 '97 2: Sunday Oct 31 '97 3: Saturday Jan 29 '93 4: Saturday Apl 16 '93 5: Saturday May 7 '93 6: Saturday 1 May 21 '93 7: Saturday 2 June 4 '93. 8: Saturday 3 June 18 '93. 9: Saturday 4 July 16 '93.
Williams. Wednesday July 12 '99 Monday Nov 21 '99
Sibley.
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Saturday Oct 28 '99 Saturday Jany 6 '00 Saturday Jany 20 '00.
Herbert. Monday July 16 '00 Monday Aug 27 '00
Mabel Hall. 1: Monday Jany 23 '99 2: Monday Feb 20 '99 3: Wednesday Apl 19 '99 4: Thurs May 18 '99 5: Mon June 26 '99 6: Sunday July 23 '99 7: Saty Aug 12 '99 8: Sun Mar 25 '00 9: Monday Sep 24 '00 10: Wedy Oct 3 '00 11: Saty Dec 22 '00 12: Wedy Jany 23 '01 13: Saty Feby 16 '01 14: Monday Feby 25 '01 15: Monday Apl 1 '01 16: Saturday May 25 '01 17: Saturday July 15 '01 18: Thursday Aug 8 '01.
Warwick. Saturday July 7 '00 Wednesday Oct 10 '00 Saturday May 25 '01 Saturday July 13 '01.
B Jessop. 1: Saturday Sep 24 '98 2: Saturday Oct 1 '98 3: Wednesday Oct 5 '98 4: Wednesday Oct 15 '98 5: Monday Feby 6 '99 6: Monday Apl 26 '99 8: Wednesday June 14 '99
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9: Wednesday Sep 27 '99 10: Wednesday Nov 8 '99 11: Saturday May 12 '00 12: Wednesday Nov 7 '00 13: Thursday Dec 20 '00 14: Tuesday Apl 30 '01 15: Tuesday June 24 '02 16: Thursday Apl 7 '04.
E.Jessop. Wedy Nov 8 '99 Wedy Dec 6 '99 Wedy Dec 27 '99 Wedy Jany 31 '00 Wedy Feby 28 '00 Wedy Aug 8 '00 Thursday Aug 30 '00 Wednesy Sep 26 '00 Saturday Nov 24 '00 Tuesday Mar 12 '01 Wednesday Oct 8 '02.
R Morgan. 1: Monday Jany 14 '01 2: Monday Jany 21 '01 3: Monday Jany 28 '01 4: Monday Feby 11 '01 5: Saturday June 22 '01.
M. Haydon 1: Tuesday June 11 '01 2: Wednesday Nov 6 '01.
G.C. Noble. Sunday Dec 1 '01.
M. Reid. 1: Wedy 19 June '01 2: Wedy 26 June '01 3: Tuesday 2 July '01 4: Wednesday 10 July '01 5: Wednesday * 17 July '01 6: Tuesday * 23 July '01
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7: Monday * 29 July '01 8: Wednesday * 25 Sep '01 9: Wednesday 2 Oct '01 10: Wednesday 9 Oct '01 11: Tuesday * 31 Dec '01 12: Monday * 13 Jan '02 13: Tuesday * 28 Jan '02 14: Saturday * 8 Feb '02 15: Saturday ** 15 July '02 16: Tuesday ** 4 March '02, 17: Tuesday ** 11 March '02 18: Wednesday * 26 March '02 19: Wednesday * 30 Apl '02 20: Friday 26 Sep '02.
Miss A.Langley, 27 Simpson St, Battersea. Miss M Hall, 13 Stanbridge Rd, Putney 94 Hotham Road, Putney S.W. Miss Maud Fletcher, 24 Hardcastle St, High St, Peckham S.E. Miss Jessie Woodcock, 8 St Augustine's Rd, Camden Town. Miss Jessops, Holly House Farm, Stanford Rivers, Romford. Miss Best, 20 Newman St, Oxford St, W. W.Jameson, 26 Reedworth St, Kennington Rd, S.E. (Two names & addresses crossed out, possibly Dorothy Seton & Mrs King.) Ruby Morgan, 1 Springvale Terrace, West Kensington, W. Miss Ethel Warwick, 14 Edith Villas, West Kensington, W. Miss Ethel Bantock, 111 Coningham Road, Shepherds Bush, W. C.Lilford Delph, 33b Tamworth St, Fulham, S.W. Miss Smith, 2 Loring Villas, Loring Road, Isleworth, W. Rose Woodcock, 1 Kingsley Rd, Willesden Lane, Kilburn, N.W. M.K, c/o Mrs Elsen, The Lodge, West Heath House, West Heath Road, Hampstead. W.Cox, 39 Sutherland St, Pimlico, S.W. G.A.Daggs, 59 Tabor Road, Hammersmith, W. M.Haydon, 3 Redesdale Street, Tedworth Square, Chelsea.
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