LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1902 Loose sheets inside front cover: Score card for shoot as Easton Park Notes made at Easton Park, Wickham Market Notes made at Apethorp Hall, Wansford. Notes and addresses on preliminary pages: Store Ticket for 1902: 89162 Miss M.M.Dangerfield, Bars Kimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Army & Navy Stores, Managing Director, W.Pheysey Esq. Bylaugh Park Shoot, Nov 99, Jany 1901. Athenaeum Secretary, Henry R.Tedder. G.D.Armour, Etchilhampton House, Devizes. A.Bellini's, Hanover Hotel & Restaurant, 6 & 8 Mill Street, W. Day, Lehmann Schipperke. Maurice de Bonvoisin, 53 Rue Pierre Charron. Sir Benjamin Baker, Bowden Green, Pangbourne, Berks. Camera Club. Secy, M.Cromack. L.R.Gotz, 215 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. Easton Park Shoot, Jany '97, Oct '97, Jany '00, Jany '02. George Grossmith's Secy, Cecil Breton Esquire. Earls Court Exhibition, Gordon Hunter Esquire. Motor Car. Wolff's. Societé Anonyma des Automobiles. Peugeut. Lille (Nord). Constuction Breveté, S.C.D.G. No 1339. Agent, Friswell, 48 Holborn Viaduct. P.Meagher, 172 Pentonville road, W.C. Cap'n Adrian Jones, 147 Church Street, Chelsea, S.W. Lamb Hotel, Ely. Frank Moyes, P. McIlvaine, Clarence W. 32 Portland Place, W. P.Meagher, 299 Goldhawk Road W. B.Morris. 'The Citizen', 15 Copthall Avenue, E.C. William Spooner, 379 in the Strand, W.C. L.Raven Hill, Battle House, Bromham, Nr Chippenham, Wilts. John I.Thorneycroft & Co, Church Wharf, Chiswick. Thorneycroft, Donaldson Esq, 19 West Cliff Road, Ramsgate. Stace, 46 Carminia Road, Bedford Hill, Balham, S.W. Taxes. Late Mr Fisher. George Howe, Office of Surveyor of Taxes, Wrights Lane. Slate. 9 & 10 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, London W.C. Soap (Courts Castile) 6 lbs, 6d. 3/s. ordinary large bar sent. Richards, H.Erle, 50 Leinster Gardens, W. 1 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1902 The Slate, 15 Whitefriars St, Fleet St, E.C. Richard Rose, 28a South Audley Street, W. Sands Hunter & Co, 20 Cranbourne Street, L.Sq. W.C. Spielman & Co, 101 St Martin's Lane. Waterbury Watches, Allan Ross & Co. 66 Holborn Viaduct, E.C. Watney (Claude) Garston Manor, Watford, Herts. Woodbury Gallery, 37 New Bond Street. E.P.Halton Esq. Watney (Vernon) Fannich, Lochluichart, N.B. Cornbury Park, Charlbury, Oxfordshire. (Small drawing, 3 heads) L.Alma Tadema's 138 x 15 12/13 caricature of Irishman & wife. With a coin. (Cutting glued in: Sale of Skibo Castle. Jan 1, 1902.) Wednesday January 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Tired. A fine bright morning. Roy & Lennie shooting at Nymans. Usual walk round C.H. M went to Stores at 11.0am. Printed about 50 blues, legs etc, M.H. Wrote thanks for railway pass etc etc. Wore denture at breakfast 1st time. Horrid. Put things away in drawers etc & developed the last of M.R's legs. Left at 6.5 for the Punch dinner. Horridly bad tempered looking woman in bus. To Punch dinner. Up in room. Told Partridge about his ugly old Liberal Party. F.C.B, self, R.H, A à B, O.S, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Pleasant dinner. Settled for my being away the next 2 weeks. Long talk. Picture puzzles. Home by bus. Roy up. Came back with 2 duck. Bed at 12.30. Notice of me in the Westminster. (Red ink: Fine bright morning. Settled to be away next week.) Thursday January 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & usual walk. had a turn out at 5.0am. Something disagreed with me last night. Lentils? After breakfast skemed subject of Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum. Stace came late at 12.0 & photod him. Got all ready by 3.45. Quite mild weather. M at Mite's. Never came up in my room. M, Roy & self dined quietly together. Patience after. Read Sherlock Holmes in the Strand. Annoyed at my being put out of my place in the Strand Magazine. Wrote to Mr Dolman who wrote it. Bed at 12.0. More or less upset inside all day. (Cutting glued in: The wife of Edmund Blair Leighton, of a daughter.) Friday January 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & usual walk. After wrote letters. At 10.30 went on with drawing of Tweedledum & Tweedledee. Worked all day up to 9.30 when finished. M & self dined quietly together. Roy at Mite's. Diarrhoea came on before going to bed. Must be the red cabbage. Bed at 12.5am. Saturday January 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Sleepy. My birthday. Out round Campden Hill. Gave old W 2d. Man digging at top of Phillimore Gardens. Breakfast. Present from dear M & Mite. Darling Baby came round & wished me a Happy New 2 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1902 Year. Roy & madiera. Up in room. Very seedy with D & slightly sick. Wrote labels. Put photos away in the morning. Lunch. Left in carriage with M & went up to the Haymarket Theatre & saw 'Frocks & Frills'. Cyril Maude & Miss Grace Lane. Good. Out & direct home in the carriage. Very wet. Dressed & dined 7.0pm. Roy in late. Was to have gone with Roy to 1st night of Hare's revival of the Pair of Spectacles at the Criterion but did not as I felt altogether too tired & seedy. So Roy went alone. He had supper with Arthur Cusans. Went to bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Went with M in afternoon to see 'Frocks & Frills'. 57 years old today.) Sunday January 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Walked up Hornton Street to avoid sweepers. Fine morning. Put things straight & printed a lot of blues. Took M for a walk to top of Row. Saw Mrs Fritz Jackson. Home by bus. Roy at Mite's. After wrote many letters. Spencer called & up in my room. Still seedy with D. Quiet dinner, M, Roy & self, & bed at 11.30 after. (Red ink: Seedy the last few days. Lentils.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Ellen Howell. Death of George James.) Monday January 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & out for usual walk. Still upset by diarrhorea. After in morning put things straight etc. Miss Gill at lunch. Photod 5/s piece, a penny & a 20 franc piece. Developed etc. At 5.0pm left & went over by bus to see dear Mite & brought M back by the 2d tube. Horrid & crowded. Dressed & dined at 7.15. After M & Roy & self went to see a play called The Twin Sister. Lily Brayton good. H.B.Irving, Norman Forbes Robertson & also Ben Webster. 4 ladies in row of stalls in front kept looking round. Left & home by carriage. Sandwiches & bed at 12.30am. (Red ink: M, Roy & self went to see at the Duke of York's 'The Twin Sister'.) Tuesday January 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out for usual walk. Breakfast. Had headache & felt out of sorts. Roy off to City. In morning wrote letters. Put phos away & destroyed a good many plates. Luncheon. Got off in cart at 2.10pm & drove to Liverpool St. There 3.0pm. Caught the 3.25pm train & down to Wickham Market. Coldish. Lucas on platform. Mr Newman, Mr Lucas (cousin) & Sir Arthur & Lady Grant down. Drove to Easton Park with Lucas. After tea up in room & put things away & dressed. Dinner 8.15pm. Took Miss Elphinstone in. Good dinner. Talk in drawing room. Lost 2/6 at pool & bed at 11.45. Kept awake by clock. Stopped it. (Red ink: Went down to Colonel Lucas's shoot.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of John Brett. Obituary Mr John Brett, A.R.A.) Wednesday January 8 Easton Park, Wickham Market. Up 7.30. Had been kept awake by the clock which I stopped at 4.0am. Breakfast 8.30. Dull but good shooting morning. Hour's drive & began 10.15am. 6 guns. Sir Arthur Grant, Col Lucas, Mr Lucas, Mr Newman, Mr Elphinstone, self. Got 41 pheasants, 5 partridges, 1 hare. Burnt my finger with cigar & spoilt the afternoon. Delightful day. Lunch at a farm house. Home 5.15. Tea & wrote letters etc. Letter from M. Dinner. 3 LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1902 Took Mrs Lucas in. Roulette. Sir A.Grant sloped off. Lost 1/s. Bed 11.30. No billiards. Slept well. (Red ink: 1st day's shoot at Wickham Market.) Thursday January 9 Easton Park, Wickham Market. Up 7.0am. Same sort of morning as yesterday. Down 8.15. Took 2 photos in bad light of the hall. After breakfast started 9.15. Went to same house as Lord Darnley had 2 years ago. Very good shoot. Got to own guns 57 pheasants, 2 hares, 5 rabbits, 1 woodcock. 65 head. Same guns as yesterday. Finger hurt me from gun. Amusing stories home. Sir A.Grant 'You sprinkle corn in England & it comes up pheasants. In Scotland & it comes up vexation & abuse'. Boer women as much morals as uniform. Old Scotch illicit distilling woman & sovereign. Scotch keeper & hock, 'I just thought it was some new sort of soda water'. Story of little man named Crane, a ventriloquist, in girl's room. Pillow case. 'I'm here'. Late down for dinner. Next Mrs Lucas. Roulette after. Lost 5/s. Smoke & bed 11.45pm. Read A Solitary Summer. (Red ink: 2nd day's shoot Wickham Market.) Friday January 10 Easton Park, Wickham Market. Up 8.0am. Letters. Wire forwarded from Mrs D'Arcy to put off next week's shooting. Nuisance. Down. Good R. Breakfast. Took 6 photos of house. All left at 10.0 in carriage. Began shooting in covert coat suit. Got in all 35 pheasants, 3 partridges. Lunch. Ladies out. Got 5 good shots & one right & left with Mrs Lucas sitting by.