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Entries in front of Diary:
Mrs Annie Hall Morgan, 96 Beaufort St, Elm Park Gardens.
F. MODELS ADDRESS.
(Derben) Mrs K Lawford, 112 George's Road, Newcastle on Tyne.
Marie Bowey, 75 Disraeli Road, Putney.
Tall very pretty model age 20.
Kitty Linnington, 17 Danvers St, Paulton Square, Chelsea.
Aged 17. Dark girl, good looking. Good figure.
L.Cooke, 21. 2 Thanet Street, Euston Road.
Tall, fair, good looking, good figure. Also sister age 19. Tall, fair, slim.
A.E.Green, 3 Queens Buildings, High St, Cheltenham.
L.G.Griffin, 5 Park Crescent Mews West. P.P.
L.Jessop, Holly Lodge, Forest Rd, Walthamstow.
Auguste Mani, 19 Adelaide Road, Richmond S.W.
A. Fletcher, 60 Frederick St, Grays Inn Road.
Annie Price (age 22) 2 Goodson Rd, Fulham.
Mrs Sands, 82 Gloucester Terrace W.
L.Griffin, Weaveland Road, Tisbury, Wilts.
1 Montpelier Row, Knightsbridge S.W.
Daisy Williams, 3 Winchester Terrace, Putney.
19 Clonmore Street, Southfields, S.W.
C.Powell, 27 Rupert St, Shaftesbury Avenue.
C.Richards, 48 Achilles Rd, Fortune Green, West Hampstead, N.W.
or Bolson Rd. 19 Bolton Road, Abbey Rd, N.W.
S.Bakewell, Burlington Hotel.
RAILWAY MANAGERS.
Joe Wilkinson, Genl Manager G.W.Rly.
J.Gooday, new Manager, L.B & S.C Rly.
C.I.Owens Esqre, London & S.W.Rly, General Managers Off, H.Liddell Esqr,
Waterloo St, S.E.
W.R.Stevens Esqre, S.E.Rly Secretary's & Chief Office
London Bridge Station S.E.
C.Sheath, Depy Secy.
The Decorations Company, 10 Green St, Leicester Square.
Met at the Hickmans, 1st May;
M.A. Braunstein Esq, 15 Hyde Park Gate S.W.
Marshall Hall, 3 Temple Gardens E.C.
Sidney Low, 2 Durham Place, Chelsea, S.W.
Marshall Hall.
Mrs K Lawford, Albert House, Felday Road, Catford, S.E.
Bernard Partridge, 20 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W.
Manager L & County Bank, Oxford: F.M.Davies Esqre
Poncho overcoat. Recommended by Mr Kelly:
Pim Bros Ltd, South St George's Street, Dublin.
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Edwin Tate, Blackmoor, Petersfield.
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4.10pm for Liss Station. 8 Sep.
James Rimell & Sons, 91 Oxford Street, W. Printsellers.
Herbert Weld Blundell, Glendoe Lodge, Fort Augustus, N.B.
Telegraph & Boat Station, Fort Augustus 2 miles.
11.30 boat & 3.0 boat Inverness.
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Oct 14. Miss Temple, The Cedars Wood Street, High Barnet.
V.P.Model. Tall graceful figure.
Oct 5. Miss Maud Sewell, 8 Chesson Rd, West Kensington.
Good figure.
Oct 6. The Misses Carrington, 9 Redburn St, Chelsea.
1.20 1.18. Youngest best.
Oct 6. Mrs Johnson, 30 Penywern Rd, Earls Court.
Good looking. Tall & graceful.
Oct 11. Miss Morris, 24 Elsham Rd, Kensington.
Slim figure. Pretty hands.
Miss Gladys King, 136 Disraeli Rd, Putney.
About 18. dark, short.
Miss Gordon, 31 Royal Avenue, Chelsea.
Tall, fair, good figure.
Miss Winifred Mollet.
Miss Kitty Betheridge, 10 Phillips Terrace, Westbourne Square.
Pretty figure both..
Miss Delia Alarkin, 121 Chesterton Road, North Kensington.
Age 19. Dark.
Miss Ethel Dixon 12 Avenue Road, The Grove,
Hammersmith Rd, W.
Tall, good looking. Also 2 younger sisters who sit draped.
Miss Marie St Clare, Ringwood, Chadwell Heath.
Classic. Fair, good figure.
Given by Mrs Hall-Morgan, 147 Beaufort St, South Kensington.
Miss Stevens, 17 Townsend Road, Richmond.
Miss Rachel Hall, 13 Stanbridge Road, Putney.
Miss Bowson, 44 Aynhoe Rd, Brook Green W.
Age 19. Head & costume only.
Emily Hutchins, 2 Emily St, Westbourne Square, Harrow Rd.
Sits to Solomon.
Miss Morris, 24 Elsham Road, Kensington.
Fair, slim figure.
Miss Maud Fletcher, 24 Hardcastle St, High Street, Peckham, S.E.
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Saturday January 1
Stafford Terrace. x. Up at 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill. After got to work
at 10.0 & finished by 1.30 drawing of Emperor (German) as Crummles.
Lunch. Dressed & off by 3.0 to the Private View of the Millais Exhibition. Saw
many friends. Aitchison, Mr Aird, Rivière etc etc. Rooms very hot. Frith
looking a withered old man. Out & M & self walked nearly home. Put M in bus
& she thought had dropped muff. Got mud up trowsers. Home just in time to
dress for dinner & off in carriage at 7.30 for 1st night of Peter the Great at the
Lyceum. Again many friends. Poor play well received. Dull & heavy. Round at
back. Saw Inderwick, Mrs Harold Roller, Dickens, Helen Hardman & many
others. Introduced Cartwright to M. Arthur à B at supper as usual. Home by
carriage in wet at 1.15pm. Bed at 2.0am. Had sent Otley to Stores in the
morning. (Red ink: Went to Millais Exhibition & to 1st night of 'Peter the
Great'.)
Sunday January 2
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Very bad head ache. Breakfast. After sat in chair
& sorted Times etc. Took M for a walk up the Row. Sent her home by bus.
Saw very distinguished lady at top of Row. Also Mr & Mrs Wheeler, Miss
Crozier that was. On by bus to the Garrick Club. Lunched with Beetle & young
Sullivan (son of Sir Fred Sullivan). Talk of Messel to him after. Sleepy
upstairs. After to Athenaeum. Wrote letters & left 7.0 for home by bus. Fanny
Barker, Alice Linley & Miss Rose Innes dined. Pleasant dinner. They left 11.0
& 11.45 respectively. Bed 12.0. Tired. Slept well. Saw very long funeral, Mr
Lyons Refreshment Contractor. (Red ink: Ought to have Xd Channel. Fanny
Barker & Alice & Miss Rose Innes dined with us quietly.)
Monday January 3
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Fog. Walked round Campden Hill. Breakfast.
After mended a lot of things with glue etc. Looked over letters etc. Lunch. At
2.15 M & self went & looked over No 19 Phillimore Gardens where the
Archers used to live. After had hair cut & called on Chesterton. Had talk.
Home & tidied up things etc. M & self dined together quietly had bottle
Zeltsinger. Read after dinner & bed early.
Tuesday January 4
Stafford Terrace. Birthday. Letter from Roy. Short. Up at 8.30 & got ready for
Calais. Left at 10.25, cab from Met. High St. Down with 2 severe men. On
board met Sir Alex'r & Lady Mackenzie, Cartwright wife & daughter & also
Percival who I talked to took for McIlvaine. Only thought of it afterwards. Good
passage. Not so good a lunch. After back. Met Mr Hutton. Carriage by self
home. Left book in the train. S.T at 8.0. Otley met me with the carriage. Quiet
dinner with M. Had bottle of 1885 Champagne, Ayala. Very good. Bed at
11.15 early. (Red ink: Birthday. Xd Channel to Calais. Met Sir Alex Mackenzie
& Cartwright.)
Wednesday January 5
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. M in bed. Walk round C.H. After in morning
put bath room drawers right & after lunch developed 14 2 Jessop plates. M
out in carriage. Dressed & on by bus to call on Fk Barr. Met Mrs Armstrong in
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the omnibus. Long talk with Mr B altogether same as we were. On in wet to
Garrick. Gave Cole Xmas box. Saw Bancroft & Bendall. After to P.D. F.C.B,
J.T, A à B, self, O.S, P.M, E.T.R, H.W.L. Very long discussion. No cut for self.
Getting tired & weary of playing 2nd fiddle all these years & wish I could get
out of it. Left at 11.0 with J.T & home by cab & bus. Lennie M had dined with
M, & poured his woes in ear of M. Bed at 12.15am. Pouring wet all day.
Thursday January 6
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out round Campden Hill. After having no
subject wrote one & sent drawing to Sidney Jennings etc. Printed back photos
etc. M in bed. Warm morning. Thermometer 63° with window wide open. Tip
came round. Printed phos. At 1.15 subject of German Emperor making up as
Chinese came. Left after lunch with M at 3.0 in carriage & went up from Hyde
Park Corner by bus to St Martin's Lane. Called on Evereds & after bought 2
bronzes a Mercury & a Fortuna for £7 in Long Acre. Called Garrick for tea.
Wrote 6 or 7 letters. Home by bus. Called & selected Eagle Helmet. Dined
8.0, M & self. Bed after reading at 11.30pm. Lennie Messel had influenza &
went home ill. (Cutting glued in: The wife of G.Llewellyn Davies, of a son.)
Friday January 7
Stafford Terrace. Lovely day up at 8.30. Walk round Campden Hill & after
schemed subject of German Emperor as Chinese. Photod Otley at 11.30.
Enlarged & got all ready by lunch time. After rest. M out. Work at 3.15 to
8.30pm. Eclipse of the moon. Dined & read till 11.0. Snooze & bed 12.15. M
woke up feeling seedy & had to leave bed. Had eaten sardines. Slept at last
2.0am. Most lovely day, 65° with window open & small fire. (Cuttings glued in:
Death of Ernest Hart. Marriage of John Scrimgeour to Jessie Greig. Marriage
of Frank Eland to Dora Scrimgeour.)
Saturday January 8
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. M had been very ill in the night. Down & after
breakfast go to work to finish German Emperor as Chinese. Began 9.45 up to
1.30. M in bed. After lunch at 2.20 went in carriage to Duke of York's Theatre
& saw with M & Midge 'A Happy Life'. Very well played. Miss Dorothea Baird
pretty. Put M & Midge in carriage & went to the Garrick & wrote letters & had
tea. Talk to Chitty & Hare. Out called C.C got letter from L.G. Home by bus &
called & bought fruit. Dinner at 8.15pm. M playing after. Wrote diary & letters.
Jury summons served by a postman. (Red ink: Went to matinée of 'A Happy
Life', Duke of York's Theatre.) (Cutting glued in: The will of the late Dr Evans.)
Sunday January 9
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Went by buss to Victoria & on to Calais & back.
Met Lewis, his brother & a son of Bouverie Godard's. Delightful passage. Talk
to Lewis about Barr Estate. Lunch at Calais. Back. Met Sir Thos Sutherland
on the boat. Back to town punctually 7.30. M & self dined alone. Read to M
about Charles Keen. M sleepy & tired. Attack of P. Bed at 11.30pm. (Cuttings
glued in: Death of Henry Stacy Marks. Obituary of Stacy Marks.)
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Monday January 10
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. After went short cycle ride across Park. Back.
After breakfast tidied up. Wrote letters etc etc. Roy back from Nymans at
10.0am. Printed phos. M seedy with P & in pain. Sent Roy after lunch to
Miles's. Rested & read after. Put things in order etc. Dined quietly, M, Roy &
self. Disappointed with Punch after. Bed at 11.45 after rest. (Red ink: M not
well.) (Cutting glued in: Article critical of the German Emperor.)
Tuesday January 11
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Down & after breakfast put away things. Left
10.10 & over to Calais. Saw Lewis standing at his door in wedding get up.
Down with Cook's agent. Lovely Xing. Good lunch. Not one soul I knew both
Xings. Curious little woman with shawl. No chin & red nose sitting. 2 brothers
like Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee. Got cigars etc & back. Lovely breeze. Saw
Cape Griz Nez lighted up at 4.33 exactly. Waited at Dover. Back 10 minutes
late. Home in good hansom. M, Roy & self dined quietly. Read story in
Scribner's Magazine after. Bed 12.30am after pipe. (Red ink: Lewis's brother
married. Went by self to Calais.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Prince Victor
Duleep Singh to Lady Anne Coventry. Birthday of Mr Villiers, 96, 'Father of
the House of Commons'.)
Wednesday January 12
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. x. After breakfast did not go out. Printed phos &
wrote on drawings for G.Thompson, Mrs Grantham & B.P. Lunch. At 2.30 left
with M in the carriage for Vaudeville Theatre. Saw a stupid piece called
'Never Again'. Out at 5.0. Put M in carriage & after to Garrick. Wrote letters &
sent P.O.O. Walked at 6.30 to Punch dinner. Very full. All there but W.A &
L.B. F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, O.S, R.L, P.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G.
Longish discussion. Got cut of Justice & Dreyfuss Case. Took the Italian
Lithograph to the Punch dinner & advertisement of Milliken. Left with J.T at
11.0. Home by cab & bus. (Red ink: Went to matinee of 'Never Again'. Full
Punch dinner. All the staff there.) (Cutting glued in: Advertisement for backer
for plays by the late E.J.Milliken.)
Thursday January 13
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round Park & thro' Bayswater. Road
shockingly greasy. Breakfast. After fog came on as black as night. Electric
Lights. Wrote letters etc in morning. M still seedy with P. Skemed subject at
11.30 & looked out photos. Did not take any. Worked till 7.0 when dressed.
Walked on as far as Queens Gate. M caught me up in carriage & on to dine
at the Steincopffs. Took Miss Young in to dinner. Sir W.H.Russell, Lord
Claude Hamilton, Mr Knight Walker, Sir Whittaker & Lady Ellis & many others.
Sir H & Lady Bergne. Steinkopff got up a dinner for servants etc. Left by
carriage at 11.15 & home. Roy late back at 1.0am. He had had young Pollock
to dine & took him to the Gaiety Theatre where they had a delightful box.
(Red ink: Dined with M at the Steinkopffs. Sir W.H.Russell took me for Lord
Shand.)
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Friday January 14
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. After worked all day on
drawing of Justice & Closed Door. Dark & artificial light all day. Left off at
5.30. Dressed & walked up to dine with Miss Rose Innes at the Berkeley. Mr
Gilmer, M, Roy & self, Mr & Mrs Barrow, Mr Orlebar, the pretty Chilean. 9 in
all. Most excellent dinner & after a double box at the Criterion to see The
Liars. Most excellent. Saw Lucas & his wife. Miss Rose Innes went off to see
the McQueens Ball. M, Roy & self home along the wood. Letters etc & to bed
at 12.30am. Dined with Miss Rose Innes at the Berkeley. All went to see The
Liars afterwards. (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Captain G.A.Bramwell to
Louisa Buzzard. Death of Sir Polidore de Keyser.)
Saturday January 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Did not go out. Dark again. Electric Light in
morning. Worked till 1.30 & finished figure of Justice & Closed Door. M & Roy
went off to Garrick Theatre. Followed by cab at 2.30. Saw them & Dora sitting
in the vestibule. Had gone on the wrong day. Walked to the Prince of Wales's
Theatre & had excellent box for La Poupée. Saw it for 4 th time. Sent M, Roy &
Dora home by carriage. To Athenaeum. Wrote many letters. Left stamps &
lost them. Home by bus with Pepys Cockerell. Dinner 8.15. Bed after reading
What is Life? at 12.0am, no 11.30 pm. Disappointed wrong day at the
Pantomime. Went to La Poupée for the 4 th time. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary
of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. 15.2. Wills of
Charles Lutwidge Dogson and Aubrey Beardsley.)
Sunday January 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.55. x. Cold raw foggy day. Left & went to Calais &
back. Roy was to have gone. Bus to H.P.C. Pirate. Saw Green who put me in
corridor carriage. Extraordinary pretty woman on board turned out to be a Mrs
Langton, husband Captn in 14 Hussars going out to Uganda. Very cold.
Lunch as usual. Met Burney Yeo & Mr Hutton coming back. Victoria 7.40.
Home 8.0pm. M, Roy & self at dinner. Wrote letters after. No one had called.
(Red ink: Very cold. Crossed Channel. Lovely passage.) Burney Yeo told me
of Apollinaris. How George Smith & Mr Steinkopff only originally put in £1000
each & drew at least £60,000 per annum. Ernest Hart got £3000 per annum &
£500 for consultations. Steinkopff got £1,150,000 for his share, Smith
£750,000 on sale. Ernest Hart's widow £1000 per annum for life. (Cutting
glued in: Death of Catherine Charsley.)
Monday January 17
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. No walk. Dark in morning. Wrote on drawings
for presents etc & put things straight. Left at 12.0 after writing letters & took
bus to Victoria. Called on Mr William Forbes about the passes. After to Club.
Lunch. Saw Scoones, Evans & after William Stone. On to Box Nº 8 at Garrick
Theatre & saw a miserable Pantomime, Cinderella. Stone came in box. Out
5.0. Met Dora, Roy & M, off in carriage & went to Athenaeum Club & read a
stupid book called The 4th Napoleon. Wrote letters. Old gent's name, Carr or
Kerr. Dinner, M, Roy & self. Roy grumpy & not at his best. Read after. Punch
came. Bed at 12.0. Very cold. Raw & damp. (Red ink: Called on William
Forbes. Went to Pantomime at Garrick. Very bad. Athenaeum after.)
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Tuesday January 18
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. Took Tip. Saw
Coward & 2 daughters. Lewis's house for sale & all the furniture. Tip ran
away. Beat him. After in morning wrote on drawings & printed phos. At 11.30
Mite came home. Much warmer. South wind & sun. After lunch cycled to
Richmond Park at 2.15. Home 4.45. No camp. Dressed. Mrs Colin Hunter
called. Roy went to Drury Lane Pantomime. Back at 6.15. Wrote letters etc.
Dinner 8.0. Miss Rose Innes, Mr Stone, M Roy, Mite & self. Champagne.
Crackers etc etc. They stayed till 12.20am. Dozed in chair till 2.0am. (Red ink:
Miss Rose Innes & Stone dined. Cycled to Richmond.) (Cutting glued in:
Edward Gregory and George Aitchison elected Academicians.)
Wednesday January 19
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round the Park. Roads greasy. After in
morning put photos away etc etc. Also cut paper for slides etc. Lunch. Roy
back. After enlarged 4 of Miss Green plates. George Wheat came to tea.
Roy's new things home. Very much warmer all day. At 6.5 left for Punch
dinner. Met Orton. By buss to Piccadilly Circus. Met Thorneycroft in carriage
or rather bus. Walked to Garrick. Beetle, & on to Strand. Bus to P.D.
Explanation with F.C.B about the spelling of the word L'affaire. Was spelt in
my drawing as L'afaire. Was altered somehow. F.C.B, J.T, self, O.S, A à B,
B.P, R.L, A.G. Talk of Broadley. Got subject of vampires. Left with J.T at 11.0
& home. Mite & Roy went with Miss Rose Innes to see Peter the Great. They
were home by 12.0 or 11.45. Read till 1.0 & bed. Much warmer. E.J Gregory
& Thos (sic) Aitchison alected R.A's, H Le Thange & Lionel Smyth A.R.A's.
(Cuttings glued in: Death of Emily Oxley. Obituary Signor Nicolini, husband of
Adelina Patti. )
Tuesday January 20
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walked round Campden Hill. Saw furniture
for sale at Moray Lodge. Took name of auctioneer etc. Roy packing for
Oxford. Lunch. Photod Roy in chair as M.P in my old long grey coat.
Developed & enlarged it. Got to work at 4.0pm. Roy dined at 6.30 & left at
7.30pm in a 4 wheeler for Oxford. Gave him £5. After M, Mite & self dined
quietly by ourselves at 8.30pm. Bed after. (Red ink: Roy went to Oxford for 1st
time.)
Friday January 21
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill. Tip ran away &
back down Argyll Road. Beat him. After breakfast got to work on drawing of
M.P & Vampires & so on all day up to 7.15. Began to shade at 6.0pm.
Dressed & left in carriage with M to dine at Phil Agnew's. Met Mr & Mrs
Lockett Agnew, Mr & Mrs Walter Agnew & 2 others. A most excellent dinner,
A1 wine & all good. Music after & home at 11.15pm. M went up to see the
furniture etc on sale at Moray Lodge. Very good dinner at Phil Agnew's.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Jessy Spottiswoode.)
Saturday January 22
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill. After at 9.30
worked on M.P & Vampires. Finished at 1.10pm. Dressed hurriedly in brown
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suit & went off in carriage to Moray Lodge & looked over the things on sale.
Saw a broker. Back to lunch & at 2.35 left on cycle for Richmond. Met little
Froggy & Ionides etc. No sign of Mrs M. Round Park & home at 5.15. Wrote
letters. Tea in Schoolroom. After dressed & dined 7.0. Left in cab for Her
Majesty's. Stall D14. Sat next Marion Terry. Saw Lewis, Lord Russell, Sir
E.J.Poynter, Millets & many others. Bainbridge & Mrs Tweedie. Great success
of Julius Caesar. Franklin McLeay good & Lewis Waller, also Tree. Splendid
spectacle. Not over till 12.20. Walked on to the Garrick. Supper next Frank
Lucas (after volunteering). Saw Aynesworth & others. Home at 2.7am. Read
Harper & bed. (Red ink: Premiere of Julius Caesar.)
Sunday January 23
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9. Very tired. Breakfast. Got away & off to Victoria.
Old woman eating shrimps in bus. Down Dover. H.R.H the Duke & Duchess
of Connaught going over. Saw Mrs Morley & daughter. Also Willie Forbes & a
Mrs Bodilly, a barrister, Spencer Brunton & Mrs Bastard. Lovely passage.
Good lunch at Calais. Coming back saw Mrs Alexander. Another lovely
passage. Up to town in carriage with Forbes & Bodilly & Mr Pollock a
barrister. Talk about Rome etc. Back 9.55. Quiet dinner with M & Mite. Wrote
letters after. M & Mite to bed 11.0. Read book on South Seas & to bed at
12.0am. (Red ink: Crossed Channel with Duke & Duchess of Connaught & Mr
William Forbes.)
Monday January 24
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. walk with Tip round Campden Hill. In morning
interview with Mr Dale about White Star Calendar. Wrote many letters etc.
Lunch. A very bad attack of P came on. Could not ride cycle. M & Mite went
to the Stores. Took M.R & walk up Fitz John's Avenue. Back by 5.20. Tea.
Very warm wearher. P painful. After wrote on Water Baby drawings & wrote
letters. At 8.0 Mr & Mrs Croom & Conrad dined. 2 bottles Lanson. Good
dinner, M, Mite, self. They stayed on till nearly 12.0am. Read book on South
Seas after. Bed 12.45. Talk to Mr Croom (of Radley) of Oxford. Small home
dinner Mr & Mrs Croom & also Conrad. Sale at Moray Lodge. (Cuttings glued
in: Death of Louisa Wemyss. In Memoriam Louisa Wemyss. 1899. In
Memoriam Louisa Wemyss, 1908. Obituary Rev Walter Blunt.) Sale at Moray
Lodge.
Tuesday January 25
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am. After breakfast left in dog cart with Roy's
bicycle. Caught the 9.50 train down to Oxford. Carriage to self & all as
comfortable as possible. Left cycle & on by tram. Met Roy in his cap & gown.
In to his delightful rooms. Then to the Bodleian Museum. There till 1.15.
Lunch with Roy. Saw Mr Burge. Drew cheque for £37.10.0. Paid £45 for Roy
to draw on. Interview with Mr Davies. Took Roy to the Bank. After to the
football field. Back. Tea & home by the 4.30pm train. Got coat shut in door.
Home by bus. M had had a great many callers. Quiet dinner after. (Red ink:
Went down to Oxford & saw Roy in his new rooms. Delightful day.) Sir Thos
Bodley born March 2 1544. Picture at Library (miniature) painted 1598. Same
age as self 300 years before. Died 1612 aged 68. (Red ink: Sale at Moray
Lodge.)
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Wednesday January 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After in
morning wrote letters etc. Printed photos etc. Lunch. After at 2.30pm went on
cycle to Barnes and round Common. Waited about. Home. Tea. Changed &
wrote legends on Water Baby drawings for Fine Art Socy. Left at 6.0 & up by
bus to Piccadilly. Met no one. Called for Waterbury watch & also Camera
Club. On by bus to Punch dinner. F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L, P.M, B.P,
E.T.R, H.W.L. Last day but one in old room. Cheery dinner. Got subject of
Engineer returning to work. Home by J.T in cab & bus. Read W.G & to bed.
(Red ink: Sale at Moray Lodge.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Helen Savile
Clarke.)
Thursday January 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Out on cycle & round Park up thro
Gloucester St, Westbourne St etc & home by Bayswater. Breakfast. After
skemed subject of Engineer & returning to work. Sent Otley for overalls.
Delay. At 12.30 photod Ellis for 1st time & after at 1.40 Otley. Lennie Messel
to lunch. Took bus at 12.30 over to Bayswater & got wall with chevaux de
frieze. Developed them & enlarged after lunch by 4.0pm. M went out in
carriage. Mite went in coupé to New Gallery. Got to work at 4.45 & worked on
to 8.0pm when dined M & self. After read. Let Mite in at 11.30pm. Bed. (Red
ink: Sale at Moray Lodge.)
Friday January 28
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After to work
all day on drawing of Engineer going back to Work. Mite out at the Millais
Exhibition with Lennie & Hilda. Lunch. After to work at 3.10pm to 8.45. M &
self dined together at 9.0pm. At 10.15 worked & finished drawing carefully by
11.15pm. Mite back. Read South Sea Tales & bed at 1.0am.
Saturday January 29
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Grey morning. Down & breakfast. After M & self
had words about Mite's trousseau. Wrote cheques etc. Gave M £30 on acct.
After packed bags etc & got off in dog cart at 10.50. Drove to Victoria & put
bag & cycle into cloakroom. After by cart to Garrick. Called Mays & to C.C. Up
in Studio 12.50. L.G came at 12.40 looking ill & thin. Great change. No good
as model, only hair. Left at 3.0. Lunch in Studio. Out. Tea. Walk round
Leicester Square. To Garrick. Saw Bendall. Wrote letter. Cab to Victoria.
Caught 5.40pm train & down to Brighton. Took cycle. Met Leslie Ward
walking with 2 sticks. Had broken his knee cap. Dressed. Good dinner at 8.0.
Hartree, Cap'n Stopford, Leslie Ward & self. After dinner smoke & played
games. Bed 12.0. Slept well. (Red ink: Went down to Brighton to visit Hartree.
rd
Photod L.G, C.C, 3 time.)
Sunday January 30
The Bedford Hotel, Brighton. Called at 7.30. Out at 8.45 & went on cycle to
end of Brighton to Convalescent Home. Strong wind & rain after. Saw Hartree
at breakfast. Good breakfast. After wrote letters in Reading Room. Up in
Hartree's room 12.0. Went for hour's walk. Met Reynard, also Aird's son in
law & daughter. Lunch 1.45. Saw Dr Hastings & little Cole who used to play
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raquets at Forbes Winslow's. After put on knicks & cycled to Flints on road to
Dyke. Got back 3.0 to 4.0pm. Lay on bed. At 5.0 in Hartree's room. Gin &
ginger beer. Dressed & excellent dinner at 8.0pm. Smoke & game of tiddly
winks at H's room. Bed at 11.30 after smoke. (Red ink: Gale of wind & wet.
Cyclometer 3000 miles going down hill in morning near Bradford Hotel. See
July 5 1897, 2000 miles.) (Cuttings glued in: Death and Obituary of
W.T.C.Dobson, R.A.)
Monday January 31
The Bedford Hotel, Brighton. Up at 8.20. Most lovely bright sunny morning.
Saw Hartree & stopped at breakfast. Out on cycle & rode to Mrs Marsh's
Convalescent Home. Back by lower road. Very good breakfast. Ham
delicious. Packed & off by 10.40. Caught 11.0 train. Came across Sir Charles
Hall in 1st class compartment. Got a seat up to town. Sir C.H had left his
ticket. Gave his name. Home by cart with cycle. M & Mite all right. Lunch.
Found letter from Fine Art Socy. Cheque for £221.2.7. Also letter about
drawing of last week. Wrote & after at 2.20 went on cycle to Richmond, round
Park. At 4.0pm exactly at Barnes met 2 Miss Williams. Home by 5.15. Tea.
Tabs came. Dined 7.0pm. Left by 4 wheeler & on to Gaiety Theatre, Tabs, M
& self. Box G. Saw Roger & Mrs Wallace, also the Lindos. Home by 4
wheeler. Mite back. M found out she had left her little sable boa in the theatre.
Wrote 2 letters & posted them myself. Bed at 1.10am. (Red ink: Lovely day.
Came up from Brighton. Cycled to Richmond. Tabs at S.T. Went to Gaiety
Theatre.) (Red ink across page: Brighton. Richmond. Went to Gaiety Theatre
in the evening.)
Tuesday February 1
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.25. M in bed. Tabs down to breakfast. Had to have
Electric Light. After tidied up & put Electric Lights right in Drawing Room.
Printed photos. After lunch developed 28 plates taken Saty. Found had only
32 out of 40. Tabs left at 2.25. Many callers. Wrote letters. Found Mr Barr had
paid in £326.7.7 to my acct at L & C Bank. Lennie Messel in to dinner. Wrote
letters etc after. M very seedy. Read magazine & bed at 12.15am. (Cutting
glued in: Death of Hon Josceline Percy. F.1.)
Wednesday February 2
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Cycled round park. Past Mite's proposed house.
Phil Agnew saw me. Breakfast. After printed a great many blue photos.
Lunch. In afternoon rested & read etc. Sorted papers. M in bed & out after in
carriage. Left at 6.15 & on all way by buss to Punch dinner. Last dinner in old
room. F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L, P.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. 12 in all.
Good dinner. Long discussion after. On leaving said a skeleton would be
found walled up. F.C.B said 'It would only be an old joke'. By cab & bus home
with J.T. Read W.G & bed at 1.0am. (Red ink: Last Punch dinner in the old
room. Dined at the Criterion until Wedy May 24 '99.) (Cutting glued in:
B.W.Leader and J.Seymour Lucas elected Academicians.)
Thursday February 3
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Out on cycle round Park. Saw Pepys
Cockerell. Past Mite's house. Back. Breakfast. After wrote many letters.
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Skemed subject of Punch & 4 soldiers. At 12.30 photod Otley in khaki suit. He
told me his wife had been confined of a daughter last night. Cold & wet.
Lunch. Enlarged photos at 3.0pm. Sent Otley to Gregory's & Stores. Did not
get back till 6.30pm. Mite went in carriage to Messels who leave for South
tomorow. At 8.10 dined. Ethel & Mervyn Herapath dined. Apollinaris came in.
Mite back 10.15. Bother about not finding Ghourka. Bottle Lanson's '93. Letter
from Miss Stancombe Wells accepting drawing £15.15.0. (Red ink: Mervyn &
Ethel dined before leaving for Japan etc.)
Friday February 4
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out. Walk with Tip round C.H. Very wet &
colder. M & Mite in bed. At 9.30 wrote letters for an hour. Chatham 2 nd P, 94.
At 11.0 got to work on Punch & British & Indian Officers etc. Gilbert Thomas
sent book at 1.0pm. Lunch. Sent cheque for harness. Lunch & worked up to
8.20pm. Mite dined out. M & self dined at 8.30. Had bottle of Lanson. Read
after & to bed at 12.0am.
Saturday February 5
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. Finished drawing of Punch &
Officers & men at 12.0. Packed traps by 1.0pm. Lunch. Miss Norman Lockyer
with Maud. Got off by 2.10pm in a 4 wheeler taking Mite who was dropped at
Victoria. Caught the 3.0 train for Tisbury. Comfortable journey. Very cold N.E
wind. Curious little girl with fair hair at Salisbury. Got out Tisbury. Carriage
waiting & got to Pyt 6.5pm. Tabs in a way about Gwen & Evelyn not being
back from ride. Bee Barrs & Guthrie there. Tea & dressed. Very good dinner.
H played after & also dance to piano organ after. Smoke. Lemon & to bed
11.15pm. (Red ink: Went down to Tisbury. Intensely cold.)
Sunday February 6
Pyt House Tisbury. Up at 8.30am. Very wet morning. Out before breakfast.
After breakfast looked over library & house. Good lunch & at 3.0pm Guthrie,
self, Gwen & Evelyn & Bee Barrs & 2 black spaniels went for walk to Fonthill.
Went past house belonging to Sir Michael Shaw Stewart & on to all that
remains of Beckford's Fonthill Abbey. Went to top 118 steps. Nearly got lost
in the woods like the forest of Arden. Drop off a wall. On our way back saw a
sheep big with lamb & could not get up. Back to tea & after looked at books
etc. Good dinner. Dance after with the barrel organ & bed at 11.15 after
smoke. Suspicion of a cold in throat etc. (Red ink: Went to Fonthill Abbey.)
Monday February 7
Pyt House Tisbury. Up at 8.30. H off to Southampton by early train. After
Guthrie & self walked to Semley for meet of S.W Wilts. Gwen & Evelyn rode,
Mademoiselle on bicycle. Intensely cold wind. Back at 12.30 & very heavy
lunch after. Rest & at 3.15pm went on H's bicycle with Guthrie to Tisbury.
Roads bad. Saw Weaveland Road & found out G was gardener to Rev'd
Hutchinson. Saw church & grave. Back up hill to Pyt. Tea. Looked over Art
Journal & after wrote many letters. H back from Southampton 7.50. Dressed
& dined. Danced after. Pleasant evening. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Cycled
to Tisbury.) (Cutting glued in: Death of James Tassell. Death of Charlotte
Tassel.)
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Tuesday February 8
Pyt House Tisbury. Up at 8.30. Walk round the Rose Garden. Monuments to
dogs, one to 'Nelson' died Oct 21 1874. Very good breakfast. After looked
round the Bachelors' Rooms. Indecent print of Gilroy's. At 11.0 went rabbit
shooting with Hamilton. Guthrie walked got exactly 1 dozen. H 2 ducks & 1
pigeon, 24 rabbits. Fell backwards off wall. Home at 4.30. Read Times & after
had very good bath. Wrote Otley. After looked at Art Journal. Dressed. Good
dinner. Shoulder ached. Dance. Lemon squash. Bed 11.30. M did not sleep
well. Woke in the night several times. (Red ink: Good day's rabbit shooting.)
(Cutting glued in: Death and Obituary of C.J.Mare.) Th Feb 10. A great friend
of Lord Beaconsfield's. Died intestate.
Wednesday February 9
Pyt House Tisbury. Up at 8.20. Breakfast. M woke with a sore throat. After
Guthrie left in the station cab at 9.15. Offered him scraper. Pipe & look round
Bachelor Quarters. Went into Library. Tabs off to town at 11.15. Punch,
Times & D.G. Went for walk with M & Bee Barrs to see the dynamos &
carboys etc. Into chapel & along by snowdrops etc down to Lodge & back
12.40. Wrote diary. Packed bags 12.50. Lunch. H angry with Evelyn &
Gwenny. Left at 3.0pm minus a glove. Anxious about M's cold. Drove to
Tisbury & up to town 6.45. Otley met me with cart. Drove past Garrick & on to
Criterion. 1st Punch dinner there. Bother to find room. F.C.B (not well) J.T,
self, A à B, O.S, P.A, P.M, B.P. E.T.R, A.G there. Got cut Lion & Eagle.
Agnew announced Balfour had given the Millikens £250. Left 11.5 & home by
bus. A discharged Tommy Atkins half drunk calling soldiers hired assassins.
Letters. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: 1st dinner away from old room.)
Thursday February 10
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5 & out 8.30. On cycle round by Radcliffe Gardens
etc. Roads muddy. Back & after writing many letters sent Otley to Mrs Evans
for photos Lions Eagles etc. Lunch, Mite & Miss Lockyer. Rested after. At
4.30pm got to work on drawing of Eagle & Lion Bear & Dragon etc. Had sent
Otley to Whites & to Evans etc a second time. Dressed at 6.45 & left in
carriage at 7.20 with Mite to dine at the Pollocks. Dull dinner. Took a Mrs
Turner in. Uninteresting person. A bounder of the name of Dr Head abused
'Punch'. Let him have it. After most extraordinary exhibition of Mr Pollock
jumping over a chair like a dog. Dear little Scotch terrier & parrot. 'Polly wants
a drop of whiskey'. Left 11.15 & drove in a 4 wheeler to dance at Sir Robt
Romer's. Saw Binns Smith & Mrs Ritchie, Snagge etc etc. Left 1.5. Miss
Lockyer still out. Did not come back till 1.45am. (Red ink: Dined with Mite at
the Pollocks. Lady Romer's dance after.)
Friday February 11
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Out on cycle & round Park & past Mite's house.
Breakfast by self. Postcard from L.G. Letters etc. Sent Otley to Stores & after
to work not before 11.15am. Worked all day up to 8.30. So so drawing. Took
Dragon & Bear out. Lennie Messel to dinner. Havannah cigar. Snooze & read
after dinner. Bed at 12.0. Slept well. (Cutting glued in: Obituary Dan
Meinertzhagen. T.F 17. Death of Thomas Bastard.)
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Saturday February 12
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. Letter from M. At work 9.45 on
drawing of Eagle, Lion Bear & Dragon. Finished 1.45pm. Mite went out to
meet Lennie. Put all photos away & at 3.0 cycled round Richmond Park. Went
up all the hill past cemetery, wind behind. Saw at Parson's Green the original
of the house of the Curse of the Catafalque. Home at 5.30. Sent Otley for fruit
& to post. Lennie to dinner & Miss Lockyer. Dear Mite felt seedy at dinner &
left the table. Sent for Orton but he was ill. Lennie looked round my room.
Sent Mite gruel up. Read & to bed at 12.30 after snooze in chair. (Red ink:
Cycled to Richmond Park. Mite felt ill at dinner time.) (Cuttings glued in:
Death of Daniel Meinertzhagen. Obituary Major William Rawlinson. Marriage
of James Smith and Jane Chivers, 66th anniversary.)
Sunday February 13
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Mite better. Breakfast. Winnie Lockyer down.
Decided to drive Victoria. Left in cart 10.20. Very wet. Dull & wretched. Sent
Otley back. Lewis & Mr Goddard turned up. Down Dover. Saw Mr Lehmann,
Mrs L & Mrs Gatz. Very wet. At Calais good lunch, very. Back after getting
cigars & chocolate. Mr & Mrs Cocky(?) à Beckett on board. An old man name
of Holmes who knew me at the Arts Club came up. Had thought him a lunatic.
Very wet. Back to town 7.30 to the second. Good cab home. Miss Rose Innes
at the door. Dined, Lennie M, Mite, Miss R.I & Winnie Lockyer. Champagne.
Winnie Lockyer left after dinner. Wrote letters & talk after dinner. Lewis
recommended Midlands Deferred Ordinary. Little Chatham 97. (Cutting glued
in: Death of Louisa Darley. Good name.) (Red ink: X'd Channel with Lewis.)
Monday February 14
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After
back. Breakfast. In morning sorted papers. Wrote letters etc. Letter from Mr
Barr accepting £5000 for Knightsbridge property. Sent on to Lewis. Printed a
good many blue photos. Lunch. Rest. After squared up many prints etc. Dear
M back from Pyt House at 3.0. Had lunch. M & self dined together. Mite at the
Bristol with Lennie to dine with Miss Rose Innes. Left 8.15 & drove to Court
Theatre. Much delighted with 'Trelawney of the Wells'. Crinoline not so bad.
Saw Miss R.I, Prof & Mrs Dewar, Chilean Minister & wife & also Mrs
Galbraith. Mr Gilmer & Mite, Lennie & Mrs Dewar's sister. Saw Lord Glenesk
in stalls. Also sat near Mr Pilleau. Home with Lennie & Mite in carriage.
Round by Cromwell Road. Lennie back for ½ hour. (Red ink: Dear M back
from Pyt House. Went in evening to 'Trelawny of the Wells'.) (Cutting glued in:
Obituary of Bishop Selwyn. F 14.)
Tuesday February 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. x. Out on cycle. Past Mite's house. Dull
morning. After got bag packed & cab at 11.25 to Garrick. Ordered dinner. On
to C.C. At 1.0 photod a Miss C.Richards. Ugly girl like Otley & bad model.
Lunch in Studio. After out & called C.Dundas Slater for passes & painful walk
(attack of P) to A.W.Miles. Tried trowsers. On to Athenaeum. Tea & after to
Garrick. Dressed. At 7.45 Rose & Lewis dined. Had good dinner. Rose would
not take turtle. 2 bottles Moet 1889. Cigar & after to Empire. Saw Press ballet.
Also Armstrong & Phil Burne Jones. Stood. Good night to Rose & on with
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Lewis by cab home. Party in S.T. Home 11.45. Snooze & bed 1.15am. Rose
expressed willingness to give £5000 for Barr Estate. (Red ink: Gave Rose &
Lewis a dinner at the Garrick £3.11.0.)
Wednesday Febuary 16
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. M wakeful. Cycled round by Mite's house. Saw
Church. Back. Wrote many letters. Lovely morning. Wrote Mr Barr. Dressed.
Lunch 1.0pm. Left with M at 1.30 in carriage to drive to St James's Theatre.
Saw the 1st performance of 'Much Ado about Nothing'. Splendidly done.
Alexander good. Nielson so so. Saw De la Rues, Stone, etc etc. Out at 5.25 &
drove to 16 Duke St Mansions. Had tea with Guthrie. Mite, Lennie, Gwen &
Tabs there, M & self. Left at 6.15. Called at an upholstery shop. After walked
to Criterion. Met Phil May & Browne in Burlington. Good 'Punch' dinner. Phil
A, Phil M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L, O.S. Phil A made a
statement about annuity to Miss Milliken, £21 per annum. Sat till 11.20 when
home by bus. Snoozed in chair till 2.0am when to bed. (Red ink: M & self
went to St James's, 1st (morning) performance of 'Much Ado about Nothing'.)
Thursday February 17
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am. Out on cycle at 8.35. Round park & past
Mite's. Breakfast. Wrote many letters. After skemed subject Father Thames &
Water Naiads. Photod Otley with oar at 12.30pm & after lunch enlarged it.
Rested in chair tired at 3.15 to 4.30. Tea. Began work 5.0 & worked till 8.0pm
when Lennie dined. Mr Barr wrote approving of Rose's proposal. Snooze in
chair from 11.30 to 12.45. Bed. (Cuttings glued in: Death and Obituary of Lord
De L'Isle and Dudley.)
Friday February 18
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. x. Very wet. Walk with Tip round C.H.
Breakfast. Wrote letters. Began work 10.0am. Worked all day hard up to
9.0pm. M & Mite went to dine at Lennie Messel's & to an amateur
performance at St George's Hall. They went on to supper at the Savoy & did
not come home until 1.30am. I went to bed at 1.0. Lay awake. Anxious about
M.
Saturday February 19
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Persuaded M to stay in bed. Went on with
work at 9.30 to 12.0 when finished drawing of Father Thames, the Naiads &
G.W.R. V & C had broken down with the Electric Light. Mite off with Lennie
being his birthday. After M & self drove in hansom to Drury Lane Theatre.
Saw pantomime of 'Babes in the Wood'. Box GG. Miss Hanson Walker & her
sister, Mrs Wallace & Mabel, Mary McQueen in box. Had asked Lewis & wife.
Tenniel & Mr Lemon, Jacomb Hood etc. Out 4.45. Put M & Mary McQ in
carriage. Bought a dressing bag for Roy for £12.12.0 at Moss's. To Club.
Wrote letters. One from E.L. Home by bus. Dressed & at 7.30 went in
carriage to dine at Midge's. Sir Jacob Wilson, Miss Heinemann, Mr Bolland &
Rosa Hayworth there. Poor dinner. Push game after. Home by carriage at
11.0pm. (Red ink: Went to Pantomime, Box GG. Lennie Messel's birthday.)
(Cutting glued in: Death of Mary Lemon.)
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Sunday February 20
Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Wet morning & cold again. Walk with Tip round
C.H. Back & wrote letters all morning. Dressed & left 1.15 in 4 wheeler to
lunch at 42 Gt Cumberland Pl with Lady Rosalind Christie. Dull lunch. Mistook
Sir Th Harland for Genl Beadle. Curious man Christie. Out. Wet. Put M in cab
& walked to the Athenaeum Club. Wrote many letters. One to Kensington
Palace Hotel & to W.A in Cairo. Left 7.10pm & home by bus. Found Mr
Hemming was dining & Lennie also. Mr H stayed till 11.30pm talk talking. Bed
after M's knocking at 12.0 with a heavy pestle. (Red ink: Luncheon at Lady
Rosamund Christie's. Wet cold day.) (Cutting glued in: Will of Hyam
Beddington. Will of Euphemia Millais. Wed Apl 6.)
Monday February 21
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Walk with Tip round C.H. Very cold frost,
coldest yet had. Whipped Tip for going back to the Stable. Wrote letters &
diary. Squared many prints up & after lunch went with M & Mite in the carriage
to see Mite's house & then walked on & took bus to Bond St. Called Lang &
Hurrey's & also at A.W.Miles to have coat & trowsers tried on. After walked on
to the Garrick Club. Wrote letters & tea. Then to Athenaeum & home by bus.
Dinner 8.0pm. Quiet evening. Bed 12.15am. (Red ink: 1st saw over Mite's
house.) (Cuttings glued in: Death and Obituary of Mrs Goschen. Feby 22 '98.
Death of Annie Eykyn.)
Tuesday February 22
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After in
morning squared up a great many prints etc. Lunch. At 2.0 got on cycle & did
30 miles. Brentford, Hampton, H.Court, Esher, Kingston, Ham Gate & across
to Robin H. Gate, Roehampton, Barnes & home 5.40. Tea. Lady Margaret
had called. After dressed & Jacomb Hood & Miss Radcliffe dined. Very
cheery dinner. Bottle Burgundy. They left 11.40. Bed 12.0. Mite out at
Galbraiths & to the Ritchies' ball. Home 1.15am. (Red ink: Miss Radcliffe &
Jacomb Hood dined with us at 8.10pm. Cycled 30 miles, Hampton etc.)
(Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Thomas Bolland to Emily Heinemann.
Baroness von Eckardstein, of a daughter.)
Wednesday February 23
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. M up earlier. Cycled round Park & past Mite's
house. Home. Finished squaring up drawings & afterwards wrote on drawings
for Mrs Earle, C.Burnand, Shorter etc. Left at 12.50 & by bus to Garrick Club.
Lunch. Saw Stone. Also Marshall Hall. After smoke at 3.45 went by cab &
called on Mr Northmore, St Mildred's Court, Poultry. Interview about his
company. Very tempting. Walked back along the Strand to the Athenaeum.
Wrote letters. Bought key chain. After to Punch dinner. A particularly good
one. F.C.B, J.T, L.S, A à B, R.L, P.S, P.M, E.T.R, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Phil May
talking about his taking Armitage House. Left 10.45. Went down to
Athenaeum & wrote for Aird's portrait. Home by bus. Bed 12.15 after reading.
(Red ink: Called on Mr Northmore.)
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Thursday February 24
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Out for walk with Tip. Steamroller at work along
the Terrace. Very cold & bright sun. Wrote letters etc. After messenger came
with portrait of Aird. M & Mite out in carriage all morning, could not photo
Otley. Rested after lunch & at 4.30 got to work after tea & very good. Quiet
evening, M, Mite & self dined. Bed at 12.0 after snooze in chair. Mr
Northmore's report on the Jarrah Wood Forest came. Wrote letters after
dinner.
Friday February 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round park & past Mite's house. At 10.30
photod Otley for John Aird. Developed & got to work. At it all day till 8.30pm
when dined. Sent Otley for bag & letters. M & Mite & self dined quietly. Read
& to bed at 12.0am. M slept well.
Saturday February 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cold lovely clear morning. Sun the entire day.
Walk round C.H with Tip. After breakfast wrote letters & got to work 10.0am &
finished John Aird & Father Nile at 1.45pm. Lunch. Mite had gone to the St
James's Theatre. Too late for M & self to go to play. Got on cycle at 2.30 &
went to Richmond Park. Met Mills. Wired D.W. Met Phil May on cob. He had
been up all night at Covent Garden Ball. Looked a wreck. After got home
wrote letters from 6.0 to 7.30. William Stone dined 8.30. Bottle Ayala '74 gone
wrong. Pol Roger all right. Mite & self left at 10.30 for Lord Rosebery's
reception, leaving W.S with M. Great night. Lots of people we knew. Woodall,
Sutherland, Lucys, Williamsons, Mocattas etc etc & Owen Seaman. Mite took
dislike to him. Left 12.0. Home 1.0am. Snooze till 3.0am. M awake. Did not
sleep for a long time. Lay awake. (Red ink: Cycled to Richmond Park.)
Sunday February 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. M in bed. Wet morning. Packed bag & off by
hansom to Victoria. No Lewis. Down with one other man in brown hat. Yates
Thompson & wife X'ing over. Saw Merryweather. Fair lunch. Going back saw
Arthur Linley & a lady. Up to town. Otley met me saying Marshall Hall's dinner
was put off owing to M.H having a cold. Drove home. Dressed. Dined. 8.20.
Mite chaffing about Owen Seaman. Wrote letters. Wet all day. Bed after
snooze at 12.0am. (Red ink: X'd Channel. Very wet.)
Monday February 28
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill. After breakfast
went at 11.0 & called on Mr Cox-Hughes at the Palace Hotel & engaged the
Empress Rooms. After had a talk with Mr Lemon & then hair cut. Developed 1
doz Ayton plates taken '94. Also 1 doz of Miss Richards. Fairly good. Wrote
letters etc in afternoon. Wire from Mr Northmore to say he vcould not come to
dinner tonight or rather a letter was sent by hand. Answered it. M & self dined
quietly together. Very cold. Mite out at dinner. Bed quietly 11.30pm. (Red ink:
Settled for Empress Rooms with Mr Cox-Hughes. Lennie came back from
Scotland.)
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Tuesday March 1
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out for walk round Campden Hill. After wrote
letters etc etc. Left at 11.30 & up by bus to Garrick. No letters. To C.C. & at
1.0pm or 12.45 photod 2 Miss Cookes. 1 very pretty. Out at 2.30pm. Back to
Garrick. Tea. After walked to Alfred Webb Miles & had coat tried on. Did not
like it. Home by bus at 6.0pm. At 8.30 Mr Northmore dined & Lennie M.
Stayed till 12.0 talking of Jarrah Wood etc. 2 bottles of Pol Roger '80. Lennie
& he left tgether 12.15am. Decided to go into the syndicate. (Red ink: Mr
Northmore dined. Settled to go into Jarrah Wood.)
Wednesday March 2
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Walk with Tip round Campden Hill. After wrote
letters etc. Left at 12.45 & up by cab to Garrick. Called on Stone. Lunched
with Routledge. On to Her Majesty's after. Saw with M, Mite & Dora & Stone
Julius Caesar. Tree came in in armour & also gave us coffee. Saw them into
carriage. Called on Mr Morshead at 5D The Albany. Then to Athenaeum &
wrote letters. Had drawn cheque in morning to Mr Northmore's order for £500.
Again went & saw Mr Morshead. Satisfactory. On to the Punch dinner. Full.
F.C.B, J.T, self, A'aB, R.L, O.S, P.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. 2 cuts
made up in case of Election of Modernists & Progressives at L.C.C. Left after
talk of Jarrah Wood to Arthur & Frank. Went to Athenaeum. Home by buss at
12.30am. Bed 1.15. Bee Barrs came. (Red ink: Went to matinée 'Julius
Caesar'.)
Thursday March 3
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Out. Cycled round Park. Cold but lovely & bright.
Made up my mind to X Channel. Left & after recording vote for L.C.C at 10.15
in cab to Victoria. Down with 2 others. Not a soul I knew going over. Spoke to
an Irish gentleman about his Poncho coat. Lunch. Good. Back. Met Mr & Mrs
St John Brenton, Lord Harroby. Gage going to leave. Got carriage to self.
Man thrust in at last moment. Got out into another carriage. Cold
uncomfortable journey, 20 minutes late. Home 8.10. Mite dining out. Quiet
dinner, M, Bee Barrs & self. Mite back with Lennie. Fan sent from Hubbard
Farquhar. Woke me. Bed 11.30. Snow in London, 1 st this winter. Mite &
Lennie dined at Midge's. (Red ink: X'd Channel. Very cold.)
Friday March 4
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Very cold. Traces of snow. Walk with Tip round
Campden Hill. Wrote to Rev Canon Pennefather about the Church on 19 Apl
& after to Stores about the invitation cards. Schemed cut of Chamberlain as
Circus Clown, Blondin donkey & also Salisbury as Ringmaster. Lunch. Rested
after. M & Mite out in carriage. Bee came into room. Work at 4 to 8.30pm.
Dinner. Lennie dined. Few words with Mite about seeing people on their
wedding trip. Bee playing after. After read & to bed tired at 12.0am.
Saturday March 5
Stafford Terrace. Up & got on at 9.30am drawing Chamberlain & County
Council Trick Donkey & Salisbury. Finished at 1.30. Lunch. M, Bee & Mite
went off to matinée of 'Dove Cot' at the Duke of York's Theatre. The Vicar the
Revd Canon Pennefather called on me at 2.30. Left 2.50 & by cab to Duke of
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York's Theatre. Good play. Sent M & Mite & Bee home in the carriage & to
Garrick. After to Athenaeum. Tea. Wrote Sir Thos Lipton. Home by bus.
Lennie dined. Depressed about Americans. Quiet evening. Bed at 12.0am.
(Red ink: Went to matinée of The Dove Cot, Duke of York's Theatre.
(Cuttings glued in: Death of Edmund Tattersall. Tattersall family history. W. 9th
March T. Will of Edmund Tattersall.)
Sunday March 6
Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0. x. Very cold & bright. Left at 10.10 for Victoria from
Kensington Church to Sloane St. Walked to Victoria. Difficulty in getting
carriage. X'd Channel. Not one soul I knew. Indifferent lunch. Talked after to
gentleman introduced to me by Gage some time back. Met Sir George Arthur
& up to town, 20 minutes late. At 8.30 Langleys, Lennie & Bee Bars dined
with us. Left 11.30. Read & to bed at 12.15am. The gentleman's name above
is Eliot. (Red ink: Crossed Channel. Intensely cold. Dull day in every way.
(Cuttings glued in: Obituary Edmund Tattersall and history of firm of
Tattersall's.)
Monday March 7
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After breakfast developed
photos etc etc. Long day putting things in order etc. Drop in securities on the
Stock Exchange. Thought to cycle in afternoon, did not. Ruth Messel lunched
with us. Lennie dined in evening as usual. Applied for M for shares in Lipton's
& wrote Wagg. Bed 12.0 after snooze. Wrote application for shares in Pref &
Ordinary Lipton Ltd in morning & posted them. Letter from Wagg in evening.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Sir George Russell.)
Tuesday March 8
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Did not go out. Left after breakfast at 10.0am &
called on Mr Herbert who looked at my teeth. On to Empress Rooms. Settled
for Monday 18th. Called Bank & settled to sell Canadian Pacific for 114. Panic
on Stock Exchange & great N.E gale at Dover & Calais. On by cab to C.C.
Photod Miss L.Cooke. Good model. After out 2.15 & lunch at Garrick opposite
Percy Reeve who had the same tie on as self. Talk to Jones after. Walked to
Miles & had a look at poncho coat. On to Athenaeum. Wrote letters & put
down books. Home at 7.50 by buss. Dressed. Mary McQ & Lennie dined.
(illeg) after. Bed 11.50. Letter from Canon Pennefather in morning about
wedding, settled for Monday 18 April. (Cutting glued in: Death of Thomas
Worrall. Obituary Sir George Russell. T.Mch 8.)
Wednesday March 9
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After in morning developed 1
doz plates Miss Cookes etc. Lunch & after rested. From 4.30 to 6.0 designed
rough pages for the White Star Calendar. Dressed & up by buss to Criterion
for Punch dinner. F.C.B seedy. A à B, J.T, self, O.S, P.M, B.P & E.T.R only.
Good dinner. Suggested Bull & Dogs for J.T. Got Britannia & Goschen for
self. Left 11.0pm. Home from Garrick by 2 buses. Home 12.0. Snooze in chair
till 2.0am. Lay awake for an hour. M awake.
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Thursday March 10
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round by Mite's house & along to Notting
Hill Gate. Back. Breakfast. After wrote letters & skemed subject of Britannia &
Goschen. At 12.0 photod Otley as Goschen & Mite for arms & enlarged
Britannia & the plates. Lunch. Rested at 4.0. Read Strand mags. Mite & B.B
went & altered the wedding day from the 18th to the 28th in morning. Worked
to 8.0. Dined M, B.B & self. Wrote letters after dinner. Drew cheque for £50
for M in morning. Lennie & Maud back at 11.45 from McQueens. (Red ink:
Wedding day altered to 28th.)
Friday March 11
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Very cold east wind. Back
& got to work on Britannia & Goschen. Worked all day up to 8.30pm when
dined quietly, M, Bee & self. Lennie away with Mr Johnstone. Rested after &
bed at 12.0 after snooze.
Saturday March 12
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. x. Down & at 9.30am got to work on drawing
of Britannia & Goschen. Finished at 2.30pm. M, Mite & B.B went off to the
matinée of 'The Geisha' & going back got the carriage damaged. Left at 3.0 in
cab & joined them. Chinaman funnier than ever. Put them in carriage & on to
Garrick. Wrote letters. Tea. Called C.C. Home by bus after going back to Club
again. Called Butts. Bought fruit. Home 8.0. Dressed & dined quietly, M, Mite,
Bee & self. Bed at 12.0 after snooze. (Red ink: Went to the matinée of 'The
Geisha'.)
Sunday March 13
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. A wretchedly dark peasoupy & cold morning.
Left to X Channel at 10.10. By bus to Victoria. Met Baumann & Jim Graham.
Lovely day at Dover. Saw Spencer Brunton etc. Talk to Graham. Lunch. Dicky
fowl. After a talk to Merryweather & found Mr Bainbridge had proposed to his
daughter. Very curious. Saw Gage, Freshfield etc. Also Norman Lockyer.
Spoken to by Mr Palmer & sons. Smoked in cabin. Wonderful passage. Home
by record time 7.50. Dined 8.10. Mr Johnson & Lennie dined. Good dinner.
Wrote letters after. They left 11.30pm. Met a nephew of Aird's. (Red ink:
Crossed Channel. Lovely day. Mr Merryweather told me about Mr
Bainbridge.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Richard Quain.)
Monday March 14
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Change in weather & wet. Cycled round
Park. Saw Phil Agnew. Books very high. Spent all day tidying up etc. Rest in
afternoon. In afternoon dressed etc & left to dine at Alm Sir Whittaker Ellis's,
Berkeley St, 3. Dinner of about 16. Lord Shand, Sir Henry Hawkins, Sir Philip
Rose, Mr Walter, Mr Smith, the Governor of Bank of England, Lucy etc etc.
Bad dinner. Good wine. Left 11.35. By buss to Garrick. Wrote for Camera
Club tomorrow & called & altered date at C.C. 12.5. Home by bus from
Piccadilly Circus. Home at 12.45am. Snooze & bed. Wrote in morning to
complain of the Tax Collector sending to cut off gas. Wire from Mr Aird's
representative to ask for drawing. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Canon
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Whitehead, Vicar of St Peter's Thanet. Times, Tuesday 22 March. The Orator
of the Isle of Thanet. 18 M.)
Tuesday March 15
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Lovely morning. Bright sun
for a wonder. Left at 11.30 & on to the Garrick Club by 1.0pm. Sat opposite
Routledge & talk to Scoones after. Left & to C.C at 2.0. At 2.15 photod E.L.
Thinner. 4th cataract. Out 4.30. Walked to Bond St & to Miles's. Had to wait ½
an hour to have coat tried on. Back by buss 6.30. Dressed & after dinner left
with M & Mite to Lyceum & saw Madame Sans Gêne. Good. Out & home by
carriage outside. Spotting with rain. Bee Bars stayed at home havng an
atrocious cold. Went to 'Madame Sans Gêne'. (Red ink: Bee a cold & could
not go.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Henry Bessemer.)
Wednesday March 16
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & cycled round Park. After in morning put things
in order etc. Luncheon. Rest & after tea. Went by bus to the Bath Club & had
Turkish bath. The 1st since June 30 '96 & the first in Bath Club since July 3
'95. Weight in bath before 12.5. Saw Ray Lankester. Out & to Punch dinner at
Criterion. Saw Arthur à Beckett in lift. At dinner P.A, P.M, B.P. E.T.R, H.W.L,
A.G, A à B, J.T, self, R.L, O.S. Tenniel had exceedingly bad cold. Sat till last
with Arthur & after home by bus. Wrote May & Stace & also blotted the dinner
cloth. Home 11.45am. Weight in June 30 '96, 12.14. Weight in July '95, 12.6
¾. (Cutting glued in: Death of Aubrey Beardsley. 17 M.)
Thursday March 17
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Bicycled round Park. Slight sore throat came
on & after developed into a very bad cold. After skemed subject of 2 Sailors.
Otley fetched costume from May's. Stace did not turn up till nearly 2.0pm
when photod him & Otley shaking hands. Developed after. Rested & then at
4.0pm enlarged them & got to work at 6.0pm till 8.0 when dined. (Red ink:
Nellie Farren Benefit, Drury Lane. Huge success, £6000 got clear. Did not get
ticket or go.) (Cutting glued in: Mr F.C.Burnand now convalescent. T. M 17
'98)
Friday March 18
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After to work all day on
drawing of English & American Sailors drinking etc. Worked all day up to
8.30pm when dined, M, Bee, Mite & self. Quiet evening after & bed. Very bad
cold developed & felt seedy all day. Sent Otley to Stores. Mite went to dine at
the Messels. Mr & Lady Margaret Ismay called at 4.30pm. Ismay had had an
accident out hunting. Disappointed after did not ask Lady M in. (Cuttings
glued in: Obituary Aubrey Beardsley. 18 M '98. Death of William Overend.)
Saturday March 19
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. x. After got to work on drawing for John Bull &
Yankee Sailors. Finished at 1.30pm. Very tired. After lunch, M, Mite & Bee
drove to Garrick Theatre & saw A Pair of Partridges, or rather a brace. Out &
sent them back in carriage. Saw Mrs Roberts & Dolly. A most wretched &
beastly afternoon. Wet. To Garrick. Wrote letters etc & after tea home by bus,
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having called at the Charing X Railway. Called Butts & ordered fruit. Dined
quietly, M, Bee & self. Mite went to dine at Willis's rooms with Lennie & after
to an at home. Cold very bad at night. Went to bed at 11.0am. (Red ink: Went
to matinée at the Garrick. Saw 'A Brace of Partridges'.)
Sunday March 20
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Bright cold morning. Decided M should not go.
Left in grey coat & by bus to Victoria at 10.50. Met Lewis & Goddard & down
to Dover. Long talk to Lewis. One other in carriage. On boat met
Merryweather & Spencer Brunton. Good passage. Good lunch. Coming back
saw Mr Freshfield & Mr Hutton. Introduced him to Lewis also Cartmell
Harrison etc. Up to town with Goddard & young Bastard. Home 7.55.
Dressed. Found a dog - such a dog - at home. Roy back. Fred Macmillan &
Sir Norman Lockyer K.C.B dined. 2 bottles Dietz & Geldermann, 1 Sauternes,
Port etc. They stayed till 12.30. Bed after reading Drake at night. Very cold.
The Messels returned from abroad. (Red ink: X'd Channel with Lewis & Mr
Goddard. Good day. Roy came back from Oxford with Rikki-Tikki. Lockyer &
Macmillan dined.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Mr W.H.Overend. M 22.)
Monday March 21
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Cycled round park. After cheque from Mr
Aird came. Put things in order all morning & wrote letters. Rest after lunch. At
4.15 cycled round by Richmond. Called 19 A.R. Saw very pretty blue eyed
woman. On to Richmond & home by Putney. Met Orton at Fulham. Orton had
been in in morning. Back 7.0pm & dined quietly, M, Bee, Roy & self. Mite at
the Messels. Slept in chair till 1.15am. M awake. Said I had knocked over
something. No! (Red ink: Cycled to Richmond etc.)
Tuesday March 22
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. x. Did not cycle. After breakfast etc in the
morning put drawers tidy & all photos away etc up to lunch time. M out with
Bee. Roy went to Eton for Sports etc. After lunch at 2.10 left on cycle & went
long round by Richmond to Hampton Court & back by Kingston & round Park.
Called twice 19 A.R. Not at home. Back by 6.30. Tired. Wrote letters. After
Lennie dined. Roy went to the Gaiety Theatre. Very tired after dinner. Bed
12.30. Slight headache. Lovely present from Mr Aird & also Lennie's partners.
Cycled 31 miles. Saw Yarrow (sic) Wood notice in Sketch. (Red ink: Cycled to
Richmond etc.)
Wednesday March 23
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Extremely tired in morning. Must be yesterday's
cycle ride. Dull cold morning. Mite & all in my room with presents etc. Did not
cycle before breakfast. Did not go out till 6.15 after tidying up etc & sorting
drawers. Then took buss to Piccadilly Circus. Called C.C & the Garrick. Bus
back from Drury Lane after calling to see Box II. Would not do. On to Punch
dinner at the Criterion. P.A, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G, A à B, J.T, self & R.L &
O.S. Burnand still away. Very good dinner & after went to the Athenaeum &
wrote letters. Home by buss. Roy out at Lyric Theatre with Farquhar. Slept in
chair. Roy woke me. (Cuttings glued in: Death of John Soldi. Death of Arthur
Shakespear. Death of Rev Wyndham Shakespear.)
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Thursday March 24
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Gale & snow showers. Walked over Campden
Hill. After skemed subject for Money Lender & Justice. Sent Otley to Drury
Lane Theatre. After photod self & Otley. Delayed by blinding snow storms &
dark clouds. Lunch. After developed plates. Rested & enlarged at 4.30pm.
Got to work at 6.0pm. Went on to dinner time when Lennie M dined. 2 bottles
of Burgundy. After very tired. Snooze after dinner & bed at 12.0am. (Red ink:
Heavy gale & blinding snow storms.)
Friday March 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am & walked in blizzard of snow round Campden
Hill. Back & worked all day on drawing of Justice & Money Lender up to
8.30pm when dined with M, Bee, Mite & Roy. Quiet evening after. Read about
Maximilian & Mexico. Sat in chair & bed at 12.30am. M had fire in her room.
Terrible gale all day from the north east with blinding snow. Envelopes from
Stores came for wedding. Bee B addressed them. (Red ink: Awful gale all
day.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of James Payn. Death of Alfred Ridley. Death
of Georgina Delane. F.Mch 25.)
Saturday March 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Walked round Campden Hill. Dull cold & grey.
Back. Breakfast. After got to work till 2.0 on Money Lender & Justice. Lunch.
Heavy rain & cold. After worked till 2.50 when finished later than ever been
with work on Saty. Rushed up tho' tired & left after dressing in carriage at 3.20
for Donaldsons at Chiswick. Otley drove mare very fast. Squelching rain &
bitterly cold. Saw the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Oxford won by 12
lengths. Out & walked about in the snow rain & could not find carriage. Very
angry & annoyed with Otley. Back home after finding him at Thorneycrofts.
Wretchedly uncomfortable. Up in M's room with a fire etc. Read Northmore's
Jarrah reports. Dined at 8.15. Lennie came. After dinner Bee Barr wrote
about 200 invites for guests to wedding. Slept in chair. Bed at 1.30am. M's
fire alight. (Red ink: Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Frightful weather.)
(Cuttings glued in: Violent gale in the English Channel. M M 28. Oxford and
Cambridge race results.)
Sunday March 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. In doubt as to X Channel. Did not being wet.
All morning put things away etc. Invites for wedding being written & done.
After Roy posted them in afternoon & evening. Lunch. Uncomfortable & not
enough wine, M, Bee, Roy & self. Mite out with Lennie at Mr Ryle's etc. Left
2.45 & by bus to C.C. Put plates right. Called Garrick & on to Athenaeum. 2½
hours writing letters. After kept by Weigall. 2nd 'd his son. Left 7.30 & home by
bus. Dressed. Dined 8.15, Lennie, Roy, Mite, Bee, M & self. After more invites
written & posted by Roy. Felt sleepy. Read & to bed at 12.30 after snooze.
(Red ink: Wretchedly wet miserable cold cheerless day all day.) (Cutting
glued in: Obituary of Delia Parnell. T.M 29.)
Monday March 28
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round C.H. Rain & cold. After breakfast
looked out & wrote on drawing of John Bull & Jonathan gilding American
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Eagle, Feb 23 '95. Sent it off. Ordered card for Ismay drawing & got to work.
Last batch of invites ready for wedding. After tea developed 12 or 14 plates of
L.Cooke. Some fogged. Up at 6.10 & worked till 7.50. Dressed. Lennie in to
dinner. Many answers came to letters of invitation. Wrote letters. Bee B
playing. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Alice Glenesk. Obituary Lady Glenesk.
Deaths of Delia Parnell, Montagu Dawson Damer, the Princess de Joinville.
M.M 28.)
Tuesday March 29
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Cycled round Park. After in morning worked on
drawing for Ismay & made tracings etc. Left at 12.30 & by bus to Garrick.
Lunch with Percy Reeve. Saw Furniss with head very much cut about. Left at
2.0 & to C.C. at 2.30. Photod L.Cooke. Poor model. Out at 5.0 after changing
plates etc & home by bus. Dined 7.15. After M, Bee & Mite left in carriage &
drove to the Court Theatre. Roy & self followed after in a cab. Saw Pinero's
play 'Trelawny of the Wells' for the second time. Lord Rosslyn not playing.
Out & home by carriage & cab by 11.30. Sandwiches etc. Bed 12.0. (Red ink:
Went to 'Trelawney of the Wells'.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Sidney
Cotton to Violet Reed.)
Wednesday March 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After in the morning
developed a lot of plates taken yesterday. Fairly good. Wrote letters etc.
Lunch. Rest. Left after tea & went by bus. Called at Lambs for new frock coat.
Paid cheque. To Athenaeum & wrote letters. Saw Mr Morton. To Punch
dinner. Very small. Only 2 cuts to make up. Phil Agnew, Arthur à B, self,
Reed, Owen Seaman. All rest away. Good dinner. Blotted cloth. Posted
letters after & did not put one into envelope for Stace. Home by bus at
11.30pm. Left second cuts till next week. Allotment of £150 in Lipton's
Ordinary shares came in the morning.
Thursday March 31
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10. Cycled round Park with Roy. Back & after skemed
subject of Burglar in Prison. Put things out & photod Otley & Stace at 1.10pm.
Developed. Late lunch. M & Mite out. Presents trooping in. Rest after lunch &
at 5.0pm enlarged right up to 6.10pm. Did not work after. Wrote letters.
Dinner 7.20pm. After Roy & self went in cab to see 'Much Ado about Nothing'
for 2nd time. Forgot stalls & came back. Ellis at door. 'Don't be in a hurry'.
Front row of stalls. Sat next Mr & Mrs Frankfort Moore. Miss Julia Neilson
very good in church scene. After had lemon squash at the Bath Club & home
by cab at 11.45pm. Lennie Messel dined. (Red ink: Roy & self saw 'Much Ado
about Nothing'.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Henry Morton.)
Friday April 1
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Did not go out. Settled to work all day on
drawing of Prison & Warder handing paper to prisoner. Got on. Presents
coming in. At 7.0 dressed & left & went by bus & cab to 75 Cambridge
Terrace & dined with Marshall Hall. Very good dinner & lovely furniture.
Beautiful musical singing bird 1750. Pinero, Harry Dickens etc etc. Whist. Left
11.45 & home by bus. Street walkers. Dropped a card at Rose's. Home
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12.15. Bed. Letter came refusing 2nd application for Liptons Ordinary. (Red
ink: Dined with Marshall Hall & six others. Good dinner. Whistling amateur.)
(Cuttings glued in: Death of Georgina Elliott. Marriage arranged between
Maud Lawrence and Arthur Pollen.)
Saturday April 2
Stafford Terrace. x. Up at 8.0. Cycled round Park. After sent cheques for
Liptons to Mr Lemon & one for £25 to Herbert Wagg & Co. Got to work at
9.30 & finished drawing of Criminal in Prison & Warder by 2.30. Lunch. M,
Bee, Mite & Roy went to Haymarket Theatre & saw The Little Minister.
Delightful play. Came on in cab after them 3.30pm. Back to Bath Club. Wrote
4 letters. Walked home by 7.0. Dressed & went with M in carriage to dine at
the Tates. Sir Charles Lawson & Lady L (drinks) Fildes's, the Boughtons etc.
Took Mrs Tate in. Talk of Mrs Bainbridge. Home by 11.30. Rumours of war
with U.S & Spain. (Red ink: Went to matinée of 'The Little Minister'. M & self
dined with the Tates. Delightful dinner.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Juliana
Broadwood.)
Sunday April 3
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. M down in lavatory. Out on cycle by self.
Round Park. Back. Good breakfast. Roy & self left at 10.15 & went to Charing
X. Wrong dated ticket. Down with 3 Frenchmen. Lovely X'ing. Mr
Merryweather, Mrs Alex Tweedie & Mrs & Miss Faudel Phillips. Friend of
Lennie's. Excellent lunch wth Mr Merryweather. Back punctually. Met Mr
Freshfield & Underdown, Mr & Mrs & Miss Steinkopff. Charing X 7.40. Home
8.5. Dressed. Good dinner. Lennie at dinner. Mr Wolff had called. Picture
Sunday. No one had called. Roger Wallace sent for me to go to play golf.
(Red ink: X'd Channel with Roy. Went down by S.E.Rly. Saw Mr
Merryweather & Mrs Tweedie. Picture Sunday.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary
Lord Hillingdon. M Ap 4.)
Monday April 4
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Did not go out. After wrote letters. Many letters for
M. Sharp shower. Posted letters self. In morning & after lunch enlarged
figures for the Liverpool drawing. Rested. At 5.0 left on cycle for Richmond.
Called 5.55 on A.M. Saw Miss Blennerhassett Atthill. Left at 6.30 & home by
7.15. Quite light. After touched up photos. Roy back from Club where he had
been all day. Lennie & Nipper Messel dined with us. More presents came in.
They left at 11.0. Read & to bed 12.0pm.
Tuesday April 5
Stafford Terrace. x. Up 8.15 & out on cycle round Park. Back. Good bacon.
After developed 1 doz plates Miss Richards. Lunch & at 2.45 left for town.
Walked with cigar as far as Knightsbridge. Buss to Bond St. Getting out saw
Otley with my own cycle. After to Miles. Had coat fitted on. After to
Athenaeum Club & answered Lord Lorne's letter about joining Committee II
Paris Ex 1900. Also 2 other letters. After to Turkish bath at the Bath Club.
Saw Mr Cox-Hughes at door. Good bath. 12.3¼ after bath. Saw Roger
Wallace. Asked for motor car display. To Criterion, Punch dinner. A à B, J.T,
self, O.S, P.M, B.P, E.T.R. Difficulty with cuts. Left at 11.0 & home by bus.
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Roy back from theatre with Mr Pope at 8 past 12.0am. Found after had left
cigarette case in bath. Got this Tuesday April 19. (Cutting glued in: Death of
Ellen Farquhar. Ap 7.)
Wednesday April 6
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After back & skemed
subject of President McKinley & the Jingo Bird. Photod Otley & self.
Developed & enlarged. Roy went to Nymans with Nipper. Bee Bars left. Rest
after lunch & at 3.30 went on to work until 8.30pm at drawing of Jingo Bird.
Lennie Messel came to dine & brought a crowd of presents. Lennie left at
11.0. Posted letters. Wrote to Mr Liddell & put wrong letters in envelopes etc.
Bed at 12.0 after rest. (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Colonel Hughes Hallett,
of a son. April. Death of Lady Farquhar who was married to Sir Arthur
Farquhar in 1840. Apl 7. Lady Farquhar was married in 1851, not 1840. Apl
12. Mrs Alfred Whitehead thanks all her friends for their sympathy. Apl 7.)
Thursday April 7
Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30am. Did some work immediately after breakfast &
finished drawing of Jingo Bird by 12.0am. Packed bags & lunched at 1.30 &
left 2.0 by cab for 4 Whitehall Place. Meet of motor cars. Saw Roger Wallace
& Mr Johnson. After left in Club Wagonette at 3.0. Mr Holland Tringham, Mr
Johnson, self & another. Rode all thro Park & Fulham & Putney, my usual
cycle ride, over Kingson Hill & on to Esher. Stopped. Somers Vine, Wallace &
Mr Butler had broken down. On after thro Cobham & Ripley to Guildford.
Crowds of people & great fun down hill. Arrived at Guildford 6.0pm. Difficulty
about beds. Mr Johnson changed. After went with young engineer to old curio
shop opposite. Dressed. Dinner 8.0pm. Opposite a Mr Crompton who met me
at Tom Taylors. Little Mr Alfred Ledger a solicitor. 2 bottles of Pomery at
Wallace's expense. Smoke & talk after. Room No 8. Business like landlady.
Bed at 11.15pm. (Red ink: Left at 2.0pm to go on motor car for trip.)
Friday April 8
White Lion, Guildford. Up at 8.20. Bath etc. Out 9.0. Most lovely sunny
morning & bright like Biarritz wh lasted all day. Stroll with Mr Butler. Breakfast.
After hung about till noon when started in same motor as yesterday. Mr
Holland Tringham, Mr Johnson, Mr Harper & self. Went over the Hog's Back.
Were cinematographed. Awful dust after. At 1.30 lunched at a Mr J.Henry
Knight's at Barfield. Talk to Sir Somers Vine after about Northmore. Hum! On
board again & through Farnham, Alton, Alresford & to Winchester. Great
crowds. Put up at the 'Royal Hotel'. Had fortunately got my luggage when the
van broke down near Ropley & changed it into the steam van. Tea. Stroll to
look at the Cathedral with Tringham & Mr Lidger. Left at 8.0 by fly & back to
town. Carriage to self. Cab to Garrick. Saw D'Arcy & Campbell Praed. Good
supper. Praed, Beetle & Frd Warre in with me. Beetle's yarns about
Boucicault 'seizing hold of lady in bed'. Left at 12.15. Home by cab. Door
locked. Ellis came down. Hair. Bed at 1.15. M awake. x. (Red ink across
page: On motor car all day.) (Cutting glued in: Death & Obituary of Hamab
Bass, MP. April 9.)
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Saturday April 9
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Tired. Breakfast. After developed 15 plates,
almost last in hand. Went up to dress. After very much annoyed Roy coming
home for nothing from Nymans. Lunch. Left after. Buss up to shop in Long
Acre. Bought an old scimitar & looked at jewelery. Saw Bangs on top of a
bus. After went to Garrick, Camera Club & Athenaeum. Wrote letters &
walked up to Bath Club. Found I had left my cigarette case there on Tuesday.
Had good bath. Saw Restori. Home by bus. Bought fruit & lobster. Dinner
8.15. Ellis spoke rudely to me. Very tired after dinner. Snooze in chair & bed
at 12.0am. (Red ink: Roy came back from Nymans.)
Sunday April 10
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Dull windy morning. Felt tired. Mite off to
church. Roy down. In morning wrote diary & letters. After lunch left & walked
up the park. Wet. Met not one single person walking down. Down
Constitutional Hill to the Athenaeum Club. Wrote several letters & after read
book on Africa. Left at 7.30 & home by bus. Quiet dinner, M, Mite, Roy & self.
M played after. Bed at 12.0 after snooze. In morning cleaned the scimitar
bought yesterday. Used acid. (Cutting glued in: Death of Charlotte Raggett.)
Monday April 11 (Easter Monday Bank Holiday)
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. x. Fine warm morning. After breakfast Roy
hanging about. Still very much annoyed with him. In the morning oiled &
cleaned sabre & after developed a lot of plates. Put drawers tidy etc. Roy at
the Club. All day tidying up. M went & called at the Vicat Coles. Quiet dinner
at home, M, Roy, Mite & self. Quiet dinner & bed after early. Put sealing wax
etc on scimitar in morning.
1882. In all day. M & baby went to Richmond.
......3. Hunted with Buckhounds, Maidenhead. 26 March.
......4. At Bourton on the Water.
Ap.14.
......5. At home all day.
Ap.6
......6. At home all day.
Ap.26
......7. In Paris with Spencer.
Ap.11
......8. Dined with Abbey & Reinhart.
Ap.2
......9. Tennis with Bartlett.
Ap.22
1890. At home all day.
Ap.7
.....1. Weston sub Edge.
March.30.
......2. At home all day
Ap.18.
......3. Roy & self Volunteer Review.
Ap.3
......4. At Brookwood.
March.30
......5. At Ramsgate. Lunched with Fildes.
15.Ap.
......6. M Biarritz. Self in all day.
6.Ap.
......7. All at Eastbourne.
19.Ap.
Tuesday April 12
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After in morning put things
etc away in bath room & did up clothes etc. After lunch by bus to Long Acre.
Called Welby's & selected things for Mite. Saw Col Jones. After Garrick. Tea
& wrote letters etc. Saw Galbraith at Welby's. Walked along Oxford St &
called at Fentons New Oxford St to look at swords etc. Back home by bus. M,
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Roy & self at dinner. Mite with Lennie at Oppenheims. Back late. Bed at
12.0am. No war with U.S & Spain yet.
Wednesday April 13
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Called about a scimitar at
brass shop. Put things straight etc. Put up costumes etc in brown paper. After
lunch went to Garrick by bus & ordered dinner. Back & called at Lincoln &
Bennetts & Nicholls and also Lambs. Home by bus & dressed & then back to
Garrick, calling at Athenaeum. Wrote letters etc. Met Mr & Mrs Lucas. Punch
private dinner at the Garrick. J.T, A à B, Partridge, self, Reed, A.G, O.S &
P.M. Very good dnner. £1.13.4 for 2. Left at 11.30 & home by bus. Bed
12.30am. (Red ink: Private Punch dinner at the Garrick Club. Very good.)
Thursday April 14
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After settled for Roy to go
to Pyt House. Otley & Stace sat for German Emperor & John Bull at 11.15am.
After sent Otley for pass for Roy to Waterloo. Lunch. Roy left after tea. Went
on with work. Wired Lennie. Dinner 7.20 & left by self for St James's Theatre.
st
Saw the 1 night of 'The Conquerors'. Row with German in the stalls. Very
poor play. Saw many I knew. Courthorpe (sic) Thomson etc. Very wet night.
Left 11.45 & home in wet on the top of a bus. Bed 12.30am. At 2.20 things
sent from Welby's for choice. Kept 1 pr of candlesticks. (Cutting glued in:
Accident to General de Gallifet. April 14.)
Friday April 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill. After got to work all
day on drawing of German Emperor & John Bull. Bright sunny day. M out in
carriage. Dressed at 7.10 & left at 7.35 by cab with Mite to dine at Bergheims,
Belsize Court. Met Mr & Mrs Harding, Peter Reed & Mrs Turquand. Good
dinner. Left at 11.15 & home by carriage. Mrs Turquand in usual form. Puppy.
Bed at 12.30am. More presents. (Red ink: Mite & self dined at the Bergheims.
Saw Peter Reed.)
Saturday April 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30 & 1 hrs work before breakfast. After got to work
9.30 & finished drawing of the German Emperor & John Bull at 12.30pm.
Dressed & off by 1.10 by cab to C.C. No costume. Sent to May's for it.
Curious dark day, heavy cloud & black. Cleared after at 2.50pm. L.G came.
Sat in Gitana dress. Out at 5.0 & on to the Athenaeum. Tea. Wrote & read.
Home by bus. Quiet dinner, M, Mite & self. Many presents had come, 10 or
11, & Ayala's. Bed early. x. 11.15. (Red ink: Curious dark day in town.)
Sunday April 17
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Breakfast. Mite off to church. Left at 10.10 for
Victoria by bus. Saw Mr Cox-Hughes. Met Rose & Col Bell. Went to Dover in
same carriage with Col Fitz George. Like George 3rd. Lovely day. Mrs Dickens
& daughter. On board Harry F.Dickens, son not very gentlemanly. Picked up a
paste pin on deck. Coarse American woman. Lunched with Rose. Saw Dr
Messel, also Rose Innes etc. Lovely passage back. Saw Sir Richard Webster,
Mr Aird, Faudel Phillips, Freshfield & Elliot. Funny little man & gentlemanly
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son in carriage back like Hare as Dr Goldfinch. Victoria 7.35. Home by good
cab 7.55. Quiet dinner, M, Maud & self. Wrote diary at 11.0pm. Bret Harte
called. (Red ink: Crossed the Channel with Col Bell & Rose.)
Monday April 18
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Out on cycle past Mite's house at 9.0 to 9.25.
Short round. After the whole day tidied up & did pens (messy) also cords on
sabre. M & Mite out in afternoon. Rested & developed ½ doz photos of L.G
taken Saty. After wrote letters etc. Lennie came at 8.0 to dine. More presents.
Bed at 11.50. No, 12.15 after snooze. Very cold east wind.
Tuesday April 19
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. M in bed, did not go out. Mite out in carriage by
herself. Finished pens & wrote letters in the morning. Windows done.
Lunched at home & after went by bus to Welby's for turquoise etc. Could not
get anything. Called Garrick & walked to Lambs. Tried coat on. Called at Bath
Club after & had Turkish bath. Weight 12.4 after bath. Saw Haddon
Chambers. Got cigarette case. Left at 7.10 & home by bus. Dined quietly, M,
Mite & self & quiet evening afterwards. Bed 12.0 after snooze. (Red ink:
Turkish bath. Weight 12.4 after.)
Wednesday April 20
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. In morning developed a lot of
plates taken Saturday. Roy came back in morning from Pyt House with Ricky
& went off to the Club. Lunch. After wrote letters etc. Rested. Went up by bus
after calling on Mr Cox-Hughes at the Palace Hotel. Settled about the
Reception. To Punch dinner 20 minutes late. Sir W.A, P.M, E.T.R, H.W.L,
F.C.B, A à B, J.T, self, O.S & P.A. Got cut of Irish Landlord, Tenant & Gerald
Balfour. Left & home by bus. F.C.B at Punch dinner 1 st time since Wedy
March 2nd. Agnew since (blank). (Red ink: War practically between Spain &
the United States.)
Thursday April 21
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round park. After breakfast photod Roy
& after Otley for Gerald Balfour & Irish Landlord & Tenant. Developed &
enlarged. Lunch. After went on up to 3.40. Roy at Club for raquet matches
etc. Drew cheque for £100 for Roy & after dined at 7.40, Roy to leave for
Oxford. Ruth & Lennie Messel dined. After Lennie said his father had doubled
his income. Roy left at 8.35 in cab. Bed at 11.45 after snooze. Coldish east
windy weather. War betwen U.S & Spain. (Cutting glued in: Marriage of
Edward Hodgson to Marion Cox. Ap 23.)
Friday April 22
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. Cycled round Park. After got to work all day on
drawing of Gerald Balfour & Irish Landlord & Tenant. Finished at 8.40 &
dressed for dinner. Lennie dined here for last time before his marriage.
Presents trooping in. Bed at 12.0 after snooze. (Cutting glued in: Death of
Mary Millard. Ap 28.)
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Saturday April 23
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. After breakfast dressed & left
at 11.0 for town. Up by buss & called C.C. & Welby's, selected jewels etc.
After walked to Bond Street. Met Lucas. Called Beale & Turnan & also at
Ross's. Walked to Garrick. Lunched. Mutton etc. After to Athnaeum. Wrote
letters. Saw Morton. Walked to New Gallery. Saw Mite & Lennie, Ryle etc.
Out & on to Garrick. Felt tired. Dined 7.30. Had left key. Wired Otley. Sat next
to Bangs & opposite Bancroft. Left 8.35 & on to Globe Theatre. Saw a play by
Stewart Ogilvie called 'The Master'. Mrs Arthur Lewis's return to the stage.
Painful evening. Bergheims etc etc. Mrs Tom Agnew & Lofty Trottle.
Geilgoods etc etc. Left at 11.20 & walked on to Garrick. Supper. Mr Johnson
& Lennie at Club. Had supper. Furniss there with Sir Albert Kay Rollitt. Lord
Dungavan & Lord Rosslyn etc. Left 1.0am & home by cab. Very cold. Bed at
1.50. Excitement about U.S & Spain. (Red ink across page: Went to Private
View of Grosvenor New Gallery. After to Globe Theatre, Mrs Lewis's 1 st
appearance.)
Sunday April 24
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Down breakfast, M & self. Cold. Mite at
church. After wrote letters all morning. Otley said he could not get horse. In
morning made experiment with new lens lent by Ross. Photod Ellis. After
lunch, Lennie, M, Mite & self. Went up to M's room & had an hour's sleep.
Then at 3.30 dressed in brown flannel suit & went at 4.20 on cycle to Sir A
Hickman's. Tea. Played 3 sets wih Sir A against son & a grandson. After a Mr
Galloway came. Played 3 sets. Won 2 out of 3 & lost 2 sets with Sir A as a
partner. At 7.0 left off & dressed. Had left braces. Drew a goose with eyes
shut. At 8.0 M & Mite came. Good dinner. Mr & Mrs Kettle. Ducks,
strawberries, asparagrass & plovers eggs. Good Champagne, Port & old
Brandy. Left at 11.0 & home in Mr Galloway's carriage. (Red ink: Played
tennis for 1st time in year at Sir Alfred Hickman's. M, Mite & self dined after.)
Monday April 25
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & cycled round Park. After breakfast dressed &
left 11.30am for Academy. Left Mite writing letters. M out. After called at
Lamb's. Had coat & vest fitted on. Then to R.A. Much impressed with
Sargent's portraits & Abbey's picture. Talk to Marcus Stone. After left & went
to Lamb's, after not before the R.A, & just caught green bus to Garrick.
Lunched by self. Saw Hare & Bancroft. Talk to Gen' Fletcher & Furniss after.
Left at 3.30 & walked to Athenaeum. Directed many envelopes & then on to
R.A. Saw Hanson Walker & others. Gregory's water colour. Goodall told me
he had got in a row for hanging the German Emperor. Left at 6.30. Met Mr &
Mrs Abbey in Piccadilly. Walked to Sloane St & bus home. Dressed. Dinner
8.0pm. (Red ink: Varnishing Day at Royal Academy. Went twice.) (Cutting
glued in: Death of Patrick Blair. May.)
Tuesday April 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round park. Breakfast. After all day
presents coming in. Mite writing etc. Put things in order & wrote etc etc. M out
in the afternoon. Could not get answer from the Photo people at Auxiliary. In
afternoon Welby sent brooches. Gave Mite turquoise & diamond ring.
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Dressed & at 7.40 left in 4 wheel cab to dine at the Messels, M, Mite & self.
Dull dinner. Took Mrs M in. Next Mrs de la Tenha (sic). Not impressed with
Loring. Left quite early 10.15 & home by carriage. M went to bed. Dear Mite
sat up writing thanks for presents. (Red ink: Dined eve of Wedding, family
dinner at the Messels.)
Wednesday April 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Dull morning warmer & muggy. Walk with Tip
over Campden Hill. After wrote letters etc. Presents still arriving. Opera glases
sent from Ross. In afternoon enlarged with the big camera. Lennie in. Left
rather late for Punch dinner. On to St Martins Lane. Called Garrick & C.C.
Altered day for photoing. Small Punch dinner. Lawrence Bradbury there for 1 st
time for many weeks. J.T, F.C.B, self, A à B, & E.T.R. All rest away. B.P, O.S
& A.G in Holland. Left at 10.45 with Lawrence B & got on bus & home. Bar
brooch from Welby's there. M lying awake. Bed 12.0am. Called & saw Mr
Cox-Hughes at 6.0pm. M came in with Bee B. On by buss 6.30 to P.D. (Red
ink: Small Punch dinner. Press day at Royal Academy.)
(Red ink: MITE'S WEDDING DAY.)
Thursday April 28
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Earl's Court. Called F.C.B. After
preparations for wedding. A Scotch misty sort of morning & dull all day. Roy
came at 11.0 from Oxford. Quietly wrote letters all morning up to 12.0. Then
went with Roy to Empress Rooms to see presents put out. Anxiety & delay
with Mite's dress arriving. Got from Bank £50 in £5 notes. Back. Roy dressed
first. Lunch 12.30am. After at 1.45 Roy left in carriage, C.Thomson's horse.
Then Bee. Then M. After at 2.12 Mite & self. Mite behaving well & looking
charming. A little early. Drove up Argyll Rd & down Campden Hill. At Church
to minute. Dear Roy did not meet his mother. Saw W.Agnew & shook hands.
After 'The Ceremony'. Painful kneeling on stool. The Vestry. Signed. After the
Reception. Great hand shaking. Many friends. Vernon & Lady M, Canon
Bourne, Hensman & many others. Bride & B off at 4.40. Nearly forgot to give
the notes. All over by 5.0pm. Gen'l Kent the last to go. Home & dressed by
6.15pm. Police sergeant called. Gave him 32/6. Dinner 6.45. Dora, 2
Messels, Mabel Wallace, Bee B, M, self, Roy, Nipper & Mr Stone. All went
after in omnibus to Haymarket. M, Bee & self sat in stalls. Home by bus. Very
tired. Saw Little Minister. Bed 12.30. M did not sleep at all.
Friday April 29
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Walk with Tip who puked up fat. Roy at breakfast
after. Roy left for Oxford at 1.0pm. At 11.30 photod Otley & scuttle for King
Coal. Developed & enlarged. After lunch rest & to work at 4.30 on drawing of
King Coal & Sovereignty of Seas. M & Bee Barrs went off to the R.A at 4.0pm
late. Worked up to 8.30pm when dined quietly, M, Bee & self. Quiet evening
after. Lennie & Mite crossed by the 1.0pm boat. Wires from them in morning.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Henry Newson-Smith. See Oct 17.)
Saturday April 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. M had only slept fairly well. Down & on with
work. Wrote Colin Hunter. Finished drawing of King Cole by 1.30pm. After
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lunch dressed & went up by by bus to Dover St & on to the Grafton Galleries.
Wedding of Miss McTear with a Mr Powell. Australian pictures. M & Bee had
gone on in carriage to the church at 2.15pm. Saw Major Spry & wife,
Moscheles (Oh!) Arthur à B & Hepworth Dixons. Many others. M left 5.0, saw
her in carriage. Went back till 5.30pm. After to Bath Club. Had rather
uncomfortable bath. Left 7.40 & home by bus. Thirsty. Quiet dinner M, B &
self. Academy Banquet. Not asked. (Red ink: Academy Banquet. No one
asked from 'Punch' table.)
Self went 1880.
" Saty April 30 1887. Burnt finger.
"
" May 2 1891. Met Corbutt.
"
" May 5 1894. Huxley & Kipling.)
(Red ink: List of 'Punch' attendees at Academy Banquet, 1880 to 1898.)
(Cuttings glued in: Death of Philip Calderon. Obituary P.H.Calderon R.A. May
2.)
Sunday May 1
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45am. M had had very good night. Did not go out.
Breakfast. Sausages etc. Read list of Academy guests. 1st time no Punch
artist has been there for 25 years. Dull day. Sir A.Hickman sent round. After
began to rain & kept on from 11.0 the entire day. Wrote letters. Lunch. Nipper
& Hilda Messel called, after Lord Kingsburgh. Dressed & at 7.30 walked to Sir
Alfred Hickman's in the rain. Dinner. The Kettles, Mr Galloway, Lily, Sir Alfred,
a lady & Mr & Mrs. A.Braunstein, 15 Hyde Park Gate S.W. Back at 11.0.
Good cigar by Mr B. Home. Bed 12.0. x. (Red ink: Wet day all day. Dined at
Sir Alfred Hickman's.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Green. May.
Obituary Charles Green.)
Monday May 2
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. Lovely May
morning. After wrote letters. Printed back photos & put out enlarging camera.
At 12.30 man came from Stores to look at them. In afternoon rested &
afterwards at 4.0 squared up & put all photos away. M & Bee out in carriage
to see Mite's house. Wrote letters to dinner time. Posted them. Quiet dinner,
M, Bee & self. News of battle at Manila & also verdict in Pitt Street case of
starving a servant. Worry letter from F.C.B. A shame at this time & quite
unnecessary. (Red ink: Much worried all night with letter for earlier work from
F.C.B.)
Tuesday May 3
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. Had been awake at night. Cycled round Park.
Mite's house being painted. Back. Tired. Wrote letters. Man doing windows,
Bee flowers etc. Worried all day about F.C.B's letter. Lunch. After Miss
Hogarth called. Went up stairs & rested for 2 hours & at 5.0 went for cycle
ride round Richmond Park & Barnes. Met Orton. Back at 7.15. Dressed. Told
M at dinner time about work. Left at 9.15 in carriage & went to Athenaeum,
Garrick, Camera Club & to 'Our Club' at the Criterion. Tedious discussion on
cryptograms etc of Shakespeare. Saw Arthur à B, McMillan, Sir James
Crighton Browne, Ginsberg & many others. Drove Arthur home & back 11.45.
Bed 12.30. (Red ink: Went after dinner to 'Our Club'. Saw Arthur à Beckett.)
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Wednesday May 4
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Wet morning. Walk round C.H with Tip. Breakfast.
After wrote many letters. Did some work on Ismay's drawing & after left for
Punch dinner at 6.15. Up by bus. Sir W.A, Lawrence B, P.M, B.P, A.T.R,
H.W.L, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B & O.S. After dinner à Beckett & self went
to Lyceum to 1st night of the 'Medicine Man'. Poor play. At back after. Took
Conan Doyle for Frederick. Saw Barrie, Barnum, Van Zeidlitz & many others.
Left at 12.45 & home by cab. (Red ink: Went with Arthur à B after the Punch
dinner to 1st night of the 'Medicine Man'. Frost.) (Cutting glued in: Funeral of
Philip Calderon.)
Thursday May 5
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled past Mite's house. Painting. After got to
work early & skemed drawing of Crystal Palace & Toad builder. Worked all
day & up to 6.0 when dressed. Lord Kingsburg came to dine 6.30. 2 bottles of
wine, one old. All went to see La Poupée. Very good. Left at 11.0 & home by
carriage. (Red ink: Lord Kingsbury dined. M, Bee & self & Lord K went to see
'La Poupée'.)
Friday May 6
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walk round C.H with Tip. After got to work &
finished drawing at 5.30pm of Crystal Palace & Toad jerry-builder. Boy not
there at 5.0. 5.30pm Burnand's boy X'd on road. Dressed. Put all away & off
after 7.0pm dinner to see 'Trelawny of the Wells'. Saw most lovely brunette
with emeralds & diamonds etc, also George Grossmith & son. Left at 3 rd act &
home by carriage, M, Bee & self. (Red ink: M, Bee & self went for 3rd time to
see 'Trelawney of the Wells'.)
Saturday May 7
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Printed back photos. Put dress things up & off
to lunch at Garrick by 1.30. Saw Routlege, Col Welby etc & at 3.0 photod L.G
5th time. Out at 5.30 & on to Garrick. Dressed. Bath 1/s. After went by cab to
Artists Gen Ben Dinner. Sir H Campbell-Bannerman in the chair. Speeches
good. Sat next Beadle & an old Scotchman. Tenniel, Reed & Partridge there.
Left with Arthur Severn & on to Arts Club. Gordon Thompson, Macbeth etc.
After with A.S to Garrick. Supper. Saw Irving looking very old. Abruptly left at
1.0am & home. Introduced to Mr Taber an American actor. (Red ink: Artists
General Benevolent Dinner. Took Arthur Severn to the Garrick after. Left
him.)
Sunday May 8
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Dull. Dressed & off in grey (illeg) coat to
Victoria. Over to Calais with Rose, Col Bell, Lewis & G.W.Wolff. Met F.C.B &
Mrs Burnand. Also Forbes, Hollingshead, Jacobi & son & many others.
Drunken man on board coming back. Most amusing. Hollingshead, 'Pauper'
London. All in carriage. Lewis & Wolff got on well. Train ½ hr late. Home.
Percy Oakes dined with us. Tired. Bed at 1.0 after snooze for 2 hours. (Red
ink: X'd Channel with Wolff, Lewis, Rose & Col Bell. Lunch with Mr & Mrs
F.C.B. Home late.)
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Monday May 9
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. After walk with Tip. Breakfast. Letters from Mite &
Miss Rose Innes. Wrote letters. M & Bee Barrs to Stores. Interview with Mr
Vaus. After got to work on drawing for Ismay. Decided to look up other plates
etc. Dined 7.0pm & after M, Bee & self went in the carriage to the Garrick
Theatre & saw 'Too much Johnson' a remarkably silly play. Bored. Out &
home by carriage. Saw no one I knew. (Red ink: Went with M & Bee to see
'Too much Johnson'. Very bad.)
Tuesday May 10
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Great gale in night & much wind all day. Worked
in morning on Ismay's drawing & after lunch rested. A very great many callers
in afternoon. Mary Nicol to lunch. In afternoon enlarged some pictures etc till
6.0pm. Dined 6.30 & left after to go to see 'The Liars'. There quite early.
Close to Mary & George Nicol & Mrs Thorneycroft. Good play. Out & walked
to carriage. Home. Very wet. Otley had his new hat on in heavy rain. Blew him
up. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: M, Bee & self went to 'The Liars'.)
Wednesday May 11
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill. Miss Holland's wall
blown down with gale. In morning worked on Ismay's drawing & afternoon.
After dressed & up to Punch dinner by bus. Saw Sir W.Agnew in Piccadilly.
On to Garrick & C.C. & walked back to Criterion. Sir W.A, P.A, O.S, A à B,
self, J.T, F.C.B, A.G, H.W.L, E.T.R, B.P, P.M. Good dinner. Long talk. Got cut
of Lansdowne & F.M 'Punch'. After put down by J.T at R.A & went to Soirée at
the Royal Society. Very interesting. Little crabs etc. Saw Lockyer, Murray etc.
Home by bus & bed 12.0am. Called on Mr Cox-Hughes & settled about acct
at 6.15pm. (Red ink: Royal Society's Soirée.)
Thursday May 12
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out with Tip round Campden Hill. After got to
work on drawing of Lord Lansdowne & Punch as Field Marshall. Took no
photos. Worked up to 6.30pm. Dressed & walked to 15 Hyde Pk Gate & dined
with the Braunsteins. Met 2 Spaniards, a very good looking youth & Lord
Ronald Gower. Good dinner. Left at 11.0pm & walked home. (Red ink: Dined
at Mrs Braunsteins'. Met Lord Ronald Gower.) (Cutting glued in: Wills of
Robert Wellington third Viscount Combermere and Sir Richard Quain.)
Friday May 13
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am, did not go out. Worked all day & finished at
5.45pm. Sent boy off with drawing of Lord Lansdowne & F.M Punch. Dinner
6.45. Boy called from Burnand. Left in a wretched 4 wheeler & went in wet to
St James's Theatre & saw The Conquerors. M liked it. Mr Lemon of L & C
Bank just behind us. Out & home by carriage. Sent Otley with cycle & had it
seen to with chain. (Cutting glued in: The wife of Thomas Mayhew, of a son.
23 May.)
Saturday May 14
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After
breakfast put things in order & developed few plates. At 12.0 dressed & went
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up to Garrick & lunched. Woman with cold in omnibus. Called C.C & changed
plates. Saw Mr Thomson. To Athenaeum. Wrote letters. Tea & home by 7.0.
Dressed & with M in carriage to Grand Hotel. Dined with the Pirries. Splendid
dinner. Mrs P's diamonds & pearls. Took Lady White in. Opposite Mrs Drage,
Miss Ismay that was. Saw Sir Henry Craik, Mr May, Carlisle, Webster,
Sutherland, Cawston, Ouless & many others. Left at 11.15 & home by
carriage. A particularly good dinner. (Red ink: Dined with M at Grand Hotel,
Mr Pirrie's dinner. A1.) (Cuttings glue in: In loving memory of Marie
Souberbielle, died 1894. The wife of W.Grantham, of a son. May.)
Sunday May 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. x. Down & after breakfast left in mackintosh &
brown coat for Victoria. Met Lewis & a friend. Very wet morning. On board
F.C.B & Mrs Burnand. Long talk & walk on deck. Good lunch in Calais. Not
usual appetite. After nearly one hour late in starting. Lewis told me of the
settlement of Barr Estate. Back to town 8.5pm & home 8.30. Wolff there.
Good dinner 8.45 & talk after. Wolff left at 11.15pm. Bed 12.0. Had
embrocation on. (Red ink: Crossed Channel with Lewis & another. Lunch with
Mr & Mrs F.C.B. Wolff dined with us in the evening, 8.45pm.)
Monday May 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Walk with Tip. Picked up cards in Holland
(illeg)10 x 4. After breakfast Maple called about Electric Light. Wrote diary
etc. Letter from H.Fletcher to say not elected to Squadron. Most serious
article about Mr Chamberlain's speech on Friday. In morning wrote etc.
Developed few plates. Lunch. Bee Barrs left at 2.15pm. Worked all afternoon
on drawing for Ismay & in evening M & self dined quite quietly by ourselves.
Bed at 12.0 after snooze. F.C.B dined at the Garrick. Beefsteak Dinner. (Red
ink: Bee Barrs left.)
Tuesday May 17
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am & walk round Campden Hill with Tip. Wind had
stripped trees of new leaves. Got to work on drawing for Ismay & after Effie
Weigall came to lunch. Many callers. Worked to dinner time when M & self
dined quietly. Sent Otley to Mudies & Stores. Changed books. Bed at 12.0
after snooze.
Wednesday May 18
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out on cycle round past Mite's house. Home &
after got to work on drawing for Ismay & at it all day. Dressed in afternoon &
left at 6.10 for P.D. by bus. Went to Garrick. Got letters. Called C.C & on to
Criterion. Sir W.A, L.B, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, O.S.
Good dinner. Got Bogey of Isolation of England to do. Went to Athenaeum.
Wrote letters & home by bus. Bed at 1.0am. Spencer came to lunch & went
with M calling in the carriage. (Cutting glued in: Death of Grenville Kingsley.)
Thursday May 19
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & x. Out round Campden Hill with Tip. Very wet
& dark. Got to work on drawing of Salisbury, Chamberlain & Bogey of
Isolation of England. Used old photos. Worked all day. Ellis came in with
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paper at 11.0, news of Mr Gladstone's death at 5.0am this morning. Worked
till 7.10 when dressed. Left in wet with M at 7.40 & drove to dine at William
Agnew's. Met Lady at Cupola House, Palace Gate. Lockett Agnew & wife,
Mackenzie & wife, Joe Farquharson & Mrs F, Morland A & wife & Mr & Mrs
Kinnaird. Good dinner. Slow. '74 wine. No ear to Burne Jones' picture of girl.
Left at 11.10 & home by carriage. Prospectus from Northmore came. (Red
ink: Death of Mr Gladstone. Slow dinner at Sir W.Agnew's.)
Friday May 20
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. M did not have a good night. Seedy. Down &
round C.H with Tip. A wet morning & wet all day. Got to work at 10.0 & all day
to 6.30 on Chamberlain, Salisbury & Bogey of Isolation of England. M out in
carriage 4.0 to 6.50pm. New cutter from Stores came. Worked up to 6.45
when finished. Quiet dinner with M after. Bed early. (Cutting glued in: Golden
Weddings. Henry Squire and Julia Pepys; George Ridout and Sophia Daniell.
May 23.)
Saturday May 21
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill. After putting things
straight etc went up by bus & walked to Miles's & had coat tried on, walking
after to C.C & the Garrick. Called May's. Had lunch, ½ a lobster etc. Left & to
C.C at 2.15. Most terrible attack of P. In pain all the afternoon & evening.
Waited till 4.0, on the point of going when model came. Took 24 photos,
Britannia draped. Seedy from P. Left & after walked down to the Athenaeum.
Met Mr Pirrie who asked me to dine tomorrow. Coming back into the Club saw
Sir W.Priestley. Home by bus. Quiet evening & dinner with M. Bed at 11.30.
Very bad attack of P. Worst since 1896. (Red ink: Very bad attack of P.) Also
saw a woman knocked down in Public House door by an elderly man.
Sunday May 22
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Fine morning. M would not X the Channel. Left
instructing Otley to take bag to the Athenaeum. Got to Victoria by bus. Saw
Lewis & Rose. Also F.C.B & Mrs F.C.B. Went down with the Burnands &
lovely X'ing. Lewis & Burnand & Rose talking. Mr Herkomer on board. Also
Harry Woods. Good lunch at Calais, Mr & Mrs F.C.B, Woods & self. After very
hot sun. Train from Paris 1 hr late. Mrs Warre amongst the passengers. Sir
Wm McCormack etc. Back comfortably & by cab to Athenaeum. Dressed &
dined with Mr Pirrie, Sir Richard Musgrave, or John, & many of the Belfast
Harbour Commission. Mr May & Wolff & Mr McHenry. Very pleasant dinner.
Smoke etc. Home on the top of a bus. Bed at 12.0am. M sleeping all right.
(Red ink: X'd Channel. Lewis, Rose, Wood etc. Dined with Mr Pirrie (illeg) at
the Reform Club.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Spencer Walpole.)
Monday May 23
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & cycled round past Mite's house with toe clips.
Did not like them. Worked all day on drawing for Mr Ismay. Quiet evening &
dinner with M. Bed early after read & snooze. Man came from Maples to do
Electric Lights in upper storey. At it all the week. (Cuttings glued in: Death of
Right Hon Spencer Walpole. Obituary Spencer Walpole.)
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Tuesday May 24
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Cycled round past Mite's house. Worked all
day on drawing for Mr Ismay. Many callers. Afer dressed & went by self in
carriage to dine at Sir Andros De la Rue's. Mabel Wallace dining with M. Took
Mrs Pollock in. The William Ingrams, Mr & Mrs Val Princep, the De la Rues,
Mrs Bram Stoker etc. Pleasant dinner. Home by carriage, driving round by the
Garrick & C.C Clubs. No letters. Home 12.0am & bed. (Red ink: Dined at Sir
Andros De la Rue's.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Thomas Helme to Emily
Chepmell. June.)
Wednesday May 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Saw George Agnew, wife &
daughter. Home & hard at work all day on drawing of Ismay's, could not finish
it. Left & to P.D by cab. Sir W.A, Phil A, O.S, A à B, self, J.T, F.C.B, E.T.R,
B.Partridge, H.W.L. Long time making up cut. One for self on Richmond Hill
altered after by suggestion from Partridge to Britannia wanting a Partner. Got
my pocket book left last week. Left with F.C.B at 11.0 & home by bus.
Tenniel, E.T.R & others went to at home of W.L Thomas's at Prince's Gallery.
Knew nothing about it. Bed 12.0 after snooze. The Derby Day. Dull & cold. A
rank outsider, Mr Larnach's Jeddah won. (Red ink: Thomas's at home at
Prince's Rooms.)
Thursday May 26
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park past Mite's. After got to work
& finished drawing for Mr Ismay & sent it off at 1.0pm. Otley had been to the
Stores. After got to work & skemed drawing of Britannia, Uncle Sam & little
Jap & German Emperor. Worked up to 9.0pm when dined. Was to have dined
with Midge. At 6.50pm whilst I was drawing Britannia's face Bonvoisin called.
M saw him & he stayed talking till 8.15 when I went down. Obliged to ask him
to dinner. He stayed until 11.30 quite exhausting M & self with talk. Letting
him out a black & white cat ran into the house. Had to go down to pantry to
get it by the neck & put it out. Bed 12.0am. Mr Gladstone lay in state in
Westminster Hall. (Red ink: Finished Mr Ismay's drawing. Bonvoisin called &
dined in the evening.)
Friday May 27
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not go out. Got to work & hard at it all day on
Britannia, German Emperor, Jap & Uncle Sam. Finished at 8.30pm when sent
it off by boy to F.C.B's. Then I rushed up & packed my bag hurriedly. Otley
was to have taken it & M's luggage by cart to Waterloo. Decided to go
tomorrow. The Electric Light turned off by the men & we had no lights. Sent
Otley to Notting Hill. Dined with M. Very tired. Both went to bed early. M at
10.0pm, self 11.30. Good night. Mr Gladstone lay in state in Westminster
Hall.
Saturday May 28
Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am. Otley had taken things by cart to Waterloo. M
& self had breakfast & after left by carriage at 9.45am & drove to Waterloo.
All flags ½ mast high for Mr Gladstone's funeral. Got off most comfortably. A
very silly father & 2 girls in the 1st class compartment with M & self. Very
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hungry at Salisbury. Got M a sandwich. At Tisbury 2.0 & to Pyt. Saw Mrs
Routh on steps & Bee & Tabs & all Rouths etc. Had lunch. After they all went
for drive to Arundel, Routh riding bicycle. H & self potted at rabbits with rook
rifle, did not hit one. After at 6.0 rode bicycle into Tisbury. Had fall by the Post
Office. Cut the knees of my trowsers & hands. Annoyed. Back to Pyt. Met the
Head Keeper. Dressed. At dinner Mr Gordon & Mr & Mrs Shaw Stuart, the
Rouths etc. Took Mrs Routh in. Very good dinner. Deutz & Geldermann. Mrs
Routh sang after & Mrs S.S played violin. H sang the 1 horse char à bang.
Smoke & to bed at 11.45 after lemon squash. Tooth irritable. Mr Hinton,
Rector of Semley, also dined. He was one of the watchers at Mr Gladstone's
funeral. (Red ink across page: Went down to Pyt House, Tisbury.)
Sunday May 29
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0am & out. After Ham, Mrs Routh, Tabs & the
children went to church. Went down & put up camera & occupied myself the
whole of the morning taking 1doz photos of skeleton. Finished by 1.0pm.
After good lunch. Rested after on sofa. Read Dumas, 20 yrs after. Tea 4.30.
Then all started to walk to Fonthill. M turned back. Mrs Routh jumping over
stiles. Slight attack of P. Delightful walk. Gwenny's nose bled. Back quite late
7.25. Dressed & dined 8.0. Good dinner. All very tired after. No music & bed
at 11.30pm. Took wisdom tooth out in the bath. Had been loose for some
days, much relieved by it. (Red ink: Walk to Fonthill.) (Cutting glued in: Death
of Lord Playfair.)
Monday May 30
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 7.45. Bath. Took two photos before breakfast of
Drawing Room etc. Left at 9.40 with Hamilton by station brougham for
Southampton. Not very much of a crowd. Got to the Joyeuse about 11.40.
Looked all over her. Curious old man on board. Lunch. Sent for bottle of beer.
After to workshops etc. Slight attack of P. Went on board the Palatine. Saw
the Lady Torfrida & after Mr Green's yacht, the Sunflower. Back with H to
Tisbury via Salisbury by 7.40. Dressed. Good dinner. Mrs Routh sang. Pulled
a little girl's hair by mistake. Smoke after & to bed at 11.50pm. Tired. M slept
well. (Red ink: Went to Southampton.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Lord
Playfair. May 31.)
Tuesday May 31
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 7.40. Bath. Rainy morning. Great bustle to get the
Rouths off who left at 8.45 or 9.15. After photod about the house, the
staircase, prints etc, up to 1.0pm. Also wrote letters & diary. Photod up to
lunch time. Rain off & on all day. At 5.0 cleared. Went into Kitchen Garden for
the 1st time. Photod apple tree & after the house, Tabs & Bee. Went for walk,
Tabs, Bee & self. Barloo & the cows. Went & saw swans sitting. Back.
Changed plates. Dressed. Very bad attack of P again. Discussion about Miss
Bowley's drawing of 'Joyeuse'. M & Tabs went to bed at 10.15. Very cold.
Went with H to look at supposed Gilray's print. Windows unlocked. Bed at
11.0pm. Slept well. (Red ink: Dull dark day.)
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Wednesday June 1
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.15am. Bath. Miss Farquhar with the bob tail had
left at 8.30. Breakfast nine. Bright sun. M had letters from Edgar etc. No news
from Mite. After took a lot of photos etc of Pigeon House, Gwen & Evelyn etc.
Packed up camera & bag. H went into Tisbury on bicycle. Strong wind &
showers. Lunch. M & self left at 3.45 for Tisbury. Back to Waterloo. Girl like
Tabs with a maid got in at Bishopstoke. Otley met M. By bus to Strand. Called
Garrick & C.C & on to Punch dinner. W.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, F.C.B,
J.T, self, A à B, O.S (late). Got good subject of Launce & his dog. J.T said I
got all the best subjects. Carriage met me & went to Garrick. Wrote letters &
home 12.0am. (Red ink: Back from Tisbury.)
Thursday June 2
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. After at 10.30 photod
Stace for Launce & Tip. Developed & got prints 3.0pm. Rested. Attack of P.
After to work until 8.45pm when M & self dined quietly & bed early after.
Friday June 3
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Went on to work directly after breakfast. All day
at Chamberlain & Salisbury as Launce & his dog. Finished at 7.15 & dressed.
Could not find razor. Upset. By cab at 8.5pm to 34 Hans Rd & dined with
George Armstrong. Sat next Courtauld Thomson. Man opposite with a shifty
eye. Very nice naval officer. Left at 12.0 & home by bus outside. (Red ink:
Dined with George Armstrong.)
Saturday June 4
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. After put things
straight. Talk to the Electric Light man from Maple's. Left at 11.0 & on to
Evereds'. Paid bill. Ordered bed etc Electric Lights. On to Garrick. Lunch & to
C.C at 2.30. Changed plates. Photod L.G at 3.0. Not successful. Britannia sits
etc. Out 5.30 & after cup of tea with Craigie & Thomson left 6.15 & by bus
home. Dined 7.15 & after by good 4 wheeler, M, Dora & self to see the Lyons
Mail. Irving good. Saw Bernard Partridge & wife, Bancroft & wife & sister etc
etc. Left 10.45 & home by cab. Bed 12.0am. See Jan, Cash for Times. (Red
ink: Went with M & Dora to see 'The Lyons Mail'.)
Sunday June 5
Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. x. Wretched Emilie came in room suddenly.
Lovely morning & day. Left 10.15 leaving Dora with M. X'd to Calais. Down
with F.C.B & Mrs B. Saw Denny who had missed his train. Lovely X'ing. Sir
Thos Sutherland, Col Denny, Mr Thomson & architect photographing. Peter
Long, Lord Mayor Davies & Augustus Moore. Too much lunch. Back. Train
not late. Sir Rob't Peel etc on board. Also Chief Inspector Melville & an old
fellow who knew the Peacheys. Goes back to the 50's. Back. Carriage nearly
to self. Home 7.50. Stone & Dora dined. Quiet evening. Bed 11.15pm. (Red
ink: X'd Channel. Wm Stone dined at 8.10 & Dora also.)
Monday June 6
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Bright & hot. Cycled past Mite's house. Came
over hot & heavy rain. Breakfast. Dora left 11.30. Jacymot here. Mended door
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in Bath Room & also put legend on drawing for Knowles. M busy about
servants. After developed a few plates taken at Pyt etc. Lunch. Rest. At 3.30
put on grey frock coat & went with M in the carriage up to shop in Long Acre
& after to Evered's. Bought scent bottle. Put down at Club & had interview
with Mr Totty at 5.0pm. Lasted till 6.10. After to C.C & fom 6.30 to 7.30
changed plates. Left at 7.40 & home by cab. Dined at 8.0pm with M quite
quietly & rest after. (Red ink: Interview with Mr Totty.)
Tueday June 7
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & cycled past Mite's house. Met Sir Michael
Conway. After home & in morning finished developing etc. Mended desk
slide. After lunch at 2.10 went on cycle to Cobham & back, 34 miles. Drunken
carman. Slight attack of P. Spoilt ride. Sent drawing to Phil Agnew by Otley.
Back 7.0pm. Many callers. At 8.10 Miss Rose Innes dined. Told awful stories.
Claret. Very thirsty & tired. Bed at 12.0 after Miss Rose Innes went 11.30pm.
(Red ink: Cycled 42 miles. Miss Rose Innes dined at 8.10pm.)
Wednesday June 8
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20 & after walked round Campden Hill. Dull dark
stuffy morning. Worked all day on 2nd drawing for Ismay. After at 7.0 took cab
& called Miles. Shut up. Saw cutter outside. To Criterion. Sir W.A, P.M, B.P,
E.T.R, H.W.L, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B & O.S. Talk of being pilled for the Old
Welcome Club. Left 10.0 & met M in the carriage & on to the Soirée of the
Royal Society. Very hot. M & Gutta Percha. Crabs etc. Saw Miss Marshall
that was & many others. Out at 11.45 & home by carriage. Bed. (Red ink:
Worked on 2nd Ismay drawing M & self went to Soirée of the Royal Society.
Very hot.)
Thursday June 9
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am & out round past Mite's house. Dull cloudy
morning. Breakfast & skemed drawing of Emperor William & Emperor of
China with Dragon & Eagle. Developed & enlarged. Got to work 3.45pm & on
till 8.45pm when dined. (Cutting glued in: Death of Alicia Buckle.)
Friday June 10
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill & after worked all day
on Emperor William & Emperor of China & Dragon & Eagle. Finished 7.0pm.
Dined 7.45 & left in carriage for Empire Theatre. Met H & Midge & had box.
Saw the Press Ballet. Out & to Hendersons' Dance. Saw G. H. Boughton &
Phil Morris etc. Waited till 1.0 for supper. Mr Shannon & Mrs Snagge waiting.
Out & home by 1.45. Tired. Bed. (Red ink: M & self went with Hamilton L &
Midge to Empire Theatre & after to Hendersons' Dance. Could get no supper
till 1.0am.)
Saturday June 11
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Walk with Tip. Had to whip him. After put photos
away & printed some. Very dense ones. Bright hot sun the whole day. M out.
Very much annoyed by Otley & Emilie dragging heavy box over the floor
cloth. Left at 12.15 & by buss to Piccadilly. Got hat at Lincoln & Bennetts
(straw) & ties at (blank). On to C.C & Garrick. Lunch & talk to a gent. After to
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C.C. Up in hot Studio. Waited till 3.30. No one came. Tea & to Athenaeum.
Saw Dr Robins. After to Bath Club. Again saw Robins. Bored by talk & in
bath. Left 7.30 & home by buss. M & self dined quite quietly. Felt very tired &
thirsty. Bed 12.0. (Red ink: Turkish bath. Very hot bright day. Hair cut.)
(Cuttings glued in: Walter Palmer-Samborne to Bertha Taylor. June. Death of
Frederick Eckstein.)
Sunday June 12
Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0. M good O. Left 10.20 for Victoria. A dull very cold
morning & day. Down with Lewis & Mr Goddard & a man named Shrimp. No
F.C.B. Over to Calais. Met Mr Percy Keene & a dear old Colonel Wilkinson
aged 86. Good lunch. Just caught Paris train & saw dear Mite & Lennie.
Annoyed with man not getting chair. Over to Dover & up to Victoria. All
Lennie's sisters met him. By cab home & dinner 8.15. Lennie & Mite's
embroideries. Fans & silver boxes. Felt very sleepy & tired. Bed at 11.45.
Slept well. (Red ink: X'd Channel with Lewis. Met dear Mite & Lennie & all
home together. Dull cold day.)
Monday June 13
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.20am. Bath. Cycled past Mite's house. Mite & Lennie
down. Sent Otley with coats to Barkers. Filled in Income Tax Paper for £795
less £24.16.8. Sent it in. After worked all day on drawing for Ismay got on with
it. Orton came in & dined & had talk. Pleasant evening. Also Jenny Wilson.
Sent Otley to Stores for Wine & liqueur.
Tuesday June 14
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Cycled past Mite's house. Worked all day on
drawing for Ismay. Got on. Went up into Schoolroom in the afternoon &
worked for 1st time. All right. At 7.30 dressed & M & self went to dine at Mrs
De la Penna's. Good dinner. Met the Tuers, the younger Gellgoods(sic) etc
etc. Long talk to Tuer after & home by carriage. Little Chathams 102.
Wednesday June 15
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round park & past Mite's house. Saw Mr
Smith after. Worked all day on drawing for Ismay & up to time for going to
Punch dinner. Drove in cab. Sir W.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B,
O.S & P.A there. Congratulated Reed on his cut. Left & saw Otley waiting for
Mite. Walked to Garrick & C.C, no letters, & met Mite coming out of Comedy
Theatre. Home by carriage. Mite had dined with Fanny Barker at the Berkeley
& went to see Lord & Lady Algy. Bed 12.0. Letter from L.G.
Thursday June 16
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After sent
Otley on cycle to Westbourne Terrace about Mite going to Ascot. Broke down
on Campden Hill. Mite went off in cab. After skemed subject of Zebras having
finished design for Ismay at 12.30pm & sent it off by registered parcel. Otley
had been up & got helmets & called about watch on bicycle etc. At 2.0pm
photod Otley & self both together as French & English soldiers for Zebras.
Developed & enlarged. Very tired. Got to work at 6.0. Mite back from Ascot.
Won £1.0.0.
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Friday June 17
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & walk round Campden Hill. Mite left at 8.30 for
Victoria to go down to Arundel to meet Lennie. Worked hard all day on
Zebras & French & English soldiers. Finished at 8.30. Lennie & Mite back. All
dined together. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary John Cromwell. June 18. Death
and Obituary Sir E.Burne-Jones. Sat June 18.)
Saturday June 18
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round C.H with T. After breakfast skemed
Preface, Index etc etc. Put all photos away etc etc. M & Mite went to Dolly
Roberts' wedding. Lunched at home & left in cab at 2.45 for C.C. Saw
Thomson. Waited till 4.15pm when photod L.G 8 th time. Got receipt. Very hot.
Better model. Out & home by cab. Dressed & M & self went to dine at 8.0 at
the Braunsteins. Met Mrs Caird, Lionel Phillips, Sir A & Lady Hickman etc.
Stayed till 11.30 when home. Very hot evening. x. (Cutting glued in: Marriage
of Major Bramish Barter to Frances Roberts. Lord George Sanger's Circus
performing at Balmoral. June 18.)
Sunday June 19
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.45am. Lovely morning. Hot. Photod self for Index &
Preface, Otley taking them, up to 2.0pm. Lunch, Lennie, Mite, M & self. After
rested in School Room. Mrs Eyton Roller & daughter called & Mr Gilmour &
Mr Rubens. Went by cab & played lawn tennis at Sir A.Hickman's, Lennie &
Mite also. Met a Capt'n Marshall, wrote play at the Court Theatre. Major
Trench etc. Little girl hit with ball. Good game. Did not win one. Left 7.30 &
walked round by Phillimore Gds. Pointed out where Mite was born. Dinner.
Very warm. Sat out on door step & smoked. Bed at 12.30 after snooze.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Caroline Gripper.)
Monday June 20
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. M in bed. Walk round Campden H with Tip. Lennie
went to City for 1st time since marriage. Sent Otley to Stores & also wrote Mr
Lemon about Bank 2nd Pref to sell at 100½. After put things in order & printed
blue photos, a great number. After lunch & a rest got to work on the Preface
& worked up to dinner time. Lennie, Mite, Roy & self & M dined. Had a
Zeltinger cup made. Quiet evening & bed after.
Tuesday June 21
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Walk round C.H with Tip. After got on all day
with Preface drawing. Many callers. Worked in School Room. Dressed at 6.0
& went up by carriage to the Berkeley & dined with Fanny Barker. Sat next
Mrs Parish & Mrs Cullen. Talk of Claude Watney & his wife, Arthur Linley etc.
After went to the St James's & saw The Ambassador. Poor play I thought it.
Roy went up & had a stall. After M dropt Roy & self at the Johnson
Fergusons. Not a soul there except the Charles Critchetts. Walked up & down
outside & home at 12.15 by carriage. Bed. (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles
Percival.)
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Wednesday June 22
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & walk round C.H with Tip. After got to work &
finished Preface at 1.0. Sent it off 3.0pm. Lunch. After did tail piece by 6.0pm.
Dressed & left by cab for Punch dinner. Bad cab. Horse had shoe torn off.
Cab to P.D. Phil A, no, Lawrence Bradbury, presided. P.M, B.P, E.T.R,
H.W.L, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, O.S. Seaman bothered about Preface &
discussion at the dinner about drawing of ladder on deck. Very annoyed. After
Lucy talked of Gould. Left 11.0 & home by omnibus outside. Lennie Mite &
Roy went to the Cameron Corbetts' at home. Dull. Bed at 12.0am.
Thursday June 23
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Out round C.H with Tip who ran back down
Argyll Rd. Fetched him & whipped him. Breakfast. After worked in morning &
did Index, Punch with Pigeons. Roy left for his Exam at Oxford at 1.0pm. At
2.0 photod Otley in sun for Punch as Showman. Developed. Finished Index at
5.0 & after did tail piece. Sent both off at 7.0pm. Dressed & M & self left in
hansom & dined at the Steinkopffs. Took Mrs Prince in & sat next Mrs
Medley. The Hardy's & Mr Stone there. Very pleasant dinner & evening.
Home by the carriage at 11.0. Lennie & Mite dined at Westbourne Terr. Bed
12.30 after snooze.
Friday June 24
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Colley wobbles & wet morning & wet all day. Walk
round C.H. No Tip. After worked all day on Punch as Showman. Enlarged
after lunch. Electric Light attached in Day Nursery. Used it for 1 st time.
Worked till 8.35 when sent it off & dined at 8.45. Roy came back from Oxford
at 4.0pm. All dined together. Quiet evening. Bed at 11.30pm.
Saturday June 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After put room
upstairs in order etc & lunched at home. M & self drove in carriage to the
Shaftesbury & saw 'The Belle of New York'. Very much pleased. Neither Roy
nor Maud turned up. Put M in carriage & walked to Garrick, C.C & Athenaeum
where had tea. Wrote Trendell etc. Home by bus. M & self dined alone &
quiet evening. Lennie & Mite went to The Belle of New York & saw Roy in
stage box. Waited up. They came home 12.0. Sat up for Roy. Saw a woman
knocked down outside Public House in Haymarket. Also bought pair of brown
boots & buckskin ditto at H.E.Randall's, 24 Haymarket S.W.
Sunday June 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill. Did not go to
Channel. In morning enlarged photos up to lunch time. Very much annoyed &
upset hearing Roy had been seen in stage box last night with Lydia Flopp &
others. Rested & at 5.0 went by self to play tennis at Sir A.Hickman's. Had 4
or 5 sets. Self & young H against Sir A & Major Trench. Back at 7.45. Gave
Roy a severe lecture. After dined, M, Roy & self. Lennie & Mite down the river
all day. A wet showery hot close day.
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Monday June 27
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk round C.H with Tip. Lovely weather. After put
room in order & enlarged photo again of L.G for drawing for Vol 115. Began
the drawing in afternoon. At 8.0 Miss Rose Innes, M & Roy dined. Lennie &
Maud dined at Mrs Oakes's, did not get back till 12.10am. My £1000 L.C.& D
Ryl stock sold at 101½. Bed at 12.30am. (Cutting glued in: Sale of the Keen
Relics. June 27.)
Tuesday June 28
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After got on
all day with drawing of Vol 115 up to lunch. Rested after. At 3.15 left with Roy
by cab & drove to Charing X. Went down to Grove Park to the Lang & Hussey
Shooting Ground & were fitted for guns. Shot all right after. Back Charing X
by 7.0pm. Home by buss. Dr Orton dined. Pleasant evening. Lennie & Mite
went to Ruben's dance. Roy & self to Sir William Priestley & Sir Cuthbert
Quilter's at homes. Saw Sir Myles Fenton, Burney Yeo etc. After Elsie
Hanson Walker & her fiancé, F.W.Lawson etc. Home by cab. Also Percy
Macquoid. Oh!. (Cutting glued in: Death of Ellen Warcup. June.)
Wednesday June 29
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After got to
work on heading for Volume 115. Got on. Spencer in at 3.30pm. Could not
finish. Dressed for Punch dinner & off in brown suit & straw hat at 6.45. Cab
there. F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, P.M, O.S, B.P, E.T.R. Phil May looking seedy &
dissipated left early with a menu & A à B also. Tenniel had extra subject.
Hung up for my own. Left at 10.45 & home by buss. Roy & M up. Lennie &
Mite home at 12.0. Cycle sent home from Simpsons 117 Regent St. (Cutting
glued in: Death of Lewis Agnew. June.)
Thursday June 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk wth Tip. After got to work & at it all day
finishing heading for Vol 115. Finished at 6.0. After dressed 7.30 & went with
M & Roy to a large dinner at Mrs Oakes. Charles Low, Dudley Hardy, the
Skullys mere et fille, Plaskett etc. Percy & Spencer. 11.0pm before up from
table. Left at 12.0. Talk to Miss Skully. Roy ought to have gone to a dance at
the Maude's. Sensational rise in Chathams 2nd Pref, went up 6. Bed at 1.0am.
Felt well. Plaskett had too much wine. Went at 1.40 to Lords & had lunch at
Hartree & Lawrence table. Saw Mrs Ward etc. Nice man next me. Left 3.25 &
home & on with work.
Friday July 1
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast 9.0. Did not go out. After breakfast wrote
nd
F.C.B etc etc. Great rise in 2 Pref Chathams. M & Mite went to Lords. After
got subject of Salisbury from F.C.B. Got to work & at it all day till 8.45 when
finished. M back at 6.0. Lennie & Mite dined at the Lindo’s. M, self & Roy
dined quietly. Sent invites for dinner. Bed at 12.0 after snooze. Lennie & Mite
back 11.45pm.
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Saturday July 2
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. No walk. In morning put new board on easel. M in
room. Got ready & to Lords at 1.45. Match all over. Easy victory for Oxford.
Uncomfortable lunch next Lord Kinnaird etc. Out & on to dear Mite's house &
had tea. Mr Marriott & Ruth Messel also. After M & self home. Lennie Roy &
Mite went to Court Theatre. M & self quietly at home. Read St Helena & Sir
Hudson Lowe.
Sunday July 3
Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.30. Dressed & Roy & self off in dog cart by 8.20am
& down to Charing X. Down in lovely weather to Calais. Saw Walter Agnew &
wife going over. Good lunch at 12.40 & out & to town & Plage at 1.45.
Robbed by old woman for washing. Decided after being frightfully slow & no
one there to go back by the 3.45 boat. Saw F.C.B & Mrs Burnand & Mr
Merryweather. Delightful passage. Got drenched with salt water. Home 8.0pm
with Merryweather. Fire engines about. Quiet dinner M, Roy, Mite, Lennie &
self. Bed after writing many letters.
Monday July 4
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk round - no, did not go out. All morning
putting room in order etc etc. Rest after lunch & at 6.30 cycled round
Richmond Park & thro Roehampton Gate for the 1 st time . Back at 7.50.
Dressed. Dinner. Ought to have gone to Dr Nobel Smith's at home. Did not.
Bed 11.30. All dined quietly, M, Roy, Mite, Lennie & self.
Tuesday July 5
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Walk round with Tip. After decided to go to
Henley with Roy. Wrote letters & left at 11.30am by the G.W.R. Down to
Henley, 3 other people in train. Lunch at the Red Lion, 5/s per head. 15/s for
canoe & 1.1.0 fares. Saw Mr Orlebar in a Swan Launch, also Mrs Farquhar.
No one else. Eton rowed well. Day cost £3.0.0. Back by 5.45pm. Home 7.15.
Saw Wirgman & cycle. Dressed & dined 8.0pm. After left by cab, Roy, Lennie
& self for Royal Academy. Fire in Piccadilly opposite. Difficulty in getting in.
Many friends. Conrad Cooke, Topham etc, Peter Reed. Out. Could not get
carriage. To Messels at home. Took Mrs Twiss in. Away by 12.30. Roy &
Maud had their fortunes told. Very tired. Home & bed 1.30am. (Cutting glued
in: Death of Isaac Walker. Obituary Mr I.D.Walker.)
Wednesday July 6
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. M very tired. Sent breakfast up. After walk round
C.H without Tip. Lennie off to the City. Men came to do window & took down
ventilating tube put up the Lord knows when 1880 about. Wrote to Mr Lemon
about buying 5000 Chatham Ordinary. After men about all day. Dressed in
evening in light flannels & straw hat & by cab to Garrick dropping Roy at De
Vere Gardens to dine with Miss Rose Innes who went to see Coquelin in
Cyrano de Bergerac at the Lyceum Theatre. On to Punch dinner. Phil A, Phil
May, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, F.C.B, J.T, self & A à B. Long discussion. Cut
altered from L.C & D Rly to 50th Year of Grace. Back home by bus at 11.0pm.
M had been to the Opera with Tilda. (Cutting glued in: Death and Obituary of
Dr Cornelius Herz. July 7.)
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Thursday July 7
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Walk round C.H. After skemed subject & photod
Stace & Otley for cricket subject. Developed & got ready. After rest worked
from 6.0 to 8.0pm. M & self dined alone. Mite, Lennie & Roy at Henley. They
came back after having supper at 8 Westbourne Terrace, Mr Hemming's
party. (Red ink: Roy & Mite & L went to Henley with Mr Hemmings.) (Cutting
glued in: Death of John Clutton.)
Friday July 8
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & walk round Campden Hill. After worked all day
on drawing of Grace & Cricket, the 50th Year of Grace. M & Mite went to
Lords for Eton & Harrow match & lunched with Mr Hartree. Back at 6.0pm.
Finished at 8.30pm. Effie Conrad dined with M, Roy & self. (Red ink: Eton &
Harrow Cricket Match.)
Saturday July 9
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & walk round C.H. After breakfast with Otley took
chest of drawers up stairs & put them up. Very hot & tired tho' dull day. All off
in carriage at 12.30 to Lords, M, Mite & self. Walked round & saw E.T.Reed.
After got Roy an invite to lunch at Sir William Ingram's tent. Then had lunch
with Hartree. Sat next Mrs Chapple & Mr Howe, now at the British Museum.
After looked at match. Eton got a beating by 8 wickets. Maud, Lennie & Roy
went at 5.15 away by carriage. They dined with Miss Rose Innes & went to
see The Runaway Girl. M & self home by cab with Dora at 7.0pm. Quiet
dinner by selves & bed early. Read delightful book on Life of Empress
Eugenie. (Red ink: Went to Eton & Harrow Cricket Match. Roy dined with
Miss Rose Innes.)
Sunday July 10
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. x. Dull morning. Roy & self off by 9 past 10am &
went by 2 busses to Charing X. Down to Dover. Saw Mr Lewis, his wife & a
niece, then over to Calais. Lunch. Also Levilly & a party of ladies. Back.
Fresher. Introduced to a bookbinder. Talk to Lewis etc. Back home by train &
at Stafford Terrace by 8.0pm. Quiet dinner, Mite, Lennie, M & self & Roy, &
bed after. Wrote many letters after dinner. (Red ink: Roy & self went to
Calais. Saw Lewis & party & home by Charing X.) (Cutting glued in: The Falls
of Foyers. July 9th 'Times'.)
Monday July 11
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Cycled round Park & past Mite's house. 1 st time
since Wed June 15. Back. Left with M in carriage at 10.0am & called at Bank
& instructed Mr Lemon to sell the remaining 2nd P Shares at 112½ & to buy
£5000 ordinary Chathams. Back & wrote letters etc. Prepared for dinner all
day. M back. Mr Howard came gave estimate for parq't. Prepared for dinner.
(Red ink: Home dinner 11.) (Plan of seating: Self, Mrs Braunstein, Mr Louis
Fagan, Mrs Roger Wallace, Sir Henry Bergne, Mrs Sambourne, Mr
Braunstein, Mrs Fagan, Roy Sambourne, Mr Roger Wallace, Mrs Turquand.)
Caviare. Saumon, sauce tartare. Boulettes de Langue aux champignons. Filet
de Boeuf, pommes, petits pois, haricots verts. Poulet rôti, salade. Caramel.
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Soufflé glacé aux fraises. Bouchées de Merlande. 5 bottles D & G '92, 1
Ayala '74, 1 Sauterne. 7 bottles, 11 quarts. All stayed till 11.45. M tired.
Tuesday July 12
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. M very seedy & had not slept a wink. Maud also
seedy & Lennie too. Close day. Rested in afternoon & after at 6.0 went for
cycle ride. Round Barnes & Putney. Home. Arranged for dinner, as below. A
most successful dinner & all enjoyed it. All away by 11.45. Bed 12.15am.
(Red ink: Home dinner 10.) (Plan of seating: Self, Col Wingate V.C,
G.W.Wolff M.P, H.W.Lucy, Ludwig Messel, F.C.Burnand, H.J.R.Trendall
C.M.G, Roy Sambourne, Marcus Stone, Hon Schomberg McDonnell.)
Caviare. Soles à la reine. Boulettes de langue aux champignons, Gigot
d'agneau, petits pois, haricots verts. Poulet rôti, salade. Macedoine gelée.
Bouchées de Merlande. 4 bottles Ayala 1880, 2 ditto Ayala 1885. 2 ditto
1874. 1 bottle Sauterne, 1 Claret. 10 bottles, 10 men. Golden & another
waited.
Wednesday July 13
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. No walk. All morning writing etc. Glass lower &
warm. Gave Mrs Reffell 10/s & put wine away. After lunch went by bus to
Bond St. Called & saw guns, also Furniss's & Gould's show of drawings. Then
had Turkish bath. Weight before, 12.6½ nude. On to Club. No letters. Then to
dine at Criterion. W.A, L.B, P.M, B.P, E.T.R, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B. Lehmann
back & O.S. Congratulated on drawing of Grace. After (illeg) for Phil May with
F.C.B. Home by bus. M, Lennie & Mite went to see G.Cocquelin in Cyrano de
Bergerac. Roy had been to Pavilion. All home by 12.0am. (Cutting glued in:
Death of Marian Copland Griffiths.)
Thursday July 14
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Cycled round Park. Going into Bayswater Road
man ran into me & was sent sprawling. Passed on & home. After skemed
subject & felt more or less seedy all day. Rested after lunch & worked. Quiet
evening, M, Roy & self. Lennie & Maud dined at the Bergheims & came home
at 12.0am. Wrote to Forbes a second letter & posted it myself. Man from
Buckeridge's put up the flaps etc in Schoolroom & fitted shutters for lower
conservatory. (Red ink: Man collided with me at Bayswater on cycle.)
(Cuttings glued in. Death of Eliza Lynn Linton. Obituary Mrs Lynn Linton.)
Friday July 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. Learnt after that Roy had been
rude to his mother. Very much annoyed. Hard at work all day on Bills
abandoned in Sea. After M in my room at 12.0. Cried. Dear Mite. Finished
7.0pm & dressed. Very hot weather. By cab & dined with Routh at the Union
Club. Met Sir John Thursby, Gill & a Mr Hastie. Intensely hot in room at
dinner. Stayed till 11.0pm. Called Club & home by bus. (Red ink: Dined with
Harry Routh at the Union Club. Intensely hot.)
Saturday July 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & walk round C.H. Breakfast. Letter from Tabs.
Cannot go there. Lennie off. M in room. Sent Otley to Stores. Witnessed deed
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for purchase £5000 Chatham Ordinary. Mite & Lennie left for good. Lunched
at home & after went by bus to C.C & up in Studio by 3.15. Changed plates.
Intensely hot. At 3.45 L.G came. Took 38 photos. 4th cat't. Out at 6.0 after
lemon squash & home to dinner 7.45. After at 8.45 cab to Exhibition. Bad
horse. Saw Naval Review & got M in switch back. Saw Reed & his wife. Left
10.45 after lemon squash. Went up the Gt Wheel. Cooler. Home to bed at
11.30pm. (Red ink: Went to Earls Court Exhibition. Burnand, Seaman &
Partridge X'd to Flushing.)
Sunday July 17
Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. After very hot & close. Wrote letters all morning.
After Dora came to lunch. Rested & at 4.0pm dressed. Round by cab to Sir A
Hickman's with Roy. Played many sets. Champagne cup. A curious old M.P.
Back & to dinner 8.20. Very hot & close. Bed at 11.30 after dinner. Miss Rose
Innes came to dinner & stayed till 11.30. (Red ink: Tennis at Sir Alfred
Hickman's. Miss Rose Innes dined.)
Monday July 18
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. x. Down with M. Edgar & Sophy came to
breakfast. After wrote letters & left 10.15 for Victoria. Down in carriage by self
to Dover & across Channel. Lovely passage. Little girl with good legs. Lunch.
After saw Isadore Spielmann & wife. Home by self. Cabman looked at 2/s.
Quiet dinner, M, Roy & self. Bed at 11.30 after reading. (Red ink: X'd
Channel. Met Spielmanns.)
Tuesday July 19
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Cycled round Park. Wet roads. Called Mite &
saw Lennie & M. Back & long day putting things straight etc. At 1.0 left in
carriage & lunched with M at Lucys. Sat next Mrs Drage & an M.P, M
between Geoffrey Drage & Lord Wenlock. Lady Hesketh etc etc, Mr Woodall,
Dr Watson (Ian McLaren). After called Stores & saw photography. After to
Athenaeum & wrote letters. Home by bus. Quiet dinner, M & self. Roy out to
theatre, went to Belle of New York. Hamilton Langley & Midge dined with us.
Had bottle of Champagne & shewed H Randall's boots. They left at 11.15pm.
(Red ink: Lunched with the Lucys.)
Wednesday July 20
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Too late to go out before breakfast with Roy.
After in morning put things away. M in bed after 4 days too late. Mite round to
lunch & after at 2.45 after writing letters went in carriage to Mr Bainbridge's
wedding. Saw all. Sir B & Lady Maple, Baron Eckstein & Baroness, Mrs
Routledge, Lucys etc, a Mr & Mrs Lewis. Out 4.0pm & on to Lambs. Ordered
dress waistcoat. After to Randalls & on to Garrick. Wrote letters & then
changed plates at C.C. At Punch dinner 7.20. Sir W.A, P.M, B.P, E.T.R,
H.W.L, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L, O.S. Agnew said J.T's cut was second to
none he ever did. Got out of Death Triumphant. J.T Cuban subject. Phil May
called back. Home by buss. 2nd P up to 114. Read & to bed at 12.0am. Saw
the man like Humphreys, named Gibbs. Sent Otley on cycle to Reed in
morning & to Mite's. (Red ink: Mr Bainbridge's wedding.)
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Thursday July 21
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Cycled round Park. Met D'Arcy. Called Mite. Not
up. Home. Lord Tweedmouth called directly after breakfast. Long talk &
asked me to go to shoot. Address Lord Tweedmouth, Guisachan, Beaully, no,
Beauly. Skemed subject of Death Triumphant. Photod Roy & dummy figure.
Developed Pyt House skeleton. Very tired. Rested from 3.0 to 4.15. At 5.0
enlarged. Very great difficulty to get prints. Worked right up to 7.45. Dressed.
Mite & Lennie to dinner. All very cheery. They left 11.0. Wire from Reeves
about rooms at Metropole. (Red ink: Lord Tweedmouth called on me for 1st
time.)
Friday July 22
Stafford Terrace. 8.15. Down & did not go out. Worked after breakfast & all
day on subject of Death & Vaccination Bill. Finished at 8.45pm. Roy back &
wanted to go to Empire, no, Palace Theatre with Lennie. Dined 9.0pm, M,
Roy & self. Very tired after. Bed at 12.0 after snooze in chair. 2 nd P of L.C.& D
Rly jumped up 3.
Saturday July 23
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Roy & self cycled over to Mite's house & had
breakfast with her. Most delighted to see her in her own house. After put
photos away & commenced to weed out photos etc. Dressed at 12.45 & left
with Roy at 2.30 for Kings X to go to Lord Salisbury's Garden Party. Down
with Wolff & Miss May. Saw over house. 4 Napoleons Eagles there. K(illeg),
Tyrrel, Liveseys, Arthur Balfour, Hickmans, Cameron Corbetts etc. Spoke to
the Lord Mayor & left after coffee & caught the 5.30pm train back. At Kings X
6.0pm & on to Garrick by buss with Roy. Dressed & left by cab to Mansion
House. Dined at Banquet to Art. Met Mr Forbes at door. Talk. Richmond in his
K.C.B order. Sat next Cosmo Monkhouse & a Mr Dale of Bristol. Slow dull
dinner & speeches. Saw many friends. Cab to Garrick. Furniss, Joe Carr &
another there. Left at 12.0 & home. Bed. Very hot. (Red ink: 1st meal at Mite's
house. Lady Salisbury's Garden Party. Lord Mayor's dinner, Mansion House.
Last Lady Salisbury's Saty July 25, 1891. Next Lord Salisbury's Saty July 19,
1902.) (Cutting glued in: Garden Party at Hatfield.)
Sunday July 24
Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Left M asleep. Lovely morning. Breakfast with
Roy & Tip. Learnt that dear Mite had not been well yesterday. Masseuse
came. All morning writing letters. Dressed at 4.5 after lunching by self with
Roy. Went by cab to Sir A.Hickman's & played almost 12 sets of tennis.
Young H & Sir Alfred, Roy & self. M came in at 6.40. Had '74 Champagne
cup. Home with M by cab. Roy brusque at dinner. M silent. Wrote letters after
dinner & to bed 11.15pm. (Red ink: Last lawn tennis of season at Sir Alfred
Hickman's, Roy & self.) (Cutting glued in: French and British Artists at the
Mansion House. May 25.)
Monday July 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round park past Mite's. Breakfast. After
decided to go to Folkestone. Intensely hot. Left by 11.0 train from Victoria.
Down with a clergyman. Left by 1.8, twenty five minutes late for Folkestone.
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Lunched at the Pavilion & saw Mr Evans. Then on to the Metropole & saw Mr
Reeves. Sea fog & very hot & close. Back & caught the boat train home.
Dined with M alone at 8.20 & after went by carriage to the Guildhall for the
Corporation's Reception to Art. Saw Statts Forbes with a handsome woman &
Jacomb Hood etc etc. A shockingly bad supper, or no supper at all. Home by
carriage 1.0am. Roy had gone to dine at Mite's & locked us out. Called & got
stick at Hickman's in morning.
Tuesday July 26
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & cycled round Park. Met D'Arcy who asked me
to shoot. Intensely hot. Muggy & close all day & quite dark at noon. Put up
photos from chest of drawers in Drawing Room. A final move & rested tired
on sofa after. In the evening M, Roy & self dined for 1 st time at dear Mite's.
Boiler had gone wrong. Waited an hour. Very hot & close. Tired & sleepy &
livery. Home by carriage. Took 5 L.L.P.
Wednesday July 27
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0 & cycled round Park past Mite's. Saw Lennie & Mite
at window. After home. All morning putting things straight. Very hot. Cut out a
lot of photos. After lunch went by bus outside & called on Northmore. Saw
him. Very hot & close. Back to Athenaeum. Heavy shower. Wrote letters &
tea. Went to Lambs' & had waistcoat tried on. Then to Garrick. Saw Lawrence
Bradbury. Wrote Tuer & went to the Punch dinner. W.A, L.B, P.M, B.P, E.T.R,
H.W.L, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B & O.S. Complimented on cut of Skeleton.
Got North Pole & home by bus. Mite & Lennie left for Nymans. Gave Roy
cheque for £40 for Oxford. Took 4 L.L.P.
Thursday July 28
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & cycled round Park. Met D'Arcy & Mrs
Turquand. Cycled with Mrs T, collided with her. Went back with her & then
home. Headache in morning. After schemed subject for North & South Pole.
Photod Otley at 2.30pm & after got enlargements with great difficulty. At 7.0
Anstey Guthrie dined with us & we all went at 8.0, M & Roy, Guthrie & self, to
the Shaftesbury & saw The Belle of New York for the 2nd time. Out & home by
carriage. Saw Mr Gilmer & young Dalby in front. Took 3 L.L.P.
Friday July 29
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Cycled. No, did not. Down & to work all day
on drawing of North & South Pole. Roy left for Nymans at 1.0pm. M & self
dined quietly together at 8.45. Letter from F.C.B about legend being posted to
Brightmore. Drawing Room dismantled. Man came from Stores for estimate.
Saturday July 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. After breakfast packed etc. Sent Otley with
cycle & luggage by mare. Wrote letters & put all photos away. Lunch. After
slight rush got away by 2.40 & drove in carriage to Charing X. Paid Ellis,
Emma etc. Nana came. Saw H.R.H being driven to Paddington. Great crowd
at station. Good porter 2/s. Mr & Mrs Anderson Critchett got into carriage &
drove away in fly at Folkestone. On to Hotel. Room 240. Dined at Table
d'hote. Terrible Jew family near. Saw Mr Cleriheugh. After bed at 11.30. Had
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a curious tired bilious headache come on in train. M & self strolled after
dinner. Ellis took herself off. Mrs Reffell left for a holiday.
Sunday July 31
The Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up at 7.45 after waking 6.30 & remaining
awake. Still a slight headache. Out on cycle & past thro' Folkestone along
lower road to Sandgate. Past Lancaster Villas where stayed in 1889.
Breakfast. Too much. After M & I walked down to the 11.40am steamer.
Came across Harry Dickens & Leslie Ward. Man like German Emperor with
little girl. After lunched at the Buffet, ½ fowl etc. Then M & self walked in hot
sun to Cathedral. Took tram electric & sat on sea shore 2 hours. Man asleep
with book. Little doll like girl next a handsome mother. Left & was caught up
by Bonvoisin. Dined at Hotel de Paris, Leslie Ward with us. 15F. Drove to
bateau. Came across Roger Wallace. Lovely passage. Fly home to
Metropole. Bed 10.10pm. Good rest. 34 years since assaulted at Sandgate.
Monday August 1
The Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up 7.30. Cycle ride to town & lower road.
After bathed. Shingle very hard. Breakfast at 9.40. Came across Foster
afterwards. Sat with M & read Clarke Russell's book A Strange Voyage. At
12.15 wrote diary. Most lovely day. After wrote & lunched. M up in room
resting. At 5.0 went for 1 hr & listened to band. Back. M talking to Mr
Cleriheugh. Got on cycle & rode to Hythe. Crowds etc. Back along sea front
by tramway. Discovered a lift & back in time to dress & dine with M. Bottle of
Burgundy. Too much. After coffee in front & looked at dancing. Bed early at
11.0pm. Good night.
Tuesday August 2
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up at 7.30 & out 7.45. Went to cliff. Very low
tide. Could not swim. After back. Breakfast. Left at 9.30 & to Dover. Caught
the 11.0am boat. Saw Lady Jane Taylor & Miss Taylor. Got M chair. Lovely
X'ing. Cross old woman & old clergyman. Lunch at the Buffet. Looked after
Lady J & Miss Taylor. After to Plage. Dull. M & little boy & crabs. Back to
boat. Talked to Gage. Met Bonvoisin again. Long talk to Dr Anderson, Chief
of Scotland Yard. who married Lady Agnes (blank). Fine little girl. Fresh
breeze. Back by train. Gentleman & daughter on board. Dark man & smart
lady got in carriage. 'You make such a mistake about sandwiches'. M & self
strolled home. Attack of P. Had bath. Dressed. Dined 7.40. After sat out.
Curious little woman by herself in short white skirt. Listened to band & bed at
11.10pm. Good sleep.
Wednesday August 3
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up 7.50 & out on cycle. Fresh breeze blowing.
Along lower road & back to breakfast. After read Times & wrote 2 letters.
Walked with M & saw boat go 12.7. Saw a bird drowned. After went over the
Pavilion Hotel. Bottle of ginger beer. Up cliff by lift & back to Hotel by 1.35.
Lunch 1.55pm. Salmon. Sat & read. After wrote diary. Down by fly to Station,
up by 4.10pm to Charing X. Went to Garrick. Otley met me with yarn about
Emily's legs. Met Bernard Partridge & Furniss. On to Punch dinner. F.C.B,
J.T, self, R.L, O.S, A à B, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L & A.G. Lehmann exploded
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matches. Got Company Promotor & J.T a double page on Bismarck's death.
Home by bus. Wet night. No paper at Stafford Terrace. House all up.
Thursday August 4
Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. In Drawing Room. Intensely disgusted men had
torn down clock etc. Walk round Campden Hill. Slight head. After skemed
subject & photod Otley for Company Promotor & Peers. F.C.B called & came
down into yard etc. A Miss Blunt called. Up & on with work. Got enlargements.
Very very tired. Worked 2 hours before dinner & at 8.0 cab to 27 The Boltons
& dined with Mr & Mrs Burnand & Rosie. Stayed till 11.50. Walked home.
Spoken to by many women. Bed 12.45 after reading papers.
Friday August 5
Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30 & after worked ½ hour. Breakfast. A hard
struggle with work all day. Saw gentleman from Howards. Photod Otley at
2.0pm & copied Forbes' picture. Something wrong with my developer. Up &
just got drawing done in time to drive off at 7.15 to dine at Garrick. Imperial
pint of Ayala '89. Saw Mr Bigg, Bangs & Sterry etc. Caught 9.0 train down to
Folkestone Central. Carriage full. Shared a fly with a gentlman. Talk of
Russian war. Like Elephant & whale. Found Polly in bed. x. x. Good night.
Saturday August 6
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up 8.30. Out on cycle & round town. Up by lift &
breakfast. After wrote many long letters. Lunch at 1.30 & after rest. Printed 2
or 3 photos & out with M to harbour. Saw Blundell Maple & the boat come in.
Back by lift. Decided to cycle to Dover. Found tyre burst by boy. Took it to
town to be mended & walked to Royal George Inn. Filthy & gone down since
1867 & 1870. Got caught in downpour of rain. Stayed in hut by lift & wet going
home. Dinner. Sat out. Talk to Mr Foster & bed.
Sunday August 7
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up at 8.15. Down breakfast 9.30. A thoroughtly
wet & miserable day. Pouring with steady rain. Arrange with M about visits.
Hum! Wrote letters till 1.0. Still too awfully wet to go to Lucy's. Lunch at Hotel.
Pouring. Wrote letter to Lucy etc. After at 5.30 M & self went by tram to
Hythe. 2 fine girls in tram who would put seat back. Conductor like Hamilton
Fletcher. There at 6.30. Back by lift at 7.0 & dressed for dinner. Good dinner.
Band & sat in vestibule. Bed 11.0 after. Good night. Practically poured all day.
Monday August 8
Hotel Metropole, Folkeston.
Up 8.30 am. Still wet outside, did not bathe. Heavy rain all morning. Worked
& got on with drawing of Forbes & S.E.R & L.C.& D. Lunch. Still wet. Sat out
after in vestibule. Talk to Foster, after M & self walked along Leas. Saw pony
run down hill. Very funny, owners attitudes. Into town & back by lift. Walked
back & did 2 hours work before dinner. Dined & sat in hall. Old lady son &
daughter. Up to bed 11 & good night.
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Tuesday August 9
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up. Still low tide. Did not cycle. Decided to go to
Boulogne. Walked down to boat after breakfast. Very crowded. A gent staying
at the Pavilion came & talked in a confidential way. Saw Santley on board &
had talk. Changed onto 2.8pm boat. Had not a bad lunch on board. Good
ham. Going back sqaull came up & sea rough. Little nurse very sick. M below
& gazed out of window. Saw Mr Blair at Boulogne. Back by omnibus. Charge
of 2/s. Up in room & got on with work for 2 hours. M tired & rested. Dinner
7.45pm. After sat out in vestibule. Bed 10.30pm.
Wednesday August 10
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up 7.30 out & bathe. After walked down & got
cycle. Back. In morning did some work. Very windy. Sat out after lunch & then
up & went on with drawing. Out with M for walk at 6.0 to 7.0pm, delightful.
Went to chemists. Back. Dressed. Dinner. After walked to band which did not
play. Very tired. Coffee & bed at 10.30pm.
Thursday August 11
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up 7.40. Out & bathe. Lovely. Saw a woman
paddling. Changed & cycled down into town. Back, got papers. After up in
room & finished drawing of Forbes & L.C & D Rly & S.E.R. Packed. Lunch.
After wrote letters. Walk with M. Back & got cycle. Met M at Pavilion. Thro
town. Met Mrs Waring. Sat. Wrote other letters & packed bag. Dined 8.0pm.
Commotion. Thought I had lost ticket. After dinner up & goodbye to M. Fly to
station. Came across Ponsonby & another & up to town with them in a saloon
carriage. P very fat. Otley met me. Walked to Garrick & home by buss. Cab
still at S.T. Something matter with strap. Bed 1.0am.
Friday August 12
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Ater got to work & all day on drawing of
Beresford & China. Sent Otley to Stores. Saw Electric Light man from Stores.
Dined at 9 after hard day's work. Lobster sent up without its tail. Letter from
M. Very hot day indoors. Wrote this dairy & went up to bed without going out
at 11.20pm.
Saturday August 13
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round by Mite's house & after home to
breakfast. Saw men in drawing room. A man from Treloars & a man from the
A & N Stores. Packed bags etc & put photos away. Left at 2.45 by hansom
cab & down to the Garrick Club. Found a wire that E.L could not sit. Called
C.C & took cab on to the Shaftesbury, closed, & then to Prince of Wales's.
Intensely hot & close outside, cool in theatre. A man named Cheeseman
playing Hilarius. Clowes had asked me to dinner. Dined 6.45 with Clowes &
Mr Lambert of Lambert & Butler. Very good dinner, Ayala '89, but awfully hot.
After drove to Euston. Saw Lord Rathmore. Got carriage to self. Left 8.50.
Otley met me & had traps in carriage. At Wigan at 1.0am. Most rowdy crowd
& 2 big Yorkshiremen thrust into carriage. Spoilt my journey. After slept in
armchair seat. (Red ink: Frightfully hot in London.)
Sunday August 14
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On board train for Perth. Woke 6.0 & had a wash & got to Perth 8.10. Had
breakfast with Clowes, Mr Lambert & Lord Rathmore. Left 9.30. Train ¾ hr
late for Balleluig. There 10.30 & found pony cart. Drove to Ballechin. Found
Wolff, Miss May, her brother Fred May, Miss Mulligan, Mr & Mrs Pirrie & a Mr
Torrey. Went for walk in garden & to see dogs & after changed. Lunch. Fred
May & rifle. Put guns together. Dressed & dined. Talk after dinner. Sleepy.
Bed at 11.30. Woke 1.0am & remained awake some time. Finally got to
sleep.
Monday August 15
Ballechin House, Balleluig. Up at 8.15 & put on Burbery suit. Sent up at 11.15
to the moors with Mr Torrey. Over 1½ hrs walk up hill. Rode a cob, brown.
Got to shoot at 12.15pm. Only one bird before lunch. After 7½ brace in all.
Poor day & did not shoot well. Did not get home till 8.0pm nearly. Dressed &
dined after bath. Took Miss Mulligan in. After dinner played poker. Lost £1.
Miss Mulligan won. Bed 12.0. Did not sleep at all well. Lay awake till 4.0am.
Tuesday August 16
Ballechin House, Balleluig. Up at 8.15. Had not slept well. After breakfast at
9.0am wrote letters to M etc. Left in dog cart at 10.30 with Wolff & Mr May to
shoot a moor nearer home. Had delightful day but very hot & was much
punished with heat & walking. Got 17½ brace birds & 3 hares to 3 guns. After
coming home called on Cyril Maude who has a house near with the Barries.
Wolff left 1 hare & 1 brace of grouse. Drove home at 7.0. Dressed & had
soda & milk. Wrote diary. Good dinner. The Pirries decided to leave. Lost 4/s
at poker. Very tired after. Went to bed 12.0am.
Wednesday August 17
Ballechin House, Balleluig. Up at 8.15. Woke exactly at 2.0am again. Lay
awake. Breakfast & after at 10.0am left in dog cart or break with Mr & Mrs
Pirie & maid. Wolff & I went to station Balleluig. A wretched drunken labourer
would talk to everyone. Wolff & I got out at Stanley & walked to fishing. Old
fisherman like Anthony Froude, dour & taciturn. Wolf flogged the Tay all day, I
helping him twice, also read the Scotsman & all about the Harley trial. Back
home at 6.20. Went into garden & ate a quantity of gooseberries. Dinner.
After played poker. Lost £1.0.0. Bed at 12.0. Lay awake from 2.0 to 4.0am.
(Cutting glued in: Sir William Fraser's Will. Oct 17.) (Red ink: On Wednesday
the 17th inst met at the Albany Piccadilly Sir William Augustus Fraser,
Baronet, in his 73rd year.
Thursday August 18
Ballechin House, Balleluig. Up at 8.15am. Had lain awake in night with pain
owing to gooseberries. Up at 2.0am. After down to breakfast. Dressed in grey.
After changed & rode brown cob up to moor further then Monday. May &
Torreyador also. Shot the 3 over it. Pleasant day. Got (blank) brace. Coming
back May & self went up Craggs. Shot brace of birds. Home at 7.20. Tried for
a rabbit. Dinner. Poker after. Got back all the money I lost. Bed at 12.30. The
Torreyador had tongue loosened by too much good liquor. Slept better.
Friday August 19
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Ballechin House, Balleluig. Up at 8.0am. After breakfast Mr W & Torreyador
went off in cart, Mr F.May & self after, I riding Aeolus. Up on moor. A teal shot
& could not be got. After May & I had a most delightful day. Got 10½ brace.
At 4.30 saw Torreyador & said goodbye. Shot till 7.0 & walked home
pleasantly tired. Dog thrashed "Will ye mind the call". Back at 7.45. Had milk
& soda. Good dinner. No poker. Bed at 11.0. Woke again at 2.0am, awake 2
hours.
Saturday August 20
Ballechin House, Balleluig. Up at 8.10. Out in garden. Ate gooseberies.
Breakfast. Good. Only one letter from Jupp. Wrote diary & letters the entire
morning. Lunch. Rest & read. Mr Arkendale & Mr Richardson went fishing &
caught nothing. Heavy rain in morning. Left at 6.10. Goodbye. Drunken man
at station. Train 35 minutes late. Perth 8.0. Dined. Came across Baumann got
up in dress jacket & flower. Dined together. Gave me liqueur after. Left at
10.5 & had comfortable carriage to myself. Lay down to sleep at 10.30pm.
Sunday August 21
On board train from Perth. Slept fairly well all night. Wash at 7.0. Euston 8.20.
Otley met me & home at once in cab by 9.0am. Read letters. Changed bags
etc & after looked out photos. Drawing Room painted & varnished. Left by cab
at 1.50 & drove to Charing X. Down in carriage to myself. Difficulty of omnibus
etc at station. At Hotel 5.0. Saw M. Had tea. Spoke to Mr & Mrs Lucas. After
out with M. Saw the Goodalls, Purdey's etc. Took a sharp walk to Harbour &
back. 20 minutes from Harbour to Hotel. Dressed & dined. Sat out for 1½
hours & bed at 11.30pm. Slept well.
Monday August 22
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up at 7.45 & out for bathe. Very hot. Walked to
end of beach by Sandgate. Knocked foot. Breakfast after. In morning wrote
letters & up to lunch time. After intensely hot & close. Walked down to meet
boat. Saw Mr Blair, F.C.B, Mrs B, Winnie, Wilfred & Tinsley Lindley. Waited
about for Blair. After up on Leas & Blair dined with us at 7.15pm. Bottle of
champagne. He left at 9.10pm. After talk to the Taylors & Mrs Barton. Band
outside. Bed at 11.15 after being in Smoking Room.
Tuesday August 23
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up at 7.45am. x. Good bathe at end of beach.
Wore drawers. Breakfast after. Did drawing of Pepys & Punch in morning.
Walk with Polly after lunch & left her to call. Worked till 6.0pm when had
another good walk with M to top of hill. Met the Goodalls after & Charles
Woodbridge. Back & last dinner at Hotel. Sat out after. This was the
culminating hot day in London 90º in the shade. After bed at 11.30pm after
reading in Reading Room.
Wednesday August 24
Hotel Metropole, Folkestone. Up at 7.30. Good bathe. Breakfast & after
worked all morning whilst M packed. Did Pepys & packed bags by lunch at
2.0pm. Last lunch. Fees 5/s head waiter, 4/s porter, 2/6 small waiter. Left at
3.30pm in buss. Carriage to selves up. M discovered she had lost her feather
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boa. Met Woodbridge. Talk of Mr Heron. W said he would call for it at
Metropole. To town. Otley met us. Walked to Garrick. Letters. Saw Bernard
Partridge. "I & another young fellow". To Punch dinner. A à B, Lehmann, B.P,
self & J.T. My cut of Pepys no good. Got Rhodes & John Bull & another of
Police, Roughs & Cat for next week. Left at 11.0 & home by bus. Found out
about brandy, 5/s per bottle.
Thursday August 25
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. x. Slight head. Did not go out. Got to work as
soon as possible & did subject of Rhodes & John Bull. Saw people from
Stores, also from Howards, also Electrician. Also at 5.0 Mr Derfrey. Mite
lunched with us looking well & happy & Spencer came in at 5.0 & stayed till
6.30pm. Mite & Lennie went to Comedy Theatre. M back 7.30. Dined at
9.0pm after finishing drawing in Dining Room. Bed 11.15. Tired.
Friday August 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Out at 8.45. Called at Corben's & also had
hair cut. Breakfast. After packed bags with Otley & put phos away. Mite came
to lunch. M left at 3.10pm for Fittleworth. Up & skemed Police cut. After
dressed in brown flannel suit & dined at 6.15. Had bottle of Ayala 1874. Sent
Otley to Euston. Left in hansom at 6.50 & drove by Garrick. No letters. Left by
7.45pm train for Inverness. Used old label for engaged carriage. Did not sleep
well.
Saturday August 27
On board train for Inverness. Woke at Perth after not very comfortable night
at 4.45am & on wearily to Inverness. Saw the fighting porter & after to boat.
Bad beef. Man like St John Brennan. To Inverfarigaig. Lord Lovat's horses &
party for shooting. Carriage on to Wester Aberchalder. After had lunch. Heavy
rain. Wrote letters.
Sunday August 28
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up at 8.0am. Down 9.0. No breakfast until
9.30. Rain & sun all day. Got to work at 11 till 1.30 on Police & Rough. A sort
of early dinner. Read Ascent of Man by Drummond. Colley wobbles from pills.
Work from 3.0 to 5.30. Wrote letters & went for walk at 6.0 to 7.45. Rural.
Bled. Supper dinner at 8.30 & dull evening. Bed at 12.0 after smoke.
Monday August 29
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up at 8.20. No Kessel. No bath. Wrote diary.
Wet. After breakfast decided to go for shoot. Started at 10.45. Walked
behind. Got right & left at birds coming over. Had immensely long tiring walk
all day up great hill. Lunch. Suspicion of blister. About 12 brace of birds, 4
guns. Mr Wallace, 2 Mr Thorntons & self. Back at 7.40. Long tramp home.
Dinner 8.30pm. Had Ayala Champagne. Mr Charles Thornton's birthday. Had
terrible attack of P all day & in great pain in the night.
Tuesday August 30
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up at 8.30 & out. Met 3 girls, Miss Myers,
Miss Aitkin & Miss Monro. After it was decided to have a day off. So got to
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work all day & finished drawing of Police & Rough by 7.0pm. In the middle of
the day routed out by Mrs W to go to lunch at the Manor House. All went & 2
Miss Wyllie's staying at the Foyer Hotel. Delightful. Back by carriage & on to
work. Wallace went on to hill to look for ancient iron works. Dinner. Long
discussion with old Mr W about Ghosts etc. After 100 up at billiards. 2 Mr W's
beat Mr W & self. Beat Mr C.W at 50 giving him 15. Bed at 12.45am. (Red
ink: On the 30th August at Bakeby, Uxbridge, the wife of Francis Charles
Woodbridge of a son.)
Wednesday August 31
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up at 8.30. Out & after breakfast at 10.30
went to shoot with Mr Thornton senr. All along loch & after quite near home.
Got 4 grouse, 4 snipe, 5 rabbits. Most lovely day & delightful walk. Mrs W
went to call on the Soppers. Wallace shot a cormorant. Dinner after bath &
writing many letters. Argument on premonition etc. After played 2 100 up at
billiards. W & I won both. Made 15 8's etc. Bed at 1.0am.
Thursday September 1
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up at 8.45. Bath. Breakfast. After in morning
did some work on Pepys. Lunch at home & 2 men came, Mr Morrison &
another. After played 3 real good sets of tennis, Miss Myers & self against
Wallace & Mr Morrison. Won 1, lost 2. After bad attack of P. Worked & wrote.
Dinner. The Burns arrived at 3.30. Mr & Mrs B, son & Miss Wallace. After
dinner a game of billiards, Miss M & self against Wallace & young Burn. We
lost by 5. Beat Charles Thornton afterwards by 10, giving him 30. Bed
12.30am.
Friday September 2
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up 8.30. Good breakfast, trout & snipe. After
started in pouring rain to deer drive. Nearly turned back but was persuaded.
Went on. Had 4 drives, waited 1½ hr, 1 hr, 1 hr & 2¼ hrs. Saw nothing the
whole time. Burn got 1 shot. Kessel a good walker. Most delightful lunch in
the road. Climbed hill. Most painful attack of P. Must have an operation. Long
walk home & did not get back till 8.0pm. Bath. Letters etc. One from Nash.
Dinner 8.30. A Scotch clergyman there. After long dreary game of billiards
between Wallace & Burn. After gave C.T 30 in 100 & as beaten by 50+.
Frightfully bitten by midges.
Saturday September 3
Wester Aberchalder, Gorthleck. Up 8.15. Bath. A most lovely & delightfully
soft warm morning. Good breakfast trout & grouse. Sent Nash cheque. Said
goodbye to Wallace 11.0am. Mr & Mrs Wallace's wedding day, 21 yrs. After
worked on Pepys & Punch. All went off after lunch to a cricket match at
Foyers. Packed leisurely. Goodbye to old Mr W & off at 4.0 by cart. Civil
young driver. 14 miles drive. Came on rain. Had whiskey. Charge 20/s, 2/s for
driver. Got to Glendoe at 6.30. Picked up a Keeper's stick. Saw H.W.B an
artist (Hadden) shewing sketches to Mr & Mrs (Hylda) De Winter. Mr Barclay,
Hon Miss Fraser & a young man in embassy at Constantinople & sister. Went
for walk. Intensely hot & close. Back. Greatly upset at leaving bag behind.
Could not be found. Dinner. Took Miss Fraser in. Lord Lovat came in tartan
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kilt etc. Good dinner. Talk to Lord L about horses, Blunt etc. After talk & bed
after smoke. Slept very badly. Curious dream of Purgatory, Roy & Mite. Was
refused entrance.
Sunday September 4
Glendoe Lodge, Fort Augustus. Up at 8.0. Got good bath. Breakfast 9.30. Mrs
De Winton. Oh! After sat about & read. Still disappointd about bag. Got
Stevenson's last book the Naulanka. Good lunch. A priest there & 2 Mr
Frasers in kilts came. After stole away & lay down in the hot heather. Party
came along to go to a robbers' cave. Someone came over from Gorthleck on
a bicycle. Going into cave Mrs De Winton saved me from a nasty fall catching
hold of my coat. Very hot walk back. After sat about. Tea. A most glorious
sunset & evening after. Delightful dinner. Sat next Mrs De W. Talk of Edward
Lawson. After sat out. Discussion as to Pole star. Bed after lemon squash.
Read the Naulanka.
Monday September 5
Glendoe Lodge, Fort Augustus. Up at 7.45. Bath & out. Most lovely hot
morning. At 10.15 Mr & Mrs De Winton left. Miss Fraser dabbing Lord Lovat's
eyes. Talk to Hadden. After wrote many letters & waited for bag which came
at 12.50. Immediately got to work. Lunch. Mr Barclay left at 1.45 for steamer.
Went on to work till 5.30pm when finished drawing of Pepys & Punch &
packed it up. Tea. Introduced to Lady Lovat & Lord Encombe. Cardinal
Vaughan there. At 5.50 walked down to Fort Augustus. Very hot. Met Mrs
Hadden & a little boy. Posted letters & registered drawing. Walked back.
There by 7.45. Had milk & soda. Herbert W.B had got 2 stags. Took Lady
Lovat in to dinner. At 9.0 a lot more came. News of the battle in the Soudan.
Very hot. Went to bed at 11.0pm. Lord Encombe. Curious dream of a man.
Got up & put name down. W.Walworth Reek. Why?
Tuesday September 6
Glendoe Lodge, Fort Augustus. Up at 7.50. Carriage went off. Could not get
bath. Down. Thermometer at 70º, 8.15am in shade. In morning read the
Naulanka. Wrote letters. Mr Hadden drove up. Lord Lovat & Mr Lindley. Rifle
shooting. They went off for stalk. Talk to Lady Lovat, Lady Encombe & others.
Looked at book illustrated for game. Promised to do a sketch. Lunch & left
1.45. Intensely hot. Got to steamer & off to the minute. Crowd of trippers. A
man like Roger Wallace in tartan. After got to Temple Pier at 3.45. Found trap
waiting & drove to Guisachan. Got there 6.45pm. Lovely drive. Small boy met
me at door. Proved to be a young Curzon at Eton. After Lord T shewed me
pictures. Dressed & dinner. Very good. House party Mr & Mrs James, Lady
Helen (blank), Capn Gordon, Hon A.Littleton & self, Lord & Lady T. Lovely
Wedgwood (illeg). All playing 'Bridge' after. Down to cellar to smoke. Bed at
11.30. Lost way. Hotel at Temple Pier, 'The Drumnadrochit Hotel'.
Wednesday September 7
Guisachan, Beauly, N.B. Up at 8.0am. Bath in room. Capn Gordon & Mr
James went stalking. Breakfast with Lady Tweedmouth. Lady Helen & her
dog. Lady T said it would get on her nerves. Out & looked at things. Got away
at 10.30 on ponies, Hon A.Littleton & self. Long delightful day on moor & the
best grouse shoot I ever had. Got 20 brace grouse & 8 of black game, 1 hare.
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Made a wonderful long shot at a blackcock 50 yards. Home at 6.30. Very hot.
Tea. Midges. Bath. Lord T brought book to put a drawing in. Dinner.
Frightfully hot at dinner. Smoke & read after. Bed at 11.30. Very hot again at
night. Tossed about. (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Charles De Winton to
Florence Pepys. Sep 9.)
Thursday September 8
Guisachan, Beauly, N.B. Up at 7.0am & did Lady Tweedmouth's drawing in
book. Man laughed. Breakfast 8.30 & back work after. Goodbye to Hon
A.Littleton, Capn Gordon & Mr James, & after to Lord & Lady T. Delighted
with drawing. Left 10.25 & drove all the way to Beauly, 23 miles. Got there
1.30. Driver talked of Lord Encombe & also the Chisholms. All the country
belonging to a Mrs Chisholme. On to Inverness. A very good & cheap lunch.
Walk in the town & bought heather spats. Found carriage reserved & left
Inverness at 4.55. A long run to Perth. Had soup & fish at Perth & back to
train. Broken rest all night. (Cutting glued in: Review of Troops, Sep 8. Times
Sep 9.)
Friday September 9
On board train, Inverness to London. Broken night. Up 7.0. Read Strand
Magazine. After got Euston 8.25 & home 4 wheeler. Letter from F.C.B for full
work. Very much annoyed but set to & got done somehow by 8.0pm. Also
packed & saw a lot of people & wired all over the place. Did all Sovereigns of
Europe & Miss Britannia. Dined 8.30. Bad lobster. Sent Otley off 8.45 & self
followed at 9.30. Caught 10.15 Waterloo for Liss. Down & at Tates 12.45am.
Found Major Trollope & Tate sitting up. Snack & bed 1.0. Did not sleep very
well. Found M in bed. Drank bottle of Ivory '74. A1. (Cutting glued in: Will of
Maurice Beddington. Oct 28. Times.)
Saturday September 10
Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants. Up at 8.0am & bath & out round house. After
breakfast put boots on etc & left 10.15 in trap for shoot. Horse shied. Long
day's tramp. Shot a landrail. After Miss Marie Morgan & Miss Tate came to
lunch. They walked all afternoon. Left off 5.30pm & walked home. Good bath.
Milk & soda etc. Bag 16 brace partridge, 1 landrail, 1 cookoo & hen pheasant,
6 hares, 1 leverett. Good dinner. Billiards etc. Bed 11.15. Slept like a top.
(Red ink: On the 10th Sepr at Southwood, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, the wife of
G.J.V Weigall, of a son.)
Sunday September 11
Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants. Up at 8.0 & out to try cycle. Cut my hand &
bother with valve in the heat. Breakfast. After in morning wrote letters etc. M
seedy. Down to lunch & all sat in the garden after. Most glorious afternoon.
Yarns from Major Trollope. Put cycle all right & at 4.30 went with Tate & Major
T for ride about 16 or 17 miles through Liphook. Delightful old Inn, 'The
Anchor'. Picked up a horse shoe nail in tyre. Back past Sir Thomas
Sunderland's house & home about 7.0pm. Lovely lilac sunset. Dinner. Claret
& after guess games. Smoke & bed at 11.30pm.
Monday September 12
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Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants. Up 8.0am. M had not slept well. No walk. No
nd
cycle. Breakfast. After boots on & left 10.0am for 2 day's shoot. Got 1 bird
almost at once. Picked up a tortoise & a dead mole & also a cast snakeskin.
Never shot less in my life. Only 1 bird & 1 rabbit (not picked up). Good lunch
tho' under a shed. Met Lord Selborne & 2 children. Heard of assassination of
Empress of Austria. Much shocked. On to shoot & left off 5.35pm. Home. Met
Daisy T & Mrs Bendall & Boughton RA. After had tea & milk & soda & bath.
Letter from L & N.W.Rly & from F.C.B. Also gun back from Lang & Hussey.
Wrote order for Stores. Dinner. Mr & Mrs Bendall came. Good delightful
dinner. Billiards after. Bendall beat me by 13 points. After talk of Arthur Blunt.
Bed 11.40. Slept well.
Tuesday September 13
Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants. Up at 8.0 after good night. M slept better.
Down. Breakfast. Went for 3rd day's shoot. Tate, Major Trollope & self &
Bendall walking. Most delightful day. Beautiful weather. Got 7 brace before
lunch. After had lunch, girls also. Smoke after. Got on to walk 2.15. Got 3½
brace self after lunch, 4½ altogether for the day. Home 5.30. Tea. Jumbles.
Wrote 6 or 7 letters. Bath & dressed. Dull in evening & threatened rain 1st
time for 2 months. Took old Mrs Gill into dinner. Terrible talker. After talk in
Drawing Room. Played 200 up with Bendall. Won 100 easily & beaten the
other. Bed after talk. Bendall a 'hass' about chaff Bainbridge & Miss Morgan.
Wednesday September 14
Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants. Up at 8.0am. Breakfast & after got away to
have short shoot. Broiling hot. Got 3 brace of birds. Enjoyed morning.
Finished at Lodge gates. Changed. Bath. Lunch. After went up & lay down on
bed. At 5.0 went in large break Mr & Mrs T, Mr & Mrs Bendall, self, Major
Trollope, to Selbourne church. Saw Gilbert White's house & also remarkable
old Yew tree. Tombs in church etc. Prof Bell died 1880 aged 85. Lovely hot
evening. Drove home. Narrow lanes. A wedding had been at church, the 1st
for 17 years. Rev'd Bevan & a Mr Broadwood to dinner. After played at Battle,
Bendall & self 100 up. Beaten.
Thursday September 15
Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants. Up 8.0am or earlier. Packed etc. Breakfast.
Looked at cycles. Got off at 10.15. Girls riding bicycles. Frightfully hot. Mr &
Mrs Bendall came. Major Trollope, M & self to Waterloo. Otley met us & home
to S.T, Otley riding bicycle. No news. Dear Mite there to lunch. After left at 3.0
& by buss Piccadilly. Called at the Shaftesbury & Daly's Theatres. After
Garrick Club, Randalls, ties & on to Turkish bath. Saw young Cotton. Otley
bought dress things. On to dine at dear Milte's. Unaccountably tired & sleepy
after. Livery. Left at 10.40 & home by cab. M very nervous at cab. Bed at
once. Very tired. Thought Lennie looking very pale & delicate.
Friday September 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Packed bags. Breakfast. Very hot. Got off in
small omninbus at 10.30 & drove to Euston. Saw little Prof Bell. Carriage to
self. So hot all journey. Got to Carlisle 5.30. Took a drive thro' the town 2/s.
Saw Cathedral & old cattle tower, race course etc. Women with wooden soled
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shoes. Back & off by train to Kirtlebridge. Got there at 7.30pm, on to
Springkell. Fine house. Dressed & dined. Took in a Mrs Donner. Sir J Heron
Maxwell, Mr Johnson & Lady Roxborough, Mr & Mrs J.F. Dull dinner &
evening after. Large bare Billiard Room for smoking in.
Saturday September 17
Springkell, Ecclefechan. Up 7.45. Bath. Breakfast. After drove 8 miles to
Gretna. Sir John Heron Maxwell, self, Mr Johnson, & Mr Johnson F. Partridge
drive. Shot well. Got 3 hares, 5 birds before lunch. After 3 hares 2 birds. Poor
lunch. Very hot. Came over dull & slight rain. Home by 6.30. Changed. Bath.
Young Johnson Ferguson came home. Dinner. Took Mrs J.F in. Dull evening
after. Took 3 Carters L.L.P. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: On the 17th Sepr at The
Albany Piccadilly, John Lettsom Elliot in his 94th year. Times Sep 20th. Father
of the Athenaeum. Elected Feby 16 1824. Born Dec 18, 1804. Queen
vaccinated from one of his brothers. The healthiest family that could be
found.)
Sunday September 18
Springkell, Ecclefechan. Up at 8.0am. Wet morning. Bath. Breakfast. Talk of
Bainbridge at breakfast. After wrote letters etc. Luncheon & rest after. Read
book. After about 4.0pm went for walk in gaberdine. Went to Kirtlebridge &
back thro' Eaglesfield. Very heavy showers. Tea on getting back. Bath &
changed. Dinner. Dull. Took Mrs Donner in to dinner. After looked at toys.
Wonderful photos of Egypt & Palestine taken 1857. Bed after smoke in
Billiard Room. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Mme Terrero. Saty Sep 24.)
Monday September 19
Springkell, Ecclefechan. Up 8.0am. Off at 9.45am to shoot another part of
estate. Old farmer who sang good comic songs. Not quite so good for birds
as Monday. Mr J.F disappointed. Guns Mr Johnson Ferguson, Mr J.F junr, Sir
John Heron Maxwell, Mr Ernest Johnson & self. Enjoyed day. Back at 6.0. Mr
William Younger M.P had arrived. Dinner. Dull & slow. After a Mr Hobhouse
arrived. Played 100 up with Ernest Johnson. Beat him by 18. Bed at 11.15pm.
Wet more or less all day. Wore gaberdine & carried about cloak for a time.
Shot 3 birds one drive. (Cutting glued in: Death of William Wilson.)
Tuesday September 20
Springkell, Ecclefechan. Up 8.0am. Breakfast, next Mrs Hobhouse. After went
for shoot 10 miles off, just on the border. One farm in England, one in
Scotland. Guns Mr Johnson Ferguson, Mr Ernest Johnson, Mr J.F junr, self,
Mr William Younger M.P & Mr Hobhouse. Many drives. Shot well. Got 3
grouse, one coming forward. Left off 5.0pm & home. Tea & packed. Dull
dinner. Mr Hobhouse talked of Ingoldsby etc. Took Mrs Johnson Ferguson in.
Dull evening. Mrs Bonner nearly asleep. M had driven to see Carlyle's house.
Bed at 11.45 after talk & whiskey. Mr Hobhouse's dog got across axles of
wagonette. Shot 16 head in the day, 10 before lunch.
Wednesday September 21
Springkell, Ecclefechan. Up 7.30. Finished packing. Breakfast & off by 10.0 in
carriage with Mr Ernest Johnson. Went to Carlisle. Walked to Old Curiosity
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Shop. Did not buy anything. Goodbye to H.J. At Crewe had to get out of our
compartment on account of a hot bearing. Put into dining saloon & most
uncomfortable journey to Euston. There 7.0pm. Otley met M. Difficulty about
cab. Down Garrick & on to Punch dinner. There 7.25. F.C.B, J.T, self, H.W.L,
L.G, A à B. Pleasant dinner. Left at 10.30 & back to Garrick. Wrote letters.
Bus home from Piccadilly, carried on past Olympia. Walk back. Bed at 1.0am.
Tired. Saw name at Carlisle Station, Haythornethwaite.
Thursday September 22
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Met Reynard. Called
Mite's. Home to breakfast. After sent for Stace, also Otley for portrait of Dr
Johnson to Rimell & Sons, 91 Oxford St. Skemed subject. Photod Stace at
12.30. Also developed & enlarged after lunch. Things in confusion. Drew
outline. Dined at 7.0 & went with M in good cab to see The Belle of New York
for 3rd time. Home by cab & bed. (Red ink: Died, William Ulick O'Connor
Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart. Born July 10 1845. Died on Thursday (blank).
Married in 1871 Maria Emma daughter of Mr Thomas Henry Preston of
Morsby Hall, York. Divorced 1878.)
Friday September 23
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down & to work all day on Bismarck & Dr
Johnson. Midge in to lunch. Tired after lunch. On again 3.30 & to 9.0pm when
finished. Dined hare etc. Very very tired. Had put the Electric Light right in
Drawing Room. Bed at 11.30 after snooze.
Saturday September 24
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Down. No cycle. Breakfast. After up & put all
photos away last 3 weeks. Put artist's bag up & packed. Left 11.30 & up by
bus to Garrick & C.C. Wired. Walk, called at hosiers, Turnbull & Asser, 3
Church Place, Piccadilly. Also on shop for fire grate. Lunch at Garrick with Col
Jones. Saw Joe Carr. On to C.C at 2.0. B.J did not come till 3.15pm. Took 30
photos, Quaker dress. Out & home direct by bus. Changed & dined 7.0pm.
Attack of P. Bad. Left in hansom at 8.15 having sent Otley on with baggage &
caught the 9.0pm train for Dover. Arrived 10.45 & to bed.
Sunday September 25
Hotel Burlington, Dover. Up 9.0am & down . Breakfast 10.0. After stroll caught
1.0pm boat. Met Levilly & after Lewis & wife & Mr Morgan, son of Secy of
L.C.& D Rly. Delightful X'ing. Lunch at buffet. Lewis went on as usual. Back
by boat. Met old Kahn. Goodbye to Mrs Lewis. Strolled back. Had 1 hour's
sleep on bed. Dined with no appetite at 8.15pm. After a good band. Bed at
10.30. Slept well.
Monday September 26
Hotel Burlington, Dover. Up 9.0. Down & breakfast. Went for walk in town.
Curiosity Shop closed in Snargate St. Back & in room by 12.0 noon gun.
Wrote diary & letters. Lunch 1.30. After M & self walked up to Dover Castle.
Saw Artillery practise. Long gun made 1544. Queen Elizabeth's pocket pistol.
After round Castle. Built 1190, restored 1871. Waited to go round. Saw
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armour, chapel etc. Civil custodian. Back 4.30 & wrote letters etc. (Cutting
glued in: Will of Sir Edward Jenner.)
Tuesday September 27
Hotel Burlington, Dover. Up 8.45. Breakfst. After out & to an old Curiosity
Shop. Bought a match box in ivory & Japanese metal. Some Sheffield plate &
a silver box £3.15.0. I.J.Davis, 13 Snargate St, Dover. Lunch. Poor. After
walk. Smells etc. Looked at diver at Admiralty Pier. Rain came on 2.45pm. Up
in room. Worked. M much interested in diver. Worked all afternoon & did 3
designs for Lord Tweedmouth. Walked out before dinner as far as shop
again. Dined. Poor dinner & very bad service. Bed at 10.30 after reading
papers. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Amelia Lady Jessel. Death of Sir Arthur
Forwood. Death of Julian Pym. Obituary Sir Arthur Forwood, M.P.)
Wednesday September 28
Hotel Burlington, Dover. Up & out before breakfast 8.45. Poor breakfast. After
went to Davis's shop & paid for table etc. Out. Back 12.0 & finished sketches
sending them back to Lord Tweedmouth to Guisachan. Walk after lunch. Paid
bill £6.4.0 including buss. Left at 3.30. Lady Chichester in buss. Up to town by
4.0pm train. Otley met M. On to Garrick. Looked over the Times. Saw
Lawrence Bradbury. P.D. F.C.B, J.T, self, R.L, O.S, P.A, L.B, P.M, E.T.R,
H.W.L, A.G. Capital dinner. Got subject of Chinese Emperor & his mother to
do. Left at 10.45 & home by buss.
Thursday September 29
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Met Reynard. Past Mite's &
home. After skemed subject & at 12.30 photod Stace & young Spring for
Emperor of China & his mother. Developed after. Very tired. M & self dined
7.0pm & after went by cab to see The Runaway Girl. Very wet. M nervous at
grey horse we had to go to Dover with. Lovely woman with neck in front of us.
Montague Guest also. Out & home by 4 wheeler. Very wet after dinner.
Cleared in evening. Woke up & forgot it was dear M's birthday. Very sorry.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Hon Thomas Bayard. T Sept 29.)
Friday September 30
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. After hard work all day on drawing of Emperor
of China & his mother. Finished 8.45 when M & self dined together & bed
after. (Cutting glued in: Obituary Thomas Bayard.)
Saturday October 1
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out before breakfast. After got off
by 11.0 & cab to Imperial Institute & had an appointment with Miss Sarah
Chapman Hand. Waited one hour. After by buss to United Service Club.
Much interested in the portraits etc. On to Garrick. Lunch with Kendal. At 2.15
C.C. Photod B.J 2nd time. Better model, more promise. Out & to United
Service Club. Looked over prints etc. Wonderful books on Army etc. Home by
bus. M & self dined together & bed early.
Sunday October 2
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Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.30. Breakfast at 7.20 & caught 8.0am train from
Met, sending Otley with cycle on to Charing X. Got to station 8.20am. Walked
on to Clubs, all shut. After off by 9.0am with Guthrie to Dover. Met
Merryweather & Littleton. Forbes Winslow at Folkestone station. Lewis & Mr
Saunders late. We were there 1st. Called at Burlington & on to Walmer. Head
east wind the whole way. Very good ginger beer at Walmer. On to Sandwich.
Saunders behind. Man using bad language to boys about whelks etc.
Sportsman at 1.50. On after to Cliftonville. Got there at 3.5pm. Very good
lunch. Music. Girl & man with plans of houses. Left 4.40 & home by S.E.R.
Otley met me 7.30 Charing X. Dora had been with M & had lost her bangles.
(Red ink: Cycle ride from Dover to Ramsgate. Lewis, Guthrie, self &
Saunders.)
Monday October 3
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. Out on cycle. Lovely morning. Wrote diary &
letters. M had a man for estimate curtains in Drawing Room. After in morning
put room right. Clocks & Electric Lights. Lunch. M late. Little old woman
waiting to see her. Read & finished Treasure Island. After at 5.0 got seriously
to work on page for Almanack. Skemed it out. M & self dined quietly by
ourselves. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: Began double page Almanack.)
Tuesday October 4
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Cycled round Park. Misty & dull. Bad print in
Punch. After wrote letters etc. Otley brought chair down. After began in
earnest to skeme drawing for Almanack & draw it out. Quiet hard day all day,
did not go out in evening. M & self had quiet dinner. Bed early afterwards.
Wednesday October 5
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round by Earls Court & past Burnands.
Called. After back & went on to skeme Almanack page. Worked all morning &
put up tracing & left at 1.0 & on to Garrick. Lunched. Saw Lord Rathbone.
After to C.C. Photod B.J for studies for Almanack drawing, 3 rd time. Out at 5.0
& to Garrick. Saw Lawrence Bradbury. After called for small heavy bag of
plates & on to the Punch dinner. Could not find lift & frightfully hot etc. F.C.B,
J.T, self, A à B, O.S, P.M, E.T.R, A.G only. Good dinner. Got cut to do of
Crusader a good subject. J.T President Kruger. Left at 10.45 & home by bus.
Miss Gill came to stay with M at 1.0pm.
Thursday October 6
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Head on slightly. Cycled & left a note on F.C.B.
Saw Rosie Burnand. Back & after skemed subject of German Emperor as
Crusader & the Sultan. Sent Otley to May's. After at 1.0 nearly, photod Otley
as Crusader & Turk. Developed & enlarged them. Tired. Rested & on with
work from 5.0 to 8.0pm. Miss Gill with M all day cleaning. A little old char
woman helped. Dined 8.15pm. Read after. Return of the Guards at 2.30pm
from Khartoum. New parlour maid Harris came. Did not appear till tomorrow.
Friday October 7
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Home & after had long
day's work on German Emperor as Crusader & Sultan as Saladin. Worked all
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day & finished at 9.15pm when dined. Very tired. Bed at 12.0am. Mr Rose
sent us a brace of grouse.
Saturday October 8
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dressed. Got camera ready & by 10.5 got off in
cart to S.K museum. Forgot money. Saw a gentleman & photod 2 boats. Got
off 11.10 & drove to Garrick. Got £1 from Cole. On to C.C. Photod 2 Miss
Cookes. Fine & bright. Out by 1.45 & on to Garrick. Lunch, mutton &
Burgundy. After talk to Col Fletcher. Joe Carr talking to Lord Edward Cecil.
Lord E had just come from Fashoda. Had seen Marchand & a fat Frenchman
who wanted to embrace him. Lord Kitchener rode into Omdurman by himself
being potted at. Frightful thirst. No food. Very interesting. On at 3.15 to see A
Greek Slave. Rotten piece. M & Miss Gill in box. Bother about buss getting
out. On to C.C. Changed plates. Most frightful attack of P & indigestion. Why?
Home by bus & quiet dinner with M. No smoke. Bed at 11.0. Very seedy.
(Red ink: Went to matinée of Greek Slave, M & Miss Gill.)
Sunday October 9
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Breakfast. After printed blue photos &
developed 2 doz & 4 plates taken yesterday. At it all day. Rain came on at
3.0. Began 1.0 & kept on all afternoon. Did not go out. Miss Radcliffe called.
Worked on centre page for Almanack. Quiet dinner with M at 8.0pm. Wrote
letters to Rose & Lord Tweedmouth after dinner. Quiet dinner & bed.
Monday October 10
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. After in morning printed
blues. Lovely bright sun. After enlarged all morning & part of afternoon. Roy
came back from Nymans at 5.0pm. M out in carriage. Wired to Forbes
Robertson & after an early dinner went in 4 wheeler to see 'Macbeth'. Bernard
P as Banquo, Taber as Macduff. Mrs Pat not very good. Home by carriage.
Saw Ellen Terry's daughter in stalls.
Nebuchadnezzar turned out to grass
with the roaring lion & the patient ass
Exclaimed when munching his unacustomed food.
It may be wholesome but it is not good.
(Red ink: Went to see 'Macbeth' at the Lyceum.)
Tuesday October 11
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round park. After in morning went on to
work at drawing of Almanack. Drew boat etc. After lunch. Hilda Messel there.
In afternoon went to Bourne End to dine with Lehmann. J.T, A à B, self, A.G,
L.B, H.W.L, O.S, E.T.R. Caught 5.50 train & there by 7.0. Dined 7.20. Left &
home Paddington 11.30. Shared cabs with Seaman & Reed. Found M & Roy
up. They had been to the new Opera at the Prince of Wales. Very bad. M
caught a cold. Conrad in in afternoon in Roy's old breeches. Dined after. Got
out winter trowsers.
Wednesday October 12
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Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round park. Slight head on. After
better. Back & worked in morning on drawing of Almanack. At noon made
studies for drapery. After M & Roy drove & saw The Belle of New York at
matinée. Rested & left at 4.20 in carriage & called Imperial Institute. Met Miss
B.A.Hand, a Mr & Mrs Mitford etc & Mr Atkinson. Jawed. After left at 5.35.
Went to Travellers Club & had interview with Lord Tweedmouth. After to
Garrick & C.C. Saw Bernard Partridge. After to Punch dinner. F.C.B, J.T, self,
A à B, R.L, O.S, B.P, H.W.L, A.G. Good dinner. Left 10.45 after inane chaff
from Arthur. Called Garrick & wrote letters. Home by buss. M stayed in bed.
Had a bad cold.
Thursday October 13
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round park. Colder & slightly foggy. Sent
Otley for costumes at May's. Skemed subject & at 12.0 photod Roy as Time &
Yankee Officer & Otley also & self for Punch. Long day developing & printing.
Hard to get any prints. Finished by 4.0 & rested upstairs. Tea. Mr Vaus called
at 5.30. Roy went back to Oxford at 7.30pm dining at 6.30. Worked till 8.0.
Dinner. Extraordinarily hungry. Made a very good dinner. Wrote after. Colder
in evening. Fires everywhere.
The words the spectral finger wrote in passim
Were Mene Mene Tekel & Upharsin.
The King & Courtiers by the sight appalled
Begged to suggest that Daniel should be called.
When Daniel saw the writing on the wall
At first he could not make it out at all.
F.C.B. 12 Oct 1898.
Friday October 14
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. Cycled round park. After got to work on
drawing of Yankee & Spain. In morning developed or rather enlarged some
photos taken yesterday & one of Spain. Finished at 8.15 & dined quietly, M,
Tilda & self. Bed after snooze. Wreck of the 'Monaghan' over 100 lives lost
this night off Lizard. (Red ink: The above was Torrey's ship.) (Cutting glued in:
Marriage of Robert Isacke to Julia Wilson.)
Saturday October 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round park. Fall in the barometer.
Worked on Almanack drawing till 11.30 when dressed & at 11.45 left & up to
C.C by bus. Photod Miss J for 4th time at 12.30. Forgot my keys & had to cut
bag. Out at 2.45. Lunch at Club. Went to Athenaeum & wrote letters. Wet
day. Called Cleveland Square & saw bust of Gladstone. Home at 7.0pm.
Dressed & dined quietly, M, Tilda & self.
Sunday October 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & x. Out on cycle in morning in coat. Met Pepys
Cockerell & rode to Knightsbridge with him, turned & home by Fulham Road.
After in morning developed 10 plates taken yesterday & in afternoon began in
earnest on Almanack drawing. Put in Punch in ink. Quiet dinner in evening
with M & Tilda. Bed after snooze. (Red ink: Began Almanack drawing in
earnest.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Lady Cromer. Oct 17.)
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Monday October 17
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Earls Court & Redcliffe
Gardens. Back. Printed blue prints & after long day's work on Almanack
drawing. Put figures in. Quiet dinner in evening, M, Tilda & self. Bed 11.50
after snooze. Duchess Blair's jewels stolen in Paris. £28,000 worth. (Cuttings
glued in: Death of Elizabeth Newson-Smith. Great Jewel Robbery. Tue Oct
18.)
Tuesday October 18
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Pouring heavy rain. Walk round Campden Hill.
Scratched some of poor Lewis's bill off gate. Sale early this year. Breakfast.
M in bed. After worked the whole day on Almanack page up to 8.0pm. Mrs
Geiger & son called. Mite & Lennie return from Scotland. Quiet dinner, M,
Tilda & self. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Ralph Disraeli. The Jewel Robbery in
Paris.)
Wednesday October 19
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round by Gloucester Road. After back &
got on with outline of Almanack. Worked up to 6.0 when left & on by bus to
Punch dinner. Sir William Agnew back. F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L, P.M,
E.T.R, H.W.L & A.G. Tenniel got the celebrated cartoon of Fashoda &
Monkey. Some expressed opinion (Guthrie & self) it was too strong. Greatly
disappointed by F.C.B saying he would do without cartoon this week. Was
very angry. Left at 10.30 & went on to Garrick Club. Home by buss. Very
pretty woman got out at Knightsbridge. (Red ink: No cartoon to do.) (Cuttings
glued in: Death of John Holtzapffel. Marriage arranged between Hon Neville
Lytton and Judith Blunt.)
Thursday October 20
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Fulham. After got to work on
Almanack drawing. Took out figure with lute & put another in very much
better. Worked till 8.30pm when quiet dinner. Dear Mite & Lennie dined. Our
wedding day. Had bottle of Deutz & Geldermann. Mite did not feel very well.
They left at 11.0pm in hansom. Tilda went in carriage & called on Con & Effie,
getting signed cartoon from Sir John Tenniel & leaving his illuminated book by
Day & Son. (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Emile Burnard to to Marian
Copland-Griffiths. Death of Rebecca Bergne.)
Friday October 21
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round by Fulham etc. After long day at
Almanack drawing. Got on with outline. Quiet dinner M, Tilda & self.
Saturday October 22
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round by Fulham. Back & long day on
Almanack drawing. Finished the outline & began to shade at 5.30pm. M in
room. After dined quietly, M, Tilda & self. New books from Mudie's. Miss
Chapman Hand called at lunch time. Very tired. An idiotic Irishman named
Russell smashes the Punch Office window on acct of Tenniel's cartoon.
(Cutting glued in: Man tried for breaking window of the Punch office. Oct 25.)
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Sunday October 23
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Most lovely morning. Cycled up to C.C. Shut up
& round by Oxford St. Roads fearfully muddy. Called on Mite. Not up. Worked
after the entire day on Almanack drawing & began going on with shading.
Sophia Herapath & Sprite in to lunch. After a few callers. Tilda at Mite's in
afternoon. Mite had many callers & not too well after. Dinner 8.15pm & rest &
quiet afer. Lovely day. (Red ink: Worked all day on Almanack double page.)
Monday October 24
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round park. Called Mite. After at work the
entire day on drawing of Almanack. Shading all day. Work till 8.30pm. Quiet
dinner, Tilda, M & self. Read after. Poor books from Mudie's. Bed 12.0am.
Tuesday October 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Called Mite. After long day
up to 8.30pm on drawing for Almanack. Got on & finished all but shading sky
& sea. Quiet dinner, M, Tilda & self. Bed 12.0 after.
Wednesday October 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park. Saw Mills, called Mite.
After back & day on Almanack drawing. Finished at 5.0pm & after put all
things away. Left at 6.30 & on to Punch dinner. Sir W.A, L.B, P.M, E.T.R,
A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, H.W.L (out of his place) & O.S. Chaff of Tenniel
about his cartoon & the outrage on the Punch Office. Good dinner. Left 10.30
& to Garrick & wrote 6 letters. Saw F.C.B there. Home by bus. Bed 12.30am.
(Red ink: Finished the Almanack double page.)
Thursday October 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round park. Saw Lennie. Mite not so
well. Back & after skemed subject for Lord Salisbury & phonograph. Sent
Otley to Lincoln & Bennett's fruitlessly. After at 12.30 photod Stace who was
unwell. Developed & enlarged after lunch. Rest from 3.30 to 4.30. After did
small drawing of Umbrella. Left in carriage for the Harold Powers. Dined. Mr &
Mrs F.C.Burnand, Mr Peter Reed, Mrs Turquand, Powers & selfs. F.C.B
looking ill & not himself. Left at 11.15 & home by carriage with Tilda. (Red ink:
Dined with the Harold Powers. Met Burnands, Peter Reed etc.) (Cutting glued
in: Death of Mildred Langworthy.)
Friday October 28
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Cycled round park. Saw Mr Dent. Called to ask how
Mite was. Saw Lennie. Home & after sent drawing of Umbrella off. Then all
day on drawing of Salisbury & Phonograph. M out. Electric light suddenly
went out at 8.30pm, had to finish by candles. Tried new Gillotts pen. Finished
at 9.10pm & dined. Men from Notting Hill Electric Light Co came & put light
right. Snooze till 12.30am & bed.
Saturday October 29
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Tired. Did not go out before breakfast. M & self
in. Wrote letters after & diary. In morning heavy rain came on. After left at
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12.0 & went on to Garrick by buss. Lunch & a good lunch on cold turkey. Saw
Edmund Routledge. After to Drury Lane Theatre. Waited for M. Finally Tilda &
Dora drove up in carriage. Saw Play in Box BB of 'The Great Ruby'. Man like
Dhulap Singh in it. Out at 5.0 & by carriage to Mite's. Went thro' Wardour St.
Called at Mr Lowes 138. Shut. Saw dear Mite in bed & stayed ½ hour or
more. Home by carriage. M & self had quiet dinner & bed early. Read new
books. (Red ink: Mite ill. Tilda Dora & self went to Drury Lane, 'The Great
Ruby' matinée.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Frederick Garside, of a
daughter.)
Sunday October 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. x. After left at 10.15 & to Victoria. Met Lewis &
Rose. Down to Dover. Blowing hard. Went on board the Lord Warden & came
off again. Walked with Lewis & saw the boat go out. Lunch at 1.35 at Lord
Warden. Out again 2.35pm to pier. Remained in 1 st class carriage from 3.0 to
7.35 before we got off. Boats could not land passengers. The Empress & the
Ostend boat waiting off the pier. Got to London 9.30 & home 9.50. Nice old
gentleman X'd over, a Mr King. Got out Herne Hill. 'Most disagreable, almost
dangerous' he said in response to landing. Dined at 10.0 & bed after reading
book on (illeg) at 12.30am. (Red ink: Went to Dover with Lewis. Did not X
over owing to the rough weather. Very late home.)
Monday October 31
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out & round Park on cycle. Called & left letter
for Tilda. Mite better. Roads all right after heavy rain. Breakfast & after in
bright sun printed many back prints of photos till 12.30. Men from Stores
doing creepers & Dixon locks of doors. M out in morning & home lunch
2.0pm. In afternoon squared prints. After began & designed memorial for Mr
Gladstone for Lord Tweedmouth. Dinner 8.0pm. After M sleepy. Wrote letters
& diary. Snoze & bed at 11.30pm.
Tuesday November 1
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. x. Breakfast & after left 10.10am & walked to
Sloane St. Took buss to Charing X & down to Grove Park Station by 11.35.
Lovely morning. Had gun altered. Found it shot to the right. Saw Mr Hussey.
Civil station master. Back & caught the 12.58 train & to Garrick by 1.40.
Lunch. Saw Fred Evans, Percy Reeve etc etc. In smoking room Sorby etc.
Left 3.15 & drove by cab to S.K.Museum. Looked about for castings etc. Out
5.0 & home to tea. M by self. Mrs Turquand & Mrs Tuer had called. Wrote
letters & diary.
Wednesday November 2
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled round & called on Mite. Saw Lennie.
Back. In in the morning. Sorted all the sketches etc & squared up. Also got on
with Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. M up in my room. Left 3.30. Left after
dressing for Punch dinner at 6.45. By buss in wet to Criterion. F.C.B, J.T, self,
A à B, O.S, E.T.R & A.G only. Long discussion over Tenniel's cut. Left at 11.0
with F.C.B & then on to the Garrick. Letter from B.J. Wrote 4 or 5 letters &
home by buss at 12.30 after. Home 1.0am. Read & bed 1.30am.
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Thursday November 3
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. M anxious about Mite. Cycled round & heard she
was better. Wrote letters to models & looked out a drawing for Rosie
Burnand. M & Tilda went to the Stores. Girl called for the sabres. Worked on
drawing of Sultan & German Emperor. After lunch finished all the illustrated
papers & left in carriage with M at 3.15 & in to S.K.Museum. Saw Trendall &
Mr Purdon Clarke. Settled for photograph. Back by carriage. Tea with Tilda &
worked from 5.0 to 8.15. Dinner. M back & dear Mite not so well. Wrote 6 or 7
letters after dinner. Wet in the morning. (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of
Malcolm Aird to Nellie Dummett. The wife of Ernest Loring, of a daughter.)
Friday November 4
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & drove at 8.15 in dog cart to Westminster.
Photod Houses of Parliament & Westminster. Home again. Cold. Breakfast.
Sent Tuer's Bartolozzi prints back lent in August & wrote on Rosie Burnand's
drawing. After worked all day on drawing for Sultan & Kaiser going away with
presents. Finished 8.50. Dined. The drawing of Almanack came back.
Disappointed with it. Dined quietly, Tilda, M & self. After snooze till 12.30a &
to bed.
Saturday November 5
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out on cycle called on Mite. Saw Hilda Messel.
Back & goodbye to Tilda leaving in a 4 wheeler. After got off by 10.15 & on to
C.C. Saw a Miss Carrington. No good. After at 11.30 made some studies for
Lord Tweedmouth's drawing (Miss Gordon) & then at 1.30 walked over
Charing X Bridge & photod Houses of Parliament from Surrey side & also
from other side by Water Fire Station. To Garrick & had an indifferent lobster
for lunch. Smoke. Talk to Mr Chitty & after left at 5.0 & to Mite's by 3 busses.
Met M there. Home by carriage at 6.45pm. Mite looking thin & ill. Lennie had
been on Roy's cycle. Otley told me that crusader's sword was property of
May's. Wrote a letter. Attack of P. Quiet (illeg). Photod Miss Gordon 1st time
(illeg). (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Horatio Crusoe to Ethel Hart.)
Sunday November 6
Stafford Terrace. Did not wake till 9.0. Up & breakfast & got off. Most lovely
morning. To Victoria. Down with one other man. Read the 'People' & on
board. Talked the whole way over to Lord Rathmore. Interesting. Letty Lind &
Lord Durham on board also Miss Brinck that was. Lunch with Douglas
Freshfield. Back. Came across ruffians. Asked to dine Dec 13 th. Magnificent
sunset. Back ¼ hour late. Young American in carriage 'I'm just glad'. Home
8.5 & M & self dined quietly. Polished sabre. Spencer in at 9.45pm. (Red ink:
X'd to Calais. Met Tregastes.)
Monday November 7
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. Out on cycle. Something wrong, found I had
got a puncture & came back could not call on Mite. In morning photod
Chinese, that is printed blue prints taken of Stace. After developed prints of
plates taken Saty for Lord T's drawing & worked up to 3.30. Rest & on with
drawing. M with Mite all day. Back 7.0pm. Spencer came in at 7.30 & stayed
to dinner. Left 11.30pm.
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Tuesday November 8
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Slept in spare room. Cycled round by Lennie.
Called. Dr Fenton to be called in to see Mite with Orton today. Back. Rosie
Burnand's wedding. M off to be with Mite at 11.0. In morning letter from
Income Tax Commissioners putting income up to £1000 per year. Wrote long
letter about it. Went on with Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. M off to Mite's early.
At 1.45 left in carriage & went to Rosie Burnand's wedding. Saw T.P
O'Connor, Mrs Gunn & many others. Drove Tenniel over to Bayswater. At
3.20 consultation of Dr Fenton & Dr Orton about Mite. Very anxious. Saw
dear Mite. Left & home 4.45 & on to work up to 8.0pm. Quiet dinner with M.
Nasty cold came on about 6.0pm. Did not go back to F.C.B's after dinner.
Rest in chair till 1.0am & bed. (Red ink: Rosie Burnand married. Mite ill. Went
to see her.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Harriot Hughes D'Aeth. Sale of
Charles I's silk under-vest. Dec.)
Wednesday November 9
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Out on cycle. Foggy. Long talk to Mills Oh!
Mills. Called Mite. About same. Home. After made wreathes. Cats at them
Oh! Also mounted the paper for work on Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. Cold
developed. Much annoyed with marks on parquet from chair castors. Paid
Nash's window bills. Felt very seedy with cold. Rested after lunch. At 5.0 got
to work again till 6.0pm. Man came about ring on cabinet. Delay. Went up by
buss to Punch dinner. Sir W.A, L.B, P.M, E.T.R, H.W.L A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self,
A à B, R.L, O.S. Nearly full dinner. Long discussion. Felt bad with cold. Arthur
left to get Salisbury's speech. Tenniel got Sphinx cut, self Judgment of Paris.
Left 10.45 & on to Garrick C. Wrote 2 letters, one about Income Tax. Home
by buss. Had embrocation put on chest by M at 1.0am. (Cutting glued in:
Marriage of Henry Maguire to Rosie Burnand. Sale of Charles I's silk undervest. Times, Wed 12 March 1902.)
Thursday November 10
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.45. Walk up round Campden Hill. Foggy. Seedy with
cold. Man came after for castors of chairs from Howard's. Photod Otley at 1.0
for Paris & after also the 2 wreathes etc. Developed them & put to dry. M out
all day at Mite's. Got to work at 5.0 after a rest & worked up to 8.15pm when
dined. Quiet dinner & bed after. Gave up going to Tree's 3 Musketeers.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Jennie Postlethwaite.)
Friday November 11
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Park & home. Called at Mite's &
requested Miss Cock eye to go up & enquire. Mite better. Back & on to work
all day on drawing of Justice, Militarism & Paris. Finished at 8.45 & sent it off.
M seedy in bed. Dined quietly & snooze in chair after. Cold better but still bad.
(Cutting glued in: Death of Joseph Postlethwaite. Nov 4, 1901.)
Saturday November 12
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not go out. After put things away. Had
carriage at 11.0 & called at Taylor's Depository in 38a Brompton Road. Saw
desk & sofa etc. On to Camera Club & at 12.0 photod Miss Maud Fletcher.
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Tall ugly model but figure I wanted. Out at 1.30 & got photos of Houses of P &
Westminster Abbey or W.A only at Mr Evans. On to Garrick. Lunch with Willie
Mathews. Smoke & talk to Joe Carr after. Left at 3.50. Called at 55 Long
Acre. Home by buss 4.30. Developed 6 plates taken & up in room & squared
remaining leaves of Sketch etc. Worked on Lord Tweedmouth's drawing till
8.0. M back at 7.15. Mite better. Quiet dinner. Snooze & bed. Cold better.
Sunday November 13
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Fine clear morning. M in bed. Down & breakfast,
off by 10.30am. Met a Mr Mercer living at No 4 S.T. Buss to Victoria. Saw
Lewis's old dog & after Lewis himself & Saunders. Went over to Calais. Saw
Mrs Dixon & Capn Dixon. Lovely X'ing. Talk to Lewis on Barr Estate. Lunch at
C. Met Dr Messel. Back. Long talk to Dr M & all home in same carriage.
Home 7 minutes to 8 & quiet dinner with M. Read book on Experience of 39
Years in the Army by Sir C.A.Gordon K.C.B. Snooze & bed at 12.30am. Much
colder. (Red ink: X'd to Calais.)
Monday November 14
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Foggy & cold. Out & walk by self round Campden
Hill. Tore bit of poor Arthur Lewis's bill off. M in bed. Letter from Lord
Tweedmouth. In the morning enlarged photos & at 11.0 went & had interview
with a Mr Fisher at the Inland Revenue Office in Wright's Lane. Walked &
looked at fountain. Agreed for income of £820. Very civil. Put plates in &
walked & took fountain. After back & developed etc. Lunch. M in bed. Got to
work seriously at 4.0pm. Put architecture etc in & sketched figure in. M back
from Mite's. Quiet dinner & bed after snooze. (Red ink: Interview about my
Income Assessment with Mr Fisher.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Joan
Carlisle.)
Tuesday November 15
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill. After in morning
went on with drawing for Lord Tweedmouth. Put figure of Truth in. Worked all
day. Lennie sent prospectus of Speyer Bros. In evening dressed & cab to
Junior Carlton Club. Dined with John Aird. Banquet to the Lindos next door at
the Rays. (Red ink: John Aird's dinner, Junior Carlton. Poor dinner.) (Plan of
table seating: E.T Reed, Mr Tennant, Sir Benj Baker, young Scotter, young
Aird, Mr Willis, self, Sir Charles Scotter, John Aird, F.C.B, Bally Hooly Martin.)
Col Martin who led the 21st Lancers at Omdurman at the next table. Poor
dinner. Bally Hooly Martin & Irish tales. Smoke. Talk to Baker & left at 11.0.
Home with F.C.B. Sir Lionel Dagnell came up after dinner. Also saw Captain
Ford at dinner with his brother. Slept till 2.0am.
Wednesday November 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. Walk round Campden Hill. After all morning
& day at work on Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. Took out head of Justice & put
it in again. Good. Left at 6.30 & cab on to Punch dinner. Sir W.A, P.A, R.L,
A.'a B, self, J.T, F.C.B, A.G, E.T.R, B.P & P.M. Long discussion. Drank
Claret. Tenniel got Sailor cut, 'Petty Officer'. Self Prince George of Greece.
Home by buss at 11.0. M just in bed. Bed 11.30pm.
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Thursday November 17
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x. Foggy. Cycled down to Reed for photo of
Prince George of Greece. Saw dear little girl. Back. Applied for 10,000 dollars
of Speyer Bros & wrote many letters. As black as ink at 11.0am & continued
black all day. Could not work. Cleared a bit at 12.30. Sent Otley to May's, did
not come back until too late to photo, so got on & put ships in drawing.
Dressed at 6.45 & left at 7.0 in carriage to go to Mite's. Mite down in room. M
there & Lennie. Looked out Greek flag. Drove a wretched hansom to Euston,
there to the minute. Dined with Lord Rathmore, next to Ismay & opposite
Pirrie. Saw Mr Ward, Lord Stockbridge & Mr Lawrence, Lord Loch etc. Good
dinner. Called my Lord. Left at 11.0 & on to Garrick & home by buss. 6 girls
got in one very pretty. Read paper & bed at 12.0. Slept on new hard high bed
for 1st time. (Red ink: Dined with the L & N.W Directors at Euston.)
Friday November 18
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cycled round Earls Court etc. After breakfast
photod Otley in Greek dress & developed & enlarged all right. After at 12.30
got to work & all day hard at it. Finished at 9.0pm & dined quietly with M
afterwards. Bed 12.30 after snooze. (Cutting glued in: The wife of Percy
Holland, of a daughter.)
Saturday November 19
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Very tired. Walk round Camden Hill. Strong
east wind. Sent Reed's photos back. After worked all morning on Lord T's
drawing. Lunch. Packed. Another ½ hrs work. Left at 4.15 in a 4 wheel cab for
Victoria with M. Caught 4.55. Tall women about. Down to Dorking. Bus. At
Burford 6.0pm. Tea. Sir John & Lady Donelly, M & Madame Kato, Japanese
minister, Dr & Mrs Lorne(?) Brunton, Dr Freyer, selves, Sir T & Lady
Lawrence, 2 Miss Lawrences, 2 young ditto & Miss May L the party. After tea
talk & dressed leisurely. Dinner 8.0pm. Slow. Took Lady D in. Knew the
Wilfred Blunts, Allan Cole etc. Slow after dinner & poor smoking room. Yarns.
Went to bed 11.45. Good fire. (Red ink: At Burford Lodge. Took Lady Donelly
in to dinner.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Josiah Kershaw.)
Sunday November 20
Burford Lodge, Box Hill. Up 8.0am. Breakfast 9.0am. Green suit. Stroll after
with M. Kato. Some to church. Looked at books etc & also most interested in
going round Orchid House. Curious plants. One refused £800 for. Shooting
pollen. After lunch went for a walk round top of Box Hill. A fort to be made by
Government. Back at 4.45. Tea. Got book, 'The Real Japan' by Henry
Norman, Fisher Unwin 1892. Good. Wrote 6 letters. Dressed. Dinner 7.45.
Took Miss L in. Next Lady Lawrence. Dull after. Drew pigs. Another smoke.
Yarns & bed. 12.0am. (Red ink: At Burford Lodge.)
Monday November 21
Burford Lodge, Box Hill. Up 7.0am. Out at 8.15. Wet, worm on path. Breakfast
at 8.45 & off at 9.20. At Station met Thring. Talk. Foggy. Miss Lawrence got
out at Leatherhead. Very foggy. Black. A pretty little girl & boy with their father
got in at Sutton. London at 10.50. 4 wheeler home. Goodbye to Dr Freyer.
Home 11.10 & to work all day. Put in Hercules & wreathes etc. M at Mite's.
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Miss Gill came at 1.0pm. Dinner 8.30. Rest & bed 12.0am. Very cold in
evening. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary Earl of Lathom. Mon Nov 21. The wife of
Meyer Spielmann, of a daughter.)
Tuesday November 22
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. x. After down. Cold north wind. Walk round
Campden Hill. Got to work 9.45. Sent Otley to Mrs Evans. Put in Houses of
Parliament & Westminster Abbey. Took all day. M at Mite's. Mite to go to
Brighton. Worked up to 8.30 when dined, M, self, Miss Gill. Wrote letters &
diary after dinner. Bed after rest in chair. (Cutting glued in: Obituary Sir John
Fowler. Tues Nov 22.)
Wednesday November 23
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & walk round Campden Hill. Saw a woman
looking for something opposite Sir John Fowler. After breakfast got to work all
day on Lord T's drawing. Put in Westminster Abbey etc. After at 6.0pm went
by bus to Punch dinner. Sir W.A, L.B, P.M, E.T.R, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B,
O.S. Heard of Miss Lehmann's illness. Hard discussion for J.T. Self got
German Emperor as Troubadour. Complimented by Agnew on last week's
cut. Home by buss & snooze & rest till 2.0am. Bed tired. (Writing hidden
behind cuttings) (Cuttings glued in: Death & Obituary Mrs Haweis.)
Thursday November 24
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round C.H. Great wet & gale. Also very
dark all day. Headache. Sent Otley to May's & skemed drawing of German
Emperor as Troubadour. Otley back 1.15. Photod him. Hardly could get a
print or photo. Enlarged & also steps from Pyt House & got to work after rest
at 4.45 up to 7.15. Dressed & left in carriage with M to dine at Mrs Turquand.
Dinner of 8. (Red ink: Mrs Turquand's dinner.) (Plan of seating: Mrs
Bergheim, Mr Cleriheugh, Mrs Peto, self, Mrs Turquand, Johhny B, M, Peter
Reed.) Slowish dinner. Talk of hospital of Johnny B's. No smoke. Left at 11.0
& home by carriage. Snooze till 1.30am & bed very tired.
Friday November 25
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round C.H. Wet. After got to work all day
on drawing of German Emperor as Troubadour. Finished 9.20 & dined without
dressing. Brighter day but still gale & cold. Bed 12.0 after snooze. Very tired.
Saturday November 26
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Wet & dark. Walk round C.H. After put photos
away & worked all day up to 8.0pm on Lord T's drawing. Dora to lunch. M &
she went to Prince of Wales's T & saw the Royal Star. They could not get in
to the Duke of York's T. Punch Almanack came. Very good. Also invite from
Lennie to shoot. M back after. Worked all day on Lord Tweedmouth's
drawing. Dined 8.30 & quiet evening after & bed. Began to shade drawing at
6.0pm.
Sunday November 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. x. After walk round Campden Hill with Tip &
got on all day with drawing for Lord Tweedmouth. Lunch. After many callers.
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Bret Harte, Mr Hemming, Wolff & Miss May etc. Up in room after & on to work
till 8.0pm. Quiet dinner & bed. Dined at the Walkes. (Red ink: Took Mrs
Griffiths in. The Kendals there, Sir Douglas Straight, Mrs Turquand. M taken
in by a Scotch entertainer.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Richard Gould. Death
of the wife of Alexander Wedderburn.)
Monday November 28
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & walk round Campden Hill with Tip. After to work
all day on Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. Got on, shaded all day. (Cuttings
glued in: Death and Obituary of James Aspinall.)
Tuesday November 29
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Worked all day after a walk round C.H with Tip
at Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. Dined at 8.30pm. After went by bus to F.C.B's
to play roulette. Saw Sir W Agnew, Mr Aird etc. Harold Powers, Sir C.Scotter
had been. John Tenniel etc. Won 9/s. at roulette. Owen Seaman. Left at 1.45
with Tenniel in a cab which changed us into another. Home at 2.25 & read &
bed. (Red ink: Went to Burnands roulette party. F.C.B's birthday.) (Cuttings
glued in: Death & Obituary of George Medley. Wills of George Medley and
William Stirling. T, Jan 17 '99.)
Wednesday November 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walked round C.H with Tip. After got to work.
Bothered with head of Justice. However finished at 1.30pm. Packed up. Went
after lunch to have hair cut. Parcel too heavy to go. Re-packed it. M left in
carriage at 3.0 to meet Mite who came back from Brighton. Went to Punch
dinner by bus. There the 1st & waited. Sir W.A, Phil A, E.T.R, A.G, F.C.B, J.T,
self, A à B, O.S. Long discussion about cuts. Did not leave until 11.0.
Fortunately got a cut easy to do. Home by bus. Read & bed after. (Cuttings
glued in: Lewis Carroll's child friends.)
Thursday December 1
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & skemed subject after walk round C.H with Tip.
Photod Otley in 3 cornered hat & got prints by lunch time. After worked.
Dressed at 7.10 & left in good cab & dined at Sir Henry Thompson's. Dinner
of 9. Took 20 minutes to drive. Met Fletcher Moulton, Sir Douglas Straight,
Sir Alex Mackenzie, Mr Leonard Courtney, self, Sir Henry Thompson, Sir
Trevor Lawrence & two others. Good dinner. Long talk to Moulton. Sir Henry
told me of Japanese laquer box which belonged to the Empress Eugenie. It
belonged to an Emperor of the West & came from an Emperor of the East.
Looted from Summer Palace. Left at 11.0 & home by hansom. Read & bed
1.0am after snooze. (Red ink: Dined with Sir Henry Thompson.)
Friday December 2
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0 & walked round C.H with Tip. After to work after
packing. Finished 1.0pm. Lunch & left at 2.0 in 4 wheeler. Went to Waterloo &
down to Tisbury. Met at station by 2 carriages & Lady Grove went. Arrived at
5.30. Tea. Gareth etc. Introduced to Lady Grove & after to Sir Walter. Good
dinner & talk. Hamilton beat me 1 game of billiards. Lady G a very tall
handsome woman. Smoke after dinner & bed 11.0am.
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Saturday December 3
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0. Down. Breakfast at 9.0. Dull morning. Guns
arrived after dejeuner at 9.50. Left at 10.10 to shoot home covers. Long good
day. Had good shoot the 2nd drive. Lunched in house & left off at dark 4.15.
Got 450 rabbits & 50 pheasants, 2 jays etc. 6 guns. Sir Walter Grove, Mr
H.Fletcher, Mr Berkeley Portman, Mr Mason (agent) Mr Gosling & self. Took
Mrs Portman in to dinner. Opposite Lady Grove going in with Mr Portman &
M. Also Mr Mason & his sister & Mr Hilton (clergyman) in to dinner. To bed at
11.30. Took 4 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: Great rabbit shoot at Pyt House Tisbury.)
(Cutting glued in: Death of Arthur Stirling.)
Sunday December 4
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0am. Down to breakfast at 9.0 in dark suit. After
read & walk with Evelyn in the Kitchen Garden & the dogs. Wrote 7 letters in
the morning. In afternoon went on reading. Had game of fives before dinner,
Mr Portman & self beating H & Sir Walter. Again took Mrs P in to dinner but
sat next Lady G. Discussion as to Meredith. After danced to organ & had 4
games of 5's after. Mr P & self won 3 out of 4. Took 4 C.L.L.P. Bed 1.15am.
Came on to rain at 1.0pm & never left off after.
Monday December 5
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0am. Down to breakfast. Raining hard. Sent M's
breakfast up. Tabs, Lady Grove & Sir Walter all left before 9.0am. Put on
shooting things after & left 10.0am in cart to shoot. Long wet day. Colonel
Best, Mr B.Portman, Mr Mason, Hamilton & self. Got about 30 pheasants &
very few rabbits. Troubled with P. Saw 2 foxes. Self shot 8 birds. Finished up
ºtea. Quiet dinner, H, self, M & Bee Barrs. Tabs back at 8.45, went up straight
to bed where I went after at 11.0pm. (Red ink: Covert shoot in wet all day with
H.Fetcher. Semley.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary Jonas Miles.)
Tuesday December 6
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0am. Down at breakfast. Sent M's breakfast up.
Good kidneys. Heavy wet all day. Decided to go up tomorrow. Went up to M.
Read Monmouth's Life. After worked 2 hours on Index in Mr Ponsonby's
room. Lunch. After undid the French packages for the Cotillion. Looked at
books. Talked to Gareth. Worked 1 hour, 3.0 to 4.0pm. After played 2 games
of B with H, 100 up & 50 up. Won both. Dressed & dined. M played The Belle
of New York. Bed at 11.15pm. Long talk to Gareth who said that the
Strewwelpeter Bob with his red umbrella must have gone up to God or else
be blowing about. Lord James of Hereford's shoot. Wet entire day.
Wednesday December 7
Pyt House, Tisbury. Up at 8.0am. Still wet. Breakfast. M down. After packed &
left at 11.10. Tips & goodbye all round. Left in rain & to Tisbury. Change at
Salisbury. Long walk down train. In carriage with one man who got out at
Basingstoke. Sandwich lunch. Home at 3.10 in 4 wheeler. Otley met us.
Wrote diary. The fireplace fixed. Back Nºs of St Pauls came. Worked one
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hour & then left in carriage for Punch dinner. Called at John Marks & ordered
Hamilton 150 cigars. On to Garrick. 1 letter. Saw Bernard Partridge & F.C.B.
Called sword shop, selected some & an old 15th century sword. On to Punch
dinner. Sir W.A, Phil M, E.T.R, B.P, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L & O.S
there. Long weary discussion up to 10.30 about the 2 cuts. After shewed the
etchings & drawings by M & E Detmold. Very much admired. Left & home on
top of bus. Wrote Stace & posted the letter. Bed at 12.30. No evening paper.
Thursday December 8
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.20 & walk round C.H with Tip. After skemed subject &
photod Otley & Stace as John Bull & Afrikander at 11.30am. Developed.
Lunch 1.30. Mite & Mrs Galbraith there. Wrote letters after. Looked over M &
E.Detmolds' etchings. After got to work at 5.0pm until 8.30 & got on with
drawing of John Bull & Afrikander. Quiet dinner M & self together. Snooze &
bed 12.0pm. Lord Tweedmouth called at 5.0pm about altering drawing. Saw
him & agreed to do it.
Friday December 9
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round C.H with Tip. After got to work &
finished drawing of John Bull & Afrikander by 2.0pm. Packed & off in cart by
4.0pm. M away with Mite. Drove to London Bridge & down by 5.5 to Nymans.
Met Mr Messel, Lennie & 4 others. Drove to Nymans with Mrs Messel etc.
Dressed. Dinner. Burnt overmantel with candle. Felt heavy & livery. Dull
evening. Bed 11.30pm. Slept heavily. (Red ink: Went down to Nymans to
shoot.)
Saturday December 10
Nymans, Crawley. Up at 7.30. Breakfast 8.0pm & off to shoot at 9.0. Put guns
up. Lennie rowing Phillips. 6 guns. Got 108 altogether, 20 rabbits, 20 duck, 6
hares, 3 partridges, 1 pigeon, rest pheasants. Did not shoot very well.
Whiskey at lunch which must have given me a head after. Gentleman joined
us. Duck with his head off. Shot by Mr Gibbs. Mr Boosey etc. Left off 3.45.
Home. Changed. Tea. Left at 5.30 & home Stafford Terrace at 8.30. Dinner.
Roy home from Oxford. Had passed his examination. Very glad. Quiet
evening & bed. Got drawing under press for head of Justice. Bed at 12.0 after
reading. Felt heavy & seedy all day. Head like lead. (Red ink: Covert shoot
with Lennie at Nymans. 6 guns.) (Cuttings glued in: Death and Obituary of
William Black. Mon Dec 12.)
Sunday December 11
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Walk over Campden Hill with Tip. Roy down. After
a very hard day's work all day on Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. Much
bothered. Had headache in morning & seedy & livery all day. Put Gladstone's
head in again & at 6.0pm took out the head of Justice. Lennie & Mite dined &
all together. Mite in her old form, Roy playing piano. Went up & put glass on
drawing. Read & to bed 11.50 after snooze. Mite & Lennie left at 11.0pm.
Took 5 Carters L.L.P. (Red ink: Worked all day on alteration of Lord
Tweedmouth's drawing.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of John Gulich. Death of
William Black, 1898. 1901.)
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Monday December 12
st
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cycled for 1 time since (blank) round by Mite's.
After breakfast got to work. Put in head of Justice & got it better & went on
with Gladstone's head. Bothered & tired & weary. Mite in in afternoon. Roy at
Club. Sent it off 5.0pm. Began Index 4.30 & finished it 8.20. M back at 7.15.
Had been driving with Mite. Roy went out to dinner. M & self dined 8.45
quietly. Preface came from Seaman. Wrote Tregaste's & other letters after
dinner. (Red ink: Finished the alteration of Lord Tweedmouth's drawing. Not
altogether satisfactory.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Robert Garnett, of a
daughter.)
Tuesday December 13
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. x. Out on cycle. Colder. Met Reynard & after saw
Mite & Lennie. Home 9.45. Breakfast & wrote letters. M off in carriage at 10.0.
Wrote about Keely to Guthrie & Reed. After up & did tail piece for Index.
Finished it at 3.0pm. Began Preface after & got it roughed out. Discovered
had another week to finish Preface in. Quiet dinner, M, Roy & self. Read after
& to bed at 12.0 after snooze. (Cuttings glued in: Death and Obituary of
Walter Lacy. Dec 16.)
Wednesday December 14
Stafford Terrace. Up & 8.0am cycled round Park. Called Mite & saw L & Mite.
Back. Got on all day with Preface. Gave Roy £1.10.0 for shoes & to go to Pyt.
He left at 2.0pm with gun in hansom. After worked all afternoon up to 6.30
when dressed for Punch dinner & went in cab. There 7.15pm. Sir W.A, Phil
M, B.P, E.T.R, R.L, F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, O.S, P.A. 2 cuts to make up.
Tenniel's hand trembled drawing. Got a good subject of Harlequin. Left 10.30
& walked to the Garrick & wrote letters. Left at 11.30 & home by bus. Read &
to bed. Otley photod self with hat off for Preface & also took one of M in sealskin for Madame France. (Cutting glued in: The wife of Lt.Col Welby, of a
daughter.)
Thursday December 15
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on cycle round Earls Court. Completed
4,000 miles. Back & skemed subject of Chamberlain as Harlequin & Lord
Salisbury Manager. Sent Otley to May's for costume. At 12.30 photod a man
at corner of road in Harlequin's dress. Developed & got enlargement by lunch.
Spencer called at 11.0 & stayed ½ an hour. After lunch went at once to work
up to 6.0pm when dressed. M & self went in carriage to Her Majesty's Theatre
& saw The Musketeers. Mrs Stone & a man just in front & also Mrs Chapman
(née Hardman). M & self went round to see Mr & Mrs Tree afterwards & home
by carriage at 12.45. Read till 1.0 when to bed. Hamilton Fletcher's ball at Pyt
House. (Red ink: M & self went to see The Musketeers at the Haymarket.)
(Cutting glued in: Obituary Christopher Sykes.)
Friday December 16
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Down & walk round C.H with Tip. After home &
up worked all day on drawing of Chamberlain as Harlequin. M out at Stores.
Finished at 8.5pm & dined 8.15 quietly M & self. Death of Christopher Sykes
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in evening paper. Read L'Assommoir again. Horrible. Bed at 12.0 after
reading. No snooze.
Saturday December 17
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Cycled round & called on Mite. Saw her &
Lennie who had not been to Pyt Ball. Back. Breakfast. After up in room &
worked all day on the Preface. Roy back from Pyt at 1.0pm. Sent Otley to
know if had box for the Garrick Theatre. No answer. M did not go out all day.
Dressed at 7.30pm. Dinner, M, Roy & self. Quiet evening after. (Cutting glued
in: Marriage of Charles Bathurst and Bertha Lopes.)
Sunday December 18
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Dull. Cycled round by Earls Court. After all day
worked on Preface. Spencer came in in morning. Roy took his mother for a
walk. Bret Harte called. Quiet dinner, M, Roy & self. Spencer lunched with us.
(Red ink: Quiet day. Hard at work on the Preface. Spencer lunched.)
Monday December 19
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Walk round with Tip & Ricky. After in morning
finished Preface by 1.0pm & after began & finished tail piece by 7.30pm.
Dined & M, Roy & self went in 4 wheeler to the Alhambra. Spencer came in
the box with Daggles. Home by carriage. Still warmish. (Red ink: Finished
Preface. Went to the Alhambra. Episode of 'The Elephantine Cataract'.
(Cutting glued in: Obituary Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild MP. Times Dec
19.)
Tuesday December 20
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & walk with dogs. After waited about for chance of
cartoon. Sent Otley to F.C.B twice & in afternoon to change books & to F.C.B
at office. Put room in order & burnt a lot of photos etc. Dined 7.15pm & left
with Lennie & Mite, who dined with us, for Garrick Theatre. Self, Roy & Lennie
in 1 cab. Saw a piece by Leo Trevor, 'Brother Officers'. Very good. Lady
Grove in box with Mrs Pat Campbell. Home by carriage. Not so cold. (Red ink:
No cartoon turned up. Annoyed. Went in evening to see 'Brother Officers'
Garrick Theatre.)
Wednesday December 21
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Walk with dogs. Packed bags. M left at 11.0 to
Barkers etc. Up by bus to Garrick. To C.C at 12.15. Miss E.L came. Too dark
to take any photos. Short sitting. Out. Lunch. On to Edwards & Roberts.
Chose desk, a nest of drawers & also a small table. Mr Sargent. After paid
them £15. Out & walk to the Athenaeum. Wrote many letters. Saw Sir William
Priestley. Tea. Dressed at Club at 7.15 & on to a very poor dinner at the East
India United Club with Dr Freyer. Met Huish & a Sir George something. Dull.
Left 11.15 & on. Back to Athenaeum. Very foggy. Roy who had been to the
Vaudeville called at 11.20. Carriage there & home with bags. Very foggy. Bed
12.0. (Red ink: Dined with Dr Freyer at the East India United Club.)
Thursday December 22
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Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk with dogs. Very cold. M seedy. Had been
up ill. Something disagreed with her. Breakfast. After wrote letters & diary &
red lines. Man cleaning windows. M down in Drawing Room seedy all day.
Sick & feverish. Weeded out a great many photos etc. Printed others. After M
went up & to bed. Roy & self dined by ourselves & went in carriage to the
Haymarket Theatre. Mite & Lennie, H, Midge & Dora in box. Saw 'The
Manoevres of Jane'. Anxious about M. Drove straight home. M in bed still
seedy & in pain. Anxious about her. Bed 12.30am. (Red ink: M taken ill.
Seedy with chill in night & sick.)
Friday December 23
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Walk with Roy 1st time round Campden Hill. M
stayed in bed, still very seedy. Called Orton in, took temperature. Mite came
in with presents etc & gave me 2 little trays & Roy a tobacco box. M to stay in
bed. Spencer came in & stayed to lunch. After walked up the Row with him as
far as Liberty's & then on to Edwards & Roberts. Selected settee & glass.
Then to Athenaeum Club & wrote letters. Carriage called at 7.0pm & drove
Spencer & self home. Quiet dinner Roy & self. Went up to M's room after & to
sleep till 11.45 when to bed. Very cold at night. (Red ink: Called Orton in to
M.)
Saturday December 24
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Roy & self walked round Campden Hill with
dogs. After in morning Otley & self moved the furniture in my room & got
ready for desk coming from Edwards & Roberts. Lunch. Desk & furniture
came at 1.0pm. Left in carriage for the Savoy at 2.0pm. Saw The Sorcerer &
Trial by Jury, Roy & self. Out. Roy & self to Garrick for tea. Roy left at 5.45.
Wrote letters & on after to the Bath Club & had hair cut. Home by bus. Letters
most cheery from Morshead about Jarrah. A cheque from Cook for 15.15.0
also letter from Mr Darling. All right so far. M still in bed. Roy & self dined
alone. Went up into my room & put things away until 11.45. No fire. Bed. Dear
Mite called 11.0am when Orton was in & left presents for all of us & then left
for Nymans.
Sunday December 25
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out for walk round C.H with Roy. After
undecided whether to X Channel. Did not. M in bed all day but got up 5.0pm.
Printed a quantity of blue photos in the morning. Lovely warm bright sun all
morning. Lunch. Put room in order. A 5.0 Roy & self walked up as far as the
Bath Club. Saw Ristori there. Cigarette & walked home again. At 8.15
Hamilton, Midge & Dora came to dinner. Cheery evening. Crackers etc. M up
to dinner. They left 11.0. Read & to bed by 12.0 after a quiet day. (Red ink:
Roy & self walked to Bath Club. Langleys dined with us.) (Cuttings glued in:
Death of Hilda Bell. Death of Sarah Bradbury.)
Monday December 26
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Roy & self walked round Campden Hill. After
in morning printed a few blues & put room in order. Weeded photos etc etc.
Lunch. M down. Cold turkey. After rested & wrote on 3 mounts for Cook.
Dressed & dined at 6.15. Roy & self by cab to Drury Lane 7.5, there 7.35.
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Front row of stalls. Phillis Broughton in box near us. Saw Mr McCalmont &
Major Trollope, Lindo etc. Out at 12.5 & on to Garrick. Had supper. Haddock.
Next Col Fletcher. Joe Carr, Joe Knight & Routledge there. Left at 1.0 after
writing letter to Knightley etc. Home 1.30. Drew cheques. Roy posted them &
to bed at 1.45am.
Tuesday December 27
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Roy not up. Walk round Campden Hill with Tip &
Ricky. After breakfast sent off the 3 drawings to be mounted & also saw a
man from Liberty's about curtains for the Drawing Room. Roy to Club. M still
in bed. Very wet all day. After lunch drove up to call at Edwards & Roberts &
Mrs Evans etc in carriage. Frightfully heavy wet. All or most of the shops shut.
Went on to work on drawing of Peace on Bear for opening of Volume 116.
Found wanted a Bear. Wrote to Spooner etc. Quiet dinner M, Roy & self &
went to bed early. (Cutting glued in: Death of Alice Connal.)
Wednesday December 28
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Walk with Roy & dogs round Campden Hill.
After worked all day on drawing of Peace on Bear for opening of Vol 116. Mrs
Reffell went with Alice (late parlour maid) to Drury Lane & had to stand all
time. Left an hour too soon & got to Criterion. No one there. Went to Edwards
& Roberts & selected a new bureau. Back. Full Punch dinner. Sir William
Agnew, Phil Agnew, O.S, R.C.L, A à B, self, J.T, F.C.B, A.G, H.W.L (back
from Tunis since ....) E.T.R, B.P, P.M. Frightfully long discusion on J.T's
cartoon of Imperial Postage. Self got 'Arry 'Olborn. Were from 9.0 to 11.0 or
8.30 to 11.0 on Tenniel's. Indecency in Reed's cartoon. Left & home by bus.
Partridge congratulated me on cut of Punch as Lancer. Bed 12.15. Very cold.
(Red ink: Very full Punch dinner.)
Thursday December 29
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & walk with Roy & dogs round into Notting Hill
Square & back. After M said Mrs Reffell was a wreck from last night's
Pantomime. Went on & finished drawing of Peace on Bear for opening of
Volume 116. M in my room. Skemed cartoon of 'Arry 'Olborn & Sally Strand.
M, Roy & self dined quietly by selves & bed after. Very cold in Drawing Room.
Friday December 30
Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walk round C.H with Roy & Tip. After skemed
drawing & photod Otley for drawing of 'Arry 'Olborn & Sally Strand. Got
enlargement by 11.30. Went on. Enlarged after a plate by self of L.G &
worked all afternoon & up to 9.0pm when dined, M, Roy & self. M seedy. Bed
at 11.30 after snooze.
Saturday December 31
Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Walk round C.H with Roy & dogs. After in
morning took things out of desk & made ready for Edwards & Roberts men
who came at 12.15 & brought a new bureau. Man from Threapletons put up
new blind in room. Lunch. Wet disagreable day. Back in room & put away
things in desk etc. M seedy in room. Came up after in my room. Dined at
6.10pm & Roy & self went in carriage to the Garrick Theatre. Very wet. Saw
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the 'Three Musketeers'. Very good. Out & walked to Garrick. Had marrow
bones & bottle of Burgundy. Only about 7 or 8 there. Joe Knight & another.
Dull. Watched the New Year in. Home by cab at 12.20. Bed 1.0am. Dividend
from Newnes came. (Red ink: Miserable wet day. Roy & self went in evening
to see the 'Three Musketeers'.)
Notes at back of Diary:
THEATRICAL MANAGERS:
Duke of York's Theatre: F Pemberton.
Vaudeville Theatre:
W.H.Risque. Lessees & managers: A & S Gatti.
Drury Lane:
Sidney Smith (Business Manager & Secretary)
Managing Director: Arthur Collins.
Empire:
H.S.Hitchens Esq. C.Duncan Slater.
RAILWAY MANAGERS:
Joseph L.Wilkinson Esqre.
Great Western Railway,
General Managers Office,
Paddington Station, London W.
L.G
1st Wed Oct 6 1897 Heads only
2 Sun " 31
"
Petticoats
3 Saty Jany 29 1898 Hair only
4
" Apl 15
"
Gitana dress
5
" May 7 "
Classic with umbrella
6
"
" 21 "
Classical dress
7
" June 4 "
Classic shield
8
" June 18 "
Preface studies
9
" July 16 "
Gitana dress
E.L
1 Tues March 15 1898
nude
Hotels:
Royal Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone,
F.S.Evans, Manager.
Metropole, Folkestone,
H Reeves Esq, Manager.
Roy
July 27. £40.0.0.
C.Richards
Tuesday Feby 15
2 Miss Cookes
"
March 1
L.Cooke
"
" 8
E.L.
"
" 15
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L.Cooke
"
" 29
L.G.
Saty Apl 16
L.G.
"
May 7
Description of Skeleton at Pyt House:
Mary Shell alias Molly Shell. In virtuous indignation of her crime she was
executed at Oxford (sic) for the murder of her child by pouring boiling water
down its throat from a kettle. Whether it was a young baby I know not or what
state of mind or body she was in. Anyway she was hung at Oxford and a
friend of your great grandfather knowing he was fond of the study of anatomy
bought her & cleaned her bones and sent her down to Pyt House in a box
higgledy piggledy for him to amuse himself in making out the skeleton, which
he did and hanging together with wires. I think my aunt used to say they
remember the bones arriving when they were children, but anyway that is the
correct version.
Aunt Anne's story of the Skeleton. No date.
Card interleaved:
Punch Dinner. Mercredi le 28 Decembre 1898. Menu.
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