linley sambourne's diary 1906

LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1906

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Notes and addresses in front of diary: Linley Sambourne, 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, London W. 5/s Reward if lost & returned to above address. 1 January 1906. 95089 The late Robert Brough A.R.S.A has left estate amounting to about £900. He leaves one of his Academy pictures to the Tate Gallery. A sum is being raised in Aberdeen & London to found a scholarship in Sculpture & Painting in memory of the deceased artist. Copied from Mite's desk, 19 Apl at the Hague. Late Fred Davis Miss Gordon Barrett. Changing boxes: L.Gaumont & Company, 22 to 27 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road W.C. J.Welsh, Art Manager. 2 Harewood Place, Hanover Sq, W. also Mandeville Hotel. Bowden Green Donna Linda Bosacca di Gallidoro. Cigar: La Flor de Murias. Manuel deValle Habana. Non Plus Ultra. Bucktrout & Co, St Peters Port, Guernsey. Bahia Cigars, 200, 2½ each. Gaetano Caballos. A & N Managing Director. W.Phaysey Athenaeum Scy. Henry R.Tedder. Armour, G.D. Etchelhampton House, Devises, Devon. Bellini. Hanover Restaurant, 6 Milk St, W. Bonvoisin. 53 Rue Père Charron. Anderson, J.G.S. 5 Fenchurch Avenue E.C. Bingham, W. 15 Kenbourne Rd, Sharrow. Churchward, Capn A.W. 30 Bou'd des Italiens. Courier's name Verbeck.


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Bryson, Miss Constance Marguerite. 14 Caroline Place, Claughton, Birken'd. Dellmeyer. 25 Newman Street, Oxford St. Frederick Davis Esqr, deceased. T.F.Peacock, Fisher & Chevasse, 3 Field Court, Greys Inn W.C. Charles Stanley Fisher Alban Chevasse. Thomas Francis Peacock-Evered. Bartlett, A.W. Evered & Co, 35 Drury Lane. Ayala, L de. The Chestnuts, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey. Davis, the late Frederick. Solicitors T.F.Peacock, Fisher & Chevasse, 3 Field Court, Greys Inn. Continental Hotel, 3 Rue des Castiglione A.Lotti, Manager, Room 399 Camera Club, New. Henry W.Frereholme, Blenheim Mansions, Queen Anne's Gate, S.W. Borthwick's shooting. Forsinard, W.H.Fox. Girls Public Day School Co Lt. Kensington High School. Head Mistress Miss Home. School year 3 terms, 13 weeks. Hours 9.15 to 1.10pm Three weeks at Easter, seven at Midsummer, four weeks Xmas. 1 whole holiday middle of each term Paddington & Maida Vale, 129 Elgin Avenue. Highbury & Islington High School, 6-7 Canonbury Place N. L.C.C School, Silver St, Notting Hill. National School, Warwick Road, S.W. Earls Court, St Mathias. 173 Cromwell Rd, Misses Nunn & Tothill. 8 Observatory Gardens, Misses Moneypenny. Colonel Thomas Gee. Green Hill, Allerton, Liverpool. Gloves, Tan Sabian, 3/6. Gotz, L.R. 215 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. Howlden, H.Linley, Park Grange, S. Harris, Walter H. Rustall Beacon, Tonbridge Wells. Graves, Charles L.


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Green, Jos F.West Lodge, Blackheath. Exhibitions, Naval Shipping & Fisheries. Henry J.Thompson, Manager, Press D. Fire Station. W.J. Horroford. Fire Station, Clarence Place, W.Hartree, William. Havering, Tonbridge Wells. Horlick, Robt A. Arbrook Farm, Esher, Surrey. Gilmer. J.W.Gilmer Esqr, 21 Bedford Street, W.C. Investment. Aug 15 1906. £400 Argentine North Central 5/s Bonds. Railway Bonds 100 5/8. £300 Hungarian 4/s Gold Reuter 94¼ Mrs Kennedy's Solicitors: Rider Heaton & Wigram, 8 New Square, Lincolns Inn, W.C. Telegrams: Rideratons London. Lees. Sir Elliot, Baronet. Lychett, Poole. Ladders: S.H Heatman & Co. 72 Rectory Road Parsons Green, S.W. McDonnell. The Hon Sir Schomberg. H.M Office of Works, Storeys Gate, S.W. Military Tournament. Captn G.A Armytage. Press Box, Royal Agricultural Hall. Lincoln Bennett & Co. W.J.Sea. Tinsley Lindley. 16 Park Ter, Nottingham. Langley, H. Bedstone Court, Bucknall. Telegrams Brampton Brian. McLaren, Sir Charles B.B, Baronet. Bodnant, Talycefn, Denbigh. Mount Edgecumbe, The Earl of. P.C, G.C.V.O. 5 Victoria Street, S.W. Henry Mills. The Esplanade, Fleetwood, L. Lumière, N.A Co Lt. 4 Bloomsbury St, W.C. Moultrie, The Terrace, Shoeburyness. Moore, H.M. 3 Stratford Road, Kensington, W. Morris, Bernard. 161, New Park Road, Clapham Park, S.W. Messel, 31 Throgmorton Street, E.C. Old Water Colour Socy. 100 Great Russell St, W.C. W.H.Porter Esq (Mumbler). Crumpsall Priory, Manchester. Peter Orr. See Schedule O diary 1905. The Photographic Associaton. 14-15 Conduit St, New Bond St. F.W.Stevenson Esquire. London W. Photographic Ruby Lamps 10/s each. 50 candles 2/6 each.


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George Otley. 74 Richmond Park Road, Kingston S.W. Ostend. Hotel Continental. A.Declarck. Hotel Cafe Restaurant Spaander. L.Spaander. 32 Volendam Bij Edam, Holland. Soap, Courts Castile. 5½ lb bar 6d lb, 2/9. Spooner J. 379 Strand, W.C. Raven Hill, L. Battle House, Bromham, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Stace, H. 14 Hatfield Road, Ramsgate. Taxes. George Hawes, Office of Surveyor of, Wrights Lane, Kensington, W. Sands & Hunter. 37 Bedford St, Strand. Royal Academy waiters. Golden & Sanders. Swain, Joseph & Son. 157 Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, E.C. Sintram, Freemantle & Co. 217 Piccadilly. Sullivan, Maud C. 6 Palmeira Sq, Hove. Townsend, F.H. 34 Cheyne Row, S.W. T.Saunders, National Portrait Gallery, St Martins Lane, W.C. Ross Lt. T.G.Anderson, Secy. Spiers & Pond Lt. E.F.Bugler Secy. 35 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, E.C. Sheehy, Mrs. 27 Canonbury Park North, N. Waterbury Watches, Allan Ross & Co. C.A.Parker, 15 Newgate Street, London E.C. Watney, Vernon. 'Fannich', Lochluichart, Rosshire N.B. Cornbury Park, Charlbury Ox'd. White, A.J. 74 Jermyn Street S.W. Monday January 1 Balcombe House. Up 8.30. Bath. Very cold NE wind. Down breakfast. Mr Davson up to town. Left with Lennie in motor to shoot at Nymans at 9.15. 6 guns. Captain Gibbes, Captain Loring, Parker, Rev'd Stephen Boyd, Lennie & self. Had a very good day. Got self 14 pheasants, 13 cocks, 2 duck & no (illeg). Total bag 28 P, 9 Duck, 1 pigeon, (illeg) woodcock, 1 jay. Lunch at Keepers. Left off 3.40 & home by car in daylight. (illeg) out. Dear Mite's presents, just what I wanted. Tea. Wrote many letters. After at 8.0 the whole of the Nymans party came. Mr & Mrs M, Mr & Mrs Eric Parker, Capn & Mrs Loring, Capn & Mrs Gibbes & Muriel. 18 at dinner at 3 tables. Good. After Captain Loring danced with a bladder at the back of his coat. Laughed very much. Mr Marriott


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had it after. Went to Library & smoked. They all left at 12.30am. Bed 1.15. Mite a very bad cold. (Red ink: Most delightful days shoot at Nymans. Bitterly cold. 18 at dinner at Balcombe.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Vyell Walker.) Tuesday January 2 Balcombe House. Up 8.35. Bath. Lennie & Harold left early. Warmer. Letters. One from Arthur Balfour. After Davson & Marriott & Mrs Harold Messel left. Up in room. Wrote 3 or 4 letters & posted them. The whole day finishing up old diary & index for this one & also Grangerizing. Lunch. Mite in bed. After a rest at 3.15 took M for walk towards the Faure Walkers. Poured with rain. Back. Old Barney went off towards Nymans. From 4 to 7.30 worked again on the diaries etc. Little Ann in room. After dressed. Dinner. M, self, Florence Walford & Geoff. Quiet evening after. Nightmare in chair in Library. (Red ink: Quiet day at Balcombe House. Letter from Mr Balfour. Maud a bad cold.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Elizabeth Walker. T. 5 Jany.) Wednesday January 3 Balcombe House. Up 8.30. Bath & all morning writing & squaring up prints etc. Lunch. Left Mite with a frightful cold. Dr Parker coming. Left at 1.55 in motor with Geoff for 3 Bridges. Just in time. Met Mrs Loring & children on platform. To Victoria,. 4 wheel cab home. Otley took things out. Cocoa. Letters. Left at 5.45 & by bus to Blenheim & Athenaeum Clubs. Letters, one from M.R. Saw Mr Justice Kennedy. Called at Sands & Hunters & by bus to Punch Dinner. F.C.B, self, R.H, Graves, O.S, P.A, L.B, Lucas, E.T.R, H.F.T & H.W.L. Partridge had wired to say he was staying at the Riviera a week longer. Got after considerable discussion cut of C.B as a Piper. Back by bus. Pass book £800 in credit. Roy out. Bed at 12.15am. Very heavy wet in the morning. (Red ink: 1st Punch dinner of the New Year.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Elizabeth Walker. Death of Vyell Walker. Death of Harrison Weir. Obituary of Harrison Weir. T. 3 Jany.) Thursday January 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Fine morning. Out & looked about with Rags for favourable background for the British Voter. Decided on the bottom of Argyll Rd. Back & breakfast. After sent Otley to Mays for Scotch dress. Schemed subject. Went out & took 6 snap shots at Public House. Back at 12.15. Photod Otley in Piper's dress. Difficulty with scarf. He also put the kilt on the wrong way round.


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Developed & got ready by 4.0pm. Was to have gone to Bond St Tube. Gave it up. Sent costume & lens back. Worked from 5.30pm till 8.30. Dressed. Roy & self dined quietly. A notice of my birthday in the Evening Standard & St James's Gazette. Bed at 12.0 after snooze. (Red ink: My Birthday. Wires from M & Mite. By myself all day.) Friday January 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out up Phill Gds & Holland Walk. Wished 2 D Happy New Year. Not a word. Back & down Argyll Road. Gave Bandsman 6d. After all day at work on drawing of C.B as Piper & Redmond. At 12.15 photod Otley as John Bull with pipe & developed Piper etc. Back to work from 3.0pm until 10.15pm when finished. Dined alone. Roy back 12.0. Something in his key. Worked in room 3.0 to 4.0pm with window wide open & no fire. Temperature 57º. (Cutting glued in: Punch's chief cartoonist is sixty one today. Jan 4. Death of Kate Reed. Death of Charles Campbell. Death of Grant Tod-Heatly.) Saturday January 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out. Great gale blowing. Missed 2nd D over Campden Hill. Gave Old W 2/3. Magnificent effect. Splended S with wonderful legs, 54 Argyll Rd. Back breakfast. Roy off. After saw electrician Moore. Ordered lamp & also the green glass lamp glasses to be made. Put things away & after lunch got off in carriage 1st time since end of July 1905 to Victoria & down to Balcombe. Saw Mr Davson on platform. Geoff met me. To house in small pony cart. Tea. After saw Mite. Dinner. Music & sleepy after. Bed 11.45pm. Raked out huge fire. (Red ink: Saw in gale of wind S of 54 Argyll Rd. Came down to Balcombe.) Sunday January 7 Balcombe House. Up at 8.45. Bath. Down breakfast 9.45. Most lovely bright sunny morning. Quite mild. Windows open all morning. M went to church. Wrote to purchase State of San Paulo (illeg) bonds 96½ - 97½ by Fritz Jackson's advice. Also many other letters. Met M, Geoff & Linley after church. Small pony driven up for Lennie to see. Went for walk. Lunch. Heavy wet after. In Mite's room. Some catalogue not to be found. Lennie & Geoff started to walk to Nymans, came back drenched. Wrote till dinner time. Little Ann feverish & a pain. All the men out. Gardener went over on a bicycle & Dr Parker came after dinner. Bed at 11.30pm.


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Mite got up to dinner. (Cutting glued in: Mr Balfour's descent from Robert II of Scotland. Daily Graphic 8 Jany.) Monday January 8 Balcombe House. Up at 8.30. Bath. Most lovely morning. Out for walk. Widow moving. Breakfast. Lennie in all day. Wrote hard up to lunch. Dr Parker shewed me sketches of his daughters. Son doing well in Africa. Took M & Miss Walford a very muddy walk 2.45 to 4.0pm. A Miss Corbett to tea. Strong Liberal. Lennie went to Drill & came back 8.45. Crackers. L indigestion. Wore a Punch cracker cap. Bed at 11.30. Strange dream of sacking of a Cromwellian house belonging to Col Lucas. Fly in pillow case at 1.0am. (Red ink: Went for walk with M & Miss Walford.) (Cutting glued in: Death of George Pirie.) Tuesday January 9 Balcombe House. Up at 8.35. x. Had been awake twice. Once with a fly buzzing in the pillow case. Lennie off at 9.35. Wet morning. Writing letters hard. The minnow up to town. News of Dissolution of the Parliament of 1900. Lunch. Packed. More letters. At 4.0 Geoff & self walked to station, Mite & M following. Caught the 4.18 & up to Victoria. Otley met us with letters & in his cab home by 6.0pm. Put things in order. Roy at Stern's at Savoy. M & self dined by ourselves. Bed after snooze. (Red ink: Came up M & self from Balcombe. Home 1st time to settle since July.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Thomson 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee. Obituary of the Dowager Lady Barrow. Jany 11.) Wednesday January 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out up Church Street. Met no one. After entire day putting things straight. Wilde called in the morning smelling of beer. After printed blues all morning. Brilliant sun. All afternoon writing etc. Left for Punch Dinner at 5.30. Horse coughed in my face at Church St. On to the Athenaeum & washed. Called at Sands & Hunters & saw my camera finished at last. On to the Punch Dinner. F.C.B, self, F.H.T, Graves, O.S, P.A, L.B, Lucas, B.P back from Monte Carlo, H.W.L, A.G. Pleasant dinner. Suggested Hare & Tortoise but got a Billiards playing subject to do. Home by bus & bed after reading paper. (Cutting glued in: Elections to the Royal Academy. Jany 10th)


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Thursday January 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out with Rags. Fine morning. Up Holland Walk. Passed single Dromio. Back & breakfast. After letters schemed subject of Billiard Players, A.B & C.B. Used old Pyt House Billiard Room taken January 1890. Enlarged etc. Up in room at 4.0. Short rest. M out in carriage, Mocatta wedding. Roy dined out. Felt very tired after dinner & headachey. Bed at 12.0 after read & snooze. (Red ink: Miss Mocatta married.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Jules Philippson and Lydia Mocatta. Marriage of Nigel Barttelot and Dorothy Kay. January.) Friday January 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out through churchyard & round by Argyll Road. Met no one except the Old W. Back. Breakfast & at work all day. At 9.45 photod Roy & self again for Billiards cut. Developed & up at work at 11.0am. Man came & changed burner of light overhead. Worked up to 10.15pm when finished. Very done up & tired. M & self dined. Snooze after. Roy not in till 2.0am. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff. Wife and sons of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff.) Saturday January 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am & out with Rags. A wet morning. Met the couple D & D Dromio. Also Mr Turner. Back breakfast. After letters etc. At 10.30 Wilde called again & looked at 130 drawings. Went on putting my things away. Lunch. After at 2.0 M & self left in our carriage, 1st time since July & went to the Haymarket Theatre. Had the large Royal Box. Saw a piece by Cosmo Gordon Lennox called The Indecision of Mrs Kingsbury. Mr Elder Critchett there, 80 years old, came into our box. Play delightfully played. Fanny Brough, Nina Boucicault looking older. Hawtry A1. M & self walked to Hyde Pak Corner. Posted card. Wired Oliver Messel & got fruit & sausages. Home by carriage. Roy out. Went out without speaking. Hungry. Tea. Put plates in carriage for new camera. Wrote diary. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée at the Haymarket. Saw The Indecision of Mrs Kingsbury.) (Cutting glued in. Obituary of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff. Jany 13.) Sunday January 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45 & out. Bright sun. Went with Rags up Church St & round by Holland Walk. Breakfast, sausages, & after wrote letters. Printed 1 doz blues & at 12.45 went with M by bus to


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top of the Park. Met Mr & Mrs Lockett Agnew. Walked for Church Parade. Saw Anderson Critchett & his daughter. After rapid walk to Sir Andros de la Rue's to lunch. Got very hot. No one interesting. Lady Lockwood & Lucy, Miss Hardman that was etc. Left at 3.30 & M home by carriage. Self walked to the Athenaeum Club & wrote letters from 4.0 to 7.0pm. Home by bus. Dressed. At 8.0 Mite, Lennie & Geoff came. Signed the 4 Carol books. Pleasant dinner & evening. They left at 10.45. Read Mallocks Reconstruction of Belief. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: M & self lunched at Sir Andros de la Rue's. Athenaeum after.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Herman Merivale.) Monday January 15 Stafford Terrace. Up & out with Rags on bicycle 1st time since 22 December along Earls Court & over C.H. Met no one. Breakfast. After looked out date of drawing of Britannia & Japan. Wrote Solomon etc. Gale & bright sun to try my new camera. I did try it. Hartree's motor at door. Both changing boxes broke down & unsatisfactory winder & drop shutter. Back. Lunch. After developed films taken at Malta. All but nothing on them. Pity. Up in room. Cleared drawers of old receipted bills going back to commencement of room. Dinner at 8.0, M, Roy & self, & in the Drawing Room after. M & Roy to bed early. News of great Liberal gain. (Red ink: Tried new camera. Dead failure.) (Cutting glued in: Sir Thomas Lawrence's portraits. Death of Professor Bickell. T.16 Jany 1906.) Tuesday January 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5 & out thro' churchyard. Met no one except the Springer. Back. Breakfast. Still more Liberal gains. Sir Alfred Hickman ousted by Labour. Up & wrote letters. Destroyed many old bills & receipted bills. Looked over camera & put plates in. Cold heavy showery morning. To go to Watsons. Lunch. Sent Otley with bag to Watson. Left at 2.0 & walked up Campden Hill to Tube. Got out at Tottenham Court Road instead of Chancery Lane. Long walk. Saw the Secy about changing box. Walked 1st time thro' Kingsway to Sands & Hunters & then home by bus. Saw Mrs Pitt in bus. M at home. Many callers. Dressed at 7.30. Very wet. M, Roy & self left in the carriage & dined for 1st time at 104 Lancaster Gate. Mrs Gibson, Mary Nicol, M, self, Roy, Geoff, Mite & Lennie. Very good dinner & Champagne. Home by carriage. (Red ink: Went to Watsons. M, Roy & self dined 1st time together at Lancaster Gate.)


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Wednesday January 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out. Lovely morning. Up Church St & home. Met no one. After M went out. Went at 12.0 & tried small camera in Cromwell Road. Bright sun 1/5 second. Uninteresting people. Back. Lunch. 1.50pm. After developed rest of the Malta photos. Not all failures. Left at 6.0 for the Punch Dinner. Hylda H with M. By bus to Athenaeum. No letters. Called on Sands & Hunter & got lens. My camera not touched. F.C.B, self, F.H.T, C.G, O.S, P.A, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Got subject of Gladiators. Mrs Partridge still at Monte Carlo. Both cuts done by 9.45. Home by bus. Elections on. Roaring crowds in street & High St Kensington. Most objectionable conductor. Home. Difficulty in writing letters at M's desk. Went out & posted letters for new model. Bed 12.0am. In morning at 8.50am voted for Earl Percy the Unionist candidate. (Red ink: Tried smaller camera in bright sun.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Elizabeth Bacon. 17 Jany.) Thursday January 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Very heavy wet. Out with Rags over Campden Hill. Met no one. After back & schemed subject of Gladiators in arena. Had found before breakfast I had small photo of Gerome's picture. Wired Morland Agnew. At 10 sent Otley for Roman costumes to Mays. At 12.0 photod a new model, common fellow named Harris. Wet all morning. Cleared after. Took 3 of H & Otley with thumbs up. Got all developed by 3.0pm. 1st tried photographers watch. Up in room & got on from 5.0 to 8.45 when I dined with M. Roy out & a small dance at Lancaster Gate. Home 3.30, old Rick outside. Elections still in huge majorities for the Liberals. Friday January 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Out with Rags. Band. After to work all day on drawing of Policy Verso. Finished 10.15pm. M & self dined at 10.30. Roy back at 11.10pm with very bad cold. Snooze in chair & to bed very tired at 1.30am. Elections still mighty majorities for the Liberals & Labour M.Ps returned. Saturday January 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am & out up Holland Walk. Rags passed 2 cats. Back. In morning printed blues & wrote letters etc. Lunch 1.30. At 2.10 M & self went in the carriage to the Palace Theatre & had right hand stage box. Capital programme. A clever dog like


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Rags. Very pretty woman not unlike Dora beautiful forehead just under us. Laughing with the Orchestra. Sir Bruce & Lady Seton in stalls. Walked down to carriage at 6.5 having got sausages. After home. Roy back & insisted on going to Folkestone. Had a bad cold on him & temperature. M & self dined at 8.0 & comfortable cozy evening. After snooze. Nightmare. Woman pushing in at front door dream. Bed 12.0. (Cutting glued in: Death of Rev Shirley Woolner.) Sunday January 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Heavy wet in night. Up Campden Hill. Looked at Studio. Old W in distance. Back. Breakfast. After printed blues of Girgenti. At 12.5 M & self by bus to Princes Gate & walked to Mite's. Gulls. Walking back Lennie picked up half a sovereign. Back. Lunch at 2.0pm. After touched up drawing of 'The Slip Knot' for Mr W.R. (illeg) Wyndham Club, Navon, County Meath. Diary. Had put typewriter in order & got violet ink on hands & hair. Very cold north wind blowing. Dressed & M & self left in the carriage to dine at Sir Isidore & Lady Spielman's, 56 Westbourne Terrace. Met their son & son in law, a publisher. Fair dinner. Good wine. Home at 10.45 by carriage. Wet & cold. Snooze in chair till 1.15. Strange dream of staying at Arthur Balfour's in Scotland. Monday January 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am & out with Rags. Thro' churchyard. Met no one. Back. Breakfast. No letter from Roy. Up in room. Sent drawing to Ireland & proof of Nelson to Miss Bryson & Mrs Sheehy. After re-filled green globes. A bother. Guns firing. After all morning re-filling glass globes with water filtered. Also cleared out bills letters & cheques. In evening M & self dined at home with Roy who had come back from Folkestone sending his bag. In Drawing Room. Mrs Adlam dined with us at 8.0pm. Bitterly cold. (Red ink: Mrs Adlam dined with M, Roy & self.) Tuesday January 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out up Campden Hill. Round by Church St with Rags. Lo! met L. Spoke to her. Back. Met 3 Kittens striding up hill. After all day clearing up room printing blues & throwing away masses of cheques. Colder weather. Many callers. M, Roy & self dined. Roy's cold bad. In the Morning Room after. Snooze & bed. (Red ink: Last time saw L Monday 4 Decr 05.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of B.C.Stephenson. Jany 24. Death of


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Eleanor Orlebar. Death of Robert Orr. Marriage of George Churchill to Muriel East.) Wednesday January 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out. Up Church St with Rags. Met L & another. After all day sorting putting away etc. Lunch. Wilde called at 2.30pm & promised to come Saturday to settle for 2nd purchase. In afternoon left at 5.0pm. Very cold. Called Westbourne Park & bus on to the Punch Dinner. Called Athenaeum. Saw Percy Fitzgerald. Dirty. On after to Sands & Hunter to the Punch Dinner. L.B glum & gloomy & cantankerous as well. F.C.B, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, O.S, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Long weary discussion. Suggested Chamberlain swimming his horse over stream. Home by bus. Roy out. M had been to the Albert Hall with Mrs Adlam. (Cutting glued in: Death of Anna Maria Horne.) Thursday January 25 Stafford Terrace. Up. Very wet morning. Squelches of rain. Out & thro churchyard. Back by Holland Walk. Met 3 Kittens. Eldest with hair up. After back. Sent Otley to May's for costume of Moss Trooper. Hilton came at 11.45am. The rain cleared off. Photod Otley & Himself for Moss Trooper Chamberlain & Austen Chamberlain. Got all developed by 4.0pm. Up in room after. Worked till 8.30pm. M, Roy & self dined. I did not dress. In Drawing Room after. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Mrs Sargent. Jany 25 1906.) Friday January 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out early with Rags. Back to the house by 9.0 or before. Met Mr Turner who congratulated me on drawing of 'Policy Verso'. He also said that Gerome intended the Gladiator in his picture to be saved. Back & hard at it all day on drawing of Chamberlain & Austen Chamberlain as Moss Troopers. Got done with extreme difficulty at 10.15 when dined 10.30, ½ bottle of Champagne. Roy dined at the Davsons & got back at 11.45. His cold still bad. (Cutting glued in: Death of Edward Mowll.) Saturday January 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out up Holland Walk with Rags. Saw Common on top of a bus. Back. Breakfast. A beautiful sunny morning. At 11.0 Wilde called & offered £200 for drawings. He


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went away & said he would call again. Dressed. Lunch. At 1.15 wire from Wilde to say he would come up on Monday. M & self left at 1.30pm & went by the carriage to the Duke of York's Theatre & saw Peter Pan. Left in entracte & looked at old Camera Club. Got back & Geoff H in box. M & self walked to Hyde Park Corner & home by carriage. Got fruit. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of Peter Pan, Duke of York's Theatre.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Charles Hartree. Obituary of James Princep. Death of Stanley Spencer. Death of Rosa von Milde. Jan 27.) Sunday January 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out with Rags up Church Street & across by Holland Walk. Roy said at breakfast Mr Stern would send his car for us. All morning sorting drawings for Wilde tomorrow. Took them out of brown paper 'Times' 04. Great litter. Dressed at 12.45 & lunch at 1.0pm. At 1.35 M & self went in Mr Stern's motor to The Wheatsheaf at Virginia Water. Stopped & then to Ascot. Thro the forest & after back past Bowen May's house. Lovely houses about. To Windsor. Saw Eton boys. Slough & home at 4.40pm. 5/s to chauffeur. A delightful run. Tea in room & finished drawings. At 8.0 Mite, Lennie, Geoff, M, Roy & self dined. A very merry evening. They left at 11.0. Snooze in room & to bed 1.0am. (Red ink: Delightful motor ride to Ascot & Eton in Mr Stern's car.) Monday January 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & the roads being dry went out with Rags on bicycle round Earls Court. Saw Aphrodite grown & long skirts. Last time Wedy 13 Decr. Back short turn at 9.0am. At 9.45 the old India Rubber plant that had been growing at Stafford Terrace since 1875 was sent to Balcombe to go in the conservatory. Otley back. Re-sorted drawings & at 12.0 a wire from Wilde to say he would be an hour late. Lunch at 1.45. Wilde did come with another who counted & took away drawings in two parcels paying me £200 in notes, 1 £100, 1 £50 & 5 £10 notes. Handed them over to M. Tested focal plane. Camera seemed all right for field. Felt very tired. Had 1 hours rest. M went out in the carriage & took notes to bank. (Red ink: India Rubber plant went to Balcombe. Wilde called & paid £200 for drawings.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Jane Evans. Jany 29.)


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Tuesday January 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on bicycle with Rags. Again saw Aphrodite. Back. Roads so bad came short turn home. After all day putting drawings in tracing paper etc. Lunch. Mr Collins called from Pall Mall Magazine at 3.0pm. Many callers At 8.0pm Tabs dined with us. Felt very tired & done up all day. Had been headachy all day. Bed at 12.0am. Roy dined out. (Red ink: Tabs dined with M & self.) Wednesday January 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out for walk up Church St. Met no one. After all morning tidying up etc. Put up the camera. Lunch at 1.30. M had been to Mr Hepburn's & back by carriage. M & self went in a 4 wheeler to His Majesty's Theatre at 2.0pm, Otley's cab. Had large box. Tabs there. Saw Nero. Dull play. After saw Tree. M, Tabs & self walked to the courtyard of the Athenaeum Club & put M & Tabs in the carriage. After wrote letters. Saw Judge Snagge & a Mr Herbert aged 94. Called Sands & Hunters & on to the Punch Dinner. Sir F.C.B, self, R.H, C.L.G, R.C.L 1st time since election as M.P, O.S, Phil A, C.L, B.P. E.T.R, H.W.L, F.H.T. Got cut of Balfour leaping over Turtle. Also F.C.B suggested I do a double cut for next week. Settled for Olympus. Left at 11.0 & walked with Reed to bus. Wilde called again in the morning. Put more sulphate of copper into glass globe. Took all the morning. (Red ink across page: M & self went to matinée of Nero at His Majesty's Theatre. Tabs came to the large box.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir William Makins. Feby 3.) Thursday February 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out up Church Walk. Met no one. After back & schemed subject for Balfour Leap Turtle & Chamberlain. Sent Otley to May's. At 12.0 photod Hilton & Otley & also enlarged small print of Arthur Balfour. All ready by 4.0. Up in room when F.C.B called & told me of his resignation, or rather that the firm had requested him to resign. He broke down. Most heartrending to me. 44 years service & 25 Editor of 'Punch'. Went up & got on with work. M had been out. Back at 6.0pm. M & self dined together at 8.45. Did not dress. Wrote Guthrie who is laid up with operation same as mine. (Red ink: F.C.B called at 4.0pm & said he was obliged to resign by request of the firm. Very painful interview.) (Cutting glued in: Will of the late Lord Masham. Frid 17 Aug.)


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Friday February 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out up Church Street & across to Holland Walk. Plumped on 2nd Dromio. Home. Breakfast. Some time writing & getting to work. All day on Balfour & Leap Turtle to Chamberlain. Finished at 10.10pm. M & self dined. At 11.0 Roy back & brought news that an announcement was in the Times that my drawings would be sold on the 5th March by auction. Frightfully depressed & annoyed. Stayed down till 1.15am when M came down & fetched me up to bed. Slept uneasily. (Red ink: Roy came home at 11.30 & said my drawings were advertised to be sold at auction. Very much put out about it.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Samuel Lister 1st Baron Masham. Death of Sir William Makins. Two photographs of the late Lord Masham.) Saturday February 3 Stafford Terrace. Woke up early. Worried & depressed. Up 8.20am. Luke warm bath. Out. Wet. Up Holland Walk. Back again. Breakfast. Letter from L.Messel & Co about E.Rands, £149.19.0. After put last week's work away & began double page for next week. Frightful misgivings about sale of drawings. Lunch at 1.0 & M & self went in the carriage to the Pantomime. A long dull entertainment. Out at 5.20 & by bus from Cranbourn St to Hyde Park Corner. Never felt more depressed & seedy in my life. Bought fruit. Home. Quiet dinner M & self. In the Morning Room after & bed at 11.30 after rest. (Red ink: Woke up frightfully worried & depressed as to F.C.B & sale of my drawings. M & self went to matinée of the Pantomime. Very bad.) Sunday February 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am & out. Past church etc. Cripples. After went on all day scheming drawing for The Olympians. At 12.0 M & self took a bus to the top of Hyde Park Corner & we walked home down the Row. Met Sir Alexander Henderson & his brother. Back to lunch. After in room & worked up to dinner time. Mite, Lennie, Roy, M & self dined. Talk over sale of drawings & F.C.B's retirement. Cold in Drawing Room. Somewhat easier in my mind. Bed after rest in Drawing Room. (Red ink: Mite & Lennie dined with us.) (Cuttings glued in: Photograph of the late Sir W.T.Makins. Photograph of Wilberforce Bryant.)


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Monday February 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out for cycle ride. Went over Campden Hill & home. Rags also. After finished scheming double page for The Olympians. At 11.30 Hilton came. Very cold. Photod him & Otley from 11.45 to 1.30pm. After developed & got 2 or 3 enlarged. Found that Jupiter would not do. Haldane also too large. Got some of it outlined. M & self dined quietly at 8.30pm. Quiet evening after. (Cutting glued in: Death of Janet Caithness.) Tuesday February 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out with Rags. Up Church St when Lo! met L. Back & to work on drawing for the Olympians. At 11.30 re-photod Otley for Jupiter & after finished enlarging the others by 3.30pm. Carriage not used. Sent the costumes back to Mays. At 11.0 Wilde called & assured me about auction sale. Don't believe a word he says. At work in my room by 4.0pm & put in all the tracings. After which M & self dined together & quiet in Morning Room after. (Red ink: Wilde called at 11.0am & made a long explanation as to the sale of my drawings. A d-d humbug.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Lady Grey. Marriage of John Denison-Pender to Irene de la Rue.) Wednesday February 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on bicycle. Just caught Aphrodite. Called on Sir F.C.B & left a letter asking to be let off the Punch Dinner. Back & at work all day on double page of The Olympians. Put in outline of Morley, Haldane, Tweedmouth etc. Was getting up to go to the Punch Dinner when a post card from F.C.B came to excuse my attendance. Worked up to 8.45 when M & self dined quietly together. Thankful to be quiet. Letter from F.C.B said all was over by 9.0pm & that Lawrence Bradbury was as black as thunder. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: From 7.30 to 8.0pm my Electric Light went out & I was in extreme darkness. Did not go to the Punch Dinner. So glad I did not. F.C.B would not shake hands with Lawrence Bradbury.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of John Witt. Thursday 8 Feby.) Thursday February 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out up Church Street. Very cold met no one. Hard at work all day on double page of The Olympians. Worked up to 8.45pm. Put in most of the outline. Roy dined at Mite's. The Ross's & Dora there also. He back at 11.30.


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Bed at 12.0 very tired but in better spirits. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Ellen Kevill-Davis. Marriage of Captain T.H.Hawkins to Margaret Whishaw. Inquest on Lady Grey. Wednesday Feby 7.) Friday February 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Hard frost in the night. Walked without Rags up Church St.. Met no one. Back. Breakfast. Otley brought the reading lamp from Herbert Moores. Very hard at work all day on double page of The Olympians. Last F.C.B will ever look over. Finished at 10.10.& sent it off. M & self dined. Bottle of Ayala 1892. Roy dined at Princes Gate & was home at 11 minutes to 1.0am. Otley brought in the new Electric Magnifyer at 9.45am. (Cutting glued in: Funeral of Mr Witt K.C. W Feby 14.) Saturday February 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5 & out. Change in the weather. Wind to west. Warm. Rain. Walked without Rags up Church Street. Met the Springer. Back. Breakfast. Roy suspicion of a cold. After put all photos away from double Olympian page. Lunch at 1.30 when M & self left in dull showery weather & went by carriage for the 1st time to the Aldwych Theatre & saw Blue Bell. Delightful piece. In back row of stalls. The little chorus girl grown up & relegated to the background. Dumpy. No Ellaline Terriss. Out at 4.45. Heavy rain. Walked to Strand & took bus to Hyde Pk Corner. 10 minutes too early for the carriage. Met it. Heavy rain. Bought fruit & 2 thick slices of ham. Roy dined at the Berkeley. M & self quiet peaceful dinner different to last Saturday & to bed at 11.45 after snooze. Colder. (Red ink: M & self went to the matinée of Blue Bell at the Aldwych Theatre. Very wet.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Lady Howe. Saty 10 Feby.) Sunday February 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Hot bath & out with Rags 1st time after his medicine. Bright morning. Cripples. Back & after in morning printed 40 blues. Came over dark. M & self took bus at 12.15 to H.P.C & walked home in the rain by 12.25. Cold. Had met Roger Wallace in the morning in hansom. Also saw fat man in Church Walk. Lunch. After went on at blues. Rest in chair. Very cold. Wrote Store orders & letters. M & self went for walk in boisterous wind. Back lunch. Up in room after. At 8.0pm M, self & Roy, Mite, Lennie, Dora & the Phipson Beales all dined. Pleasant dinner, 3 bottles of Geisler 98. They left at 11.0pm. Talk of


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Parliament & Jewels. (Red ink: Dora, L & Mite & the Phipson Beales dined with us.) Monday February 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out up Church St with Rags. Met no one. Back & in the morning cleared out sea chest. Re-printed blues etc. Lunch. Developed 1 doz films of E.Warwick taken 5 March last. Sir F.C.B called at 3.0. In Drawing Room with me. Angry with Marguerite. M out. After tore up letters of instructions for cartoons for the last 5 years. Did up Animated Nature. After Roy went to dine at Mite's & went on to a dance. M & self quiet evening & dinner. Bed at 11.50pm. (Red ink: Burnand called in afternoon. Somewhat rambling pitiful yarn.) (Cuttings glued in: Photograph of the late Viscountess Howe. Countess Howe's involvement in public affairs. Feby 17. Death of Charles Blewitt. Death of Ernest Syrett.) Tuesday February 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. White frost. Very cold. Up Church Street with Rags. Met L with a friend. Slewed round Campden Grove. Back. Breakfast. Cold in room. At 12.0 went to see Mr Richardson. £5000 Ordinary Chathams at £1207. Second Preference clear. £500 owing for P & O only. Back. Developed rest of Morgan (Evie) photos & rest of Warwick, 5 March '05. Cold snow. After cut copper plates for camera. Piece of copper ran to 16 of them. After squared up prints & cut Times. M & self dined by ourselves quietly & in Drawing Room after. Bed at 12.0. Roy came home from Club 11.15pm & went to bed. Wednesday February 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8am & out up Church Walk & round Campden Grove. Met L by herself. After 3 Kittens. Back. Saw man about Electric Magnifyer. All morning tidying up. At 1.20 lunch & drove at 2.0pm to the New Theatre & saw Mr & Mrs Fred Terry in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Very well played. Had large box. Very cold in it. Round end of Charing X Road & put M into carriage. Cup of tea at the Athenaeum. Met His Grace of York. Curious letter from N.Sutherland. Walked to Sands & H & after by bus to Punch Dinner. The last with F.C.B as Editor. Very sad. But everyone kept up their spirits. Talk of sale of my drawings. 13 at table. Sir F.C.B, self, R.H, C.G, R.L, O.S, P.A, L.B, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, F.H.T. Letter from L.B handed to me. After business Phil A read a letter from his father. Frank made a speech, I also on behalf of his


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colleagues. Lucy a few words. F.C.B proposed O.S's health. Seaman overcome. All broke up at 11.0 & home by bus. Roy at Mite's. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of The Scarlet Pimpernel.) (Red ink across page: Burnand presided at the Table as Editor for the last time. Douglas Herapath & a friend met us near the Camera Club.) (Cutting glued in: Inquest on Colonel Charles Blewitt. Suicide of the Marquis de Mendegorria. Feby 14.) Thursday February 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am. M & self both slept well. Out up Church St. Met L & after 3 Kittens. Back. Breakfast. Contract note arrived of sale of 2nd Pref & Ordinary stock of L.C & D Rly. After up in room. Difficulty in scheming subject of Bannerman Full Speed Ahead. Sent O to Mays & S & H. Back 12.15pm. At 12.40 photod him as Captain & also enlarged photo from the Teutonic book. Lunch. From 2.0 to 4.0 enlarged. Sent costume back. Drew outline & found I had got the indicator wrong way round. Dressed at 7.35 & left 7.50 in carriage & dined with the Binns Smiths. Very pleasant dinner. The Harry Dickens there. Romer etc. 'She calls me a blessing'. Left at 11.0 & home by carriage. Roy back early. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: M & self dined at the Binns Smiths. Harry Dickens & wife there.) Friday February 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out 8.5. At Notting Hill 8.25. Saw L at 8.25 below old road. Disappeared up Notting Hill Square. Back. Avoided band. Breakfast 8.45. Roy off early for dentist. In room & at work all day on C.B Full Steam Ahead. From 11.0 to 11.30 re-enlarged 4 plates. Worked till 10.15 pm when finished & M & self dined quietly. Roy out at Lancaster Gate to meet Paul & Dora. Back at 11.0pm. Bed after snooze at 12.15am. (Red ink: Dear little Ann & Linley came up to my room in the afternoon, Ann for the 1st time. M took them to the Zoological Gardens.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Alexander Campbell to Laura Daunt. Marriage of John Chown to Sarah Rees. Verdict after centuries of litigation decided at the supreme court at Leipzig. Feby 16. Obituary of John Robbins. Feby 16.) Saturday February 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Shave & after out. Just caught 2nd Dromio in rain. Back. Breakfast. After letters etc all morning squared films of Ethel W. Lunch 1.30 & left in heavy rain by carriage for the Apollo Theatre & saw Mr Popple. Ethel Irving &


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Huntly, A1. Girl in front like Olive Tucker. Out. Got sausages & after fruit & a splendid haddock. Home. Cocoa etc. Posted letter to G.T at Regent St. After up in room & wrote letters. M & self dined quietly by ourselves. In Morning Room after. Bed at 11.45pm. (Red ink: M & self went in heavy rain to matinée at the Apollo Theatre & saw a piece written & composed by Paul Rubens called Mr Popple.) Sunday February 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am & out. Poor cripples in distance. After back. In morning put phos of last week's drawings away etc. Wrote letters. Sent sheath to Watsons. At 1.10 dressed & left with M in carriage to a very dull lunch with General & Mrs Stevenson. Curious daughters. One who sang. A Mrs Banbury there. After left at 3.25 & home in the wet by carriage. Heavy wet all day. Up in room. Rest & after again wrote photographic letters. At 8.15 Lennie, Mite, Roy & Miss Wilkinson dined. Lennie brought an Electric Light surprise toy & a beautiful Epergne. They left at 11.0pm. Rest in chair till 12.0 when to bed. M had been upset by her luncheon in some way & felt unwell. (Red ink: M & self lunched with Genl & Mrs Stevenson.) Monday February 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Dull morning. Walked over Notting Hill. Met L. who comes further west near High School. After back by 9.5. F.C.B had sent me a copy of a letter the Proprietors had sent him declining to ask him to the 'Punch' table in future. Very sad. But must keep out of this deplorable quarrel if possible. M remained in bed for breakfast. All day pottering about. Roy bought 500 Russians & 500 Cubans. Dressed at 7.45 to go to dine at Bernard Partridges. Otley came up with the carriage. M had suspicion of his drinking. At B.P's 16 to dinner in 4 tables. Took a lady I don't remember the name down & sat with B.P. Lady Seton there. M with Mrs Trower, Marcus Stone & E.T.Reed. Mrs P, Sir Bruce Seton, Sir F.C.B & Mrs Stone. Lady Burnand, Sir C.Scotter, Lilian Braithwaite, Seymour Trower. Room cold. Waited for carriage ¼ hr. Took cab. On getting home a Police Sergeant met us bottom of Argyll Rd & Springs. Otley locked up. Carriage smashed & collision with hansom cab. Went back to Police Station. Saw Inspector Collison with cab. Lamp, splash board etc damaged. Back & drove over to Mite's dance at 104 Lanaster Gate. Many satellites there, Stern & Roy etc. Back at 1.0pm by cab. Read & troubled sleep. Entirely my own fault not having


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sacked Otley before. (Red ink across page: Dined at the Bernard Partridges. Otley drunk & smashed carriage & a cab. Locked up.) Tuesday February 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am & out. Saw Otley at carriage. Both shafts broken. Called Coles & over C.H for walk with Rags & Rick. After breakfast printed blues of E.W & at 12.30 went out & tried camera. Success. Over Campen Hill at 11.0. Took 10, 3 or 4 A1. Back to lunch. Developed above & 2 left of Miss Mackenzie. After with great difficulty cut 12 aluminium plates. Tea. M in room. Letters. M, Roy & self dined quietly & bed by 11.45. (Red ink: Tried large camera. Success.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Caroline Surtees. Death of William Ogden. Mona, wife of J.E.Spagnoletti, of a son.) Wednesday February 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out. Called at Coles. Saw a young man. Up Campden Hill & home After re-printed blues. No letter from Cyril Maude. Rest in afternoon. M out. Went to see Sir John Tenniel. Upton drove us for 1st time. Left for Punch Dinner by bus at 6.0pm. Called Athenaeum. 3 letters. After to Sands & Hunters. Then to the Punch Dinner. 1st time O.S as Editor in full. Pleasant dinner & two good subjects. O.S, self, R.H, C.G, R.L, P.A, L.B, C.L, B.P, F.H.T & H.W.L. Talk of F.C.B afterwards with Lucy & Raven Hill. Left at 11.0 & home by bus. (Red ink: 1st Punch Dinner under Owen Seaman's Editorship.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of David Ainsworth. Death of Charles Rigg. Feby 23. 06.) Thursday February 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out with Rags. Round Church St. Back & schemed subject of Arthur Balfour's return in a Bark. Could not find Youth at the Prow & Pleasure at the Helm. Searched everywhere. At 12.0 Hilton came. Photod him for A.B in Roy's coat. Sheet of plate glass broke to pieces. Enlarged & did not finish till 4.35. Cocoa in Morning Room. Very tired. Had an hours rest. M had lunched at Lady Fletcher Moulton. Worked till 7.15 when dressed & went in the carriage U driving to dine at Miss Hollins. Very good dinner, delightful flat. Wirgman there, Sir Lucius & Lady Selfe. Left at 10.50. Miss Frith. Roy dined at the Daniel's. Could not send the carriage. In Morning Room. Bed at 12.0pm. (Red ink: M & self dined at Miss Hollins, Albert Hall Mansions.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Lord Bessborough. Feby 26.)


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Friday February 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out. Rags & field glass. Walked over Campden Hill. Dull foggy morning. Could not see L. Went down as far as Norland Square High School. Back & on at work all day on drawing of Arthur Balfour in Bark, Turtle steering. Finished 10.25. Very late. M & self dined quietly 10.30. In chair till 2.0am when to bed. Very tired. (Cutting glued in: Death of Edward Steinkopff.) Saturday February 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Very tired. Strange dream of staying in a 2nd class Inn. Out. Up Holland Walk. Missed 2nd Dromio. Back. Breakfast. Interview with Upton. He witnessed my signing 5 transfers of L.C & Dover stock Ordinary & 2nd Preference. After wrote letters etc. Left by carriage at 12.40 & drove to the Savoy with M. Had lunch, chop & B(illeg). Saw Roy, Stern & Mr & Mrs Colefax. After met Brandon Thomas. X'd over & went to matinée of Spring Chicken. Very bad & empty. Shocking bad performance of Willie Ward. Some objectionable ballet girl & another who overdid her part. No Olive May. Out. Slight rain. Bus to Hyde Park Corner. Slight rain. Carriage. Called Butts & for haddock. Home. M & self dined quietly by ourselves & peaceful evening afterwards. Bed after snooze. (Red ink: M & self lunched at the Savoy. Went to matinée of The Spring Chicken.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Edward Steinkopff.) Sunday February 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out at 8.50 with small camera. Bright sun. Walked up Church Street but saw no one worth taking. A remarkably good haddock for breakfast. After printed blues taken last Tuesday. At 12.10 went for walk with M up Row. Fat little girl. Met Lennie, Mite & Linley. Turned & walked to Bayswater side & then home. M & self lunched. The whole afternoon writing letters, Stores etc. After Lennie, Mite, Roy, M, self & Ethel Burnand dined. Pleasant evening. Dressed in court suit & then took it off. Bed at 1.0 after snooze. Thought I had a cold coming on. Took ammoniated quinine. Sent cheque to Garrick Club. Had sent Upton with letter to F.C.B about court mourning. (Red ink: Lennie, Mite, Roy & Ethel Burnand, self & M dined at home.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Mary Froude.) Monday February 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5 & out up Church Walk. Met Lord Alverstone. Asked how I liked the new Editor. Just missed 3


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Kittens. Wrote letters, clocks etc. After dressed & at 11.25 left in carriage driven by Upton to Jermyn St. After to Club. Then on to St James's Palace. No Levée there. Then to Buckingham Palace. Almost the last. Saw Rev Montague Fowler, also Sir Schomberg McDonnell, Herr Gratz who mistook me for Furniss. Made the aquaintance of Winans who shoots. Walked to Athenaeum. There at 1.0pm. Home by 1.25. M just left to lunch with Lady Lockyer. Changed things. One ought to be at the Levée by 11.25 at latest. Last there Monday 9 March 1903. Lunch. Developed 12 of E.W taken August 29 05, Tuesday. Up in room after. Rested after tea from 5.0 to 7.0pm. Dressed & M & self went to dine at Lady Burnands. Sir Charles Scotter & son. Mr & Mrs Carton. Charley Burnand & wife, ourselves & the rest of the family making 14 in all to dinner. Oh! Uncomfortable after smoking. M & self left at 11.30 & home by carriage. (Red ink: M & self dined at Lady Burnands. Met the Cartons & Scotters.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Duke Gandolfi. Wedy 28 Feby.) Tuesday February 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out. Wet. Walked over Notting Hill at 8.35. L came along, not pleasant expression. After 2nd D in distance in Holland Walk. Home by Argyll Rd. Called & saw Otley. Said goodbye to him. Back. Breakfast. Roy away 9.0am. M in bed resting. After wrote letters & began to sort enlargements. Dated blues. All day at it. Dressed at 7.15pm & M & self left to dine with Sir Trevor & Lady Lawrence. Met the Lindos, also a little lady we had met at Frank Holls in 1889. Left at 10.45. Talk of Roy. Home by carriage. (Red ink: M & self dined with Sir Trevor & Lady Lawrence.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Charles Peake to Agnes Buckmaster.) Wednesday February 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. x x at night. Out with hand camera. Took 7. All failures at 1/23 second. Saw L & friend. After back. Breakfast. Put all things away & long day tidying etc. Developed films or rather plates taken this morning. After in afternoon left in grey coat for Punch Dinner by bus to Piccadilly. Called Athenaeum. Wrote Spiers & Pond. On to P.D. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, A.G, R.L, P.A, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Fairly pleasant dinner. Got cut of 2 Peers. Home by bus. Bed at 12.0 after reading. (Cutting glued in: Messieurs.... List of names. Feby 27.)


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Thursday March 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Dull rainy morning. Out over Campden Hill by Young Street. Back. Sent Upton to Mays early & schemed subject of 2 Peers. Hilton came at 12.0. Cleared after. Developed & all ready by 4.0pm. Rested from 5.0 to 6.0pm. Worked till 8.45pm. Barely outlined. M & self dined quietly together. Roy out. Bed 12.0am Friday March 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.40 & out in dull weather over Notting Hill. Girls going into an auction house. Could not see L. Met the 3 Kittens. Breakfast & to work by 10.0am. Worked till 10.30pm when finished. M & self dined together. In Morning Room after. Roy back at 12.0am. Snooze till 2.0am when to bed. Lennie & Mite went down to Ramsgate early. Saturday March 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out 8.55. Both dogs. After met Mr Turner. A bright cold morning. Wrote letters. Cheque from Bradley Agnew etc Co. Claim from cabman for £5.0.0. Sent it to Cole. Otley had taken the blinds from the stable. After packed. Lunch. Roy back & not ready. Left at 2.50pm in carriage & 4 wheel cab. Full train. Roy turned up after. Down to Ramsgate. Lovely afternoon. Cold. F.C.B & Lady B, Lennie & Mite at terminus. After walked to the Granville. Very much winded in climbing up steps. Delightful rooms at hotel. Went with Lennie to Ray & Hills. Roy had shave & hair cut. Dressed. Dinner. Little girl like Ann at next table. Smoke & liqueur. Bed 11.30. M & self slept well. (Red ink: M, Roy & self went down by the Granville to Ramsgate.) Sunday March 4 The Granville Hotel, Ramsgate. Up 8.0am & out with Roy along sands. Lennie seedy. Breakfast. After at 11.25 M, self, Lennie, Mite & Roy all started to walk to Margate. M & Mite took the tram at Broadstairs. Pretty house. Roy could not find name cut. Got to the Cliftonville at 2.0pm. Indifferent lunch. Saw the little girl who was at the station yesterday. Out & back by train by 4.30. Rested. Letter from F.C.B. Could not dine. All dined together. Poor dinner. In room after. Roy to go up by 7.55pm in the morning. (Red ink: Lovely walk round the sands by Margate. Tired after. Back by train.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Lucia Marconi.)


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Monday March 5 The Granville Hotel, Ramsgate. Up 8.0am & out. Looked at Wills' house. Breakfast with Lennie. Went down & saw him off. Lady Rose, Rachel W & Bill there. Walked back with Mite. Got small camera & took 1 doz of girl with fair hair. After back & got Ross's camera. Awkward. Back & M & self saw Mite off by the 1.30 train. She had to change at Faversham. Back & lunch with M. Cold beef. Up in room & rested till 4.30 when M & self went & called on Mrs Hammond & Lady Burnand. Saw F.C.B. Walk thro' town. Called Hills. Back. Dressed & dined at 7.45. Up in room after. Changed plates & bed at 12.0. M & self slept well. (Red ink: Lovely day. Roy, Lennie & Maud left & returned to town. Went on sands. Took 3 doz photos & called with M on the Hammonds & Burnands after.) Tuesday March 6 The Granville Hotel, Ramsgate. Up 8.0am & out to end of Parade. Most lovely day. M & self breakfast 8.30am. After a little delay walked with M across to inner harbour & to Mrs Evans. Took photos of Lighthouse, steps etc. Back. Got small camera & met M who had been bothered by dogs on the sands etc. Down & took 1 doz on Pier. Just missed a ladies' school going down steps. Hotel lunch. Finished packing. Paid bill £7.12.9. After finished packing to town with Sir Francis & Lady Burnand. Cab home. Warm. Roy dined with Miss Rose Innes. M & self dined quietly. Bed at 12.0. Slept well. (Red ink: Lovely day. Took the Lighthouse at Ramsgate.) (Cuttings glued in: Sale by auction of original drawings by Linley Sambourne. Obituary of Major-General Sir William Gatacre. March 6 1906.) Wednesday March 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out with Rags. Most lovely morning. Took small camera & up Church St. Took the Springer etc. No L. Paragraph about sale of drawings yesterday in Times. After wrote & put things up etc. Went out again with large camera at 1.0. Met Orton. In brilliant sun took schoolgirls going home, 1 doz. Many of these were over exposed at 1/50th of a second. Back. Lunch. After all afternoon resting etc. Left at 5.45 & by bus to Athenaeum. Called Sands & Hunter & by bus to Punch Dinner. Took Champagne 1st time for month. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, R.L, L.B, C.L, B.P, H.W.L, A.G, E.T.R. Guthrie back 1st time after operation. Got Morocco Camel subject. Talk of sale of my drawings. Left with Guthrie at 10.35. Home by bus. Roy out & no


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card put up. 2nd days sale of old drawings. (Red ink: The most lovely day ever remember in March. 65º in shade.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Critchett.) Thursday March 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on bicycle round Earls Court. Saw A, growing fast & losing her beauty. B.L also. Back by Notting Hill. Breakfast. Sent Upton to Mays for Gendarme's costume & pickelhaube. At 12.0 photod Hilton & also a fireman. All finished by 4.0pm. M lunched out. Worked from 5.0 to 8.30pm when M & self dined quietly. Bed 12.0am. (Cuttings glued in: Sale of drawings by Mr Linley Sambourne, two cuttings. March 8 1906. The wife of Osbert Sibley, of a son. Death of Edith Sibley. Marriage of Captain Wilfred Wild to Violet Harmsworth. March.) Friday March 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.40 & out over Notting Hill. Bright sun. Took 11 photos girls going to school, 1/50, all a success. Smaller camera. Back & at work all day after writing letters. Finished Morocco drawing of Camel & French & German Gendarmes at 10.30. M & self dined. Very tired. Roy back at 2.0am & proceeded to bolt me in the Morning Room. Bed. (Cutting glued in: Death of Lilian Cooke-Hurle. Death of Haden Corser.) Saturday March 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out. Walk. Met Mr Turner. Walked back of Upper Phillimore Gardens. Back. Breakfast. After dull wet morning. Developed some photos. Lunch. M & self left at 1.45 in carriage & drove to the Garrick Theatre & saw Brother Officers. Good. A decent actor named Clarence. Sir Squire & Lady Bancroft in box opposite. Out. Wet. Bother with bus. Home after fruit at 5.55. Muddle with cameras. Dressed & M, Roy & self left in heavy wet at 7.50 for Mite's. Good dinner. A man named Propert there. Left 11.10 & home. Took 4 C.L.L.P. Bed 12.30am. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of Brother Officers. Met Sir Squire & Lady Bancroft. Dined at Mite's after. Poured with rain.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Haden Corser.) Sunday March 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45 & out 9.20. Up Church Street. Dull grey morning. After letters etc. At 12.0 M & self went for walk round Round Pond & back up Holland Walk. Gave Old W 6d. Blue eyes. Back. Lunch. The Galbraiths called. All afternoon writing


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letters & developed Ramsgate photos. At 8.0 Lennie & Mite, Mr & Mrs Karr dined. A very pleasant evening. Corked Champagne, never found it out. They all left at 11.0pm. Took 3 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: Mr & Mrs Fred Karr dined.) Monday March 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5 & out. Thro' Church Walk. Met no one. Back. Breakfast. Good haddock. After bitterly cold. Mended Etruscan vase & blue pot. Printed blues. Lunch. M out with Maud. Developed 14 E.W nudes taken August last. Rest in room after. Altered Nelson drawing for Royal Academy up to 7.0pm. Dressed & left in carriage with Roy for Oddinino's Restaurant, Regent Street. Dined with Louis de Ayala & his brother. Sat next a Mr Barrow who was at Margate with a very pretty little girl on Sunday week last. Also Mrs A.Gilbey. Tresham very ill. Also Mr Phaysey. Also a doctor from Egham who met me in 1872 when I went down to Crawley to hunt with the Crawley & Hookham hounds. Very good dinner. Left at 11.15 & to the Garrick, 1st time this year. Lord Sandhurst, one of the Harmsworths & Tunstall there. Home by cab. Motor omnibuses about. (Red ink: Dined with de Ayala at Oddinino's Restaurant.) Tuesday March 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am & out. Bitterly cold & snow on the ground. Met 3 Kittens. Back. Breakfast. Roy in better spirits. Sent cheque to Johnson. After printed blues & also worked on drawing for Royal Academy finishing Nelson. M & self dined quietly together & bed early after reading. Roy out. Wednesday March 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Out with Rags. Cold. After went on with drawing of Nelson for the Academy. Could not finish it. Left in afternoon for the 'Punch' Dinner. Called at the Athenaeum Club. Wrote to Ross & sent cheque for £10.0.0. On by bus to Punch Dinner. O.S, self, H.F.T, R.H, C.G, R.L, P.A, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. After discussion got cut of Bannerman Boxing. Home by bus. Bed at 12.0am. Hideous chimney at Lady Meade's opposite put up. Thursday March 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Out for walk with Rags. Breakfast. After schemed subject of Campbell Bannerman & Arthur Balfour Boxing. Man from Fire Station came & Hilton. All over by 3.30.


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Rest. Worked up to 9.15pm when M & self dined quietly. (Red ink: Galbraiths & Maxwells dined with Lennie & Mite.) Friday March 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & walked over Notting Hill. Back just when band commenced. At work all day on drawing of Bannerman & Balfour Boxing. Made enlargement at 12.0pm or after lunch. Worked to 7.10pm when dressed & went to dinner at the Reform Club given by Lehmann to Burnand. Got there 8.20pm. Tired. Good port wine. F.C.B, self, R.H, C.G, R.L, O.S, C.L, B.P E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Good dinner. Talk. Did (illeg) the Knome King. Left at 11.0. Took R.H & Guthrie on their way home. Came & went by carriage. 1st noticed chimney opposite at Lady Neave's. (Cutting glued in: Death of Queen Victoria's coachman. 15 March.) Saturday March 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Lovely sunny morning. Went out & snapped the 2nd D. Met Mr Turner. Back & developed & printed etc. Lunch. After M & self left in carriage & went to matinée of She Stops to Conquer at the Waldorf Theatre. Vernon, Lady Margaret & Rosalind Watney came into the box. Saw Lady Joyce after, very brusque. M & self by bus to Hyde Park Corner & home after getting fruit etc. Roy grumbling at having to go motor ride. He went to Folkestone. M & self dined quietly. Pleasant evening. St Patrick's Day. Green flags & ribands everywhere. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of 'She Stoops to Conquer'. Vernon Watney & Lady Margaret came to our box.) Sunday March 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Dull rainy morning. Out up Church St. After breakfast printed etc. Got ready & at 2.30pm Lennie & Mite came in motor. Rain & cold. Went to Hampton Court Mitre. Sadler still there. Very good lunch. After over the Palace. Difficulty about camera. Said it was an opera glass. There till 4.0pm. Fat policeman also civil sergeant. Tea & home by 6.0 by Kingston Hill. After Sir Henry & Lady Bergne & Owen Seaman dined with us. Pleasant evening. Roy at Folkestone with Stern. All left at 11.0pm. Tried 1889 Barton wine. So so. Old Rick with a piece of riband round his neck. (Red ink: M & self motored with Lennie & Mite to Hampton Court. Sir Henry & Lady Bergne dined.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Johann Most. Monday 19 March.)


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Monday March 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.40 & out. Bright sun. Went with Rags over Campden Hill to Notting Hill. Took 8 photos when magazine stuck. Schoolgirls. Back. Met Chesterton. All morning printing etc. M went to lunch with Miss Krabbe. Met Margaret Toby. Went out. Cold. Heavy clouds. Took 12 of Kensington High School & skirts in wind. Back. Lunch at 1.50pm. After developed them all. Margery Howlden arrived 3.30. After went on with Nelson drawing. Worked from 5.0 to 7.30pm. Roy back & out to dinner with Stern. Quiet evening, M, self & Margery H. Bed at 12.0pm. Had left Electric Light all night in Hut. (Red ink: Margery Howlden arrived.) Tuesday March 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out. Grey. No camera. Walk with Rags up Church St. Met Dudley. Back. Margery W 1st breakfast. Roy up, gave him watch. After all day at work & pottering. Finished drawing of Nelson for the Academy. Read. Printed blues etc etc. Dined at 7.0pm. M, Margery & self after by carriage to the Comedy Theatre. Saw Hare in The Pair of Spectacles, A1. Col Lucas, Mrs Galbraith, Charley Livesey, no, Harry, Charley Maxwell, came into our box. Home by carriage. Wet evening. Roy out. Had seen Galbraith at the Junior Carlton Club. (Red ink: M, Margery & self went to see The Pair of Spectacles. Very good.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Anne Agnew. Obituary of Mrs Thomas Agnew. Saty 24 March. Obituary of Mrs Stephen Henty.) Wednesday March 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out with camera. Took 12 in Notting Hill. All failures owing to developing in too strong light. Developed the Ramsgate photos. Lunch. M & self, Margery & Emma went to the Pantomime. Wrote letters, cut paper etc & left 5.30 for Punch Dinner calling at the Athenaeum. Letter from Miss Bryson. Saw a lot of my drawings for sale in shop in Pall Mall with letters. Called Sands & Hunters. After to Punch Dinner. A most solemn affair. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, L.B, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Got cut of Milner Knight which I suggested myself. Left at 10.40. Talkative conductor home. Roy back at 12.0am looking depressed. Bed at 12.5am. Thursday March 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Out with Rags & camera. Very cold, had been frost. Took 7 photos, girls. 2 girls from Durham Villas.


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Back. Breakfast. Schemed subject for Milner as Knight & History. Sent Upton to Mays. At 12.15 photod Hilton & after Miss H. Not well. Cold & difficulties. M & Margery out. Finished 4.30pm. Tea in room. After M, Roy, self & Margery Howlden dined. Quiet evening & bed early. (Red ink: Roy dined at home 1st time for ages.) (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Jacob Barth to Ida Burnand. Death of Constance Noris Irven. Death of Diane Norris Irven.) Friday March 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am & out. Waited about High St. Bus with girls. Up Church St. Took 2 photos. After met Chesterton. Talked to him about chimney opposite. After back. Breakfast. Margery Howlden went to Sheffield for a Ball. Marguerite went with her. After at work entire day on drawing of Lord Milner as a Knight & History. Finished at 10.20. M had lunched at Mite's. Roy back & sat at dinner with me. Bitterly cold all day. Bed 2.30 after snooze in chair. (Red ink: Bitterly cold.) Saturday March 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Tired. Out at 9.0. Up Holland Walk with Rags. A miserable morning, sleety snow. Walked rear of Phillimore Gardens. Back. Breakfast. Drew cheques, books etc & for coals. After put things away. Lunch. A horrid drizzle of sleety rain all day. Put developing (illeg) for 2 x 2¾ all right. Squared up 'Times' since January. Margery Howlden back in the afternoon 4.30. At 6.20 went out & bought fruit etc. After back. (illeg) camera magazine. Dressed & left in carriage at 7.50 & to the Lindo's for dinner. Met the Fitz Georges & Levys (H) & also Sir Trevor & Lady Lawrence. Very pleasant dinner. Talk to young Lindo after. Left at 10.45pm. Called Mite's for Margery Howlden & home by 11.30pm. Roy back 12.20. Bed. In Morning Room. Letter about carriage. (Red ink: Dined at the Lindo's. Good dinner. Met the Fitz Georges.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Thomas Dalziel. Saty 24 March.) Sunday March 25 Stafford Terrace. M & self overslept ourselves. Up at 9.15am. Out up Phillimore Gardens. Rags got shut in a garden. Breakfast. Fine morning. After came on heavy rain. Nevertheless M, Margery & self went for walk. Back. Lunch. Then immediately upstairs & for 4 hours looked over The Sketch & tore out papers. Went back to December 1904. Dressed & put films in magazine. Dinner. Mr & Mrs Arthur Gill, Margery H, M, Roy, self, Lennie & Mite dined.


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Pleasant evening. Felt bitterly cold in Dining Room & also after. Bed 11.15pm. (Red ink: Bitterly cold. The Gills, Margery Howlden, Lennie & Mite dined with us.) Monday March 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out. Waited for nothing in High Street. After walk up Campden Hill & back. Met 3 Kittens. Tidied & printed blues in the morning & at 11.30 went up with M to the (illeg)'s old house in Upper Phillimore Gardens. Disappointed & nothing to buy. Back. Altered carriage & had my hair cut. Back. Lunch. M & Margery late. After rested & put room straight getting rid of many things. At 7.0 dressed & M & self went to dine with Sybil Grantham. Met Dunlop Oh! & after took a lady in who lives in Palace Court & has a lift. Met Mrs George Alexander, rest so so. Back in carriage. Bitterly cold. Roy, Margery & Mite went to The Little Michus. Lennie to Drill. Bed at 12.30am. Roy & Margery back. Mite called 5.30. Had been to Ryle's show of pictures. (Red ink: Bitterly cold. Dined at Mr & Mrs Granthams.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Richard Twining. March 27. Memories of Richard Twining. March 30.) Tuesday March 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Bitterly cold. Out. Met Coward & daughter. Round by Kensington High School. Brown Legs & another very pretty girl in mauve. Back. Breakfast. After wrote letters. General tidy up etc. Many callers in afternoon. In evening Roy dined out & M & self & Margery dined quietly together & bed early after. Bitterly cold. Went at 1.0pm to High Street Notting Hill. Dull cloudy. Took blind man. Smellies. (Red ink: Still bitterly cold.) Wednesday March 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out up Kensington High Street. No bus. Past school etc. Back & all morning putting things straight. Printed blues etc. Went out with larger camera at 1.0 & took 12 in indifferent light, no 4. Stuck on the top & all but 1 were spoilt. This is a new development of the magazine. Back. Lunch. Developed above & others taken earlier. At 1.30 Margery Howlden left in her brougham saying good bye to me in my Hut. After in room rested 1 hr. Dressed & left at 5.30 for Athenaeum. Bitterly cold. No letter from solicitors about horse & cab. Letter from G.T. On to Sands & Hunters & then to the Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, R.H, P.A, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. After got subject of Mastiff Puppy & C.B. A cut made up for Bernard Partridge who was


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inattentive. O.S spoke most sharply to him. Oh! Left at 10.45pm & home by bus. (Red ink: Margery Howlden left.) Thursday March 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on bicycle 1st time since 8 March. Saw A, looking common & shop-girl like. Round High School & up Church Street. Breakfast. After schemed subject of Mastiff Puppy & C.B. At 11.45 fireman came round. Photod him & got all done by 3.45. In room & worked till 7.15 when dressed & went with M in carriage to dine at Lennie & Mite's. Met Col & Mrs Welby & a Dr & Mrs Avery & 2 Campbells. A remarkably good dinner. Left at 11.0 & home by the carriage. Bed at 12.30am. (Red ink: M & self dined at Lennie & Mite's. Took a Mrs Avery in.) Friday March 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Walk up Church St with Rags. After all day at work on C.B & labour Mastiff. M up in my room at 6.0pm. Finished at 10.0pm. Wrote letter. M & self dined & bed after. Letter from cab owners solicitors making out claim for £20 exactly. (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Frank Curzon of a daughter. Death of Eliza Arthur. 31 March.) Saturday March 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20am. Out. Walk up Argyll Road. Met Mr Turner. Back. All morning putting straight etc. Lunch. Developed the last 5 films in stack, taken August last, E.W & G.T. Dressed. At 3.30 M & self drove to Mite's at home at 104 Lancaster Gate. Great success & lovely band. Roy in morning coat. Heaps I knew there. Pretty girl, a Miss Something, in red. Stayed until 6.45 when home M, self & Roy in carriage. Roy dined at home & went out afterwards to Carlton. M & self quiet evening. Bed 12.30. Roy came in as I went upstairs. (Red ink: Dear Mite's big at home at Lancaster Gate. Splendid band.) Sunday April 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am & out. Walk round Church Street. Back. In morning looked to sheaths etc. At 12.15 went with M up to top of Park. M returned by bus. Walked on to Athenaeum. Had chop. From 3.20 to 7.0 wrote letters in small room. List to Mudies. After home by bus. At 8.0 Mr & Mrs Phipson Beale, Lennie, Maud, Roy, M & self dined. A most uncomfortable dinner owing to Geoff being brought by Maud. Spencer also dined. They left at 11.0pm. Smoke & talk with Spencer. Snooze till 1.45am when bed. (Red


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ink: Phipson Beales dined. Geoff came & made a 9th, uncomfortable.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir Arthur Spencer Wells. April 3rd.) Monday April 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out on bicycle. A dull wretchedly cold morning. East wind again. Round Earls Court. Met A. Red & grey. Back. Breakfast. Roy off to City. All day putting straight etc etc. After M & self went by carriage & dined at Mite's. Met the Gilberts, the Heron-Allens & Ryle, Eric Parker & wife. A delightful evening. Home in the carriage. Bed at 12.0pm. (Red ink: M & self dined at Mite's & met the Gilberts.) (Cutting glued in: Dinner to Lord St Aldwyn.) Tuesday April 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Short walk. Breakfast. After left at 10.15 & went by bus to Victoria & X'd Channel 1st time for a year. Saw Sir C.B.McLaren. Uninteresting both ways. No pretty women. Usual lunch & waiter. Coming back Captain Bloomfield & also Gibson of Goldsmiths Company. Home at 7.40. M & self dined quietly & quiet evening. Lovely day & cool east wind. Took successful 1 doz plates, 6 Thomas films failures, 6 Lumiere films all right. (Red ink: X'd Channel 1st time for a year. Brilliant sun.) (Cutting glued in: Golden Wedding Mr and Mrs Thomas McLean.) Wednesday April 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out Earls Court. 1st bright morning. Snapped A & 2nd D. The plates stuck together & spoilt 2nd D. After got Common. Back. Breakfast. Put plates away. Went out to Notting Hill at 1.0pm & got girls coming from school. Some very good. After developed from 2.15 to 4.0pm. Short rest & changed. Went by cab to Miles's, felt tired & seedy. Walked to Park Lane. After vainly waiting for bus took cab to W.P. By bus to Punch Dinner ½ hr late. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, R.L, L.B, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L & A.G. Pleasant dinner for L.B. Got cut of Birrell & Bill. Home by bus. Taken to Phillimore Gardens. Bed 12.30am. Thursday April 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am & out. Again snapped A & 2nd D. Back. Breakfast. After sent Upton to May's for cap & gown. Schemed subject & at 12.0 photod Hilton for Birrell & a small boy. Worst photos I ever took owing to old plates & also only putting half a developer in. After worked all day & afternoon on drawing of


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small boy Bill & Birrell. M met the Hickmans & went for a drive with Lady H. Saw Sir F.C.B. Worked up to 7.15 when dressed & M & self went in the carriage to dine with the Heilbuts. Good dinner & wine. Took Mrs T.P.O'Connor in to dinner. Amusing. Marshall Hall, Sir Douglas Straight. Mr & Mrs Charley Burnand, Mrs Arthur Lewis, Mrs Chapman & others. Back by the carriage. (Red ink: M & self dined at the Heilbuts'.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Sir Wyke Bayliss. Obituary of Sir Wyke Bayliss. 7 April.) Friday April 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.40am & out over to Notting Hill. Met Pepys Cockerell & daughter going to ride. Took 11 of girls going to school. Back. Breakfast. No band. I avoided it. After all day at work on drawing of Birrell as Schoolmaster & small boy Bill. Finished it at 9.45pm when M & self dined quietly. Bed after snooze. Saturday April 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & up Church Street for walk. Boat Race morning. After tidying Roy back from the City at 11.40. Started he & I in cart at 11.45 & drove down to Thornycrofts. Most heavenly bright sunny morning. No race at all. Cambridge won. Saw Hilton. Back. Put Roy down at the Queens Club. Took 6 photos, 1 spoilt. After lunch M & self went up by bus to the Haymarket Theatre & saw The Man from Blankley's. A1. Out & down to Hyde Park Corner. Plovers eggs 6d each. Home by carriage after buying fruit. Changed plates & M & self dined quietly. In Morning Room after. (Red ink: M & self went to see The Man from Blankley's.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Charles Martin. April 6.) Sunday April 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & at 9.10 walked over & up Church St. Back by Phillimore Gardens. After in morning printed blues & at 12.0 went with M over to Mite's. Missed them. Mite out in a Bath Chair. Met Lady Hickman, May Shakespeare & the Spofforths. Sat at fountains. No Mite. Back by a 4 wheel cab. Lunch. Langley in & lunched with us. Brought plovers eggs. In room. Wrote letters & after at 4.0 Roy & self cycled to Sir Alfred Hickmans for Tennis. Met à Beckett Tyrrel & wife. Played many sets & lost all. Back at 6.45. Col Trench & son there. Bother with camera. Just time to dress & at 8.10 Col & Mrs Welby, Mr & Mrs Routh, H.W.Langley, Roy, M & self dined. Pleasant dinner. Felt frightfully sleepy & livery


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after. Snooze till 12.30am when went up into room & again pottered with camera. Bed 1.30am. (Red ink: 1st Tennis with Sir Alfred Hickman. Welbys & Rouths to dinner with us.) Monday April 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out on cycle Earls Court. Met A, Brown L. Over Palace Gardens & back at 9.15. Roy 3 plover Langley eggs. After put camera up & at 11.0 drove to Bernard Partridges. Took 4 photos of him & he took 2 of me. Back after talk of F.C.B at 12.30. Edith F with M. Long tiring aftenoon endeavouring to get my 3 magazines all right. Left for the Punch Dinner at 5.45. Called Athenaeum & also Hunter & Sands. On to the Easter Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, P.A, C.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. All three cuts made up all right. Partridge had his before. Left at 11.0 & home by bus. Last cold grey day, cleared tomorrow. (Red ink: Punch Dinner for 2 cuts before Easter.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Charles C.Taylor, of a daughter. The wife of Charles J.Taylor, of a daughter.) Tuesday April 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am & out with camera. After B.L in Cromwell Road, took 7 or 8. Met Sir Henry Sutton. Lovely morning. Met M.H going into school. After in evening schemed subject. Had wired to Miss Huxley not to come. Schemed subject of Schoolmistress & Punch. Workd at it all day after photoing Upton & Marguerite. Lovely light & day. M & self dined at 8.30pm. Quiet evening. Roy out. Lennie & Maud left for Ireland in the morning. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Frederick Stibbert. Death of Mrs John Baxter. Death of Mr Stibbert. F 13 April.) Wednesday April 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out. Round Cromwell Road. Took 2 at school. Met new M.H at station. Back. Breakfast. Most lovely morning. After at work all day on drawing of Punch & Britannia as Schoolmistress. Finished it at 9.45pm, M in my room. M & self dined at 10.0pm. Roy out. Lovely weather. Thursday April 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out up Campden Hill. No photos. After breakfast schemed subject of Asquith in Punt. Photos had been sent yesterday by Marsh & proved no good at all. At 11.15 Hilton came. At 11.30 photod him in lovely sunny weather for Asquith Punting, Upton holding hat up. After developed & all ready


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by 3.0pm. Rest & on with work until 8.0pm. At 8.20 M, Roy & self dined. Quiet evening after. M got £50 for me from Bank & £10 for herself for the Dutch trip. (Cutting glued in: Death of Sarah Barker.) Friday April 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & cycled right round Park with Rags. Lovely morning. After home all day at work on drawing of Asquith in Punt. Roy left at 11.45 in cart for Waterloo to go to Pyt House. Worked on till 9.0pm when finished. M drove at 6.0 to see Chicks. M & self dined quietly together. Bed at 11.30pm. Lovely sunny day. Violent wind in the night from the north. Ominous for tomorrow. (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of Nathaniel Jenkins to Jessie Fildes. Apl. Sale of pictures by Anton Mauve.) Saturday April 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 5.40am & shaved & dressed leisurely. Bath. In room, wrote letters & put up drawings. Breakfast at 8.15. Cab at door 8.45 & sent luggage off. Left in carriage at 8.50 & to Victoria. Down to Flushing, no one about. About a dozen only going. Strong wind. On board at 11.15 & off. Civil Captain. Good lunch. 7 hours at sea. Poor M dreadfully ill. Got to Belgian coast at 6.0 & to Flushing 6.35. Difficulty of landing ticket. A smart little Dutch boy took us ashore & got my ticket to The Hague. One other man in train. At Rotterdam a young officer & 2 ladies got in. M learnt from the elder about her old school fellows. Arrived at The Hague at 11.0pm. Smart motor. To Hotel des Indes. Lennie & Mite there. Got room on ground floor. M had bouillon, self steak & bed 12.0am. Slept well. (Red ink: M & self had very rough passage to Flushing. M ill. Arrived Hotel des Indes.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Richard Garnett.) Sunday April 15 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up at 8.20. M wanted her breakfast. Ordered by telephone, coffee etc for one. Dressed & out on the Platz. Took 12 films, soldiers, sentries, police, in bright sun. Back. Breakfast at 10.0 in Mite & Lennie's room. After Mite, L & self went out. Storks. Lovely old houses etc & walked up to The House in the Wood. 2 bicyclists shewing off. Lovely old House Palace where the Peace Conference was held. Old Japanese & Chinese porcelain, cabinets etc. Civil old lady shewing us over where the Queen's late stepmother lived. Out, got tram home. Little girl skipping. (illeg) at lunch. After L & self went to the Mauritz Haus.


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Lovely pictures. Rembrandt's Anatomists. A room with sort of pictures in pastel by an artist named (illeg). Like Hogarth, same period. Out & at 2.30 drove to Scheveningen. Took 19 films of Dutch women, soldiers & one sailor in full togs. Drove round thro' villas & woods. Lovely bright summer day. Back at 6.0pm. M's old schoolfellow came in at 6.20 & stayed till 7.5pm. A handsome woman, spoke English perfectly. Dressed. Dined at 7.45. Band. Many people. Coffee after. Bed 11.0. 40 minutes to change plates. Slept well. (Red ink across page: 1st day at The Hague. Lennie Mite & self went to The House in the Wood. Drove to Scheveningen in afternoon. Lovely weather.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Dr Richard Garnett. Saty Apl 14.) Monday April 16 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up at 7.45 & after stroll took 8 photos, sentries etc. Breakfast in Lennie's room. After at 10.30 all went by tram to The House in the Woods. Many people time we were there yesterday. Looked over rooms & where the Queen mother died. 2 magnolia blossoms given to M & Mite. Walked back to lunch. After M & Mite went for a drive in the Baroness's carriage. Lennie & I went by light railway to visit Delft. Pronounced Dell-elpht. Intelligent young Naval officer. Out in lovely old town. Bothered by 2 youths who spoke English. Costumes. Pretty little girl with good legs. Fired off all films. Missed one little girl at last before Club. Back. Went into an old Curiosity shop. Private house. A portrait like Lady Margaret Watney etc. Walked back through the Spier. Crowds of people. Dressed. Dinner. Had good bottle of Claret. Lots of people. 2 man with 2 ladies rather loud. Little Dutch lady M met at the Baroness's. Also lady we met in the train with handsome young East India Coy's officer. Bed 11.15. Changed films. Slept well. (Red ink: All went to The House in the Woods. Lennie & self to Delft. Little girl. M & Mite drove in Lucie's carriage.) Tuesday April 17 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up at 7.45am. Had a bath in a large cupboard. After out. Took 2 photos. Wrong speed. Back. Breakfast. Wrote F.C.B. At 11.15 started in motor for the station & being too early called at the Curio shop where Lady Margaret portrait was. M, self, L & Mite on to Haarlem. 2 gruff Dutchmen packed into carriage. Lovely flats of bulbs all colours. Got to H 11.45. Cab to museum. Wonderful Franz Hals rooms. Principally groups of officers, 1620 to 45. Also sea piece by H.A.Vroom. St


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George's flag, Prince of Wales's feathers etc. Landing of Leicester at Flushing 1586. Also portraits by Jan de Brajj, A.Troost, & a wonderful lot of heads with palms(?) like Rabelais characters by Jan van Scorel. Out. Took photos. A very bad lunch. Hot plovers eggs. Good Beer. After a drive to sand dune and villa residences. One very pretty fair little girl in pink skipping, missed getting. Back at 3.50. They went into museum again. Took rest of snaps at Market Place of children, priest, girls & dogs etc. Coffee. M & Lennie left & Mite & self followed. Caught the 5.40 train & back to The Hague. Past Leyden. Most lovely day & evening. (Red ink: All went to Haarlem. Bulbs. Franz Hals. Cold eels.) Wednesday April 18 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up 7.40. Bath. Duller morning. Out. A sort of Fair put up in the Platz. Breakfast by self 8.45. Wrote diary etc. After at 11.30 M, self, Maud & L went first of all to the National Museum. Not much there. A few modern pictures & old Delft & old pictures. After to the Moritz Haus. Again saw Rembrandt's Anatomist, Paul Potter's bull etc etc. Lovely head by J.Vermeer 1632-1675. Some call him Van der Meer. Out. Dull cold weather. Lunch 1.15pm. After felt extremely dull & livery. In L's sitting room. M & he went to a museum. After Lennie & I went to a beautiful collection of bric a' brac in a private house. Went back & fetched M & Mite. All stayed there till 6.40pm. After went for a walk to the little Queen's Palace & back. Dressed. Dinner. After heavy & livery. Bed 11.0. Took no photos all day. No plates to change. In bed at once & was awakened at 1.0 by a stupid night porter to shut the window. Took 2 C.L.L.P. (Red ink: Off day. Went to Moritz House & also a dealer's house. 19th electric light burnt up after whilst I was changing films. Livery.) Thursday April 19 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up at 8.0. Had been awakened at 1.0am by a man who came in to shut the window. Nuisance. Kept awake an hour. Out & breakfast. A dull gloomy morning & remained so all day. Felt frightfully livery & short of breath in the morning. Took M for short walk. All the Square en fête on account of the Prince Consort's birthday. Back & at 11.45 went by the tram to the Mesdag Museum. 2 poor Tademas, many Corots, Tryon. The picture which pleased me most after Joseph Israel's 'Alone in the World' was a small Bastien Le Page. Out & back to lunch by tram. At 2.20 we all went again by light railway to Delft. Very different from Monday & cold. Went over the house where William


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the Silent was assassinated 1585. Back at 5.20. Coffee in a restaurant. Good. Took M back & went out & took 3 or 4 snapshots. Pretty girl of the streets over sawdust. After 4 or 5 camera stuck at last for 1st time. Back to hotel at 6.0pm. Wrote diary & after dinner felt much better. In Lennie's room. Gave us a lovely old Delph pot. L bought a Troost drawing, scene outside, drunken soldiers dancing arm in arm with women. Very funny. (Red ink across page: King Consort's birthday. Scenes in the Platz. All went to Delft.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Henry Brinsley Sheridan. April. Obituary of Henry Brinsley Sheridan. Apl 20.) Friday April 20 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up at 7.40. M had her breakfast served sharp. Out across Plain & found out school. Back. After B all got off by 10.0 for train to Amsterdam. Arrived. To Hotel de L'Europe after going to the Ryks Museum. Old pottery & glass. Lots of cabinet pictures, Jan Stain's Drunken Woman etc etc. Rembrandt's Night Watch. Disappointed with it. Fly to lunch at hotel with a friend of Lennie's. Took photos. After Mite & Lennie went to a Private View of old pictures. M & self for a 2 hour walk. Old Town Hall & old gateway. More photos. Back to Hotel de L'Europe. Uncivil concierge. Good bye to Lennie's friend. Fly to station at 5.0pm. Back to the H. Lennie & self went for a walk in the Bosch. After felt very tired & sleepy. After poor dinner in Lennie's room. Changed plates & bed. (Red ink: All 4 went to Amsterdam. Lunch at Hotel de L'Europe with Lennie's friend.) Saturday April 21 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up at 7.30 & out. Finer & not so cold. Out & took 8 of school girls. After breakfast all got off in motor at 10.0am. Lovely & bright sun. Delightful run through Leiden. Beautiful place. Missed a delightful figure in the wind on bank of canal. To Haarlem & on to Alkmaar. Got there 2.0pm. Took many films. Dogs drawing carts, old peasants etc. Had a very good lunch & walk after. 3 little girls followed us everywhere. Bought sabots. Started home again at 4.0pm & through Haarlem. Coffee there. Most beautiful evening. Brilliant colour of tulips & heaps of cut flowers for manure. Blood red sun setting. Back at 7.45. Dressed. Dinner at 8.15. A Miss Mayne there. Very nice girl. Captain S & wife left at 10.0pm. The Sidcup people had left. Talk in L's room & bed at 12.30 after changing plates. A lovely day.


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changing films. Slept well. (Red ink across page: Delightful motor run to Marken & Volendam.) Tuesday April 24 Hotel des Indes, The Hague. Up late 8.45. Chambermaid long time. Bath. Breakfast in another room on acct of the Masdag dinner tonight. After wrote letters & diary. At 12.30 went with L & Mite to the Moritz Huis & saw lovely old pictures again. Out & back to hotel. All went to the Café Royal & had excellent lunch. Out & to the Baron Steengraght's collection. Lennie off to buy photographs. M in Mite's room. Changed & packed leisurely. Up in room. Coffee. Lennie & Mite went for a walk. M's eye painful. Read Holland by Nico Jungman, Black 1904. At 5.50 went for walk in the Bosch. Met Mite & Lennie. Bicycles. Zoological Gardens. Back to hotel. A wire to say Lennie had got 3 pictures. Cold lovely evening. After great preparations at hotel for the Masdag Dinner. We all went & dined at same café. Back. Hotel dinner cost 15 guilders. Felt rather down & depressed. Left for station in motor at 10.0pm & took ticket to Hook of Holland. (Red ink: Off day at The Hague. Dined at restaurant. Mesdag Dinner at hotel. Left for London.) Wednesday April 25 On board the G.E. Rly steamer. Indifferent sleep. Got berth to self. Up 5.30am. Coffee. Took 4 photos of sky etc. Got to Harwich 1 hr late. On to Liverpool St & home in a hansom at 10.0am exactly. Roy at Pyt House. Breakfast. After looked over letters. Had hair cut. Developed 33 films taken on Monday at Marken etc. Lunch. Snooze from 3.30 to 4.30pm. A beautiful picture in Morning Room for M. This picture proved to be a legacy from poor Charley Hartree. Could not make it out. After putting things straight left in the carriage at 6.0pm. Called at A Club. Letter from M.R & Miss B. After to Bouverie St. Walked round by Holborn V. E.V.Lucas presiding at the Punch Dinner. Self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, R.L, P.A, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Business all over by 9.15. Got cut of Columbia & San Francisco. Talk to R.H & home in the carriage at 11.40. Roy at Pyt House. Partridge away still at Monte C with Seaman. (Red ink: Arrived home by self from The Hague.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Eric Penn to Gladys Erden. Apl 28.) Thursday April 26 Stafford Terrace. Up & out with Rags over Campden Hill. Very cold & grey. After breakfast schemed subject of Columbia & San Francisco. Difficult. Miss Huxley came at 12.0. Photod her &


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back. Toll keeper had to be roused out. Hares. Herons. Back 7.0pm. Dined 7.30. Sleepy & up in Lennie's room after. Mite bathing M's eye. Sleepy. Out & on board the Deutsland at 10.40. Difficulty with steward as to cabin. Turned in 11.0 & slept fairly well till 5.15am when got up. (Red ink: Delightful drive to Domburg & Middleburg.) Monday April 30 On board Dutch steamer Deutsland. Up 5.15. Coffee 1/s. Dear & bad. Cold rainy morning. Bother to get porter. No trouble landing. Up to Victoria with 2 others. One a Dutchman like Lord Rosebery, the other a bounder Press man who called himself F.C.Gould & talked incessantly. At Victoria carriage met me. Wet. Home at S.T at 9.0am. Roy not down. After hung picture in Morning Room. Took all morning. Lunch & at 2.10 left for Varnishing Day at the R.A. Saw Abbey. Picture by Frank Craig very good. Sargents etc. Talk to Dolly Storey. Out at 5.10 & to the Athenaeum. Voted. Tea. Wrote letters. Back by bus. Changed plates etc. Very very tired. Dear M back at 8.10pm. Did not know it. At 8.45 M, Roy & self dined. Bed after snooze. Very tired. Cold. (Red ink: Arrived back at 9.0am from Flushing. Varnishing Day at the R.A.) Tuesday May 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out. Dull cold morning. Breakfast after. Stock Exchange holiday. Roy not in City. All day developing Holland films etc. In evening dressed & walked to Mite's & Roy & self dined at 104 Lancaster Gate. Children coming from St Mary Abbots School. Good dinner. M did not go. Home by carriage. & bed by 12.0am. Wednesday May 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out with 2nd camera. Took little girls going to school. 11 of them. After all day developing Holland photos & putting away etc etc. Left in afternoon for the P.D calling Athenaeum Club. No letters. On after Sands & Hunters. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, L.B, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Got cut of Bull Fight to do. Very wet in afternoon & when I left. Got splashed by beastly bus. Home by bus at 11.30. Bed after reading. Thursday May 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning. Out & over Campden Hill with Rags. After schemed subject of Birrell's Bull Fight. Sent U to Mays for costume. Bandillerio. At 12.0 Hilton came. Photod him


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Lady Robertson & others. After to Athenaeum & home by motor bus, no, horse bus. (Red ink: Dined by self at H.W.Lucy's.) Friday May 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out over Campden Hill. After at work all day on drawing of Lord Charles Beresford as Sailor & the Sultan. Finished at 10.15. M & self dined quietly after. (Cutting glued in: Mr G.B. Shaw and Vivisection. May 11.) Saturday May 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out in British sunshine in the Earls Court Road. Snapped 2nd D & dog in window. Back & breakfast. Tidied up in morning & after M & self left in carriage at 12.45 & drove to the Savoy. Had lunch. Not so good. Met Mrs Geiger with a gentleman. To matinée of Belle of Mayfair. Pretty music. Out. M tore her dress. Carriage at Athenaeum. Drove to Butts. Fruit & home. M & self dined quietly together. Bed 12.0 after. Roy with Stern. (Red ink: Met Mrs Geiger. Oh! M & self went to matinée of the Belle of Mayfair.) Sunday May 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15 & out. Lovely morning & brilliant sun all day. Carried camera over Campden Hill for nothing. After all morning hunting for small plate box. Flurried. Put films in. Double backs. Box turned up at last in bookcase. M went to see Tabs at the Claridges Hotel. Ill in bed. Rest after lunch. At 4.30 went to Sir A.Hickmans. Did not wait for Roy. Cab did not know Palace Gardens. Played 5 or 6 good games. Cup & back at 7.0. William Stone, the Fred Karrs & Hamilton Fletcher dined. Good dinner. They left 11.0pm. (Red ink: Roy & self played at Sir A.H's. H. Fletcher, Fred Karrs & William Stone dined.) Monday May 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.55 & out. Brilliant sun. Snapped A & it came rather off the plate. Also girls going to Tennis. Back. Breakfast. After all day doing drawing of Partridge & Lucy. Developed 12 plates after lunch taken in the morning. Rest. On to work & finished drawing 8.15pm. Bothred with Lucy's head. Edith F in to lunch. M & self dined by ourselves. Bed 11.30. Tired & headachy. M played piano. Bother with tap in drawing room. (Red ink: Drew Partridge & Lucy. Was not paid for it until August.)


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Tuesday May 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Out. A dull cold grey morning. Rest of costume sent fom Mite's. After in morning tidying up & putting away etc. Left at 12.0 went up by motor bus to the 'Athenaeum' & lunched at 1.30. Wrote letters. After at 3.0 to C.S & at 3.10 photod Miss C.M.B. Not much good. Cab to Athenaeum & tea at 4.45. Wrote list of books for Mudies. Home with bag by carriage at 6.45. M dressing, Miss Rose Innes, Edgar, Sophy & Roy, M & self dined. They all left by 11.0pm. Bed at 12.0 after rest. (Red ink: C.M.B. Miss Rose Innes, Edgar & Sophia H dined with us.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort. May 15.) Wednesday May 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out with Rags. Coldish & heavy clouds. Walked to St Albans Road & back up Church St & down Argyll Rd. Breakfast. Men doing pipes. A sad confusion. All morning printing blues of Delph, no Delft. Lunch at home, M & self. At 3.0 went with M in carriage to dress rehearsal of the Royal Military Tournament at Olympia. Heavy showers & dull black clouds over continually. Show good. Tilting. Took 6 plates more or less successfully. Saw Low, also Percy McQuoid & young Mackinlay. Curious clean shaven Pass man in broad brimmed white hat. Out at 5.45. Cocoa at home & caught bus all way to Bedford St. Called Sands & Hunter. On to Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, L.B, E.V.L, B.P, H.W.L. Lucas asked why I did not make it The Sultan. Got Lion cut to do & home by bus. Very tired. (Red ink: M & self went to dress rehearsal of Royal Military Tournament.) Thursday May 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10 & out. A cold raw grey morning. Went thro' churchyard met Club. Thro' Holland walk & home. Fire in Dining Room. Cold & dull all day. Did not go to the Zoo. Enlarged lions at 12.30 & all ready by 4.0pm. Worked till 7.0 when dressed & went to dine at Sir Norman Lockyers. His 70th birthday. 16 at dinner. Delightful old man next me Sir Somebody Knox, brother of the Knox I knew in 1870 or before. Winnie L, Mr Anderson of the Orient Line, Sir L Alma Tadema, Sir Lauder Brunton, Lord Welby & others. Slow dinner. Horrid waitress. After lantern slides Oh! Left at 11.15 & home. Tired. (Red ink: Dined with Sir Norman Lockyer.


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His 70th birthday.) (Cutting glued in: The Royal and Military Tournament. May 17.) Friday May 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10am. M remained in bed. Out & walked over Campden Hill with Rags. Met Clubs. Breakfast. Slightly foggy morning but brighter. At work all day on drawing of Lions & Black Leopard. M went in the afternoon to the Opera to chaperone Nelly Grosvenor & Gwen. She got back at 10.20 just as I finished work. We dined together. Tired after. The King at Olympia. Saturday May 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am. A little brighter. Out with No 1 camera. No 2nd D. Took a few experimental photos. All too near the object. Back. Decided not to go to the play. All day resting etc. Printed rest of blues of Delft. M & self walked at 5.15 to get asparagrass & fruit. Dull grey evening. Prince of Wales at Olympia. Dined at 7.30pm, M, Roy & self. Went to the Austrian Exhibition after & heard band. Poor selection. Church bells. Back at 11.0. Read till 12.0 Burton's Life. Bed. Coldish. Sent Upton to Mays & C.L at 10.30am. Not a scrap of sun the whole week after Monday morning. (Red ink: M, Roy & self went to the Austrian Exhibition.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Christina Reeve. May. Obituary of Mrs Henry Reeve. 22 May.) Sunday May 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45 & out. A dull cold grey morning just like November. Up Church St & round back along Phillimore Gardens. Breakfast, haddock. After at 12.0 M & self started to walk. Heavy rain came on. M back by bus, self on to Athenaeum & had chop for lunch. At 3.0 to P.A. At 3.10 photod R.M. Dull light & heavy rain. Out 4.20. Too wet for cab. Walked with bag to Garrick Club. Tea. Wrote letters & after at 6.30 home by bus. At 8.0 H.O.Arnold Forster & their son, May Hickman & Mr & Mrs Binns-Smith dined. A pleasant dinner. Very wet night. They all left by 11.0pm. Bed at 12.0. Roy back at 10.45. He had dined at Claridges with Tabs & Gwen. (Red ink: Photod R.M. The Arnold Forsters & May Hickman & Binns-Smiths dined.) Monday May 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. A dull grey morning. Walked with Rags up Campden Hill, Church St. Back. Sent shirts to be re-cuffed & ordered Japanned boxes & a safety pin. All day tidying up


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& doing blues etc etc. M & self dined quietly & had peaceful evening. Read Life of Sir Richard Burton to her. Bed 11.30pm. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir James Vaughan. 22 May.) Tuesday May 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out. Up Holland Walk. No 2nd D. Left off coming. Got the sack. After in morning developed Alkmaar & Haarlem photos etc etc. Lunch & left in bus. Called from 2.40 to 3.35 on Sir W.Agnew. Oh! After to Turnbull & Asser & Briggs. Paid their accts. On to Athenaeum & after to Sands & Hunter. Small camera to be altered. Tea at the Garrick & by bus to St Lukes. Bought old Delft plate. Home at 6.45 by bus. Dressed & M & self dined at Sir Alfred Hickmans. Took Mrs Cope in who knew nothing about art at all. Sir W.Dickson Hartland etc. Home at 10.45. Roy had a friend to dine at Stafford Terrace. He came back at 12.15 when to bed. (Red ink: Bus to St L. M & self dined at Sir A.H's.) Wednesday May 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. M remained in bed. 1st partial sun since Monday week. Out with L.C & snapped A. Off the centre to the right. Back breakfast. All day writing & printed blues Alkmaar & also Orient Kodac taken with Mumblers Kodac. Mervyn in to lunch. Developed the Utrecht Sunday photos. Rest from 4.0 to 5.0pm. Wrote diary. M back at 5.50pm. Left in grey suit at 6.15pm for P.D. All way to Chancery Lane by bus. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, P.A, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R. Very long discussion. Got Royal Marriage to do. Hung up with Partridge cut. Left 10.45pm. Home by bus & bed at 12.15am. Very tired. (Cuttings glued in: Marriage of William D'Arcy to Violet Baring. Death of James Fair. Death of William Gibbon.) Thursday May 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Snapped Brown Legs & school. Magazine stuck & first plate was black fogged by some means or other. Back. Breakfast. Schemed subject of Parody of Velasquez picture. Had looked over papers in the morning before breakfast. Photod Hilton & Margaret at 12.0 having sent Upton for costume. Developed & all ready by 4.0pm. Went on to work until 8.30pm when M, Roy & self dined . Quiet evening after & bed early. Friday May 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.35. Up in room & wrote letters. Out. No camera. Walked over Campden Hill with Rags. After worked all day on drawing of Parody of Velasquez picture. Hard at it all day.


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Monday June 4 Hotel Continental, Paris. Up at 8.5. Breakfast 8.30 & out in lovely sun. Photod statue of Joan of Arc & after Garde Republicaine de Paris etc. M's dress. 1 film spoilt. Back. M & self went to Louvre. Closed. All museums closed on Mondays. Fiacre to the Beaux Arts. Delightful picture, Tyrolean setting, child & bull, Veber. Out & to Le Doyen. Same father & mother lunching as yesterday. Long wait. Old garçon. Strolled into the Café Horloge. Little child. Row of (illeg). Poor show. Out & strolled to hotel. Saw procession of bands got up by Le Journal. After M in her room. Went out & took 2 doz & 9 photos. Pretty Paris girl playing with football. Soldiers, statues etc etc. Back. Dressed. Talk to Seymour Lucas & wife. A poor dinner badly waited on. Loud Englishman & woman like (illeg) next us. Apologetic head waiter. After strolled out & went to the Allazar Theatre. A stupid ballet. Went to the Promenade. Back by 11.15. Mr & Mrs Stuart Wortley arrived at 11.30pm. Bed. Changed films from 6.15 to 7.0pm. The Tuilleries Gardens all closed till 11.0pm. (Red ink: Lovely day. Went to the Societé des Beaux Arts.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Francis Webb. Wed 6 June.) Tuesday June 5 Hotel Continental, Paris. Up 7.30am. Breakfast 8.15. Dull & very cold again. Wrote diary. Letter from Roy. M went to Bon Marché. Self after vainly looking for tobacco shop took fiacre with camera to the Eiffel Tower. Crowd of bandsmen. Wasted an hour & a half & only went up half way. Out & walked back to hotel. M back. Took fiacre to Le Doyen & lunched just inside. Took films. Finer. To 27 Boulevard de Strasbourg, looked at camera. No good. Back with M to magazine opposite the Madeleine. Waited an hour. Took policeman etc etc, nigger. Back hotel. Out with C in the Tuilleries Gardens. Took 21 films. Back. At last bought cigars. Parcels arriving & also Mademoiselle Olga from (illeg). Tried M's dress on. Dressed & strolled to Le Doyen. Very good dinner. Young American & woman. Strolled back & up to bed. Rested in chair. Changed films. Takes 1 hour the 3 magazines. Bed 12.30am. (Red ink: Went to Eiffel Tower etc.) Wednesday June 6 Hotel Continental, Paris. Up at 6.15am. Breakfast 6.55. Bath 7.20. Lovely sunny morning. Drew cheque £10. Bill £6.0.0. After we got off quite comfortably. Tips 10F, 6F, 5F, 2F, 3F, 28F. To station. 2 reserve seats. Spanish man & woman in carriage. Lunch. A


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Swedish masculine looking girl opposite. Good (illeg). Met Sir Charles Owen & also Mr Armstrong again. Train 1 hr late. Went to Athenaeum. Washed. Called Sands & H & on to the P.D. Phil A, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G. Good dinner. Home by cart at 10.45 from Bouverie St. Very tired. Called Garrick Club. Picked up Roy. Horrid motor buses in Piccadilly. Roy told me of accident to carriage by a motor bus last Tuesday. Bed 11.15. Very tired. (Red ink: Came back from Paris.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Arthur Bright. Friday 1 June.) Thursday June 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out with small camera. Took 2 or 3 photos Church St. Not much good. After a rush to get tidy. Schemed subject of Theseus. Hilton came at 12.0. Photod him in Greek armour & also after for arms. Up in room at 5.0pm. Very tired. M, Roy & self dined quietly at 8.45pm & bed after. Friday June 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. In room. Out with large camera & took some photos up Church Street, Dudley etc. Back & hard at work all day on drawing of Minataur & Theseus. Finished at 10.40 when M & self dined quietly. Bed 12.30 after reading about Captain Burton's death. Very tired. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir James Thompson. Saty 7 June.) Saturday June 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out with large camera. Dull hazy morning. Made experiment of photos at work in Cromwell Road. All under exposed & no sort of good. Very tired all day & livery. Did not go out. In all day & put things in order. Developed remaining Kensington small plates etc. (Cutting glued in: Death of Henry Hohler. Death of Sir Halliday Macartney.) Sunday June 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. 1 hr to dress. Walked over C.H past Lewis's. All morning developing & printing. Lunch. Tilda & Midge in. At 4.20 played 7 sets Lawn Tennis, Col Trench & self v Sir A & Roy. Only won 2. Back. Dressed & by cab to the Garrick Club. Dinner to Sir Francis Burnand, 85 sat down. Between Orwin & Wicks, Col Lucas opposite. Good dinner. Comyn Carr's speech good. Talk to Spottiswoode after. Roy came at 11.20. Left 12.0 & home by carriage. A lovely summers day. (Red ink: Roy & self played at Sir A.H's. Dinner to Sir Francis Burnand at the Garrick.)


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(Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Sir Halliday Macartney. Obituary of Henry Norton. Tues 12 June.) Monday June 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rather a head. Out on bicycle with Rags. Saw A with blotch on her face. Back. Turned into cul de sac in Church Street. Roy to the City early. Dull grey & coldish morning. Room being prepared for Gwen. Developed photos taken Saturday at Paris. After Gwen, M & self dined at 8.0. Gwen arrived 7.0pm. Roy went with Mite to the Caledonian Ball. Home very late. (Red ink: Gwen dined with us.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Lady Poynter. Wed 13 June.) Tuesday June 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50 & out. Dull but cleared. Took 5 with large camera. Fancy A. Turned back & slipped round by Cromwell Road. Back. Gwen at breakfast. After printed blues & developed Sunday's Paris photos & the rest of C.M.B's. Put photos away & M, Roy & self dined quietly. M & self went to the Austrian Exhibition afterwards. Back 11.10. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: Went to Austrian Exhibition.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Agnes Poynter. Death of Charlotte Raggett. Elections to Royal Society of Artists. June 13. Funeral of Lord Templemore. Funeral of Sir Halliday Macartney. Funeral of Sir James Thompson.) Wednesday June 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50. Grey morning. Out on cycle with Rags. Back. M in her room. Roy & self breakfast. The Yucca removed from the back garden & put in the 2nd tub. All day putting straight & prints etc. M out to lunch with Miss Barron. After back at 4.0. Dressed at 5.0 & left 5.40 for the Punch Dinner. Called Athenaeum. Letters etc. Also called Sands & Hunter. On to P.D. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, R.L, P.A, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L & A.G. Wire from Burnand about his cup. Long sitting. Left 11.20 & home by bus by 12.5am. M & Roy out at the Brightmeyers not in till 1.20am. Bed 2.0am very tired. Thursday June 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5 & out on cycle. Met no one. Dull grey impossible morning. No sun all day. Letters. M remained in bed. Schemed subject of Concierge & Birrell. At 12.0 Hilton & the fireman came. Had sent Upton to Mays. Dressed them in Incroyable dresses & photod. M out to lunch at Mrs Adams'.


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& after M & self went to dine at Lady Fletcher Moulton's. A small dinner. Talk & took in Mrs Macmillan. Talk to Macmillan after. Left 10.45 & home. Thompson Lyon there. (Red ink: M & self dined at Lady Fletcher Moulton's.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Lady Curzon of Kedleston. July 19.) Tuesday June 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Took 9 plates in Cromwell Road. No Rags. At last got an indifferent one of A. Good of B.L. Back at 9.15. Tilda at breakfast. After got to work on drawing of Vol 130 after printing all rest of Whit Monday & enlarging Bull etc. Rest after lunch & worked from 5.0 to 7.30pm. Put John Bull in. At 7.15 dressed & M & self dined at Lady Romer's. Took Lady Barnes in. Sir Francis & Lady Maclean & their daughter there. Also a nice boy who turned out to be Sir William Wiseman. Left at 11.0 & home by carriage. Fine warm summers day. (Red ink: M & self dined at Lady Romer's.) (Cutting glued in: The Estate of Sir Charles Tennant. Tues June 19.) Wednesday June 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.40 & out with Rags in hot sun to Notting Hill. Took 11 photos of girls going to school. Back. Breakfast. Tilda up in room. Man from Stores came about Courts Castile Soap. A familiar brute. Went on to work at Title for Volume 130. Could not quite finish it. Left at 6.30 dressed for the Punch Dinner. Cab all the way calling at the Athenaeum. Met Graves & Lucas at the door. Asked Graves about the Foreign Office. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R. H.W.L, A.G. No Agnew or Bradbury. Seaman very seedy, on a diet. Got Shooting cut, B.P Chinese subject. Left & went by motor bus to The Royal Society. Saw Baker, Crompton & many others. Ray Lankester. Asked for name to be inserted & it was after. Home by bus. Very hot. Home 11.20. Read & to bed at 12.15. M awake. (Red ink: Went for 2nd time to Royal Society.) Thursday June 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. A dull morning. Out on bicycle all round Earls Court. No A. Saw the Little Princess of last year very much grown. Back home. Breakfast. After schemed subject of Lords Shooting at Education Bill in London. Hilton came at 12.0. Fireman could not come. Very hot weather. Took photo from self & Hilton. At work at 4.30pm. M & self did not go to Mite's dinner party. Worked till 8.30pm when M, self & Tilda dined. Roy returned


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the Judge. Found it was 10.30. Turned in. Packed bags until 11.15. Slept well. Waked at 7.10am. (Red ink: At sea. Good talk to Mr Justice Bigham.) (Cutting glued in: The Sea Serpent. June 20.) Monday June 25 S.Y Sabrina, off Ryde I.W. Up at 7.20. Bath. Got under weigh 8.10am. Last view of Sybil. Breakfast good. All got off by 9.20 & left for Portsmouth Harbour by 9.40, 2 carriages reserved. Saw Mr & Mrs Threlfall at Havant returning. Up to town to time & home in a 4 wheeler. All well. Lunch. After developed plates taken on Friday & 10 on yacht. Put new Electric Fan in the Drawing Room. Up in room 3.30pm. Rest & after schemed subject for opening Vol 131. Decided on Lock Gates. Roy back. M out in carriage until 7.0pm. M, Roy & self dined together. Roy went to dance at the Pepys Cockerells. Tried new Electric Fan which ceased working in 10 minutes. Bed at 11.14pm. (Red ink: Came up from Southampton.) Tuesday June 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. M remained in bed. Most lovely morning. Out 8.30 with large camera. No Rags. At last got two of Aphrodite in bright sun. Took 10 altogether. Back at 9.15. Roy at breakfast. Stiff southerly breeze. After skemed & took photos of Upton for Punch going through Lock, Vol 131. Developed & enlarged. Up in room. Miss Thompson lunched with us, Mrs Phipson Beale's sister. At 7.15 dressed & M & self went in the carriage & dined at Mite's. Miss Donna Linda there. After at 9.45 all went together to the Royal Academy Soirée. Many I knew. Genivieve Ward, Mrs Jopling Rowe etc etc. Saw Sir Luke & Lady Fildes going out. Partridges & Millets (illeg) as the announcement of Sir Luke was made on Friday morning, 2 days after. Home by carriage. Roy on box. (Red ink: Dined at Mite's. All went to the Royal Academy Soirée.) Wednesday June 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out with L.C. Took a dozen of girls going to Kensington High School. Princess in black skirt & bows. Back. All day at work on Punch & Toby in Lock. Dressed at 6.15 & left at 6.45. Went by cab all the way to Bouverie Street. P.D. O.S, self, F.H.T, P.A, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L & A.G. Cuts made up & changed, I taking the Pirate cut Partridge did not see. Left at 10.10 with Guthrie & posted letters. After walked to the Embankment & waited ¼ of an hour for the carriage. Many cyclists. After down to Stafford House & attended a reception at the Duchess of


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Sutherland's. Saw Bainbridges, Sir Joseph Lawrence, Mr Haldane etc. Left at 11.45 & home. Got carriage on the Embankment, or rather in the Mall. Home. Mrs Bien Cardé (sic: Biancardi) & Mite lunched at 18 Stafford Terrace. (Red ink: M & self went to the Duchess of Sutherland's. Last saw Mrs Craigie.) Thursday June 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. A dull morning. Walk up Campden Hill. Took no photos. Back. Breakfast & after schemed subject of T.P. O'Connor as Captain of Sloop chasing Pirate. The photos came & were never given to me. Photod Britten the fireman & also Upton. All ready by 4.0. Then set to & finished drawing for opening Volume 131, Lock. Finished by 7.45 & then went on with the tracing for O'Connor drawing. M & Roy went to dine at the Berkeley with Miss Rose Innes & went to see a rotten piece after. Wrote 4 or 5 letters after dinner. M & Roy back at 12.0. Bed. Friday June 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50. Had been violent storm of rain in the night. 100,000,000 tons of water fell in London according to W.G of Saty. Rain for walk. Went up C.H & avoided band. List of honours out. F.C.G knighted, Pirie a Peer, Johnson Ferguson Baronet etc. Hard at work all day on drawing of T.P. O'Connor chasing Pirate. Finished at 10.0pm. M & self dined & left at 11.0 in carriage for the Foreign Office Reception. Went up the stars wih Phipson Beale. Saw many, including the girl I saw grow up on Campden Hill & Edward. Who is Edward? Walked through rooms & left at 12.10. Called Athenaeum Club & dove home. Bed at 1.0am. Roy back from an at home at the Threlfalls. (Red ink: Went by self to Foreign Office Reception.) Saturday June 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Not very tired. Out for walk up Campden Hill & took a few photos in Church Street. Magazine jammed. Back. In morning wrote cheques etc. Printed all back 2 x 2¾ blues. Lunch. After packed leisurely & M & self left in 4 wheeler to Paddington to go down to Pangbourne. Met Mr Michel at station going also. Did not know him. To Bowden Green. Mr Fitzmaurice, Engineer to the L.C.C, there. Had met him before. Pleasant dinner. A Canon & his wife came. Played 126 up, Canon & Mr Spagnoletti v Mr Michel & self. Beat them by 6. Bed 10.20pm. (Red ink: M & self went to Pangbourne.)


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Sunday July 1 Bowden Green, Pangbourne. Called 8.0. Good bath etc & breakfast. After out in garden. At 11.45 walked down to Pangbourne & took 16 photos. Disappointed not catching schoolgirl. Back 1.15. Lunch in garden. Good Walker's Whiskey. After at 3.0 all went down to the river & in skiff & canoe. A Miss Shea, niece of Simmonds, came. Pretty, like Mary Grieves in 1862. Dull weather & closer. Landed at Mrs Gray's & walked up to see roses & house. Daughter married to Major Forbes. A pretty girl there. Back & to Bowden Green. Dinner after reading Zola's Paris. No appetite. A Major Forbes & his wife dined. Talk of tetanus & hydrophobia. Good dinner. After played 100, no 126, up. 4 games, Mr Michel & self v Major F & Spagnoletti. Badly beaten. Bed at 10.20pm. (Red ink: On the river at Pangbourne.) Monday July 2 Bowden Green, Pangbourne. Called at 7.0 & up an hour earlier. Trouble about bath. Packed leisurely. Baker, Coutts, Michel & Spagnoletti left by the 9.5 train. We went by the 10.40. News of awful crash on the L & S.W Railway last night, 27 killed. Home by cab at 12.0pm. Developed photos taken yesterday etc. Put things away. M & self dined quietly. Roy out at dinner. Quiet evening & bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self came up from Pangbourne.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir Wilfred Lawson. Monday 2 July.) Tuesday July 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out with camera & at last got satisfactory full face of Aphrodite & girl on steps. Back. After developed etc. Also Paris Tuesday photos. Dressed at 2.0 & left by carriage for Kensington Church for Kitty Fildes' wedding with Mr Ellis. Schmaltz just behind. On to house. Charming reception. Poor John Aird. Orchardson better. Mrs Perugini, many others. Left with Roy at 4.45pm & home. Changed & developed photos. M & self dined quite quietly by ourselves. (Red ink: Miss Fildes' wedding.) Wednesday July 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out with Rags & large C. Took 1 doz of Lytham House girls. Back. Developed. Put things away etc. Rest in afternoon & left at 5.0pm. Bus to W.G & on to Punch Dinner. There at 7.0pm. O.S, self, F.H.T, B.P, E.T.R, A.G, Lucas late. Reed dressed. Very long sitting. Got cut of Birrell & Elephant.


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Left 11.20. Partridge & O.S at table. Home by bus. Bed 1.0am. (Cutting glued in: Will of Francis Webb. July 4.) Thursday July 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am. Sent wire to Hilton not to come up from Southend. Walked over to Notting Hill & took 1 dozen of schoolgirls in lovely light. Back. Breakfast at 9.25. Wrote letters & schemed subject of Elephant & Birrell. At 12.0 took study from Britten. Good light. Had easel carried down. Developed & all ready by 4.0pm. Tired. Rest till 5.45 when got drawings outlined. M, Roy & self dined. Bottle of Champagne. Electric Fan in Drawing Room worked erratically. Bed at 11.30pm. Very hot. Friday July 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out to Lytham House. Took 9 photos of Princess etc. Back. All day at work on Elephant & Birrell. Developed photos after lunch. On to work. Wire from O.S. Finished at 9.40pm. Electric Light fetched from the Drawing Room. Dined 9.45pm, M & self. Roy went to Mrs Temple's at home. Bed 12.0am. Roy back 11.30pm. (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Melville Bergheim, of a daughter. Death of Charlotte Somerset. Death of Lady Doyle.) Saturday July 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Grey morning. Walked with Rags up Church St & over by Argyll Road. Breakfast. Roy going to Oxford & Cambridge Cricket Match. After printed about 50 ¼ blues. Lunch. M & self went by carriage to the Comedy Theatre & saw 'Raffles'. Gerald Du Maurier good. Very pretty woman with iron grey hair & pretty eyes. Saw Mrs Kobervein Tyrrel. Back by carriage from Athenaeum. Got fruit. Passes from Sir F.Harrison. Developed the last of the Paris photos between 6.30 & 7.15pm. Roy went to Hurlingham. Cart fetched him at 10.30pm. M & self had delightful quiet dinner together. Very hot. Bed at 11.50. Roy in 11.0pm. (Red ink: M & self went to see Raffles.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Thornton.) Sunday July 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & out 9.5. Dull but hot & close. Took Rags washed. Breakfast. Roy in. Filled in Income Tax Paper for £850 less £25 Life assurance. Brown boots polished. After Tilda came to lunch with M & helped her pack. Went in the afternoon & played some very good sets of Lawn Tennis. Self & a young man v


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Sir A & Col Trench. Very evenly matched. Back. Dressed. (Red ink: Went by self to play Tennis at Sir A.Hickman's.) Monday July 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. A dark morning. Sun ocasionally. Out & took Brown Legs etc. After A came with a companion. Took 1 in poor light back view. After took the funny little man with Homburg hat too small. Back. Changed & left after breakfast with M for Euston in Otley's cab. Saw M off. Lord Dudley & Sir W.Agnew there, Miss Ogilvie. After saw Phil Agnew. Left & walked in hot sun to the British Museum. Delighted with Nereid Room & Mausoleum from Mausolos. After walked to Garrick. Lunched with Phil A & talk to Colonel Jones who was back in his old form. To Sands & Hunters & after home by bus. Roy & self dined & went to Palace Theatre after. A very poor entertainment. Home by carriage from the Garrick Club at 12.0am. (Red ink: Roy & self went to the Palace Theatre. M went to Llandridnod. Went to British Museum.) Tuesday July 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Missed B.L. Took a part of the plate of Aphrodite. A wretched old woman passed. Back & breakfast. After did enlargements & at work all day. Dined by self in the evening. Drove at 5.0pm & called on Lady Stracey. Dull musical party. Back & went on till dinner with photos. (Red ink: Called on Lady Stracey.) Wednesday July 11 Stafford Terrace. Up & out at 8.30 with Rags to Lytham House. Took 12 photos, one of girl like Mabel Hall. Back. Breakfast. Bright sun at intervals. After all day printing etc. Left somewhat earlier in afternoon. Called at Garrick & after Sands & Hunters. On to Punch Dinner, there 6.50. Saw Seaman on Almanack. Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, P.A, E.V.L, B.P, H.W.L, Very long discussion. Did not leave till 11.30 & missed bus. Waited ¼ hr in Fleet Street & then took a Putney bus & changed at Knightsbridge. Home 12.34am. Bed. (Cutting glued in: Marriage of Charles Agnew to Olive Danes.) Thursday July 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.40 & out. Cold on larynx. Met Lord Alverstone in Church St. Snapped a few unimportant figures. Back & schemed drawing of Lord Roberts & John Bull. At 12.15 Britten came round. Had sent Upton for a trumpet to Mays. Many things in


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yard. Finished at 3.30 & up in room. Worked till 8.30pm when dined by self. Roy out & went to see The Geisha. Bed at 12.0 after reading In Search of the Unknown by Robert W.Chambers. (Cutting glued in: Death of William Kevill-Davies.) Friday July 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Lovely bright sun. Snapped B.L & also back view of A. Thought it was perfect but on development not. Back. Breakfast & after all day at work on drawing of John Bull & Lord Roberts. Finished 10.15 & dined alone. Roy had been to the McLarens at the Eton & Harrow Cricket Match. Bed 12.0. Roy back. (Cutting glued in: Death of John Uniacke.) Saturday July 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Not tired. Out with L.C & Rags. Took 8 or 9 on Church St. Little girl in black etc. Back. Breakfast. After letters. Enlarged the entire morning, Miss Bryson & also a lot of this year's street girls etc. Lunch. Went on to 3.0. Brilliant sun without a cloud all morning. Rest. Then dressed & to Lords to E & Harrow Match. Missed Roy. Only met Warre. Back & changed. Went to dine at the Naval & Military Club with Edgar at 8.5pm. Cold troublesome. Good dinner. After strolled to Athenaeum. Letters. Then on to the Garrick. Roy there. Marshall, Chudleigh etc. Home by carriage at 12.15am. (Red ink: Eton & Harrow Cricket Match. Dined with Edgar at Army & Navy Club.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Chief Waladotta. July 13 06.) Sunday July 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out at 9.15am. Dull morning after breakfast. Roy in all the morning. Wrote letter to the Inspector of Taxes who had bothered me again. Also others. Roy & self lunched. It looked very threatening. Roy to Club, back at 4.0 & we both went to Sir A.Hickman's. Played 8 sets. Self & a grandson at Harrow v Sir A & Roy. I played very well at 1st. Back & Roy & self dined. Edgar never came. Quiet evening & read R.W.Chamber's In Search of the Unknown. Mostly repetition. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: Went with Roy to Sir A.H's.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Major Francis Ricarde-Seaver.) Monday July 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30am. Shaved. Dressed leisurely & out at 8.30. Nevertheless just missed B.L. Took snap of A sideways & back to breakfast. Came over dull afterwards. Above photo no


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good. Enlarged Dutch & other photos in the morning & up to 3.0pm. Roy & self dined at 7.45 & after went by carriage to a Conversazione at the Royal Academy to meet the Congress of Architects. Saw many I knew. The Arnold-Forsters & Sir Carruthers Gould. A'Becketts. Oh! Left 11.0 & to the Garrick Club when the carriage took us home at 11.45pm. Very hot. (Red ink: Roy & self went to Conversazione at the R.A. Architects.) (Cutting glued in: The Salisbury Railway accident. July 16th.) Tuesday July 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30. Ellen up tho' ill. Out 8.25. Brilliant sun & hot. Took B.L & just got A back view. Back. Roy gone to Dentist. Never kept the appointment. All morning enlarging Dutch photos etc & up to 3.30. Tired. Rest. Roy & self dined at 6.45 & left in carriage & saw The Beauty of Bath. Bosh. Supper at Garrick C & home by carriage. Intensely hot evening. Awful in theatre. Bed 12.45pm. (Red ink: Roy & self went to the Aldwych Theatre to 'Beauty of Bath'.) Wednesday July 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30am & out in bright sun with L.C to Notting Hill. Met boy & gave him 1/s for address. Took 12. Back & after from 12.0 to 3.0 enlarged Dutch photos. Lunch by self. Rest in room from 3.0 to 4.30pm. After left for P.D & cab to Athenaeum. Asked for brandy just as going out. 1 letter, McCrae. On to Sands & H. Talk till 7.0pm. To Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, P.A, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Gave Salon catalogue to B.P. Basket verified. Left at 11.10 & had to wait nearly 20m for bus. Home by 12.5pm & to bed. Very hot day & evening. (Cutting glued in: Death of Samuel Armitage.) Thursday July 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Rainy in morning. Roy away early to Dentist. Back 9.15. Breakfast. Took no photos. After schemed subject of Asquith & Haldane as Monks. At 12.0 photod Britten & Hilton. Got done early, up in room 2.45. Read Chamber's book. Rest till 3.45. Wire from Fletcher asking on yacht for Saturday. Got drawing in outline & at 7.15 dressed & left in carriage to dine with Mr & Mrs Dickens. Took Mrs Alec Tweedie in to dinner. Ray Lankester & Guthrie there. Introduced Guthrie to Mrs Alec T. Left by the carriage 11.30 & home & so to bed. (Red ink: Dined at the Harry Dickens's.)


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Friday July 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.40am & out. Took no photos as it was dull & grey. All day at work on drawing of Asquith & Haldane as two Monks. Finished 10.35 & dined by self after. Had half a bottle of Champagne. Bed at 1.0am very tired. Saturday July 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0 & out up Church St. Took 1 photo only of a little girl in red dress. Went to Butts & bought strawberries & carried them home. After breakfast & letters the whole morning & up to 4.0pm enlarging various photos. Used two enlargers for the first time. Tired. Roy & self dined together & we went to see Genée at the Empire. Very sleepy whilst it was being played. Called Garrick Club & home by the carriage. Bed 1.0am. (Red ink: Roy & self went to the Empire.) Sunday July 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Out at 9.15am. Fine morning. After breakfast put things ready for tomorrow. No time for enlarging. Roy & self lunched together. Rest after. At 4.15 to Sir A.H's for the last time 1906. Very good sets. A son of Sir A's not met before, John Hickman & wife, General H & all up from Llandrindod. Played many sets. Home 7.30. Roy & self dined quietly & went to bed at 10.30pm. Ada S.J sent a letter to Kensington Palace Gardens asking us to go to Derwent Lodge to dinner & Spencer also called in the morning. (Red ink: Last Lawn Tennis at Sir A.H's.) Monday July 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.0am & got all ready. Breakfast at 7.30 & off in cart for Charing X at 8.0am. Lovely morning. Left by 9.0am train for Dover. People in & out of the carriage at the last moment. On board Princess Harriette. Left 11.20 & got to Ostend at 3.20pm. Uninteresting people on board. Took 8 photos. Luggage passed & drove to Hotel Continental. Most lovely brilliant hot sun. Out at once with camera & took 33 photos. Peasant girl on sands etc. Dressed at 7.0 & dinner 8.15pm. A fairly good dinner. Bottle of Claret. Out after & to a concert. Good. Back at 10.45. Then changed films & into bed at 12.0am exactly. (Red ink: Left London for Ostend.) Tuesday July 24 Hotel Continental, Ostend. Woke up several times in the night & at last up at 7.30. Restless. A dull grey morning which kept on all day


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until 5.45pm. Slight stroll. Back to breakfast at 9.0. Excessively dear & not a good sole, 6.50F. After up & wrote 4 letters. One to M. At 11.0 got camera & took 33 of people bathing etc, all in grey light. Left off 1.0pm. Went to a photograph shop who only wanted to charge 25c for use of dark room. Gave 1F. Re-filled two magazines & had at 2.15pm a most indifferent filet. They charged 5F for it. Out again & along sands. Took 45 more photos, 78 in all today. Remarkably fine girl aged 16 with 2 little brothers. Took many of her. Back at 6.30 & packed bags. A letter from dear M, written yesterday. After went down to dinner. Not good. Paid bill & got off by 10.15 & on board boat in deck chair. Talk to 2 girls, hospital nurses who had gone over for the day. At 11.30 went down & got troubled sleep till 3.0am. Cup of coffee & ashore 3.30. Carriage to self at Dover to Charing X. Wednesday July 25 On board train, Dover to Charing X. Upton met me 6.0am & drove to Stafford Terrace. Changed films etc & out at 8.25 to Cromwell Road. Snapped A with small camera. She, like Lot's Wife, looked round. Back. Got strawberries. Roy & self at breakfast. After all day tidying. Developed 1 dozen. 2 hours rest in Drawing Room. Dead tired. Left & by bus all way to Fleet Street. Punch Dinner. Lawence Bradbury back 1st time since May 28th, 2 months. Had been to Boulogne. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, L.B, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, A.G. Got good subject of Duma as 1st born child & Russia. Home by bus at 11.15. Bed after reading. Fan in the Drawing Room used 1st time. Upton unwell. Came over sick as he said. Wire from Hamilton Fletcher to join the Joyeuse on Saturday. (Red ink: Arrived home from Ostend.) Thursday July 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am & out down Lytham House with small camera. Snapped B.L. No Princess. Back at 9.30, got raspberries. After schemed subject for Russia. No wire or letters from Miss Huxley. Had to get study from Marguerite. Very hot sun. All ready by 4.0pm. Rest in room. Roy back & drove in cart to the Queen's Club.We dined quietly together at 8.40pm. In Drawing Room after. Fan going. Bed at 11.30pm. Had Champagne cup. Marguerite put too much Maraschino in it. Felt very sick & seedy in Drawing Room after. It passed off after a bit. (Red ink: Sick from Champagne cup.)


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Friday July 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out with S.C. Grey dark morning & was unable to take anything. Called Lower Butts, raspberries. After to breakfast. Band. Roy off. All day at work on drawing of Russia & Duma, Death of the First Born. Finished it at 10.20. Roy back from Club. Dined 10.30 & in Drawing Room after. Bed at 12.0. Tired. Saturday July 28 Stafford Terrace. Overslept & an hour wrong in time. Lovely morning. Missed Church Street. Went out & got cherries. Breakfast. Roy off to City. After wrote & packed, no time to put away. Developed 18 films & 6 plates. Packed. Very hot. Lunch & got off at 2.10 by cart for Waterloo. Old Rick very bad. Crowded train & frightfully hot in it. Lord Crawford went down also. Spoke to him on boat to Cowes & he remembered 28 years ago when we met at Bergheims. On boat many people. Girl with thin lips. Got to Cowes 7.15pm. Boat at the pier & on to 'Joyeuse'. Steered the boat. Tabs & Alice Holland on board. H & Gwen after. Just time to dress. Poor dinner, ½ bottle of Lanson to self. Talk & smoke & turned in 11.15pm. Strange dream of Aphrodite & introduction to & other curious matters. (Red ink: Went to Southampton & Cowes.) (Cuttings glued in: The wife of Ernest Drabble, of a daughter. Charlemagne's sarcophagus opened.) Sunday July 29 S.Y.Joyeuse, Cowes. Up at 8.0. Bath. Out at 8.45. Grey close day. Wrote diary. Poor breakfast. No fruit. After wrote 5 letters. H, Tabs, Gwen & A.H all went ashore to church. Took 2 snaps of them. Close on board. Finished letters & at 12.30 went ashore. Posted letters. Took 2 photos sidewalk & guns. Met H & we returned to the yacht. Under weigh at 1.15. Good lunch. Steamed opposite Christ Church. Landed, Gwen, H & self. Tabs started & then went back again. Anchorage looked just the same. Click of Col Sermon's croquet ball precisely similar. Looked over house. Statuette of Mrs Beaton. Sad memories. Afte called on Mrs Wiggins. Maud W a girl of 15. Pretty. A Mephistophelian individual there, Mr James & another. Left & back on yacht by 5.0pm. Took 2 snaps, 1 of Wiggins's & 1 of boat. 2 of row boat, 2 ashore, 1 blank, 2 Ch Ch, 5 of flag flying, 1 doz. Steamed to Portland. There 7.45. Lovely evening after & sunset. Read Hawthorne. After dinner


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young 2nd Lt from the Guards came aboard. Talk. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Afloat at Portland etc.) Monday July 30 S.Y.Joyeuse, Portland Roads. Up at 7.50. Bath. Shave. On deck 8.30. Very much upset with something I eat yesterday. Probably salmon & cream on top. H, Tabs, Gwen & A.H at 10.15 in motor for visit to Leweston. Self got off with Captain at 11.0 & went to Weymouth. Got fly & to S.Western & L.S.W Station. Began at 11.30 to take photos on sands. Took 31 in all. Lunch at the Royal. Was charged for small piece of ham 3/s. Took 1/s off. Left 12.55 & most comfortable journey to Waterloo by self. No stop after Central Bournemouth. Cab home. Dear M back. Bath, changed & by bus to Punch Dinner. Called Sands & H. After met curious girls in bus. A chorus line or what? Pretty but awful. O.S, self, F.H.T, L.B, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Got cut of C.B & little John Bull. Suggested the Transvaal for (illeg). Left 10.30 by cart to the Athenaeum & wrote letters. Home. Still upset & seedy. (Red ink: M back from Llandrindod. Came up from Weymouth.) (Cuttings glued in: King's Birthday Honours. July 29. Obituary of E.Noble Smith. 30 July.) Tuesday July 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & changed plates. Out to Cromwell Road. No A. Holidays commenced evidently 27th. Took 7 of shop fronts for cut. Back. Schemed subject & at 11.45 Britten came & also small boy. Photod them. Very hot. Edith F to lunch. After got done by 4.10. Rest till 5.30pm when went on till 8.0pm when dressed. Roy had the carriage. Dined 8.20 with M. Rest & fan in Drawing Room. Bed at 11.30pm. Very hot. (Cuttings glued in: Deth of William Scooner. Obituary of William Scooner. W 8 Aug.) Wednesday August 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am. Better but still not quite all right. Took S.C & up Church St. Took only one of Chinaman. No school children. Roy off early. After at work all day on drawing of C.B & Little John Bull & Slop Tailors Shop. Finished at 10.30pm. M & self had dinner. Roy in at 10.25 from the Oxford & Cambridge Club. He sat at the table & had cigar & liqueur. Bed at 12.0 after. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of John Toole. July 31.)


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Thursday August 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out. Caught Red Skirt & woman in Phillimore Gardens. A restful long pottering day. Much to print & develop. M, Roy & self dined quietly in evening. Read In the Days of the Dandies to them. Fan going. M & Roy to bed 11.0am, self followed at 12.0am. In morning put away 4 weeks of notes & photos & also squared up Bromos. (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Sydney Waterlow.) Friday August 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am & out. Missed Red Skirt. Went to Butts & got fruit. Thought I had dropped 6d. Roy went to City. All day printing & doing films etc,. Roy back early in afternoon & packed. He left when I was in my Hut for the Carlton Club to dine, after to go north by the 11.50 to Dumfries. M & self dined together quietly & bed early after. (Red ink: Roy went to Terregles.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir Sydney Waterlow. Saty 4 Aug.) Saturday August 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. 2 fair girls sprang out of bus for Derry & Toms. Took good one of Red Skirt & another making the 6. Back. Breakfast. After from 12.0 to 1.15 getting 3 enlargements only. Very hot. Lunch. M & self left at 2.0 & by carriage to Daly's Theatre & we were most delighted with The Geisha. Out & through Leicester Square. Awful people about. Carriage home from the Athenaeum. Called Butts & also ham. Developed 30 plates & films from 6.30 to 7.30. Dinner. Had silly book on Carthage after. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self went to Daly's Theatre.) Sunday August 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & down. Went to Hut & took out film. After for walk. Rags rolled badly. Let the hose run on him & tied him up in yard. M down. After did nothing much. At 12.10 M & self & Rags went for a walk in Kensington Gardens. Mr & Mrs Villiers & also Sir W.Richmond's brother. Afterwards back. Lunch. One of the Queen Anne mirrors in the Drawing Room fell down & smashed to atoms. The cord gave way. Left at 2.30. Cab to 14 C.S. Took some photos of G.T. Out 5.0 & home by bus from Piccadilly. Cocoa & bath. M in Drawing Room. After at 8.0 Colonel & Madame Bien Cardé dined with us. Good dinner which they both enjoyed. 2 bottles of Geisler. They left at 11.0pm. Colonel B.C recommended Hungarian Stock to me. Sir W.Richmond's brother


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is called English Richmond. (Red ink: Col & Mrs Bian Cardi dined.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Evelyn de la Rue of a son.) Monday August 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out. Walk up Church Street. Very few about. Roy at Mr Galbraith's for 6 days. After at 11.0 & up to 5.0pm enlarged Dutch & other plates & films. More or less successful. Curious light. Took much longer altho' bright sun. Rest in room after cocoa. Very hot evening. M & self sat on door step. Margaret out. Waited on by Ellen. Bed at 11.30 after reading. (Red ink: Bank Holiday. Long day enlarging.) (Cutting glued in: Death of William Imrie.) Tuesday August 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out with C. Took no photos. People comimg back. No, took no camera. Waited at corner of Derry & Toms. No fair girls & no red dress. After back & all day after 11.0 enlarging Dutch & other photographs. Roy still in Scotland. M & self dined together quietly at 8.0pm. Very hot. In Drawing Room after with wheel. Bed 11.30pm. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Sir Alexander Moncrieff. Mon 6 Aug.) Wednesday August 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & up Church St. Took 4 photos reversed. Splendid light. Red skirt a failure. After finished packing things for Scotland. No photography. Left at 6.0 & by bus all way to Bouverie Street. Met Orton. Took my photos to shew them. Success. Graves back. L.B, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G. Long discussion. Settled for C.B etc cut. Altered after to a Cricketing subject with Keir Hardie. Left at 10.45 & home by cart calling at Athenaeum & writing letters. Bed after reading Westminster. Very hot. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Emma Reffell. The wife of the Rev Orlebar, of a daughter. The wife of Wellesley Orr, of a son. Aug 11. Operation for Mr St John Harmsworth. 8 August. Engagement of Thomas Haggard to Agnes Haggard.) Thursday August 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out up Church St. Carried camera but took no photos. Back. Upton got fruit. After schemed subject of C.B & Keir Hardie Cricketing. At 11.45 photod Upton & Britten & got all ready by 4.0. Worked from 5.0 to 9.30 or 8.45pm when M & self dined. In Drawing Room after. Wheel going. Bed 11.30pm. Very hot at night. Roy still at Terregles Dumfries. Sent wire in the


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evening to say he arrives at 7.10 Euston tomorrow. (Cuttings glued in: Death of John Mathieson. Professor Lankester's letter. Aug 8th.) Friday August 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.0 & did 1½ hrs letters etc before breakfast. Roy back from Dumfries by cart at 8.35am. Went out to get basket of greengages. Breakfast. Roy went to the City. After at work all day on Cricketing subject, C.B & Keir Hardie. Finished at 6.15pm. Put up a few things & changed & at 7.25 M, Roy & self dined. Bottle of Geisler. At 8.35 left by good 1 horse bus for St Pancras & most comfortable journey to Ayr. Changed Kilmarnock. Mr Borthwick & Mr Young in train. Did not sleep well. Carriage hot & stuffy. M all right. Turned in at 10.0pm. (Red ink: Finished cartoon 6.15. M & self left for Ayr by the 9.30pm train.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of S.W.Gilbert, of a daughter. The wife of Vernon Haggard, of a daughter.) Saturday August 11 On board train from St Pancras to Ayr. Woke much earlier than needed. Cold coffee. After had to change at Kilmarnock. Mr Borthwick & Mr Young. At Ayr by 8.0am. Breakfast at a good hotel. M & self walked into Ayr, a wretched town. Took 1 photo of Piper. Many good print shops. Back. Had to pay 11s 4d for tickets to Barr Hill. Arrived. Pretty country. After drove to Drumlanford. Passed Fox in a motor. Arrived 12.15. Lunch at 1.0. After rested from 2.30 to 4.15. Walked to loch to see them fishing. Mooned about for an hour & a half. Close. Midges. Wheel going 22 to 30 per minute. Back. Talk to Mrs B & M on terrace. Lovely air. Pat looking out. Bath. Dressed for dinner. Sleepy after. Bed 10.20pm. (Red ink: Arrived at Ayr & on to Drumlanford after.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of John Mathieson. Friday 10 Aug.) Sunday August 12 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 8.0. Strange dream of Charley Hartree dying £47,000 pounds in debt & our having to give up the Mauve. A very wet morning. Heavy & dull. Good breakfast. Talk of drink. It rained heavily most of the day & blew a gale in the night. Read Arabian N in afternoon. Went for walk with W.P.B, M & Mrs Beale at 5.0pm. Chickens dying. Maggie & farm yard. The house boat utilised for a Noah's Ark Club building. Good dinner. Cold. Smoke & talk after. Bed at 10.30pm. (Red ink: Wet day & gale at


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D. Read & short walk.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Pearl Craigie. Death of Sarah Armstead.) Monday August 13 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 7.45. Shave, Bath. A misty morning. Breakfast 8.30am. At 9.30am Mr Borthwick & Mr Young went off. They came back at 7.0pm with a brace of birds. Mr W.P.B & self started at 10.0. Round both lochs near the house all day. Got a brace almost at once. But Oh! after. Birds astonishingly wild & impossible to get at. Self only got 2 brace all day & 4 brace altogether, 1 rabbit. Dogs, spaniel Rush, pointer Lorrie & a setter. Lunch 1.20pm. Not very done up. Shot a bird immediately after. Then a long long interval. Rest from 3.50 to 4.10pm. Went on till 5.35 when stopped near house. Met Mrs B & M. Had ginger beer. Tea & a lovely warm bath. Dressed & down at 7.0pm. Wrote diary. Dinner. After Mr B played waltzes etc. Very sleepy. Bed at 10.30. Turned in at once. (Red ink: 1st day's shoot with Mr B. Very poor sport.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Mrs Craigie. Wedy 15 Aug.) Tuesday August 14 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 7.15. 1st bath. Heavy rain & strong wind. Down. Wrote 2 letters. Breakfast. After left in break 4 guns & drove up road. Began shooting 10.45 & kept on till 1.15pm. I made 1 splendid shot of flying grouse down wind. Got 3 brace grouse, 1 hare & 1 leveret. Left off at 5.0pm & all drove home in break. Very tired. Went up to get coffee left over from Friday & found the milk bad. Tea. Ginger Beer & after read Sindbad the Sailor. Dressed. Bath. Dinner. Grouse. Rice pudding. After a game of Bridge. Mr Borthwick & self beat Mr W.P.B & M by 180 points. (Red ink: 2nd day's shoot at D.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Edward Physick.) Wednesday August 15 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 7.45. Bath. Had been raining in the night. After the whole morning did nothing. Hung about. Read Arabian Nights. M & W.P.B went to Dornal & learnt they had got 24 brace on Monday. After lunch a clergyman from Barr Hill, Mr Gordon, came. Knew my work. At 2.30 took camera & strolled as far as the wall I took the last 2 years. Took 10 photos. Horses, railings, cows, scenes, wall, butt & picked up a paper Oct 1904. Read a tale in it. Returned at 5.20 & had tea. Read Nights & dressed. Dinner. After pianola. Bridge. Same as last night. Made 165 points. Bed 11.0. Slept well. (Red ink: Walked & took photos.) (Cutting glued in: The Collis Diamond Syndicate. T 14 Aug.)


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Thursday August 16 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 7.45. Bath. Finer morning. Down 8.0am. Read terminal notes of Arabian Nights. After all left at 10.15am & shot the moor. Opposite Gibson's Farm. Lovely day & light over the hills. Fair bag. 8 snipe. Left off at 5.30. Mr B gave Gibson a hare. Walked home. Dinner. After Mr Borthwick & self were badly beaten by Mr B & M at Bridge. Score wiped off. Bed 10.30pm. (Red ink: Shot moor & snipe ground.) Friday August 17 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up 7.45 & down. Wrote 2 or 3 letters to Port Patrick etc. After an idle morning. Read Arabian Nights & wrote etc. Lunch. Very good boiled beef. After all went fishing. Passed Mr Robertson. His keeper & another man blazing away into coveys of grouse. Miss R also. Went on a long way over the moor to a pool on the burn. Uncomfortable on acct of shoes. Took 1 doz photos. Something ominous about them as from from 9 to 12 did not seem exposed. Left off at 5.0 & walked over Hill by Cairn & home 6.5pm. Tea. Changed. Dinner. After beaten at bridge again. Bed 10.30. (Red ink: Fishing day in burn. Took photos.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Colonel James Baker. Wedy 15 Aug 1906.) Saturday August 18 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 7.30am. Breakfast 8.0am. All off in break at 9.15am. North wind & grey. 8 guns, Mr Beale, Mr Sambourne, Mr Borthwick, Mr Young, Mr Robertson, a caricature, Mr McCready, a schoolmaster. Self got 6 brace birds. Bag 32 brace besides (illeg) snipe 6 hares. Left off at 6.45pm & drove home. Dressed. Champagne at dinner. 2 rubbers after. Beaten by many points. Bed 11.45pm. The caricature was a Mr Nivvin. (Red ink: 1st day's drive. Delightful day.) Sunday August 19 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 8.45. Bath. Grey morning. Breakfast. After Mrs B, Mr Young & the domestic staff to Kirk at 11.0am. Cut strips from Times up to Tuesday 7th Aug. Took M for walk round Loch Drumlanford. Flies troublesome & so in a less degree was Pat. Back. Lunch 2.15pm. After Mr B, Mr Y & Mr B went for a walk. Rested & read Pride & Prejudice. At 4.30 the Dornal party called & had tea. Wrote to Sands & Hunter. Took M for walk round both


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Lodges. Back. Dinner. No Bridge. Bed 10.15pm. (Red ink: Took M for walk in morning.) Monday August 20 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up 7.30. Breakfast. After wrote letters about return journey & others. Post in. Few letters. Mr B, Mr Y, Mr B & self lunched at 12.30 & all started off to shoot at 1.0pm, up the March to the Ruin. A delightful afternoon. Saw the Dornal party over the moor. Bag 10 brace grouse, 1 black game, 9 snipe. Self got only 1 brace grouse & 2 snipe. Back late 7.10pm. Ginger Beer & after dressed in time for dinner 7.35. Game of Bridge after, Mr Borthwick & self won by 160 points. Bed 10.45. Hot toddy. Good. Slept well. Strange dream of Melbury Road being pulled down. Burgess' house. Said in dream 'Sic transit gloria mundi'. (Red ink: Good day's shoot at the Ruin. Began 1.20pm.) Tuesday August 21 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up at 7.30. Sunny at first. Down 8.15am. A grey wet day all day. Mr Beale & Mr Young went off to Loch Martle to fish. Mr Borthwick & self remained. Hung about all day & wrote letters etc. Lunch. After the same. Went for walk with Mrs Beale. Midges troublesome. At 6.30 they came back with 38 loch trout. Also a young man named Lawrence Strain came at same time in a motor car. He was at one time engaged to Mr Young's sister & constantly smokes cigarettes. Dressed & dinner. Good. After a game of bridge. Mr Strain played well. He & I beat Mr Borthwick & Mr Beale by 163. Always lead from strongest hand. Bed at 10.45pm. (Red ink: Idle day. Mr B & Mr Y caught 38 loch trout.) Wednesday August 22 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up 7.30am & ready for drive. After breakfast started off 9.15am. Seven guns, Mr Beale, Mr Borthwick, Mr Young, Mr Lawrence Strain, Mr L.S, a Portuguese tall dark man, M.P for Devonshire, & another. Lunch at farm. 8 drives in the day. Bag 54 brace. Some picked up after. Self got 6½ brace, unlucky in drives. At last two midges a perfect plague, never felt them so bad before. Walked home. Ginger Beer. Felt more done up than any other day during visit 1906. Good dinner. Champagne. Sleepy & tired after. Bridge. M & Mr Lawrence Strain v Mr B & Mr B. They were beaten. Bed at 10.30pm. Sleep at once. (Red ink: 2nd grouse drive. Terribly bitten by knats.)


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Thursday August 23 Drumlanford, Barr Hill. Up 7.30. Felt very tired. Bath. Breakfast. After wrote letters. After at 10.30 Mr Lawrence Strain left in a Humber motor. Again wrote etc. Post in. Lunch. The Factor came. Read papers etc & at 4.0pm Mr Borthwick & Mr Young left. Also the Factor with them. Mr B had a letter to post. Mrs B & M went to call at Dornal's. Read Lord Macaulay's Michiavelli. Met M & Mrs B & Robertson & his sister. Walked round to pigs. Pat naughty. Went for walk by self round by Drumlanford Farm, 1½ hours. Found a large mushroom. Took it to the house. There 7.15pm. Dressed. Most terribly bitten by midges. Dinner, only 4 of us. Music & M played a game of Californian Jack with Mr B. Bed 10.30 suffering fom bites. (Red ink: Mr L.Strain left & after Mr Borthwick & Mr Young.) Friday August 24 Drumlanford. Up 7.35. Bath & down later. Breakfast. Decided to go fishing. Wrote home. Most probably will be terribly bitten again. Started in break at 10.15pm. M & Mrs Beale going. Mr B & self started fishing at 10.50, 2 rods. Whipped the river all day only one rise. Lovely day but ennervating. 2 or 3 fish jumped. Saw the member for Somerset or Devonshire across the stream. Lunch at the Farm. Mr B in the wet grass. Went on to fish at 2.45. Mr B left at 3.0pm. Went back to the old pool. Another fish 14 lbs about jumped out of water. No good. Left off at 4.15 & walked home. Stewart overtook me. Had Ginger Beer, no tea, & dressed. Mr & Mrs Mrs Kennedy of Glasgow arrived & Mr James Beale who is a director of the Midland Railway. Dinner. Slow. Sleepy after. Pianola. Tired & sleepy. Bed 10.30pm. (Red ink: Fishing day. Caught nothing.) Saturday August 25 Drumlanford. Up 7.0am. Breakfast at 8.0. At 9.15 4 guns, Mr Beale, Mr S.Beale, Mr Kennedy & self went off in break to same beats as last Saturday. Mr Robertson joined. Also 3 guns from Mr Fox's, 2 brothers & a sporting old man who had a wonderful shoot of 400 acres in Cambridgeshire. Got 2 birds at the wall. Unlucky in stands. After only got 3½ brace all day. Total bag 38 brace & 15 hares. A surly young beater with a game bag never came for my birds. 2 drives in the Happy Valley. Left off at 6.0pm & had to wait 20 minutes for break to come up. Back. Tea. Dressed. D.C & W.W for dinner. Champagne & game of Bridge after. Bed 10.30pm.


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Less tired than any other day. (Red ink: Last grouse driving day at D.) Shot altogether this year 27 brace of grouse, 20 snipe, 2 hares. Sunday August 26 Drumlanford. Up at 7.30am. Bath. Down. A grey drizzly day & all morning writing diary & letters. Wrote Gaumont & Co. After took ink & paper & wrote in our room. Lunch. Read Macaulay's Michiavelli. Mr B came into room whilst I was reading. Walk with the ladies round Lodges. Dinner. Champagne. Talk after the ladies left of Louis Sterne. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Wet day at Drumlanford. Talk of Louis Sterne.) Monday August 27 Drumlanford. Up at 7.30am. Bath. Finished packing. After breakfast got away at 11.0am. Lovely morning. Fees, Stewart 30/s, McLaren 20/s, Davison 15/s, (illeg) 5/s. Good bye & drove to Newton Stewart. Good looking lady in panama hat driving. Changed Dumfries. Particular about (illeg). Left 3.20 & on thro' Carlisle home. Arrived 11.45 at Stafford Terrace. All well. Snack & bed. Through Cumberland Hills to Sellafield, Leeds, Sheffield. (Red ink: Left Drumlanford & all day travelling. Arrived home 11.45.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Lord Lovelace.) Tuesday August 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50. Out & saw no one. Carried camera for nothing. Back. Put things straight & after at 12 to 5.0 enlarging only 4 prints. Changed films in ¼ boxes & carriers. Wrote letters etc. Dined 7.30pm. Roy brought a lobster from the City. Left at 8.30 to see Stern off. M & self quiet after. Bed at 12.0am after snooze. (Red ink: Long day enlarging. Did not do very much. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Ralph, second Earl of Lovelace. Obituary of Sir Thomas Boughey.) Wednesday August 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50. Shave. Out for cycle ride 1st time since (blank). Found out A's name was Miss Turney, 28 Bramham Gardens S.W. A widow's daughter. Passed Burnand's old house. Builders at it. Breakfast 9.15am. Roy better spirits. Lovely morning. Put things straight. In afternoon left at 5.15 & called on French firm Gaumont & Co & after Sands & Hunter & Co & to Punch Dinner. O.S, self, R.H, C.G, E.V.L (in chair) E.T.R, F.H.T. An Elephant in ice on table. Long discussion. Left 11.45 & called


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German, M, self, Mrs Gibson & Lennie & Mite. Champagne again. Felt sleepy after. Changed plates 12.0 to 12.20am when to bed. Slept uneasily. Great heat all day 91º in shade. (Red ink: At Balcombe. Intense heat.) Monday September 3 Balcombe House. Up 6.50pm & down. Times. Breakfast at 8.0. Little German had his before me. Caught in pony carriage the 9.3 for Brighton. 3 Lawn Tennis young men got in. Drove in hot sun to the Bedford & then strolled out. Took in all 44 photos of beach & children etc. At 12.40 bathed, 1st time for 5 years. Out & more photos. A sea fog came up suddenly at 12.40pm. To the Bedford & had lunch. After out again. 2 common little girls, one Guildford, the other London. Back to Hotel. Got sachel & umbrella. Met one of the Orient bachelors. Asked after M. Strolled to station & back to Balcombe House by pony trap. Mrs Messel there. Tea. Felt tired & went to my room. Lost handkerchief. (Red ink: Went to Brighton from Balcombe.) Tuesday September 4 Balcombe House. Up 8.20. Slept well. Not quite so hot but still very hot. Looked over Times. Breakfast by self. After from 10.30 to 12.30 cut pars from Times since March. Dr Parker came. Lennie better. After lunch on lawn with children & Eric Parker's two children came over & played with Linley, Ann & Oliver. Dudley, Vic & Ruffles assisting. Up in room. Wrote letters & stuck a few slips in book. Dinner. Quiet evening & bed 12.0am. Took 4 photos of Ann & Oliver in swing hammock. Went to look at India rubber plant. Dinner. Mrs Gibson did not leave. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Quiet peaceful day at Balcombe. Weather changed. Heavy rain at night.) Wednesday September 5 Balcombe House. Up 7.45. Bath. Looked over Times. Shave etc. All morning putting pars in book. Lunch. At 2.25 M & self drove in 2 horse Victoria to 3 Bridges, M seeing me off. Got to Stafford Terrace 4.0pm. Wrote a letter or two. At 4.45 bus to W.P & on after to the P Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, R.L, Phil A, E.V.L, E.T.R, H.W.L. Long discussion. Left at 11.0 & caught bus at once. Home. All roads up in High St Kensington. Bed at 12.30am. Roy out.


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Thursday September 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out up Church Street. Dull grey morning. Met no one. No National Scholars back yet. After breakfast schemed subject of Haldane & Tommies. At 12.0 Britten came. Photod him & Upton & made one enlargement. At 5.0 to 8.30 drew in cartoon. Doubt as to Life Guard. Did not put him in. At 8.45 Roy & self dined. Good grouse got by Mrs Reffell. Read Life of Oscar Wilde. Bed 12.0am. Cooler. Friday September 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45am. Out for walk. Dull morning. Met no one. Breakfast. All day at work on Haldane as German & Tommies. Rather bothered with Haldane's face. Finished 10.30. Dined by self. Roy back 12.15. Bed very tired 1.0am. Saturday September 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.4 & out 8.30. Most lovely morning. Brilliant sun. Took 6 photos, grey boa & little girl with bicycle. Back. Breakfast. After letters the entire morning developing last Monday's Brighton photos. Lunch. Enlarged 2 or 3 up to 3.0pm. Changed & at 3.45 Roy & self went in a 4 wheel cab to Thornycrofts & saw the Harvard & Cambridge Boat Race. A procession. Stood on a coal heap. Brilliant sun & great crowds. Yorkshire betting men & a huge shouldered taciturn prize fighting man. Walked to tram. A curious little pretty girl with sly eyes with her father. Walked home from Hammersmith. Bought peaches. Very warm. Changed. Dined 7.0pm off Roy's brace of grouse. One rather high. Drove at 8.20 to Victoria, Roy going with me. Crowded trains. Motor met me 3 Bridges & to Balcombe House. Miss Meades there & Cushla Parker. A lovely girl. Bed at 12.0am. Very warm evening. (Red ink: Roy & self went to Oxford & Harvard Boat Race.) Sunday September 9 Balcombe House. Up 8.30. Bath. Dull grey morning much cooler. Miss Parker at breakfast. M went to church. Read Annual Register. Wrote diary. Went at 12.15 to meet M from church. Walk in Kitchen Garden. Lunch. After took 22 films of Miss Cushla Parker. They went in motor to Nymans 3.45pm. Ann & her little swinging doll. Dinner. Mr & Mrs Hayworth Booth came. Lennie upset about scent in Drawing Room. Good dinner. Champagne.


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Sleepy after. Bed at 12.0. Cushla Parker lovely girl of 17. (Red ink: Cushla Parker at Balcombe House. Photod her.) Monday Septmber 10 Balcombe House. Up at 7.0am. Saw Lennie off & after caught the 9.3am for Brighton. Lovely morning & all day. Took all 3 magazines. Women bathing, children etc etc. Lunched at the Bedford. Curious old lady next me. After out & took No 3 magazine. Little girl & her mother. Caught the 3.50 back. Only M on lawn. Mite had gone to town. Mrs Sington came. Felt very tired. At 6.30 Hamilton Fletcher & Lennie arrived. Walk round. Good dinner. Champagne. Sleepy after. Bed 11.30. Too tired to change films. (Red ink: Went to Brighton. Got good photos. Mrs Sington & Hamilton Fletcher came to Balcombe.) Tuesday September 11 Balcombe House. Up at 7.45 & saw Hamilton Fletcher off after breakfast. A most lovely cloudless September day all day. Squared prints. Lunch. At 3.30 M, Mite & Mrs Sington went for long motor ride to see Geoff. Rest from 2.0 to 3.30. Squared prints until 5.0. They did not come back until 6.40. Lennie back first. Changed films before & after dinner. Shewed Mrs S photos. Good Claret. Bed 11.30. M slept well. Wednesday September 12 Balcombe House. Up 7.45. Saw Lennie off. Duller morning. After breakfast wrote many letters. Finished squaring up prints etc. Lunch. M & self left in motor & caught 3.30 train. M went back. To Victoria, 4 wheeler home. All roads up. Got cocoa etc & then off by bus to the Punch Dinner. O.S, self, H.F.T, L.B, R.L (late) Partridge back. E.T.R, E.V.L. Got cut of Balfour & Pigs. Left at 11.0 taking Bystander & home by bus. Put down end of Argyll Road. Cooler weather. (Red ink: Came up from Balcombe.) Thursday September 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am. Cycled round Earls Court. Roads up everywhere. Back. Breakfast. Roy all right. Schemed subject of Balfour & Pigs. Hilton came at 11.45am. Photod him. Good light. Developed & at work. Could not get done in time for the play. Roy & self dined on brace grouse Roy had brought from the City. Fairly good. Bed 12.0pm.


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Friday September 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am & out. Got back before band. No school children yet. After at work all day on Arthur Balfour & Pigs. Dear M returned from Balcombe at 6.0pm. Upton met her. Finished at 10.15. M & self dined. Bed at 12.0 after snooze. Extraordinary wire to Ellen from Margaret Moser. Supposed to be from Brighton. (Red ink: M returned from Balcombe.) (Cutting glued in: Photograph of the late Mr Georges Jacobi. The week ending Sepr 15.) Saturday September 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out. Tired. Went in & had my hair cut before breakfast. After all morning packed. Put up camera for Lucy. M & self got off after lunch & caught the 2.20pm train from Charing X for Folkestone. Great crowd at station. Got in to another portion with all our luggage in the carriage. Got down at 4.0pm. No hotel porter. After changing room Roy came down. Tea. We all took a stroll on Lees. Met Constance Hay that was, also Spencer. C.H walked back with me. Dressed. Fair dinner. Girls playing music in Winter Garden. Spencer, Hilda & Bogie S came. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self went to Folkestone. Roy followed after. In 341 room, Roy 222.) Sunday September 16 Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. Up at 7.0. Good bath. Knocked up Roy & we had bathe in sea. Breakfast. After we all went to the 12.0 boat. M would not go at the last. Turned back with Hilda. Spencer, Roy & self went to Boulogne. Met the Harold Rollers. Had to go thro' Custom House on quay. Dust bad at Boulogne. Most excellent lunch at Hotel de Paris. Sands & Casino after. Won 2Fr. Concert. Tall & fine girl like Maisey R. Tram to cathedral. Chocolate at shop. Back to hotel & on boat. Blowing hard. Old man & pretty young girl opposite us. Good passage. M & Hilda met us. Supper. Good half bottle of wine never turned up. Spencer supped with us. After Roy turned in at 10.50. Snooze in Smoking Room. Row between a man of 38 & 2 old men. "I allow no one to use such an expression to me". Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Roy, Spencer & self went over to Boulogne. Met the Rollers.) Monday September 17 Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. Up 7.0am. Down. Cup of coffee with Roy. Saw him off at Central Station. After slight rain. A dainty little


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lady in side street. Walked twice up a hill. Back. Breakfast. After the weather cleared. Took camera & went up to the Lees. High wind. Missed 2 pretty girls. Got nursemaid. Back & M & self left by motor to Hythe at 12.15, Spencer & Hilda going with us. Got to Hythe at 12.45. Sat by a canal. Met Lucy. Went to house. Brilliant sun. Took 14 ¼ films of house, views etc. Lunch. Brancastle Doctor. Old Rum. F.C.B £200 a year. Departed 4.50. Motor back. Walk on Lees. M & self met Fanny Streatfield & also Woodruff. Back. Dressed. M & self dined together. Music after. Changed films. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self lunched with the Lucys.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Mary Lutyens.) Tuesday September 18 Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. Up at 8.0. Strong wind from the east at night. Got up & shut the windows. M & self got down to breakfast 9.30. Went out & looked at Punch before. After took 12 photos people on beach. Lovely morning & sea. M & self went to pier to see boat off. Took Ross camera & also lighthouse girl fishing etc. At 1.0 left & went up & lunched at the Grand Hotel. Italian waiters. Fair lunch. Coffee at Metropole. Out after & took 21 of people in wind etc. M sat in the sun & after to band. Went away & left me waiting for ¼ hour. One or two pretty women. Mrs Simmonds came up & spoke to me. Talked for 10 minutes. After left at 5.0. Met Spencer. M gone off for drive with Adah S.J. Spencer came to hotel. Whisky & soda. Carriage not back till 6.15pm. Dressed. Wrote diary. (Red ink: Lovely day at Folkestone.) (Cutting glued in: The wife of Hugh Bellingham gave birth to triplets. All are doing well. Tues 18.) Wednesday September 19 Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. Up 7.0. A grey still morning. Bath & packed. Down 8.30am. Wrote diary. Breakfast. Still grey. Out & took 4 photos only, 2 on sands, 2 in town. Back. Spencer & Hilda in our room. Got away after lunch in the Grill Room at 1.30. Got good carriage to ourselves in train. Talk to old Interpreter who rememberd the old days & John Penn. Boat 200 passengers principally from Lourdes. London, 4 wheeler home. Margaret back. After to Punch Dinner. Letters at United Sevices Club. No letters for me. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, R.L, P.A, B.P (New Forest) E.T.R, A.G back from Sweden. Very long discussion. Got Cubans Fighting & Roosevelt. Home by bus very tired at 11.15 from Office. Roy out. (Red ink: Came back from Folkestone.)


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Thursday September 20 Stafford Terrace. x. Up 7.45. Up Church St. Met no one. After schemed subject of Cubans & Roosevelt. At 12.0 Hilton & Britten came. Photod them & Upton. All ready by 4.30pm. Tea in room. Worked till 8.20 when M, Roy & self dined quietly on grouse. Roy bought a large melon. Took some. Disagreed with me. Friday September 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30. Wrote letters before breakfast. Out & to Cromwell Road. No A. No school. Bought pears. Back & all day at work on Cubans & Roosevelt. Took head out. Developed 1 doz films taken Folkestone. Finished work 10.30pm. Dined, M & self. Roy in. ½ bottle of Champagne. Bed 1.15 after snooze. Saturday September 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out. Took 1 photo of labourers. Breakfast. After letters printed all back plates of blues. Fine morning. Developed rest of the 10 Sep Brighton photographs, 27, & 4 of Cushla Parker. Lunch. After M & self went up by bus to the St James's Theatre & at last saw 'His House in Order'. All women in the theatre matinée hats off. M lost her lorgnettes. Walked to Hyde Park Corner. Took 1st motor cab ever rode in, 2/s. Bought fruit & home. Tea. Put films to dry developed today. M, R & self dined quietly. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of 'His House in Order'.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of General Dunham Massy. Sep 21) Sunday September 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30 & out up Argyll Rd & down Holland Walk. Rags & cats. Breakfast. After the entire day printing blues. Dull & dark at times. M & self went for walk betwen 4.45 & 6.15. Round Pond & Notting Hill. Quiet dinner, M, R & self. Grouse. Bed 11.30pm. Monday September 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Got on bicycle, found it not pumped up. Back & along past school. Saw Princess looking charming. Back & home 9.25. All morning printing blues etc. Lunch. Developed rest of Cushla Parker & trees etc. Margaret Moser left in disgrace at 2.30pm & for good. After rest began to scheme Almanack pages. Could not make much out of it. Roy bought brace of partridges. M, R & self dined quietly at 8.0. Bed 11.0pm. M had slight cold. (Red ink: Began Almanack 1907.


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Margaret Moser left in disgrace. Last ride on bicycle, not pumped up.) (Cutting glued in: A Bear Hunt at King's Cross. Sepr 24.) Tuesday September 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30 & out. Took 5 photos B.L & Princess. Bought pears. At 10.45 M & self walked up & looked at a house in Bedford Gardens & also Holland St which made us thankful for S.T. Dated blues. Put brass handle on Bath Room. Lunch. Developed Folkeston Lees photos & at the sea. Went on with Almanack, more hopeful. Roy brought home a grouse. M, Roy & self dined together. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. Wednesday September 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out with camera. Snapped Princess in sun. Foggy. Back & got pears. After all morning tidying etc. Wire from Lennie. At 1.15 left for Berkeley Restaurant. Met Pearkes. Good lunch. After to Gaumonts, Sands & Hunter & also Watsons. Back. Got chairs on approval for M. To the United Services Club. Wrote 3 or 4 letters. On to the Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.L.G, L.B, E.V.L, B.P, also E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Longish discussion. Got good subject, Nurses & Cuban & Cretan Boys. Home by bus. Had to give 2nd to United Services Club. Home after. Roads all right at last. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Mrs Thring. T Sep 25.) Thursday September 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50 & out with camera. Snapped Aphrodite going to school. Back. After schemed subject of Nurses & Cuban & Cretan Boys. Miss Huxley came. Sent Upton to Barkers & Mays. Photod Miss H & a boy at 12.0. Plates weak & bad. Exposed one twice. Finished 4.0 & up in room. Worked till 8.30pm. M, Roy & self dined very good partridge. Bed 11.30pm. Friday September 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30am. Out up Church St. Deserted & up. Saw girl going to school reverse way. After entire day at work on 2 Nurses & Cuban & Cretan Boys. Finished 10.30. M, Roy & self dined. Roy came in at 10.45. ½ bottle Geisler. Strand Magazine out with my portrait. A wretched sniffy irritation came on at noon. Why? Sent Upton for quinine. Bad at night.


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Saturday September 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5. Wished M many happy returns of the day. Out with Rags up Argyll Road. Butcher's boy & Rags with cat. Breakfast. Foggy in morning, a beautiful day after. Sent Upton to Watsons with magazine for films. Edith Furrell in to lunch. After M & self went in very bad 4 wheeler to the New Theatre & saw a comic opera called Amasis. Ruth Vincent & Barrington in it. Fairly good. Girl in front of me like a pretty Miss Gill. Home by bus. Got sausages & also fruit. In Morning Room. M, Roy & self dined. Bottle of Champagne to drink M's health. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée of Amasis.) Sunday September 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Out up Campden Hill etc. After printed blues etc. At 12.0 M & self took bus to Sloane St & walked home. Lovely morning. Lunch. Up in room. After M. Roy & self dined quietly. Bed early. Monday October 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50. A dull morning. Walked over into Notting Hill. Saw girl of Friday. Back. Went on with Almanack. Photod Upton at 12.45 for Punch in Pea Jacket. Lovely sun. Worked to dinner, Roy, M & self. Bottle of Champagne. Roy left for Galbraiths at 11.0pm. Interested in book on The Track of a Treasure by Montmorency. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of the Dowager Countess of Portsmouth. Wed Oct 3.) Tuesday October 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50 & out. Up Church St & Holland Walk. Dull morning. After went on all day Almanack 1st page. Put in Punch, New Year & Toby. M & self dined quietly by ourselves. Read Dr Evans' book on 2nd Empire. Bad Apmann cigar. In Morning Room. Very warm weather. Cold beginning to break. An insect in the pillow case at night kept me long awake. Sent chairs back to Willby's by Upton. (Red ink: Insect kept me awake in pillow. Defect in breathing. Lungs.) (Cutting glued in: Correspondence on Eveline Countess of Portsmouth. Oct 10.) Wednesday October 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50 & out to Cromwell Road. Met Sir Algernon Ledyard. Snapped Princess & 2 or 3 others. Back by Pontings. At work all morning up to 5.0 on Almanack 1st page. Left


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at 6.0 & by bus to P.D. Called Athenaeum. Letters. Full dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, L.R.H, C.L.G, R.L, P.A, E.V.L, Partridge away, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Stupid discussion about The Curfew Shall not Ring Tonight. Got cut changed to Peer. Left & home by bus for 3d. (Cutting glued in: Death of Egerton Tower.) Thursday October 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50 & out with camera. Snapped A, I hope successfully. Sun off the road. After buying pears, 6d each, 'Comice' pears. Breakfast. Schemed subject of Peer & Wheel. Sent U to Mays. Hilton came at 12.0. Photod him. Finished by 3.30pm. Worked till 7.30 when dressed & dined by self. Went by cab to the Gaiety Theatre & saw The New Aladdin. Bosh. M dined with Miss Rose Innes & went. Sir Robert & Lady Head, young Lockyer, Gilmer etc. Home by Miss Rose Innes fly. Upton went. Cold decreasing. (Red ink: Went after dining by self to Miss Rose Innes's party at the Gaiety. Saw The New Aladdin. Stupid.) Friday October 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50 & out with camera. Took 4, end of Cromwell Road. Girl with light hair. Back & after breakfast to work on Peer & Wheel & at it all day. Bright & warm. Finished 10.30pm when M & self dined quietly. Bed 1.0 after snooze. (Cutting glued in: Death of Coventry Patmore.) Saturday October 6 Stafford Terrace. x. Up at 8.5 & out with camera. Lovely bright sun. Took 3 or 4 photos. Back. Breakfast. Letter from Roy, back Monday. Went up Church Street, open again. After tidied up all morning & printed blues. Not in water. M & self lunched at 1.0 & left in a 4 wheeler 1.35 & to the Apollo Theatre & saw The Dairy Maids. Sailor amusing. Pretty girls. Out. Sausages. Got in bus at the Athenaeum. Fruit & home. Tea. Put films in focal plane camera. Quite warm weather. (Red ink: M & self went to see The Dairy Maids at the Apollo Theatre.) Sunday October 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am & out with camera. Took 1 only of policeman. Hot day. Breakfast. Printed blues. M & self went for walk from Knightsbridge - no we went to 104 Lancaster Gate with Rags & saw the Chicks. Dear Linley, Ann & Oliver. Rags ran by bus. Cab home. Lunch. In afternoon went on with Almanack drawing. At 8.0 Miss Rose Innes dined with us. Champagne. She


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left at 11.0. taking 'When it was Dark'. (Red ink: Miss Rose Innes dined.) Monday October 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Roy back from Scotland. Lovely bright sun. Went out to Cromwell Road. Missed Princess. Took 2 schoolgirls & girl hailing bus. Back. Breakfast. Sent messenger boy to Waterloo for Pass. Developed films. Roy left for Pyt in afternoon. Very noisy at lunch. Upset M. Went on with Almanack drawing, began to shade in the afternoon. M & self dined together. In Morning Room. Tuesday October 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning. Up Campden Hill, Ch St. Saw Black Legs & Red Riding Hood going to school. After all day at work on 1st Almanack page. Finished it at 7.50pm & sent it off. M & self dined quietly togther. Bed after snooze. Wednesday October 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Dull morning. Up Church Street. Muggy hot day. Sort of day that makes everyone tired. Schemed 2nd page of Almanack. In the morning found my camera cupboard reeking with water. Very much put out. It was the tap that Barkers had done in the main lavatory. Sent for Dixon. Left in afternoon for Punch Dinner by bus. Talk to Sir Luke Fildes at the Athenaeum. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.L.G, R.L, L.B, C.V.L, B.P, A.G. Very long weary discussion. At last got good cut of Bismarck & Emperor William. Home by bus. 11.50 at Kensington, no, 12.10am. Dear Linley came to tea with his Gamma. As good as gold. (Cutting glued in: Death of Adelaide Ristori. Wed 10 Oct.) Thursday October 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45 & out. Snapped 2 girls & the Princess in Cromwell Road. Lovely bright sun. Back. Sent U to Mays & schemed subject of Emperor Wilhelm & Bismarck's Ghost, Hohenlohe's memoires. At 12.0 Hilton came. Paid him for 2 days. Took photos for cut & also 2nd page in Almanack. Done by 4.30. A hard day & tired. M & self dined together. Half bottle of Champagne. Bed at 11.30 after snooze. Dixon began tap in servants' lavatory leading up to own W.C wash basin. Took my cupboard down.


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Friday October 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45 & out with camera. Snapped Little Red Riding Hood. No Black Legs. Back & all day at work on Emperor Wilhelm & Bismarck's Ghost, Hohenlohe's Memoirs, up to 10.30. M & self dined together & bed at 1.0am after snooze. Dixon back doing taps in the main lavatory. He made a good job of it. (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Stefano Gatti. Oct 13. Marriage of Frederick Demuth to Ethel Knowles.) Saturday October 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.0 & after a bit of a rush got off in 4 wheeler 6.45. Victoria. Met Eric Parker. Down to Balcombe. Breakfast at 9.30, left for Nymans. Started shooting at 10.0. Guns, Lennie, E.P & self. Captain Gibbes after. Got to self 2 partridges, 3 pheasants & could have got 1000 mushrooms. Delightful day. Left off 5.15. Tea at Nymans. Budgen carried my cartridge bag. Talk to Mrs Messel. Back to Balcombe in carriage. Harold & his wife there. Wrote letters. No hot water in bath. Good dinner & Champagne. Very tired & sleepy after. Bed 12.0am. Bab Ballads. (Red ink: Went down to shoot at Nymans.) (Cutting glued in: In Memoriam Henry Irving.) Sunday October 14 Balcombe House. Up at 7.00. No hot water in bath. Good breakfast. Left 9.0 & to station. Caught the 9.15. Nearly 3 hours getting home. Good 4 wheeler. 1st cold morning. Printed a few blues & at 12.25 took M for walk round Pond with Rags. Met the Rubens's. Back. Lunch. Enlarged 7 plates etc for 2nd Almanack page. Tea in Morning Room. After wrote letters. At 4.0 went down. Fanny Barker, Alice, Margery Howlden, Miss Rose Innes & young Bergne in Morning Room. Lit fire, cold. Up. Wrote diary. At 8.0 Mervyn dined with M & self. Venison, grouse etc. Tired & livery. Intensely cold, even in Morning Room. 1st fire. (Red ink: Very cold. Came up from dear Mite's at Balcombe.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Mrs Lewis Hill. 15 Oct. Will of Mrs Lewis Hill. Oct 15.) Monday October 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Rags on bed. Dull morning. Out with camera. Took Lady Dudley & others, 4 in all. Breakfast. Taps done in Lavatory. Roy still at Pyt House. Went on all day drawing 2nd Almanack page. Got it in outline. M & self dined quietly together.


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In Morning Room after. Above Lady Dudley & L.Legs were left out in developing & lost. Tuesday October 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Lovely sunny morning. Took camera & walked to Cromwell Road & past school. Took no photos. Missed Les Amies. Back. Breakfast. All day at work on 2nd Almanack page, M reading. Roy back from Pyt House at 6.0pm looking well. All dined together. Grouse. In Morning Room after. Bed after snooze. (Cutting glued in: Death of Sarah Veale.) Wednesday October 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50 & out with camera. Took a few up Church St. No Lady D. Finished by Long Legs. People looked round. Went on all day with 2nd Almanack drawing. Could not quite finish it. Left at 6.0 for the P.D. Roy dined with his mother. Bus all the way. Phil A (congratulated me on my drawing of Bismarck & Kaiser) O.S, self, H.F.T, C.L.G, R.L, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Long discussion. Got good cut of Fox & Lords Puck. B.P said 'I'm the last'. Left 11.0. Called at the Athenaeum Club. Home by bus. Tired. Poor Mr Bell buried. Funeral from No 1. Plant Golden Privet moved into the front by gardener & Upton. Thursday October 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50. Out 8.30. Tired & slight head. Snapped Lady D & R.R.H. Back. Breakfast. No Hilton. Sent Upton to May's for Bishop robes, coat & hat. Photod him at 12.30. Backward. Difficulty in getting prints. Later rest after tea till 5.45. M back. Read 50 Years of Failure. After dined M & self at 8.45pm. Found out that Douglas Gordon was author of above. Roy very late home. M got up & opened window. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Mrs Jefferson Davis. Oct 18 1906.) Friday October 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out up Church Street without camera. Saw Lady D & R.R.H. Back. Lovely morning after. At work all day on Education Fox being hunted by Lords. Finished at 10.40. M & self dined. Champagne. Roy out. (Red ink: Used my last printed legend firm made for me in 1900. 6 years. What a change in 6 years!)


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Saturday October 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5. Our wedding day 32 years ago. A similar morning, bright but slightly foggy. Read 'In a Fog'. Out. Hair cut at 8.50. Breakfast. Roy to go to Balcombe. Put things away. Sent Upton to theatres etc. Lunch. M & self went to see a play called ‘The Morals of Marcus’ at the Garrick Theatre. Miss Alexandra English good ‘Marcus’. Out & home by bus. Tea & wrote letters. M & self dined quietly. Bed after snooze. Lost my cigar case. Had it since 1902. Very warm weather. Astonished to find in my Pass Book interest on loan charged. Wrote to Mr Richardson about it. (Red ink: M & self went to see The Morals of Marcus. Not bad.) Sunday October 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Out. Intensely warm & muggy. Roy at Balcombe. Breakfast. After put things away. Spencer came in. Left with him & to Garrick Club. Lunch with Allen Aynesworth & also Galloway. Out. At 2.45 photod Miss Gs.T. Good light. Out & to to the Athnaeum Club. Wrote many letters. Saw Mr Birrell. Home 7.30. M & self dined quietly. Edgar & Sophia Herapath dined - no lunched with M. M called on Mrs Stone & met a Mr Molloy. (Red ink: Photod G.Taverner at 15 C.S.) Monday October 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.55 & out up Ch St. Took 5 photos. No Lady D. Back. Tired & enervated with the weather. After finished the Almanack 2nd page at 6.0pm. A new French P.maid came for M. Roy back from Balcombe. Mr Richardson very much upset about the mistake as to loan. Not quite a quiet dinner. M went to bed 10.15 & Roy also. Snooze till 12.0am. Bed. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Colonel Edward Saunderson M.P. Mon 22 Oct. Obituary of Colonel Saunderson. 22 Oct.) Tuesday October 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bright morning. Up Church St with C. Took about 4 photos Little R.R.H. All day tidying up etc. M, Roy & self dined quietly at 8.0pm. Bed 11.30 after. Wednesday October 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0. Bright sun. Out & with camera. Mad a botch of L.D. Took 4 photos with large camera. Little Jewess. Back. Wrote tobacco order. After all day putting things in order.


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Left for Punch Dinner. Called Sands & Hunter. Nothing done with new camera. Saw electric light for Enlarger. On to dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, R.L, L.B, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Got cut of Soap Trust Bubble to do. Home by bus. Ann to lunch. Linley, Ann & Miss Keith in yard after. Too much for M. Took & enlarged Rembrandt's picture, The Lesson in Anatomy, for possible cartoon. Thursday October 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Most lovely sunny morning. Out with C. Took at last a sunny photo of Lady D. The only opportunity ever had. Comes from Vicarage Gardens. Also Jewess. Back. Breakfast. Venning & £30,000 a year. Roy off. Sent U to Mays & got to work early. Enlarged Millais' Soap Bubbles. Hilton & Britten came. Photod them & a boy. At work till 4.15pm. Enlarged 1 Lady D & Aphrodite. Captain Heathorn called. Worked from 5.30 to 8.30pm. M, Roy & self dined. Looked at Ill papers. Bed at 12.0am. Cheque sent for drawing of Bear Skating done Jany 1905. Friday October 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Dull foggy morning. Out & up C.H. Back as band playing. No photos. Worked hard all day on drawing of Soap Trust. Got it done 10.30pm. M & self dined. Very tired. Bed at 12.30am. Roy out. Saturday October 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Very tired. Out short walk up Holland Walk. No camera. Got 3 Comice pears. After in morning printed blues & at 1.10 dressed. M & self went in good 4 wheeler to Wyndhams Theatre & saw delightful play 'Peter's Mother'. Miss Blaikie in stalls. Back by bus. Got fruit. Tea. Changed plates on films. Roy dined with Bernard Yorke. M & self had quiet evening. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: M & self went to see 'Peter's Mother'.) Sunday October 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30pm. Breakfast. Left at 10.15 to Victoria. Changed to 2nd train. Only one other in it. X'd Channel. Fresh & strong wind. Talkative Indian or Persian. Only took 3 photos. Lunch at Calais. Long talk to Payton. Saw Ledger & his Cook wife. Gale of wind & very rough sea. Back with 3 Americans & a coughing foreigner. Home at 8.40, one hour & ten minutes late. M, Roy & self dined. Dark thick ankled girl at the Gaiety 'Kitty Maron'. (Red ink: My pass remained in pocket of my blue navy suit


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waistcoat until Dec 31st. Thought I had lost it & remembered I last wore this suit today. Crossed Channel. Gale of wind coming back.) Monday October 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out. Bright fresh morning. No school girls. Why? Took 2 Blues, also Boa & Long Legs. Breakfast. Good bacon. The reason school girls away was it was half term holiday. Back. Breakfast. After put things straight etc. Lunch. Went up at 4.30 to Sands & Hunter & saw Enlarger. Saw proofs taken of films etc. About ¼ to half a second. To Athenaeum. Letters from N.S & Lincoln & Bennett. Back home. M & self dined quietly. Bed at 11.30pm. Kept awake by ticking & buzzing in pillow again. (Red ink: Lungs or heart.) Lennie wired to ask me to shoot on Thursday at Nymans. Forced fang of double tooth out. Tooth came out 10 years ago. Tuesday October 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Heavy wet. Out with Rags. After all day putting things straight. Stuck labels on boxes etc. M, Roy & self dined quietly. Bed at 12.0 after rest. Wednesday October 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Out. Went for walk with Rick & Rags up Church Street. Bad fog & fog all day. Breakfast & lunch by Electric Light. Again went on tidying. Left at 5.20 & called Sands & Hunter about Enlarger. On by bus to the Punch Dinner. O.S with bad cold, self, F.H.T, C.G, R.L, P.A, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L. Guthrie at Sandringham. It was decided I should do the Rembrandt picture parody for this next week. Left 10.45 & called Athenaeum. 3 letters. Home by bus. Roy took Dora to the Savoy & Gaiety Theatre. Home at 12.0. Thursday November 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Out. Went to Cromwell Road. No Aphrodite. Back. Got Comice pears. Breakfast. After sent Upton to Mays for coronet, Bishop's sleeves etc etc. Enlarged picture again & after all used what I had done before. Took photo of Hilton & self & got enlargements by 4.0, Upton helping. Rest & tea & worked from 5.0 to 8.30pm when dined, M, Roy & self. Stock Exchange Holiday. Lennie had his shoot at Nymans. Fletcher there. Dora Foley lunched with us.


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Friday November 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out up Church Street. Wet morning. Spoke to Red Riding Hood. Back up Bedford Gardens. House let. Breakfast. After writing letters entire day from 10.30 to 10.45 on parody of Rembrandt's picture of the Anatomists. Hard push to get done. Dined at 10.50, M & self, Roy sitting at table. Champagne. Sat in Morning Room after. The clock going again. Bed at 12.30am. Saturday November 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10. M sleepy, self not very tired. Fine warm morning. Out with Rags & Rick up Holland Walk. Roy to go to Balcombe. Drew wages etc £14.0.0. Sent things to Conduit Street. M told me had made mistake as to Galbraith's shoot. Wired off to Fletcher to Claridges & Pyt also. Printed blues & dressed. Men came about training up creepers just as going out. Left by Met Rly with M to the Savoy & had chops & Brie cheese. To Drury Lane Theatre to see The Bondsman. Good. Theatre rather empty. Out. Rain came on. Just got a bus & home. No Comice pears at Butts so went to the lower shop & got what I wanted. M resting. Roy went to Balcombe. M & self dined quietly. In Morning Room after. Bed 11.30p. (Red ink: Went to Upper Butts for the last time. M & self went to see The Bondsman at Drury Lane.) Sunday November 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Out 9.15. Up Church Street with Rags. Bright morning. After took M for walk up Row. Home by bus. It came on to rain as I got to Athenaeum. Letters. Went up to 15 C.S. Back at 2.0. Violent rain. Lunch. Indifferent chop. In Smoking Room, coffee, liqueur. Read 19th Century. Down to ground floor Writing Room. Wrote many letters till 6.30pm. Percy Fitzgerald. Still violent rain. Home by bus. Tiresome conductor clipping in front of me. At 8.0 Mr & Mrs Phipson Beale dined. Good dinner, 2 bottles of Ayala 1892. In Drawing Room. They left 11.0. Roy at Balcombe. Bed 12.0. Strange dream of Central Africa. (Red ink: Wet. Miss McCrae never came to Conduit Street. Mr & Mrs W.P.Beale dined.) Monday November 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Out & took 4 useless photos, Lady D. Must give it up as it was bright sun & sunshine all day. Began enlarging after printing blues at 11.30 & kept on till 12.30pm. Films


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latterly taken useless. Sent Upton to 15 C.S. M out. Characters of lady servant came. Favourable. Quite warm. In yard 6 hours enlarging. Nearly all above were useless as fogged them by opening shutter before it is well pressed down. Experientia docet. After M & self dined quietly. Bed 11.30pm. In Morning Room. Tuesday November 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0pm & went to end of Cromwell Road. In doubt as to school. No A at any rate. Back. Breakfast. Got Comice pears. All morning enlarging street girls. A good many of yesterday's & today's were spoilt. Worked till 3.0pm. Up in room. Put screws in frames with matches etc. Dear Mite in my room at 5.30pm. After M, Roy & self dined. Bed after being in Drawing Room & reading Lord Randolph Churchill's life by his son Winston Churchill. (Red ink: No good in winter snapshots. Never saw Aphrodite (Miss Turney) again.) Wednesday November 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out up Church Street. After breakfast & letters again enlarged street girls. Fine morning. M lunch with Miss Rose Innes at the Berkeley & went to see The Belle of Mayfair at the Vaudeville. Left & called at Sands & Hunters at 6.15pm. Then walked to the Punch Dinner. Spoke to Phil Agnew about taking rest of my holiday in the spring. He said 'Yes'. Also O.S. Punch Dinner, O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, A.G, R.C.L, P.A, C.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Got subject of Book Club suggested by Milne & left at 10.45. Called at the Athenaeum & wrote letters. Home by bus. In doubt as to Roy being back or not. Had to go down & unlock door. Rain set in at 8.0pm & lasted all night & all Thursday & all Thursday night. Maud & Lennie went down to Pyt House. (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Pricilla Bright M'Laren. Tues 6 Nov 06.) Thursday November 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out. Very wet. Up Church St & back. Breakfast. Letters. After at 10.40 went in pouring rain to the Times Book Club. Saw the man after & took 2 photos. Back. Developed them. Schemed subject & took photos from Hilton & Upton by 1.30pm. M lunched with Evelyn Fisher-Rowe & attended a sale. Got all done in pouring rain with the greatest difficulty I ever had. Worked from 5.0 to 8.30 when M, Roy & self dined. In Morning Room after. (Red ink: Went to the 'Times' Book Club to get photo of the premises.)


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Friday November 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & walked with Rags to Cromwell Road. School going but no Aphrodite. Got 3 Comice pears. Breakfast. Looked over papers etc. At work all day on Book Club drawing, Lansdowne & C.B. Enlarged Times Book Club scene after lunch etc. Worked to 10.40 when M & self dined. Roy had dined with E.Davson & went to The Merveilleuse. Back at 1.0am. Bed. Very tired. Saturday November 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & very tired. Went out & had my hair cut. Back. Breakfast. Roy off. After put things up all the morning. M & self left for Waterloo 2.30pm. Bother with an undecided old lady at station not getting into carriage. After all ran down to Salisbury & Tisbury without trouble. To Pyt in motor with luggage. Gwen gave us tea. Maud, Lennie, Tabs & Hamilton at Leweston. They back in motor at 6.30pm. Dinner at 8.0. Champagne. Bed at 11.45pm after smoke. (Red ink: M & self went down to Pyt House.) (Cuttings glued in: In Memoriam Val Princep. In Memoriam Philip Rawson. Death of the Reverend Frederick Harford.) Sunday November 11 Pyt House, Tisbury. Called 8.30. Bath. Down & out. Took photo of Barlow & walk by Conservatory. Brilliant sun all day, lovely. After breakfast M, Mite Lennie & self in garden. Chrysanthemums. After H got back from church Lennie & self got in motor. Wrote letter to L.Gaumont & Co etc. Lunch. After at 2.45 H, Lennie & self walked over to Fonthill. Hard push for me up hill. Taken rather seedy at tower. Took 3 of Fonthill, lake, tower & vase. Back 4.45pm. Mite, Gwennie & Lennie went up to town from Semley at 5.0pm. Wrote letters. The walk stirred up my dinner & made me feel seedy & sleepy. H & Tabs with photos at dinner. Pleased with them. Bed at 11.0. Book 1750 on Palmyra. (Red ink: Lovely bright sunny day at Pyt House. Lennie, Hamilton F & self walked to Fonthill.) (Cutting glued in: The John L.Toole sale at Sothebys. S 10 Nov.) Monday November 12 Pyt House, Tisbury. Called 7.30. Up & breakfast 8.30. Off 9.10 in motor, H & self to shoot on Cranbourne Chase. There 9.45. 9 guns. Partridge drive. Got one bird 1st minute. After long walk along high fields & close cover. Lunch. An amusing humourous-looking small boy. Got all day 3 brace partridges, 6 hares, 2


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rabbits, 4 or 5 pheasants. Left off at 5.0 & motored home. Cold. Letter from F.C.B to me. Quiet dinner, H, Tabs, M & self at 8.0. Asked for Champagne. Very sleepy after. Bed at 11.0pm. Good shoot on Cranbourne Chase. Guns: A.Glen Kidstone, Peploe (brothers in law) Mrs J.Benet Stanford, Jack Benet Stanford, Leo Fisher-Rowe, David Chapman, Jack Harvey (Irish Guards) Hamilton Fletcher, E.L.S. Mrs Kidston & Mrs Peploe were daughters of Mr Chapman, Dr Messel's partner. Tuesday November 13 Pyt House, Tisbury. Woke & up at 8.0. Good bath. Hard frost in the night. Wrote 2 or 3 letters before breakfast. H & self after at breakfast. Finished letters. Felt a little livery. At 12.10 H & self walked round garden & new Motor House & Electric House etc. Tabs gone to lunch at Lady Wynford's. Lunch after packing, H, M & self. Got off at 3.40 by large motor. Frightful speed. Caught train & up to Waterloo. Pudgy girl with violin got in at Woking. Cab home. 1st view of new parlour maid. Roy out to dinner. Wrote for ticket St Pancras. M & self dined together quietly. Cold in Drawing Room after. Bed 12.0 after snooze. Roy saw Benet Stanford at supper at Romano's. (Red ink: M & self came up from Pyt House. 1st day of Mrs Poynter.) Wednesday November 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5. Dark dull foggy morning. Out with Rags. Went to Lytham House. Saw the Princess. Quite fair. Very pretty. Back & thro' corner of Park home. Breakfast. After put things straight all day. Dear Mite in in afternoon. She went to Weetman Pearsons. Left & went by 6.0pm to the United Services Club. Saw by appointment Sir Charles Euan-Smith about Wireless Telegraphy & the Germans. On to Sands & Hunters. Enlarger sent home. Proved to be incomplete. Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, L.B, C.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. Lucy had seen Mite & Donna Linda. Long weary sitting. Home at 11.15 by bus. (Red ink: Met Sir Charles Euan-Smith.) Thursday November 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.55 & out with camera to Kensington Sq. Fine morning. Took house, 1 sec. Snapped Princess. No good. After home. Breakfast. Developed above & went with camera to Berkeley Square. Took 2 houses. Bright sun. Back by cab. Developed. Schemed subject hurriedly. At 12.30 photod Hilton & Britten for Birrell & Footman. Wet. In afternoon M packing. Up in


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room 3.45. 1st used Electric Enlarger for small films & plates. Could not use it for ¼ plates. Worked & got all in outline & put in coronet etc. M & self dined at 8.40. Quiet evening in Drawing Room after. (Red ink: 1st used Electric Enlarger.) Friday November 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.15 & wrote letters. M ready at 8.30. Left in cab with her. She caught the 9.30am to St Pancras for Terregles. Walked round by Holland Walk. Back. Breakfast. After all day at work with drawing of Birrell & House of Lords Footman. Sent Enlarger back to Sands & Hunter. Worked till 10.0pm when dressed & dined 10.25, Poynter waiting. Left at 11.8 in cab for St Pancras. Caught the 12.0am train. Sleeping B & comfortable journey to Dumfries. (Red ink: M left for Dumfries.) Saturday November 17 On board train Dumfries. Woke 6.0am. Trap met me 7.10 & to Terregles. Grey morning. M in bed. Dressed in thick shooting suit. Breakfast at 9.0am. Miss Graham, Col & Mrs Pinney, Mr Maxwell, Mr & Mrs Lyon, Major & Mrs Ross. Left in break & up hill. Did not feel it. Lovely day. Ladies & M also to lunch. Stayed till 3.0pm. Left off at 4.15pm & walked back in pouring rain. Back & changed. Tired. Dinner. Took Mrs Galbraith in. After sleepy in Smoking Room. Bed 12.0am. Mrs Pinney made drawing of M & self. (Red ink: Shot on the hill at Terregles. 1 cat shot.) 127 pheasants, 30 self. 6 woodcock 9 hares, 1 9 rabbits, 2 roe deer. _________ __ Two fine roe deer. 93 hens, 94 cocks. 213 35.3 31 Sunday November 18 Terregles, Dumfries. Up at 8.30. Brilliant sun. Breakfast. Wrote letters. After at 11.15 went for motor run to Moffat, Col & Mrs Pinney, self, Galbraith & chauffeur. Cold fine morning. Photod Carr. Large quantities of wood pigeon. Hope Johnsons. Back. Lunch at 2.0. After went round stables & foals. Donkey with Sicilian harness etc. Cart. Black the Stud Factor nipped over partition. Story of old Scotchman 'If I'd been a woman I'd a been a w. I'm that easily persuaded'. Back. Tea. Letters. Could not


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change plates on acct of fire. Dinner. Took Miss Graham in & next to Mrs Pinney. After stories in the Smoking Room. Drew pictures. Did not get to bed till 12.40am. (Red ink: Motor run from Terregles.) Monday November 19 Terregles, Dumfries. Up at 8.20 & dressed whipcord suit. Brilliant sun. Started for Park shoot at 9.50, began outside. Frightful pump over ploughed field. 6 guns, Col Pinney, Major Ross, Mr Maxwell, Mr Lyons, Galbraith & self. Went on round park. M came to lunch & walked round. Total bag: 235 pheasants 45 self 27 hares 6 12 rabbits 2 8 wild duck 1 13 pigeon 3 Ladies left at 3.15. Went on to last stand. ________________ Missed many birds in lane. 132 cocks. 295 49.1 57 Gale of wind sprang up. Home 4.38. Changed. Col & Mrs Pinney left after tea for Ireland. Wrote diary. After dressed. Took Mrs Charles Maxwell in to dinner. Sat next Mrs Patterson. Good talk. After in Smoking Room. Bed 12.0am. (Red ink: Park shoot at Terregles.) Tuesday November 20 Terregles, Dumphries. Up at 8.0am & packed. Breakfast 9.0am. After good bye & got away in carriage, Major & Mrs Ross, M & self for Dumfries. Caught the 11.15 train. Met Mrs Paterson on platform. Pretty fair Scotch girl on platform. Most comfortable lunch & run to London. Bus home. M & self dined at 8.0pm. Roy out. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: M & self travelled up from Dumfries to London & home.) Wednesday November 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out up Campden Hill. Saw Lady D & hideous girl in specs after. All morning writing & tidying up etc. Enlarger came back. Left for Punch Dinner in afternoon. Called Sands & Hunter. Saw new camera. To Punch dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, C.G, P.A, C.V.L, B.P, E.T.R. Lucy ill. Got Snakes on Congo cut. Left 10.45pm & home by omnibus. (Red ink: Back at Stafford Terrace.)


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Thursday November 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out up Argyll Road. Met no one. After schemed subject of Congo King Leopold, Snake & Nigger. Hilton came at 12.0 & photod him for nude back etc. All ready early. Up in room at 4.0pm & tried for 1st time new Enlarger. Light out of the centre & 1 doz prints spoilt. Worked till 8.30pm when Roy, M & self dined. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: 1st practical use of Electric Light Enlarger.) Friday November 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out up Campden Hill. After all day at work on drawing of Congo King Leopold, Snake & Nigger. Finished at 10.30. M & self dined quietly. Bed at 1.0 after. Tired. Saturday November 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out for walk up Holland Walk etc. Breakfast. Upton laid up & not round. 1st day had wanted carriage. Tried Enlarger. Light out of centre, no, put light in centre & got on better. Lunch. M & self went in cab to Daly's Theatre & saw 'Les Merveilleuses'. Mervyn & Ethel in box. Out. Got sausages. Bus home. Went on enlarging. M, Roy & self dined quietly. In Morning Room. Bed 10.30. Roy had lost money over a deal this week. (Red ink: M & self went to matinée at Daly's Theatre.) Sunday Novmber 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0. x. Out. Saw Old W, 2d, now in the Workhouse which she calls Infirmary. Breakfast. After tried Enlarger again. Took M for walk up Row with Rags. She went back from Knightsbridge, Rags following. To Athenaeum. Had lunch. Talk to Graves about the Firm. After letters home by 4.0pm. Tea. Vera Kevill-Davis called. Also Mrs Paxton & Spencer. Up in room enlarging. Mostly over exposed. Tabs & Hamilton, Lennie & Mite, Roy, M & self dined. Waiting good & very good dinner. They left by 11.0. Took them all over house. (Red ink: Tabs, Hamilton, Lennie & Mite dined. Good evening.) (Cutting glued in: End of the Soap Combination. Sat Nov 24.) Monday November 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & walked to Cromwell Rd. No Aphrodite. Back. Breakfast. The entire day enlarging by Electric Light. More or less success. Thought I had discovered roughness owing to ground glass. Not so. Worked all day up to 7.30. when


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Mervyn & Ethel H dined. Roy also. Champagne. Tired & cough troublesome. Bed 12.30am after snooze. (Red ink: Mervyn & Ethel dined with us.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of John Moore-Brabazon to Hilda Krabbé. Death of Major George Heaviside. ) Tuesday November 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5 & out. Met Mr Turner. Little girls & dogs. Dull warm morning. Back. Good herring. Wrote O.S, Stores etc. Mite in 11.15am. All day enlarging & making experiments with Enlarger. Wrote Lawrence Bradbury about going away in the spring. M & self dined quietly in the evening together. Roy dined with Tabs & H at Claridges Hotel. (Cutting glued in: Sale of modern pictures. Tues 27 Novr.) Wednesday November 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5. Tired. Out 8.45. Up Church St, Saw Lady D, Little R.R.H, Jew girl etc. Upton round 1st time since Friday. Went on enlarging most of day & after put Enlarger away. Left at 6.0 for Punch Dinner. Called Garrick & also Sands & H. O.S, self, H.F.T, R.H, C.G, L.B, E.V.L, B.P, A.G. Lucy still seedy. Long discussion. Got silly subject. Home by bus at 12.5am. Read W.G & to bed. Thursday November 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.20am. Very tired. Out 9.0am up Phillimore Gardens & down Holland Walk. Got pears. Back. Breakfast. After schemed subject of Arthur Balfour & sheep, Bannerman dog. Sent Upton to Mays & Sands & Hunters. Dark damp morning. Photod Hilton at 12.0 with difficulty. Enlarged. Up in room worked from 4.45pm to 7.0 when knocked off & dressed. Went with M in the carriage (1st time since August) & dined 63 Curzon Steet with William Stone. Met Sir Bruce & Lady Seton & another Baronet & his Lady & above all Violet Hunt. Oh! Told me of Abbey's baby. Good dinner & wine. Home by cab. Bed 1.0am after snooze. Roy up. He dined at home. (Red ink: Last time M & self out together before M's illness. Dined with William Stone.) Friday November 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Rainy morning. Out & over Campden Hill into Notting Hill. Back. Breakfast. M remained in bed. After all day at work on drawing of Arthur Balfour & Sheep, Bannerman dog. Worked till 10.20 when dined by myself. M went to bed at 8.30pm, feverish chill. News of death of Sir E.T.Reed. Colder at


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night. (Red ink: M went to bed early. Feverish. The beginning of her long illness.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir Edward Reed. Obituary Sir Edward Reed. Dec 1.) Saturday December 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. M remained in bed. Fine colder morning. Out. Sent telgram to E.T Reed on his father's death. Bought Comice pears. Put room tidy. Sent Upton to Lady Pirie's. After put things straight & left in carriage at 1.25 to lunch at Lady Pirie's. Took Miss Farquharson of Invercould in to lunch. Delightful to talk to. Also met a delightful Irishman. Home by carriage. Enlarged. Dear M still in bed & feverish. Thankful she did not go to lunch. Mite round. Slept in Roy's room. Lay awake some time. (Red ink: M gave up going to Lady Pirie's. Feverish & ill.) (Cutting glued in: Funeral of Sir Edward Reed. Dec 5.) Sunday December 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out. Poor old paupers. Back. Not out all day. M remained in bed. Enlarged in morning & afternoon & developed on desk. Some of them were out of dish & a mark across. Lennie, Mite, Roy & self dined quietly. Dear M in bed. Slept in Roy's room. (Red ink: M still in bed. Lennie, Mite, Roy & self dined.) (Cutting glued in: Sale of Pictures. Mon 3 Dec.) Monday December 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Slept in Roy's room. Out & over Notting Hill. Saw no one particular. Met & talked to Mr Turner. Back. Enlarged in morning. After took 4 photos peacocks etc steps & enlarged them in afternoon by new Electric Light. Developed them just before leaving to dine with Lennie & Mite, Roy also. Met Mr De Montmorency & the Golliwogs. Back at 11.30 by carriage. Bed. M feverish at night. (Red ink: Dined at Lancaster Gate.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of General John Dunne. Dec 3.) Tuesday December 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45am & out over Notting Hill. Met schoolboy, gave him 1/s. Saw no one I knew. Back. Breakfast. After all morning went on enlarging. Orton in to see M. Pronounced it influenza. Mite in & to lunch. Developed 16 after lunch, 4 or 5 failures. After began at 4.0pm Title Page drawing. Worked till 7.0 when dressed. Left in carriage with Roy & dined at Mr Messel's. 28 at dinner. Mrs Messel's birthday. William Stone there. Norton & a conjuror also. Conjuror clever. Left at 11.45 &


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home in carriage. Bed 1.0am. Slept in Roy's room. (Red ink: Orton called in to see M. Took wrong opinion of the case. Dined at the Messels.) Wednesday December 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0 & out. Slept in Roy's room. Bright warm fine morning. To Lytham House. Saw Princess looking lovely. Back. Breakfast. M still in bed. After worked all day on drawing of Title Page Vol 131. Left for Punch Dinner at 6.0. Drove in carriage to the Athenaeum & on to Sands & Hunters. Punch Dinner. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, P.A, E.V.L, B.P, E.T.R, A.G. Talk to Reed after his father's death. Got subject of Lansdowne & Bills. Left 11.5. Home by bus. Thursday December 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & walked over Notting Hill & back. After schemed subject of Lansdowne in Henry 8th costume & Education & Trade Disputes Bills. Sent Upton to May's. At 12.0 photod Hilton & Britten, after Upton. Rain came on. Most uncomfortable afternoon. Gave up going to the Samuel Pepys Dinner. Sent to Pepys Cockerell. Worked from 5.0 to 8.45pm when dined by self. A very poor dinner. All mutton, broth, meat at lunch. Bed at 1.0 after snooze. Roy in immediately after. Slept in Roy's room. M still in bed. (Red ink: Slept in Roy's room.) Friday December 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Slept in Roy's room. Up in own room & enlarged. Out 8.50 & up Church St. Saw Lady Dudley. Back & worked all day on drawing of Lansdowne in Henry 8th costume. Finished at 10.30. Dined by self. Roy back at 11.0. In Morning Room. Snooze till 2.0am. Bed. Cold in afternoon & fog. M still in bed but better. (Red ink: M a little better.) (Cutting glued in: Three notebooks of the poet Shelley sold. Dec 7.) Saturday December 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 6.10am & got off for Victoria 6.50am. Arrived Balcombe 9.0am. No motor. Started off. Met motor & walked nearly to Mite's. 2nd breakfast. Got off in Fisher Rowe's motor at 9.45. To Nymans. Guns, Fisher Rowe, Lister, Eric Porter, Lennie & self. Deficiency of birds. Got about 30 & 1 doz duck, rabbits, pigeon etc. Self 5 pheasants, 2 duck, 1 rabbit. Came on to rain. Hard walk up hill home. Talk to Mr & Mrs Messel & Muriel. Back in motor. Changed & slept until 7.45 from 5.0pm. Shaved. Dressed.


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Mr & Mrs Hayworth Booth, Miss Fitzroy & Fisher Rowe, Eric Parker, Mite & Lennie to dinner. Match trick after. Bed 12.0am. Strange dream of Phil May at 7.0pm. (Red ink: Up early & went to Nymans to shoot.) Sunday December 9 Balcombe House. Up at 8.5am. Good bath. Went to Mitchell & after breakfast ran home in Fisher Rowe's motor. Started 11.0am. At Stafford Terrace 1.0pm. Past Crawley, Reigate, Bansted, Lord Russell's General Stores at Mitchum, Reed's old house, now a school. High School for girls. Ran over a dog at Clapham Common. Past Alexandra Hotel where I stayed 44 years ago & home. Saw dear M, still in bed. Lunch. Orton in. Wrote diary. After in afternoon rested & also enlarged 18 of back, re-doing enlargements & Alkmaar. Roy & self dined quietly after & in Morning Room. Bed 12.0. Cold at night. Things slipped off. (Red ink: Motored up from Balcombe with Fisher Rowe. M still in bed.) Monday December 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & walked over to Notting Hill & back. After breakfast letters & did 18 Alkmaar photos. Very cold. Orton in to see M. After in afternoon went on & put the eyes in Peacock's tail for Title Vol 131. Roy out. Bed 12.30am both together. Slightly warmer at night. Mite in to see M in the afternoon. (Red ink: Dear M still in bed.) Tuesday December 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out. Up Argyll Road & through Notting Hill Square. Back. Breakfast. Rather warmer. Letters. Orton in to see M. Still bothered with shortness of breath. All day at work on Title for Volume 131. Mr Roberts never came for drawings. Boy sent in the afternoon. Mite in to see M & dined to meet Lloyd George at the Lucy's. Worked until 8.15 when at 8.40 Roy & self dined. In Morning Room after. Bed 12.0am. (Cutting glued in: Photograph of the late Mr Hamilton Aïdé.) Wednesday December 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50. M late & no hot water. Roy coughed in the night. Out & walked up Church St into Notting Hill & back by Holland Walk. Warm bright morning after. Saw Double Plat, & Boa, now a black one. Dear M sitting up in her room. Went on with drawing of Title Page Vol 131. Could not finish it by leaving for the Punch Dinner at 6.0pm. Mite brought Dr Parker to see dear M.


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Kidney trouble. Milk diet. Left for P.D. Buses to Garrick Club. Called Sands & Hunter & on to P.D. O.S, self, F.H.T, R.H, C.G, L.B, C.V.L, B.P, H.W.L & A.G. 5 cartoons made up. Partridge to go down to Monte Carlo. Left 11.15 & home by bus. Letter from Tabs asking me to dine at the Claridge's Hotel tomorrow. Man came about book for photos from Stores. (Red ink: Dr Parker came to see M.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Hamilton Aïdé.) Thursday December 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am & out over & into Notting Hill. After breakfast schemed subject of French Soldier & Priest. Sent Upton to Mays. At 12.0 photod Hilton for Priest, Upton Soldier, with great difficulty. Enlarged upstairs also & just got them developed but no tracings before leaving by carriage to the Claridge's Hotel to dine with Tabs & Hamilton. Good dinner. Claret. Funny little Italian fiddler. Talk to Tabs. Left 10.45. Home by carriage. Very hot fire in the Morning Room. Bed. Roy out. Dear M not improving today. Man came from 'The Throne' for drawings & took them away at 2.0pm. (Red ink: Dined at Claridge's Hotel with Tabs & Hamilton.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of Charles Hamilton Aïdé. Dec 12.) Friday December 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50 & out over into Notting Hill. After went on to draw French Soldier & Priest. Hard at it all day. Did not begin to trace until the morning. M not quite so well. Nurse Francis with her. Worked till 10.30 when finished & dined by self. In Morning Room after. Roy back. Bed 2.0am after snooze. (Red ink: M not quite so well.) Saturday December 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am & out at 9.0 up Church St. Saw 2 girls go into workshop. Round through Holland Walk & home. After in morning went on with Title Page. Could not finish by 1.0pm. M still in bed. Nurse Francis with her. Went on to 4.0pm when finished drawing. After developed 30 Dutch photos very successfully. Roy wired to say he would dine at the Club. Dined by self & bed 11.45. Roy back. Dear M in bed. Did not see her after 8.0pm. (Red ink: M in bed. Not so well.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of William Craig. Tues 18 Dec.) Sunday December 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Slight headache. Up. Dear Mite knocked at the door. She & Lennie back from Scotland. Out. Sent


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wire to Hilton. Horrid wet morning & dull & wretched all day. Rain etc. Dr Pollock came at 10.30. M has principally kidney trouble. Very much upset. Mite, Lennie, Roy & self in the Drawing Room. Orton came. He very much upset about not being asked to see Pollock. Lunch, Mite & self. A nurse sent at 2.0pm. Sat with M. Up in my room. Wrote letters & diary 2.20 to 4.10pm. Mite, Lennie, Roy & self dined. Dear M very feverish all day. Lennie told me his father had made a deed of gift of £100,000 each to Harold & himself. (Red ink: Dr Pollock came to see M. Orton upset. Nurse came for M.) Monday December 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & out over Notting Hill. After at 11.0 photod Hilton & Britten for Waits. Dark miserable morning. M slightly better. Enlarged up in my room, & also a few Dutch photos. Got to work at 5.0pm till 8.30 when Roy, Maud & self dined. Very tired at night. (Red ink: M slightly better.) Tuesday December 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Overslept myself. Out & up Ch St. Met no one. All day hard at work on cartoon of C.B & Lord Lansdowne as Waits. Finished at 10.10 when dined, Mite looking on. Dear M slightly better. Dull dark day. Bed 2.0am after snooze. Roy dined out with Lennie. (Red ink: M slightly better.) Wedneday December 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Again overslept myself. Out & up Ch St. Dark dull morning. M much better & good night. All day & morning enlarging Valendam & Marken. In M's room. Roy went to dine with Lennie. Dear Mite & self dined together. O.S wired about M & the P.O put Cartoon Cancelled instead of Cartoon Excellent. Sent Upton to Punch Office. Bed at 11.45. After Roy back at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Wire from O.S, cartoon cancelled.) (Cutting glued in: The King at Hall Barn for a day's shooting.) Thursday December 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50 & out. Walked up Ch St & over Notting Hill. Met no one. Dark cheerless morning & dark all day. Back. M not so good a night. In morning enlarged 10 of Middleburg. Lunch. Developed. Hair cut & shaved. Muddle in room. Sent Orton. Wrote Mackenzie & Black. Dear Mite with us. Made some more enlargements & after got to work on Submarine. Gave it up & some thoughts of doing Dutchman & dog. Roy dined with Stern at


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the Garrick & Mite & self together at home. Bed after being in Drawing Room. (Red ink: M not so well.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Harriet Pearks. Buried on Monday.) Friday December 21 Stafford Terrace. Up later. Overslept self. Out. M had a better night. Walked to Cromwell Road past Lytham House. No school girls. Back. After made up mind to do Toboggan. Enlarged it in room in afternoon & some more Dutch back prints. Went down & developed them & put them in Drawing Room. After Mite, Roy & self dined at home quietly. In Drawing Room after. Colder. Bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: M a better night.) Saturday December 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10 & out with Rags. Dear M not so good a night. Saw Red Hat go into Court. Walked over & down Phillimore Gds. Breakfast, Roy & self. After in morning writing & putting straight. Orton in. Wanted me to go away. Poor man he was taken with influenza himself in the afternoon & seriously ill. Perfectly well when I was talking to him. M cheerful. In afternoon began Toboggan drawing in earnest. Put in Britannia. Roy left for Pyt House at 5.0pm in the carriage. Mite & self dined together & she went back by Upton who had gone twice for turkeys to Victoria. Bed after being in Morning Room. Colder. Curious letter from the Borough Surveyor to say the occupant of the house had erected a scaffold in a Public Way. £4 to pay. (Red ink: M not so good a night. Roy went to Pyt House.) Sunday December 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. No hot water. Had semi cold bath. Out & walked up Church St & back by Phillimore Gardens. After all morning writing etc etc. Dear M with a better night. Slept soundly. Sat with her in the morning & Mite in room. Mite & self lunched. Cigar & rest in my room after. Mite came up at 4.30 to say Dr Pollock & Dr Hayward wanted to see me. Went down. Terrible news that dear M must have an operation tomorrow. Young Orton in the room also. The greatest blow I have had during my married life. Miserable & wretched. Went up & sat with M. Tried to work. Broke down. Mite & I dined at 8.0. At 9.0 Upton & Spring put the small bed in front room & took down the large bed & put it in Roy's Room. Mite left at 11.0. Bed in Roy's Room. (Red ink: Dr Pollock & Dr Hayward came & I was told the terrible news dear M must have


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an operation. Upton & Spring put bed in Roy's Room. M very brave over it.) Monday December 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.20. Hot bath & out at 8.50. Rags lost. Back. At 9.30 Mite came by Upton. Dear M resigned. Did not have so good a night. Hot water bottle fell out of bed. Evelyn Fisher Rowe & Nurse came at 10.0. Bed put up in the Drawing Room. After in morning sat with dear M for 1½ hours until turned out at 12.30. Terribly anxious. At 1.0 Dr Hayford, Dr Pollock, Dr Orton & the anaesthetic man came. Spencer in Morning Room. Mrs Gibson came up & was with Mite in Drawing Room & Lennie also. Over at 2.0pm with good news. Self on landing with the aquarium. Hurried lunch after at 2.30. After talking to Spencer went up & did 3 hrs work. At 6.0pm Edgar called. Dinner, Mite, Lennie & self. After left Lennie in the Morning Room & slept in the Drawing Room self. Got up & opened the window at 1.0am. (Red ink: Dear M's operation borne bravely 1.0 to 2.0pm. Slept in the Drawing Room.) Tuesday December 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Bath & out. Beautiful clear morning. Went in to Kensington Church & returned thanks for dear M. Walk after thro' Phillimore Gds. Met Mr Turner. Did not speak to M all day. Saw her for a moment at 4.45 sleeping. Went on in day & got on with drawing for opening Volume 132. After lunch Lennie took me for a motor run up Roehampton Lane & over Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park & home. Very bitterly cold. Tea with Mite. Worked from 5.0 to 6.30. Edgar & Spencer came. Edgar stayed to dinner. Mite, Lennie, Edgar & self. Had a magnum of Ayala 1884. As good & cheery a dinner as circumstances could admit. Edgar left 10.30 & Lennie & self went to bed at 11.0pm. All slept well & dear M had fair night. (Red ink: Lennie took me motor run over Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park etc. Magnum of Ayala 1884. Edgar, Mite & Lennie dined.) Wednesday December 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Snow. Out. Miserable. Walked over into Notting Hill by Church St & up Holland Walk. Met no one. Rags would not eat his breakfast. Lennie left 9.20 for Lancaster Gate. Dear M a fair night. Wired Raven Hill. Went on with work all morning. At 11.45 saw dear M & held her hand. Conscious. Lennie, Mite & self lunched. Bright clear frosty day. Finished Opening Page for Vol 132 at 5.30pm. Edgar came at 6.30. Left for


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the Punch Dinner given by Seaman at the Savile Club. Edgar & self went in bus. O.S, self, C.L.G, L.B, C.V.L, E.T.R, A.G. Very good dinner & wine. Left at 11.0 & caught bus at once & home. Very cold & raw. (Red ink: Dined at Punch Dinner with Seaman at the Savile Club.) Thursday December 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out. Slight headache. Sent Upton to Britten. Out up over Church St etc. Met no one. After schemed subject of Britannia & Neptune, Channel Tunnel. Dear M much better. Photod Britten at 12.15pm. Enlarged. Up in my room & all ready at 4.30pm. Edgar came up into my room. Worked till 8.15 when dined by self. Snow on the ground slight. Sent cheque for £4.0.0 for straw licence. Mite had one of her colds come on & left for Lancaster Gate at 1.0pm in fly by doctor's wish. Letter from school girl for photo. Ethel M Viney, 45-47 High Street, Cheshunt, Herts. (Red ink: Dear M better.) Friday December 28 Stafford Terrace. Woke up with clothes off bed. Shivering with cold. Surprised not had effects from it. Out for walk. Snow. Met no one. All day at work on drawing of Britannia & Neptune. Did not finish until 10.45pm. Edgar came up in my room & stayed an hour. Dined by self. Dear M much better all day. Bed 2.0am after snooze. Got new coffee pot from Picards. (Red ink: Dear M better. Much better.) Saturday December 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15 & out. Shop girls at Madame Mascotte's could not get in. Back. Breakfast. Dear M a good night. All morning tidying. Sent Xmas cards etc. Lunch by self. Sat with M. After enlarged re-prints, Holland & nearly to the end. Looked over Times etc. Lennie sent cigars. At 8.0 Edgar came & dined. Good dinner. He left at 11.0. Read till 1.30, The Purple Land. Poor stuff. Slept well in Drawing Room. (Red ink: Edgar dined with me.) (Cuttings glued in: Ruby Wedding, Francis Truefitt to Angelique Gladstone. Obituary of Julia Goodman. Tues 1 Jany 07.) Sunday December 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30 & out with Rags. Roads slippery at first. Dear M not quite so good a night & to take oil. Saw Dr H in Morning Room at 11.30am. After went up by bus to the Athenaeum. Letters. Miss B, Mrs M, & a chop. Wrote letters &


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back to S.T at 4.0pm. A miserable afternoon, sleet & watery snow. Dear M not so well. Lennie dined with me & left at 10.0pm. He much enjoyed Port Wine. Slept in Drawing Room. Good night. (Red ink: Dear M not so well.) (Cutting glued in: Obituary of George Pitt-Lewis. Jany 2. Death of Colonel John Brooke.). Monday December 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0 & out up Church St. Met the slapper. Bought a small tray at Keen's Church Street. Rags with me. Back. In morning wrote letters etc. Bright. Warmer & some sun. Roy back at 11.0. Got things out of his room. A gold cigarette case sent him from Stern. Developed 24 cards. Dear M slightly better. Sat with her. In afternoon enlarged 24 re-prints & began Paris. Dined by myself. Forgot all about the New Year coming in. Did not get to sleep for some time. Mrs Poynter bad cold. (Red ink: End of an unfortunate year 1906. Roy back fom Pyt House.) (Cuttings glued in: Obituary of Mrs Josephine Butler. Jany 2, 1907. Savoyard Celebration Dinner. Monday 31 Dec.) Notes and addresses at end of diary: Dixon, Virginia E Dawson, E. 322 Gilmour, Ottawa. Hird, Janet 48 Grove End Road, St J.W. Huxley, E. 1 Portland Mansions Jessop, B. Napier House Hertford Rd, Lower Edmonton Jessop, E. at Euston Rly Hotel Liverpool St E.C. Louie Clotilde. 157 Brixton Road S.W. Mackenzie, E.L. 45 Berners St, W. Morgan, R. 38 Tabor Rd, The Grove. Macrae, Nan L. 3 Lawrence Mansions, Cheyne Walk S.W. Taverner, G. (address crossed out) Woodcock, Mabel. 122 Victoria Rd, Kilburn. Warwick, E. 126a High Street, St John's Wood N.W. P.Douglas Forster. 10 Victoria Road, High Road, Kilburn. Hilton, A. 14 Arundel Terrace, St Margaret's, Twickenham. Pegler, H.L. 14 Winchester Ter, St Margarets, Twickenham. Riches, George. 161 Purves Road, Kensal Rise N.W. Harris, W.G. 17 Victoria Place, High Rd, Kilburn. Browning, W.G. 68 Abingdon Villas, Kensington W. Pegler, H.L. Regents Park Road, Chalk Farm. N.W. Hancock, W. 10 Queens Rd, Hammersmith.


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Britten. 5.9½, age 62. Fireman. W.J.Horsford, Fire Station, Clarendon Place. Harris. Height 5.8. Age 29. 11st weight. Alastor. 18 Lamont Road, Kings Rd, Chelsea, S.W. Wilkins, G. 47 Middle Lane, Crouch End, Hornsey, N. Pegler, H.L. 45 Ainger Road, Regents Park Road, N. Great Central Railway General Manager. Sam Fay Esqre. G.M.O. London Road Station, Manchester. Station master. W.F.Monckton. Asst General Manager. J.Rostern. Great Eastern Railway General Manager J.F.S.Gooday G.M.O. Liverpool St Station E.C. Station Master H.G.Drury. Asst General Manager R.Ellis Esq. Great Northern Railway General Manager G.M.O. Kings Cross, London N. Station Master Secretary W.Latta Esqre. Great Western Railway General Manager J.C.Ingles. G.M.O. Paddington Station W. Station Master S.F.Johnson. Secretary A.G.M. S.P.Monkhouse. Midland Railway General Manager Dec - Aug 1906. Guy Granet Esqre G.M.O. Derby. Station Master W.Snow. St Pancras. Asst Genl Manager. Ed.W.Wells Esq. London Brighton & South Coast. General Manager William Forbes Esq G.M.O. London Bridge Station. Station Master. Asst General Manager.


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London & North Western Railway General Manager Sir Frederick Harrison. G.M.O. Euston Station. N.W. Station Master Mr Brook. Asst Genl Manager. South Eastern & Chatham Rly General Manager Vincent C.Hill. G.M.O. London Bridge Station. Station Master J.W.Green Esq. Asst General Manager Captain E.V. Blomfield. Secy C.Sheath Esq.. Royal Mail Service Calais. The North British Railway General Manager N.F. Jackson. G.M.O. Edinburgh N.B. Station Master. Asst Genl Manager. Caledonian Railway General Manager R.Millais Esqr. G.M.O. 302 Buchanan St, Glasgow. Station Master Wm Hamilton. Asst General Manager. Glasgow & South Western Rly. General Manager David Cooper Esq, G.M.O. St Enoch's Station, Glasgow. Station Master C.E.Cockburn Esqre, Superintendant of the Line. Asst General Manager Highland Railway Company General Manager J.A.Wilson Esqr. G.M.O. Inverness. Station Master. Asst Genl Manager. Port Patrick & Wigtownshire General Manager John Thompson Esq. G.M.O. Carlisle. Station Master Fred.W.Hutchinson, Traffic Manager Stranraer. Asst Genl Manager.


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Sir James Thompson, Principal, & after R.Millar, A More Esq. also J.Blackburn Secretary. Adelphi 410-411 Strand W.C. Aldwych. Seymour Hicks, Oliver Barrett junior. Aldwych, W.C. Apollo. G.S.Biggs, A.C.Belsey. Shaftesbury Avenue, W. Avenue. Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross, W.C. Comedy. Panton Street, Haymarket, S.W. Coronet. High St Notting Hill Gate, W. Criterion. 218- 223 Piccadilly, W. Daly's. G.S.Minor. 2-5 Cranbourn St, Leicester Sq, W.C. Duke of York's. James W.Mathews. St Martins Lane, W.C. Gaiety. E.Marshall. Aldwych & Strand, W.C. Garrick. A.Bourdier. 2 Charing X Road, W.C. Gt Queen Street. 8 Great Queen St, W.C. Haymarket. Frederick Harrison. 7-8 Haymarket, S.W. His Majesty's. Henry Dane. Haymarket, S.W. Imperial. Lyston Lyle. Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W. King's. Hammersmith Rd, W. Lyceum. Wellington St, Strand, W.C. Lyric. A.C.Belray, H.S.Callan. 29 Shaftesbury A, W. New Sadlers Wells. Arlington St, E.C. New. C.Wyndham. St Martin's Lane, W.C. Palace. Alfred Butt. Cambridge Circus, W.C. Prince of Wales'. A.C.Donald, W.H.Dawes. Coventry St, Picca'y, W. Princess's. 152 Oxford Street, W. Royal Court. Sloane Square, S.W. Royalty. 73 Dean St, Soho, W. St James's. King St, St James's, S.W. Savoy. Savoy Court, Strand, W.C. Scala. Charlotte St, Fitzroy Square, W. Shaftesbury. 3 Shaftesbury Avenue, W. Terry's. E.P.Morgan. 106-6 Strand. W.C. T.R.Covent Garden. Bow St, W.C. T.R.Drury Lane. Sidney Smith. Catherine Street, Covent Garden, W.C. Vaudeville. Herbert Clark. 404 Strand, W.C. Waldorf. Alfred Ferrars. Aldwych, Strand, W.C. Wyndhams. Charing X Road, W.C. Alh'a, Palace of V. Leicester Sqr, W.C. Emp, Palace of V. H.S.Hitchins. Leicester Sqr, W.C. London Colisseum. J.Dowell. St Martin's Lane, W.C.


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Lond' Pavilion. sec Ilford Ibbetson, manager Frank Glenister. Piccadilly Tivoli The' of Var. 65-70½ Strand, W.C. Lyric Apollo. Adelphi. Acting manager A.C.Belsey Theatre Royal, Birmingham. (M.R.) Wed June 19 01 Wed June 26 01 Tues July 2 01 Wed July 10 01 First Wed July 17 01 Tues July 23 01 Twice Mon July 29 01 Floor Wed Sep 25 01 Wed Oct 2 01 Wed Oct 9 01 Eager Tues Dec 31 01 Mon Jan 13 02 Tues Jan 28 02 Chatham Sat Feb 8 02 Best Sat Feb 15 02 Double Tues Mar 4 02 Climax Tues Mar 11 02 Wed Mar 26 02 Wed Apl 30 02 Fri Sep 26 02 Wed Jan 14 03 Wed Apl 22 03 Wed Apl 29 03 Wed June 3 03 Wed July 8 03 Three Wed Sep 2 03 Wed Sep 23 03 Wed Oct 21 03 Wed Nov 4 03 Wed Nov 25 03 Tues Dec 22 03 (E.D.) Mon July 18 02


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