Linley Sambourne's Diary, 1890

LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Notes and addresses on front pages of diary: Three pages of miscellaneous figures, some of Bonds and Debenture Stock.

Two loose pages with tables of game birds shot from 1883 to 1896.

Price of Brown's Lucelium Boot Varnish, 2/4 for 2 bottles.

Mr J.H Kenyon, Funeral Furnisher, 45 Edgeware Rd. Store Ticket for 1890: 88377.

The Coal Owners Association, 87 Euston Road, N.W. Charles Montague, 37 Park Village East N.W. 19 St John Street Bedford Row W.C. Archibald Macgregor, 126 Campden Houses, Peel St. Mrs F Wilford, 98 Gloucester Rd, Regents Park N.W. 6 Bishops Terrace, Fulham.

Kate Manning, 8 Mund St, West Kensington (this crossed out).

528 King's Road, Chelsea.

Lillie Graham, 2 Jermyn St, W. Fk Barr Esq, 8 Hans Road, Brompton, S.W. Louie Price, 2 Goodson Road, Lillie Road, Fulham B.Permarch, Hotel Pavillon Imperial, Boulogne.

Dr Orwin A.W, 15 Weymouth St, Portland Pl, W. Dr Relson Millard, Sneyd Park, Bristol.

M.H.Spielman. Mag of Art. La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, London E.C. C.R. Hansen, Copenhagen & Elsinore,Wilson & Sons agent.

Etty Pettigrew, 7 Musgrave Cres’t, Walham Green.

Hamilton Fletcher, Pyt House Tisbury, Wilts.

Mars, 72 Boulevard Malherbes, Paris.

Le Nu au Salon. (worth getting). Armand Silvestre, Librairie Informinarie.

53 Ter. Quai des Grands Augustines, 71 Rue la Condamine 71.

Salon Illustré, 1890, Troisieme Annee, No 1, 2 francs.

Ludovic Barchet, 123 Rue de Culbage 12, Paris George Finlay Esq. Dated 28 Aug '90.

General Manager's Office, Euston Station, N.W. Fred Dougal Esq. General Manager & Keys Office.

The Highlands Railway Co, Inverness. Dated Aug '90 Arthur Linley Esq, 19 Hamilton Rd, Ealing.

Note about a party held on Tuesday 31 January 1889: At Parson's 12.5am. Mrs Harrison, Mrs Boughton, Mrs Collier. Roller, Dixey, self, Collier, Harrison, P's brother, young Harrison.

Wednesday January 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Misty. Hoped to have photod for Boxing subject. Mist increased to blackest fog on record. Boy turned up 11.0am. Lit gas & candles & looked out subject for Prize Fight. Tidied up. Thought to walk to Club & lunch. Stayed at Stafford Terrace. At 2.35 sent boy for 4

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 wheeler & went to Victoria. Caught Granville. Cold & rain. One man in carriage smoking Cut Cavendish. Down all right. Gave M & Maud bracelets.

Roy & toys. Squeakers & crackers. Went round to Club. Got letters.

Answered them & saw Weigall. Back to dinner at 8.0pm. Oysters. Roy & Maud up. Pall Mall. Sleep after cigar. Strange dream in Drawing Room of Yates dancing & operation on leg by quack. Dung beetles. Woke 11.55am.

Bed. Very cold.

Thursday January 2 Ramsgate. Up 8.30. Maud had bad night. Headache & feverish. Breakfast.

Roy & football. Read child's book, Adventures in Egyptian Catacombs.

Round to Club. No letters. Old Hunks, clergyman. Billiard Room W.C. Back to work. East wind but fine & bright. Sent check Vintern £14.0.0. Worked on Prize Fight drawing. At 2.30 rode mare round by Haine & on to Margate.

Back by coast & got to Ramsgate at 4.30. Up stairs & got on with work. Maud in M's room. After dinner worked on drawing from 10.0pm to 12.15am. Read Century acct of assassination Lincoln. Bed 1.10am. M & Maud awake. Fine.

Friday January 3 Ramsgate. Roy left ½ a sausage. Up early & down to breakfast. M & Maud in bed. Round to Club. Back & drew from Jolley for Prize Fight. Very dark for sea side. Worked to lunch. Decided to send for young Hicks to Maud. No good. Worked all afternoon & wired to Swain. Finished drawing 6.50pm.

Great hurry to get it off. Barrel of oysters came. Had 3 doz for dinner with M. Roy down. After dinner read paper & dozed. Nightmare in chair. Bed 12.0am.

M & Maud sleeping together. Lacon Pen at Club. Miss Florrie Hood called & said her mother & sister laid up with influenza. Squire laid up with bilious chill.

Saturday January 4 Ramsgate. Birthday. No one remembered it. Wrote Hamilton Fletcher etc etc. Up 8.40. Breakfast 9.15am. Round Club, old Hunks (Webb) there.

Looked through Telescope. Back. Old Bobby on doorstep with muzzle on.

Mrs Hammond called. Young Dr Hicks called. Not much good. Roy & Miss Gill walk. Inventory being taken. Sun bright at noon. In afternoon rode mare round by St Lawrence to Margate across Nash. Along sands & home. Jolley met me on Marquis. Home & began after tea the drawing for Good Words.

Skemed it. Dinner. Quiet & sleep in chair after. Bed 11.30. Slept in Maud's bed. 1st night of Tra la la Tosca. No, postponed to Thursday. (Red ink across page: No one remembered my birthday thank goodness.)

Sunday January 5 Ramsgate. Gale of wind & very wet. Went round to Club. Rounded on Webb.

Roy waited for me. Telescope no good. Walked in gale to end of pier. Sea washing over. Back. Did not ride. Lunch. Walk with M at dusk. Arranged room & at 5.0 made candle light study from Jolley. Down & round to Club to write letters. Back. Dinner. Bottle of Champagne. Round to see Squire after.

Pulled down. Rosie & Connie Burnand there. Back & read Sunbeam's Voyage. Bed 1.0am. Slept in Maud's room.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Monday January 6 Ramsgate. Sea fog & wet. Went on mare from house to meet at Birchington.

Caught up North Buckmaster & son. Talk of Cotton and Tomlin. Mare (illeg) in open at Birchington. Hounds up after. Found hare at once. Pottering run about Birchington. Did not kill. On after to Hop Poles by Monkton. Lunch.

Dropped cigar. Angry with mare could not mount again easily. After lost hounds. Home by bad luck by lower road. Past Collard's. Began to trot & mare came down heavily in road with me. Collard's trap. Cut herself badly.

Very angry & annoyed. Not hurt self. Walked home. Jolley & stableman covered with mud. Home. Packing. Roy & Tony. Maud's cold bad. Packed things. Walked down to Fitchews. Complained about 1/-. Back. Saw mare.

Dinner. Watch slow. Only just caught train. Borradaile in train. Bought Pall Mall & saw that it was the Baddeley night at Drury Lane. Drove to Stafford Terrace. Dressed & went to Drury Lane. Met Maclean at Club. Slow. Miss Olga Brandon Toole. Supper at Beefsteak & home at 3.0am. Drunken butler.

Tuesday January 7 Stafford Terrace. Full moon. Beautiful morning. Bright & hot. Up 8.30am. Put all things away. Annoyed Mervyn not coming.. Spencer & Will Oakes called.

Read letters etc etc. Got Jolley round at 1.15 & photod him in bed etc. Heavy morning. Got clear at 3.30pm. M & chicks all came home in omnibus. Such a load. Roy & self walked into town. Got carbolic. Saw horses. Met Tom Eykyn.

Bought nails. Home. Quiet little dinner. Bottle of Ayala. Sleep in chair after.

Bed. Miss Gill not well. Developed photos of Jolley.

Wednesday January 8 Stafford Terrace. Dull rainy morning. Cleared up. Printed photos. Got to work. At 12.30 cart came up with Marquis in it. Drove Roy & self to corner of Carlton House Terrace. Marquis wanted to turn at mews. Lunch at Rules.

Chop & oysters. Met Haworth at Haworth's. Knew me 25 years ago at Trafalgar. On to Pantomime. Crush to get in seats. Saw Gus Harris. Jack & the Beanstalk. Good cow & hen. Out. Rain. Walked with Roy to cart. Got hot.

Back club. Wrote letters. Arthur Blunt. On to Punch Dinner. Agnew presided.

Bradbury very bad at home. Good & cheery dinner. Left in cab to home with F.C.B. Home at 1.30am. Wet. Cabby 4 wheeler 3/-.

Thursday January 9 Stafford Terrace. Duller morning. Breakfast. Got on with drawing for G.W. At 1.15 lunch & at 1.45 cart round. Drove to Addison Road Station & across bridge with 2 Chicks to Barnum's show. Met B's grandson. Saw show in box.

Out at 4.45pm. Heavy rain. Cab. Back Terrace. Tea. Emma's cake. After got on with drawing G.W. At 6.45 walked to Eykyns to dinner. Met Traill, son of magistrate at Greenwich. Talk of Hartrees etc etc. Stayed till 10.30. Walked home. Good wine & cigar. Tom Eykyn & stories. Insects. Heavy rain. Eykyn went to dance at Airlie Gdns. Barker ill with gout at Coghlans.

Friday January 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. M in bed. After bath. Most lovely morning. Bright hot sun. Fence with Roy at 10.30am in garden. Sent Jolley on Marquis to F.C.B. After got on with work on Chaplin & Dogs. Worked all day. Roy &

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 boxing gloves with Maud. Sent Jolley to Stores for things. Finished work at 10.15pm. Dined. Sent drawing off. Maud not too well at night. Feverish influenza. Diaphoretic. M slept with Maud. F.C.B attacked with influenza.

(Later note: Charles Edward Schimmelmann died this day, aged 60.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Schimmelmann.)

Saturday January 11 Stafford Terrace. Slept with Roy. Maud not well. Could not go to Pyt House as settled. In morning put things in order & worked on drawing for G.W. In afternoon at 3.30 drove Marquis to Knightsbridge. Bought sausages etc & called on Barker at Mr Coghlan's. Took Roy. Barker knocked his foot. Back.

Worked. Decided not to dine out. Merry short dinner with Roy. Whiskey & bed at 11.30. Slept with Roy. M with Maud. Diaphoretic.

Sunday January 12 Stafford Terrace. Maud better. Less feverish. Did not ride. Lovely morning. 2 Chicks together in room with Tony. Drove M at 12.10 to Maddox St with Marquis. Saw Mother & Mervyn. Back. Passed Dr Playfair & wife etc. Lunch.

Maud in bed. Roy hot & listless. Went for walk at 3.30 with Roy & Tony to top of Row. Roy tired & not well. Home. Put him to bed. Same as Maud. M & self dined quietly. Bottle of Champagne. Bed 11.30pm. Slept with Roy. Monday January 13 Stafford Terrace. Greatly shocked at seeing Mr Schimmelmann's death in ‘Times’. Decided to go to Pyt House. Orton called & saw Roy. Worked on G.W. Finished at 2.0pm. Packed up & caught the 3.50 for Tisbury. Drove Marquis in cart. Went down One old gent in carriage. No cart at Tisbury station. Stupid porter. Hired. Got there at 8.10pm. Bee Barrs. Fine house.

Dinner. Tabs. Looked over scrap books. Whiskey. Bed. Read ‘7 Curses of London’. Sleep 1.30pm. Fire in room. Man fell over my cartridges.

Tuesday January 14 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up 8.20. Bath. Breakfast. Hamilton went to shoot. Wet. Looked over albums etc etc. Pottered all morning. Wrote letters. Lunch.

Chicks. Finished letters. Walked with dogs to railway bridge. Cart with girls.

Back. Changed. Bad oil on hair. Down. Mrs Stuart Wortley & Mrs Irvin called.

After Stuart W & self played Billiards. Captain W came in. Sherry. Dinner.

Sleepy after. Read Trelawney's ‘Byron’. Whiskey. Bed. Wednesday January 15 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up 8.20. Bath. Breakfast. Shoot morning. Started at 10.10am. Shot rabbits, cock pheasants, one snipe, 1 partridge. Irvine pulled tail out of my pheasant. Lunch (stew). Cock bird got up out of pie after. Back to house in cart. Rapid change. Tabby cart with Bee B & Gwenny to Tisbury.

Caught train easily. Waterloo. Feeble youth got in at station. Jolley met me.

Strolled to Punch Dinner. F.C.B ill with influenza. Tenniel, Arthur, Guthrie, Lucy, Milliken & self dined only. Had knickerbockers on. Broke up 12.0. Cab home 3/6. Bad horse. All well. Roy sleeping. M had bad night.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Thursday January 16 Stafford Terrace. Slept with dear Roy. Up 8.30. M not well, Chicks better.

Decided for them to go to Pyt House. Spencer & Will Oakes called. They packed. Put photo things up. Buss at house 1.30pm. Off 1.45. Worked.

Photod Jolley as Lanky Boy. Developed. Dressed. Mervyn called. Drove Marquis to Turkish Bath. Slewed round corner. Bath. Saw sheep etc etc. Hair cut. Walk to Garrick. Bangs. Dined turtle etc. Coffee. Chapnell. Talk with Scotchman. Felt seedy. Empire. Box. Montague. Back Club. Wrote letters.

Supper. Lord Euston. Pool player. Johnny Toole. Long talk with Wicks. Took him home. Cab home, good horse. Bed 3.15am. Charles Edward Schimmelmann cremated at Woking. Very hot & stuffy at night at Club.

Friday January 17 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. Up 9.15am, self. Read & breakfasted.

Spencer called. Talk of Mother. Worked all day drawing of Spring. Lunched & dined at home. At 10.0 drove Regent's Park. Cab to Garrick. Looked at 2/supper at Club. Toole & his stories. Joe Knight etc etc. Stayed very late, 3.15am. Home by cab.

Saturday January 18 Stafford Terrace. Woke with bad head & wheezy throat. Tidied up all the morning. Put photo things together etc etc. Lunched at home. Cart round at 2.0 a little late. Caught the 2.50 train. Down to Tisbury. Guests for Morrisons.

Tall man in light driving coat. Bother with luggage. Arrived Tisbury.

Comfortable. Found dear Roy with ear ache. Maud & M all right. ½ bottle of Champagne for dinner. M slept with Roy. Came into my room. Quiet evening.

Sunday January 19 Pyt House, Tisbury. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. In morning high wind. Put camera up & photod house with Hamilton. Back & developed 2 plates. Good. Lunch.

Walk with Roy round Park with spaniel. Roy left me & took his own way home. Looked over books. Dinner. Quiet evening.

Monday January 20 Pyt House. Up 9.0am. breakfast. H & self went shooting with ferrets. Out all day. Cold. Lunch & talk. Fired both barrels after. Home 4.30. Stuart Wortleys & Irvines dined at Pyt House. Mrs S.W.& hair. After dinner Shell Out. Lost 7d. Game of Billiards with Hamilton. Made 20 break & ran out. Won 2/6.

Laugh & bed. Played 2 games with H. Tuesday January 21 Pyt House. Up 9.0am. Breakfast etc. At 9.50 started in cart with lame pony ‘Ticklebury Brown’ & drove across Wiltshire downs to Warminster. Saw burnt pig. Steep hill,15 miles. Hamilton's sporting Uncle Bailey meet. Back to Warminster. Put trap up. Lunch, biscuit & cheese & ale. Back over downs.

Very cold wind. Bitter. Got out & ran at hill. Past Percy Wyndham's. Lord Stourbridge etc etc (Stalbridge, 11 Jany 1906.). Got to Pyt House 2.18pm.

Lunch. Tossed Gwenny. After sat smoking with whiskey. H back 3.30.

Played Billiards. H won 2 games. Dinner. Billiards after, H 2/6 to good.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Wednesday January 22 Pyt House. Up 8.30. Breakfast. At 10.30 started to shoot with Roy, Capn Irvine & Hamilton. Good day. Rabbits, pheasants etc. Stream. Pheasant swam across pond. Lunch at Lindley Farm. Sent Roy back after. H shot at swan. No good after lunch. Stew at lunch. Indigestion. Shot last rabbit that got up. Back. Played Irvine game of Billiards. Beaten. Ought to have gone up to town. Ham & Tabs went to Lord Arundell's to dinner in red coat. M, Bee Barrs & self dined. Dispute about Dukes, proved it from (illeg). Sat up till 11.15. Bed. Thursday January 23 Pyt House. Up 8.30. Breakfast 9.0. Pottered about. Read etc. Started in pony cart for 11.51 from Tisbury. Found it only went Mondays & Tuesdays.

Annoyed. Back with Court into the village. Wired. Saw shaky legged clock winder. Left by 1.3 train. Got lunch basket at Salisbury. Comfortable lunch.

London 4.30. Cart met me. Called F.C.B, Connie B, tea. On to Stafford Terrace. Dressed & went to dine with Lemuel Bangs at 7.30 by selves.

Queer dark woman & man. Old Vernon Heath. After left & called Pavilion.

Saw Pellegrini's executor. Called Garrick. Sir A Borthwick, Irving, Toole etc.

Left 12.15am. Bed 1.0am. (Pencil note: Must have called Park Village. Nov 14 '99.)

Friday January 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am, down 8.30. Breakfast. Got to work 9.30. Worked on Bull & frog, County Council. Hard at it. Spencer called. Finished work by 3.40pm & a good cut too. Bull & Frog. Dog cart at door 4.10pm. Caught 5.0pm train from Waterloo. 3 in carriage. Old boy reading. Youth with Modern Society. Bar maid at Salisbury. Tall. 2 commercial men gave me back pipe. Got out at Semley. Pony met me. On to Pyt House. Chicks in hall.

Took coat off. Dinner. Hock. Bah! M not well. Ham tired with hunting, narrow escape jumping. Bed 11.50. No Billiards.

Saturday January 25 Pyt House. Down 9.0am. Breakfast. Roaring gale & heavy rain all day. H could not shoot at Sir Thos (Walter?) Groves. Looked over books etc. Found Kitchener. Out with gun & Roy after lunch in afternoon for wood pigeons.

Saw Stuart Wortleys billing & cooing. Played billiards with S.W after. Won 1/, gave it to Roy. Dinner. Bottle Champagne. Billiards after, 3 games, 1 to H, 1 to self & 1 to H. Bed 12.20pm. H 2 games ahead.

Sunday January 26 Pyt House. Down 9.30am. Still blowing a heavy gale & wet. Breakfast. Took photos of Billiard Room, Dining Room etc. After lunch developed them.

Walked with Tabs, Bee, Roy, Ham & Ju & Colonel to Fonthill. Deep water & lovely grounds. Rhododendrons in flower. Back to tea. Developed photos taken last Sunday. Dinner. Carlowitz. Sleepy after. Bed 11.0pm. M very nervous at night.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Monday January 27 Pyt House. Up 8.20. Breakfast 9.0. Hamilton started early to shoot at Groves.

Tabs went to Winchester. Photod all morning & afternoon. Very mild weather. Roy came out at lunch very exuberant. Jammed my finger in trap door of Dining Room in oak door. Went for walk round with gun in afternoon.

Shot at rabbits etc. Developed photos in afternoon. H got back after big shoot, 400 rabbits on downs. Dinner. Game of Billiards after, one each. Ju outside house. Bed 11.50.

Tuesday January 28 Pyt House. Up 8.15. Breakfast. Hamilton went to town by early train 10.0am.

Wet morning with bursts of sunshine. Tried photo of Statue. Billiard Room from outside no good. Lunch. Developed all remaining ones. Stuart Wortley came in in afternoon. Played 3 games of Billiards. Beaten in all. Shaved. H back from town. Bought horse-shoe pin. Played billiards after dinner. Beat Hamilton 2 games. Even now.

Wednesday January 29 Pyt House. Up early. Down 9.0am. Breakfast. Lovely day. Delay in getting off. Photod pillars & H & Evelyn. Roy & self went up to the chapel for shoot.

Walk about with guns. Pheasants. H shot woodcock. Had his wing feathers.

After walked down to Linley Farm. Lunch. Roy stayed all day. Saw fox. Roy killed rabbit. Back by house. Roy in laurels. Home. Dressed & changed things. Played 1 game of Billiards with H. Lost before dinner. Dinner. ½ bottle Champagne. 2 games after, 1 to H, 1 to self. Lost 1 game. Tossed 2/-.

Thursday January 30 Pyt House. Last day. Up. Breakfast. Hamilton late. Man burnt H's breeches.

Boots tight. Started at 10.30 for meet at Sedge Hill Green. Passed Stuart Wortleys. Meet. Boy on pony. Lord Stourbridge's girls in pony cart. Turned it round for them. Saw hounds go into cover. After back to house. Mrs Stuart Wortley & puppy. Lunch. Woodcock & wine. Caught 1.0 train up to town.

Cart met me with Jolley & mare. Home. No worry. Letter from America.

Dressed. Went by Met Rly to Temple. Met ugly man & country cousin going to Drury Lane. Out. Called Gaiety. Dined Steak. Saw Colnaghi. Story of Panmure Gordon (Not worth dividing.) On with Colnaghi to Gaiety. No go.

Covent Garden Circus. Lion good. Back to St Terrace. Whiskey etc. Home 1.0pm.

Friday January 31 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. Up 8.30am. Breakfast. Wire from Swain. No subject. Wrote up diary etc. Letter from Arthur. At 12.30 got to work on Boulanger & Paris. Worked all day without going out at all to 10.15pm when dined. Bottle of Champagne & bed after. M & Roy returned home in carriage at 7.0pm. Roy had tea. Sent Lawrence to meet them & Jolley in carriage.

Dull day & warm. (Pencil note: One of the best drawings I ever did. Feby 11 '96.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Saturday February 1 Stafford Terrace. Breakfast etc. At 11.15 went with M & Roy to call on Sir W.F.Dolby at 18 Savile Row. Waited. Roy examined. To have operation performed. On to Rules. Found opera glasses had been stolen out of carriage. Lunch. Covent Garden Circus. Difficulty about seats. Good performance. Woman & children ‘Oh what a hugly pig he's lost is 'ed’.

Carriage on to hotel. Roy & self to Sportsman Exhibition. Civil manager.

Back to hotel. Saw Jess & Mother. Walked home. Bought sausages & magazines. Dinner. Quiet evening. Bed early. Letters came from Glossop & A.Linley about W.Bingham. Marquis had stone in his foot.

Sunday February 2 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. Roy well but slow. Sausages etc. At 12.20 started in cart for Barkers. Drove Marquis up Roehampton etc etc. Arrived 1.20. Saw Barker outside church. After lunched there. Cold beef, ham & fois gras. Champagne etc. Cigar. Buxton called. Started back at 4.5pm. Home 5.0. Tea. Read magazines & wrote letters etc etc. Quiet dinner & quiet evening after. Bed 11.30. Felt indigestion & hot mouth after fois gras. Read letter in morning from Arthur Linley. Mr Coghlan promised M a water stone.

Monday February 3 Stafford Terrace. Colder in morning. Up at 8.0am. Breakfast. Fine. Roy & Chess. Letters from Mother, Baldwin etc etc. At 12.0 rode Marquis for 1 st time. Fine lovely day. Saw Wyndham, Finlay etc etc. Home. Lunch. After did initial for Robinson Crusoe. 1st after July. sent Jolley to Olympia. Could not get in. Wired to Carte for Gondoliers. All full. So dined quietly at home. Roy at Billiards on floor. M & self looked over house, 2 Argyll Road. Saw boxes & furniture, china etc.

Tuesday February 4 Stafford Terrace. Got on with work for Robinson Crusoe. Dense fog all day.

Wretched weather. Letter from Sir Wm Dolby to say he would come to operate on Roy at 4.0pm. Did not ride. Roy happy playing about. Billiards on floor. At 4.0pm Sir Wm Dolby & Dr Brown came & operated on Roy in Spare Room. About 7 minutes. £15.15.0 & £2.2.0 fees. Rather stiff. M slept with Roy. At 7.15 dressed & went to dine at Mrs Geiger's. Met Bachelor & Persian (English consul) Tabreeze. Talkative lady etc etc. Home 11.40. Bed 12.30.

(Red ink: Did not dine again till Tuesday Jany 21, '96.)

Wednesday February 5 Stafford Terrace. Roy in bed all day after operation. M in all day too. Dull rainy day. Did not ride. At 4.30pm walked to Turkish Bath, 5.35, in blue suit.

Out 6.45. On to Punch Dinner. Full. Agnew there. Good dinner. Furniss imitated Agnew. Home with Guthrie as far as Bond St. Home 1.0am.

Thursday February 6 Stafford Terrace. Finer day but cold. Roy down in Drawing Room after operation. Wrote in morning & did Spanish Girl for R.Crusoe. After at 12 rode for hour. Saw Johnny Matthews. Asked about helmet. Home lunch. M took helmet back in afternoon. Roy down. Worked in afternoon on drawing for

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 British Museum. Skemed it. Dined quietly & after dinner worked for 2 hours.

Read & bed at 1.0pm.

Friday February 7 Stafford Terrace. Roy down in room after operation. In morning news of German Emperor’s appeal for Conference. Sent Jolley on mare to Arthur.

Wired Swain. Altered cut. Worked hard until 10.20 on drawing of Emperor William & Workmen. Dinner & bed 1.30am.

Saturday February 8 Stafford Terrace. After breakfast put all photos etc away. M had letter from Sir Wm Dolbey to take Roy up. Took him up at 12.15. Rode at 11.30. Called Patersons & waited for Tenniel. Lovely day. Cold. Ride in Row. Saw Stone, Wyndham, Finlay etc etc. Home. Caught carriage up. In Morning Room. Roy toothache. Cried. Lunch after. Sorted Illustrated News etc. Wired to Hare, Garrick Theatre. Tea. Reply. Reverse with Roy. M called on Vicat Coles.

After early dinner went to see La Tosca at Garrick Theatre. Saw Lockett Agnew & Thorndyke Nourse.

Sunday February 9 Stafford Terrace. Dull foggy morning. Stayed in all day & sorted desks.

Looked up all bills etc etc. Put things in order. M & Roy went for walk before lunch. Roy not very good. Cried after lunch. At 4.0 Nellie Keith came. Talk of Mrs Tweedie after dinner. Quiet dinner. Bottle of Pernet. Norman Sinclair called. Smoke. Bed after reading ‘Century’ 12.30am.

Monday February 10 Stafford Terrace. Lovely day. East wind cold. Down 8.45. Nellie Keith here.

Roy better. Tidied up etc. At 11.45 dressed & rode 12.45 in Row for hour.

Saw Connie & Ethel Burnand. Missed M, Nellie, Roy. Little boy screaming in the Row. Talk with Seymour Trower, Finlay & Mrs De la Rue. Home. Lunch.

Hungry. At 2.30pm Morris called. Long talk about Penn's & Horniman's catalogue. Talked from 2.00 to 4.opm. Roy out with Lawrence. After went up & took boots off. Worked. Did drawing of Captain & Robinson Crusoe.

Spencer called. Talked. Stayed to dinner. Music etc etc.

Tuesday February 11 Stafford Terrace. Worked in morning. Spencer called. Decided not to have cart on acct of frost. M & Roy went for walk up to top of Park. Took cab up to bottom of Row. Missed M & Roy. On to Army & Navy Club. Met Spencer, Col Wortham late. Lunch at 2.0pm. Plain but good. Talk of Programme. After smoke walked to Scotts & Scot Adies with Spencer. Back. Bought paper Jermyn St. Turkish Bath. Out 6.55. Cab to Punch Dinner. F.C.B there, Agnew etc etc. Talk of reform of Punch. Left 12.0. Cab home. Rather seedy.

Wednesday February 12 Stafford Terrace. Roy had toothache. Fine cold sunshiny morning. Up 8.0am.

Breakfast 8.30. Rode at 10.0am in Park. Called on Tenniel. Past 148 Westbourne Terrace. Tenniel liked Marquis. After home. Photod Roy as Duc d'Orleans, Jolley & self for hands & Boulanger. After developed them after

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 seeing Mr Morris for 2nd time. Brought rubbishy prints. Left plates in hypo. At 5.30 dressed & walked at 6.45 to Whitehall Rooms Hotel Metropole. Banquet to Toole. Sir E Clarke in chair. Irving recited well. Sat between à Beckett & Furniss. Slow bad dinner. Harold Power. Got raw by walking without vaseline. Went after with Colin Hunter, Parsons, Black & Osgood to Black's rooms. Cards. Won £4.0.0 poker. Left with Hunter at 3.35. Home 4.45am.

Man & 2 women out next door. Cold morning. ‘I've lost money Linley’.

Thursday February 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast nine. No head but tired very. Finished plates & put them to dry. At 12.0 rode in Park. Saw Stone, F.C.B, Wyndham etc. Very cold & hard. Marquis sluggish. Home 1.30. Lunch. Mutton. After printed a lot of photos for work. Roy went to have tooth out with gas. Worked after tea. Dinner. Very tired after. Slept after. Bed 10.30pm. M read ‘Bacteria’.

Friday February 14 Stafford Terrace. Dull foggy morning. Up 8.30am. Worked all day on drawing, Duc d'Orleans. Thought to go to Drury Lane. Wired. Altered mind.

Mrs Farquhar called in afternoon. Spencer in in morning. Roy better. Dined at 10.0pm. Cork stuck in bottle. Cut my finger with glass. Slept in chair till 12.20am. No fire. Bed. Saturday February 15 Stafford Terrace. Snowy morning. Dull & wretched. Wet after. Down 9.0am.

Roy & self to go to Pyt House with Guthrie. Letters from Mother etc. Wrote many cheques. Packed up things & caught the 2.40 from Waterloo. Went in 4 wheel cab. Fog & rain. Met Guthrie. Down in train. Gentleman in carriage with window open tearing letters etc etc. Salisbury. Coffee. After to Tisbury.

Turned out to be Lord Arundell. Pyt House. Tea etc. Stuart Wortleys there.

Dogs. Dressed for dinner. Quiet dinner. Library after. Beat Hamilton 2 games of Billiards, 30 & 20 respectively. Bed 12.0am.

Sunday February 16 Pyt House. Roy & bath. Up & down 9.15. Hamilton very late. Delightful walk after with Roy, Maud & Guthrie. Inclined for rain. Cat in conservatory etc etc.

Back 1 hour earlier. Wrote letters. Sent cheque to Hawes & Langstone. After lunch read etc. Walk at 3.30 to Fonthill. Roy Maud & Guthrie, H & self. Lost in wood. Home. Tea. Quiet dinner. Music & bed 12.30pm.

Monday February 17 Pyt House. Fine morning. Roy & self & H went shooting. Duck, rabbits etc.

Tabs, Guthrie & Miss Holland to meet. Fine morning. Rain after. Lunch in wood. Shot squirrels. Sent Roy home by himself at 2.40. Went on shooting till 5.45. Home. Tea. Gas short in the house. Played Billiards. Gradually went out. Roy & matches. High tea. Guthrie & Tabs, Maud Bee Barrs & Miss Holland all went to play at School Room at Semley. Back to supper. Hamilton & self dined quietly. Sleepy after. Looked at News etc.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Tuesday February 18 Pyt House. Down 9.0am. Fine day. Billiards between Guthrie & Roy. H, Roy & self went ferreting. Lunch out at ponds. Good fine day. Roy home at 2.10pm. On shooting until 5.30. Home. Tea. Wrote letters. Finished game of Billiards & lost another to Hamilton making even. Stuart Wortleys, Miss Macdonald & Mrs Shaw Stewart to dinner. Talk to Miss Macdonald. Seen a ghost. Good dinner. Hamilton sang after. Whiskey etc. Bed 11.45.

Wednesday February 19 Pyt House. Up 9.0am. Breakfast. After Billiards with Roy. After developed 2 plates with H in photo house. Walk after. H photod. Packed. Echo. Mrs Stuart Wortley & Miss Macdonald called. Lunch. Roy & mutton. Got off 3.0pm. Photod group. Court passed man with wire. On to station. Bad news for Court. Man in brown ulster with chestnut horse. Up to town. Sleep in carriage. Met M. On with Guthrie to Punch Dinner. Stopped at book shop.

Agnew's story about Romney's picture. Left 11.30, home 12.50am. Cold.

Death of Mr Biggar.

Thursday February 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.45. Breakfast. Letters. Dull wretched morning. East wind. After wrote letters. Sent parcel to Hamilton Fletcher. Sent Jolley on Marquis to F.C.B. No answer. Found out. After made up mind to go to Old Masters. Walked up. M & Maud met me at door of Royal Academy. Saw Miss Schultz. After saw Romney's picture which Davis gave £8500 gns for.

After walked on to Tudor Exhibition. Carriage met me in Sackville St. Sent M & Maud home. Had Turkish Bath. Walked to Knightsbridge. Cab home. Quiet dinner. Bed after, early.

Friday February 21 Stafford Terrace. Got on horse & rode to F.C.B's. Put on knickerbockers.

Slipped up above boots. Rode back, changed & in Park met F.C.B, Stone etc etc. Got subject. Allsopps. Home & worked up to 10.45. Dined. Champagne & bed. Slept in chair till 1.30.

Saturday February 22 Stafford Terrace. Up in morning. Wrote letters. Dressed. Rode Marquis in Park. Met Watney & Nisbit. Felt awfully stiff after. Home. Lunch. Cab with Maud to Drury Lane. Left bag at Turkish Baths, on to theatre. Saw Pantomime. Evelyn Coward. Watney came into box. Carriage at King St. Capital Pantomime, Jack in the Beanstalk. Called Club. Saw Wingfield & Reeve. On to Turkish Bath. Saw Secretary sweating. Dressed in Bath, on to Parson's dinner, Osgood's birthday. Dinner. Dr Lyn Playfair, Rollers, Colin Hunter, Hallé, Osgood, Parsons, self & William Black. Cards after, won £3.10.0. Went to Mrs Jeune's at home. Saw Mrs Watney & Lewis's, Tenniel etc. Back to Club & home at 2.0am with Colin Hunter & Parsons.

Sunday February 23 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Cold. Rode with Colin Hunter to Richmond Park. Good ride. Met Coward & Lawrence. ‘This beast won't stop when I tell him Linley’. Round Wimbledon. Jumped mare. Home. Colin's horse lame.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Lunch. Leg hurt me. Very stiff. Did brown boots. Down. Read. Dozed. Fritz Jackson called. Miss Gill chimed in. Spencer in. Same old story. Very stiff.

Quiet dinner & evening after. Wrote letters etc etc.

Monday February 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. At 11.30 rode Marquis in Row. Met Mrs De la Rue. Hard canter. Sudden headache came on. Great nuisance.

Home. Worked R.C. Rested after. Printed photos etc. Dined. Ought to have gone to Lady Blomfield's. Slept after dinner, did not go. Bed early, 11.0.

Tuesday February 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode in morning. Met Mrs Heilbuth, Lady Boehm. Great ride up & down. Saw M & Maud. Very cold. Home. Headache.

Worked on Robinson Crusoe. Dined in evening at Lady Boehm's. Sat next Mrs Mills. O' lor. Sir R.P Harding etc. (Red ink: Died 1893.) Cigar. Home at 11.15. Saw F.C.B. Will Oakes called in in morning.

Wednesday February 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Decided not to ride. Worked in morning on R.C. Printed photos. Spencer in in morning. M went to Molesworth after. At 4.15pm walked to Turkish Bath. Had one. Saw Jemmy Brand. (Red ink: Died 1893). Walked to Punch Dinner. Small gathering. Good dinner & delightful evening. Left 12.0pm with Guthrie in cab. Home at 1.0. Good cab. Long talk & laugh at Punch Table about reminiscences. Coach to Hampton Court suggested. Letter from Arthur from Mr Glossop. F.C.B's pony lame.

Thursday February 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine bright cold morning. Maud cried at breakfast. To ride with Tenniel at 9.30. Mr Welch called & talked over Spencer reversion. Stayed 1 hour. (Red ink: Only talk ever had with Mr Welch. Bankrupt in Jany 1896 for £80,000.) After got on Marquis & rode round Bayswater side to Park. No Tenniel. After into Row. Cold. Saw Mrs Heilbuth. Headache came on again. Back home. Wrote letters. Lunch. Miss Walford in to lunch. At work after sleep for 1 hour. Headache came on again.

Got to work on Engineering & Forth Bridge. Worked afternoon. Headache bad. Decided to print some plates for cut. After dressed at 7.0 & went in cab to dine with Reed at Isthmian Club. There 8.5pm. F.C.B, Sir E Reed, Furniss, Richmond (Red ink: 'Said I blacked boots in drawing'.) Wirgman & self & Reed. Chaff about head. Furniss toothache. Home with Richmond in fly.

Friday February 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Acute headache all day. Got to work & did Engineering & Forth Bridge. Worked all day. Very cold. M drove Marquis.

Finished 10.25pm. Dined quietly ½ bottle Champagne. Bed after sleep in chair.

Saturday March 1 Stafford Terrace. Down 9.0am. Answered letters. Mended microscope.

Headache still on. Great snow storm. Instead of going to Club to lunch obliged to wait at home. Took cab at 2.30 & drove (calling at Club) to Avenue

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Hotel. Saw Dr Bill Alexander. Spencer & Daggles came into box. Tea with Alexander & Miss Ward. Carriage up. Spencer went home with M & Maud.

After strolled up to Turkish Bath. Saw Leighton & Ledger. Out 7.10, on to Reform Club. Osgood's dinner. Laffan, Parsons, Black, Hunter, self & O. Head bad all dinner time. After to Black's rooms. Lost £5. Left magazines.

Home with Colin. Hard frost & very cold.

Sunday March 2 Stafford Terrace. Bright sun. Very hard frost. Up. Pain in head & seedy. Slept on sofa all morning covered up with newspapers. Spencer & Hilda called. M could not do with them for lunch. Pork. After at 2.30 strolled up over the ice to Club. Wrote letters. On to Black's rooms & got magazines. Boys sliding.

Passed Lord Granby, Sterry, Weldon. Club. Wrote letters for cheques. After cup of tea walked home again. Head very bad & pain in chest. Called Robson Roose. Passed Borthwick. Home & rested. Bitter cold. After Oakes & Molesworth dined with us. Oakes stayed late. Whiskey. Fire in room. Bed at 12.0 exactly. Haldane McFall called. (Red ink: Who was he? Who is he? July 11 '96. He was an artist who drew portraits.15 Oct 1901.)

Monday March 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Bitter frost. Jolley & door. Sent cheque off.

Looked at McFalls drawings. Read Jefferson's autobiography. Bitterly cold.

Began Oakes' drawing for cigar box. Decided not to go to Gaiety Theatre.

Wired. Dined quietly at home. Quiet evening after & bed early. Headache still bad.

Tuesday March 4 Stafford Terr. Bitterly cold hard frost. M sent to Stores for things for dinner.

Did not go out. Got mustard leaves. Worked on Oakes' drawing for cigar box.

After Mr & Mrs Du Maurier, Mr & Mrs Rider Haggard, Vernon Watney, E.T.Reed dined with us. Good dinner but rather slow. Molesworth came in afterwards.. After Watney & Molesworth stayed on & left for home in a cab.

Snowing hard. Frost began to give tonight. Put mustard leaf on neck. Burnt.

Felt better for it. Bed 12.15am.

Wednesday March 5 Stafford Terrace. Thaw set in. Dirty roads etc. Worked Oakes' drawing. M went to Westwood by Granville. Got off about 4.0pm & walked in ulster to Turkish Bath. Queen's Drawing Room. Had Bath. Walked on to Punch Dinner. Pleasant dinner. No proprietors. Arranged to dine with Milliken tomorrow & Tenniel on Saturday. Home with Guthrie in cab by 1.0am. Sir Benjamin Webster knighted.

Thursday March 6 Stafford Terrace. Waited for Stace. Better weather. Dull. Photod him in J.B's coat for Bismarck. 8 phos. Finished 12.15. Rode after round by Queen's Gate to Park. Marquis. Very hot. Got frightfully warm. Met Mr Heilbuth. Up & down. Back lunch. Changed. Developed many plates. Printed 2 of Stace & began drawing. Got outline in. After at 8.15 dined at home, Maud with me.

After at 9.30 drove to Pavilion with mare. Saw Alfred Parsons in box with the

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Seymour Trowers. On to Empire.. Nobody there. Club. Whiskey. Stranger & Beetle. Home 1.15am. Wired Milliken could not dine.

Friday March 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8am. Rode for 1 hour after breakfast. Saw Bartlett & son. Bartlett on chestnut horse. Banker following. Back 10.45. Went on with drawing of Bismarck. Finished 9.15pm. Dined 9.40. Carriage 10.30. Drove Empire. Kept it. Saw Dyce. On to Garrick & Beefsteak. Met Horne, Smith & Beetle, Grain etc etc. Asked to go to H.S's rooms. Letter from Barnum. Drove home by 12.15pm. Finer night.

Saturday March 8 Stafford Terrace. Pouring wet morning. Could not ride with Tenniel as appointed. Put board on to easel. After finished Oakes' drawing by 3.0pm.

Oakes called did not see him. Dressed ½ & ½. On by cab to Turkish Bath.

Saw Hall & Matthews. After carriage met me. Very wet. Drove to Thorney House, Mrs Watney's. Got spashed by stopping horses on collar. Mrs Bagally, Mrs Watney, Vernon & self went to St James's Theatre. Saw 'As you like it'. Mrs Langtry. Charmed. Good box. Out 11.0. Heilbuths there. Got carriage in St James' Sq. Called Beefsteak. After to 74 James St, Buckingham Gate, Horace West's. Grain, Beetle, Rudy Lehmann, one other.

Baccarat. Heavy play. Left 2.0am. Cab home. Eye painful. Wire about Roy having chicken pox. (Red ink across page: After Baccarat at Horace West's.)

Sunday March 9 Stafford Terrace. Lovely fine bright sun. Up 9.0am. Boots not ready. Caught 11.0 train for Broadstairs. Wired Hamilton Fletcher about Roy. Mare driven to Victoria by Jolley. Girl getting into omnibus. Carriage full. Down by Faversham. Dr in train, Hillyer, gave card. Going to operate on colleague.

Husband of very tall woman. Met M at Broadstairs. On Westwood. Changed.

Lunched. Smoke. At 4.0pm walked (after snow) to Dumpton across fields to Montefiore's & on to Hammonds. Met Borradaile & Mrs Burnand. Called Squire. Mary & Ethel there. Old Bobby. In to Mrs Burnand's. Stayed 1 hour.

Conny & Rosie. Zeta. Whiskey. Met Tenniel coming up 8.15. Back Westwood. Supper. Whiskey. Bed early.

Monday March 10 Westwood. Up 8.0am. Very wet morning. Wrote letters. Sent by postman.

Wire from Pyt House. Got off by 10.15 train Margate. Carter ill. Got in Mrs Burnand's carriage. M saw Mrs Furrell at Westgate. Very wet. Back to town.

Saw James & old Abernethy at Victoria. Jolley met us with carriage. Home.

Tony washed. Maud well. Printed photos. Lunch. Put Italian photos in drawer. Photo House being done. Plates spoilt. Put out. (Red ink: By plumber. Etty P). Worked in afternoon on finishing 2 drawings for Academy.

At 7.30 started in carriage for dinner at Cohens. Slow. Took Mrs Schloss in.

Parquet floor. Went on in 4 wheeler to attend Lady Blomfield's at home. Saw Mrs Finch Hatton etc. Left 12.0pm. No supper at home. Hungry to bed.

Carriage met us at Lady Blomfield's 11.45.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Tuesday March 11 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Up. Worked in morning at Academy drawings. Rode Marquis in Park before lunch. Worked in afternoon. In evening went to dine at the Medleys. Good dinner, met the Vivians. Took Mrs Parker in. Good evening. Left at 11.0pm. Drove on to Harold Peto's at home.

Picture over mantelpiece. Saw Wagges etc etc. Home by carriage 11.30pm.

Saw the Warres. Talk of Charley Cosens.

Wednesday March 12 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Lots to do in morning. Will Oakes & Spencer called in morning. Will Oakes said goodbye. Rode 12.30pm. in Park. Home to lunch. Finished Academy drawings. Took cab at 4.30 to Turkish Baths.

Had one. No papers. Sleep there. Left 6.50. Cab to Punch Dinner. Went dressed. Joke with Guthrie about Winter Exhibitions pass. Left at 10.45. M met me in carriage. F.C.B & D.M went on in cab. Great assembly at Mrs De la Rue's. Good evening. F.C.B took Mrs Routledge in. M left & went home by herself. Followed in cab 2/6. Home 1.15pm.

Thursday March 13 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Up. Sent to F.C.B. Finished Academy drawings. Very dark in afternoon. Rode in Park in forenoon. Met Mrs Harrison. Saw M. Home. In evening dined at the Rider Haggards. Met Dutch countess, Froudes. Pleasant dinner. Talk of Launce Speed's drawings.

Home 11.0pm. (Red ink: Dined at Rider Haggards. Met Professor Froude.)

(Cutting glued in: Death of William Oswald.) This day died poor Bill Oswald, W.R.O, born Oct 1843.

Friday March 14 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Photod M in clasic dress on sofa. Developed plates & got to work before 2.0pm. Hard put to get it done. Worked hard till 10.15. Sent it off. Dined at home. Tired. Oysters. Bottle of Champagne.

(Pencil note:Did cut of Madame Diogenes. A very bad drawing. Destroyed it 1895.)

Saturday March 15 Stafford Terrace. Finish morning. Put things straight. At 11.45 rode in Park.

Met Tenniel 1st time. Rode about. Saw Mrs Harrison & rode with her. Home lunch. Quiet afternoon. Did photos etc etc. Dined early. M, Maud & self went in 4 wheeler to see Mrs Langtry play Rosalind. Saw the Arthur Andersons & Levys etc. Carriage up at 11.0 took M & Maud home. Went on to at home at Sports & Arts. Great evening. Saw Fanner. Gas etc etc. Oysters with Vicat Cole. Home 2.15am. Bed 3.0am. Felt rather seedy. H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh etc etc, Teck there.

Sunday March 16 Stafford Terrace. Rather seedy. At 11.0am went for delightful ride on mare to Putney & Richmond. Home. Jumped ditch. Girl & umbrella hiding her face.

Fast thro' Park. Good lunch at home. Rest. Mr & Mrs Kemmiss called. Dined at the Heilbuths. Good dinner. Met Humphreys, Stone, Miss Monckton, Yardley, Maclean etc etc. Stayed till 1.15am. Delightful evening. Bad 4 wheel

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 cab going, good hansom back. Controversy about Jessie Brown & Seige of Lucknow hearing the pipes.

Monday March 17 Stafford Terrace. Up late in morning. Cough. Put things in order. Rode in Park at 12 (noon) mare for 1st time since tumble. Went well. Saw Blues go to Levée. Rode fast. Home. Photod Maud & M in sunlight. Developed & printed them. Dined 7.30. Quiet evening. Bed early & sleep after dinner. Bed 10.30pm. Colder rather. Cold on chest came on. (Red ink across page: Cough came on.)

Tuesday March 18 Stafford Terrace. Bright morning. Arranged photos in morning. At 11.0 drove to Queen's Club. Played slow set with Reed, Miss R & Japanese Prince.

Went in cart. Back with Jolley. Photod Jolley after. Lunch. Maud cried about velvet. Polly rambled on in afternoon about Spencer Brunton. Worked at drawing for G.W. in afternoon. At 7.30 went in carriage with Marquis to dine at Mrs Levy's Hyde Park Terrace. Slow dinner. Took a Mrs Moses in. Cold room. Slow after. Talk to Mr Samwell about Leopoldina. After Dundas Gardener sang. Home by mare. Raining. M caught cold. Cough came on & cold on chest. (Red ink across page: Cough & cold on chest in evening.)

Wednesday March 19 Stafford Terrace. (Red ink: Prince Bismarck resigned.) Dull morning. Raining.

Worked on G.W. story. After lunch photod M again & McGregor came.

Developed the plates. Wet. Drove with M in carriage calling in news shop to Turkish Bath. Still a cough. Edward T Reed joined Punch Table for 1 st time.

A full Dinner & Agnew there. Stayed till 12.30pm. Home by cab with Guthrie.

Still a cough. Home 1.30pm. Very wet. Pouring. Road up in Kensington through home for 1st time. (Red ink across page: Cough bad. Reed joined the Punch Table.) Cut of Bismarck leaving ship suggested by Gil à Beckett.

(Penci l note: Great success. I suggested the companion ladder treatment.)

Thursday March 20 Stafford Terrace. Wet morning & rained heavily all day. Nevertheless at 12.15 photod Nash's foreman labourer for Pitman. Developed & printed it.

Worked on it afternoon & at 7.45 drove in carriage to dine with Mr Barclay.

Slowish dinner. Good wine but not much of it. Furniss & Finlay there. Talk to Mrs Courtenay who knew H.F's father. Felt sleepy after dinner. Woke up after. Asked for whiskey & home by hansom. Cough still very troublesome.

Had lozenges. M had altered bed at night. Could not find the pillow. Home 12.25. Slept on sofa till 1.45pm. (Red ink across page: Cough still troublesome.)

Friday March 21 Stafford Terrace. Up & got to work on Pitman & surroundings. End of strike in papers. Sent to F.C.B. (in Ramsgate). Wired him. Answer came 2.0pm.

Arthur à Beckett called 2.30. Settled cut. M not well. M & Maud went to Gymnasium. Worked hard & fast until 10.15pm. Sent drawing off. Dined.

Bottle wine. After smoke fell asleep. Bed 1.0pm. Cough very troublesome.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Could not go to sleep. M complained of her throat. (Red ink across page: Cough very bad & could not sleep at night.)

Saturday March 22 Stafford Terrace. Up latish. Put room in order & tidied things up. At 12.30 rode in Row. Saw Miss Thomson & Finlay etc. Row very slushy. Back at 1.30. Gave M ticket for Red Hussar. Printed photos & developed many prints. After worked in room without a fire on G.W. drawing. Dined 7.30, Maud with us. M's throat very bad. Went to bed early & had poultice & peppermint. Slept after. Smoke in Morning Rm & bed at 11.45pm. Lamp smoked. Cough still bad. (Red ink across page: Cough a little better.)

Sunday March 23 Stafford Terrace. Morning bright at 1st but dull after. Rode at 11.15 round Putney & through Common, Robin Hood & Richmond Park. Got soaked.

Passed man on horse with fair moustache in Park that I passed in the ride over Common where Spencer was thrown from Cobweb. Jumped ditch.

Home. Changed things & had warm bath. Lunch. Sleep in chair after. M gone to see her mother. Wrote diary & worked on G.W. story. M back at 6.30. Ought not to have gone. Cold bad. Quiet dinner at 8.0pm by selves & quiet evening. Read Century. Bed 11.30. (Red ink across page: Cough still on.)

Monday March 24 Stafford Terrace. At work on G.W. story all day. Did not ride. Cold bad at night. M very seedy with cough. Worked up to 9.30pm. Swain never sent.

Nearly finished. Bottle Pol Roger for dinner. M went to bed after at once.

Wired Swain. Roy came back from Capisthorne in carriage at 4.0pm looking very well. Very wet day.

Tuesday March 25 Stafford Terrace. Cough troublesome. Finished G.W. drawing at noon. M's cold very bad. Stayed in bed. Sent Jolley to the City for medicine. Back without getting it. At lunch time wired for Dr Langston. At 3.15 rode mare by Hammersmith & through Richmond Park. No one in Park. Over Wimbledon Common. Lost on Common. Down Putney Hill & home. Langston there.

Dressed at 7.30 & drove with Marquis to dine with Arthur Levys. Ledger there. Miss Damien, Corven etc. Put autographs in book. Amusing dinner.

Home by Marquis. at 11.45. Finer night. Read Punch & P.M.G. Bed 12.45am. M's cough troublesome.

Wednesday March 26 Stafford Terrace. M still in bed with bad cold. Up 9.0am. Fine warm morning.

Finished drawings by squaring up for Academy at 11.30. Tiresome job getting glue off. After at 12.15 rode Marquis in Park. Met Miss Elsie Thomson. Roy at lunch. Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. At 3.15 drove by cart with Roy & Maud round Notting Hill to Donaldsons. Saw boat race. Sat next ‘Capper’ of the Times. Saw Smale also. Oxford won after magnificent race. Called at Donaldsons & had tea. Saw Miss Wirgman. Kept dog cart (mare) & drove to top of Park. Took cab on to P.D. Full Dinner.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Congratulated on Miners cut. Home with Guthrie in cab. Sleep after at home.

Bed 2.0am. M's cough troublesome.

Thursday March 27 Stafford Terrace. Up early. M still in bed with cough. Sent Jolley to Macgregor & to Stonebridge. Went round to Stonebridge & photod shopman & had man to photo for Socialist. Also Macgregor for Emperor of Germany.

Lunch. Worked after. Dressed & dined at Mr Costers, Regents Park. Took Mrs Trower in to dinner. Met Dixey & Arthur Andersons. Slow dinner but no thunderstorm. After drove to Lord Rosebery's. Saw Mrs Humphrey Ward & Mr Leake M.P. Lady R asked me about drawings. Carriage waited & home by 1.15am. Slept till 2.0. M's cough very troublesome at night. Anxious about her. Lord Rosebery told me about Tenniel's drawing.

Friday March 28 Stafford Terrace. Worked all day on Socialist & Emperor of Germany. Did not go out. Fine day. Warm.

Saturday March 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Tidied up & put things away in morning. At 12.30 rode Marquis in Park. Ought to have met Tenniel. Too late. Saw Wyndham & Finlay. Home to lunch. M got out for ½ an hour. Fine warm lovely day. Back home & cleaned up drawings for Lady Rosebery. At 4.30pm carriage took Roy & self & called at Egyptian Hall to see Billiards. Match over. Called & left drawings for Lady Rosebery. On to Garrick Club. Saw Col Jones. Got cheque. Called Covent Garden & on after to Crufts & Animals Institute. Home. M better. Dined quietly. Read The Pariah after & slept heavily in chair in Morning Room till 12.0am. Bed after.

Sunday March 30 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. At 10.45 rode Marquis to Putney, Wimbledon & Richmond. Got goose. Home. Glass of mild & bitter at Mortlake. Changed things & went to lunch at Arthur Levy's. Hayden Coffin & Heilbuth there. Billiards. Young Mackenzie lunched at Stafford Terrace. Went to Club after & wrote many letters. Home by cab at 6.30pm. Dined quietly at home & quiet evening after.

Monday March 31 Stafford Terrace. East wind set in. M decided to go to Westwood. Went with her in carriage in afternoon. Saw her off. Some trouble with carriage. All full.

M wanted window down. Drove to Turkish Bath. Cold. Ordered coat to be brought by Jolley. Out 6.30pm. On to Beef Steak. Wired. Dined by self. Ward after. Drove to Regents Park. Back Beef Steak. Dr Bird & Sir Chas Drummond there. Whiskey & Seltzer. Home 1.30am. Very cold. M at Westwood.

Tuesday April 1 Stafford Terrace. Waited for boy fom F.C.B's. Never came till 1.30pm.

Printed lots of photos. Did not ride. Walked in afternoon through Park to Punch Dinner. Met Rowe, Mrs Jopling's husband. On to Garrick. Cab on to

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Punch Dinner. Quiet Dinner. Furniss came in after. Home by carriage. Put Guthrie down. Home 12.30pm.

Wednesday April 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Wrote many letters. After worked all day on Lord Randolph Churchill at sea on an egg. Occured to me to photo Roy. Did so & gave him a shilling. Got to work & worked all day on drawing, dining at 10.30pm. Swain sent proof of G.W. drawing. Sent it back. Cold wind. Did not ride. Finished late & dined quietly at home. M away at Westwood.

Thursday April 3 Stafford Terrace. Fine bright cold east wind. Up later. Printed some back photos in morning. At 12.15 dressed to ride. Wore Gosse(?) Saw Roy in Row. Finlay & old Wyndham. Mrs Harrison walking. Rode mare. Home.

Lunch. At 3.45 drove to Victoria. Also to Wellington Waterloo Exhibition.

Took Roy. Drove on to Meistersingers Club. Missed Spencer. On to Stanley & African Exhibition. After Spencer caught me up there. Drove to Charbonnel & Walkers. Chocolate & cakes. Walked down Piccadilly. Met Frisby. Back home in carriage. Spencer called. Teased Tony. Dined quietly at home with Maud & Roy. After drove in cab to Alhambra. Saw Hollingshead & manager, Moreton. Good entertainment. Called Empire. Saw K.M there. On to Garrick.

1st night Beerbohm Tree's piece. Sat late. Mr Smith, saddler, called at 11.30am to get cheque. Also measured mare for saddle.

Friday April 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dressed & got ready to go to Westwood. Cart took me to Victoria. Drove self & Roy. Saw Parsons & Mrs Harrison. Fine morning but cold. Got into wrong train. Down to Broadstairs one hour late.

On to Westwood. Dinner. Mr & Mrs Walford there. Tired. Stroll after dinner.

After walked to Ramsgate. Saw Fred Cosens & wife. On to Burnands. No one about. Talk to Bessie Hollingshead & Mrs Burnand. Walked back to Westwood. Lovely moon. Tired after supper. Cold east wind. Bed early.

Saturday April 5 Westwood. Up 8.0am. Caught Granville, Margate. Carriage to self. Home.

Cart. Lunch. Took chicks in cab to see ‘David Garrick’. Good. Called Meistersingers. After called Herkomers. After put down Roy at Thorneycrofts.

Sent him home. No good at Thorneycrofts. Dinner. Roy, Maud & self. After undecided. Finally drove to Garrick Theatre. Very cold. Felt seedy. Got stall.

Saw ‘Pair of Spectacles’. Very good. Saw Gilbey. On to Club after. Joe Carr.

Home early. 1.0am. Bed. Sunday April 6 Picture Sunday. Up early. After at 10.45 rode mare. Wimbledon & Richmond.

Felt tired. Mare very sluggish. Dull uninteresting day. No one about. Home.

Changed. Walked with Maud to Colin Hunters, Fildes, Thorneycrofts, Leighton. Got wet. Stone & Davis not showing. Drove after to Millais, Dicksee. Saw Finch Hatton & Miss Brinck. Marks, Morris & MacWhirter. Sent Maud home in carriage & walked to Arts Club & dined with Parsons & Q.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Pleasant dinner. Game of Pyramids afterwards. Left 12.30am. Home at 1.0am. Bed. Still cold. (Red ink across page: Dull cold day, rainy.)

Monday April 7 (Easter Bank Holiday) Stafford Terrace. Dull rainy morning. M at Westwood. Printed phos & wrote letters all day, did not stir out. Chicks went out twice. Roy in high spirits at dinner. Read Harpers mag after dinner. Bed 12.30am.

1883. Hunted at Slough 1884. Fished at Boughton on the Water.

1885. Bad cold. Did not go out all day. 1st photography 1886. At work on Academy drawing. Did not go out.

1887. In Paris at Auteuil Races.

1888. Very cold. Dined with Abbey & Reinhart at Bristol.

1889. Played tennis with Bartlett. Fine day.

Death of Col Goodlake in ‘Times’. 57 only by obituary. 67, 31 at battle of Alma, 48 when I met him 17 years after Alma, now 19 years after that. (Red ink across page: Dull cold rainy day.)

Tuesday April 8 Stafford Terrace. Brighter day & warmer. In doubt about model. Decided not.

Went on to work all day. In afternoon drove with Roy & called Tantz & Hyam & Macdougall & after had Turkish Bath. Called at Chappell & Co & got fiddle & mandolin. Sent Roy home. Carriage met me top of Park. Walked there after bath & home. Dined by self & chicks. Did not go out after dinner. Quiet evening in chair.

Wednesday April 9 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Letter from M to say she would not come home until tomorrow. Went up to 54 Bedford Gardens. Mistake about Miss Manning's address. Jolley running about. Found it was Mund St. Came up at 2.30pm. Photod her as Muse etc. Home 4.0pm. Walked on to Punch Dinner as far as Club. Felt very tired. Cab from Club. Met Reed. Gave me Japanese stick. Very good. Furniss in late. Good dinner. Stayed till 11.30. Carriage met me. Home with Guthrie.

Thursday April 10 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. Dressed for photo. Sent Jolley for Ma to Granville. Arrived 12.30. Pretty well. Roy went. After could not photo or do anything. Dull dark wretched weather & heavy rain. Got to work & did book background of drawing of Matthews Home Secy & Punch. Quiet dinner after, M. Roy, Maud & self. Tough fowl. Quiet evening. Slept after. M nervous about noise outside. Slept badly. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.

Rain.)

Friday April 11 Stafford Terrace. Better weather. Early in the morning photod Jolley for sitting down & self as Punch. Home Secy Matthews. After worked hard all day & dined at 9.30. Quiet evening after. Bed 11.30. Slept in chair after ½ bottle champagne. Decided not to go to Boulogne tomorrow. Tragedy in

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Leicester Square. Young Belgian shot girl of 16. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Saturday April 12 Stafford Terrace. Miss Hardman married at Chapel Royal, Savoy. In morning tidied up or rather did not. After breakfast developed 7 page plates I did from Miss Manning. Put them out to dry. Very cold. Walked at 12.45 up Park to Club. Took cab at bottom of Piccadilly. Man (illeg) against barrow in Leicester Sq. Garrick. McDougall's parcel there. Lunch with Beetle & Percy Reeve. On to Miss Hardman's wedding at Savoy. Sat next Cramptons. Pretty girl. After called Beefsteak & on to Criterion. Saw ‘David Garrick’ with M, Maud & Roy. After bought sausages & had Turkish Bath. Carriage met me top of Park. Home. Quiet dinner with chicks. Bed early. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Sunday April 13 Stafford Terrace. Finer morning. Down 9.30am. Put on Tantz breeches.

Breakfast. Roy & sausages. Had another after at 11.15. Rode mare up Putney Hill. Saw Harold Peto. Decided to go to Barkers. Little Miss Carter there. Good lunch. Mr Coughlan not so well. Fine horse of Barker's. Left at 3.15. Rode home through Richmond Park. Got a light from youth on Wimbledon Common. Burnt his hand. Home 5.0pm. Printed photos by 6.15pm & developed them. Wrote many letters. Quiet bad dinner. Fowl & savory bad. Jane's effort. Read Review of Reviews. Sleep for ¾ hour. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Monday April 14 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Rushing east wind. Wrote Store orders in morning & letters. At 12.30 rode in Park on Marquis. Met H.A.Jones, Mrs Heilbuth, Gilbert etc. Home to lunch. Roy & questions. M & Maud out in carriage. Sent match box & round silver box to Walls. Fine day but east wind.

In afternoon began drawing for Meistersingers. Sketched figure out. Dined quietly at home & quiet evening after. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Tuesday April 15 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretchedly cold east wind. Worked in afternoon on Meistersingers drawing & on up to dinner time. Walked up with Roy after lunch to Boughtons & called Parsons. Left stick. Borrowed a book of Abbey.

Home & worked. Quiet evening & dinner. Bed early. Did not ride. Ear bad.

(Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Wednesday April 16 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretchedly cold east wind. Ear bad. In morning worked on Meistersinger drawings. Put heads in. After lunch drew Bullfinch drawing.

After at 5.35 walked up to Punch Dinner the whole way. Called at Nicholls & returned gaiters. Called Club. Met Gill à Beckett in room. Arthur & Guthrie away. Lucy there. Arranged for double cut & poor one for self. Left 11.30.

Gave Reed a lift to Metropole Hotel. Home by cart at 12.40pm. Cold but pleasant. D.M at Punch Dinner in evening dress. Talk of dress. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Thursday April 17 Stafford Terrace. Dull cold grey wretched weather. Sent Jolley to Dr Orton's for frock coat. At 11.0 photod him for Balfour & Parnell. Developed them & rode Marquis in Park at 12.35. Saw Mrs De la Rue & rode with her. Told her about VanderWeyde. Light. Home. Printed photos. Took 3 hours. Grey & dark. Got to work at 5.0 on drawing & put bookcase etc in. Dined quietly at home & rest. After dinner did ½ an hours work. Smoke & bed. Ear painful very. Box etc came from Stores. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Friday April 18 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretched east windy day. Worked hard all day on drawing of Balfour & Bill. Finished 9.30. Ear burst after 4 days pain. Quiet dinner. Lobster & bottle of Pol Roger (half). Sent Jolley to Stores for Bag. He had to go twice. Changed vests. Gave up notion of going to Boulogne on Saty. Wrote Miles Fenton. Sent Swain cheque for £10.0.0. (Red ink across page: East wind bad.)

Saturday April 19 Stafford Terrace. Dull grey cold weather. Wretched. Up 9.0am. In morning got duplicate photos out of chest & sorted them thoroughly. Afterwards at 12.25 walked up to the Garrick Club calling at Tantz's & also Nicholls. Sat with Evans & Beetle, Gillie & Lewis Wingfield. At 2.15 went to Lyceum Theatre. Had box by kindness of Irving. Saw ‘The Dead Heart’ with M, Maud, Roy & Miss Gill. Chicks delighted. Carriage home. Called Club. Wrote Mrs Heilbuth & F.C.B. Ordered room at Club for Wedy May 7th. Walked on to Turkish Bath. Had Bath. Out 7.20. Walked down Piccadilly, carriage met me.

Home. Dinner. ½ bottle of champagne. Snuffly cold came on suddenly at 9.45. Can't make it out, no cause. Bed 12.10am. Took some ammoniated quinine. (Red ink across page: East wind very bad. Cold.)

Sunday April 20 Stafford Terrace. Cold bad. More ammoniated quinine. Up 8.55am. Wire came from Mrs Heilbuth. Met her at 10.30 exactly in Palace Gardens.

Delightful ride. Home 1.20 exactly. Saw Mrs H to end of Palace Gardens.

Changed things. Lunch. Roy cried about school. Wrote letters after lunch.

Maud & self colds. Saw the sun for 10 minutes, 1st time since a week. Met Brett & his wife on Wimbledon Common. Home to lunch hot & tired. Wrote letters afterwards. Cold still bad. Snuffly cold. Had hot grog in evening. (Red ink across page: Wind shifted north west but colder than ever.)

Monday April 21 Stafford Terrace. Cold bad. Rode in Park at 11.30. Saw Mrs Heilbuth. Dull cold wretched weather. After worked on Meistersingers drawing. Got on with it. Dined quietly at home. Bed early.

Tuesday April 22 Stafford Terrace. Worked on Meistersingers drawing. Wrote Irving & Bram Stoker. Spencer called. Miss Thomson & her sister called. Roy went down to see them. Putting in pine apple. In evening dined with the Lillys. Met

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 MacColl, editor Athenaeum. Editor St James' Gazette & wife. Good dinner.

Talk of Rudyard Kipling. Poor smoke & home after. Very cold.

Wednesday April 23 Stafford Terrace. Cold bad. Worked on drawing for Meistersingers. Tabs called after lunch & stayed some time. In afternoon cab up to Turkish Bath after calling on Tweedledee & Tweedledum dentists who did not take my tooth out. Saw man who I mistook for Spencer Brunton. On to Punch Dinner.

Full Dinner. No cut. After on coming home forced one fang of tooth out in Drawing Room. (The other in Paris on Monday next 28th April.) Rudolph Lehmann dined at Punch Dinner for 1st time.

Thursday April 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lawrence gave notice. Doubts about going to Boulogne due to Lawrence, gave notice to M before leaving. Dark windy cold morning. M persuaded me to go. Omnibus at 9.0 & off on foggy misty morning. After got off at Charing X 12.0am. Open compartment for W.C. On to boat after lunch & Champagne. Sea fog. Bell & gong going all time. Roy most valient to ½ way. Suddenly ill. Sea swell. Boulogne at 2.10pm. Met by Commisionaire. Left hat in cabin. Back for it. Roy sick in carriage all along streets & quay. Arrived hotel. Good rooms but dear. Civil son of Maitre d'Hotel. Roy & self went out in rain to Cathedral. Fire in room. Champagne upset in bag. Dined. Lady & 5 boys. 1 gent. Mr Bennet. Bed early 9.30. M & Maud together. Read ‘Soldiers Three’.

Friday April 25 Hotel Pavillon Imperial, Boulogne sur Mer. Up 8.0am. Pouring rain. W.C.wet.

Went out on sands. Back again. Into town with M & Maud & Roy. Saw pot de chambre in chocolate. Back to lunch. Finer. After went on pier & saw men fishing & boat go out. Back Roy & self. Walked in gale to Column Napoleon.

Went up it. Dirty roads. Roy & frog. Old soldier. Back. Down hill by the Calvary. Dropped glove. Changed shoes. Dinner. Lady & boys & Mr Bennett.

Shewed him watch. Went out for Billiard Room. Back. Roy & chess & draughts. Bed 9.30. Talked with Bennett. Smoked French cigar.

Saturday April 26 Hotel Pavillon Imperial. Boulogne sur Mer. Up & down to breakfast 9.0. Roy & self walked to end of pier. Roy & French boys. After breakfast packed. Roy & boys throwing stones. Went in town. Bought chocolates etc. Back & found had forgotten to order lunch. Ordered fowl. Went out & sat on seat in front of sea. Lunch. Paid bill. Rather heavy. After fly to station. Gave Commisionaire 7 francs. Too much. Saw steamer in. Seats in carriage. Old man & silent daughter. On to Paris. Curious heavy blue dark storm. No view of Tour Eiffel.

Left stick. Hit knee & hurt it. On to Meurice. Changed room to looking over Tuilleries Gardens. Took Roy to Magasin de Louvre whilst dinner ready.

Looked papers after & bed 9.30pm. Roy comfortable.

Sunday April 27 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up 8.0am. Breakfast at 9.30 in Salle à Manger. After in brilliant sunshine walked to Madelaine. Went in. After walked to Ledoyen.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Hot. Saw Turner come in. Good lunch. Draught at first, changed seats. After took voiture to Jardin d'Acclimatation. Poor little monkey. Drive in Bois. Spots of rain. Saw Sir Thos Lucas, also Bonvoisin & children. After to hotel. Good cocher. Dined at table d'hote 1st time. Late. Dressed. Old gent & old lady.

Books & draughts after. Smoke. Bed. Forced tooth out afer great deal of difficulty. Very painful. Bed 11.0am. Roy sleeping peacefully.

Monday April 28 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up 7.0am. Bath. Breakfast in room 1 st time. After walked through Magasin de Louvre to Louvre. Found it closed. Sell. After took Victoria to Invalides. Too early. Officious guides. Nothing to do with them. Saw Chapel & Tomb of Napoleon. After voiture to Voisin. Slow lunch.

M & Maud called Hotel de France et de Bath. After Roy & self went to Cycle Panorama & up to Battle of (blank). Roy & puppets & Turnabout. Back & had cocktail & syrup. Bought whiskey flask. After walked to find out 13 Rue de Montmorency. Slum & no shop. Back. Got rose. Dressed & on to dine at Lion d'Or with Crayon Club. Adrian Marie etc etc Pella. Great row. Switch back.

Caran d'Ache. Back at Grand Cafe & home 12.30.

Tuesday April 29 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up earlier, 7.30. Breakfast in room. Down at 10.0am.

Took Voiture & drove to Tour Eiffel. Lovely morning. Great sight. M & Roy, Maud & self went up it. Good fun. Pimply youth. American in light suit. Down & walked on to Ledoyen. Lunch. Deerhound & child. Dutch married couple.

Good lunch. Langouste. After walked over with Roy M & Maud to Turnabout & after to Salon with Mars’ card, could not get in. Very annoyed. Pour demain. Walked on to Louvre Magasin. Touched Roy on shoulder. Bought his soldiers & after went to Picture Galleries of Louvre & Venus de Milo. Roy saw boys drilling. After to hotel. Very tired. Dressed. Bed after early. Gave Roy a syrup drink at Bodega.

Wednesday April 30 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up at 7.30. Breakfast in room. Down rather later than usual, 10.30. Walked on with M, Maud & Roy to Louvre. Saw Venus de Milo.

Diamond, mummy etc etc. On by cab to Luxembourg. Good pictures, statues. Out 12.30. Hot. Roy saw St Sulpice. Went in. Funeral. Organ. Out. Voiture to Ledoyen. Great crowd of artists etc. Woman (illeg). After went to Salon. Great crowd. Hot, dusty. Met Bob Humphreys. Back. Cigarette. Roy had ride & saw peep show. Back to Hotel. Saw Roy & M. Dinner at table d'hote for last time. After strolled down Rue St Honoré & into St Roch.

Beautiful service. On to Palais Royale. Diamonds & home. M & Maud tired.

Packed. Bed at 11.30. Whiskey & St Galmier.

Thursday May 1 Hotel Meurice, Paris. Up 6.30am. Maud bilious. Soldiers marching early for the May Day demonstration. Down 8.45. Buss at station by 9.15. Got carriage. M got tickets. Lady & two daughters, one like Judy. Met Sir Thos Lucas at Amiens. On to Boulogne. Crowd on board. Cabin & lunch. Good passage. Roy jubilant sight of England. Edgar & Sophy. Wired for omnibus.

Run to Charing Cross. No buss. Sent M & Chicks home. Waited. Boxes

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 open. On home in 4 wheeler. House looked nice. Quiet dinner with Chicks.

Champagne & bed early. Lots of letters.

Friday May 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode in Park Marquis for 1st time before breakfast. Met Mr & Mrs Lockwood. Galloping polo cads. Fine & hot. East wind. Back. Breakfast. Waited about for letter from F.C.B. At 11.0 dressed.

Went in carriage 12.30 to Private View R.A. Very easy to see pictures. Mrs Agnew etc etc. Lunched at St James's Hall. Dirty. Waiters at dinner. Out. M & Maud missed carriage at R.A. Saw De Vos. Very annoyed. Caught Jolley at Grosvenor. Met M fortunately. Home by cab. Got to work after tea.

Finished 10.30pm. Awful scramble. Bottle Ayala. Bed 1.30. Slept in own bed 1st time.

Saturday May 3 Stafford Terrace. Up. Very tired. Put things away. At 11.45 rode in Park. Met Hickman. Trotting pony 20 years old. Fast home. Lunch. Took Roy & M to see ‘Our Flat’ & after to New Gallery. Mrs Comyns Carr portrait, Oh! Met Critchett. On to Volunteers in front of Academy. Saw Frith, Lucas & Birch.

Turkish Bath. Met Matthews. Cab to Park. Carriage met me top of Park.

Bought Scribners. Home. Dinner 8.15. Quiet evening after & bed 11.0pm.

Sunday May 4 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretched misty morning. Mistake of 1 hour exactly on watch. Up late. 10 minutes late for meeting Mrs Heilbut & Dr Orton. Rode on to Hampton Court & lunch at Greyhound. High charges. Bad Kimmel. Dear for horses. Walked back. Trotted on at Hammersmith. Last at Greyhound 1884. Changed. Mr & Mrs Tweedie called. On in cab to Hickmans. Roy out & kept away all afternoon. Anxious. Roy turned up after at Hickmans. Been to demonstration. Dressed after 5 sets. Beaten 4 to 1. Left stud at home.

Annoyed. Back in cab. On to dine at Heilbuts. Good dinner. Ponsonbys, S(?)

Weedon Grossmith, Mrs Grossmith & Mrs Boughton, Yardley & Colnaghi, Ainsworth etc. Home at 12.0. Bed. Monday May 5 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretched awful morning. Got into cab & drove to Law Courts for summons. Saw Binns Smith. Got off. Called Smith saddler, on to Garrick. Wrote letters. Arranged for lunch. Cigars. Cart up. Drove home.

Called Bank. Called Cole & Son & for watch. Home. Better weather. Roy out by self. Turned up after. Wrote diary & after lunch dear Roy went to school.

Very sad. Rather in blues all day. M & Roy went off in carriage at 2.30. Roy lost his gloves. Sad about dear Roy. Worked on Meistersingers. Dined quietly at home with Maud. Drove in carriage to Club at 9.15pm. Took cab to Regents Park. Great night at the Albert Hall to receive Stanley. Knew nothing about it. Called Garrick & Beefsteak. No one at Garrick. Grilled ham & home 1.0am. (Red ink across page: Dear Roy went back to school.)

Tuesday May 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Worked on Meistersingers. Tassell called with note from M. Sent one off. Rode in Park in morning. Drove in carriage after

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 quiet dinner with Maud to Gaiety Theatre, could not get in. To Adelphi, saw Green Bushes. Very slow. Went to sleep. After called Garrick. Saw Furniss & others. Charley Burnand. Home at 1.15. Bed 2.0am. Read Furniss' book.

Wednesday May 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Worked all morning on drawing for Meistersingers. Did not photo Miss Manning. M still at Westwood. Saw Maud & Miss Gill to opening of Military Exhibition. Back to lunch. Worked all afternoon. At 6.30 rode Marquis to Bouverie St 1 st time. Full Dinner. Agnew, Lucy, Lehmann etc etc. Good dinner. Home 11.30 by carriage. Took Reed on. Called Garrick. Saw Sir Wm Wiseman. Home 1.0am. Sleep. Bed. Mother wired 4 times.

Thursday May 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. breakfast. Letter from M. M returned by Granville. Shaded Meistersingers. After at 11.30 sent carriage for M. Back by 12.45. Pretty well only. Photo of Schimmelmann. In afternoon photod Jolley & self for cut of Stanley & Socy Pygmies. Developed 15 plates. Got them printed. Hamilton Fletcher & Tabs came to dinner. Hot night. Maud dined.

After H & self in cab, Tabs & M in carriage to Avenue Theatre. Saw Dr Bill 2nd time. Went round to his room with H. Home in carriage. Bed 12.0am.

Friday May 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & worked all day on Stanley & Society Pygmies.

Finished 10.30pm. Small boy & parcel of bird books. M went to dressmaker.

Dined at 10.30pm, M & self, bottle Perinet. Bed 12.30am.

Saturday May 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.30. Breakfast. Tidied up & photod birds. Rough notes on birds lent by Sotheram. E.T Booth in British Islands. Lunched at home.

Stuffy air. At 6.0 rode Marquis in Park. Met Miss Thomson & Tabs & Hamilton. Great demonstration & Queen in Park & Balloon. Home. Dined quietly at home. Read Albrecht Durer. Bed early, 11.0pm. M not very well.

Tired herself by going to her mother's. Stuffy Kensington.

Sunday May 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast for 9.0am 1st time. Down 9.30. Read.

After put on riding things to go to Hampstead to see Seymour Lucas. Heavy rain. Took photo prints. Wrote Swain & Sherriff Harris. After cleared up.

Rode mare to West Hampstead, past Priory Road. Waited. Rode in field.

Saw Mr & Mrs Edwin Herapath. Waited 35 minutes. Went home. Rain.

Called Hickmans. Saw Miss H. Home. Mother in to lunch. Very hungry. More rain. Wrote many letters. Developed 3 or 4 photos. Diary. Did not go out in afternoon. At 7.15 dressed & went in carriage with M to dine at Fletcher Moultons QC. Met American, Justin McCarthy etc etc, Miss Thomson & sister. Stayed till 11.30pm. Home by mare.

Monday May 12 Stafford Terrace. Dull wretched morning. Finished photoing birds & sent books back. Boy came. Sent Jolley to Lucas's. Back quickly. M went to lunch

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 with Tabs & out till 5.30pm. Irving sent dresses in cab at 1.30 & paid for cab.

Worked on Meistersingers & nearly finished it. Walked up before dinner to Bedford Gardens. Saw where fire had been. Back. Dinner quietly. Blanche Cole called & brought new bird before dinner. Lawrence settled to go for good. Dined quietly at home after & quiet evening. Bed 11.0pm. Went out after dinner in grey suit & posted letters at Genl Post Office. Faint with smoking large pipe. Stuffy night, very.

Tuesday May 13 Stafford Terrace. In morning worked & finished Meistersingers drawing at 1.0am. M took it in carriage to Col Wootham. At 2.30pm went up & photod Kate Manning in stays etc etc. Lovely day. Hot sun etc. Back 4.30pm. Tea. M & visitors. Explained dress to Miss Gill. After dressed & walked up Park after calling & ordering flowers. Met Col Grant & Dash. Called Coles (carriage).

Took cab at Hyde Park Corner on to Garrick. Saw Steward. On to Guildhall.

Jeering crowd. Saw Stanley Reception. Just going when met Arthur à Beckett. Round Halls. Stopped by Policeman. Arthur in. Sent card in to Harris. Got in. Soup, wine & ham. Miss Huntingdon, old Bedford, Faudel Phillips etc. Stayed till 12.0pm. After cab to Garrick & Empire Theatre. Saw Plymouth Girl etc. On to Club, had haddock & home by cab at 12.15am. Fine night. (Red ink across page: Stanley Reception at Guild Hall.)

Wednesday May 14 Stafford Terrace. Mrs De la Rue's Ball. Lunch at Garrick. Wrote my mother about £5.0.0. Lovely morning. Up & in morning put on Seymour Lucas's dress. Difficulty about collar. Photod it with Jolley. After collar came. Conny came in. Dressed at noon & at 1.15pm went out with M & Conny. Took cab at Barkers. On to Garrick. Called Coles about cart, new wheel. Waited at Garrick. Lunch. Tabs, Miss Thomson, Miss Brink, M, Reed & self. Good lunch. Round Club. After Reed & self went in carriage to Guthrie's rooms.

Had tea. Hamilton Fletcher there. After on home with M. Dressed and at 8.0 went in carriage to Mocattas to dine. No appetite. Sat next Mrs Val Princep.

Man in armour, Leslie Ward etc. On after at 11.0 to De la Rues' Dance.

Good. Fancy Ball. Lots of people. Mrs Harrison, Effie, etc etc. M left 1.15am.

Stayed till 3.15. Home. Daylight. Good cab. Undressed in room. Like May 1878. Bed 4.0am about. (Red ink across page: De la Rue Fancy Dress Ball.)

Thursday May 15 Stafford Terrace. Woke up at 8.30. Sleep. Down 9.30. Breakfast by self.

Read. Photod self with Jolley in Seymour Lucas's Dutch dress & sent it back.

Waited about whole of morning for subject. Lunch. M & Maud went to Mr Bartlett's. Slept on sofa 2.30 to 4.30pm. Letter from Milliken etc etc. Did not work in afternoon. Developed 4 of K.M's photos taken Tuesday. After Midge came at 7.30pm. Spencer in to dinner. Tired after. Slept 1 hr in chair. At 10.30 carriage took me to Faudel Phillips' at home. Wrens, Bancrofts, Mocattas, etc. 2 plovers eggs & 1 glass of wine. Home by 11.45. Bed 12.0.

Livery. (Red ink across page: Bradbury wrote about sending in drawings on paper from beginning of year.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Friday May 16 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Up 8.40. Breakfast. Midge bad night.

Waited for Milliken. At 10.0 decided to do cut of Derby & Sweating. Photod self & Jolley lying down. Bright hot morning. Developed plates & got to work.

Finished at 10.15pm. Langley came in in afternoon. Went away again. Dined at the Fletchers.

Saturday May 17 Stafford Terrace. Better letter from my mother. In morning read papers etc.

Up in M's room. Dressed & after at 11.30 rode in the Park on Marquis. Had a cold. Marquis coughed badly. Saw Miss Thomson. Rode home. Lunched.

Hungry. After at 3.0pm went in brougham with M & Maud to Tattersalls. Saw Kemmis's(?) Raikes, H, Tattersall, Spencer etc. Walked with Maud to top of Row. Left her with M & on to Turkish Bath at 5.0. Out 7.5. Walked to carriage. Home. Quiet dinner. H & Midge dined with Kemmis's & went to 'Marjorie'. Slept in chair. Bed 11.0am.

Sunday May 18 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Up. Did not ride. At 11.55 walked & met Maud at Kensington Palace. Washed Tony. Walked up to top of Row & home. Lots of people. Took cab, on to lunch at Boughtons. Chapmans, Cheesborough, Dixie (Dicksee) Weedon Grossmith, fat Pope etc. Rain. After cab home & dressed. On to Hickmans. Looked at horse. Young daughter.

Roots & Christie. 4 sets of Tennis, one single. Dressed there. Carriage called at 7.45. On to Joshuas' dinner to meet Labby & wife. Took young daughter in. Sat next Mrs Finlay. Stayed after till 12.15am. Home by carriage by 12.50.

Finished cigar & bed.

Monday May 19 Stafford Terrace. Up late. Breakfast by self. Lawrence decided to stay on.

Wrote Colin Hunter. Hamilton's horse sale. After lunch walked up to Tattersalls. Hot. Met M & Miss Thomson, Jess, Spencer, Mrs Heron, Gussy Underhill etc. Sale of horses, £756 lot. After walked up to Garrick past Piccadilly. Called Nicholls about spats. Tea at Club. Wrote letters. Called Tantz. On after to Peals. Cab home. Disappointed about dinner. Dined 7.20 after drove to St James's. Saw Esther Sandrag(?) Mrs Langtry. Went round to stage. Saw Mrs L through door. Home. M & Midge had adventure with cab. Raced by omnibus. Home 12.30. Bed. (Red ink across page: Marquis bad cold.)

Tuesday May 20 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Began to look up Robinson Crusoe. Pottered & worked. Lunch. At 6.30 walked up Park as far as St James's St. Took cab to Savoy & dined at Seasons Club. Stupid dinner, 15/6. Left at 10.15. M called in carriage. On to the Duchess of Sutherland's. Slow evening. No one there. Betty Britannia, Goodalls etc etc, Boehms. Left 11.15. Home by 11.45.

Took fly on to Barkers at Wimbledon. Got there 12.50. Eykyns, Hendersons etc. Danced. Stayed till 3.15am. Home by fly. Bed 4.0am. (Red ink across page: Marquis bad cold.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Wednesday May 21 Stafford Terrace. Queen's Birthday. Foreign Office Reception. Up latish. Very tired. Down 10.0am. Decided to ride. Put boots & hat on. Went into Park. No one there. Saw stupid cart with flowers. Saw old Wyndham. Back. Hot. Marquis's cold bad. After slept for 2 hours in afternoon after lunch. Dressed 5.30 & rode Marquis to Bouverie St. Walked him the whole way. Cough bad. ½ hour late. Good Dinner. Polyglot London County Council. Dressed at 9.50.

M called for me 10.35. On to Foreign Office Reception. Lovely evening.

Spoke to Balfour. Got carriage. Home by 1.0am. Bed. Fine weather. (Red ink: Queen's Birthday, Trooping Colour.)

Thursday May 22 Stafford Terrace. Decided to stay. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Dressed for riding.

Rode Marquis in Row. Saw H.R.H. Back. Skemed Emperor of Russia. After lunch disappointed of Langley coming back. Saw Nash. Stopped Jolley.

Photod with cuirass & bear-skin rug. Developed & got ready. Drew from 5.0 to 7.0. Dined quietly with Langleys. Wrote up diary after dinner because H.L had my chair, could not sit in it. Decided not to go to Ewens. Quiet evening.

Smoke & bed after a 12.30am.

Friday May 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Photod Hamilton in cuirass & helmet as Russian. Developed & got to work. Worked hard all day & dined at 11.0pm. Hamilton, Midge & M went to see ‘New Lamps for Old’ at Terry's Theatre. Home 11.45. Snack. Pipe & bed.

Saturday May 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Put things away. Rode in Park on Marquis in morning. After home. In afternoon packed portmanteau & drove to catch 4.45 GWR. Great crowd at station. Only just caught train. 2 men in carriage.

M hungry at Oxford. Banbury cakes. Canon Bourne met us at Honeybourne.

Drove in half brake to Weston-sub-edge. Miss Bournes. Dressed for dinner.

Miss Sewell there. Nigger blood. Nice girl. Dinner. Talk after. Old silver. Pipe.

Talk of bed. Glass of Beer put down on platform at Oxford. Country looking lovely going down. Sun & flowers.

Sunday May 25 Weston-sub-Edge, Broadway. Up 8.0am. Good tea. W.C all right. Down 9.10am. Breakfast. Most lovely morning. Read books, changed things & went to church at Weston. Slow curate. Good service. M stayed. Good lunch.

Read in afternoon & slept from 3.30 to 5.0 with M in Bed Room. Tea & walk with the Canon after up to top of hill. Saw 14 counties. Lord Harrowby's Phare. Talk of Mitford. Spent all his money. Back at 6.30 through fields.

Good dinner. Talk after. Snuff after dinner. Pipe at 11.0 & bed 12.0.

Monday May 26 Weston-sub-Edge, Broadway. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. 1st walk round stables.

‘Bounce’, fox terrier. Chestnut horse. At 11.30 rode Ladybird with Canon.

Caught up Dr Morris. On to Broadway Tower. Saw sham fight. Met Flowery brothers. Left at 1.0pm. Past ‘Fish’ to lunch at Mrs Millets. Too much lunch.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 After rode for 2½ hours through Bretforton, on home. Carriage not home.

Tea. Very sleepy & heavy after tea & before dinner. Quiet dinner & evening.

Wrote in book after. Pipe & bed at 12.0pm.

Tuesday May 27 Weston-sub-Edge, Broadway. Fine morning, colder. Up & sat in porch after breakfast. Wrote many letters. Lunch. Rode with Canon Bourne at 2.30 in knickerbockers & stockings. Went to Campden House & Campden. Met the Fishers in pony trap. After saw Euration(?) in Camden. Home. Played 2 sets of Lawn Tennis with Miss Sewell. Good. Hot. After at 8.45 Mrs Millet, Cholmondeley, Parsons, Mr & Mrs Fisher dined. Good dinner. Put up weight.

Long talk with Canon Bourne after. Bed at 1.0am.

Wednesday May 28 Weston-sub-Edge, Broadway. Up 8.0. Lawn Tennis with Miss Sewell before breakfast. Breakfast. Goodbye to Canon Bourne. Lunch put up. Drive to Honeybourne, caught train. Met Mrs Bruce & spotty little girl. Carriage.

Lunch. Turkish Ambassador at station. Out of carriage again. People in at Oxford, 2 professors. London. Carriage met me. On to Turkish Bath. Saw Chinnery. Out 6.30. Called Constitutional Club. On by Embankment to P.D. Bradbury at Dinner at 7.30pm. Long talk. Carriage met me & home at 1.0pm.

Felt livery very after Turkish Bath.

Thursday May 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast nine. Rode in Park on Marquis (better).

Letter from Spencer. Rode with him. Back at 11.0am. Hot. Skemed subject.

At 12.45 Jolley came in. Photod self as Stanley. Jolley & leopard skin.

Lawrence & station at 2.0pm. Developed & printed plates. Wrote Mrs Davies.

Dined at home after skeming drawing. At 9.0 went by carriage to Military Exhibition. Good. Back to Empire. Saw ballet. Hollingshead. Club & home at 11.45pm. Livery at night in Exhibition. Drew ‘Touchstone’ in Derby sweep. 1 st time ever had a horse.

Friday May 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.40. Breakfast. Wet in morning. Letter from M. Wrote Aberdeen. Worked hard all day on Stanley, Salisbury & East Africa. Did not finish until 11.0pm. Dined by self. Midge dined at Tabbie's & came home 10.45. Smoke & read after. Bed 12.30pm. Wrote to Aberdeen in morning.

Saturday May 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Midge looking very seedy. At 10.15 Spencer came round for meet of coaches. Wrote letters. Started 11.15am. Saw Gaddens & Macmillan, Tenniel, Hunter etc etc. Home 1.30. Lunch. Maud & Miss Gill went to see ‘David Garrick’. Up to 54 Bedford Gdns to photo K.M. Back tea at 4.45pm. Carriage at 6.0. Called to return drawings to Mrs Reed.

At 7.20 met M at Paddington. Royal carriage. Home. Dined 8.15. Quiet evening & glad of it. Cigar. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Photod Kate Manning. Mrs Watney's invite for yacht came.) (Red ink across page: Meet of the Coaching Club.) (Later note: Last talk with Mrs D.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Sunday June 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.30. Fine morning. At 11.0 rode mare. Met stranger & after Alan Cole & little girls. Round & over Putney bridge. Turned off & home.

Passed William Waring & wife. Lunch. Wrote letters. Maud at her grandmother's. At 4.45 at Hickmans for Tennis. Only Noots there. Very slow game. Stupid. Felt heavy & livery. Could not play. Champagne cup & home.

Dinner. Livery after. Slept. Maud mimicking at dinner. Bed 11.30pm. Glad of sleep. Dream of blowing up of Atlantic liner.

Monday June 2 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. At 9.45 rode mare in Park. Saw H.R.H. Met no one I knew. Good gallop. Home. Wire from Mrs Millet. Wrote up diary.

Wrote many letters. Dog taken away by policeman from next door. Mare taken with colic & very ill. Mocatta's dance. Did not go. In evening went with M & Maud to Shaftesbury Theatre & saw ‘Judah’. Disappointed. Finlay & Brigham Young's son. Rollers & Mrs Millet, Pollock etc, Lancaster etc etc.

Home by 4 wheel cab with M & Maud. Saw Lennox Browne. Bed 12.0.

Tuesday June 3 Stafford Terrace. Up. Breakfast. At 10.0am rode with Spencer in the Park.

Saw H.R.H. & F.C.B, Lady de Grey. After rode with F.C.B on along past Swiss Cottage & settled about yachting. All right. Back in hurry & wired to Milliken & Bradbury. Dressed. Hurried snack at home & took cab on to Bouverie St. Got there 2.5pm. On to Rainbow. Saw Bradbury & nephews (Chas Agnew's sons.) old Nokes & (blank). Lunch. Talk with Bradbury after.

Waited for Milliken. Left at 4.45. Walked on to Turkish Bath. Had Bath & home after walk to Knightsbridge. Dined quietly at home & bed early. Mare ill all night with colic.

Wednesday June 4 Stafford Terrace. Derby Day. Pouring wet all day. Great sell. Sanfoin won, Lenore 2nd, Orwell third. Did not go. Worked & skemed Preface. At 6.0 walked in rain with M to Albert Hall Mansions. Very wet. Met Sir Benjamin Baker. Shabby. Walked on through Park & got awfully hot with macintosh.

Most uncomfortable. Took cab at top of Piccadilly. On to P.D in knickerbockers. Chaff. Never was so uncomfortable & caught cold through it.

Good Dinner & chaff about going away. Lucy there. Home with Reed in cab.

Paid 2/6. Left him at Knightsbridge. Wrote to Stace. (Red ink across page: Derby Day. Wet day.)

Thursday June 5 Stafford Terrace. At 11.0 Stace came. Photod him for Smith through stile & also self for Punch. Developed them & got to work in afternoon. Dull morning. Used stand camera on steps. Midge in in afternoon to tea. Lady Lucas called. Dined quietly at home & bed early. Was to have dined with Spencer & American at St Pancras. Did not go.

Friday June 6 Stafford Terrace. Found stylographic pen, lost since March 23rd. Up early & got to work on Smith & Bull going through gate. Abbey wrote he was back

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 with wife. Spencer called about horse & Furniss. Never recommend again.

Worked all day & finished at 7.35. Dressed & on in carriage to Mrs Watney's.

Dined & met Dr Barker. Settled about yachting trip. Talk of Lucas's, Cox's etc. Mrs Reed, Cox's daughter & Mrs Morris. Good cigar. Cold room. At 11.5 left & in carriage went to Quilters' at home. Lots there. Pictures. Met D'Arcy.

Poor supper. Home at 12.15. Bed 1.0am. Cold coming on.

Saturday June 7 Stafford Terrace. Cold came on. Fine morning. Had carriage at 10.0am.

Went with M to Park. Saw H.R.H. On to Bartlett's, then to Peal's. Talk of St Petersburgh. After to Rowney's, Needs & Co, & then Beale & Inman, Briggs.

Cab on to talk to Morris. Missed him. On to Garrick Club. Saw Montague Williams, Joe Carr etc. Paid bill for May 15 lunch. After walked on to Turkish Baths. Noisy men. After home. Great demonstration in Hyde Park. The teetotallers against Compensation Clauses of Gov't Bill. Home. Dined 7.0.

Mervyn there. Went in cab to Garrick Theatre. Saw ‘Pair of Spectacles’. Very good. Saw Agnew (George). Tenniel in box. Looked in to Garrick. 1 st night of Dining Room for Saty suppers. Home with M by carriage. (Red ink across page: Great demonstration in Hyde Park.)

Sunday June 8 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Up 8.0am. Cold on chest bad. At 10.10 got on horse. Met Tenniel & Furniss at 10.15am. 1st meet of 2 Pins Club. Met F.C.B & Matthews exact to time. Walked down to Richmond Pk. Jumped mare. Spots of rain came on on getting to Star & Garter. Sir C Russell non praise of mare. Lunch. Russell, Lockwood, F.C.B, Furniss, Sambourne, Matthews, Tenniel. Rain in afternoon. Rode home. Back by 3.45. Lockwood & self & man in road. Police Constable, Do you charge him? Home.

Solomons & Molesworth called. Changed things, dressed for Mrs Watney.

Intended to call on Mrs Watney. Poured with rain. Quiet dinner. Maud's imitations. Sleep after. Curious presentiment about Mother. Watch 9.27 or 9.23. Bed 11.0pm. (Red ink across page: 1st meet of the Two Pins Club.)

Monday June 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0pm. Cold on chest. Letters. News of Mother being ill.

Much worried. Wired off. Consulted maps. M & Maud went to Wittons & Stores. Wrote up diary. Letter from Mrs Watney to put off going till Saty 21 st for yachting. Went by cab at 1.30 to lunch with H.M.Spielmann. Got to Constitutional Club 2.5. Lunch. Talk. Billiards after. By Victoria, ugly child, to Garrick. Found B.Morris there. After being kept just missed Macmillan. Back to Club. Cup of tea & walked to Aldreds in Oxford St & on through Park home. There in time to dress & on to Mrs Campbell Praed's to dinner. Took in Mrs Merton, Gilbert's friend. Great chatter. Cigar after. Left 12.15. Home by carriage. M had new black dress. (Red ink across page: Letter about my mother being ill.)

Tuesday June 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Letter from Fanny Worth. My mother wired.

Decided to go by 3.0 train. M & Maud out in carriage. Maud felt faint & had (illeg). Left at 2.00. Carriage full at G.W.R. Selfish man with luncheon basket

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 & Welshman went whole way. Met Fanny Worth at station. Scramble into carriage & on to Downlenge Point in hansom cab. After a time saw my mother. Altered & in bed. Very sad. Aunt Worth wonderful. Jack's St Bernard dog. Wrote letter home & after went for walk to see Clifton Suspension Bridge & house called 'Sambourne'. Back 9.5 for supper. Walk & pipe on Common after. Good night to my mother. Supper. Prayers. Photographs & bed 11.30. (Red ink across page: Went down to Downlenge Point, Sneyd Park, Bristol, by 3.0pm train. Arrived 6.15. Forgot about Punch Dinner.)

Wednesday June 11 Downlenge Point, Sneyd Park, Bristol. Up 7.45. Breakfast 8.30. Bacon & eggs etc. Missed Bath Room. After went to see Dr Nelson Millard. Talk with him. Dry stick. Pipe on downs. Talk with Mother after. Left at 11.20 for Bristol in fly. Quite forgot about Punch Dinner. Easy run up. Bad fowl in luncheon basket. Carriage to self. M met me at Paddington. Disappointed about Punch Dinner. Got to work on Preface & dined quietly at home afterwards.

Thursday June 12 Stafford Terrace. In morning up. Wet dull day. Got on with Preface. Photod self & skin with Jolley's help. Grossmith evening party. Took cab on at 11.0pm. Good cab. Horse nearly down. Took Mrs (blank) Miss Beatty Kingston in to supper. Stayed till 2.0pm. Home by cab. Horse stopped & could not go home. Bed 2.45am.

Friday June 13 Stafford Terrace. Waited for subject till noon. Wrote letters. After subject, Monro & Matthews, came. Photod Jolley & self. Developed & got to work.

Worked all day till 10.30. Dinner. Bottle Champagne & bed at 1.30am.

Saturday June 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Carriage at 10.30. Drove with M & Maud to Mother's. I walked on. Caught it up. Moving in, A.H Mansions. Saw Mother & Maud on balcony. On to Harvey & Nicholls & to Cordings. After to Isbisters'.

Rules. M had bad chop. After to Hobbs & on to Military Exhibition at Chelsea.

Saw balloon go up. Shot at ducks. Ices, etc etc. Home by cab. Worked.

Maud in at 8.0pm. Quiet dinner. Read Rudyard Kipling. Bed 11.30 early.

Sunday June 15 Stafford Terrace. Misty morning. Down 9.15am. At 9.45 Furniss came round on Barclay's horse. Got off & came in for ½ an hour at breakfast. After rode to Greyhound at Hampton Court. Frightfully hot. 2 Pins meet. Russell, Lockwood, Lehmann, F.C.B, Furniss, Matthews & self. Good lunch. Raphael there after. Smoke & ride home along river. Parted with Sir C.Russell at Albany Club. Never saw him after. Home. Left F.C.B. Changed things & took Maud to Mrs Watney's. Saw Dr Barker. After by cab to Mrs Lewis's. Pellew etc. Home. Tilda there. Dined. Sleep. After went to Mrs Matthews at home at Queen Anne's Mansions. Great crush. Left 12.30. Mrs Jarratt etc. Bad cab.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Monday June 16 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Down 8.30am. Carriage at 10.0. M off to Stores. Wrote many letters. Mother better. Letters from Hamilton & Roy. Wire from Carter. Lunch. Worked on Preface. In evening went to see Gondoliers by cab. 2 stalls. Back by cab. Funny provincial audience.

Tuesday June 17 Stafford Terrace. Worked on Preface. In evening drove with M to opera & saw Faust. Archie Stuart Wortley & wife sat just in front of us. Saw Mrs Arcol.

Left early & walked to carriage & home by 11.30pm. Ascot races.

Wednesday June 18 Stafford Terrace. Finished Preface & began & finished Tail piece. Camoens Vasco da Gama & Stanley. Too late for Turkish Bath. Walked up Row & took cab for Punch Dinner from Lamb's shop in Regent Street. Late there, 7.30.

Great chaff. Quiet dinner. Dressed after at Punch Office & M called for me & we went to Lord Salisbury's Reception. Saw Lord Salisbury's private secy & Weigall. Supper & home by carriage early.

Thursday June 19 Stafford Terrace. Began & finished Punch as Speaker on balcony for Index & began Mermaid Tailpiece for Index. Did not ride. In evening drove up in carriage to Gaiety Theatre. Saw Ruy Blas. Mervyn in our box. Slow piece.

Home by cab. Men talking to one another (2 hansoms). Home 11.45pm. No lights in Drawing Room & bad sandwiches. Saw Macilwraith at theatre. Ascot Cup Day. Spencer in grumbling.

Friday June 20 Stafford Terrace. In morning finished Mermaid. Cheque sent from Col Wortham. After in afternoon at 4.0 began drawing of Yachting for Vol 99, Punch Yachting. Finished 10.30pm. No boy. Sent Jolley off with drawing.

Bottle Pol Roger & dined 10.30, M & self. Bed after. Wrote letters in morning.

Wrote (illeg). Sent Jolley to Stores for cartridges & to F.C.B's about horse.

Box from Victoria.

Saturday June 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Put room in order & gave Jolley instruction about going to Sutton. Got cheque for £25.0.0 cashed etc. At 11.15 went up to Bedford Gdns. Waited for ¾ hr. Photod & home by 1.10. M out. Lunch.

Dressed & put bag up with evening dress. Left Stafford Terr. 2.35. Only just caught train from Victoria. Bad hansom. Caught train. Lockwood, Sir C. Russell, Matthews, Lehmann in train to Sutton. Jolley met me. Ride through Common. Horses startled by train. Picked up young Russell on stumbling horse. Round detour. After with Russell & Matthews to Epsom Downs. Mare too fat to gallop. Back to Russell's. George Lewis there. Looking at farm stable. Heavy rain. Cup of tea. Felt faint. Dressed. Dinner 8.10pm. Lord Rosebery. Bottle trick. Furniss broke bottle. Lewis lost £21. Sat up talking with George Lewis. Bed 1.35am.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Sunday June 22 Tedworth, Sir Charles Lewis. Up with head on & bilious. Cup of tea. Cleaned boots. Furniss & Sutton Hook. Breakfast. 9.40am. Good ham. F.C.B late.

Gave Furniss goff stick. Started after saying goodbye at 10.23. Rode Sutton 11.15, Wimbledon Bridge 12.15. Home 1.45. Lunch. Hamilton Langley, Midge, Dora etc there. After packed all photo things & drawing things. Tilda in & Spencer & Daggles. At 6.20 went in carriage to call on Spielmann & to fetch bag from Sir Charles Russell. Home through Park. Photo home. Dined 8.10. Bottle Ayala '74. Maud. Sleep after, very tired. Bed 11.0pm. Too tired to pack things at all. Put it off.

Monday June 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 5.15am. Out & packed things in bags. Jolley came at 6.30. Helped. Put evening things up etc etc. Buss at door at 8.0. All packed.

Wrote cheques etc etc. Great hurry. Got off 8.35. Arrived Waterloo 9.0am.

Caught train. Goldie came in at Clapham Junction. Sleepy etc. Goldie's mother. Arrived Portsmouth 12.0am. Met by Mrs Watney etc. On board without trouble. Unpacked. Lunch 1.30. Left Portsmouth at 3.23. Smooth sea. Lovely run along coast. Looked at chequed forts & Southsea. Right along Brighton etc etc. Dressed & dined. After lovely phosphorescent waves & new moon. Turned in 11.0pm. Mrs Watney tired. M whiskey. First night of 'Palatine'. (Red ink across page: Started from London to go on board Palatine.)

Tuesday June 24 Palatine. Off Thames. Up 7.0. 1st morning. On deck. Tub with bucket. 1st breakfast. Put things in order. Lovely morning. Arrived Harwich about 10.30.

Wrote many letters. H.M.S Hotspur. Ocean tug. Ugly town. Pottered about all morning till lunch. East wind came on. At 2.30 went ashore in gig. Barker, M, Miss Clarke, Goldie & self. Dirty town. Saw hotel stayed in in 1869. To railway station for M's ulster. Turned up at last. Back in town. Bought sponges. Man all over chalk from getting it. M & baskets. Gigantic lobster.

Plain people off boat & man in consumption. Back to Palatine. Read & looked about. Good dinner. Very sleepy. Liver affected. Stayed in harbour all night on acct of mist & east wind. Bed 11.15 after whiskey. Walked decks with M. Small starling flew on board & stayed in boat.

Wednesday 25 June Palatine. Off Harwich. Up 7.0. Decided not to swim. Had tub. Made sketch of Harwich in lovely morning. Brilliant sun. Lovely. Got photo things out. Put them up. Under way 11.0. Photod heavy anchor. Steamed out & away in lovely morning from Harwich. Mrs Watney not well. Sketched deck. Failure.

Lunch at 2.0. Something wrong with propeller shaft. Consultation. Despair.

Not so bad after all. 34 puzzle on deck. Read Duke of Sutherland's cruise in ‘Sans Peur’. Sea smooth. Rain & heavy clouds came on at 6.30. Doze in chair. Dinner. Pea jacket. After walk on deck. Could not make out Dudgeon Light. Double flash. Saw it at last. Talk. Turned in 11.30pm. Light out & sleep directly. Mare went to Horlick's. This day Punch Staff went to Knole House.

(Red ink across page: Mare went to Horlick's.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Thursday June 26 Off Flamborough Head. On board Palatine. Up 6.30am. Scotch mist & rain.

Went on deck. Tub on deck. 1st tub with hose. Down to M's cabin. Wrote many letters before breakfast. After breakfast cleared up wonderfully. Began to read Howell's ‘Shadow of a Dream’. Much taken with it. After began to draw at 11.0 boat & deck carefully. Photod M & Dr Barker on bridge. Lunch.

Told story of Agnew & picture . Went on with drawing till 6.15pm. Small bird like woodcock flew on deck. Stayed there some time. Passed lighthouse where Grace Darling saved the Forfarshire. Sketched it. After went smoothly along. Dinner. Cigar after. Went in cabin & played Guess game. Much lighter at night. Sleepy after. Ladies turned in 11.30. Self 12.0am. Night rather hazy.

Dropped anchor at Leith 4.4am.

Friday June 27 Palatine. Off Leith. Up 7.30. Tub on deck. Hung about. Breakfast on deck.

Photod Edinboro' & yacht Semiramis. After at 10.30 M & self in gig. Walked to tram. On to Edinboro'. Gawk of woman (with child at breast) trod on my brown shoe (left). Out near Castle. Walked up. M amusing. Last sleep of Carlyle. (illeg) Back by fly. Saw Cameron Highlanders. On to Royal Hotel.

Ordered lunch. Bought shoe paste & books for drawing. Went with M to call on Lord Kingsbury, 15 Abercrombie Place. Back Royal Hotel. Lunch. On after by tram. Forbidding girl's face. After rain came on. Took shelter twice.

Bought files etc. Big horse in shed. M fell down landing steps. Back to yacht.

Under weigh. Went under Forth Bridge. Saw Dalmeney, Lord Rosebery's place. Thunderstorm came on. Sent letters off. Dinner. Barker not well. Very sleepy after. Walked up & down. Turned in 11.30pm.

Saturday 28 June Palatine. Off Leith. Up 7.15am. Wet. Deck tub. Breakfast. Read ‘Glances at great & little men’ by Paladin. Cleared up. Started 10.0am. Left Edinboro'. At 12.10 began to finish sketch. Worked till lunch. M well. After cigar & on to sketch again. Walk with Barker. Goldie read ‘The Blastergerm’ at tea. Found out mackintosh too short. Wrote. Heavy squall of rain. Put photo things in order. Off Dundee 3.0pm. Off Aberdeen 7.30pm. Bit of swell on. Roughish.

Dressed. Dinner. Miss Clarke left table, not well. Cigar in Goldie's cabin.

Walk up & down. Off Peterhead. Light. Turned in 11.0pm. Slept hard all night. (illeg) Seda Pt. Duke of Medina Sidonia wrecked here in Armada. Fair Island. ‘Spanish Armada’ Kingsley. (Red ink across page: Going from Leith for Shetlands.)

Sunday June 29 Palatine. Off Orkneys. Up 8.0am. Had bath in M's cabin. Gentle heave of sea. Most lovely morning. Breakfast. Read book on Mosaics. Wrote letters.

Fair Island in sight 12.30pm. Wrote F.C.B, Mother, Roy etc. M & (illeg).

Lunch 1.30. Lovely. Passed Fair Island after lunch. Sketched & photod it.

Wrote many letters & sent cheque for coals & Vinten. Nearly Shetland. Wind freshened 4.30pm. Coasted along Shetlands, 1 st view 5.30. Photod. Lovely evening. Mended tripod leg. Rock like Assyrian bull. Flag dipped at lighthouse. Picturesque little town, Lerwick. Dropped anchor 8.0pm. Dressed.

Pretty girl in boat. Dined 8.30. After cold in evening. Drew twilight over hills.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Whiskey. At 11.30 developed 3 plates fairly successfully. Quite light 12.15am. Turned in 12.30am. (Red ink across page: At sea, going for Shetlands.)

Monday June 30 Palatine. Lerwick, Shetland Isles. Up 6.30. Were to have started for Norway.

Strong east wind set in, could not. Went in to M's cabin. Breakfast on shore given up. Breakfast 9.30am. Printed photos & toned them. Got to work on putting figures in drawing. Worked all morning until lunch time 2.0pm.

Finished. Worked in M's cabin. Lunch. Drawing shewn round. After packed up & missed boat going on shore & missed the dingy after. Talk with Mrs W. Upset about the weather. Went ashore 4.0pm for an hour. Wired to Glosser & Gill. Walk. Missed M & Miss Clarke. Back to yacht by dingy. Steered. Talk with men of Goldie. Mrs W still unwell & upset about weather. Read of great gale in papers. M put lining to photo focussing cloth. Goldie back from fishing, 4 small fish. Admiral back with wire from Mother. Dressed. Colder.

Dinner. After sleepy. Put fur coat on & saw gulls & yachts flitting about like moths. Silhouette of men & boat against sky. Beautiful picture. Admiral & Goldie went ashore. Turned in at 11.30pm. (Red ink across page: Lerwick, Isle of Skye.)

Tuesday July 1 Palatine. Lerwick, Shetland Isles. Up later, 8.0am. Had bath in M's cabin.

Wrote up diary after. Strong wind blowing. Point to north. Still bad & grey.

Breakfast. Walk up & down. At 11.30 all went ashore. M, Miss Clarke, Goldie, Admiral & self. Went to Post Office, Chemist. Had match for pipes. In to Laurenson's shop. Bought Roy cap & stockings for self. Beautiful spidery woolwork 1/8 of an ounce. After consultation M went into shop for wool work.

Admiral said lunch ashore. Went to Grand Hotel. Walked up & ordered trap for 10/-, 4.30pm. Did cut of beef, salad etc etc. Miss Clarke & coffee. Had trap with pony 20 years old called Darkie. Drove over to Scalloway. Saw old woman carrying peat. Strange bird like a curlew. (small drawing of bird) Hilly uninteresting country. Old castle at Scalloway. Fish! Oh!! Haddock. Millions of herrings. Fine women. Sketched pier. Back by trap. Walked. Rain came on for 10 minutes. Got flax for M. Thought of subject. Back to yacht. Saw Mrs W. Drew for silhouette. Dinner. All grey. Goldie caught a fish from ship. Pipe in Goldie's cabin. Turned in 11.15pm. (Red ink across page: Lerwick, Isle of Skye.)

Wednesday July 2 Palatine. Orders for steam at 11.0am. Went ashore 9.30 with Admiral & Goldie. Got up for rain. Raining. Went to Post Office and wired for Admiral.

Left out word Bee. Had bromide. Weighed. Bought ‘Times’. Went with Goldie to Laurenson's. Bought Scotsman & papers. Drove back with letters of Miss C. Back to yacht. Still wind. Steam up. Away at 11.15 out of harbour. Flag dipped. Diving birds. Swell on sea. Roughish. Steamed away. Hoisted sail.

Miss C ill first. Lunch. Table cleared of glasses etc. M touched it. M lay down & turned in after at 3.0pm. 4.0 took two photos. Broke leg of stand again.

Mended it. Lovely sea. Yacht splendid. Tea in cabin. M seedy. Admiral & Goldie so-so. Self A1. Imaginary iceberg. No birds, no fish. One sail only

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 crossed bows. Dined in deck-house. Lamb & peas. M a biscuit & Champagne 8.30. Walk on deck after. Sails gibed. Slight rain came on. Mrs Watney turned in at 11.0pm. Whiskey. Turned in self 11.30. M seedy. Yacht behaved splendidly. Talk with Captain of trips & yachts, sharks etc etc. (Red ink across page: At sea all day on way to Norway.)

Thursday July 3 Palatine. Up 8.0am. Dream of zoological Gardens. Waiter in would not tip him. Ladies poudré. M still seedy. Sighted Norway 6.0am. Coast quite clear 8.0am. Bath on deck. Margery Daw. Dressed. Wrote up diary. Lovely morning. Nearer & nearer Norway. Small boat came out with 3 men. Pilot came on board. Asked for bread. M still seedy. Breakfast. Photod pilot.

Entered fiord for Bergen. Splendid run up. Disappointed boat crew ‘Kolena’ & red headed man. (small drawing of bearded man) Noah's Ark & Viking boats.

Got to Bergen 1.30pm. ‘Victoria’ with Empress Eugenie there. Ship the ‘Rayton Dixon’ loading. Changed things & went ashore. Touts in boats aboard. Found Post Office. Words very like English. Post Kontor, Black fish, Sticks etc etc. Back to boat. Read & tore up letters. Boy & stamps. English ’Arrys. Lots of them. Empress's boat waiting. Back to yacht. M stayed on board. Photos Empress. Shortbread. Dinner. After drew sunset at Bergen.

Felt very cold after drawing. Coffee & brandy. After smoke at 11.30.

Developed 5 plates. Put things in order & bed 1.30am.

Friday July 4 Palatine at Bergen. Up 7.30. Bath in cabin. ‘Victoria’ close to us. 1st view of old Pilot. Got under weigh about 9.0am & steamed out. Printed photos of man lying down & Pilot developed last night. Dull morning. Decided to begin drawing of ‘British Squaw’. Did so. Worked in own cabin until lunch. Lunch.

Good salmon. Up the Sogna Fiord the whole day. Grand scenery. Dull clouds. Went on drawing all afternoon till T time. On deck for hour, drew after. Dinner. Heavy rain came on. Scenery grander. 1 st view of Glacier. Got at 11.30 to lovely little fiord with Inn, Sivetsens Hotel. Felt very drowsy. Liver evidently. Hardly keep awake. Better after. Broke cigar. Smoke in Goldie's cabin. Old Pilot & supper. Lost stud. Very tired. Turned in at 11.15pm. (Red ink: Steamed up the Sogna Fiord. & after up the Naero Fiord to Gudvangen.

Anchored at place called Balhomen, head of Esse Fiord.)

Saturday July 5 Palatine. (Was to have gone to Wilfred Blunt's at Crabbett) Lovely morning.

At (blank) Fiord, Esse. Goldie & self went to Inn Sivertsens before breakfast in dingy. Took photo camera. On shore. Men speaking English. Photod yacht & mountains. Back to yacht. Children in boats. Bought milk from boy in boat.

Photod. Breakfast. M's port open. Up fiord. Watercourse. Rain 10.30am.

Disputes about width of fiords. Great deception in sizes. Decided to work.

Went on before lunch. Still up the Sogna Fiord. Working up to Gudvangen.

‘Victoria’ there. ’Arrys descending hill. Photod water courses etc etc. Lunch.

Most lovely morning. Grand scenery. After lunch walk & smoke. Went on with work & worked all afternoon. Got back to Balholmen. Finished ‘British Squaw’. Dressed. Dinner. Came to anchor in lovely little fiord. People fishing, reflection in water. Went ashore. Back. Got photo camera & photographed

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 yacht at 10.50pm. Found out Post Office. Back to yacht. Packed drawing & ashore with Pilot. Back to yacht. Smoke. Whiskey. Changed plates. Bed 12.30am.

Sunday July 6 Palatine. At small ending of nook of fiord, Telegraph Station Lervik. Up 7.15am. Anchor weighed at 7.0am. Under steam out of Sogna Fiord. Wrote diary. Breakfast. Talk of Byron. M up. People going to church in small boats (illeg). M tore her dress. Lovely morning. Fresh breeze. Photod waves. Mrs W not well. Norwegian light normal. Thought of Punch & midnight sun. (small drawing) Through fiords. Lightest light in Euope. Weather threatened change. Lunch. Smoke in deckhouse. Still bright, sun lovely. Got book, Mosaics. Joe Payton's cousin. Tea in deckhouse. Parrot story fell very flat.

Talk to Mrs Watney. M went aft. Got out to sea. Weather suddenly changed.

Captain did not like it. Heavy swell on. Changed to heavy sea. M nervous.

Ship after us thought ‘Victoria’ (coaster). Ran along coast from 6 to 8pm.

Uncomfortable. Ship rolled. 28 - 29º Gradually got round in fiord Stor. At 8.15 anchored. Round island with stores. Rain. Dinner. Champagne. Pine. Fowl.

Little bird in egg chirping. On deck again. Drowsy. Turned in at 11.15. Very tired. Miss Clarke played. Piano beautiful. (Red ink across page: Small nook, Telegraphic Station, Lervik.)

Monday July 7 Palatine. Storfiord. Up 7.30. Heavy wet. Bath on deck. Wrote Tabs. Miss Clarke in deckhouse. M at breakfast. Took man in boat. Goldie late & slipped down. Up fiord. Heavy wet in morning. Photod man at wheel & old Pilot.

Mended telescope for Miss Clarke. Talk with Mrs W. Cleared & wet again.

Lunch. At 3.0pm got to Molde. Heavy pouring rain. Wooden church. Stayed about. Steamer in & ‘Victoria’ came in about 5.0pm. Mrs Watney etc went ashore in gig. M stayed on yacht. Goldie & self at 7.0 went in dingy to fish off rocks & set nets. Caught two cods with spoon-bait. Duck & chicks. Back to yacht at 8.30. Dressed. Dinner. Very drowsy after. Walked up & down deck.

Cigar. Made sketch. Saw Empress Eugenie through telescope. Wet heavy stormy day all day. (Red ink across page: Stor fiord.)

Tuesday July 8 Palatine. At 12am made sketch of Molde. After turned in felt cold. Whiskey.

Woke at 2.20 with anchor being weighed. Took rapid photo of Molde in early morning. Turned in again & got up at 8.30. Had bath in M's cabin. Fine clear day. Smooth sea & all going well for Trondtjeim. Squared up & wrote letters.

Steamed up fiord. Same scenery. Took clouds etc. At 8.0pm made Trondtjeim. Into harbour. Anchored. Sunset glow. Dinner. Only me dressed.

After sunset got more & more lovely. Rich yellow golden light. Purple distance. Put letters ready. At 9.45 went ashore. Sunset more lovely & rainbow at 10.0pm. (small drawing of rainbow) Went ashore. Admiral, Goldie, self, Miss Clarke. Walked up to Cathedral gate & back. Still lovely sunset.

Queer names. Bog & Papirhandel. Back to yacht. Made sketch. Goldie sitting with whiskey at 12.0am quite light. Turned in 12.0am. (Red ink across page: At Molde. Left, long run to Trondtjeim.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Wednesday July 9 Palatine. Up latish. Bath in M's cabin. Ship coaling, great preparation.

Everything covered up & upset. Put things in order & got letters. At 10.15 went ashore. All except Mrs W. Walk up to shops. M's 1 st visit ashore Norway. Bought note book & photos. Went to P.O. After missed Miss C. Wandered with M. Decided for Britannia Hotel. Left mackintosh. Strolled on to Cathedral. Most interesting. Saw Miss Clarke again. Before that went to Müllers shop & bought M Norwegian belt £5.11.0. Most curious Cathedral.

Being restored. Spittoons, curious faces etc etc. Tombs etc etc. Back to Hotel. Miss C unwell. Man in W.C after dinner. English ’Arrys. ‘I am Mr Mitchell’. Good dinner. Duck with prunes. Music. Liqueur. After Goldie, self, M & Miss C went into town. M & Miss C back to hotel, G & self strolled on.

Went into menagerie. Lion, Tiger, Monkey, Jacob, Alligator, etc etc. After to Waxworks. Distorted glass. Anatomical studies. Drunken man etc etc. Rain came on. Back to town. Old Alms Houses. Flowers in houses. Toy boats.

Church 1739. Bank. Statues to Admiral (blank). After to landing stage. Met Mrs W & ladies in pair horse carriage. On to Hotel. Went back to Müllers.

Tea at hotel. Good. After to photo shop. Bought photos, carriole etc etc. On to Müllers. Rain came on heavily. Back to landing stage. Boy brought belt on board. Heavy rain & rough to ship. Dined 8.45. No dress. Champagne. Up on deck after. Very wet. Smoked cigar. Developed plates after, 11.30 to 1.30.

Spoilt & disappointed with them. Bed 1.30. (Red ink across page: At Trondheim.)

Thursday July 10 Palatine. Trondtjeim. Up later. Bath in M's room. Up. Heavy wet. Wrote diary & letters, sent them off 11.45. Got under weigh at 1.0pm. Lunch 1.30. Good cake etc. Heavy wet. Read & finished sketches in afternoon. En route for Christiansand. Took all day printing photo. Fish, fine whiting, 40 for 1 krone, meat 40 ore pound. Salmon. Letter from Maud & Miss Gill. Goldie ashore for brown holland. Photod boat. Got under weigh 12.30. Left Trondheim. Past fort. Rained hard all day. Disagreable. Wished I had boots. Up & down.

Heavy mist & squalls of rain. Got to Kristiansund about 12.15am. Pased ‘Victoria’ 11.15. No flag up. Captain rushed to salute, too late. Saw fast to Bury. Changed plates & turned in 1.15am.

Friday July 11 Palatine. Kristiansund. Fine morning. Bird died 6.0am. Up 8.0am. Bath in M's cabin after at 10.30. After photoing went ashore. Curious place. No English.

Norwegian loafers on quay. Idiot. Stroll. Very muddy. On to church. Admiral sneezing, children laughing. On to church. Used for concerts. Old pictures.

Very plain. Man accepted cigars. Back to yacht. Curious soaps sausages(?) & (illeg). Big hips. (small drawing of figure) Handsome Norwegians. One no body. Under weigh 1.0. Pilot ashore for cigars & drink. Run along, sea smooth. Immense flocks of Eider Ducks. Up Ronsdale Fiord. Past Molde again & up to (blank). Anchor at 8.30. Lovely spot. Hotel ashore after dinner.

Laughing boy & English. Pertinacious driver, ‘Must take a leetle drive’ (10.30). Picked flowers. Back to yacht. Whiskey. Developed 6 or 7 plates.

Failures. Bought great quantity of fish for 2 kroners.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Saturday 12 July Palatine. Up 8.0am. Bath in M's cabin. Breakfast, fresh fish. Photod M in Norwegian boat. To start for excursion at 12.15 went in boat ashore. Got into carriole & Goldie also. Mrs W, M, Miss C & Doctor in 4 wheel carriage. Kept

by Ole Ohle!! Drive up Ronsdale valley. Beautiful morning. Passed 11.0 Wills’ place. Wills himself seated on bank with son. Pipe of peace & birds eye view. On through valley & lofty mountains to 1st station. Passed picturesque begger. 3 Englishmen at Inn, 2 Marigolds & one Bonham Carter.

Lunch basket out. Good lunch. No party complete without a photographer hass. Good lunch. Rain came on. Curious skins, cat, squirrels etc. Started for 2nd station in rain. Heavy wet. Waterfall. Picturesque scenery. Man with guns.

‘I think he shoot a fox’. On to 2nd station. Photod carriole with self in it.

Coffee. Empress Eugenie signature in book. Changed horses from 4 wheel trap to carriole. Home. Pouring rain. Stopped with boy to photo road. On again. Passed Marigolds & Bonham Carter. Caught Goldie up. On to 1st station. Doctor's glasses left behind. Sent boy back in carriole. On again.

Stopped & photod mountain by Bromley(?) (illeg). On again. Fast downhill.

Slow along level. Drink for horses when hot. Passed guide who had been up Romsdalhorn mountain. Back to quay. Camera soaked & all wet. Into boat 9.0pm. Dressed. Dinner 9.15. Cigar & no whiskey after. 2 bottles Champagne at dinner. Developed carriole. Water & 2 others good. Bed 12.15pm. 1st station Horgheim, 2nd station Flatmark. Mountains photod: Vegetinder 5055ft. Ramsdalhorn 4965. Wills residence Aark. For photos: Ellerbeck, Liverpool.

Sunday July 13 Palatine. Romsdale Fiord. Started 7.0am & on through fiords. Fine morning.

Put things in order & printed photos. Took to pieces & eased photo legs. At 12.0 got to work on drawing ‘Going to church’. Worked up to lunch time.

Lovely afternoon. Bright sun & hot. Worked also after lunch & up to T time.

Passed out of fiord where water was so rough last Sunday. Evening beautiful. Photod sun on water. Watery clouds. Came to anchor 8.0pm.

Heavy rain came on about 11.0pm & continued.

Monday July 14 Palatine. Molde. Heavy rain & strong wind all night. Up 8.30am. Bath in M's cabin. Breakfast. Eggs & tongue. Heavy & continuous rain & wind. Got to work 11.30 on drawing & worked to lunch. Rain. After at 3.0 worked to T time & on to dinner. Still heavy rain. Goldie went ashore in rain & up waterfall.

Found small lake. At 7.30 the (blank) yacht came to anchor alongside of us.

Still rain & heavy squalls. Gale. Dressed. Took no photos all day. Worked.

Otherwise as she's no. M a headache. Sole caught 5.30pm off ship. Rain kept on all day. Worked up to 7.45. Dark. Put in shades of boat. Dinner. 2 bottles champagne. Talk after. Sleepy. Goldie read about Copenhagen. Bed. G & self sitting smoking & sleeping.

Tuesday July 15 Palatine. At Molde. Up 8.0am & bath in M's cabin. Still heavy wet & blowing gale. Got under weigh. Heavy wet. Forced our way slowly on. At 11.0 got to work on drawing Boats going to Church. Passed Askvoll 2.0pm. Compared

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 photo. Worked on. Still rain. Finished drawing. Walk up & down deck with M. Took one photo 7.0pm only. Looking up fiord. At 8.0pm anchored in small bare neglected fiord. Not a soul or house near. Rings in rocks & marks like targets. Dinner. Champagne. After went ashore with Goldie in dingy. Walked along road. Saw gigantic screaming gulls. Goldie walked to Rocking Stone.

Back to boat. Small rills. Bed early 11.0pm. Whiskey.

Wednesday July 16 Palatine. Up 8.0am. Bath in M's cabin. Finer morning though still wet. On deck after. Took photos after breakfast & packed up drawing. Man came alongside with black fish, 25 for ½ kroner. Wrote letters. Heavy rain after.

Nearing Bergen. Arrived Bergen 2.0pm. Lunch. Photod Bergen. Sentry on foot with rifle on shoulder. (small drawing of sentry) Wrote letters & received news from P.O.O. Worry letter from F.C.B. No news from Mother. At 3.30 went ashore in rain. Mrs W nervous in gig. All in one two horse fly. On to P.O. Bought cards & sent letters off. Doubtful about my letter from Bo. Walk with M in town. Bought knife, blotter, sabots & flower pot. Poor photos. Back to yacht. M wanted coffee & could not have it. Tea. After went ashore in crowded dingy, 12 in it. The Pilot's farewell. The Pilot's box. Goodbye to Pilot, Christian Lausen. Walk with Goldie in town. Round quay. Called Post Office. Walk along quay. Bought knife & stick. On to old tower like Tower of London. Norwegian talk. No army ‘Yes would fight but not with English’.

Back. Old Norman church. Polite boy. Called Curiosity Shop. Old bed.

Norwegian mangle. Through market. Halibut. Huge fish. Coal fish, like salmon. Back to yacht. Beautiful view. Decided to go back. Dropped slide in dingy & into sea, nevertheless went on. Climb up hill with sailor. Photod Bergen. Side light. Back in dingy. 2nd engineer yacht Orelia. Had to lay up for 48 hours. Back to yacht. Dinner. Champagne. On deck after. Fine evening.

German man of war. Torpedo catcher ‘Saga’. Girls in boat saying goodbye.

German officers shouting. Curious uniform. Coffee. Pipe. Turned in 11.30pm. Looked at plates. Found wet had come in. Disappointed. Bed 12.10am.

Thursday July 17 Palatine. Up 8.0am. B.M.C. Fine morning at last. German man o' war moved away. Also yacht 120 tons 'Orealia'. Started 9.0am for Hardanger Fiord.

Scots observer. Photod ships. Up Hardanger Fiord. Large, wild & beautiful.

Passed 'Orealia' beating up across Fiord. Saw small whale turning over & over. Printed photos. Kept up fiord. Most lovely scenery. Lunch. After took photos. Still along fiord. Bright hot sun. Saw Cascade Mauranger. Mountains.

Beautiful church. Diamond shaped roof. Wooden tower. Plaster walls. Dingy went ashore for fish. Could not get any. Went up fiord for 3 hours from 2.0 to 5.30. Turned at 5.30. Back. Met no yachts or anything. Passed Orealia tacking up. Lovely effect of sun. Scorpen island. On, anchored in place called Lervik. Good anchorage. Busy. Lovely village on hill with pine trees on top. Dinner. Rich sunset. Yacht surrounded with boats. Small boy & cigar.

Man brought curious blue & black fish, orange underneath. (small drawing of fish) After photod it. Goldie & self went ashore in dingy. Landed slaty rocks.

Right on to Post Ofice. People about. Friendly dog with large tail. Horse up hill. Back to dingy. Rowed round bay. Beautiful effect of lights in small boats.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Plain large church. Boat full of girls at 11.0pm serenading yacht. (small drawing of rowing boat) Back to yacht. 11.15. Whiskey & turned in. M not very well.

Friday July 18 Palatine. Lervik. Up at 7.0am. Called Goldie. Bath on deck. G & self went in dingy & photod Lervik & church. Back to yacht. Got under weigh at 9.0am. G went back for caterer. Passed out of Hardanger Fiord. Lovely bright morning.

Occurred to me to photo M & Goldie for subject Punch. M not well. Did photo them. After put away things & changed all plates. Sat down in chair with ‘World’ & dozed. Read story. After lunch time. Worked at 2.0pm on Punch & Carriole. Worked all afternoon & up to dinner time. Lovely run. Gentle breeze aft. Dinner. Passed lights. Dispute about star, Jupiter. G read Rudyard Kipling & also Russia. Passed Lyster Light at 12.0 Turned in at 12.5am. (Red ink across page: Norway.)

Saturday July 19 Palatine. At sea. On way to Copenhagen. Woke at 3.0am by engine going wrong. Bath in M's cabin. Wrote diary. Breakfast. Past Lyter Light 9.0am. On at sea. Wind freshened & biggish sea got up. At 12.0 I went down to work. M disappeared in her cabin at 11.0. Mrs Watney not out till dinner time. No lunch. Very rough. Got down to work at Punch & Carriole. Worked steadily on all day as far as motion of yacht would allow. M on back in cabin. Up on deck. Did not like the look of it. On & on. 80 miles to Scor. At 9.0pm got abreast of the Scor Lighthouse. Captain exactly where he thought he was.

Photod two snap shots on bridge. Waited & waited for dinner. Mrs Watney in at 9.35. Very hungry. Took M in. Chicken. Cigar after. 1 st night of candles.

Dark. Real dark. Whiskey & bed at 11.0. 2 engineers, sailors & stokers ill, 1st steward. Low Danish coast. Change. Sea moderated after. (Red ink across page: At sea.)

Sunday July 20 Palatine. Up 7.30. Bath on deck. Put camera up. Dressed in blue. Running down Kattegut & nearing Helsingfors. Down in cabin finishing drawing. Ran up on deck to see Elsinor. Smooth sea & boats passing. Much disappointeed with view of Elsinor. More like a Thames pumping station than castle. Photod 4 views of it. After down & on with work. Up again to see island where Tycho Brae's observatory was. Lovely hot sun came out. On with drawing. At 2.0 anchored in Copenhagen. Fort. Shipping. 2 girls & man in boat nearly under our yacht. Shouted at them. After at 4.0pm went ashore in gig. People walking in Park. 1st Danish policemen. Customs officer asked about bag.

Took 2 flys. Called P.O.O. On to Hotel d'Angleterre. Miss C went off to church. Drove in fly through streets to Zoological Gardens. Tramways. Lots of people. Soldiers in kepis. On to zoo. Saw birds, elephants, deer, bears etc etc. Walked back to fly & on to Hotel d'Angleterre to dinner. Curious wash basin in hall. Good dinner. Ducks & gooseberries, ice puddings. 2 American girls & mother. Doubtful as to nationality. After coffee in courtyard. Piano, Chickering or Pleyel, playing. Attentive waiters. Mrs W. Smoked. On in carriage to Tivoli. Curious games. Turnabout switchback railway. M laughed.

Ships, balloons. Goldie, Barker, self, Miss Clarke went up in one. Funk.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Rocking. Down again. Went to order dinner. Had Bock. Cigarette. Back to pair horse carriage & on to quay for boat. Started for ‘Palatine’. Mrs W nervous. Long time getting there. M took her gloves off. Terra firma, as M called it, again. Letters. News from Swain & Punch. Mrs W stayed up. Pipe.

Grog & turned in at 11.30pm. Talk of Lady Brooke & Lord C Beresford. Saw 1st pretty girl at Post Office. D.F.F.L. The committee of Dansk Forething for Lystsejlads (yacht club) present their com. to owner of ‘Palatine’ & request that he and his friends on board will make use of the Club House during their stay in C. By order of com. Vigobrantzang Secretary, Club House Langelinie.

Entrance at the Quarantine House pier. (Red ink across page: Kattegut, Copenhagen.)

Monday July 21 Palatine. At anchor in Copenhagen harbour. Up early. Had bath on deck. Got to drawing of Carriole before breakfast. Worked. Miss C, G & Admiral went on shore early. Breakfast by self. Took M's in. After finished drawing & sealed it up. Dressed. Sent drawing ashore. At 11.30 went on shore in boat with G, M & A. Passed awful smell of dredger. M's story of fire irons for fender. Found fly waiting. Driver in plush breeches & queer top boots. Drove on to Konenburg Palace. Got in at 12.0. Met by guide. Went over Palace.

Most curious & interesting collections (see note book). Arms, costumes, uniforms etc etc from Xtian the 4th to present reign. Out to carriage. Hot day.

On to Hotel d'Angleterre for lunch. Ordered it. 6 kroner for 2 portions of fowl.

Dear. Ad & Mrs Watney caught us up. Green chartreuse. On to Thorwaldsen's Museum. Disappointed. Egyptian building with atrocious frescoes. Tomb & many statues. Pictures etc. Tiring & very hot. After drove to the P.O.O. Posted drawing & wrote cards. Got letter from F.C.B, much upset. Drove after along past quays & 3 ornamental oblong pieces of water.

Drove to country. Steam railways the whole way. Felt fearfully drowsy & sleepy. Windmills. Fortifications. Saw yacht in bay. Gigantic bottle for brewery advertisement. Used as chimney. Part house of Crown Prince. To hotel. Stopped, ordered coffee. Small mountain. Strawberries. Lots of beautiful roses. Black heartsease. Tame sparrows on the tables pecking spread & plastered butter. Fliegende Blatter. Youth on balcony with parents.

Horses put to after ¼ of hour. Down through deer park. Open stalking to tether horses. People all enjoying themselves. Part Crown Prince's house.

Grenadiers & sentry. Curious bearskins. After passed 2 Crown Prince's children in open carriage driving. M blushed & bowed. Drove through town to Port Kontor again & after to dine at Tivoli. Shyer girl. Waiter like Shakespear & Boehm & wheezy. 2 bottles champagne & music. Pleasant dinner. Rose at 10.0. Saw Pantomime, dull & silly. Back to carriage. Drove to Customs House for boat. Left Goldie & Admiral disputing with & settling cocher.

Passed through for boat. After back & startled Admiral. Back to ship. Quiet & hot. Ominous bank of cloud on horizon. Papers. Letters etc. Invitation from Copenhagen Yacht Club. Whiskey. Pipe. Talk of Broadly & bed 12.30am.

Good day. (Red ink across page: Copenhagen.)

Tuesday July 22 Palatine. At sea in Baltic for Stockholm. Up 9.0am. Ship rolling. Anxious about camera. Went up on deck. Saw Admiral. Down again. No bath in M's

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 cabin. Sea increased very much. Most uncomfortable all morning. 1 st day in Baltic. Very rough indeed. Wrote diary etc. At 1.0pm M got up. Big waves.

Lunch all there. M much better. Heavy rain & wind. On deck after. Read ‘Times’ summary & History of Denmark. Sea still big. Got used to it. After went for walk on deck with M, took 2 snap shots of waves. Yacht under sail all day. Past very few ships. M playing piano 6.0pm. Dinner time going much easier & smoothly. Sailed all day for 1st time. Good dinner. Cleared & lovely night. Sat on bridge after. Go Bang on. Moon over water. (small drawing of moon) Sleepy. Turned in 11.0. Mrs W tried to persuade Goldie to stay. (Red ink across page: Baltic Sea.) Wednesday July 23 Palatine. At sea in Baltic for Stockholm. Up latish, 9.15. Bath in M's cabin.

Deck. Breakfast. Heavenly morning. Steam put on at 8.40, going 8 knots.

Changed plates. Wrote letters etc etc. Beautiful day all day. Sitting on deck in afternoon. Puffing wind came on suddenly. Curious. Goldie reading.

Photod sky effects. Talk with Captain. Read ‘Cruise of Yacht Ptarmigan’.

Wrote letters. Photod G, A & self before dinner for midnight sun. Dressed & then took another. Dinner. Champagne. Good cigar after. Mrs W went to bed early. Talk in Deck House. Admiral sat up late. Goldie & self smoked & talked till 12.30am. Bed after. Sleepy. Tired. Lovely sunset. Drew it in chalks.

Last drawing attempted. (Red ink across page: Baltic Sea.) Thursday July 24 Palatine. Called on by Captain at 6.30am. On deck & had bath. Fresh water.

Swell pilot on board. Fair. Yachting cap & brass buttons. Quite change of scenery. Low banks covered with pine & birch trees. Goldie up soon after.

Pilot saved camera. Photod fort & ship. Approached Stockholm & got there about 10.0am. Rush to write letters etc. Fuss about anchorage. Put next old hulks. Photod Stockholm in sun. Hurry. Mrs Watney on deck. To go ashore.

Miss Clarke delayed boat. Rowed to quay. Curious old sailor. Walk along past Museum opposite Palace. Heard tattoo. Soldiers marching. Soldiers like Prussians. Stood about & dawdled. Mrs W, M & Miss C. Took cab for Palace. G, D & self walked. Got to shabby palace. Majordomos with batons & cocked hats. Dispute with cabby. Curious eyes. Sleepy vivacity. Into Palace. Nothing much worth seeing. Out & on to church alone, tomb of Gustavus Adolphus etc & arms on walls. Flags, Russian & German & heaps of kettledrums & drums. Arms of Prince Albert & Duke of Albany. Rained before going in. Wandered or meandered to Restaurant in Place Gustavus Adolphus. Ordered lunch. 1st view of snacks. Saw Americans we saw at Trondheim. Tall creatures. Cosmopoliton. Red nosed man & snacks.

Sketched him. Mirrors in ceiling. Lunch dear & bad. After could not find place to P.S. Wandered over house. Stupid manager. A. refused to pay for coats etc etc. Wandered through city. (Pretty girl in shop.) Finally took circular tram. Swell driver. Like Langley. Uniform. Round to Palace & sat on bench.

Saw man like Leaky with umbrella. Took another tram to Tivoli. Officer in blue uniform, shako. (small drawing of uniform) Got to band playing. Had coffee. Girl talking away like Mrs Alexander. Good coffee & sweets. Arrived not well. Head bad & done up. Goldie left to try to get gig. Waited about.

Walked. Saw Punch, Tivoli etc. Came back & in ½ an hour G returned with

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 boat. Back to yacht, changed & dinner 7.30. G's last dinner. Sorry to part.

Went ashore with A & G to see G off. No flys. Strangers directed us in streets. Walked to station. No train. G went off by Copenhagen, 2 nd class.

Communications between carriages at railway. Back in boat. Stared at.

Union Jack on boat. Talk to Mrs W. All turned in early. Had pipe on deck.

Whiskey & sat up with Pilot until 1.0pm & read after. Schutz (illeg). (Red ink across page: Stockholm.)

Friday July 25 Palatine. Up 7.30. Bath in M's cabin. Rainy morning, could not go to sketch.Went in dingy to sketch & came back. Back again with dingy & took photos of gardens. Civil manager. Good sailor. Rained. Back to yacht & at 12.0 went on shore with A, Mrs W, M, Miss C & self. Flag would not go under bridge. Into National Museum. Free day. Splendid collection of stone bronze & iron age & modern things. Curious St George & the Dragon. Admiral met us after. Back to yacht to lunch. At 4.0 went in rain to carriages & drove through Stockholm to 2 palaces. 2nd one fine room 37 yards x 32, divisions between. Statue over fireplace. Civil guide. Modern suite of rooms below with photos of friends & princes. Called Restaurant. Curious woman. Miss C changed sovereign. Lots of shells in grounds. Back to Stockholm & on yacht at 8.0pm. Dressed & dinner. 1st night without Goldie. M & self went in dingy after to (blank) gardens. No one there. Band, coffee & liquers & home in dingy. Morose Walters sailor. Admiral up. Read New York Herald & bed 12.0am. Morose driver of carriage. Self so sleepy on box nearly fell off twice.

(Red ink across page: Stockholm.)

Saturday July 26 Palatine. Stockholm. Up at 7.0. Breakfast early at 8.30 & went ashore for walk at 9.0. Landed close to bollard by interpreter. Fine hot lovely morning.

Walked to P.O.O. Norwegian post card no good. On to photo shops.

Swindled at one. Bought photos at three different shops. Hot. Took tram round town. Struck with Police uniforms. Elevator & C etc. Back to landing stage. Had to wait for boat. On board. Photod men. Went in boat to quay at National Museum. Looked at potteries (good) statues & pictures. Pictures poor. Mrs W tired. X. Steered under bridge. After back to yacht for lunch.

Lunch. Fish grumbled at. Changed things & plates. Hot sun. Boat round at 3.45, on to same quay. Carriage waiting. Drove us to steamboat. Got on board. Very gritty. Officer in uniform & pretty girl. Shoes. 2 tall Norwegian girls in black. Great length of limbs & especially thighs. (small drawing of girl) 1 old English clergyman & wife. On in 40 minutes to Drottningholm Palace.

Very black roof & white walls, 2 cupolas. Room with portraits of all sovereigns of Europe about 1854/5. Charles XII when young. Hurried over Palace. Back to boat. Started at 6.0. Punctually back. Carriage met us. Man all over tags. Drove to Elevator. Went up. Left Mrs W. Looked about. Mrs W came above after. All went down & back to yacht. Dressed. Dinner. Mrs W upset with cooking. Afterwards ashore & to Harresbacken Gardens. Great crowd. All lighted up. Coffee. On to Tivoli. Polite youth. Saw balloons. Girl in costume jumped into balloon. Band, procession of Bacchus. Child crowned carried by 4 sailors. Hobby Horses. Men in 1720 costume etc etc. Great fun.

Back to Gardens. Fireworks. Officers. Police all with swords. Sang on

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 balcony. Home by dingy. Barker got me change for £10 cheque. (small drawings of procession, child on barrel & balloon.) Girls & men in pairs. Men with spears. Torches & electric light. Festival to Karl Michael Bellman d.1795.

(Red ink across page: Stockholm.)

Sunday July 27 Palatine. Stockholm. Beautiful bright morning. Hot & peaceful. Took photos men & self. Went ashore at 11.45 for walk. In to Park. Saw bust of Bellman in wood decked with flowers etc. Sketched it. Nice small boy, gave him 25 ore. Walked up to Belvedere. Back. Men playing skittles in road. Every 100 yards organ. Old Lehmann grinding. Girls. People carrying baskets for lunch.

Men lying on their backs in shirt sleeves. Girls round them. Came on Regiment of Guards marching. Fine officer. Yellow sash, blue collar.

Sergeants carry large knives. Saw soldiers pile arms. Called Post Off. Got card from Mother written 14 July. Back to yacht. Lunch late. Mrs W in & very seedy & upset. Cook worry. At 3.0 steam tug alonside with flags of all nations. Mrs W would have us to go. Clouded over. Started. Past villas etc etc across fiord & up narrow stream. Happy people. Girls all waving handkerchiefs. Boy in boat in wash of steamer kicking legs over water. There & back. Cleared up. Back to yacht. Dressed for dinner. Read Spectator before. Mrs W at dinner. Better. Dined. Champagne. After went ashore & into Alhambra. Saw 2 (illeg) & donkey. No Samoans. Into Hasselbacker.

Liquer & cigar. People. Back by dingy. Whiskey. Turned in early. Fine night.

Passed royal yacht. Went to Guartensburg. Castel Holm, naval station. (Red ink across page: Stockholm.)

Monday July 28 Palatine. Stockholm. Up latish. Bath in M's cabin. After breakfast went & photod Castle from shore in dingy. Back & caught gig going ashore. Miss C, M & self went. Took tram to Northern Museum. American Madame Ceinture.

Models, Lapps etc. Unicorn. Good shoes. Girl waited on us. Pretty. On to Observatory. Civil beggar, X old woman. Frightfully hot. Gigantic Emmets.

On to Observatory. No one there. Girl & child. Went over it. Saw Telescope.

Fine view of Stockholm. Back in omnibus. Pretty girl in pink like Flossie.

Restaurant. Good lunch. 2 old men exactly alike. Had snack. On to Palace.

Very hot & close. Thunderstorm. Rained. Saw appartments in Royal Palace.

Curious wee English girl like Louisa Hartree. Out & M to buy gloves. Long time in shop. Girl like Miss Hardman. Mrs W passed in carriage. Spoke. Back to shop. Miss Clarke left us. Took trams to Hocklebacken. Coffee. Sparows quite tame. Music. Punch & Judy. Cherries. Ferry & home to yacht 5.45.

‘Things very dear’. Dinner. Mrs W upset. Stayed on yacht. Talk with Admiral after. Cold. Felt seedy after smoking. Developed 3 plates. Upset about quilt being taken off. (Red ink across page: Stockholm.)

Tuesday July 29 Palatine. Up 8.0. Bath in M's cabin. After breakfast went ashore with Admiral in dingy. Landed. Very hot. Roamed about to Post Office. Called chemists.

Could not get glycerine. On to shops for photo. Nice girl served me. Went in Museum. Saw Thor again. Noticed details of sentry. Sailor caught me up.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 mile. Admiral turned up at last with Miss C. Stupid flyman. Asked for alms 1 st time. Back to yacht. Chaff captain. Mrs W. Oh! Under weigh at once. Lovely hot sun. Under canvas. Rush to photo Stockholm, to change plates etc.

Photod. Lunch. Most unpleasant about food etc etc. Out after & caught little house with boat. Smoked & read. Mrs W seedy. Out about 6.0pm. Sands.

Very narrow entrance to Swedish river, just room for yacht to pass. Photod.

Dropped Pilot in small boat. Away for Russia. Roll & chop on sea. Put things straight. Dinner. M seedy, would not go in. Wretched dinner. Took things in to M. Up on deck after & cigar. Rain came on. Talk with Admiral. Whisky.

Bed. Lovell & Gale. Mrs W. Rows all round. Had very sweet small fish for breakfast betwen a trout & a herring. Fair wind. (Red ink across page: Stockholm & Baltic.)

Wednesday July 30 Palatine. At sea in Baltic. Up 8.0pm. Bath in M's cabin. M seedy in bed.

Admiral & Miss C in consultation. At 8.45 in sight of Hango, Gulf of Finland.

Frightfully heavy rain. Poured with rain all day nearly. Put things in order & got at 11.30 to work on page for Midnight Sun. Worked in morning & after lunch. Mrs Watney ill & not down to lunch. Cleared after. Took 2 photos of sea & waves & one of Russian ship & in Gulf. Steamed along Gulf of Finland. Stopped engines & sailed most of afternoon & evening. Mrs Watney very upset & still in cabin. Dinner. Champagne again. Talk with Admiral after.

Going easy. Sat on Deck House & smoked cigar Lovely evening. After lit lamp & put photo plates up & filled slides. Turned in 11.45. Printed photos in morning & toned them. (Red ink across page: Baltic & Gulf of Finland.)

Thursday 31 July In Gulf of Finland. Up 8.0am. In morning worked on midnight sun. Put Punch in. Nearing Cronstadt. By noon passed 2 English steamers. Took Pilot on board. Funny little man. Kept taking his hat off. Nearing forts. Unnecessarily anxious about photoing. Cronstadt very strong place. Target for gun firing etc. Shots just after us. Past forts right & left. Magnificent Impr yacht. First view of golden dome of St Isaac's. ‘Still over all the golden dome rising out of the water & glittering & twinkling like an orb in the heavens’. Heavy clouds behind. Into a canal after between embankments. Powerful dredger. Corn wharves & lifts. Curious large boats. Into the Nerv. Great manufacturing place. Yachts etc etc. At last anchored near School of Mines. Next Dutch man of war, yacht ‘Iris’ also Impl Grand Duke's yacht, Lady Torfrida, Sir Wm Pierce sold to him. Official on board & interpreter (Danish). One spoke French. Kept their hats on. Explained map. Long wait about & much time lost. Mrs W forbade Admiral to go ashore. At last at 6.30 or 7.0 did so (arrived 3.30). 1st impression of Russia. Droskys. Dirty. Pushed M off pavement. Called Sanderson's office. No one in. Horses, stallions. Walked to P.O.O. No one understood. P.O.O closed. Police all wear swords in leather scabbards reversed. Walked on. 1st view of magnificent Cathedral of St Isaac's. Wonderful. M pointed out old man & saint in cellar. Called at Apothecary's. Difficulty about exchange & old woman examined English sovereign. Back to yacht & dinner. Talk after with Admiral. Mrs W still bad.

Cigar, changed plates & bed. Wooden pavement. Cobbles in centre.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Hexagonal (small drawing) Peasants crossing themselves before churches.

(Red ink across page: Gulf of Finland. St Petersburgh.)

Friday August 1 Palatine. Anchored in Neva, St Petersburg. Up early. Bath. Breakfast. Went with Admiral & Captain (blue suit) to call at Sanderson's office. Not in. Saw English clerk. Went in 2 droskys to Hotel d'Angleterre. B & self, Captain & Water. Got to hotel. Talk with concierge & after manager. Posted letters.

Changed £1.0.0. Americans leaving. Found guide would be black man.

Admiral sent for him. Such a black man. Decided to have carriage. Waited.

Went by self into St Isaac's. Splendid porphory & lapis lazuli & malachite columns. Out by 20 minutes. Same American party & lady & belt. Back. Sat in hotel. Waited for carriage. Came at 12.20. Sent away again. 2 droskys. On to British Consul. Not in. Mr Mitchell. (Went 1st of all from Sanderson's to British Consul & from there to Hotel d'Angleterre.) From Hotel d'Angleterre with Black to Vice Consul on quay. Very civilly received. Got letters. Met Mr Whishaw. Talk. Asked Admiral to go to lunch. Would not. Went with him myself to lunch at Hotel de France. Introduced to Baddeley. Good lunch.

Splendid caviar. Podski. Cigarettes. Large party of Cook tourists. After 3 in drosky to Consulate. Back to boat with Baddeley. Admiral glad to see him. M seedy. Nevertheless all ashore. Met Black. Miss C & M & nigger & self in 2 droskys to St Isaac's. No chairs. No stained glass. Silver tombs. Beggars.

After down the Nevski Prospekt to the Kasan Church. ½ colonnade like St Peter's. Silver tombs. Ladies shut out of altar. Cross with wood from Jerusalem. After to church where Emperor's sword & uniform are kept.

Sword & uniform stained with blood. Outside gates with 3 Turkish cannons.

After to spot where Emperor was assassinated. Chapel being built. After back to quay & on to yacht. Paid Black & told him to be there 9.0am. Time for dinner. Good, & pipe after. Talk with Admiral. Turned in. Did plates. Left port hole open & started sneezing in morning. Flags & keys of cities taken from Swedes (small drawing). (Red ink across page: St Petersburgh.)

Saturday August 2 St Petersburgh. Up 8.0am. Bath in M's cabin. At 10.30am went ashore in dingy with Admiral. Got black man to direct drosky to Museum of Military Equipment inside fortress of Peter & Paul. Drove there. Saw 2 soldiers staggering with guard & drawn sword. Past many royal carriages. Coachmen with cocked hats worn on one side. Others with peacock feathers round. Got to fortress. Difficulty of finding Museum. Paid drosky. Many Swedish & Turkish cannon from 1600 to 1750. Found Museum. Double doors. Canon let in at entrance. Civil conductor. Evil face. Round museum. Small iron 4 headed hooks for cavalry (small drawing). Many breech loading & rifled guns of 16th & 17th century. Breech loader of Peter Gt, 9 shoots. Drummers bombadiers & fusiliers of Peter Gt. Fusilier with red coat & cocked hat like English troops. More pink in coat. Circular mortar battery Empress Elizb 1741. 48 mortars. Canon of Empress Paul. Shot dented it. Great copper cased guns of Emperor Nicholas with top like a coffee mill. Also breech loading cannon. Arms of Nicholas period. Helmets & cuirasses. Helmet exactly like one at home. Above weapons taken from the Turks & Swedes.

Conical caps. Fk Gt. Weapons presented or taken from French. Chinese gun

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 on wooden carriage. Curious gun from Khiva wrapped round with skin.

Chinese mannikin soldier, mounted attendant on Empress Elizabeth. Bow & arrow. Lance (two small drawings) Arrows. Splendid saddle & bridle of Khan Khiva. Portrait & uniform of Emperors Alex Nich & late emperor. English flags & gun George 2nd. Border rifles in section showing working. Paid 60 Ks. Out. Stopped by many sentries. Very hot. Carriage at church. Despair as last out at back. Over bridge. Stopped by police. Over long bridge Irvizka. Hot. Across by Winter Palace. Saw royal carriage & general driving furiously.

Back to yacht at 1.0. Emperor had passed twice in yacht. Went ashore with Miss C in dingy. Called consulate. On to School of Art. Poor sculptures. No pictures new. Out. Hot. Back to yacht. Drunken man on quay, abusive.

Prominent nostrils. (small drawing). Lunch. English clergyman, Mr Forbes called. Talk. Put ashore in his boat. Could not find nigger. About to go back.

Nigger turned up. Ice. Took 2 droskys. Drove P.O.O. & to store for drugs. On to monastery. Long drive. Saw church. Tomb of saint. Erected by Peter Gt. Priest & young priest chanting for Emperor. Sonorous & solemn. Miss C out.

Weary wait to get into library & to see bed of Peter Gt. At last 2.30kr into church. Shadow of saint. Back. Stopped Hotel France. Paid droskys 3.60.

Dismissed nigger. Coffee. Walked to St Isaac's. Lovely singing. Miss C outside. Sailors. Back to yacht. Dinner. No Champagne at dinner. After dinner sat on deck in chairs. Rain coming up. Soft lovely air. Ladies turned in 10.0. Whiskey. Bed 11.0. Very tired. At monastery saw 2 priests salute one another. One touched ground with finger. Then turned back of hand & after kissed him on both cheeks. Also the golden gates open at Cathedral. (Red ink across page: St Petersburgh.)

Sunday August 3 St Petersburgh. Up 8.30, woke 6.30. Miss C going ashore in pouring rain.

Bath in M's cabin. Breakfast, Admiral & self. Pouring rain. Czarina's birthday.

Town en fête. Miss C back at 10.15 after fruitless efforts to find church.

Wrote up diary. Salute fired at 12.0 for Empress's birthday. Cleared up.

Lunched on board. At 2.30 put on shore by dingy. Walked to Academy of Arts & in. Left hat. Russian pictures. Poor. One of Dwarf in Ice House. Man offering fan. Statues. Figure head archer. French school. 187, Dane, de la Roche, Nice 1849, Cromwell & Charles. 208, Gerome's Duel in Snow, Jean Leon Gerome 1857. 157 Vidal, Girl kissing. 265 Meissonier, Smoking. 266.

Meissonier, Man with sword, 1857. Ary Scheffer, Dante sculpture. 1105.

Fawn by Bacco. Out. Walked on to Natural History Museum. 2 beacons with prows of ships sticking out. Wolf's head. Mermaid with wings at prow. Neva widens out, twice size at Fortress. Strolled on to hotel & down (blank) back to hotel. Wrote letters. Had coffee. Posted letters & walked back to yacht. Took boat on board. Quiet dinner & lovely evening after. Smoke on deck.

Revolution Buenos Aires. Fish Soudac. Heaps of pigeons at St Petersburgh.

Sacred bird. Sparrows. (Red ink across page: St Petersburgh.)

Monday August 4 St Petersburgh. Up 8.0am. Bath. Dispute about B's plans. Finally put ashore by gig. Went up. Difficulty in getting past steamer. Steered to opposite Consulate. Called with M & Miss Clarke. Saw 2nd man. Letters for stewards.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 gaiters. (small drawing) Through Egyptian room, Roman, Greek. 176 Head of Minerva by Phideas. Statue of Marius. 229 Idiot. 232 Intellect. 239 Sensuality, Silenus. Wonderful Greek curios found at Knossus. Gold cap in shape of calves head 5 centuries before Christ. Wheat ear in gold. Sphinxs, rams, cockatrix, boars & goats. Through countless rooms of armour like Arabian Knights. All periods of armour & Circassian. 2 Turkish saddle cloths sewn with diamonds, one mauve, 1 blue. Horse trappings in diamonds.

Holster cases etc etc. Armour, X bows. Room after room with Fusils.

Percussion etc etc. Curious pigeon in centre of castle. Greek vases. Bawdy (blank) up above. Poor statues Canova. Magnificent malachite vase. Tables of lapis lazuli. Wonderful pictures. Madonna Conestabile Raphaello, & St George & dragon. Luini Vanity. Titian Danae. Tenniers, Wonnermanns.

Potter. English school. Reynolds, Hercules & snake & Cupid & Venus. 1 Kneller. Rembrandts, Danae, Descent of Cross. 5 Saracens. Van der Werff.

Finished Peter the Great. Staff. Slight moustache. (small drawing of face) Peacock cloak. Gilt. Tired completely out. Met Madame Ceinture all over the place with Black. Walked in hot sun to Hotel de France. Saw Admiral & Baddeley. Ordered lunch. Russian wine from Caucasus & soudac & steak.

Coffee, liquer, 1/3. On to Post after. Lots of letters. Back. Miss C went to National Hist Museum. All back at 4.30 (Went to shop for photos.) Drove to Peter Gt House. Americans. Small house. Chapel crowded with candles.

People kneeling etc. Boat fresh painted. Drove on to Ch of Peter & Paul.

(Continued on piece of paper glued in:) In church tombs of Emperors. Plain marble sarcophigi. Some with flowers & ivy over them. Jewelled icons.

Soldiers. Priest chanting. Church crammed with flags. Search for boat. Drove back to hotel. Droskys wanted rouble instead of 80. Went by self after coffee for walk round bazaar. Bought Maud bangle. Hot. Back to hotel. Stuffy dinner. Shifted to open window. Back to Reading Room. Walked by self to yacht. Ladies followed in drosky. Caught up at 9.0pm. Gig waiting. Back to yacht. Ship coaled today. Admiral. Talk. Whiskey. Read at night. Turned in 11.30. (Piece of paper glued in) Hermitage Palace. Granite figures supporting portal. Effect marred by rights & lefts & no variety. One of them cracked across feet. Nuisance for passports & kopecking attendants.

Egyptian Greek & Roman mostly poor. Roman Jupiter with gilt eagle. Head of Minerva epoch of Phideas(176). Room XV. Statue of Marius very fine. 229 Idiot. 232 Intellect. 239 Several heads. Fine Silenus. Room XIII. The Rertel collection most interesting. Cup as calve's head, 5 cents before Christ. Ears of corn in gold. Sphinx's, rams, cockatrix, boars & goats heads. Collection of armour like Arabian Nights. All periods. Persian suits, Circassian & myriads of weapons. Saddle cloths presented by the Turkish Sultan. 1 mauve & diamonds & 1 blue ditto. Horse trappings & holster cases. Armour, X bows, guns, German & Spanish & Circassian. Percussion etc etc. Wondrous swords, jewelled & in every conceivable form & period. Pigeon in centre of castle. Ceramic arts. Greek vases. Panes erector. Above in vestibule magnificent malachite tables vases etc. Statue by Canova poor. Nymph with sandals. Splendid statue of old man seated in chair. Houdon fecit 1781. Bust of Empress Catherine 1765. Imperious. After pictures. Splendid pair Canalettos. Doge blessing Adriatic. 616 Vandyke, Lord Wharton. Signed Philip Lord Wharton 1632 about ye age of 19. Magnificent in colour. Golden silk cloak. Curious staff with tip like duck's foot. (continued on back of paper)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 609. Vandyke, Charles 1st 1633. Half armour & boots. 610. Henrietta Maria Queen of England about 1638. ps Ant Vandyke. Rubens 586. Rubens like Carlyle. 631. Vandyke like Oscar Wilde. 331. Ribera St Sebastian. 422.

Velasquez. Head of man & Philip of S. Rafaelle. Madonna Conestabile. St George & Dragon on screen. (Guide would not give 5 roubles, £20,000 given for it.) Horse who is it, 17th centy. Luini Vanity. Titian Danae. Dutch pictures, Paul Potter. Curious picture man before animals. Schoolboys (illeg) Tenniers. Wouvermans. English school. Reynolds. Hercules & snake. Cupid & Venus. Kneller. Rembrandt. 5 screens. Descent from X. Danae on bed.

Listening plain woman. Magnificent fleet etc. Van der Werff. Long gallery.

Swords of Paul. Height Peter Gt 6.9. Case casts of head & effigy. Peacock cloak gift. Models of towers etc etc. Home tired. Both days out by guide & kopecked him.

Tuesday August 5 St Petersburgh. Up 8.0am. Bath. Breakfast by self. Ad not up. Miss C on deck. Took M's breakfast in. After pipe etc. Photod two boats. After went on board Dutch man o' war with M & Miss C. Civil officers. Middy like Japaman took us over. 6 Krupp guns. Cool ship. Soup, Captain's cabin. Rifles bright barrels & Charrepot like action. (small drawing) Back to yacht. Got stick on shore with Miss C. Called in on Consul. Not in. Took drosky to Hermitage, could not get in. To Hotel de France. Found out & walked to Museum of Imperial Carriages. Hot. Came across Yankee consul, wife & such bounders.

‘Real cute’. Harness of coronation, Emperor's stuffed horse (Nicholas) Saddle, saddle cloths, etc etc. Magnificent carriages. Diamonds in panels etc. Carriage with explosion behind when Emperor was assassinated. Cane seat. Small carriage belonging to Duke of Edinboro's children. Catherine & Elizabeth carriages. Paintings by Boucher & Watteau. Carriages of suite in solid silver gilt. More diamonds & barbaric splendour. Hot walk back. Lunch.

Introduced to Dobson of ‘Times’. Pleasant talk. Had sturgeon for lunch & chicken & Russian beer. After Dobson & Baddeley walked round the bazaar & bought caps for me. Stroll at back. Got muzzle. Dobson left us. Back to Hotel. Took drosky to Zoo. Poor animals. Fine lions. Adjacent building Monkey House. 2nd rate gardens. Little English boys. Come from Halifax with Captain X. Walked leisurely back past squads of troops. Hair cut. Muffin caps. Grey greatcoats. Walked to Hotel. Got parcel & on to quay. Took boat on board. Mrs W up. Dressed. Dinner on deck. Cold. Greatcoat. Cigar after.

Baddeley dined. Went ashore at 10.30. Stayed up. Talk to Admiral. Mrs W would not say goodnight. Whiskey. Bed 11.30. Fine night. Fresh wind.

‘Semiramis’ screw sch. Steel 703 tons. John Lysaght Esq. 100 A1. +Lloyds M.C. 7.89.

Wednesday August 6 St Petersburgh. Up 8.0am. Wrote up diary. Dark, wrote fast. High hens for break. Shoes. Talk with Captain. Lovely morning. Notes sent in to Mrs Watney. Something must be decided. Went ashore with Barker to Consulate.

Wrote letters & sent £10 to Miss Gill. Came back & lunched on board. At 2.30 carriage at quay for Mrs Watney who went ashore for 1 st time. German interpreter. No room for me. Went to St Isaac's. Saw carriage. Went into church. Mrs W hysterical. Looked round & back to carriage. Let them drive

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 on & stayed. Saw Mr Forbes who put me in the way of mounting to top of St Isaac's. Went up. Met American gentleman & 2 girls at top & brother. Pretty one would run up ladder to see dome. Steps up to Cathedral 209 + 55 + 256 = 520 steps. Glorious view all round. Gilt dome. Statues. Boiler plating like Engine Room round dome. Guide with lantern. Fee 1 rouble. Down again.

Said goodbye to Yankees. ‘Very pleased to have met you’. Walked on to Hotel. Again met carriage. Went in & had tea in cups. Very expensive.

Cakes. Grumbled to head waiter. Shewed Mrs Watney Punch etc. After they went away for drive in carriage. Walked down & got a blue hat for 2 roubles & after to photographic shop & got some peasants, uniforms etc. Walked back or by tram to quay & on to yacht. Put hat on. Dined on deck. Barker upset & declared he would go home. Barges being towed etc etc. Lovely evening. Whiskey. Bed. Man rang bell by hand in Cathedral.

Thursday August 7 St Petersburgh. Beautiful morning. Went ashore early to photo drosky.

Called Consulate. Whishaw not there. His cousin & Brown had drosky into yard to photo it. Bright hot sun. Took 4 views. Kept Barker waiting. After sent camera back & missed Barker. Back to Consulate. Had whisky & soda. Met Mr Alfred H Brown, Naval Architect, 10 Pall Mall S.W. Went on board the ‘Semiramis’. Splendid yacht. Ladies cabins. Large Bedroom berth. Baths.

Photo of Algerian woman. Electric Lights. Rifles. Photo room. Cheery Captain, civil Engineer. Men's berths aft. Whisky & soda. Back to ‘Palatine’.

Got ready to go ashore with Mrs Watney, M, Miss C, Admiral & self. Had carriage & drove to Hermitage. Saw ketch coal. Armour etc & antiques. No pictures. Little Yankee girls there. Turned out & went to Hotel at 2.45. Lunch.

Baddeley with us. Poor lunch. Sundae. After went in carriage to Ch of Peter & Paul. Emperors' tombs again & after to Peter the Great's house. After drove round bazaar. Mrs W got out. Stayed about. Mrs W bought fruit etc etc. Back to yacht at 6.30. Drosky driver discontented. Mr B screwy over kopecks. Dressed & at 7.15 landed at Consulate to dine with Whishaw at (blank) Islands. Drove through lovely park-like grounds to restaurant ‘NA KAMENNY OSTROFF’. Restorant Bell Vu. Cold in mackintosh. Proprietor owed Whishaw 250 roubles. Dinner. Sweet champagne. Had menu. 1st as hors d’ourvres cheeses, gigantic radishes, black bread, sardines, caviare (fresh) lax, sliced ham, crawfish mayonnaise, scotch herrings. Doppel Kummel, Rabbiba or bitters of ash berries, & Kiablina, plain orange bitters.

Vodki. Soup, bisque d'ecrevisse & cakes of cabbage, sonchay of trout & potatoes from Gatchina Palace. Cutlets. Young blackcock. Dessert, Melon, liqueur, cigar. Waited on by Tartar waiters (small drawing) one a prince.

Russian crew rowed past, 4 oar, being coached. Shown a ‘Katarinka’ or rainbow 100 rouble note. After drove to Arcadia. Carmen being played. Band & play, Russian village farce. Polish women walking about, one tremendous Winter Gal. Smoked. Tea. Saw Lord Rosebery's cousin Primrose. Afterwards introduced to Prince Bellakloski. Very handsome. Lame. Uniform of guards.

Red etc etc. Offered horse for review. Whishaw wanted gypsies. Returned & drove at 11.30 back to stage & got on boat at 12.0am. Whiskey & turned in.

Tired. Also went with Mrs W to Guards church. Candle at dinner. (small drawing)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Friday August 8 St Petersburgh. Up 8.0am. Dull morning. To have launch. After breakfast put plates ready & got on board launch at 11.0. M, Miss C & self. Went up river & took 11 photos of buildings etc etc. Back & changed plates & put things in order & dressed. At 2.0 Mr & Mrs Hubbard, Mr Forbes, Whishaw & Mr Baddeley came on board to lunch. Lovely day. Good lunch. Rum, champagne etc. Very good cold beef. Smoke after. Parson etc. All went & came in launch. After at 4.30 went on board boat to go to Peterhof. Saw Imperial yacht building. Ran across. Old couple snoring. Woman with head tied up. Baddeley came with us. Went in carriage with frightfully broken down pair of horses & dirty to Palace of Peterhof. Square pond. Peaceful. Men knocking down firework poles. Gorgeous palace, great gilt angels on top looking four ways. Wooden palings round. Wall reddened lead over coping.

Room full of portraits of Russian peasants. Acres of parquet. Chinese room.

Telescope made by S Nairne, London. Bedroom portrait of Eliz as child nude & Empress. Room railed off. Room after room brocaded. Porcelain mantelpiece. Yellow room. Peter the Gt saving 2 peasants & stilling the storm. Poor picture of visit of Emperor William 1883 in yacht by C Saltmann.

Height of Emperor Paul on door. 1 picture new yacht by A. Beygrow '89.

Fountains playing from window. Huge white room & white clock. Huge Ballroom. Naval battles of 18th century. Concierge at door like Lord Kingsburgh. Double (illeg) gold braid cap & scarlet coat like a beadle (small drawing). Wonderful fountains (small drawing). Fireworks & 2 bands. Back to boat. On board. Dined. Good caviare. Salmon & steak. Wine of Caucasus.

Mrs W enjoyed it. Lovely sunset, orange & yellow, deep blue. Silhouetted ships. Back to stage. Hailed boat & on yacht 9.30. Quiet evening. Whiskey & bed.

Saturday August 9 St Petersburgh. Mr Whishaw came on board at 8.45 whilst I was dressing with note from Prince (blank) for review. Too late. Could not go.

Disappointed. Went afterwards as soon as possible on shore to see him.

Passed Prince Bellaklovski on horseback. Looked astonished not at Review.

Went ashore to Consulate. Gentleman kindly offered to ask about Natural History Museum. Walked with him to it. Told me to give curator 3 rouble note. Went in. Old animals being stuffed. Youth took us round. Saw skeleton of mammoth & hair like tobacco leaves, not wool. Stuffed specimens & new anatomical museum. Specimens of abortions in bottles. Huge elephantian ones etc. Out. Gave him one rouble in silver. Back to consulate. Found Mr B had gone. Back to yacht. Lunch. Mrs W seedy at lunch & insisted on our going ashore without her. At 1.30 went. No carriage. Sent gig back. Took tram on to Hotel. Found carriage had not been ordered. Saw concierge.

Ordered it to go for Mrs W & walked on to the Winter Palace with M & Miss Clarke. Got in. Went round. Most of Palace covered up in cloths. Gold plates.

Battle pictures, Balaclava, Russian war of '77 & pictures by Dawe RA. Long weary tramp round palace. Huge rooms. Civil man spoke German. China.

Very hot. Out at 3.20. Found Mrs W & Admiral waiting. Fat in the fire. Drove after round Islands, Mrs W delighted. Went to the Coffee Pot. Had coffee.

Admiral seedy & smoked & upset. Tartar waiters. Paid for coffee & got proprietor to direct carriage to St Isaac's after tour thro' Islands. Drove there.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Went into church for service. Heard singing with M & Mrs W. Out. Drove to washing shop in Nevski Prospect. Got parcel. Back to yacht. Got boat up.

Barker upset. Dined quietly on board. Winter Palace chapel, hand John the Baptist. Sapphires & diamonds all round. Uncut rubies & sapphires. Shape of (small drawing) round painting unintelligible. Silver candelabra. Pictures.

Advance on Paris Emperor Alex I & French prisoners at Leipzig 1812, also 1 galloping. Peter Gt at Poltava. Many pictures Alex I from 1757, 8, 60, 61 to 83. Turks. Good portrait Savaroff 1869. 12 curious pictures review 1834 with columns. Palma. No cathedral. H.Verret. Napoleon at Fontainebleau. Soldier (retreat Moscow) with green velvet cloak & ermine 1812. Combat cossacks & Polish dancers 1826. Persians 1829. Circassians. Quantities of plate.

Balaclava in dark. Gun present from Emperor Willhelm I. Model of (illeg) 1842. White room 124 steps. Osman giving sword to Alexander leaning on 2 men. (Piece of paper glued in) Many pictures in long gallery of Turkish war 1877. Actions by Sen & Comp. Turk being bayonnetted. Hand to hand combats. Attack up mountains etc & finally Osman Pasha supported by Turk & Russian by arms over shoulders. Osman about 41 or 2. Good likeness of Emperor Alexander returning his sword. Poor collection pottery upstairs.

Awfully close & hot. Gallery of paintings time of Alex I. Good equestrian portrait Alex I by F.Krugar, 1837. George Dawe RA, 1829. Portrait of Wellington. Tired & wearied after Palace. At service St Isaac's saw little bandy legged child & also man & child in arms kissing icons. Little children nibble their candles.

Sunday August 10 St Petersburgh. Up late 8.30. M's cabin. Bath. Out. Put dressing jacket on for breakfast. After changed & at 11.0 went ashore in gig with Mr Barker & M. On to consulate. Left coat sent gig back for it. Carriage on to quay. At 11.15 started for Mr Whishaw's country place, MOURINO. Fine hot morning. Dust.

Over bridges etc. People. Woman examining another's hair like a monkey.

Ladies well dressed without bonnets. Steam train. Roads very bad at sides.

Paved in middle. Green fields. Wooden houses. Dirty people. At 1.30 got to village. Mr Whishaw in flannels & children. Had one horse came in front the other behind. Nice house. Wood floors. Curious old French paper, Francis 1st. Dogs. Water. Good dodge of chaining a dog with block & rope. Lunch.

Curious compound of milk & cream left to get sour & iced. After photod soldiers, gardeners. Spoilt one. Went into village. Peasant woke out of drunken sleep. Children. Girl & pails. Dust & dirt. On & did inn, church & 2 children. Lovely afternoon. Into little neglected churchyard. Tomb to soldier who tried to save his officer. Photod cart & country with children & dog in it.

TROIKA. 3 horses. After was driven with M. Caught clothes line. Back. Tea. Stroll after to Count's house. Boys playing game with bits of wood. Girl dressed up going to village (three small drawings Villagers, MOURINO.) House in ruins. Mr W's uncle was there as a boy. Hill. No rabbits will live.

Hawks & foxes. Ice house. Pole cats steal meat etc. 2 large ice houses.

Dinner. Deutz & Goldermann. Stories of bears etc. Wolves. Fish. Great trout to be caught. Grouse, a sort of ptarmigan shot. Lots of hares. In afternoon came across Keeper lying down. Whishaw turned him over. Took his money.

'Oh John, son of William, forgive me by God.' Shewed his notes. Flowers.

Pens. Back in drosky. Long drive home. Lights etc. On to landing stage.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Hailed Palatine. Took shore boat. Back 10.40. Whiskey. M's cabin xx. Bed 12.45am.

Monday August 11 St Petersburgh. Up latish. Very tired in morning. M's cabin. M stayed in bed for breakfast. After at 10.0 got ready for shore. Mr Whishaw came on board for cartridges. Took some ashore. At 11.10 got off in boat for Hermitage. Bad news. Not going to start tomorrow. Mrs W not well. Went by tram to Nevski Prospect. Hotel. Read Times. Changed note. On to Hermitage for 2nd time.

Peter the Great. Met American party. Small boy from Providence, same age exactly as Roy. Same round. Splendid Van Dykes. M & Miss C tired at 1.30.

Went out. Sent ladies by drosky, came self by tram. On board. Lunch. Mrs Watney on deck. Wrote diary. At 4.0 after waiting about went ashore with Mr B to British Consulate with 30 cartridges in pocket. B left his coat. Back.

Landed. Eddies by wharf. At Consulate posted 2 letters & after went to play lawn tennis at Mr Whishaw's. Fast horse in drosky. Rain came on. On to Mr W's. Nice house built of pinewood. Funny little dog. 2 little girls. Played 2 sets of tennis. Whisky & S. Rain. Talk of golf. Duty on whiskey 2 roubles a bottle, Champagne 8 roubles a bottle. Left at 7.15. Back to St Petersburgh with basket of flowers. Left yachting cap at W's. Mr W wired for it at Consulate. Walked to landing stage. 20 kopecks to yacht. Had bath. ‘Miss C cruel & inconsiderate.’ Miss C decided to leave for London. Dinner.

Champagne. Talk on deck after. Ships loading with grain like guns. Whiskey.

Bed 11.0.

Tuesday August 12 St Petersburgh. Up 8.30. Bath. Dull morning. Not quite well. Breakfast. R before better news. Gun going in distance. M & Miss C went ashore for museum, Barker also. Sat down & wrote up diary. Took 1½ hours. Also wrote Ayala & Barker & Miss G. After at 12.45 went down to change things & stayed in cabin. Heard Margery Daw say the wall was broken down. Went on deck 1.30. Saw great commotion. The ‘Lady Torfrida’, Grand Duke Alexis Ad'l in chief of the Russian Navy. Captain had driven her ashore, nose on.

Great smash to bows. Left ½ Lady Torfrida & tambourine in brass gilt on shore. Gig came with Ad'l. Rowed round smash. After to shore for M & Miss C. Looked at damage to wall, great pieces of stone thrown about like skittles.

Ad'l stole Miss C's photos. Back to yacht for lunch. Good lunch. Cold beef & pudding. Felt better. After lunch finished letters. Whishaw came on board to say goodbye to Mrs W. Rain came on. Cigarettes aft. Mrs W smoked one.

Commiserated by W. Filled pocket with cartridges & went ashore with W, Barker & self. Round Torfrida again. Landed near bridge. Took cartridges ashore. Little Swede in office. Whiskey & soda. Saw mutilated Punch & letter from F.C.B. After W took me to have hair cut. Rain came on. Had shirt put on. Careful hairdresser. Horse clippers & moustache curled. Powder puff & brilliantine. Ears cleaned. Goodbye W. Walked in rain to Gazlinitza Francie.

Looked at Peter Gt's statue en route. Big ball, snake twisted & rough stones all round. After went to photographer's shop. Bought Peter Gt & droskeys etc etc. Looked nudes. No good. Tram home. (Small piece of paper glued in: St Isaac's & rainbow, lovely sight.) Glorious rainbow with St Isaac's lighted up between it. Double rainbow & very vivid colours. Nearly fell off tram. Foxy

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 looking Russian woman. Again inspected wall & back in boat to yacht. Lost 20 copecks. Changed coat. Dinner. Good. Still felt seedy with diarrhoea.

Sleepy & seedy after. Decided not to go on shore. Cigar from Adml. Turned in 11.0. After put away & changed plates till 12.0 & read. Sleep 1.0am.

Began Daisy Miller. Felt seedy, great clear out.

Wednesday August 13 St Petersburgh. Very sleepy in morning. Up 8.15. Bath in M's cabin. Great clear out. Late breakfast. At 10.30 2 Whishaws & Mr Brown came on board & took rest of cartridges. W paid me £3.10.0 for case & cartridges. 200 went ashore. Goodbye to Wishaws. Had doubts about wind. Fresh S.W.wind bad for us. Read ‘A story half told’. Got under weigh at 11.0 sharp Russian time.

Turned dingy left astern. Turned round easily. Steamed away through canal.

Hooded crows. Dull morning. Mrs W on deck at noon. On to Cronstadt.

Wrote diary & changed plates. Passed over fisherman's nets at head of canal. Russian swearing. Long straight canal to C. Tall chimney. Man o' war that went out of harbour opposite to us. Photod forts etc, 5 or 6. Saluted by Russian ironclad. Took Pilot on board at C as far as Lundon Light. Large ironclad lying outside of Cronstadt. Photod it. Foolishly missed photoing Russian torpedo boat wh rushed past within range. On to Sena. Dropped Pilot at London Light after lunch. Sat on deck. Cloud came on & heaviest rain ever saw. Clouds of insects before it. A dragon fly, bee & butterfly carcass found afterwards. Took camera down to captain's cabin. After cleared up & lovely afternoon. At 4.0 went down to M's cabin & got to work again after a fortnight's delay. Put in sailors & Lapps of luxury. Break off for tea on deck.

Worked till dinner time. Last of St Petersburgh. Did not see dome over water.

Dinner quiet & good. Still had diarrhoea all day. Better at night. Cigar & walk after. Mrs W dined on deck. Quiet evening. Ladies turned in at 10.0. Clock altered 20 minutes slower. Sat in chair on deck. Beautiful mild evening. Bed 11.0am. Read a little. Very tired. St Petersburgh same latitude as south of Shetland.

Thursday August 14 At sea. Gulf of Finland. Up 8.0am. M's cabin. M up. Bath. Breakfast 9.0am.

Walk on deck. Miss C sore throat. Finished story by Jessop ‘A story half told’.

Got to work again 11.0am till 1.30. Lunch. Good. Smoke after. Mrs W not so well. Hornet on canvas. Cleaning itself. How got there? Lovely day. Hot sun.

Sea like oil. Worked all afternoon till 7.15. Lovely smooth sea. Out after.

Again saw hornet & curious moth. Put it in chart case. Captain knocked hornet off into Engine Room after which he disappeared (small drawing).

Dinner. Black things did not dress. Mrs Watney dined for 1st time. Quiet evening. Smoke after & walk to look at stars. Ship almost motionless.

Whiskey. Went into M's cabin x. Bed at 11.30pm.

Friday August 15 At sea in Baltic. Up 8.0am. Bath in M's cabin. M & self. Ship moving & fresh wind right ahead. Mrs Watney not so well. Poor breakfast. On deck after. No smoke. Sat about. Photod 2 M & 3 of waves. Felt seedy after. Ship pitching.

Seedy for 1st time on trip. Lasted all morning. Got M brandy & water & biscuits. All right by lunch time. Good lunch. Leg of mutton. Mrs W at lunch.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 After at 3.0 got to work & worked all afternoon with yacht pitching. M lying down. After cleared a little as we got off Gottland about 4.0pm. Sent M on deck for air. M sat on bridge wrapped up & talked to Mrs W. Tea. Work. At 7.15 found they had decided to anchor. Ran in before dinner to place called Ljugarn. Small boat with 2 Swedes in uniform put off. One with brass buttons & gold lace. Came on board. Did not dine till 8.40pm. Clock put back. Good dinner. At rest. Very sleepy after. Went to bed tired at 11.0pm.

Saturday August 16 Ljugarn, Gottland. Woke up lovely sun. Out at 8.0 in M's cabin. Bath. Took photo. Good breakfast. Fresh egg, milk & tongue. Wind still fresh. Under weigh 10.0am. Swedes again on board. Got to work. Started away. Worked on drawing. Put in sailors etc & sun. Wind got round a little & made more progress. Set sail. After dinner lightning came up & very dark. Sat on deck. In for a bad night, glass falling. Captain did not like look of it. Turned in 11.15.

Rocking about. Goodnight to M. Running from Gottland to Island 70 miles.

Sunday August 17 At sea in Baltic. Turned out at 5.0am or earlier. Rocking about. Strong wind ahead. Saw sun over horizon. Blue sea & great sea horses. Went down to cabin & got to sleep again until 8.0am. Kept M in her cabin & took her breakfast to her. Found that Captain had altered course & run to mainland owing to strong wind & being unable to make any way. Decided to run for Karlscroner. Lovely morning. Great wind. Long time beating in to Karlscrona.

Did so at last about noon. Got in to smooth water. Told M to get up. Past fort & on slowly to K. Anchored round point at 1.30. Lunch. Lovely day. Yachts boats about & steamer with band. One man in boat got upset. Men swimming. Pipe after & in trying to jump on sail well with cushion knocked my head on boom. Knocked clean down. Nasty pain. Nearly stunned. Rolled over. M & Pomade de Vine. Lay on deck covered up. After ½ an hour got to work & did drawing. At 5.30 boat ordered for shore. Rowed in over roughish sea. Miss C, M & self, Admiral, Miss Evans & boy. Landed in beautiful clean little town. Grass plats, wide streets cobblestoned & broad granite edges.

Marine sentries or sailors. Saw young naval officer. Kindly accompanied us through town. Admiral in chemist shop. On to church. Saw funeral. Hearse with flowers. Many men (illeg) in hats. Girl in grey. All took off their hats to her & then swept into church 5.50pm. Too late for post. Went to hotel. Got stamps & posted letters home. Back thro' town. Girl with black eyes. Sentry with curious sentry box (small drawing). Old gentleman in naval uniform & white whiskers. Back to boat. Lookers on. Rowed back to yacht. Had dinner.

Changed shirt, felt damp & re-changed it after. Cigar after & self & Admiral read Lady Baby. Turned in at 11.15. Put in sky in drawing before lunch.

Steady at anchor.

Monday August 18 Karlscrona, Sweden. Up early & worked on drawing. Dull morning. On deck.

Decided to start. Wind gone down. At 9.0am got under weigh. Fleet of 4 small brigs sailed out with Lieut (blank) on one of them. Took photos of them.

Also of Fort. Got outside. Misty & sea quite smooth. Went on with drawing in morning & put things in. Shewed it to Mrs W. Good mutton for lunch. Still dull

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 & very close. Birds on board. One flew into smoke & suffocated. The other stopped long time & finally flew away off to coast. Sealed up drawing & put drawing materials away. No wind at all. All flapping. Mrs W on deck house & Admiral reading Lady Baby. Cigarettes. Walk with M before dinner. Good dinner, leg of Swedish mutton. After cigar came on so dark & hazy Captain sounded whistle. Gradually slowed up & anchored in small bay out of course of vessels for the night. Captain much puzzled could not see lights. Sat up on upper deck. Whiskey after & bed 11.30. Read for long time, ‘A Reversal of Six’. Sleep 12.45am. At rest. Put on last white shirt from London for dinner.

Tuesday August 19 Smyge Point. Roy's birthday. Up on deck 7.50. Still at anchor. Ought to have got under weigh at 5.0am for Copenhagen. Started 8.30am. Dull heavy wet morning. Good breakfast. Broiled ham. Pipe in deck house. Ran into heavy thunderstorm. Flashing lightning. Birds flew on board & hawk. Hawk left in an hour. Torrents of rain. Wrote letters. Cleared up. At 12.0 passed steamer sunk by collision. Masts sticking up. Gradually steamed into Copenhagen.

Fine Austrian squadron anchored. Smell in harbour. At 4.30 went ashore with M & Miss C, Admiral. Drove fly to Post Office taking bag. Heaps of letters.

Very wet. Saw Danish soldiers marching. Back to yacht. Victoria tourists.

Crowd on pier to see us off. Back to yacht. Read letters. Nothing in them.

After told Mrs W should leave yacht. Did not like it. Took photo of harbour at 7.30pm. Dressed. Dinner. Dull evening. Mrs W had boxes locked up.

Changed plates after dinner & got things ready to pack up.

Wednesday August 20 Copenhagen. Up early. Packed up things & cleared up cabin. Breakfast 8.15.

Admiral went ashore with Miss C. Arranged for cheque. Took photo of him in gig. Went on packing. Got things cleared away. Mrs W up. Exceedingly disagreable to M & self about packing. Thought I had lost £1.0.0 . Unpacked & found it. Got all things packed. Words with Mrs W about Russian caps.

Went ashore at 12.0. Mrs W went. Called Hansen's office. Found £1.0.0 to pay for plates. Great bother about taking them on board. Mrs W a nuisance.

Hung about. Called Forbes(?) about provender & on to Hotel d'Angleterre.

Men wanted 4 kroners, gave them 3. Goodbye to Mrs Watney. Hurray! M & self at Hotel. Had lunch & stroll after. Bought photos. Tea etc etc. Back. Saw rat with paper at WC. Absinthe. Party outside Hotel. Dined table d'hote & sat out after. Had fly & got away 7.0pm. Took tickets to London. Dispute about ticket for London. Got in train all right. Exceedingly pretty girl in next carriage with youth having ears sticking out. Got seats out & M went to sleep. Woke up at 11.30 at Konsor. Rush for boat. On board down into cabin & sat down in corner. After resting had supper. Pretty girl eating shrimps & ham. M dozed. Cigar on deck. Cold. Talk with American. Down. Got to sleep about 12.30am. Dozed uncomfortably & woke up cold. Ought to have had ulster.

Thursday August 21 On board Danish boat, from Konson to Kiel. Woke 4.0am. Had coffee.

Carried bags up on deck & got ashore at Kiel 5.0am. Bags examined.

Caught train 6.0am. Good W.C. Bled very much. Travelled on to Hassburgh.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Man in train told us we ought to change. Arrived Hassburgh 1.30am. Could not make out about train. Swedish baron put us right. Young American cad.

Bad coffee & biscuits. Changed money. Waited about & walked about. Got off at 2.5. Not so good a carriage. All together. Another Swede got in. Man & tuft on his bonnet & pretty wife. Travelled all day. Baron aghast at price of my bag. Gave cigarettes. Weary journey. Not very interesting country. Rush for dinner. Goodbye to Baron. Resumed journey. On, on, past Dutch frontier.

Funny little dog. On to boat at 10.0pm. Great crush. Awkward for berth. Got No 32 at last. Down below. Very uncomfortable. Dark & wretched. Poor dinner. Large nosed stewards. Lady by herself complained of taking chicken away. Made a meal. Back to cabin. Drank rest of champagne. Cigar on deck.

Into Smoking Room. Whiskey & soda. Great dispute between young & old American. Young one like Warner. American & English lick the world. ‘Yes sir!! I've been around a little’. Got tired. Turned in to bed (what a bed) at 12.30am. & slept uncomfortably & dreamt & heard people sick all round.

Friday August 22 On board Dutch boat, crossing from Flushing to Queensboro'. Woke at 3.0.

German sick in next cabin. Out at 4.30. Wash & clean up as well as could.

On deck. Stormy morning. Man asleep in Smoking Room. Coffee. Woke M up. Dressed & got bags on deck. Got sailor to carry bags. Woman with bag & parcel. Arrived Queensboro' 6.0am. Hand bags examined. No trouble. Wired off. Into train with one other couple. Staring woman. Arrived Victoria 7.15am.

No trouble with luggage. Cab. Man with silk hat. Home at 8.30am. Dear Chicks well. Letter from F.C.B. Worry. Put things in order by lunch time. After developed 3 photos of Russian Drosky driver. Got to work & did Gladstone & Rabbit. Letter from F.C.B to say he'd come to dinner. Great rush to get done.

Finished 8.15. F.C.B came at 8.30. Good dinner. 2 bottles '74 wine, one still.

M tired, bed 11.0. F.C.B went 11.30. Fell asleep in chair till 3.0am. M came down & fetched me up.

Saturday August 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast. Put things in order in morning. Ordered cart. Wet came on, changed to carriage. At 12.30 Roy & self got off. Called Lambs’, Savoy Theatre, Rules & Hobbs. Left coat at Hobbs. Called Club. All shut up. Called Welbys, on to Covent Garden & lunched at Rules. Steak too small. Had lobster, good. Ordered yellow Chartreuse. Danish waiter. On to Savoy. Saw ‘Gondoliers’. Girl danced splendidly. Carriage met us after. Miss G, Roy & Maud home. Called Walls. Had Turkish Bath. Cab home. Dinner.

Fanny Barker dined. Good dinner. Sleepy after. Bad horse in cab for Fanny Barker. Bed 11.0.

Sunday August 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Ordered Marquis. Breakfast. Sausages. At 10.15 rode Marquis to Richmond & Wimbledon. Could not get him through pond. Called King's Head. Glass Beer. Got very wet. Home. Lunch.

Developed photos. Unfortunately let box drop & broke 10 beauties. Tea. Wrote diary & letters. Developed plates etc. Mervyn called. Dined quietly at home & bed early after.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Monday August 25 Stafford Terrace. In morning cleared up & developed a lot of plates. Lunched at home. After in afternoon Roy & self went to Stores. Got many things.

Roy's cricket shirts etc etc under vests & also cartridge case & 300 cartridges. Ices & chocolate. Cab (bad one, 1/-) to Lambs'. Had Roy measured & self also. Took cab home. Called Crafts & back to Kensington.

Dined quietly at home & quiet evening after with M. Bed early.

Tuesday August 26 Stafford Terrace. In morning developed many plates & cleared up. In afternoon Maud & Roy by carriage to Military Exhibition. Heavy rain came on.

Saw stupid Cricket match between clowns & niggers. Shot at Indian Gallery.

Bad ices & worse chocolate. Performing clock, pictures etc. Back by cab in rain. In evening went in cab to 2nd night of Captain Theresa(?) Poor girl in principal part after Agnes Huntingdon. Florence Walford went with M. Mervyn came after. Left before end of 3rd act. Cab home. Cabman gave me change for 5/-. Snack & bed.

Wednesday August 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dressed in black. Took cab at 9.55 & down to Victoria. Got there 10.15. Met Sir Edgar Boehm, Mr Holmes, Conrad, Eddy Boehm, Kingscote, Gilbert, Guscott & self for Lady Boehm's funeral. Only one without black gloves. Down to Dorking. Fine morning. Talk to Guscott about Eton for Roy. Long drive to church past Blackbrook with Mr Holmes.

Saw Effie, Georgie & Floss at church. Service. Back to station. No lunch.

Ran over to hotel & got biscuits & sherry. Hot sun. Talk to Boehm & Gilbert about food & egg. Back to Victoria. Ham & bread & butter. Uncomfortable lunch. Walked with Con to Turkish Bath. Had bath. Saw Heilbuth. Called Lambs' & had suit tried on. Took cab after, round by Regents Pk. Drove to Punch Dinner, 1st dinner since June 18 (10 weeks). Missed 9 weeks.

Tenniel, F.C.B, Reed, Bradbury, Arthur & Milliken. Talk of Russia. Drove home in carriage with Reed. (Red ink across page: This is the last time I saw Sir Edgar Boehm. Little thought it at the time.)

Thursday August 28 Stafford Terrace. In morning got to work. Did Phyloxera. Letter from F.C.B saying no subject. Sent Roy & Miss Gill to Lambs'. Roy in afternoon went with Jolley to Kennington Oval to Cricket match. Back at 6.45. Sent Marquis out. Finish drawing at 8.30. Sent it off. Dined. Chicks down. Bed 11.30pm.

Friday August 29 Stafford Terrace. At work in morning & all day on Grouse drawing. Swain sent after to say Editor had cartoon down as well as the 2 cuts. Bothered.

Finished at 5.0pm. Tea. Drove up at 5.45 in carriage to 54 Bedford Gds. Saw Abbey & his wife for 1st time since their marriage. Long talk. Back home. M there from her mother's. Dined. Roy & Maud as well. Cigar after. Strange dream in chair after, very vivid. Forget what it was, about a lion. Woke up & went to bed 12.0am.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Saturday August 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Put things straight. All photos away etc & printed Russian & Stockholm ones. Packed up others. Wrote letters.

Sent Miss Gill & Maud to Stores. Lunch. After at 3.0 had dog cart & drove with Roy to Olympia. Good skating rink. Roy tumbled down & got very black.

Stayed 1½ hrs. Annoyed at Jolley waiting. Mistake with Roy. Sent him to tailors. After home in cart. Tea. Changed. Bath. Packed things. Miss Gill took Roy to Dr Orton's. New things home from Lambs’. Got dressed & packed.

Dinner. Mervyn there. Bottle Pol Roger. Dined well & drove in cart with Jolley to Euston. Caught 6.50. Jupp civil. Bought Scribner. In train. Slept at 10.0pm.

Took collar off. Felt very cold in the night. Woke up once or twice.

Sunday August 31 On train to Scotland. Woke at 7.30. Washed etc. Past Stirling & Wallace Monument. At 9.30 Perth. Saw Foot. Great hurry. No time for breakfast, train 1hr late. Foot got into my coupé. Pleasant chat. On by train to Inverness. No lunch at Forres. Everything shut. Shared lunch with Foot. Quite enough.

Whiskey & soda at Inverness. Into Highland Railway. Dozed along. Read Review of Reviews. Got to Rogart all right, 1¾ hrs late. Up to Tressady 6.15.

Found all on lawn. No gun arrived. Wrote off & sent key. Wrote M. Dressed & dinner at 8.0pm. Good claret. Whist after, lost 6d. Ryle, Vernon, Claude, Richards (Wenkum), Harry Newton, Cobbold, self, Foot.

Monday September 1 Rogart. Up 8.0am. Found candles burning. Won't do. Bath. Breakfast. Found that nails stuck through boot. Annoyed. Had to change them. Down. 3 groups photod. Goodbye to Claude. Walked up home beat, Vernon, Foot & self.

Harry Newton lent me gun. Very good. Got grouse. Gun would not open.

Began to rain. Very wet. Put mackintosh on. Off again. Round by Ryle's hut.

2 pictures. Lunch after. Birds shy & wild. 8 brace, 2 brace snipe 4 hares.

Home 5.30. Saw Newton marking out Golf course. Foot done up. Had tea.

Bath. Wrote letters & diary. Slight diahorrea. Down to dinner. Arrival of Hobhouse. Good dinner. Champagne. News after that Richards (Wenkum) had shot a dog. Gloom. Cobbold left dinner with diahorrea. Cards after. Lost 1/-. Bed 11.30. Read Withered Arm. Woke 2.15. Bad dream, could not fly away from Vanity Fair.

Tuesday September 2 Tressady. Up 7.45. Got Hobhouse's bath. Down to breakfast. Cobbold & Richards diahorrea. Read Hardy's Stories of Wessex. Got to work 10.15am.

Skemed picture & drew all day. Lunch by self. Plenty of everything. Finished drawing & had it sent off specially at 8.0pm. Swedish girls & Punch. Dr Martin arrived in time for dinner. Handsome old man. Rather seedy at dinner & low. Whist after. Lost 5/-.

Wednesday September 3 Tressady. Up 8.0. Bath. Breakfast. Vernon & Dr Martin went to shoot.

Worked in morning on dining at Hacklebacker & after lunch on Swedish Policeman. Several at lunch. Finished drawings & sent them off 7.30pm.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Dressed. Dinner. Very good. Sat next Ryle. Whist after. Good night, won 3/6 from Vernon & 4/-. Read Wessex Tales of Hardy. Very good.

Thursday September 4 Tressady. Up 8.0am. Bath. Srambled through breakfast & got a drawing done. Self at ‘Pick me up’. Sent it off. At 10.0 started to shoot with Foot & Cobbold. Rode grey pony, Foot on chestnut. Long ride to commence shoot.

Fine day & good sport, 22½ brace. Good lunch. McKenzie killed adder. Black underneath. Left off about 6.0 & rode home by 7.15. Dryhurst met us at top of hill. Vernon. Found letters from M & wire about Burnand not being at Bouverie St. Wrote letters. At 8.15 dressed. Particularly good dinner. Turtle soup, Champagne. Dr Martin upstairs. Carried down to Smoking Room.

Whist after. Lost 3/-.

Friday September 5 Tressady. Up 8.10am. Bath. Lucky. Woke with flem on chest & sore.

Breakfast. Foot, Dryhurst, Cobbold, Richards, Hobhouse, Black Angus went off fishing at 9.25 in break. Took Kreutzer Sonata & went off down to burn to read. Stood about for 2 hours after reading (bosh). Came back & wrote letters till lunch. Architect round with Vernon. Changed things after lunch & played 2 & 3 double sets of Lawn Tennis. Won 2 & lost 3. Good games. Sun in eyes. Letter from M. Dr Martin looked on. Whiskey & milk. Bath. Dressed.

Spoke to old woman at cottage about her daughter. Dinner. Took Champagne & whiskey after for last time. Go Bang tournament. Beaten by Richards. Lost 3/6 whist.

Saturday September 6 Tressady. Woke up feeling really ill with cold on chest. Congestion very bad.

Bath. Doubts as to going shooting. Finally all went to walk the Craig na Fair.

Breaks & omnibus. Felt ill. Wrapped up & went with Newton, Vernon, Richards & Dept. Lost 2/6 at whist in trap. Saw ‘Watney Rock’. On to shoot.

Guns Vernon, self, Newton, Cobbold, Foot, Hobhouse. Richard, Dept & Ryle walked. Started & walked for 25 minutes before a bird got up. Felt seedy & did not shoot well. Walked to lunch 1.15. Shot behind. Wrapped up. Very seedy. Walked long tramp after. Dept rode pony. Very much done up & exhausted. Got to Murray's cottage at 6.15pm. Milk. Milk & water & whiskey & milk. Home by omnibus. No letter from M. Had bath. Down to dinner.

Careful what I took. Whist after. Lost 6/-. Bed & put mustard leaf on. Lemon squash.

Sunday September 7 Tressady. Woke quite early & read ‘Swallow's Wing’. Bath. Out in sun & stroll up to Kitchen garden. Eat gooseberries. Down at 10.0am to breakfast. Dept had been to the burn. Felt very weak & seedy after. Awfully hot, changed coat. Read ‘Life & Death’ after. Got into hammock & read Heroditus etc.

Vernon came & talked & Foot in tree. Lunch. Table groaned. After back to hammock & smoke cigar of Cobbold's. Read ‘50 years on trail of Heroditus’.

Tea outside. Photod. Tortoise race. Bowls. Went up to see Golf played.

Heavenly evening. Ryle went back for letters. Letter from M & from Brightmore to say F.C.B ill in bed. Went back & wrote letters. Dressed.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Dinner. Claret. Told about Stanley after. Final of Go Bang. Dept played. No whist. Bed 11.30. Read Rudyard Kipling till 1.0pm. Slept comfortably.

Monday September 8 Tressady. Up at 8.5. Bath. Shave. Down to breakfast 8.15. Felt still very seedy with cold. Out after. Heavy dew. Cigarette. Read Rudyard Kipling's 'Black & White'. At 10.40 Cobbold left in omnibus with Ryle for paint & Dr Martin. Up in room & wrote diary. Sent boots off. Went down & lay in hammock till lunch time, reading The Field & Margio's ‘Crucifix’. Lunch, Dr Martin, Foot, Dryhurst, self & Newton.. After felt weak & seedy. Went & lay on hammock & on sofa in Drawing Room until 3.30. Foot & self played Dryhurst & Newton at Golf. Won 4 holes to 1. Hit ball well. Back for letters & tea. Headache came on very bad at dinner & after. Very careful what I took at dinner. No Champagne, no whiskey. Smoked cigarette. No cards. Dr Martin gave me a pill to take. Bed 11.30. Read ‘A terrible responsibility’. (Red ink across page: This night at 11.0 Sir William Gordon Cummings cheated at cards at Tranby Croft, Arthur Wilson's place at Hull. Afterwards known as the Baccarat case. Saw the jury give verdict against him on Tuesday June 9 1891.)

Tuesday September 9 Tressady. Woke by repeater 3.17. Still splitting headache & tossed about, sleep after. Up 8.0am. Frightful tongue & 2 spots on chin. Very seedy. Bath.

Breakfast. Stroll after. Tortoises lethargic. Hobhouse haemorrhage in lungs.

Dryhurst's jersey. Martin, Richards, Foot & Dryhurst went to Lairg. Vernon & Newton went to loch. Talk with Ryle after about yacht. Hobhouse & Ryle to paint. Pipe. Began to work. Worked in morning & sketched out drawing of drosky driver. Down to lunch. After took book to read in Smoking Room.

Dozing until 5.0pm. Letters from à B & F.C.B. None Marion. Wrote after & went up & played a round with Vernon at Golf. Lost & won. The ‘TEE’, play the ‘Odd’, play the ‘Like’. Back. Wrote letters. Party late from fishing. Not back till 8.0pm. Dressed. Moderate dinner. Smoke. Whist after. Lost 2 rubbers, 3/6. Drew for sweep, ‘Surefoot’. (Red ink across page: 2nd night of Sir William Gordon Cummings cheating. Exposed before the Prince of Wales at Tranby Croft.)

Wednesday September 10 Tressady. Up 8.10. Bath. Still bad tongue & not well. Decided not to shoot.

Richards took my place & Vernon, Richards & Newton went off. Worked at sketch of Ryle for ¾ hour. Felt very weak & broke out. Did sketch. Came in & went on to work for Punch. Did 2 drawings. Soldiers & Bellman's Bust. At 6.30 went for walk down drive to meet Foot who had been fishing. Saw Dryhurst, Ryle & Hobhouse, & rabbits. Letter from M, Miss M etc etc. Dinner.

Claret only & plain soda after. Won at Whist. Boil on chin very painful all day. Won 7/- Whist.

Thursday September 11 Tressady. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Grey suit. At 10.30 Played Dryhurst at Golf.

Beat him easily 58 all round 6 holes. Back & changed things putting on pantomime stockings. After saw match between Fort & Vernon. Lunch after.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Match between Richards & Newton. Richards round in 45 & giving me 18, I won the match. A hollow one, no money. Won 2/- from Dryhurst & Vernon. At 3.30 Barrel arrived. Lawn tennis after. Foot & self won 2 sets against Ryle & Dryhurst. Single with Vernon & me set Vernon & self against Barrel (Thring) & Dryhurst. Lost it. Brandy & soda. Dinner. Whist. Lost 6/-, 2 rubbers. Boil burst at noon & painful. Cough bad. Put mustard leaf on. (Red ink across page: This day Rosa Hornsby born, 1907 model.)

Friday September 12 Tressady. Up 8.0. Bath. Cheek painful. Got ready for shooting. Wrote wire off for M. Left 9.30 for Brook, Vernon, Barrel & self. V & B walked up hill. Cloudy in morning but lovely day & enjoyed it. Cold took a turn. Sleep in the sun after lunch. Home at 7.0. Bath. No wine. Fire & dried things. Good dinner.

Took Champagne. Whist after. Wire from M. In doubt what to do. Played 3 rubbers, Vernon & self against Dryhurst & Hobhouse. Won 1 st, treble treble, second treble double, 3rd hard fight. Won it but Vernon omitted to count honour & passed. Lost. Should have been 1 point more. Lost by 5 points.

Very sharp practice & very much annoyed. Won 4/6 whist.

Saturday September 13 Tressady. Up 8.0. 2nd bath. Dressed for shoot. Felt really better for 1st time.

Boil on cheek going down. Breakfast. Porridge, eggs & bacon, chop & boiled egg. Put boots on. No W.C. All started at 9.45. Dryhurst (in straw hat) & Hobhouse went off to Goldspie together. Sent 2 wires with them. Dr Martin on pony. Walked up past Golf ground & began on hill to shoot. Martin, self, Richards, Newton, Barrel & Vernon guns. Plenty of hares & birds. Blazing hot. Awful sweat. Martin on horse again. Got into bog & came off. Angus pulled him away. Ass of 2 boys, no good. 2 birds down & got away. Marched on in blazing sun to lunch. All together by wretched (illeg). Stagnant water.

Good lunch & rest after. Left Martin sleeping. On again in sun. Faced breeze.

Turned round. Awfully hot. Drank 3 times in burn. On, on. Rest for soda etc at 4.30. Welcome spring. Set fire to heather. Ryle & grasshopper. On again at 5.0. Long tramp other side of burn on by wire fence & came out by burn at bathing place. Good day & shoot. 28 brace, 47 hares etc etc. Vernon shot hawk on the lawn. No letters. Welcome tea. Breakfast cup twice. Bath. R(?) rather. Changed things. Fire. Rest. Letters. Dinner. Good. Champagne.

Enjoyed it. Whist after. Lost 4/- Won 3/- Lost 2/6. Settled for Golf tomorrow.

Bed twelve. Read ‘Times’. Lost 3/6.

Sunday September 14 Tressady. Up 9.0am. Bath. Out & found gooseberries & raspberries. Had been heavy wet. Back. Breakfast 10.0am. At 11.15 played round golf with Dept. Beat him but 6 holes more than on Thursday to get round. Self 48.

Lunch. Wrote letters. Golf all day. Last match between Ryle & Martin after tea. Letters came. 3 from Pollie, 1 from Capisthorne, 2 from Glossop. Wrote many letters. Sent sketch. Put things away. Dinner. Lovely hot day. Dressed.

Clean W.W. Good dinner. Whist after. Lost 3/-, 2/6, 1/6, 7/- lost. Talk pipe.

Bed 12.30am. Made mistake at Whist table. Oh. £1.1.0 lost at cards.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Monday September 15 Tressady. Up 7.30. Dept knocked at door. Lovely morning. Gave up bathing & packed bags & portmanteau. Down breakfast. Put on grey suit. Good morning etc. Goodbye. 3 cigars. Grouse. Lunch. Books. Got away 10.30am.

Ryle, Hobhouse & Dr Martin going. Walked half an hour on platform. Talk of Tabs etc. Off. Curious people. Girl & man smoking & other in velvet coat got out & into another carriage. Hobhouse & self & 2 boys went on to Inverness.

Hot lovely morning. Lunch. Claret, grouse. Long journey to Perth. Goodbye to Hobhouse. Plate of soup & walk about. After got carriage to self. 2 other people got in at Stirling & went as far as Crewe. Annoyed. Rest of journey by self. Finished dinner & smoke & got uneasily to sleep.

Tuesday September 16 On board train. Woke up 7.30. Nearing Euston. Wash & read Glossop letters. Euston 8.15. Home by cab. Not many letters. Bath. Breakfast & brush up. At 12.0 had cart & drove & took plates to Groves & called Lewis & Allenby. Saw McCleskey. On to Club. Lunch. Saw Jones Evans & Hawley Smart. Drove cart self. On to Waterloo. Caught 2.25. Down to Ch Ch. Talk with one of directors of Union Line about Southampton strike. Changed Brockenhurst. After got to Ch Ch. Court met me. Called Harts about birds.

On to Capisthorne. Saw Maud & Tabs, M & Roy out in boat. Walk thro' grounds. Dressed. Hamilton came in. Architect Mr Warren came down & Mr Harding dined. Good dinner. Talk. Bed early as possible. Electric Light & heavy guns in Isle of Wight.

Wednesday September 17 Capisthorne. Bathed before breakfast with Roy. Breakfast 8.30. Decided not to go to Punch Dinner. Wired & wrote. Read ‘George IV’ by Fitzgerald. Lawn Tennis. Read an hour after lunch. Blackberry pudding. H came. Played 4 tennis. Slow. Rain. Tea. Book. Dressed & wrote letters. Cap'n & Mrs Wetherall to dinner. Slow dinner. Left at 11.0. Pipe & talk. Made mistake, told H he ought to pay. Bed 11.30. Good sleep.

Thursday September 18 Capisthorne. Up early. Packed. Bath in Bathroom. Breakfast. Roy down. Off with Warren by 9.35. Parted, W in 2nd class. Saw Punch. Sanderson director & naval men got in. Out at Vauxhall. Cart met me. Drove home. Near shave in front of omnibus. (Jolley turned white. 22 Oct 1897.) No letters or instructions from F.C.B. Waited about. At 4.0 Milliken's letter came. After walked towards Turkish Bath. Heavy wet. Took cab. Wired R.P. On to bath.

Sent for papers. On to Beefsteak. Sir Henry de Bath there, Leslie Ward & Lucas, painter. Cab to R.P & back. Called Empire. Saw Frank Burnand & K.M. After called Garrick. Saw Chapmell. Wrote F.C.B. On to Beefsteak.

Squiff Arthur there. Home by cab 12.30.

Friday September 19 Stafford Terrace. Work on Jonathan & Bull etc with Pig in Bag. Photod Jolley. Hard at it all day. 2 letters from F.C.B. A 3rd after disgraceful letter.

Worked hard. No beef tea. Sherry. Finished 10.30. Champagne & bed.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am very tired. Got to work at 10.0 on small block of General in Mufti. Finished at 12.0. Up to Bedford Gds to photo Louie Price in ball dresses. No Abbey. Finished at 2.15. Back Stafford Terr. Had steak & went in carriage after fetching bags to Waterloo. Great crush & bother about trains. At last got M, Roy & Maud. Sent Roy home in 4 wheeler, M, Maud & self in carriage. Got out at nearest to Jermyn St, went & had Bath at 5.45.

Out 7.15 & walked to Knightsbridge. Wired Ayala. Home by omnibus. Bought sausages. Girl asleep etc. Dinner. Chicks summer drinks. Quiet evening & bed after sleep in chair.

Sunday September 21 Stafford Terr. Lovely morning. Up 9.0am. Sent Jolley up with plates to Bedford Gds. M & Roy & Maud went to Grannie's. Strolled up to Bedford Gds & photod Miss Pettigrew in white ball dress. Abbey hardly spoke, in fact rude.

Got away 12.30. Home. Lunch. M back. Summer(?) drinks. After at 4.0pm Roy & self went for walk in Park. Up to top. Saw French girl. Bought Observer. Back by Kensington Gds. Bathed Tony. Met Bartlett. Turned back & saw model yacht club. Home. Dinner. Mervyn came. Chicks up. No Port.

Bed early after cigar.

Monday September 22 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Down early. Letter from Mother to say not so well. Wired model. Walked up to Bedford Gds & put things away.

Annoyed could not photo. Back. Roy went out & not back. At 12.0 went to lunch with M.H.Spielmann. Called Groves. Went by 2nd class Met Rly. On by cab to Bouverie St. Saw Linten & Spielmann. On to Constitutional Club.

Lunch. Talk on Black & White & writing article. Left 3.0. Took cab to Victoria.

M & Maud there in carriage. Roy not turned up. M distressed. Left his portmanteau & drove home. Roy just came in. Poor boy very upset & white & done up. Very tired. Cock & bull story about 3 men. Poor boy. Very cross but sorry for him. Ordered carriage for 4.45. Jolley 7 minutes late. Only just caught 5.15 train. Roy's portmanteau unlabelled. Gave guard 1/3 & said goodbye. Home by carriage. Dressed & answered latter to Bradfords. Drove to French Exhibition. Found Brehart's(?) restaurant & dined with Ayala & his wife & Mr & Mrs George Thomson & 2 nephews. Surprised at Exhibition many pictures there were at Salon. Renouards, etc etc. Walk round & out at 11.0. Home by cab. Upstairs. Fell asleep & woke at 1.0am & did not in the least know where I was. At last made it out & up to bed. M all right. Good night. Disappointed Grove not better result with Mawson plates. (Red ink: Lawrence left by 8.50 from Victoria.) Wire from Tassell. Letter from Mother.

(Red ink across page: Lawrence left & Roy stayed away, missed train.)

Tuesday September 23 Stafford Terrace. Fine bright morning. Up 8.0am. Felt pretty well. Began to put things straight. Looked out plates of Russia & developed 3 of Louie Price & ½ doz of yachting. Not so bad. Spencer called in in straw hat. Mervyn called. Wrote up diary. Began Russian Drosky drawing. M & Maud out in carriage. Great thunderstorm all afternoon. Vivid lightning. Cleared up. Quiet dinner at home. Bed early & rest. (Red ink: Minnie Tillie came yesterday, 1st day.)

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Wednesday September 24 Stafford Terrace. In morning developed some plates. After worked on Russian Drosky. Wanted to have had Turkish Bath. M & Maud out in carriage. Gave up Bath & walked to Punch Dinner. Hot. Called Club. Bought flower. 1st Punch Dinner. F.C.B looking seedy. Lehmann welcome, Arthur vice-chair. Long discussion. Cuts changed. Got troopers to do. Home by cab.

Home 1.0am. Sleep in chair & woke up at 3.0am.

Thursday September 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Very seedy. Looked over papers & sent Tenniel Engine. Looked over things for horses & skemed cut. Went on working & all afternoon. M & Maud out. Decided to go to Military Exhibition. Had carriage.

Went. Saw Gilbert's design for Jubilee offering. Sketched saddle cloths.

Home 1.10pm. M came down. Bed 11.30pm. News that Mr Coghlan had left Fanny Barker £7000 or more. (Red ink across page: Fanny Barker £7000) Friday September 26 Stafford Terrace. Down early. Dull morning. Went at 9.30 & photod Marquis for cut at stables. Jolley came round & sat for Trooper. Developed plates & got to work at 11.45. Put John Bull & Punch in. After lunch printed & worked hard all afternoon & evening up to 11.0. Hard push to get done. Very done up & exhausted. Tired. Bottle of Ayala. Drank ½ only.

Saturday September 27 Stafford Terrace. Very tired in morning. Very close & hot morning. Put all things away & at 12.0 rode Marquis in Park. Saw Finlay & Mr & Mrs Joshua.

Long talk. Very hot. Back to lunch. Dressed after & took M & Maud to French Exhibition by cab. Saw Applin. M met Drabble. Saw Wild East & Theatre.

Very hot & awfully close. Bad coffee. Dreary ballet. Saw Reed. Bought chocolates. Home. Dressed. Dinner. Maud wanted to go to play. Cab to Garrick Theatre. Met George Thomson & wife. Slow couple. Good box. Met Sonny(?) after. Home by cab. M nervous. Hungry. Good sandwich. M eat too many & had pain in morning. Bed. 12.30pm.

Sunday September 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. M woke up with pain & very bad all morning. On sofa. Gradually went off after lunch. Wrote letters the whole morning. Lunch.

After drew cheque for Horlick & Pearks' accts & wrote orders for Stores. Mrs Tom Taylor & daughter called. Wycliffe idle. At 5.30 posted letters & walked across Park to Porchester Terrace. Most lovely evening & sunset possible.

Long talk with Spielmann. Borrowed books & came home in cab. Saw Mempes sketch of Whistler. Bottle champagne. Good dinner by Minnie.

Maud imitations. Read about Leech etc. Bed 11.0 exactly. (Red ink: M woke up with severe pain in morning.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Stafford Terrace. (Red ink: Polly's birthday. Pain in morning.) Bright first & very dull after. Breakfast. Wrote letters. Arranged photos. Mervyn came in.

Rode in Park. Dull day. Saw Finlay. Lent me book of Greeks' social life. In afternoon Mervyn put on Mephistopheles dress. Photod him. Quite dull.

Developed 2. Sent Jolley for book. M not very well. Symptoms of cold. Quiet dinner & read book after.

Tuesday September 30 Stafford Terrace. Letter from Fanny Worth to say Mr Glossop would bring my mother up at 2.45pm. Worked in morning on drawing of Tournament. Went at 2.30 to meet train at Paddington. Mother much altered. Mr Glossop & self came on in cab. Left satchel in train. After talk back in carriage at 4.35. Mr Glossop off 3rd class. Back home & got on with work. Mother up in her room.

Jolley photod me in morning for Knight in tennis coat. Mrs Lynn Linton called.

Quiet dinner by selves. M had cold come on. (Red ink across page: Lovely day. Mother & Mr Glossop came home from Clifton at 3.30pm. ) Wednesday October 1 Stafford Terrace. In morning worked on Tournament. At 1.30 M & self went in carriage to Charles Hartree's, 11 Wilton Place. Lunch. Pictures. Croome's sister. Late for Charley Burnand's wedding. Drove home. Left M at her mother's. Cold very bad. Home. Changed things. Put Scotch suit on. Cab up to Turkish Baths. Called Hartree's & got gloves. Wet. Had Turkish Bath. Out & cab to Punch Dinner. Arthur at bottom of table. F.C.B not well. Had my subject. Said it would be done tomorrow. Sat till 12.0. Furniss on subject of church going & religion. Left with Milliken. Cab home to Kensington. M's cold & chest very bad. (Red ink across page: Dull wet day. Charles Hubert Burnand married Brompton Oratory.)

Thursday October 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Worked on Tournament. Put in horse & knight etc.

M in bed all day with bad cold, did not get up. Jolley fetched mare home.

Saw her at 1.0pm. J came round & photod him for knight etc & got prints after 3.30pm. Bright hot sun. Maud & self dined alone. Cigar after. Did not work after dinner. Ought to have done so. (Red ink across page: Mare came home from grass, 14 weeks.)

Friday October 3 Stafford Terrace. Down early & got to work at 9.15 on drawing of Tournament. Expected to finish it at 11.30. Went on all day until 9.30 when sent it off. Pushed as usual. After dined with M. Turtle soup sent by Mother & bottle Perinet. Bed at 12.30 after sleep. Fine day.

Saturday October 4 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Down & put all things away carefully. Put Bathroom straight. At 10.30 Crouch's agent called with photos of horse.

Bought some. 30 at 1/- each. Dressed & lunched at home. Very hot. Walked up to Fore's & looked over prints. Disappointing. On to Arts & Crafts exhibition. Saw Burgess, Spielmann, Storey, etc etc. On to Turkish Baths.

Bought papers & flower. Saw Fletcher £1500000. On by legs to Punch Xmas

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Number Dinner. Bradbury well. Very hot. Arthur's remarks about cavalry soldiers. Long weary discussion D.M. Drunken people outside Bouverie St No 10. Walked on to Beefsteak. Saw Drummond etc. Home by cab 1.45.

Bed. Hot. Strange dream in morning of marriage of Mrs Geiger. (Last Almanack Dinner till 30 Apl '99.) ( Red ink across page: Almanack Dinner.

Long weary discussion. Lovely day. Hot.) Sunday October 5 Stafford Terrace. Dullish. Up at 9.0. Bath. Put riding things on. At 10.30 started for ride to Richmond. Furniss overtook me on Miss Barclay's horse.

Good ride through Richmond, Wimbledon etc. Beer at Robin Hood. Home by 1.0. Met Mrs Mackenzie & Ena. Lunch. Mother down. Made experiments with bromide paper & pizzaghesli(?) Maud cried at work because Roy had said jealous. Wrote many letters. Talk with Mother. Quiet dinner home. Sleepy after. M upright. Had salmon. Furniss told me of getting £225 for week's work.

Monday October 6 Stafford Terrace. Down & looked at bromide prints. Failure. Fine hot sun & close. Stuffy in room. Mr Harper called. Took up time & 2 Punch drawings & 2 Water Baby drawings. M out to see her mother. Back to lunch. Began Almanack work & skemed Time & Punch. Doubt whether Maud should not photo me. Dull, gave it up. Maud went to Blanche Cole's. After worked on till dinner time on Almanack. Put in telescope. Quiet dinner. Last of turtle. Maud & nuts. Read ‘English Caricaturists’ after. Abuse of G. à Beckett, Punch. Bed at 11.0 sharp.

Tuesday October 7 Stafford Terrace. Down 8.30. Thoroughly wet morning. Wrote many letters.

Mervyn in for M. M went in carriage to Stores to get towels with a cheque for £5.0.0. Very wet. Wrote Arthur Linley. Got on with drawing for Almanack.

Jolley came in in afternoon. Sent him for Priest's dress & took 2 photos in dull weather. Very good. Small stop & 8 seconds ex. Developed & after made experiments with bromide before dinner. Failure. Knocked over bottle with scythe. Ought to have gone to Ernest Hart's. Did not on acct of rain.

Wednesday October 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. In morning worked on Almanack drawing.

Photod Jolley as Monk & self in evening dress 1st thing after breakfast.

Finished at 11.0 the worst photo I ever took. Fogg & bad in every way. At five thirty walked in brown suit to Punch Dinner. Flower. Sent coat on by boy.

F.C.B there. 1st of Lucy. Bradbury better. Good dinner. Sat late talking to Lucy & Milliken about Furniss. Cab after & home 1.15pm. Bed. Lucy gave me ivory fan to draw on.

Thursday October 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Well. Wrote many many letters. At 11.45 got to work to skeme subject Britannia & Child Widow. Worked away till dinner & after dinner for 2 hours. Mervyn came in after dinner. Gave him 2 letters to post & 1 to Lewis Wingfield. Bed 12.30. M thought I had come up at 5.0am.

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Friday October 10 Stafford Terrace. Down 8.0am. At 9.15 photod bust & Maud. Developed. Got to work at 11.0. & worked all day till 11.0pm on page drawing, Britannia & Child Widow. Very late dinner. M at her mother's. Back 8.30. Bottle Ayala ½ & bed at 1.0 after. Tired very.

Saturday October 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Breakfast. Put room in order. At 10.10 Mr Crouch of Photo Hippique called. Gave him cheque for £2.0.0 & selected 20 more photos at 2/- each. Kept him ½ an hour. Finished room. Lovely morning. At 12.30 in brown flannels walked to top of Park. M & Mrs Spofforth stopped talking. Cab on to Garrick. Lunch. Montague Williams, Jones & F Evans, Joe Carr. Coffee. On to Savoy. M, Maud & Mervyn there. Good play.

Enjoyed it very much. Out. Saw Arthur Blunt. Carriage. On to Turkish Bath.

Saw Herbert Gardner. Man & Graphic. Long time. Out 7.30. Walk to Knightsbridge. Took buss home. Girl in corner. Dinner, ½ bottle champagne.

Read ‘Review of Reviews’. Bed at 11.0. Sherry.

Sunday October 12 Stafford Terrace. Slightly foggy. Up 9.oam. At 10.20 got on Marquis & rode over Campden Hill due north-east through Bayswater, Mortimer St, etc.

Foggy & seedy people. Past Lloyd Sq. Barnsbury. Park St. Tramways etc.

Up to Devonshire Rd. Sky signs. Poverty stricken people. Across Camden Hill. Tram conductor's remarks about horses. Saw Pk Village East. Round Regents Park. Saw Mrs Furniss. Called Furniss. Whisky & soda. Home. Saw Sir Thos Lucas. Back 1.35. Lunch. Fowl. Miss Gill home. Fine lovely day. Not ridden north since 1885 except to Balloon. Changed things & after developed 18 plates, 2 spoilt & others frilled. Mrs Watney & Norman Lockyer called. Mrs Watney stayed 1 hr. Glass broke in the hall. Quiet dinner at home. Sleepy after dinner. Bed early.

Monday October 13 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Put things in order. Developed plates of Miss Pettigrew etc. At 1.0 photod foot & developed them. At 4.30 got to work on 1st page Almanack. Put in Toby. Quiet dinner at home. Read after the Tenniers(?) Indian book. Bed 11.0pm. Copy of ‘Prinpia’ sent, £3.0.0 Tuesday October 14 Stafford Terrace. Foggy morning. Fog all day. Worked on opening page Almanack. Began to shade. Worked all day. Sent note up to Abbey in morning. Worked up to dinner time. Bothered about Punch. Mr & Mrs (Gertrude) Abbey, Norman Lockyer F.R.S & Miss Clarke dined with us. Bottle '74 wine. Lockyer enjoyed dinner. Ought to have gone to Ernest Hart's.

Carriage out. Did not. Sent Lockyer home by carriage. Fell asleep & slept till 2.0am. Bed. Gun case sent from L & M Rly. Wednesday October 15

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Stafford Terrace. Got to work early on 1st page of Almanack & worked all morning, finally finishing at 4.0pm. Sent drawing off. Dressed & walked to Punch Dinner all way. Called Club. Saw Walter Lacy. Bought flower. Punch's Dinner, F.C.B back. Saw Guthrie. Guthrie's book. Good Dinner. Left 11.45.

Home by good cab at 12.30.

Thursday October 16 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Wrote diary & orders for Stores. Many letters. Went for ride on Marquis. Met Mrs Heilbuth & Finlay etc. Agreed to meet Finlay at Reform Club on Tuesday. Home. Lunch. Found letter from F.C.B altering cut. Fine afternoon. Wrote & sent to Stace & got on with cut of Spanish Onion etc. Mervyn in to dinner. Wired to 2 theatres. Finally went to Alexander's Theatre & saw the play of ‘Struggle for Life’. Dull play. Mrs Boughton in box. Lady Monckton. Saw Alexander & Mrs A. Poor 4 wheel cab home. M nervous about carriage. Felt very tired & ennui at theatre. Saw Montague Guest in Park & theatre.

Friday October 17 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Photod Stace at 10.0am & Jolley for cut of Spanish Onion. After worked hard all day up to 10.15 when finished. M at her mother's. Dined after. So-so lobsters, ½ botl of Ayala '84.

Saturday October 18 Stafford Terrace. Tired in morning. Up & put all things straight. At 12.30 walked to top of Park. No one riding. Cab to Club & lunch. Jones & (blank) at lunch. Walked to Lyceum Theatre & saw ‘La Cigale’. Ullmer good. M & Maud there. Out 5.15. Walk to carriage in Jermyn St. Sent M & Maud home.

Bought sausage (German & pork) at Walls. Down home thro' Park. Stopped at Butt's & bought pineapple. Home. M had missed Tabs who had come up to see Governess. Tabs went to Stores. Wrote letters & dined at 7.30 quietly.

Rest after. Quiet evening. Ullman's song Oh! Oh! Oh! Sunday October 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Bath. Wrote letters till 1.30. At 12.0 rode Marquis to Wimbledon. Dull morning. Lunched at Barker's. Arthur there.

Champagne. Good cigars. Dr Leeson called. 1030 guineas. Talk of Mr Coghlan & Mrs Fitzgerald. Left at 3.45. Home 5.0. Vernon Watney there.

Miss Clarke & sister called. Young Mackenzie. Wrote letters & dined 7.30.

Quiet evening. Bed 11.15.

Monday October 20 Stafford Terrace. M seedy. Wedding day, 16 years ago. Down 9.0. Dull morning. Wrote up diary. Worked on Almanack. Went for ride. Maud went to see Jarl. (small drawing) Rode Marquis. Went well. Saw Wyndham & Finlay.

Home, man doing creeper. Went on with Almanack. Had bottle of champagne for Wedding Day. M not well. Bed early. Sent wine up to Mother.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Stafford Terrace. Worked on 2nd Almanack drawing. At 4.0pm M drove me to Reform Club. Looked over Gilray's & H.B's caricatures. After walked to Garrick. Bought flower. Dressed & on to dine at Metropole with Müllers.

Sylvinia Rose Innes, young Mike Santly, Mr & Mrs Maggs, Boothes etc etc.

Robertsons, Fritz Jackson. Bad dinner. Captain Theresa after. Saw Col North. Whiskey. After theatre went into Empire & on to Garrick. Welch rabbit.

Whiskey. Home by cab 1.30pm.

Wednesday October 22 Stafford Terrace. Worked on 2nd Almanack drawing. Went for ride in morning. Talk with Stone of little(?) Harrison. Back lunch. Finished drawing after lunch. At 3.45 M took me up in carriage to Turkish Bath. Last of tickets.

Weighed 12st ¼ before bath. After 11.13 lbs. Walked to Punch Dinner after.

Bradbury, D.M, F.C.B, Arthur, Guthrie, Reed, Milliken. Furniss there. 'What's that you say'. Bought sausages & collared 2 pears. Home by cab. Arranged for dinner at French Ex. F.C.B down on D.M I think.

Thursday October 23 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Printed photos etc. Wrote letters. After went for ride on Marquis in Park. Talk with Finlay & Wyndham. Marquis went beautifully. Home. In afternoon did drawing of G.O.M as Eagle & Path of Nightingale. (Altered this drawing Thursday 2 Feby 1893. Thought for H.R.H, P.W.) Finished 7.45 & dine with Maud & M. Quiet evening after. Read .

Bottle Creasey. Bed 11.30. Men finished creeper. Fanny Barker lunched with us. Sent her in carriage. Mrs Crawford called. Miss Lutyens called. Lunch late.

Friday October 24 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. Kept Jolley & photod self for London Smells & Jolley as monk. Developed & got to work on London 11.30. Worked all day & finished at 10.0. London Smells. Had an atrociously stinking lobster for dinner. Sent it away. Grilled chicken after. M back at 9.30 from her mother's.

Dined 10.30. Cigar & bed after. (Red ink across page: Murder of Phoebe Hogg & her daughter aged 18 months at 2 Priory Street, Camden Town between the hours of 3 & 6 pm. Body found at Crossfield Road, Eton Avenue, 2½ miles away.)

Saturday October 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Put things in order. Heavy wet came on. Could not ride. Put pictures up & tidied all the tools with Maud. Lunch. Went on.

Very dark. Barker's Manager called & apologised for not leaving whiskey. At 5.30 Milliken called for tea. Tony. Mother. Had cab on to French Exhibition.

Renouard's drawings. Pictures, furs etc. Went on to Welcome Club & saw dinner. F.C.B, self, Arthur à B, Furniss, Lehmann, Milliken, Guthrie & Reed dined. Furniss imitations. F.C.B on Brough putting fire out at Lyric Theatre.

‘He'd damp anything!’. Good dinner. Lehmann left. Nearly choked with coffee. Patted on back. F.C.B sloped off. Dan Godfrey & Who? Left all together, walked with Guthrie in the wet home. Murder at Hampstead. Read paper. Fell asleep & woke at 2.0am. Went to bed. M went to Savoy with her mother in the cart.

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Sunday October 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0. M on top xxx. Bright sun. Furniss to come 10.15.

Went for ride. No Furniss. Down Hammersmith Rd. Came on heavy wet.

Turned & home. Put cabinet of pencils in order with Maud. Printed 30 photos in sun. After lunch at 2.35 went for good ride on Marquis up Putney Hill.

Edward pased trotting. Round by Barnes Common & Barnes. Marquis went beautifully. Home. Developed the photos & wrote letters after. M read Ingoldsby. Would not go out. Wrote letters & quiet dinner at home. Very cold.

Monday October 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Cold clear morning. Breakfast. At 9.30 rode Marquis to Row. Hard frost. Met Joshua & daughter. Rode 3 times.

Marquis fresh. Home. Bright sun. Home. Printed many photos. Birds, self in costume, dogs etc. Lunch. Developed. Tidied. M & Maud went to French Exhibition to see furs. No good. At 4.30 began Full Moon. Skemed cut. Very cold. M back, called on Mrs Watney. Mrs W & mother seedy. Worked till dinner. Quiet dinner. Smoke after & wrote letters. Bright sun without a cloud the whole day. Sent Taff the trout after years.

Tuesday October 28 Stafford Terrace. In morning lovely day. Sunshine. Did not ride. Worked on Full Moon. Maud had toy of circus rider at dinner. Quiet evening at home.

Whiskey & potash. Wrote for book on Moon etc etc. Intensely cold at night.

Wednesday October 29 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. (Red ink: Did Lucy's fan in morning up to lunch.) Worked in morning on drawing of Full Moon At lunch pork. At 3.30 M went out for Maud in carriage. Walked at 4.15 to Turkish Bath. (Red ink: Paid new dozen, £1.16.0. Had Bath. Walked to Punch Dinner. Good Dinner. Bad news of Charles Keene. Milliken not there. Left 12.0. Home by cab with 2 pears. Letter about coals.)

Thursday October 30 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. Letters from Abbey, Alfred Reed. Wrote letters. After waited for subject from Milliken (Milliken ill). 2 letters from F.C.B at 11.30. Dressed & at 11.55 rode Marquis to Swiss Cottage to go & see spot of murder, Phoebe Hogg, Eton Avenue. Rode afterwards to Camden Town.

2 Priory Street, Camden Town. Back at 2.15. Tony stole lunch. Pork.

Finished small cut of Letting off a Cracker. Skemed G.O.M. At 7.0 dressed & drove with mare to dinner at Oswald Crawfords. Sat next to Mrs Lyn Linton & Mrs Chapman. Good dinner. Johnstone the traveller there. Did not know him.

Left at 11.45. Home. Talk of murder with Mr Moulton QC. Friday October 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dark & wet. Wet all morning. Could not photo Jolley for G.O.M until 12.30. Skemed cut. Fashion Plates, G.O.M & Fashion.

Mother not so well. M round at her mother's. Finished work at 10.15 & dined.

Short bottle Champagne. M's cough troublesome. Slept in chair & bed 12.55.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Saturday November 1 Stafford Terrace. Beautiful bright warm morning. Blues rather. Puppy round.

Maud's boots. Sent Jolley for puppy. Put room in order & wrote letters. At 12.0 walked up Park to Club. Lovely morning. Hot & warm. Lunched on cold beef & shrimps. After looked into box at Criterion, ‘Still Waters Run Deep’.

Saw Maud & Miss G there. Walked on to Turkish Bath. Had Bath & walked home to dinner 6.45. After took carriage up to Avenue Theatre, 1 st night of ‘Sunlight & Shadow’. M & self near Mr & Mrs Crawford, Mr & Mrs Jeune etc etc. Dr Owen & Mrs Heilbut. After M went home & I went by self to supper with Mrs Heilbut & Dr Owen at Lyric Club. Good. Bad dirty service. Common matches. Drunken old carriage door opener. Out at 1.15. Home by 2.0am.

Sunday November 2 S.Terrace. Up. Dull morning. Rain. Got camera ready, worked etc etc. Read Observer & rested. After lunch rode Marquis at 2.45 to Wimbledon Common & round Roehampton Lane same as last Sunday. Escaped rain. Back. Miss Clarke at S.T. Mr & Mrs Müller had called & Sir B.Baker. Wrote many letters.

Posted them. Quiet dinner & evening. Bed early.

Monday November 3 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. M to go to Ramsgate. Jolley bought time table in. Train 11.15. Carriage at 10.45 & M got off. Came on dull weather.

After at 11.10 had cab & drove to Brompton. Photod E Pettigrew for Moon drawing. Forgot plates. Sent cab. Talk with Grove. Back at 1.30 by carriage.

Lunch. Got on with drawing. At 5.0 dressed to go to dinner at Romano's.

Wet. Walked up. Got hot & uncomfortable. Called Garrick. Wash. 25 minutes late. Good dinner. Lehmann, Reed, Furniss & self went to Savoy.

Gondoliers. Left 10.5. Empire Theatre. Saw Sulphs Parallologue(?) & Faustine. Garrick. Supper. Stone, Jones, Clowes etc etc. Stayed talking to Kerr until 2.15pm. Home by cab. M very tired. (Red ink across page: Rabelais Exhibition stopped by police.)

Tuesday November 4 Stafford Terrace. M woke very tired after Ramsgate. Breakfast in bed. Talked & read to her. Out at 11.30 on Marquis. Saw Furniss, Mrs De la Rue etc etc.

Good ride. Back. Developed 18 plates before & after riding. Worked after on Moon. M out in carriage. Mrs Carter & daughter called. Delayed me. Ince sent fur coat & sables at noon. Men doing aquarium, left small one for fish.

Worked on Moon. Quiet dinner. Wrote 4 letters after. Snooze & bed at 11.0 sharp & glad to get there.

Wednesday November 5 Stafford Terrace. Up early. Fine morning. M better. Worked on Full Moon.

Dished 25 plates. Man came round to do Photo House. M went for day to her mother's. Mother sent Dr Kelson Millard his money by cheque from me, £14.14.0. At 12.45 rode mare for 1st time since June 22nd. Went beautifully.

Saw Peto & Stone etc. Maud's new boots. Home 1.45. Dressed for P.D at 2.0. Worked & at 6.10 started to walk to Punch Dinner. Got on to buss & out at St James's St. Flowers, violets. On to Punch Dinner. Full Dinner. Chaff

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Thursday November 6 Stafford Terrace. Dull morning. Got to work on London & Electric & Steam.

Sketched & skemed. At 2.30 rode mare to Wimbledon & Richmond. Skittish.

Home by 4.55. Dressed. Worked for an hour. After dinner at home. Mr & Mrs Oswald Crawford, Mrs Watney, Sir Benj Baker, Miss Sylvinia Rose Innes & Mr Stone dined. Great storm & very wet. Dinner a success, bar Mrs W. All left early. Something affected me. Bed 12.0. Great gale blowing in the night.

Nana here with baby.

Friday November 7 Stafford Terrace. Great gale in night. Up at 8.0. Down. Maud a head. Wrote letters & got to work at 10.0am. Wrote to Morris about Dulwich. At work on cut of London & Electric Railway. Finished at 10.30. Dined. Finished bottle of Champagne left on Thursday. Lobster & bed after 1.0pm. (Red ink across page: Was not satisfied with drawing of ‘London’.) (Red ink: Lord Canteloup drowned near Belfast in Yacht 'Urania'.)

Saturday November 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Worked till 1.30 on Moon. Lunch at 1.45. Cart came & drove Marquis to Dulwich. Picked up B.Morris, 28 Ludgate Hill, at Victoria. Drove on. Good drive. Lovely morning. Got to Dulwich 3.15. Hills.

Put up horse & saw Museum. Butterflies & arms etc etc, 2 assistants. Did not see Mr Horniman. Left at 4.35. Got dark. Drove back past trams etc over Westminster Bridge. On to Turkish Baths, calling Walls for sausages. Saw Dr Playfair in Bath. Out at 6.30. Walked to Park. Jolley late with cart. Lights blew out. Bought pine. Home. Dinner. Quiet evening after. Bed 11.30. Xmas number, Burnand sent letter 2.30. Found me out.

Sunday November 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Went for ride at 10.15 to meet Wicks. On to Putney Bridge, no Wicks. Went up hill. 2 girls. Rode over Common & through Park. Home by 1.15. Lunch. Pineapple. After wrote letters & worked all afternoon on Moon picture. No one called. Dined quietly at home & quiet evening after. Bed 11.0pm. Wrote lines to Wicks. Glass tube broke after washing.

Monday November 10 Stafford Terrace. LORD MAYORS SHOW. Up 8.0am. At 12.0 fog came on.

Was to have taken M & Maud to show. Decided not to. Drove in carriage to bottom of Whitehall St. Passed police by paper sent by Sir Edward Bradford.

Dull foggy morning. On to Punch Office. Bradbury, Lawrence B, 2 girls & Mrs B, Lehmann & Lady Campbell Nokes, Lucy, wife & sister, Arthur, Mrs A & Pat there. Brutal crowd. Hat tossing & women squeezing. Show at 2.30, over 2.45. Lunch. Oysters & Champagne. Left at 3.15. Walked to Knightsbridge, calling at Garrick. Cab home & continued work on Moon. Dinner 7.45. Quiet evening & bed. Sent boy to Suggs for tubes & glass cups.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Tuesday November 11 Stafford Terrace. Wire from Hamilton about shoot. Worked on Moon drawing. Got on with it. Put in shading of figures. Nearly finished. Dined in evening at Mrs De la Rue's. Took in Mrs Tate. Good dinner. Finlays, etc etc.

Stayed in evening till 11.30. Home.

Wednesday November 12 Stafford Terrace. Ena Mackenzie at lunch. Good hair. Worked on Moon drawing. Finished it in afternoon & sent it of. Left at 5.30 for Punch Dinner.

Walked whole way. Called Garrick. Saw ring in Attenborough's window.

Punch Dinner. No Milliken till late. Left. No subject settled. Talk of Gambia incident.

Thursday November 13 Stafford Terrace. Ought to have gone to shoot at Hamilton Fletchers. Waited to hear from Frank. No confirmation of Gambia. Letter about Romer QC. At 12.0 rode mare in Park. Saw Mrs De la Rue & Elsie Thomson. Stayed till 1.30 in Row. Mare very fresh & galloped home opposite Barracks. (Photod Stace for Gambia. Only developed Jany 29 '91.) (Red ink: Frank Romer made a judge.) Worked on drawing of Romer. No good, altered it tomorrow.

In evening dined at Metropole, Miss Rose Innes dinner, & on to Gaiety Theatre after. Canon Duckworth, Miss Jackson etc etc, Mike Santley. Went in fly with Sylvinia. Good play. Chapman in box. Mrs Meiggs(?) took M & self home in carriage. Dense fog.

Friday November 14 Stafford Terrace. Fine morning. No letter from F.C.B. Decided to alter cut of Romer. Swain's boy came at 11.30. Had sent Jolley to Brompton Road. 5 wires from F.C.B today about Xmas No. Photod self at 12.45 for Romer cut & reduced Lord Mayor. Went on with cut & finished it with difficulty. Just in time to be late to dine at Tuers. Took Mrs Freshfields in. Slow dinner. Sir Henry Peek. Big chest. Left 11.15. Lady & banjo played ‘Duc de Plaza Toro’.

Saturday November 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Tired. Put room in order & stuck drawing on cardboard to alter. Lunch. At 1.45 walked down to see Charles Keene.

Stayed an hour with him. Bonelle Basse. Left. Buss. Girl in buss stared. At 3.45 drove cart to Turkish Bath. Sausages etc etc. Cart met me, home. Quiet evening. Bed early. Maud went with Miss Gill to Avenue Theatre ‘Sunlight & Shadow’. Bought melon. Failure.

Sunday November 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Went at 10.15 for ride. Met Wicks at 11.0 Putney. Good gallop over Common & ride after, Richmond & home. Talk.

Wicks & hat, Oh! Gloves etc etc. Home. Lunch. Worked after all afternoon on Almanack. Did ’Arry cut. Quiet evening. Bed. Monday November 17 Stafford Terrace. Fine mild weather. Worked on Almanack. Finished ’Arry & Diana, 1st cut. Began 2nd. Worked till dinner time.

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Tuesday November 18 Stafford Terrace. (Red ink: 1st night Mrs Langtry's Cleopatra.) Worked in morning on 3rd ‘Arry & Cleopatra. Finished 2 & sent off by boy at 6.30.

Dressed & went to Princesses' to see ‘Cleopatra’. Long play, 8 to 12.20. Got into Sir Geo Chetwynd's chair. Lady Brooke, Lady Randolph Churchill, Sir Charles Russell etc. Left at 12.20. Went to Garrick. Haddock for supper.

Chitty & Judge Balon. Home 2.10pm. Bed 3.0. Joe Knight & Rabelais pictures.

Wednesday November 19 Stafford Terrace. (Red ink: Death of Lady Rosebery 6.0am.) Up 8.30.

Breakfast. Worked on putting new heading to 1st page Almanack. Dull day.

(Red ink: Fur coat came home, sable collar.) Worked all day. Felt tired. Very warm. Flies about. Alice called. Finished at 5.30pm. Dressed & found was late. Took buss 2d to Chancery Lane. Boy asleep in bus. Punch Dinner.

Weak chaff about Romer. Furniss & pepper. Warner imitations. Stayed till 11.55. Drove in cart home. Called Garrick. Wrote Salamon & Col commanding Guards, Wellington Barracks. Very mild. Maud & Miss G & Coward went Patti. (Red ink: Finished Almanack at 5.45pm.)

Thursday November 20 Stafford Terrace. Dull wet morning. Wrote letters. Worked. Wire could not have rifle. Began to skeme drawing Bellona & Stanhope. Wrote to Col Gascoigne & to Lincoln & Bennett. Worked all day & dined quietly. Worked after dinner & up to 12.30 on figure Bellona. Put in sword & shield.

Friday November 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Warm damp day. Boy at 10.30 brought lace coat worth £180 & cocked hat from Lincoln & Bennetts. Photod Jolley with shot gun for Stanhope & got on with work. Worked all day hard & did not finish till 11.0pm. Dined late. Very tired & done up. Bothered with Bellona's face. ( Above photos only developed Thursday Jany 29 '91.)

Saturday November 22 Stafford Terr. Up 9.0am. Put room in order & put stars on drawing of Moon.

Dressed & rode Marquis in Park. Boots hurt me. Marquis kicked Finlay's horse. Miss Lewis. Rode round Park & home. Lunch. After put room in order & went up by buss to Turkish Bath. Met Noots. Long talk. Dressed & went to dine at Garrick Club. Sat with Stone. After went to Lyceum Theatre. Met carriage at bottom of street by Strand. M, Maud, Guthrie & self saw ‘Ravenswood’ at the Lyceum. Stokes sent us tea. M & ices. After kept M waiting when looked for carriage. Home by 4 wheeler. Supper & bed.

Sunday November 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Rested. At 11.45 rode mare in threatening weather. Black boots. To Barker's. Mare very fresh over Common. Miss Carter there. Barker's horses influenza. Good lunch, ½ bottle champagne, cigar, & at 3.30 rode mare home through Richmond Park. Great gallop. Girls at Sheen. Delay. Missed Sylvinia Rose Innes. Rested & dressed. Went out to

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Monday November 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Very tired. Wrote letters & cheques & got away to Ramsgate (sic, he means Ropley) at 1.30 dog cart with Marquis.

Drove to Waterloo, calling at Stores for cartridges. Down in train to Ropley with pass from Scotland. Heavy rain & cold set in. Change in weather. Pony cart at door of station. Drove to Brookwood Hall. H & Tabs, dogs & Chicks.

Plain house. Cold at night. Felt seedy after dinner. Wine so so. Turn out.

Read ‘Catherine of Russia’. Sleep. Fire in room. (Red ink across page: Went down to Brookwood Hall. Great change in weather.)

Tuesday November 25 Brookwood Hall Park. Up 8.40. Bath. Turn out. Breakfast. After at 10.10 drove in cart to shoot. Keeper & 5 beaters & mongrel dogs. Got rabbits, few pheasants & woodcock. One rabbit to self after lunch. Good sandwiches. 2 mile walk home. Changed things. Tea. Looked at books. Dinner. Talk & bed.

Tabs went off. Curious heap of stones made by Col Greenwood & the true Roger Tichbourne over in old house. Claimant in 1872 could not recollect anything about them. (Red ink across page: Frost set in.)

Wednesday November 26 (Red ink: Wedy. M, Chicks, Birds, Mother, Tony & Gillyflower all went to Ramsgate by the 12.15 Charing X.) Brookwood Hall Park. Up at 8.30. Bath etc. At 10.30 went to ferret rabbits. Bitterly cold. Borrowed H's coat. Shot 4.

After left at 12.45. Saw Mrs Dutton's horses. Lunch. Curried rabbit. Off at 2.0. Left gun & coat etc. Bitterly cold drive to Aylesford. Freezing hard. Felt cold in carriage. To town. On to Club. Wrote M & Nieve. Saw Sir C.Hall putting down richest man in world, Astor, for Club. Walked on to P.D. In time.

Good Dinner. Lucy. Furniss hot about Home Rule. Bradbury's language.

Jokes about Ark & Jonah. Felt seedy. Walk with Reed to near Garrick. Clear out at Club & home by cab. Bitterly cold. Fire in Spare Room. Letters. Sleep at 1.30pm. (Red ink: Letter from Hammond about stables.)

Thursday November 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Spare Room. Bitterly cold. Hard frost. Wrote Hammond & M to Ramsgate. Stove alight 1st time. Wrote many letters & looked over photos for Rattlesnake cut. Wrote for Pettigrew. Doubt about drawing. Hard frost. At 5.0 walked up to Turkish Bath. Saw Heseltine. Talk of Lord Canteloup's death. Jolley brought bag. Dressed & on in cab to William Stone's dinner at Members Mansions. Good dinner & wine. White & Moon (brother of Moon at Watneys) there. Left at 11.30. Cab with Moon. Home.

Fire in room. Read paper etc. Bed. (Red ink: Stone's dinner. Partie carrée.)

Friday November 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. 8.30. News of Vernon Watney's engagement. Wrote M & Tabs. Got to work. Coud not have Pettigrew. Very

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 dark & intensely cold. Great snow. Lit gas. Worked all day. Sent Jolley to Stores for sponge & Eno etc etc. Finished cut at 10.45. Dinner by self.

Lobster. Frederick Sandys called with Mr Burnand's introduction. Bed at 12.0. Sleep in chair till 2.30. Sleep. (Red ink: News of Vernon Watney's engagement.)

Saturday November 29 Stafford Terrace. Overslept till 11.15. Down Breakfast 11.45. Jolley round.

Still cold & frost & snow. Letters from Hammond & M etc etc. Put room in order. Could not catch 3.25pm train. Packed things. Rush. Cart at door with mare roughed at 4.0pm. Left 4.30 with 7 bags etc. Called Walls for sausages. On to Victoria. Down to Ramsgate. One other on train. Fly to Prospect Terrace. Dinner. All well. Walked to station for valise. Bed 11.30.

Not so cold at night. (Red ink: Down to 5 Prospect Terrace for 1st time.)

Sunday November 30 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Bright sun. Cold. Wrote wires to Workman & Edwards. Posted them. After breakfast walked to Margate past Dumpton.

Counted 380 church bells. On past Callis Court & on to Albion House where saw Miss Allen. Got dear Roy. Down to station at Margate. Ticket for Tony & Roy. Paper left in carriage. Beer & Cherry brandy at station. Roy home. M surprized. Plain lunch. Cigar. Sleep. Wrote letters. Frank & Conny Burnand came in. Talk till 6.0pm. Wrote letters & diary after. Dressed & went with M & Maud to Burnands' birthday children's party. Not very well. 2 plays. Children good. Saw Hammonds. Distant. Introduced to Johnstone about stables.

Mistake. Good night over & over again to Roy. Saw girl home & caught M & chicks up.

Monday December 1 Prospect Terrace. (1st days trial of Eleanor Mary Wheeler.) Roy & self in bed.

Down. Breakfast 8.15am. Bright lovely morning. Breakfast. Roy Maud & self left to catch 10.0am train. Saw Roy off. Bought ‘Times’. Young beanstalk Buckmaster. Home. Commenced drawing for Nunn of Lion & Elephant etc.

After lunch M & self walked to stables. Found Johnstone had given instructions that he would not let them. Annoyed. Back. M went into town.

Got back & worked all afternoon. In evening went into at 7.30 to dine at Burnands. Quiet good dinner. Talk after. M in checked dress. Maud went & was fetched at 9.0. Stayed till 10.30. Talk of stables etc. Home. Bed. Bought hone & brushes in morning.

Tuesday December 2 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Dull heavy day. Worked in morning at Lion etc for Nunn. Found by paper that Mary Eleanor Wheeler had been tried 1 st day yesterday. Made up mind to go up tomorrow. At 12.30 went out to call on Hammond. Found he was in Club. Saw F.C.B. Looked at papers etc. Walked on & talked with Hammond about Johnstone's stables. Agreed to write. Back to P.T. Wrote letter before lunch & to Solomans as well. Posted them after.

Walked up to Vintens about gas. Saw clerk. Bought slippers. Back & worked up to dinner time. Dined 8.0. Tired & sleepy after. Did not work.

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Up 7.0am. Dressed hurriedly & snatched breakfast & caught 8.0am train.

Boy (Cullen) carrying bags. Up in train by self. Jolley met me with Marquis in cart. Drove to Old Bailey, Newgate, & got in to hear trial of Eleanor Mary Wheeler (Piercey). Jammed up against barrister Rooth. Densely crowded.

Women with opera glasses. Phyllis Broughton, Shine etc. Justice Denman.

Most impressive never to be forgotten scene. Prisoner impassive. Sentenced to death. Out at 2.40 on in 4 wheeler to Garrick. Saw Beetle & Beerbohm Tree. After smoke, & saw Balfour. On to Turkish Bath. Wired Jolley. Jolley came with vest & collar. Had Bath. Good shampooer No 11. 2 lemon squash.

Walked to P.D. Good full Dinner. No Xmas numbers. Furniss on D.M. Silent Lucy. Described trial. Home at 12.10 by cart. No cut. (Red ink: Heard 3rd & last day's trial of Eleanor Mary Wheeler (Piercey) for murder of Phoebe Hogg & child.)

Thursday December 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. Jolley round. Waited all morning. No letter form F.C.B. Finished drawing for Nunn & at 2.30 sent Jolley with it to City. He came back at 5.0 with cheque for 20 guineas for drawing. Altered mind about cart. Raining. Jolley drove me up to Garrick. Wired could not call. Nearly run into by hansom cab. Dined at Garrick. Impl pint wine. On after to see ‘London Assurance’ at Criterion. Saw Trowers. Bancroft there. Full house.

Out at 11.15. Looked in at Empire. Introduced by Hutchings to Col (blank) chairman. Saw German girls. Out & walked to Beefsteak Club. Sir George Chetwynd, Arthur Blunt etc. Home by cab at 1.10pm. Colder.

Friday December 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Jolley round. Sent him with note to Charing X Hotel to see Johnstone. Came back with message ‘he would write’. Waited about entire morning. No news from F.C.B. Began Vernon Watney's drawing.

Sent Jolley to F.C.B at 2.30. Came back. Buckled to & did Dressed Crab & after that another cartoon on Match Girls etc. Finished 11.0pm & dined quietly by self. So so lobster, sent it away. Swain called, could not get Piercey photo. Went to bed 2.0am after looking at 1889 Vol Punch. Tired, very. Letter from Johnstone accepting tenancy of stables. Answered it & wrote to F.C.B. Saturday December 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Breakfast. Put room in order. Looked out things for Spielmann's cut. Packed. Wrote Spielmann. Ordered cart 2.15. Left 2.30.

Paid Emma. Called on Mother at rooms. Saw Mervyn. Drove Marquis. Went beautifully. Called for flowers & fruit etc, sausages, & caught train Charing X. Down to Ramsgate. Met Marsden Cobb in train. Fly to P.T. M well. Mite at F.C.B's. Dressed comfortably & drove in fly to Montefiores. Good dinner very.

Took Mrs Levy in. Friend there. Heard of Farmer's death. Met the Wills's.

Home. Talk of murder. Bed 11.30. Mite asleep.

Sunday December 7 Prospect Terrace. Fine clear morning. East wind strong. Down 9.30. Took walk along esplanade with Tony. Back. Breakfast. Sent Juggins for

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 envelopes. Went to Club for 1st time. Paid subscription. Telescope. Read Field. Back 11.0, met Robson Roose & wife. Wrote diary. Put up board screws etc etc. Fine lovely morning. Stroll along esplanade. Lunch. In afternoon wrote letters & did water colour drawing of Vernon Watney & Cupid. Maud with me up in room. Worked till dinner time. Brought it down intending to take it into F.C.B's. Forgot it. After dinner walked round by self to F.C.B's. Hammonds & Robson Rooses there. Dull evening. Talk of the Sandwich Golf Club. Heavy sub. Singing, oh! Back home at 11.45. Many goodbyes. Russian cap & coat. Dropped seal skin glove on my way home Monday December 8 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. (Red ink: Wrote letter taking my name off the Golf Club at Sandwich.) After back & wrote lettter to Vernon Watney etc. Gave Miss Gill to post. After began drawing for Black & White.

Worked till lunch. After at 2.30 went to see horses unloaded after putting M into small cart & Norwegian horse with Mr Wills. Horses down. Lots of luggage. Death of Ella. Met Mrs Wills. M back 4.0pm. Went back & worked on at drawing. Put 2 girls in. Dinner. After M & self walked round to stables.

Saw horses. Piquet & Jolley. Cold. Home. Pipe & bed 11.30. Called in at Club at 2.45 or 3.0. Saw F.C.B. Talk of hunting & work. Declined to hunt Fridays.

Tuesday December 9 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0. Round Club. After walked round to stables & got on Marquis. Went for lovely ride with F.C.B. Round by Workhouse. Cleve Court & home by Perkins Terrace. Back through town. Left F.C.B. St Lawrence. Wedding there. Home. Lunch. Got on with drawing after tea time.

At 2.30 cart came round. Drove M to St Peters. Met Mrs Friend. Called Westwood. Very cold. Westwood oh! so dreary. Tassell cut blackberry creeper. Called S.E Rly for time table. Back thro' town & tea. Got on with work. M read Bartallot. Dinner. Bad attack piles. Rested on sofa. Read & bed after 11.30.

Wednesday December 10 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Brilliant bright morning. Breakfast. Ordered horse at 9.45. Did not come. Went to Club. Waited till 10.0 & walked to stables. Got on horse (mare) & rode. Saw Buckmaster riding. Hard frost.

Ground hard. Mare fresh. Hardly hold her. Round by Westwood & over by Montefiores. Home by 12.30. Mother out in bath chair. M & Maud drove in cart on Sandwich road. Back 1.35. Dressed. Arranged drawing for B & W & caught (only just) 3.55 train. Jolley took bags up to town. Bitterly cold. Dense fog in London. Punch Dinner. Got out at St Paul's. Carried bags up Fleet Street. P.D. D.M, Lehmann etc etc, Bradbury. Carefully printed Almanack etc. Home by cab 12.15. Hard frost. Lehmann put on my fur coat. Made up 3 cartoons. Swelling in nostril in morning.

Thursday December 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Down. Very cold. Wrote letters. At 10.30 Reed sent book of Mulready's picture Wolf & Lamb. Got to work. Worked on all

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Minnie Tillie left & Alice Spain came in her place. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril very painful at night.)

Friday December 12 (Red ink: Death of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm at studio Fulham Road between 4 & 5.0 pm by stooping to pick up bust. Princess Louise was with him at the time.) Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Very dark. Down early & on with work on Wolf & Lamb. Worked till 6.30 when finished & sent it off. Dressed in hurry & took cab to Metropole Hotel. Dined with Sylvinia Rose Innes. Bret Harte, Mrs McKinley, Fritz Jackson, Miss Lehmann, Mr Müller, Miss Dash, Mike Santly, Mrs Müller & self. Went to Sunlight & Shadow after, dull. Saw Henry James outside & at fire. Knee dropped asleep standing. Bitterly cold. On to Empire.

Saw K.H. Club, Sir A Borthwick washing. Talk with Macdonald after clergyman & Lord Dungarven. Home by cab 1.0pm. Hot fire. Slept till 3.0 in chair. Bitterly cold. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril painful at night. Doubts of going to dinner.)

Saturday December 13 Stafford Terrace. Lit fire 2.0am. Bed 3.0am. Slept till 9.0. (Red ink: Terribly shocked with news of Sir Edgar Boehm's sudden death. Read it in Dining Room.) Up & down. Dark gloomy fog. Put photos away & all morning looked out photos for drawing to take to Ramsgate. Lunch & just caught (only just) 3.25 down to Ramsgate. ‘Let me introduce myself Lord Scarborough’ to Westgate. Home. Jolley met me with Marquis. Up & began Hunting Index.

Dinner. Quiet evening. Cigar & bed 11.0pm. No glove found. Mare out for exercise, sea shore. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril still bad. Painful at night.)

Sunday December 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0. Lovely morning. Brilliant sun. Dressed & round to Club. Went on with work on Index all morning. Walk with Maud on Esplanade. Met Weigall. Tony lead. Missed F.C.B. Lunch. Beef. Worked after dinner. F.C.B came up & spoke about work. Went on. Dined. Good pheasant from Rider Haggards. Good pear. After again read Kingsley's Heroes. Bed at 11.0. Sent Jolley for Alkaran & quinine, suspicion of bad cold coming on. 3/6. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril still painful. Discharged 2.0am.

Still red.)

Monday December 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30am. Round to Club. Back & got to work. Finished Index at 6.30 & sent it off by 7.10 train by Jolley. Wrote Swain. Intensely cold. Hard frost. Dined quietly & did not work after dinner. Bed 11.0pm.

Wrote letters for Xmas card to ‘Marius Ward’ Hildersheimer & Faulkner. De la Rue, Hildersheimer etc. Raphael Tuck etc etc etc. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril still slightly painful.)

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Tuesday December 16 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30am. Round to Club. Wrote Swain & Wolman.

Letter from F.C.B urging Preface to be done. Begun 11.30 & worked hard all day & up to 3.0am of Wednesy. Finished 2.45am. Walked round to Club for pipe & on to stables after lunch. Worry letter from Bradbury refusing to not include Almanack. Answered it. M sat up till 1.30 & slept on bed. Called round at Club & saw F.C.B about L'Emperior. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril still painful, going away.)

Wednesday December 17 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Down nine. Dull heavy cold day. Round to Club.

Wrote Cuthbert Reed etc. Back. Did Koch & Bacillus. Sent it off at 2.0pm.

Lunch. Letter from Gilbert. Wire from Conny, funeral on Saty of Sir Edgar Boehm, St Paul's Cathedral. Did Punch Hunting & sent it off by the 3.55 train. Tea. Conny B & Mary & Ethel in. Miss G shifted to lower room, annoyed. Another letter from Bradbury. Unlike him. Up & commenced Calendar for 1891. Jolley took both horses exercise. Quiet dinner. Sleep after. M came down 11.30 upset. Bed 11.45. Long time getting to sleep.

(Red ink: Swelling in nostril still there.)

Thursday December 18 Prospect Terrace. (Red ink: Verdict published in Mark's libel case.) Up 8.0am. Cold raw dull morning. Cart came round at 9.30. Sent it with coat for Roy. Round to Club. Saw F.C.B, Mrs F.C.B & Conny at station. Bought Daily Graphic & home. Got on with Calendar. Roy arrived from school at 11.15 with puppy. Lunch. At 2.20 walked to stables & got on Marquis in knickerbockers & shoes. Rode past Perkins, Nash & Margate. Fire at Grand Hotel. Wall being pulled down. Idiot driving cart furiously at North Down & St Peters. Home 4.30. Moon. Marquis went well. Wrote letter thanks for cards.

Got on with Calendar. Dinner. Quiet evening. Bed 11.30. Roy upstairs. (Red ink: Swelling in nostril still there. Fire at Margate Grand Hotel 1.30am.)

Friday December 19 Prospect Terrace. (Red ink: Snow blizzard in morning.) Up 8.0. Roy's 1st morning. Mess in room. Intensely cold. Snow blizzard. Card for Sir E Boehm's funeral. Colour for brougham. Round club. Posted letters etc. Back.

Work on Calendar. Wrote Conrad. Back home & worked on Calendar. After lunch walk with Roy as far as shelter with football. Boys sliding. Very cold & snow. Met Mrs Hammond & Mr Buckmaster. After back to get on with Calendar up to dinner time. Quiet dinner. Long talk after about affairs. M & self sat up till 11.30. Bed 12.0. Finally gave up idea of going to Sir Edgar Boem's funeral on account of difficulty as to time etc etc.

Saturday December 20 Prospect Terrace. (Red ink: Funeral of Sir Edgar Boehm at St Pauls Cathedral.) Up. Snowy cold morning. Round Club. Old Hunks there. After posted letters to D'Oyley Carte, Tom Sennett etc. Home & got on with Calendar. Thaw set in at 11.0 & heavy rain. Jolley bought hamper from Westwood in cart & cases of wine from Stores. Lunch. Poor. Jane burnt

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Maud's frilling. Roy & football & new suit. Jolley brought up things from Stores. Work on Calendar. Sleepy after lunch very.

Sunday December 21 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast 9.45. Round Club after. No Sunday papers. Back to P.T & worked all morning on Calendar. Put in outline. Stripes on jersey etc. Drew arms from Jolley. At 10.30pm M, Maud & Roy at church.

After lunch rode round sands 2.15 on mare. Mare tricky. Got as far as sight of Margate. Turned up gap by Abernethys. Mare tore home. New house blocked old ride. Late back. Tea 4.30. Worked on on Calendar. Began shading. Sent note to F.C.B. Dinner. Bott Pol Roger 1884, ½ only drunk.

After worked up to 2.0am & finished Calendar. Did it up. Roy woke up & thought it was morning. Went to sleep after.

Monday December 22 Prospect Terrace. (Red ink: Frost in morning. Roy's first ride on Chippy.) Up 8.0. M dressing. Mother upset no one going to see her. Cart at door 9.20.

Drove in to S.E.Rly. Caught 9.40 train, M went up. Boys at school going home. Back thro' town. Bought Roy's shoes & gaiters. Called Hodgmans & ordered pony. Called Club. Read Times, acct of Sir Edgar Boehm's funeral.

Back home. Went on with Black & White drawing till lunch. At 2.5 Roy's pony. Got on & did very well. Round hard, turned back. Met Jack Burnand.

On to sands. Roy in canter & trot. Met Banks. Through Broadstairs. Hass & fast horse again. Home. Work. Tea. Work. Dinner ½ bottle Champagne.

Chicks. Slept after. Intensely cold. Bed 12.0. (Red ink: Dense fog in London M did not get up till 3.45 instead of 12.10.)

Tuesday December 23 Prospect Terrace. (Red ink: Eleanor Mary Wheeler (Piercey) to be hanged at 8.0am today.) ( No reprieve, so to be hanged.) Up 8.0am. Looked at watch, exact time Mrs Piercey hanged. Roy in bed. Up 8.20. Breakfast. Club.

Hunks. No papers. Back P.T. Darkened boots. Success. Stephen's Walnut Stain. Got on with drawing ‘Black & White’. Jolley did windows. Went to Westwood on horse for holly. Worked in afternoon. At 6.0 Roy & self went to meet M at Ramsgate station, S.E.R. Read about Mrs Piercey being hanged.

Train 1 hour late. M back all right, 7.5 pm. Roy & Maud went to Hicks' dance.

M & self dined alone. Went up to work after dinner & till they came back again. Put Polar Bear in. Chicks back with Jane 11.30. Bed 12.30.

Wednesday December 24 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Club. Breakfast. Worked Black & White drawing all morning. Put Black Bear in. Lunch. At 2.15 Roy's pony came round for 2 nd time. Went along sands to Kingsgate. Hacked Down Point. Back. Roy a good gallop. Met F.C.B outside Prospect Terr. Home. Worked on Black & White drawing. Quiet dinner. Xmas Eve. Rested after dinner & bed early.

Thursday December 25 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Went to Club. No one there. Back & worked all morning on Black & White drawing. Lunch. Walk with Roy after. Met F.C.B,

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 little Winnie, Milliken (seedy) Frank & Mr Ready. Left them at a shop in the town. Tony barked. Walked with Roy past Sicklemore's pond. Saw people skating. Investigated brickyard. No good for riding through. Back past coastguard. Bought shrimps. Miss Ross. Back. Worked to dinner. Nose painful again. Dinner. My mother & Miss G down. Crackers. etc. At 9.0 went to F.C.B's. Great dinner there. Hammonds, Charley Burnand & wife etc etc.

Stayed till 11.30. Had prizes etc etc. Frank danced etc etc. Would not dance.

Friday December 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0. Bath. Breakfast. Club. Round & worked all day on page for Black & White. Nose very painful again. Came to height at night.

After dinner M & self & Roy & Maud went to Burnands for theatricals & dance. Very pleasant evening. Mr O'Connell, lots of girls. Nose painful.

Danced. Conny, Ethel, Zeta, Maud etc etc. Left at 12.0. Cold going home.

Chicks in bed by 1.0pm. Arranged with Borradaile to go to Sandwich.

Saturday December 27 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0. Maud seedy. Roy up. Club. Letter from F.C.B. Worked hard all day on drawing for Black & White. Dined & worked after dinner till 12.30am. Nearly finished outline.

Sunday December 28 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0. Breakfast. Club. Worked all morning at page for Black & White. Drew from Jolley, hat & black jack. Began to shade. Lunch.

Walked with Roy round both Piers. Very cold & not freezing. Work from 4.0 to 8.0. Met M & Mrs Middleton. Dinner. Too tired to work after dinner. Did not do so. Maud a bad cold.

Monday December 29 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. No Club. Worked hard all day on Black & White drawing. Lunch. No rest. Milliken in in afternoon to tea. Talk. Finished at 6.45. Packed up & sent it by Jolley. Letter came to ask us to dine F.C.B's.

Dressed & got there 7.45. Had sat down. Mr & Mrs Hammond, Milliken & selves. Good mutton. Bitter birds. Lots of Champagne. Game at Race Game after. F.C.B about Spencer, ‘There was an American’. Home with coat & cap at 11.0pm. Bitterly cold M & self. Slept in chair & woke up at 12.30am very cold. Bed. Maud not well. Bad cold. (Red ink across page: Hard frost.)

Tuesday December 30 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Bad sick headache. Round Club. Read papers ‘Times’ of yesterday at Club. Webb awful. Old nuisance. At 11.0 back & walked with Roy to Sicklemore's and skated 1st time. Roy better than I thought. Saw pretty Miss O'Connell. Jolley stayed. Walked back with Miss O'Connell. Blizzard. Roy's ears. Woman asked for my coat. Maud in bed all day with cold. Lunch. Hard boiled beef. At 2.45 cart with mare round. Drove to pond again. Squire & nephew there. Connie B, Ethel. Skated. Weigall & Lady Rose. Refused Weigall. Walked to Ramsgate. Colder than ever. Soda & milk. Tea. Put photos up. M read. Dinner. Marrow bones. Bed at 11.0.

Tired. Bilious all day. (Red ink across page: Intensely cold wind. Blizzard.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1890 Wednesday December 31 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.45. Bitterly cold. Breakfast. Roy & bath. Cart round at 9.20. Drove to S.E. Up to town, 3 hrs. Very cold. M & self. Dropped M at Albert Hall Mansions. On to Stafford Terrace. Aquarium fixed. Lunch. Put phos away. Wrote letters. Lunch, chop & soft roes. Very cold. After walked up through Park. Saw skaters & torchlight. Bad with P. Called Club. Wrote letters. Canon Bourne, Mrs Watney etc, Bancroft. Xmas box to Cole. Walked on to P.D. Frost giving. Dinner. F.C.B, Guthrie (late) Lucy (late & gout) Lehmann, Reed, Milliken, Bradbury (very bad & in old form) Furniss, à Beckett, Sambourne, Tenniel. Furniss called Bradbury a liar. Unwise. Delay with cartoon. Subject Launce & his Dog for self. Good night. Stayed on talking with Tenniel Milliken & Furniss. Furniss pessimist pitching in to everything. Heard clock strike. New Year in. Frost giving. Not so cold.

Hansom home to Stafford Terrace by self. Home 12.40. Read Shakespeare ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ for Launce & coming race. Bed 2.0am. Sleep.

(Red ink: Frost gave in afternoon 1st time for many days.) (Red ink across page: Hard frost in morning.)

List of photographs taken on 'Palatine' cruise.

Wedy July 2.

Thursday July 3 Saty July 5

Sunday July 6.

2. at sea, of sails set.

2. of Pilot. Developed (1 sailor for work) 2. Scenery etc. 2 of Bergen & Empress.

1. Yacht at anchor Esse Fiord, morning.

2. Small boys in boat with flowers (crossed out) 3. View behind anchorage, Esse.

4. Small waterfall going up Sogne Fiord 5. Gudrangen with Victoria at anchor.

6. Gorge looking up Naro Fiord.

7. Church on fiord ‘Bakka’ Naro Fiord 8. Waterfall down mountain Naro Fiord.

9. Boy asleep. Over exposed.

10. Church on hill Vangsnas with clouds, Sogne Fiord 11. Mountain gorge, small.

12. View of small arm of fiord, Boffiord, Lervik.

13. Yacht in shelter at 12.30 at night.

20. (crossed out) Grame Sd, Vilnas Fiord.

19. Norwegian lighthouse. 6½ x 4¼ Stabben Lt. Melle.

Skorpen 25. Study of waves. Staarro. 6½ x 4¼ 25. Waves & coast, Faro, Bru Fiord.

26. Wave study before storm. 6½ x 4¼ 30. Ship at sea. Viking boat.

Monday July 7

29. Man in boat in wet.

29. Man at wheel, wet weather.

30. (2) Old Pilot.

Goldie, Admiral & man at wheel Yacht's boat going away.

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Tuesday July 8

21. 4.0am. View of Molde from sea.

25. Home of Reindeer with ship.

26. Home of Reindeer.

25. Sun & clouds behind mountain ship.

23. Scene on deck. Spoilt.

24. Scene on deck with figures, good sun.

26. Small boat sailing. (illeg)

Wednesday July 9. None.

Thursday July 10 30. Boat in harbour Trondjeim 21. Fort 1.30.

22. Ditto with ship.

27. Trondhjem distance.

Friday 11

26. Back of Christiansund.

25. Ship & Christiansund thro it.

20. Boat good. dev.

19. Boat going away. dev.

Saty 12

M & Goldie in boat (developed).

Carriole with self in it Scene on road with stone.

Scene on road with mountain.

Sunday 13

(Derby). Pointed peak instantaneous.

M etc. Sun on water silver clouds moving.

Monday 14

No photos taken at all.

Tuesday 15

7½ x 5. M etc looking up Fiord.

Wedy 16th July

Boats sailing going along Fiord.

2 Views of Bergen coming in.

2 views of German vessel ‘Zagd’.

2 views of Bergen 7½ x 5. Spoilt.

Thursday July 17th 1 view steamer passing.

2. Yachts sailing.

29 Upright. Men taking in sail.

30. View up Hardanger Fiord 21. Hardanger Fiord. Going up (ship) 22. Hardanger. Shade on mountains. Melderskin.

28. Derby. Shade & sun. Hardanger Falls.

19. Goldie. Profile, looking over side.

23. Waterfall cascade. Mauvanger Fiord, Fureberg.

24. Upright with mountain (illeg) churches.

View of Lervik, sunset.

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Friday July 18.

Before breakfast. View of Lervik.

Before breakfast. View of Lervik church.

View of ditto with small lens.

Scene on deck for cut.

Background ditto.

Saty 19th

2 snapshots for life at sea on deck.

Sunday 20th

4 Elsinore.

Tycho Brae Island.

Fort coming in.

Monday none Tuesday July 22

2 snaps at sea. Evening.

Wedy 23

4 or 5 clouds 2 small ships.

Midnight sun.

2 figures ditto.

Thursday 24

Castle Vaxholm Ship with timber.

Steamer. View of Stockholm. one other.

Friday 25

On shore 2 of gardens.

1 small Derby of gardens.

1 ship & view of Stockholm.

Saty 26

1 Derby of sailors.

Sunday 27

2nd sailors. 1 of self on deck.

Monday 28

1 large (illeg) naval cutter.

1 ditto on boat.

2 small ditto.

Tuesday 29

2 (illeg) leaving Stockholm.

1 Derby of ship (illeg) fogged.

2 upright ships.

1 Large Vaxholm. small house with boat.

View of entrance Sweden large, 1 distance.

Wedy 30

2 waves & 1 ship

Thursday 31

4 of Cronstadt. 1 spoilt.

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1 St Petersburg.

1 Dutch ship.

Friday 1st August. None.

Saty 2

1 Dutch ship & School(?) Mine 1 Large Dutch ship.

Many at St Petersburg.

Sunday 10th

11 photos at Meserino. Mixed.

Soldiers, Gardeners, Cottagers, Church, Inn. Children. Tovilla etc.

Wedy 13th

2 or 3 of St Petersburg going away.

Man o' war & Cronstadt Fort & (illeg) Up with man (illeg)

Friday 15

2 whole plates of waves.

Saty 16

1 of Ljugard.

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