Linley Sambourne's Diary, 1893

LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 aNotes and addresses on front pages: Store Ticket for 1893: 55938 Bell, C. 11 North Bank, Regents Park. N.W. Abbey, E.A. Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire.

Barr, Fk. 8 Hans Road, Brompton S.W. Bolton, E.K. 78 Church St, Chelsea.

Boehm, Sir Edgar Collins, 11 Pont St, S.W. Channing, F.A. 40 Eaton Place S.W. Evans, H. Photographer. 9 Rochester Road, Carshalton S.E. Derben, K. 9 Oakden St, Kennington, S.E. Capper, J.B. Esq, 'The Times'.

Ernest G. Brown, Fine Art Socy.

Ayala, San Rafael, 26 Acol Road, West Hampstead.

Crane, Walter. 13 Holland St, W. Ainger, Canon M.A. 2 Upper Terrace, Hampstead N.W. Bilton Pipe Compy, 14 High Holborn.

Christmas card men: Raphael Tuck & Sons. 24 Coleman Street, City E.C. Marcus Ward & Co Ltd. Oriel House, Farringdon St, E.C. Manager William M.Mackay.

Fletcher, Ada. 60 Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road, W.C. Easton, Maude. Findon House, Fielding Road. (temp) 38 Gratton Road, West Kensington W Harris, Sir Augustus. The Elms, Park Avenue Rd, N.W. Graham Lillie, 2 Jermyn St, S.W. George Findlay Esq, Euston.

Montague. 17 John St, Bedford Row W.C. MacGregor, Archi'd. 126 Campden House, Peel St. Manning, K. Millett, 34 Jervis Road.

Jones, Adrian. 147 Church St, Chelsea S.W. Graham. 11 Lodge Road, Park Road.

Harte, Bret. 15 Upper Hamilton Ter N. Hitchings, H.J Esq. Mr Walter Haslam. 172 Buckingham Palace Rd, S.W. Möller. 10 Upper Hamilton Terrace, N.W. Mrs King. 86 Kennington Road S.E. Masters, Emily. 46 Longford St, Regents Park N.W. James Jones. 226 Euston Rd N.W. Henry Lambert Esq. Secy, G.W.Rly. Le Coq de Lautreppe. 8 Quai de Billy, Paris.

Lehmann R.C. 30 Bury St, St James's, S.W. Orwin, Dr. 15 Weymouth St, Portland Rd. Partridge, J.B. 11 Marlborough Rd N.W. Pormiston & Glass. 17 Bride St, E.C. Papier Fayard et Blayn.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Solomon J.Solomon. 2 St Johns Wood Studios, N.W. Reffell. 78 Conningham Road, Shepherds Bush, W. Vaus & Crampton Lent, Warehouse, Baldwins Gardens, Grays Inn Road, London E.C. CAMERALIST, LONDON. E.T.Reed. 3 St Paul's Studios, W. South Eastern Railway. F.P.Igglesden Esq, 2nd Secy.

Walford, Miss Florence. 98 Gloucester Road, Regents Park N.W. Underwood & Farrant. 51 Haymarket S.W. Kettner's Restaurant du Pavillion, Church St, Shaftesbury Avenue.

'Ten Years Digging in Egypt' by W.M.Flinders Petrie author of 'Pyramids of Gizeh'.

The Religious Trust Socy, 164 Piccadilly, W.

Sunday January 1 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Fine morning, very cold. Club. Heavy snow came on at 11.0 & continued heavily until 4.0pm with intervals. Maud Paxton, Mite, Roy & self went out in it at 3.0pm. Roy snowballing. Most beautiful effects of masses of snow clouds etc. Walked through Pegwell & on to Sicklemore’s etc. Met Mr Weigall. Fagans in to tea. Said goodbye to them. Up in room & worked on Ingram's drawing until dinner. Dined 8.0pm. Did not go out after.

Monday January 2 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Lovely morning. Club. Got to work on Ingrams drawing for cover of Sketch. Worked all day. Began to shade at 3.0pm. Drew in head from Maud Paxton sitting. The Fagans left Ramsgate in snow & cold. Burnand stayed in street & wished M Happy New Year. Told her to look in the papers for something to advantage (knighthood). Roy went for ride on Cob with Purnell leading horse to sea shore. He saw Mr Borradaile & Mr Stone (master at Eton). Worked till 8.0pm. Quiet dinner. Intensely cold.

Tuesday January 3 Prospect Terrace. Up before breakfast early & got on with Ingram's drawing.

Finished it at 9.40. Sent it off by Purnell for 10.0am train for guard to give to Ingram. Breakfast. Club. After got skates out. Photod Mite & Maud Paxton joining hands for cover for Pall Mall. Lovely morning. Ordered cart. Drove to Sicklemore's. Ice spoilt. No good at all. Saw Maud P & Mite & brought them away. They called at Weigalls. Home. Called Burnands 1.15 & arranged to go to the Rink. After Conny Burnand, Milliken, Ethel & Mary B, Mite, Maud Paxton & self & Roy all went to Rink. Skated. F.C.B came & looked on. Talk of Tenniel & Knighthood through Sir Edward Reed. Back to tea at 5.0pm.

Milliken came in. Told me about losing money over roller skates. Up in room.

After fly & went to dine at Mr Banks'. Met Hammonds, Borradailes, Grants etc

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 etc. Fair dinner. Smoke with Banks after & left 10.0. Very cold. Home by fly.

(Red ink across page: Dined at Rev'd E.G.Banks.)

Wednesday January 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Birthday. No one remembered it at home. Put things up at 9.40. Cart took me to station. No knighthood to Tenniel in papers.

Sell. Up to town with F.C.B & Milliken. Cab home. Paid £63 into bank & walked on to skate on Serpentine. Had one hour on Serpentine. Feet ached.

Begging sweeper. Talk to man at ropes about County Council. After decided to go to the Long Water till 4.0. Good skate. Pretty girls. Saw young Russell & after Genl Stracey. Left 4.0 & home. Tea. Changed & on to D.V.G. Good talk.

'Let me alone'. Walked at 6.30 to top of Piccadilly. Cab to P.D. Left with Tenniel. Health drunk. Home 11.45pm. (Red ink: 49th Birthday. Letters from strangers. 4th D.V.) Thursday January 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. No head. Pipe after breakfast. Got boots ready.

Bother with screws in field boots made holes too big. Wire from E.T.Reed to say he could not come. Went at 11.0 to skate on Long Water Kensington Gardens. Left letter D.V. Met Russell going in. Pretty little girls, one specially.

Good skate till 1.0pm. Left & home to lunch. Got to work after on Tommy Atkins & Egyptian Soldier. Worked till 6.0pm. Dressed & on to D.V. Dined & met Bishop Selwyn & wife & daughter. The Bishop lame. Very raw & cold. So so dinner, cigarette after. Went to Savoy Theatre & saw Haddon Hall for 2 nd time. 'A wee bit twirl, a wee bit whirl, a whirl wi' old McCrankie.' Back in fly. Put down at corner of Prince of Wales Terrace. Home 11.55. Bed & read Pyramid book. Got bank book, nearly £800 in credit. (Red ink across page: Dined & went to Haddon Hall.)

Friday January 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am. Breakfast. Wire from M to say not coming.

Got to work on drawing Tommy Atkins & Egyptian Soldier. Lunch. Wire to say Roy could not come up. Boy brought skates reground at 5.15pm. Wrote letters. Decided to dine at home. Tried ruled lines on drawing after Process came out a failure. Finished 8.45pm. Dined at 9.0. Dressed at 10.0 & went 10.30 to Empire Theatre. Saw Mackinlay. No one there. Very dull. Garrick.

Met Campbell Praed. Liqueur of whisky. Broke wine glass & paid for it. Praed asked me to shoot Saty week. Praed, Critchett & self walked on to Drury Lane Theatre for the cutting of the Baddally cake. Met Marsden, Brandon Thomas, Madame Marangue & many others. Kept coat on arm all the time. Had nothing there. Left 1.30. Snowing. Walked to Beefsteak Club. Saw Arthur Blunt writing to M. Brookfield & Elliott in blues. Theatres very bad. Difficulty about cabs. Commissionaire got one. Home 2.50am, 3/6. Bed & glad to get there. The leaving of Alice Spain. No loss. (Red ink across page: Baddelly cake night, Drury Lane.)

Saturday January 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Frost slightly giving. Down. Very dark. Lit candles up for breakfast. Put photos etc away. Went at 11.0 to skate on Long Water Kensington Gardens with fresh ground skates. Saw again pretty young girl

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 lovely eyes & legs. Old Mr & Mrs Holmes & family. Invited Roy to lunch. Miss Middleton. Russell again etc. Back home at 1.45. Changed boots. Lunch. ½ bottle '74 wine, Ivory. Left 2.45. Drove straight Victoria. Down by Granville with F.C.B. Boy stood by carriage door. Talk of S.R.I etc. Slept to Faversham.

Purnell & Roy met me. Home. New Swiss servant not yet arrived. Up in room.

Dinner 8.0. Bottle Burgundy. New Swiss maid. Louise Blondell. Got to work at once as if had been years with us. (Cutting glued in: Death of Edwin Albert Budding. Times 13th.)

Sunday January 8 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.45. Down 9.15. At 7.45am rode mare & Roy Cob to Margate & back along sands. Back 12.0. Developed ¼ plates with Rocker & Soda. Very wet day. Up in room after & wrote letters till dinner. Bottle of Dumeny. Maud went to Bessie Hollingshead's. Rather naughty & self willed.

Roy in afternoon hurt Barney's leg by knocking him with a cushion. Knocked it on one side. M came up & told me. After dinner smoked ½ cigar & slept till 12.15am in chair. Poor Barney up in our room in his basket. (Red ink: Barney lamed by Roy.) Monday January 9 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Maids very early. Put riding things on. Rapid thaw. Breakfast. Club. No Times. Wrote 3 letters. At 10.30 rode with Roy to Margate. Roy jumped Cob. Glass of stout at Westalls in Margate & rode on in snow past Drapers. Boys out of school. Would not go down slippery hill to look where Roy skated. Snow heavy & mare balled up badly. Through Broadstars & on to sands again. Roy jumped Cob over small wall. Home.

Lunch. Played Roy 100 up after. Beat Roy. Burnand in Club. Printed photos taken last Tuesday. Gave Roy 1/3 to go to the Rink. Off to see Cuthbert Burnand. After got to work on cover for Pall Mall Magazine. Dined quietly after. Burgundy. Did not go out. Slept. Cold came on. Very hard frost.

Tuesday January 10 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club after. In morning early rode with Roy as far as point seeing Margate by outfall. Roy jumped wrecked mast. Girl shooting. Rain. Girl in crevasse of rock. Coming back saw F.C.B & Cuthbert at Kingsgate. Rode back with them. Good gallop. Roy jumped Cob at Broadstairs. Cuthbert amazed. F.C.B & Cuthbert then rode on & were lost to us. Home 1.30. Game of billiards after at Club. Owed 30. Roy won by 3. Back home. Tired. Rested in deck chair & read 'La Debacle'. Went on with rough design for cover of Pall Mall Magazine. Could not finish it. Dinner at 7.0pm.

Madame dined. After M, Mite, Madame & Roy all went to see Mr Trevor's play. Conny B acted. Left by self. In room after. Finished cigar & after worked on P.M.M. M back 10.30pm. Worked till 11.0pm. Bed. Finished rough sketch.

Wednesday January 11 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.30am. Lovely sunrise. Roy very slow dressing.

Breakfast. Cart up 9.15. M & Roy got off by 9.40am, S.E.Rly with Mr Gould.

Club. Cart back by 10.40am. Went up by 10.0 train alone with F.C.B. Miss Chard in next carriage. Victoria. Back to Club. Gave Cole Xmas box. Wired mother Albert Hall Mansions. After to lunch at Rules. M & Roy there before

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 me. My letter not arrived for Bayliss. Lunch ½ doz Whitstables, steak etc etc.

On to Pantomime 1.15. Saw Latham. 3 front stalls. Hop o' my Thumb. Vulgar Marie Lloyd & Marie Loftus. Little Tich as Good Giant. Stayed through to Harlequinade. Out & walked out of way to Charing X. past Tooles Theatre.

Sent M & Roy with portmanteau in hansom to her mother's. Went to Club.

Saw Furniss. Heard of death of Hawley Smart. Walk to Punch D. Saw fight between 2 little boys in Drury Lane. One bumped others head on ground who afterwards went for him. P.D. 7.45, nothing important. F.C.B, H.L, E.T.R, B.P, E.I.M, P.A, Hy F, A.à B, self, J.T. Cab on to Garrick. Got bags. Another on to Kensington. Found M & Roy asleep in spare room. Roy on sofa. Fire down.

Bed 1.15am. (Cutting glued in: Death of William Wiseman. Times 13th inst.)

(Red ink across page: M & Roy in town. Went to Pantomime.)

Thursday January 12 Stafford Terace. Up at 8.0. M & Roy in room. Roy had very hot bath. Down & got to work on Crinoline & Sea Serpent. Very dark in morning. Roy photod me with umbrella etc, mesmerist. All I could do to develope it. Underexposed.

Roy & M went & lunched at Mother's & after to see Maskelyne & Cook.

Developed plates & on to work after lunch. Mr Clement Shorter, editor of Illustrated London News, called on me. Success of cover drawing for 'The Sketch'. Mr Desprez called in morning. Told him Mr Montague Guest had drawing. M & Roy back 5.30. Dressed & off in cab 6.30 for Savoy Restaurant.

Called Slater, shut. Very good dinner. Roy bad form. Called a lady 'That person'. Frightful bill £2.17.0, 4/3 waiter. Saw Fritz Jackson. Roy & M in cab to Lyceum. Self walked. Went through King Lear. Self for 2 nd time. Charles Dickens & family in box. Mrs Turner (Conny's Mrs T) in stalls. Stayed to end.

Crowd & great difficulty in getting cab. 1/s to commissionaire. Home. Lovely fire. Supper. M very thirsty. Tucked Roy up. Read Pyramids & bed at 1.0am.

(Red ink across page: Went to King Lear after dining at Savoy Restaurant.)

Friday January 13 Stafford Terrace. Up with M at 8.30. Roy sleepy. Breakfast, after got to work on Crinoline & Sea Serpent. M & Roy in room roasting figs etc. Roy had his coins out & books. Lunch. M & Roy left in cab at 2.40pm for Charing X & went down with Mr Gould. Worked on & finished drawing by 4.20pm. Wire from Montague Guest refusing shirt drawing. Left in cab 4.40. Caught 5.15pm train.

Cold. Read Strand Magazine. Roy met me on Ramsgate platform. Cart home.

Dinner 8.0pm. Burgundy. Mite out at Mrs Grant's for a dance. Cigar & slept in chair till 12.15am. Bed. Death of Sir William Wiseman in 'Times'. He attended court martial on the loss of the Howe with a cold & went home & died. Also death of poor Edwin A.Budding (Blossom) old friend at Penn's.

Saturday January 14 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.30. Bath. Breakfast. Roy & sausages. Club. Wrote models. At 10.20 on mare, Roy on Cob. Purnell hurt his hands with mare.

Started for meet. Bye day. Very cold & ice on the roads. Turned back at bridge. Back throuh Sicklemores. Down through Ramsgate & on to sands.

Tide too high. Up past Mariners & on to cliff past Wills's house & Montefiores to Broadstairs. Very cold. Glass of stout at the Tartar Frigate & on to sands.

Rode to Kingsgate & back along sands. Home 1.45pm. This was Roy's last

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 ride with me in his Christmas holidays. The hounds met after all & had a bit of a run in the marshes. Lunch. Played Roy two 100 up games of billiards. Beat him both. Made 31 break. Edwards (solic'r) in room. After developed the last of Maud Paxton & 6 ¼ plates taken Sep 4.92, 2 plates taken last Tuesday of M & Roy. Purnell up in room said Barney's leg was out. Tried to put it in. Sent letter for young Doctor Hicks. Roy & M went out into the town for letters etc etc. Posted drawings to Montague Guest & Maud's to Illustrated London News. Wrote letters. Dr Hicks came & saw Barney. Dinner. Bottle Saumur.

After sleep till 11.45pm. Very cold. Great gale & wreck on Goodwins. Life boat went out at 8.0.

Sunday January 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dressed. Very hard frost. Slight snow. Club. Met Edwards, Hunks etc. After in room & printed photos. Letter from F.C.B about libel on Borax. Took 2 profile portraits of Roy & Maud. Lunch. Went to stable.

Led horses for ride. Could not get farther than wood in Queen St. Turned back. Very hard frost. Ship on Admiralty pier at Dover. Bathed prints. M & Roy a failure. Wrote letters. Diary. Tea. Hoods expected to tea. Saw F.C.B coming along. Went back with him to Club. Met Sooby. 'Well Mr Sooby & how are you'. Back. Wrote letters etc. Dinner. Bottle of Burgundy. Shaken up. After went round with Roy to F.C.B's. Miss Hollingshead there. Had game of spinning race horses. Roy won 1/s. Left 10.45. Home. Bed. (Red ink: Very severe frost.)

Monday January 16 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Very cold. Breakfast. Purnell requested an interview about the cook. Club. Wrote letters. At 12.45 lunched & after went to station. Got skates & went to Margate. Snow began 1.0pm. Gale & snow.

Very cold. Band on ice. Roy saw Nathan. Skated till 3.30, back. Very cold & wet coats. Glass of hot grog at Margate. Back to Ramsgate. Changed things.

Tea. Went & had hair cut, Roy also. Great snow. Went to Hills & got tray etc.

Saw gun & bayonet. Went to Club. Watched game between old Wotton & another. Had 100 up at 6.45. Beat Roy. Home to dinner. Bottle of Saumur.

Did not go out after. Sleep in room & bed after. Maud went to amateur play at Weigalls. Had to speak about it.

Tuesday January 17 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Snow & very cold. No ride. In morning wrote letters. After decided to skate again. Lunched 1.0 & after left with Roy ¼ past.

Doubt about catching train. Bought Telegraph. On to ice at Margate. Sloppy & all spoilt. Marsden Cobb & family. Cobb good skater. Roy would not apologise to small boys. Not good form. Skating coachman. Little girl like Lady Nottage.

Left & back by 3.45 train. Home. Tea after. Wrote many letters, sent cheque for coals. Dinner 7.45. Dressed. Bottle of Saumur. Roy's last evening.

Crackers. After at 9.0pm went to Club wth Roy. Saw Captain Vaile & Wotton playing billiards. Roy & self 100 up. Roy won by 7 points. Left 10.0. M still up.

Slept in chair till 12.45pm. Bed.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Wednesday January 18 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.45. Bath. Put things up & after breakfast Club. No letters. Gave Roy £2.10.0. After cart round at 10.45. Raining. On to station & up to town with F.C.B & Connie B. Mrs Harmsworth in next carriage. Very pretty woman. Victoria. Slush. After cab to Kensington. Called D.V. Home 12.30. Photographer (Mr Evans) immediately after me. Kept me till 2.0.

Flashlight. Took 6 plates. Lunch. He left 2.30. Put whole plate camera up etc etc. No Edwards plates. Wrote letters. Diary. Tea. Dressed 5.0pm. Did not go to Bedford Gardens. Called 5.50 D.V. Better. Left 6.40. Cab to Bouverie St. Slow Punch dinner. F.C.B, Guthrie, Lucy, Reed, Bernard Partridge, Lawrence B, Furniss, Lehmann, à Beckett, self & J.T. Lucy's 1st appearance since a magistrate. Chaff. Talk of my coachman's cockade. Two good subjects.

Suggested Parrot & Monkey. Got Descent into the Maelstrom for self. Left in Tenniel's cab. Put down at Isthmian. Home by cab. 2 women fighting at Albert Gate opposite baracks. Bed 12.5am. S.E Rly from Ramsgate. (Red ink: 5th D.V & last.)

Thursday January 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Bath. Down. Letters from Ramsgate. One forwarded from Etty Pettigrew which arranged for L P sitting at Bedford Gardens for today. Sent Emma off with wires to Bedford Gardens & Lily Pettigrew. After put plates up etc etc. Sent boy for change. Gone 25 minutes.

Cab to 54 Bedford Gardens. Studio warmed all right. Put up camera & arranged drapery stand etc. No L.P. Stayed 1 hour & then left. Very much annoyed. Home by 1.0. Had sent boy with skates to be ground. Lunch. After Lord Frederick Hamilton called. Stayed 1 hour. Whisky & apollinaris. After gentleman Mr Williamson from Illustrated London News. Another 1½ hours.

After at last got to work & skemed Descent into the Maelstrom. Left off at 6.15. Dressed & left at 7.0 for Fancourt Barnes, 7 Queen Anne St. Old Barnes, F.C.B, Tenniel, Adams, Fancourt B & self. So so dinner. Chaff about stone heavier. Rowlandson's plates of London. Very interesting. Tenniel amused. Played billiards. Noble Smith in after. F.C.B played. F.C.B & Barnes beat Adams & self at 50 points. After Noble Smith & Barnes beat Adams & self 2 games. Old B's weary stories. No Mrs Barnes. F.C.B Adams & self left.

Put F.C.B down at Albert Gate. Home by cab. Hummed at 3/s. Home & bed 1.0am. (Red ink across page: Dined at Fancourt Barnes's.)

Friday January 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Later. Clock stopped. Letter from Mackinlay.

Breakfast. Tap sent. Lovely bright morning. Wrote diary. Got to work on Descent into the Maelstrom 10.0am. Worked hard all day & just got done to dress & take cab to John Mackinlay's, 7 Stanhope Place, Marble Arch. Sent him 2 wires. Dined. Lady Hallé & Miss R.I there. After went in cab with Mackinlay to hear Prof Dewar lecture on Liquid Air at the Royal Institution.

Most interesting. Liquid oxygen. Sleepy. Woke up & most entertaining. After to reception. Saw Miss Clarke, Mrs Kemp etc etc. Lovely rooms, all tapestry & Louis XVI furniture. Talk to Miss R.I, Prof Downs. Good whiskey. Cigar. Left 12.0. Cab home. (Red ink across page: Dinner at Mr Mackinlay's.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Saturday January 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Rather head on. Down. Breakfast & at 10.15 went up to Bedford Gardens. At 10.35 to 1.15 photod Ada Fletcher for cover for 'The Sketch' & Pall Mall Magazine. Home. Lunch. Put phos away & at 2.45 drove in hansom to Victoria station. Met F.C.B. Evans there. Blunt late. F.C.B & self down together. Joke of Sittingbourne. Arrived Ramsgate. Arthur long time sending wires. Home. Developed 2 plates before dinner. Last of developer. Dinner. Rosie Burnand in. 2 bottles of Ayala. Smoke & music after.

Developed another plate & spoilt it. Bed at 12.0pm. (Red ink: Arthur Blunt came down.)

Sunday January 22 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.10am. M down & in room. Breakfast. Club. Very wet & disagreable morning. Back & developed plates by Pyro & glycerine developer. At work all morning. After lunch rode Cob at 2.15 from stable & went to Sandwich. Met no one. Cob fresh coming back. Good ride. Felt better.

Back to tea. Blunt had a walk. After developed all photos by Rocher etc.

Wrote letters & at 7.0 dressed. Fly round & Arthur Blunt, M, Mite & self all went to F.C.B's to dine. Very good dinner. Miss Hollingshead there.

Hammonds & Borradailes in after. Arthur sang. Dances etc. All back in fly.

Arthur sat up talking etc. Bed 12.30. Damp night. (Red ink: Dined at Mr Burnand's.)

Monday January 23 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30. Dull morning. Dressed for hunting. Club etc. At 10.15 started from stables on Cob. Saw F.C.B at church. Purnell & self rode to meet at St Nicholas. Changed horses at farm beyond Cleve Court.

Overtaken by Mr & Mrs Clarke. Caught hounds 11.30 near Sarre. Good run for 2 hours. Purnell left 1.0pm. Saw Col Copeland, Tom Mayhew etc etc. Left at Monckton, 1.30. Lunch & walked mare to past Mount Pleasant, very stiff afterwards. Home by 3.0. Up in room. Maud had done delightful drawing of 'The governess mama said would not do'. Very tired. Rested in chair etc.

Blunt round. After bathed prints & put them. Wrote many letters. At 7.30 dressed. Dinner 8.0. Arthur Blunt, Conny B, M, Mite & self. 2 bottles Ayala.

After at 9.15 went in fly to Burnands. Race game. Exactly quits. Blunt lost 1/6.

Hammonds there. Maud's drawing shewn. Blunt sang 'I once had a sweet little doll dears'. Home 11.45. Arthur sat up talking till 1.0am. Talk of P in afternoon. Duke of Beaufort etc etc. Mite awake. (Red ink across page: Went hunting. Meet at St Nicholas.)

Tuesday January 24 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.10am room. Arthur Blunt did not get up till 9.30. Bath.

Printed photos & breakfast. Punch etc. Club. Wrote letters & read 'Times'.

Blunt round. Sent Purnell to F.C.B about Maud's drawing. Left at 10.50. Up in room. Philip B round with note. Saw William Agnew. Blunt left 11.30. Got to work on drawing for Sketch, 2nd figure. Also did rough drawings for Mr Desprez. Lunch. At 2.0 rode Cob to Westcliff. Past Montefiores, round through Broadstairs & past Reading Street, back by St Peters. Saw Mrs Fox. Home 4.0. Up in room. Wrote order for photo things & after got to work. Miss

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 O'Connell etc to tea. M up in room. Began diary for '93. Sent Roy cheque.

Finer day. No rain. (Red ink: Arthur Blunt left.)

Wednesday January 25 Prospect Terrace. Up at 7.45. In room. Bright sunny morning. Letters up.

Found meet at Woodchurch. Decided not to go by the 10.0am. Went to Club & stable before breakfast. Wrote wires. Got off at 10.15. Rode across diagonal path & out of my way. Dense sea fog. Annoyed with Purnell.

Misdirected & arrived Woodchurch 11.20. No hounds or sound of them.

Pottered about till 12.15 & rode home by 1.0am. Up in room. Lunch 1.45. Cart round 2.30. M would not go. Sea fog. After up in room. Regret very much did not go up in morning. Went in cart to station caught the 3.35. Very much in pain with P. Victoria. Cab to Garrick. Saw Walter Lacy & Arthur Stirling.

Shewed them Maud's drawing. Sent it off by boy. Saw old Wyndham & Percy Reeve. Walked to Punch dinner. Called Servin. Got Maud's drawings. Quiet dinner. F.C.B, Guthrie, Lucy, Reed, Milliken, Phil Agnew, D.M, Furniss, Lehmann, self & J.T. 2 cuts. Opening of Parl, Sailor & bottle, self Egypt subject. Chaffed Lucy about taking shooting. Long talk. F.C.B & Furniss off to Bal Masqué. Left at 11.50 after talk to Milliken. Cab home. Called Garrick.

Bed 12 35. Read Pyramids. Furniss said at dinner 'I havn't done with Sala yet'.

Thursday January 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Letter from D.V.G. Breakfast. Times & at 9.30 got to work on drawing of little Khedive & Britannia. Boy at 11.0. Photod him & Emma. Developed by lunch. Sent boy to Barkers & after to Tenniel's.

Messenger from Lord F.H. Signed deed of release from Simpson. Rain came on 2.30pm. No afternoon at D.V. After lunch got to work & on till 6.0pm when dressed. Wet night. Took cab to Garrick calling at Butts & Haymarket. Garrick at 7.10, Tenniel 7.15. Ordered dinner. 2 bottles Pomery. Sat next Ashley Sterry & Beetle. Milliken in at 7.40. Left Club at 8.25, on to Haymarket. Large left front stage box. Saw Hypatia (Hypachier) Dull. Did not recognise Mervyn.

After went round to see Tree. Left 11.0 & had ½ hr at Empire Theatre. Saw no one. On to Garrick. Met Bangs & Campbell Praed. Wrote 6 letters. Left at 12.45 & home in cab. Umbrella stuck in door flange. Article in St James's Gazette on me. (Red ink across page: Dined at the Garrick. Went to see Hypatia.)

Friday January 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0. Dull misty morning. No letter from M. Why? Was written but never came. Got to work 9.45am. Put in troop ship, Khedive & Britannia after. Wired M at 12.0. Clark brought saddle. Letter from D.V. Worked on. Thought I should finish by 7.0. Did not till 10.45pm. Meal after & bottle Pol Roger 1880. Drank it all. Sat in chair until 1.0 after & then to bed.

Tired & done up. Edgar went down to Thanet. Lunched at Prospect Terrace.

Met Mrs Clarke. Letter adrift from M. Went to Sheffield Terr.

Saturday January 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Put phos away. Breakfast & after got away at 9.25.

Could not get 4 wheeler. Hansom very particular about his cab. Took down

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 case of wine of Vitalis also M's hat & lady's saddle. Bought I.L News, Harper etc. My article in Illustrated. Went down with 3 others in carriage. Cold wind.

Gent opposite talked of Charterhouse etc. Got out at Margate. Mite & Madame met me. Sent things home in cart & walked. Lunch at 2.0. Rode Cob along sands to Margate & home past cemetery. Flooded fields & Nash. Very cold wind. Pretty little girl near Mascalls. Purnell wanted help. Tea. Tilda at Prospect Terrace. Up in room 5.0pm. Barney still lame. Wrote till 6.0pm. After worked till 7.45 on 2nd drawing for Ingram. Dined 8.0. M, Mite, Tilda, self.

Bottle of Capri. Bed 11.0. Gale of wind from the south.

Sunday January 29 Prospect Terrace. Up at 9.10am. Breakfast 9.35. Gale of wind from south.

Bright sun at intervals. Club. Up in room. 10.30. At 11.50 got to work on Ingram drawing for Sketch 2nd pose. Letter from F.C.B about Prince. Worked till 1.30. M & Mite in room. After lunch & at 2.10 rode mare across diagonal path, Tinkers Hole, Margate. Saw Mr Guscotte & family in deep mourning.

Spoke to him. Home along sands. Trotted from Margate to chalk path at Kingsgate. Lovely ride. Obliterated by L.S. at old nook. Home by 4.45. Tea. Mite going to Mr Gould's. Up in room, worked. M came up in room. Retraced figure & got it all right on other side of cardboard. Worked till 7.45. Dressed.

Wrote Swain & Platinotype compy. Dined 8.0. Read Review of Reviews.

Bottle of Saumur. Did not go out after dinner. Mite wanted to go to Burnands.

Mite played very well on piano. Smoked 1 cigar. Slight sleep & bed at 11.0 sharp. Very painful with P all evening & also at night, also awake. Dream of lions etc etc.

Monday January 30 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.15. Room. Breakfast. After Club. Wrote Palatine Company, Paul Tayler's, Gammages etc. Times. Up in room 10.30. M had Purnell round with side saddle on mare. Stirrup leather broke. Got to work again after writing diary at 10.45am. Barney in room. Worked on 2 nd Sketch figure. Put in head successfully. Mite in room, set her to work on drawing of figure from Kate Manning. Lunch. After at 2.5 M got on mare for ride. To stables & mounted Cob & we both rode to Sandwich. Sale at ½ way house.

Mare went well, M enjoyed her ride. Sandwich 3.30. Back home. M frightened mare wanted to gallop. Home 4.45. Met Burnand at gate. Up in room & got on with drawing. M in deck chair. Worked till 7.30. Sent cheque to Beefsteak, Inland Revenue etc. Dinner. M got up unwell & went to bed. Ride upset her.

Wire from Barker. After dinner (Burgundy) Mite & self went to Burnands.

F.C.B won 10/s from Squire Hammond at race game. Self & Mite lost 2/s.

Pool won by very plain Marmie there. Mrs Buckmaster there. Left at 10.40.

Home. Slept in chair till 1.0am. Bed. Letter from E.T.Reed. Married. (Red ink st across page: M's 1 ride since 1888 on mare.)

Tuesday January 31 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.15. Got hunting things on. Breakfast. M stiff, better.

Confusion at breakfast, letter returned. Kept at Sheffield Terrace. Club.

Purnell went on with mare to meet at Sandwich. Self at 10.0 hacked Cob on.

Saw F.C.B coming out of church. Got to Sea Mark exactly at 11.0. Changed horses. Mal apropos remark from Col Copeland about Jumbo's head band.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Found hare. Good run. Purnell left after 20 minutes. Talk to Macnamara (on railway commission). After 1¼ hour's run killed hare not far from St Nicholas.

Left at 1.0. Rode part way back with a Mr Percival. Walked on eating lunch & smoked cigar past neglected farm house & on to Cleve Court. Heard horse & hounds behind. On to Ramsgate Road & through Sicklemores home. Very stiff. Home 2.45pm. M & Maud going out to Warre's. Smell of carbolic. Tilda a cold. Changed. Up in room on deck chair. Read Wicks's book. Poor trash.

Tea. Worked till 7.15 on I.L.N 2nd figure. Purnell up. Put in St Paul's & dressed. Round to Club for cigar at 8.0. The Banks's dined with us. Brought book on Hablot K.Browne. 2 bottles Ayala, cigars, whisky. Asleep in chair till 12.45. (Red ink across page: Went hunting. Good day. Meet at Sea Mark.)

Wednesday February 1 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.10. Lovely bright warm sun. Decided not to go up early train. Club. Back in room & got on with drawing for The Sketch 2 nd pose.

Put in St Pauls & red letters of writing. Maud up in room. Lunch. Bother about cart not coming up to time. Sent Maud to stable very reluctantly. Got off by train 3.35. Saw Algy Bustard taking his boy back to school. Horrible man with a rasping cough all way to Victoria. Cab to Garrick. Wrote letter to Shorter.

Took it on & called & saw him. I complained about nose of figure in The Sketch. On to P.D. Burnand, Reed, B.P, Milliken, L.B, Hy F, Lehmann, self, J.T. Chaff about cockade. Furniss as usual bad form & impertinent. No subject for me. Suggested plough subject. Left at 12.15. Walked with Milliken B.P & Furniss. Furniss & self to Club past Lyceum. He told me about tour.

Called for bags & cab home by 1.30. Good fire. Letter from Montague Guest.

Thursday February 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. No subject. Nothing in Times. Got to work & did small drawing of beaters for Lehmann's paper. Finished it at 3.0. Boy from Milliken with Lighthouse subject. Sent boy to Mr Tenniel with ploughs. After put Rouge et Noir in Mrs Mempes book. Began Lighthouse subject. Sent boy to Milliken. Wrote letters & dressed at 7.0. Left 7.45 & cab to Beefsteak Cub. Raining. Dined. Lord Onslow there. Long talk with Leslie Ward about salaries etc etc. Left ten. Walked to Empire. Saw Mr Slater. Met C.B. After to Garrick.

Wrote letters. Walter Lacy asleep in chair. Down in smoking room. Saw Wicks, Toole, Gilbert RA, Beerbohm Tree, Hare, young Bancroft etc. Left 1.30. Had 3 liqueurs whiskey. Put Wicks down at Sloane St. Home 2.30 bed.

Read paper. Low fire. (Red ink acoss page: Dined Beefsteak Club.) (Cuttings glued in: Maria Theresa, widow of late Peter Orr; Colonel Sir Walter Bartlett.

'Times' Feb 6th.)

Friday February 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Wrote Desprez & Mrs Mempes. Got to work at 10.0 on Lighthouse & Electric Light. Worked on. Found I could finish & catch the 5.15 train. Lunch. Finished at 4.15. Dressed & left in cab 4.35pm.

Caught 5.15. Bad with P. Read most interesting article in The Century on Alexander the Great's sarcophagus. One man got out Faversham. Cart met me. Home 8.0. Dined. Bottle of Burgundy. Sleepy after dinner. Bed at 11.30.

Very dark in London, gas all day. At 12.0 to 3.0pm as black as midnight. Fog up above not below. Poor Mrs Ingram died of diptheria. (Cuttings glued in:

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Lucy wife of Charles Ingram; Algernon son of Edward Sartoris. 'Times' Feb 6th.) Poor Mrs Ingram died of diptheria.

Saturday February 4 Prospect Terrace. Up later 8.20. Very sleepy in morning. Bath & Club after breakfast. Bright fine morning. Cold. At 10.20 went to stables & got Cob. Sent Purnell on before. Rode past Cliffs End to Bye day to Collards. Past 2 men walking. Saw mare at Minster. Got to Collards at 11.40. Meet at 12.0. Had glass of curacoa etc. Introduced to Mrs Macnamara. Handsome woman. Mrs Martin. Thornton's man bucked off. Purnell rode Cob to hounds. Found hare & run about hop gardens etc. Across road & down by old hop poles. Back came on so dreadfully painful had to knock off. No good. Left hounds running near Sarre. Again saw 2 men. Walked mare through Monkton & Minster home. Saw place where she fell down 3 years ago. Very cold east wind. Eat lunch. Left hounds 1.0pm. Home 2.35. Back awful. Sat in chair up in room.

Tea. Put out work. Got to work. M read Idler. Great pain & inconvenience from back. Dinner 7.45. Did not dress. Bessie Hollinghead dined. 1½ bottles of Capri. After dinner slept. M rubbed back in bed. Talk of the Harmsworths.

Bed 10.45pm. (Red ink across page: Hunted Bye day. Back so bad & painful had to leave off at Monkton.)

Sunday February 5 Prospect Terrace. Up at 9.0. Had back rubbed. Lovely bright sun. Cold. Poor breakfast. Bad sausages. Dry fish. Club. Union Jacked card for P.D.Edwards in Club. Home. Up in room. Put in marks for drawing of Sketch. Changed things. Rubbed Ellimans embrocation in back. Lunch. At 2.15 rode Cob round St Lawrence. Past Mascalls across Hare & Hounds, St Peters, Callis Court, Broadstairs & home through Dumpton. Boys school all over place. Thoughts of Richardson's house, Broadstairs. Saw Tilda in town. Home. Very cold.

Freezing hard. Mrs Burnand there. Up in room. Changed. Tea. Mary B came in. Wrote diary. Mare not very well. Got on with Sketch drawing till 8.0pm.

Quiet evening. Dinner. Bed early after. F.C.B dined with Duke of Fife to meet H.R.H. Took sketches. (Red ink: Set in much colder. Frost.)

Monday February 6 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Still very cold. Club. 'Times', 4 deaths of friends on 2nd & 3rd inst. In morning got on with Sketch design. Shaded head, hair etc.

Not so much a success as hoped. Lunch. At 2.15 M & self rode. M rode Cob for 1st time. Went past St Lawrence on to Reading St & home by Upton & along terrace by East Cliff. Very cold coming home. M not comfortable in saddle. Back 4.30. Tea. Got on with drawing for Sketch. Worked till 8.0pm.

Dinner. Quiet evening & bed.

Tuesday February 7 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. Wet morning. Told Purnell would not go to meet. When out altered my mind as it was quite mild. Walked round to stable & got on mare from house at 10.30. Saw old man with F.C.B's Cob. Told him was going across diagonal path. Pushed along. Met a Frenchman. Got to meet just at 11.5. Found hare & rattling run. Dr Clark & self had hounds all our own way. Round by cemetery & Lidden etc. Woodruffe on horse which

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 reared up. Finally killed hare at cottage near Shallows. In about Sangsters.

Burnand out. Talk with him. Went into Westwood. Glass of Champagne. Left at 1.0. Home. Had lunch. Boiled beef, very good. In afternoon got on with drawing for Sketch. Finished the lower part carefully. Quiet dinner. Did not go out after. Most lovely mild day. Went into Club at 2.0pm. Wrote letters. Saw F.C.B. Remarked on pipe. Bed after snooze in chair. M, Tilda & Mite went to the Wills's. (Red ink across page: Capital old fashioned ride with harriers.

Killed at Shallows.)

Wednesday February 8 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. At 10.0 M & self went for ride along sands. Out of wind. M enjoyed it immensely. Cob went well. Back by 12.0 & went on to finish drawing of the Sketch, 2 nd cover. Got done by 3.15pm. Cart round & took me to station with Cob. Caught 3.35. Young Newman who I met at Lucas's last year or rather in 1891 got in. Got out Westgate. Up to town. Cab to Garrick. Met Wicks in hall. Shewed him Sketch cover. Walked to I.L.N office. Left drawing. On to P.D. Good. F.C.B, A.G, F.W.L, B.P, E.I.M, L.B, D.M, A à B, self & J.T. Poor subject for me very.

Stayed & talked with E.I.M. Lawrence Bradbury spoke to E.I.M about Furniss's work. Left 12.20. On to Garrick. Got bags & home. Fire. No worry letters. (Cutting glued in: Death of Lady Hilda Higgins. Times Mon 13th inst.)

This is Lady Hilda Finch-Hatton who I met on John Penn's yacht 'The Lara' in 1870, then a young girl of 14 or 13.

Thursday February 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15. Slight head. Breakfast. Wrote many letters. After got to work on Donkey & 2 chaffs. Poor subject. Lunch. At 3.30pm Lord Frederick Hamilton & Sir Douglas Straight came. Had to make excuses.

Delayed me. Dressed at 5.0. Cab in heavy rain. Called North Bank. On to dine at Beefsteak Cub. Saw Corney Grain & others. Tom Graham, Dr Bird, Sir Augustus Webster etc. After Archie Stuart Wortley. Took Leslie Ward to Pavilion. Saw Chevalier & Bessie Bellwood etc. Out. Heavy gale & rain.

Walked to Arts & Letters Club. Went in for 1st time. Man walking up & down restlessly. Cab home. Fire. Read Pyramids. Mr Montague Guest sent cheque £5. (Red ink: Dined Beefsteak.)

Friday February 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down. Got to work 9.30am. Got on with stupid cut of Ass between 2 Fodders. Swain sent photos of costers etc at 12.0 noon.

Finished at 4.15. Dressed. Letter from Fk Barr to say he had paid ½ yr rent in, £326. Caught boy with sausages. Cab to Victoria. Bought companion to Strand Magazine. Also Nº of Westminster Gazettes. One stout man in, got out at Chatham. Purnell met me, carried bag up. Dinner. Bottle of Burgundy.

Cigar. Bed at 11.0pm.

Saturday February 11 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0. St G & the D. Dressed. Lighter suit for hunting.

Breakfast, one sausage. Club. Wrote 4 letters. After M & self at 10.15 went over Montague Williams's house & the end house in Royal Crescent. Liked Montague Williams's. Other no good. At 11.15 went on Cob to meet at

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Sportsman. Saw Florry Hood etc etc. Mayhew hunting hounds. Spoke to Butterfield, Macnamara etc etc. Rain came on. Talk to Mrs Martin Thomson.

Found hare. Pottered about. Left at 1.30. Home by 2.5pm. Lunch. Louisa's omelette. In afternoon M & self went over 2 Nelson Crescent & 17 Paragon.

Paragon 1st. Dreary & desolate. 2 women waiting for keys. Heavy rain came on. Back home & up in room. Wrote diary. Got to work on Pall Mall Magazine.

1st tracing of 2 figures. Failure. Doubts. Dined 8.0pm. Bottle of Saumur.

Barney up in room. Snooze. Bed 11.15pm. News by letter of illness of E.T.Reed. Sent Hills cheque for £4.5.0.

Sunday February 12 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30am. Breakfast 9.0. Bright sunny morning. Club. At 10.30 in room & blocked out design for P.M.Magazine. Put paper round etc.

Burnand sent to ask me to ride. Phillip in room. Lunch. Waited for Cob 25 minutes. Walked round to stable. Got on Cob & rode along sands to name in rock. Obliterated & left L.S. deep in chalk. Back. Rode up & looked at Bleak H. Home 4.30. Tea. At 5.0 dressed. At work on P.M.M. Mite in room. Dinner 8.0pm. Bottle Saumur. M, Tilda, Mite & self all went to Burnands after dinner.

Dr Tamplin & Dr Robson Roose there. Young fellows. Mr & Mrs Borradaile etc etc. Won 18/s at Race game. Gave it to Mite. Conny Burnand's birthday. Left at 10.45. Home. Whiskey. Bed 11.45. Duller & colder in afternoon.

Monday February 13 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.10am. Breakfast. Dull raw morning. Club. Wrote Henderson etc. Back 10.30. Got on with drawing for Pall Mall Magazine. Mite in room. Worked till 1.30. Lunch. At 2.0 dressed. Went for ride with M at 2.15 along sands. Looked at Bleak H. Along past Kingsgate to Captain Digby. After through St Peters & home past Banks's school. 1 st view of The Elms. House with garden. Saw Miss Grant. Home. Thought of Albion House. Tea. Up in room 5.0. P.M. Worked till dinner 8.0. After dinner (bottle Italian Chianti) read paper on medieval country houses. Cigar. M & Tilda duet. Snooze. Bed 11.30. Gladstone introduces Home Rule Bill. Same as 1886.

Tuesday February 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Gale of wind & rain. Decided not to go to meet at Birchington. Club. Back in room at 10.15. Worked all morning on Pall Mall cover drawing. Bothered with head very much. Lunch. Blowing hard. At 2.15 M & self walked to East Cliff & looked over St Claud, Albion House & 2 houses in Wellington Crescent. Pimply faced Something Smith. St C good views but stuffy & narrow. Back. Small smack struggling to get into harbour.

M's hat blew off. Caught it by chance. Home 3.30. Put in head & tea 5.0pm.

Up in room. M did not come up to read. Dined at 8.0pm. Bottle of Asti. Pipe after. Out of cigars. Bed 11.30pm.

Wednesday February 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club. Sea fog. Back in room without seeing Times. Got death of Lady Hilda F.H. Went on with drawing for P.M.M. Difficulty with 2nd head. Worked till lunch time. Did not ride. Lunch. After photod Mite & M for hands & got off by 3.35pm train. Little man got out at Faversham. Up to town. Train slowed at Penge. Club. Saw Beetle &

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Lawrence Bradbury. On to P.D. Small dinner. Guthrie, Lucy, Milliken, L.B, Lehmann, self & J Tenniel. Suggested the Lullaby & also cut for self, There’s no place like Home. Good. Left after talk with E.I.M. Cab to Garrick & home.

Letter from Agnew sending cheque for £15.15.0. Bed. Read Strand Magazine.

Thursday February 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down. Man picking up tiles below. Saw Nash's foreman 10.30. Had developed 4 plates taken yesterday. Got to work on P.M.M. cover. Put in profile 2nd figure. After photod head. Lovely day. Sun out after. Put phos away. Lunch. Wrote letters etc. Sent boy off. Got to work on Punch D, 'There’s no place like Home'. After worked till 8.15pm. Dressed & off by 9.25 & drove to Beefsteak Club. Saw Lord de Clifford, Marquis of Granby & Leslie Ward. Saw Bird etc. Dined. Bottle of Pommard. Wrote letters. Strolled to Empire Theatre. Saw Mackinlay. On to Garrick. Wrote letters. Saw Kendal, F.C.B, Cumming Macdona, Bolton etc etc. Borthwick there. Left at 1.0. Charley Burnand & F.C.B in hall. Cab home. Read story in Strand Mag. Left candles burning. Woke up & put them out. Fine night.

Friday February 17 Stafford Terrace. Woke early. Up at 8.10am. Breakfast. Wrote letters. At 9.30 got to work on Churchill as Terrier, 'No place like Home'. Sir Douglas Straight called at 10.30 about P.M.M cover drawing. Bother. Got him off & on to work.

Painters in house. Lunch. Saw plumber. Boy at 1.30. Sent him for sausages.

Douglas Straight back again. Slight alterations necessary. Finished drawing at 4.0. Dressed & off by 4.40. Paid W.E month. Cab to Victoria & down by 5.15pm. Carriage to self. Bought 3 evening papers & Review of Reviews.

Purnell met me. Dinner P.T. M not well. Burgundy & snooze after dinner.

Barney full of life. Bed 12.30.

Saturday February 18 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.15. M not well. Breakfast. Mild morning. Club. At 10.0 Mite & self went & saw over Mrs Lawson's house & after Montague Williams & also 20 Royal Crescent. Back home at 11.20. Hacked on Cob to Mount Pleasant. Saw Rogers, Borradaile & also Johnstone. 1½ hrs before finding hare. Good run. Left off at 2.0 near St Nicholas. Hound caught me up again.

Went home fastish. Purnell caught me up at Convent. Home 3.15. Sat in drawing room ½ an hour. Changed. Up in room. Tea 4.30. Wrote diary & after developing prints printed yesterday in town got to work on P.M.Mag cover.

Altered the figure of Art at once & completely changed it. Dined 8.0pm. Quiet dinner & rest after. Bottle of Saumur. (Red ink: Hunted. Good day. Meet at Mount Pleasant. Lovely day.)

Sunday February 19 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.45. Breakfast. Club. In morning got on with drawing for Pall Mall Magazine cover. Put in the feet, thought to satisfaction but altered them tomorrow. Decided not to ride. In afternoon Purnell brought cart round at 4.40 & went up to town by S.E.Rly to Charing X. One other old gent in carriage with curious chin. Read by candle Magazine of Magazines about William Blake etc. Up puntually. Garrick. Changed coat. Saw Joe Knight.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Dined with Frederick Wicks. Large dinner. Arthur Balfour ill with influenza could not come. Sat next to Sir William Pearce. Nice little man. Lawrence Bradbury, George Alexander, Joe Knight, Joe Carr, Ross, editor of the Morning Post, Plunkett & others there. Long talk with Pearce & Joe Knight's stories after. Sat a great deal too late smoking & drinking. Left at near 3.0am & took cab to 1st Avenue Hotel, Holborn. Tumbled into bed. Slept at once.

Man never effectually woke me in the morning. Nearly missed my train. (Red ink across page: Went up to town from Ramsgate by S.E Rly. Dined at the Garrick with Frederick Wicks.)

Monday February 20 1st Avenue Hotel, Holborn. Woke suddenly only barely time to catch train.

Had not been called. Down 7.50. Cab to Holborn V. Caught 8.0am train. One other old gent in carriage who got out at Faversham. Head & seedy. Purnell met me with cart & Cob. Near shave of cart in street. Home seedy. Took out feet of drawing for Pall Mall Magazine cover. Lunch. At 2.15 delightful ride on mare across diagonal & old ride to Garlinge & through Margate. Got off mare & opened gate. On to North Down. Rode across to Captain Digby. Small boy on pony galloped along road. Galloped mare down hill past Kingsgate Castle & on to Stone House. Boy followed & spoke. To Broadstairs on his cousin's pony. Got rid of him on sands. Rode past Montefiores. Saw Miss Stancombe.

Home. Got on with drawing, put in palette etc etc. At 7.45 F.C.B & wife & Mr & Mrs Borradaile dined with us. 4 bottles Champagne, 1 of Burgundy. F.C.B spoke of The Speaker. After game of roulette. Rosie & Connie in. Lost 5/s. All left 11.15pm. Whiskey & bed 12.30am.

Tuesday February 21 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Pouring wet day all day. Heavy squelching showers. Gave up going to meet. Got on with drawing for Pall Mall Magazine cover. Lunch. At 2.15 got on Cob & tried to ride. Went as far as St Lawrence.

Heavy rain, beaten back. Cob very fresh. Changed things & went on with drawing. After tea put in letters of 'Pall Mall Magazine' etc etc. Dined 8.0pm.

Bottle Burgundy. Quiet evening & bed. News of death of John Pettie RA in evening paper. Put in atlas in drawing of P.M.M. Read lives of the Caesars after dinner. (Cuttings glued in: Death of John Pettie RA. St James Gazette, Feby 21; 'Times' Feby 22. ) John Pettie died of an abcess in the ear the inflammatiion of which touched the brain.

Wednesday February 22 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Club. Death of poor John Pettie in 'Times'.

Wrote letter & sent it to F.C.B saying should not go up to London. Back & got to work on Pall Mall Magazine cover. Put in letters again. Very wet all day.

After lunch began to shade drawing & worked on up to 8.0pm when dined.

Quiet dinner. Bottle Champagne. Snooze after & knocked up to bed. (Cutting glued in: Suicide of Mr Hilton Barker. St James's Gazette, Feby 2nd.)

Thursday February 23 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Put things up in bag. Breakfast. Club. Thought of not going up to town. Decided to go. Cart with mare. Drove to station.

Caught 10.0am. Very cold & snow. Carriage by self all way. Cab home to

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Stafford Terrace. Letters from Wake & Co Sheffield etc etc. Painters about.

Got to work 12.45 & went on with drawing for P.M.Magazine cover. Lunch.

Sent boy to Burnands & wired Straight. Worked on. Gave up dining at Seasons Club. Worked & dined 8.15pm & after dinner Emma witnessed deed. Posted it on. Worked till 1.0am & went to bed cold & tired. Bitterly cold at night. ½ bottle Ayala '85 for dinner. (Red ink: Working late tonight I was sure gave me the severe cold which came on on Saturday the 25 th although had most lovely ride of 3 hours in beautiful air.) (Cutting glued in: Death of George Waring. 'Times' March 2nd .)

Friday February 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Very tired. Down & got on with drawing of P.M.Magazine. Breakfast 8.45. Post office messenger came. Sent him back, also boy from office. Worked. Put in festoon & ruled up & finished drawing.

Sent it off by boy at 11.15am. Letter from F.C.B with stupid mice subject at 12.30. Wrote to him & got to work after lunch. Tidied up. Felt very tired.

Worked hard at it & finished 9.45. Dined by self, ½ bottle of Ayala '85.

Smoked cigar & went to bed at 11.30 after sitting by fire. Very done up. Read Battle of (blank). Sleep at 12.30am. (Red ink: Finished drawing for Pall Mall Magazine cover. Began it on Saty Feby 11. Took me altogether 10 days to design & draw.)

Saturday February 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.5am. Bath in spare room. Had been hard frost in the night. Down. Breakfast at 8.45. Put phos away. Off by hansom to Victoria.

Down by 10.0am train. Carriage full. Man in brown boots well dressed.

Disagreable looking. Got out at Faversham, others at Broadstairs. Purnell met me. Home. No one in. Lunch & got on mare 1.40. Rode past Mount Pleasant nearly to sea mark. No hounds. (meet Minster Rough). Turned & through Acol. Saw where fire had been. Still smouldering. Spoke labourer about murdered woman. Rode past Quex & on to Garlinge & thro' Margate. Tide coming in. On to fort. Past Schimmelmann's. Across North Down & past Kingsgate. Broadstairs (saw man in carriage). Diagonal to Ramsgate. Passed Daisy & Ella Gould. Home. Tea. Snuffy cold came on. Carbolic. Went out to get hair cut. Full. Called Hills. Saw old Sarum or prehistoric bronze axe heads. Bought 2 chests of drawers also toasting fork, ladle, India rubber etc.

Home. Up in room. Wrote letters. Cold in head came on. Dined 7.45. Bottle of Burgundy. Smoke & snooze after. Bed 11.45. Cold very bad at night. Hot whiskey. (Red ink: Funeral of the late John Pettie RA.) (Red ink across page: Lovely ride for 3½ hours in afternoon.)

Sunday February 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.45. Gale of wind & heavy sea. Breakfast. Very dry haddock again. Club. Looked at papers etc. Home. Wrote many letters etc in morning. M up in room with carbolic spoon. Said would not ride. Lunch. Gale moderated. Sun. Sent Clara twice to Purnell. No good. Up in room & wrote diary after lunch. At 3.40 went for walk with Mite. Lovely afternoon. Strong wind. Went to end of pier. Saw Montefiore. Also after along sands & back to see fishing boat come in. Home. Tea. Toller(?) came in & stayed till 5.45. Up in room after & developed photo plates taken last Sepr up to 7.45 when

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 dined. Bottle of Asti. Mite dressed. Did not go in to Burnands, cold too bad.

Came on in throat.

Monday February 27 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Cold in head bad. No better. Club. Very heavy rain after. M up in room. At 11.0 began 3 rd female figure for cover of The Sketch. Squared cardboard up etc. M read article in The Speaker week ending Saty 18 Feby. Lunch. Felt tired & seedy after. Rested in deck chair & after got on with drawing. Got on very well. Put in head of figure & arms etc etc. Dined 8.0pm. Bottle Burgundy. M & Tilda duet after. Barney & ball. Went to bed after hot whiskey at 11.0 & to sleep at once.

Tuesday February 28 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Woke up with congestion on chest & very painful. Cold very bad. Lovely sunny morning, A1. Could not go to meet at Sarre. Many letters at breakfast. Club. Wrote 2 or 3 letters. Edwards & cartridges. After at home & worked all day at 3rd cover drawing for The Sketch. Most lovely day all day. Not a cloud in sky & bright sun. Cold north east wind. Did not go out at all. M had a tea fight in afternoon. Mrs Clarke, Mrs Warre, Mrs Jones & Miss Ross & others. Up in my room after & read.

Worked till 8.0pm. Dinner oysters & Burgundy. Barney in drawing room with ball after. Duet. Bed at 11.0. Cold gruel. Poultice on chest. Sleep 11.30.

Wednesday March 1 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0 sharp. Dull morning. Heavy S.W gale blowing. Did not go out & round to Club. Up in room & re-painted the lettering of 3rd cover drawing for Sketch. Beef tea etc. Worked on till lunch. M reading Miss Braddon's first novel. Note from F.C.B. Answered it by 10.10am. Doubts about M riding. Decided not. After lunch at 2.25 mare at door. Rode past Haine, Salmstone (man hollered) & on to Margate. Met Chapman. Talk of Tom White huntsman. Rain. Sun & soft south wind. On to sands & rode home to Ramsgate. Many falls of cliff, one especially just a few minutes before near Kingsgate Gap. My old alcove destroyed with name on cliff since 1887, then Roy's 1892. Miss Something to tea. Hot bath. Wrote many letters. Sent wires etc. Refused the Mansion House dinner to French Ambassader for Saty next.

Wrote many letters. Could not finish drawing. Gave it up. Dined 8.0pm. Bottle of Burgundy. M's cold came on. Quiet evening & bed at 11.0pm.

Thursday March 2 Prospect Terrace. Up at 7.30. In room & put things up etc. Dressed leisurely.

Breakfast 8.45am. After Club. Took up Maud's easel, rifle & bayonet etc etc.

Went up by 10.0am. Got up to town all right. Carriage to self. Cab 4 wheeler to Stafford Terrace. Dull day. Lunch. No letters much. Cheque for £35 sent from Douglas Straight. After no instructions from F.C.B. Went to P.O & wired Frank & posted letter to Wallis & M. Misdirected M's letter, came back to me at night. Miss Derden called, model. Got to work on drawing of a quiet pipe.

Worked all afternoon. At 4.0 Burnand's boy came. Why not in morning could not tell. Sent Swain's boy to Milliken. Worked till 7.0pm. Finished drawing, dressed & took cab to Claude Watney's dinner, 11 Chesterfield St, W. Met H.Spottiswood, engaged. Little American, Fritz Jackson, Stanhope,

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Longfellow & Randolph C. Lost £4 at poker. Held full hand against 4.2's. Left at 1.0am & home by cab. Head in the morning. M got up with very bad cold on chest. (Red ink across page: Dined with Claude Watney.)

Friday March 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight bilious head on. Lasted till T time. Had to work. Got on with drawing of Churchill & Salisbury as Scotchman & Irishman after writing many letters to Roy etc etc. Began 10.45, hard scramble to get done. Finished 7.20. Dressed & at 7.45 cab to 52 Cadogan Square to dine with the De la Rues. Large dinner & Royal Academy waiters. Huge candles & Electric light etc. Took in Mrs Heilbut. Good dinner. Mr & Mrs Colin Hunter, Mrs Bram Stoker etc. Mr & Mrs Romer Williams & also Mr & Mrs Dickenson, Fred Thornton's brother in law & sister in law. Drew mouse on menu. Long talk with Mrs Dickenson. Left 11.15 & home by cab to Stafford Terrace. Read St James's Gazette & sleep at 12.30am. (Red ink across page: Dined with the De la Rues.)

Saturday March 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.35. Felt pretty well. Bath & down 8.5. Put photos away.

Had breakfast 8.35. Finished putting away. Went round & saw No 26 stables in mews. Back. Cab to Victoria. On other in train carriage by 10.0am. Got out at Teynham . On to Westgate. Purnell met me & took bag on. Got on Mare at 12.40. Went towards meet at Hengrove. Saw men who directed me. After Woodruffe. Got up to hounds across plough. Hare got up & went away.

Galloped on & told Collard. Hounds put on about 12.45. Very good run round

by Lydden & to Newington Mill, near S.E.R & back Lydden way. Hare killed about 2.0pm. Got the tail for Roy. Talk to Mayhew & to Macnamara. Left hounds running another hare about 3.0pm & home past Haine & along diagonal path. Saw Mrs Borradaile. Home 4.10. Tea. Rosy Burnand in.

Letters, Wicks, Edwards & Roberts & others. Went up to meet Roy. Arrived 6.10. Home. Magnets, Barney etc. Dinner. Bottle Saumur & Burgundy. Game finding thimble after dinner. Very sleepy & tired. Bed at 11.15pm. (Red ink: Dinner to Waddington, Mansion House. Refused.) (Red ink across page: Capital run with Thanet Harriers. Killed hare.)

Sunday March 5 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Dullish morning. Breakfast. Sausages, Roy etc.

Club. Daniels come to judgement. Remark on Montague Williams will £15,000. At 10.15 got on mare & Cob. On to sands at 10.20. Good going round coast. Had to rush water at Kingsgate to get through tide. Got wet. High water 1.30. Got to Gap near Roy's old school at 11.0. Up. Roy looked at school. Saw a master & 3 boys. Through Margate & on to Garlinge. Saw mastiff bitch. After F.C.B & Frank. Could not catch them up. Went & shewed Roy where the hare was put up yesterday & rode line to Lydden etc. Jumped fence. On through Manstone & into Ramsgate Road. Roy's Cob would not jump hurdles. Home through Sicklemores & along Crescent Rd. Saw Mr Parkin. Home. Read. Lunch. Tired after. Read Referee & Serotry(?) about Napoleon at Elba. At 4.0 Roy got ready to leave. Had sausage, tea etc.

Sooby came in. Saw F.C.B & Sooby after in posting letter. Roy left 4.45, Purnell carrying bag. Mite & Tilda went with him. M & self up in room after.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Worked from 5.0 to 7.30 on 3rd Sketch cover. Dined. Bottle Saumur. After dinner Mite & self went into F.C.B's. Talk over old times. No one there. Read & bed 12.0. (Red ink across page: Good 3 hour ride with Roy over yesterday's courses & sands.)

Monday March 6 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.10am. Dull morning. Breakfast. Club. Read Times.

Did not write letters. In room in morning & worked on 3rd Sketch cover. Altered hand & began to shade. Mite with me till 12.0. At 1.0 stopped. Varnished boots. Lunch at 2.15. M & self rode through Manstone, Lydden, cemetery, Drapers Arms, St Peters, Hannens & along cliff home. M had to have stirrup shortened. Saw Mrs Borradaile twice. Also Mrs Fox Thomson. Tea 4.50. Up in room at 5.0. Went on with drawing of cover for Sketch. Put in shading of arms etc etc. No sooner got to work than had to leave off. Dressed & at 7.15 left in fly for Westwood. M, Tilda & self dined by ourselves with the Clarkes.

Good dinner. Looked at Egyptian photos after. (Red ink: Death of Miss Sheridan in Times.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charlotte Beare, widow of late Major Beare. Times March 13th.) Mother of Arthur Cotton Beare who married Miss Dering 1874. Died next year. Major Beare died 1873 or before.

Tuesday March 7 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. After at 9.45 got on Cob & rode with Purnell to meet at Brooks End. Passed near Mill on Ramsgate Road by Matthews on grey horse. Through Cleve Ct, Acol & along X road. Small meet.

Found hare at once & after smart run hare drowned at Brooks End. Found another after but left it 12.45. Trotted home. Lunch & at 3.35 went up to town

by L.C.& D, Purnell carrying bag. Carriage to self. Club. Changed coat. Found gt coat & hat there. Went with Joe Carr to dinner of Royal Institute. Sat between Thomas & (blank). Dull heavy dinner. Room intolerable. Saw Silver, Chester, Ryle etc. Handsome Prince Louis of Battenburg. Left 10.30 & called Empire. Saw C.B. Left & to Club. Had bacon. Felt dreadfully tired & languid.

Borthwick holding forth. Bolton etc. Left 1.0 & home to bed at Stafford Terrace. (Red ink: Tilda left us at noon. Had been since January 26th. Lovely weather set in.)

Wednesday March 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Got plates etc ready to photograph. Felt seedy. Miss Derben came at 11.0. Took 3 doz & 3 photos before & after lunch. After rested in chair very languid. Slight influenza. At 4.30 man let glass drop on globe & smashed it. Hass. Great commotion.

Escaping waters etc. Lef 5.0 & in cab to Turkish bath in Northumberland Avenue. Good bath. On to P.D. F.C.B, A.G, E.T.R, B.P, E.I.M, (late) A. à B, R.L, E.L.S & J.T there. Had no soup. Good dinner & talk. Long time over Tenniel's cut. Had Mermaid for self & Bung. Cab to Garrick. Wrote cheque.

Home. Bed 12.30 after reading paper. Cheque for £170.10.0 received for share of late Aunt Anne's estate. (Red ink: Heavenly weather. Brilliant sun.)

Thursday March 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down & got to work. Sorted photos & skemed Mermaid & Bung. Miss Frederick interviewed me in morning. Spencer called.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Wigs on. Took photo of self on tub. Difficult. Foreman Nash called. Lunch. At 2.45 got away in hansom & caught 3.25 down to Ramsgate. One other in carriage, got out at Broadstairs. Old gent. Purnell met me. Tea at P.T. Miss Hood & Miss Wacher there. Up in room & got on before dinner with drawing Mermaid & Bung. Dined 8.0pm. Very tired after. Welcome bed at 11.0pm.

(Red ink: Heavenly weather. Brilliant sun.)

Friday March 10 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.30am. Club & at 9.45 got to work & worked all day on drawing of Mermaid & Bung as Knight. Developed bath prints of self before breakfast. Wire from Swain. Replied. Finished by 7.0 & Purnell took it to station. Wrote letters. Paxton to lunch. M took him for drive to Sandwich after.

Back to Warre. Purnell seedy. Dined quietly 7.45. Bottle Ayala. Rest after.

Read 'The Man' in Black & White. Bed 12.0 after reading in room. No sleep after dinner. (Red ink: Heavenly weather. Brilliant sun.)

Saturday March 11 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am & after Club etc. Got on Cob at 10.45. Purnell & self rode to the Kennels. Passed Mayhew. Never told me no hunting. On to Collards. Glass of curacao with him & talk of Ingram. Left 12.45. Sent Purnell home & rode straight across on mare to sea mark on left across to Quex. Put up pussy near Little Brooks End. Long walking rambling idle delightful ride.

Through Dent de Lion, Gurlinge, Margate. Along the sands, tide coming in.

Got to Broadstairs. Past sea front. On hill met Butterfield. Rode with me to corner near Wills's. Home at 4.0. M had been to her mother's. Had to knock Purnell up. Up in room tired. After got to work at 5.0pm & put in shading of head & arms of 3rd Sketch drawing. Dined 8.0. Burgundy. After M & Maud up.

Sleepy. Bed 11.15. Glad to get there. F.C.B dined with Prince of Wales. (Red ink: Heavenly weather. Brilliant sun.)

Sunday March 12 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Most heavenly morning. Brilliant sun. Dressed leisurely. Knicks. Breakfast. Purnell looked ill. Round Club. Read financial paper. Hunks. Up in room. M & Maud to church 10.45 & after to meet Spencer, S.E.R at 12.15. Wrote diary. Dressed in blue suit. On Parade at 12.45. Saw Conny B, Mrs Charley B etc etc. with Florence Hood. Met M & Mite 1.10, after met Sterne, Robson Roose etc. Lunch. After at 2.30 went to stables & got on Cob. Rode in lovely sunlight to Broadstairs. Tide coming in.

Saw Mervyn & called on Moster in little room in small square, Chandos Square. Left at 3.15 & rode home past Montefiores etc & past Prospect Terr.

Saw Spencer who had come down by the boat train 11.0 arrived 3.30. Went to stables & after tea Mr Sooby came in. Up in room & worked on Sketch cover till 7.30. Dressed & round to Club for cigars. Sterne, Mervyn & Spencer dined. 2 bottles Champagne & 1 Burgundy & 1 Asti. Talk of Barr Estate. Left 10.45. Sat up talking with Spencer. Bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Heavenly weather. Brilliant sun.) (Red ink across page: Lovely day. Spencer came down. Sterne dined with us.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Monday March 13 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.30. Dressed in hunting things & down to breakfast at 8.30. Fish. Club 9.0. At 9.30 exactly Spencer on Cob & self mare started to ride to meet of fox hounds at Eastry. Lovely hot fine morning. Walked to hill below Convent. Trotted on to Sandwich. Man in field held up his hand. Bother with steam roller for road. Got Cob past it. Overtook 2 Collards, Baker & Butterfield. Through Sandwich, on to Eastry. There 11.15. Saw poor old O'Grady Evans. Curious man without hair turned out to be Peto. Covers drawn blank. Pottered about. Cob behind wall. Long talk to Peto about Eton.

Left hounds at 1.30. Wind had changed to east, much colder. Sandwich.

Stopped & gave horses gruel. Ginger beer. On again at 2.30pm. Past roller again. Went thro' Sicklemore's farm. Back 3.50. Home. M at Broadstairs to see her mother. Had tea at 4.15. Mite & Spencer went for walk. Dressed.

Wrote diary & got to work at 5.15pm. Master of hounds Prescott Westcar.

(Red ink: Weather changed to east wind 1.0pm.) (Red ink across page: Hunted with East Kent fox hounds, Eastry. Blank day.)

Tuesday March 14 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Duller in morning. Club. Spencer at breakfast.

Sterne & Tate called. At work till 1.15 on head of figure 3 rd Sketch. Muddled about. Did not like it. At 2.30 rode with M, Spencer & Sterne. Saw F.C.B at corner. Sterne on collar marked horse. Rode along sands to Margate.

Spencer on Chippy. Spencer galloped with Sterne. On past Westwood. I & S went in & Sterne rode on. Cob started with M at old sign board on ground.

Back home. Tea. Up in room & worked on drawing. Fiddled about head.

Dined quietly. Rosie Burnand in to dinner. Claret & bottle of Burgundy after.

Slept heavily after. Seedy & tired. Bed at 11.30. Talk to Spencer about Peto.

Wednesday March 15 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Took head out of figure as it did not please me.

Lovely morning. Club. Saw F.C.B going. Felt very tired at breakfast. Club. Still more tired. M & self went to look over house next Club. Back & got to work.

Re-drew head of figure & got it better. Spencer said good bye at 12.45 after he & M had driven over to Broadstairs to see their mother. Finished drawing by lunch time. Put things up & at 3.35 went up to town. M walked to station with me. One old gent in train. Drove to Club & saw Beetle. Walked to office of Ill London News. Left drawing & saw Mr Shorter. Wanted 3 more drawings.

P.D. Phillip Agnew back. F.C.B, A.G, H.W.L, E.I.M, P.A, R.L, A. à B, E.L.S & J.T. Chaff about drawing for Ormiston & Glass. Got subject, Bung as Waller père ducking Bill in water trough. Called Garrick. Wrote Claude Watney.

Home by hansom. Gave man 4/s. (Cutting glued in: Death of Laura Warre.

Times, March 17th.)

Thursday March 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Dull at first. Fine after. Down. Changed plates.

Skemed picture for next week. Got glass down. At 11.30 Miss Derben & Mrs King came, photod one of them till 1.30pm. Lunch. At 2.15 went out with key camera & got horse trough & outside of public house. Back. At 2.45 brewers man called. Photod him. Dull & rain. Developed plates. At 4.0 Claude Watney called. Dressed, tea 4.45. At 5.0 very heavy rain & hail. Young man from

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Chestertons called about stables. Took cab to Turkish bath in Northumberland Avenue. Got there 5.45. Very good bath. No 6. Hair cut & out by 7.15. Walked to Covent Garden. Got violets & exactly at 7.30 at Club.

J.Dove Keithley there. Had a sniffly cold. Dined with me. Good dinner, 2 bottles Pomery. Long talk on various matters, Astor etc till 12.20am when left.

Cab home. Smoked 5 1/s cigars etc. Dinner £2.10.0.

Friday March 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Down. Wrote acct for Sketch. Breakfast. At 9.30 got to work on drawing of Bung as Brewer ducking Local Veto Bill in trough.

Worked all morning. At 12.45 Emma photod self for Bill. Developed 2 plates.

Lunch & on to work. Boy called at 5.0. Sent him back. Worked on till 10.45pm when finished. Dined at home & drank 1 bottle of Ayala '85. Cigar & up to bed very tired at 1.0am.

Saturday March 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Put things away & at 9.25 left in hansom for Victoria. Caught 10.0. Tall young man in like Elsie Thomson, 2 others. Ramsgate. Very cold north wind. Purnell met me. Home. M in bedroom. Met Mrs O'Connell & daughter, asked me to turn out poor old O'Connor. Lunch. After at 2.30 met Sooby & went to Club. Wrote Vinten about house. Sooby walked on to stables. Got on mare 2.30. Rode along past Warres, Manstone & Hengrove to Margate & home along sands. Put up hare near Manstone. Very cold. Life boat dragged out of Margate harbour by 7 horses. Young man on horse. More land slips. Home 5.20. Bad tea & hunt for papers. Up in room. Changed. Wrote diary. M up in room. Got plates ready etc. Dined quietly & bed early after cigars. Burgundy. Death of Jules Ferry.

Funeral of Mrs Warre at St Lawrence.

Sunday March 19 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.45. Lovely weather, bright sun. Club. In morning put up curtain in lavatory. Developed plates taken on Thursday & a few ¼ plates.

At 12.30 dressed in brown suit & walked with Mite on Parade. Met Frank & Conny Burnand. Lunch. At 2.30 rode Cob past Marine Granville etc & on to Telegraph Station beyond Kingsgate. Back along sands. Home 5.0. Mr & Mrs Tate & Sterne to tea. After up in room. Dressed & finished writing letters.

Wrote to 13 members of the Garrick committee. Dined 8.10pm. Bottle of Champagne, Dumeny. Very tired after. Too late to go to Burnands. Up in drawing room. Bed early.

Monday March 20 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Club. Back at 10.15 & got on with printing photos. Printed about 50. At 12.15 took photo of Maud for Letter from Monte Carlo. Developed it & got prints before lunch. Lovely day & hot. Wind round to south west. Lunch. Whiskey & soda. At 2.30 rode mare. Saw Conny B & Mary. Walked past Convent & along past Haine. Flock of sheep on bridge. Mare stale & stumbled. Across by Tinkers Hole & past Farmers', through Stokes's farm, monument, Miss Tomlin's house & on to Telegraph Station. Tide going out. Lovely ride along sands home. Mare galloped at train.

Home 5.15. Tea. Conny B & Mary there. Up in room. Bathed the 50 prints.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Done by 6.30. Dressed. Dined at 8.0. Bottle Saumur. Sleepy after dinner. Bed 11.15pm. (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Barker. 'Times' March 22, also 23rd.) (Red ink: Last long talk with Barker Sun July 24, 1892.)

Tuesday March 21 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.30am. Breakfast 8.0, away 8.45. Caught 9.0 train & went with Purnell & mare to Herne Bay. There by 9.30. Met Butterfield & went with him. Clarks there, also Kelsey, Woodruffe & young man with curious profile. (small drawing) Most lovely morning. Bright sun all day. Meet at Herne Street. American gent out that had taken Prescott Westler's house. Miss Leaf etc. Field of 25 to 30. Young Wacher etc. Very hard going. About 12.0 found hare. Bit of a run. Plenty of fences. Much wire. Left off at 2.0. Mrs Mayhew's horse lame. Went home along through marsh side & across marshes with Mat Collard, Perkins, Col Copeland. Stopped at Sarre. Cup of tea. Mare rushed out of stable & nearly got away. Only just caught her. Left at 4.0pm.

Caught up Tom Mayhew & wife. With them to mill on Canterbury road.

Trotted home. Home 5.35. Miss Purcell there. Tea. Letter from Edgar. Up in room. Dressed. Bottle Ayala. Too tired after dinner to go to Burnands. Bed early.

Wednesday March 22 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. M told me of poor Barker’s death.

Very much shocked. Club. Death in Times. Round home again. Wrote Burnand in morning. Wire from Emma. Wrote letters, orders for Stores etc.

Packed things all morning. Went round to Hills after Club & saw cabinet desk & ordered it to be sent up. Lunch at 3.15. William Agnew took luggage. M & Mite walked to station with me. Up by 3.35. Old lady & gent in smoking carriage, 2 others. Emma met me at Victoria. Sent things home by buss.

Crate & boxes. Walked to Garrick, was to have met Keithley. Cab to P.D. Result of Oxford & Cambridge boat race, Oxford won by 1½ lengths.

Burnand, A.G, F.W.L, E.T.R, E.I.M (late) P.A, Hy F, A à B, self & J.T there.

Good dinner. 2 cuts made up. Discussion about Process. Left with Tenniel, put down at Isthmian Club. Home at 12.0. Fire in room. Letter from Claude Watney. Bed. (Cutting glued in: Woodville v Woodville, decree nisi. 'Times' March 22.)

Thursday March 23 Stafford Terrace. Woke 6.0am. Up at 7.45. Foggy morning. Down & wired to Miss Derben & Keighley. Got to work. Sorted photos & decided to go down to Ramsgate. Chesterton's man called. Sent boy to Tenniel with chalk pencils.

Stableman called about being over stables. Emma photod me for cut of Fowler, Goschen & Agriculture. Lunch. Put up traps & left by 4 wheeler with empty boxes & down by Granville to Ramsgate. M & Mite met me. Sterne drove us up to house. Got things sorted & to work 2 hours before dinner. M up with me. Dinner. Champagne. Cigar after & bed early. Lovely day at Ramsgate but very foggy in London up to 2.0pm. Dined 8.0pm. Quiet evening. Bed after. (Red ink: Very foggy in London in morning. Lovely at Ramsgate.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Friday March 24 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.30am. Printed & bathed photos taken yesterday in London from self. Club. Got to work 10.0am on drawing of H.H.Fowler, Goschen & Agriculture. Worked on all day till 8.0pm when dined. M & Maud went for drive with mare to Minster. Dined ½ bottle of Burgundy. After dinner went straight up in room & begun again at 9.30. M up in room. Worked right away until 2.15am when finished. This drawing took 6 ½ hours to shade & no mistakes. Read about Roman nobles & bed 2.30am. (Red ink: Lovely day.

Brilliant sun. Worked late on 1st cartoon to be processed on Saturday morning.)

Saturday March 25 Prospect Terrace. Very tired in morning. Eyes ached. Up 8.30. Club. At 11.0 photod Mite on sofa in drawing room for next cut. Developed them. Man taking inventory. Never so many breakages before. At 2.30 rode Cobby.

Through town, Hereson, across Habelers & on past Up Street, Friends, to Margate. Past Roy's old school, along diagonal to Garlinge & through Manstone home. Cob went well & fresh. Home 5.30pm. M & Mite had been to Westwood in cart. Mare cracked heel. Saw Rosy B. F.C.B down. Dined.

Bottle of Champagne. Rested after dinner. Bed 11.30. Developed last of the Tressady plates. (Red ink: Lovely day. M had interview with landlady next door & settled to go next week for ten days.)

Sunday March 26 Prospect Terrace. Up 9.0am. Printed phos. Breakfast. Club. Up in room & printed 4 plates over printed last week. Purnell in armour etc etc, also Mite taken yesterday. Afte at 11.30 rode Cob gently to Broadstairs up to Bleak House. Dismounted. Walked down & home at 1.0. Walked on parade. M & Mite there, Willie Buck. Invited for tennis. After lunch up in room. Snooze & read Edinburgh Review. Mite went for walk & saw F.C.B sitting on rail with Mr Sooby. Tea. Ship stuck in mouth of harbour. Wrote letters. Mite in from Goulds & got on with drawing. Finished her drawing. Wrote letters & after dined at 7.45. Mite & self went into Burnands after. Talk of Venice etc.

Pleased with Mite's drawing. Back 10.40. Read magazine & after slept in chair until 12.30. Bed. Monday March 27 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Club after breakfast. Death of Sir George Findlay in 'Times'. Back. Wrote letters & posted them to Percy Oakes etc, Fletcher. Up in room & began drawing of girl on sofa. Did not ride. Lovely morning. M packing etc. Lunch. M in room after. Mite finished drawing. Acct sent from Mr Darling, sent in acct again. Preface £15.15.0, tail £5.5.0, index £10.10.0, as last year. Sent Mite's drawing off by 7.15pm train. After wrote letters etc & dined at 7.45 quietly. Bottle Saumur. Mite in high spirits. Imitating animals etc etc. M very tired. Read paper. Smoke & slept in chair till 12.0 when went to bed. Most lovely weather.

Tuesday March 28 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Club. After at 9.55 got to work on drawing of girl on sofa. Worked hard all morning. Purnell in twice. M busy

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 packing, very. Lunch. Finished at 3.15. Sent it off by Purnell. Took down red & yellow cloth etc in front of lavatory window. At 4.15 rode Cobby to Broadstairs & back. Pretty woman & boy in Scotch dress. Back & sent easel etc etc away

by Purnell & William Agnew. Gas bracket taken down. Things sent to Hills as below. After felt a little seedy & bilious. Mite & self went up at 7.30 & dined at F.C.B's leaving M & Madame to dine at home. No one at F.C.B's. Talk after.

Smoke. Home 10.30. Slept in chair. Left pipe. Bed 11.30pm.

1 deal box locked.

1 easel in 2 pieces 1 Duplex lamp 1 gas chandelier with tube & iron pipe.

1 green metal shade for ditto.

1 large glass globe.

1 black stand for ditto 1 small glass globe.

1 dish 1 iron tripod Wednesday March 29 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Last morning at 5 P.T. Paid William Agnew.

Club. Things changed into No 4 next door. M, servants, birds, plants, boxes & Madame all got off by 12.15, one hour before train, by buss. Mite & self saw them off. Walked into town. Called Krier(?) & Page & also on Vinten & saw clerk. Had paid Vinten in the morning. Saw M off at 1.15 & walked back & lunched. Bottle (½ pint) of Burgundy. After at 3 rode Cob along the sands & out by Broadstairs. Met Butterfield at his stables. Went back & had a cup of tea & good cigar with him. After rode home by 6.0pm. Met Fletcher Moulton QC MP who asked me & Maud to dine with them. Ordered fly. Dressed & went to dine at 7.0. Saw East, Toller etc etc (met Toller on sands) Miss Elsie Thomson tired & X. Good dinner. Hot room upstairs. Long dreary talk after.

Mite liked Moulton. Left by fly at 10.0pm. Home. Bed 11.0. Had headache in morning. (Red ink across page: Left 5 Prospect Terrace for next door.)

Thursday March 30 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Mite down late. Breakfast.

Fish very good. After Club. Read paper etc etc. In room & looked over journals after. Lunch. Mite went to Pegwell. Rode Cob over past Granville & Montefiores & home by sands. Back 4.0. Purnell kept me waiting 20 minutes.

Met Mite with flowers. After went to Mrs Buckmasters. Tennis on. Did not play. Tea. Mite & self went round by Prospect Terrace. Left flowers & went to meet M & Roy who arrived punctually. Were 5 minutes late. M & Mite home in cart. Roy back. Poor report & expensive term. Dinner. After Roy & self played 100 up at billiards. Back. Read Moonstone & bed 11.0.

Friday March 31 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 6.30am & at 7.0 rode mare, Roy Cob, to Telegraph wire at Kingsgate & back. Most lovely hot morning. Beautiful ride just got back in time from tide. Breakfast, sausages etc. Club. Papers etc. After dressed knickerbockers & walked with M, Mite & Roy on Parade. Saw F.C.B, Ready etc. Talk to Crippen in bath chair. Lunch. Rested after. Smoke. Wrote 7 or 8

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 letters. F.C.B & Ready in. Toller had called. 'Beds' joke. Whiskey & rosbach.

After M, Toller, Mite, Roy & self walked up to Granville. Called on Thomsons & Toole. Most lovely sunset & moonrise, moon nearly full. Saw Col Routledge. Had Irving's whiskey. Back. Dinner & bottle Ayala. Very tired after.

Club at 9.0 & played Roy 100 up. Beat him. Back. Read Moonstone & bed 1.15pm.

Saturday April 1 4 Prospect Terrace. Up. 7.45. Roy bath. Out for stroll after breakfast. Club.

Times. 100 up billiards. Beat Roy. Back, M & Mite going out. Roy and self on Pier. Saw Moss Rose etc tugged out. Met Toller & friend. Back home by self.

Read Morning Post. Roy went to lunch at Granville. Wrote diary. M still out at 1.15pm. Roy back at 3.0. Both Roy & self went for delightful ride along sands as far as Margate & back again. Was angry with Roy at Broadstairs jumping Cob. Hung up only just home at 6.0pm. Dined 7.30. Played Roy 100 up.

Home. Bed 11.0pm. M & Mite up.

Sunday April 2 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 7.0am. Rode 7.30 to nine as far as slip where name was at Kingsgate. Hammered another & back to breakfast. Very cold east wind. After Club. Looked over papers etc etc. At 12.0 went on Parade with M, Maud & Roy from church. Maud had new dress on. Tailor made. Very pretty.

Saw Mrs Pugin, Fletcher Moultons etc etc. Walked very fast with Moulton.

Home lunch. Room very cold with east wind. Rested in chair & felt a chill no doubt brought cold on a very severe one after. Looked over papers & dressed at 6.0pm. Fly up to Granville. We four dined at table d'hote. Poor dinner.

Johnny Toole, Mrs Hawtry, Tollers(?), Moulton, Thomsons etc. Coffee outside & back at 9.30 to Burnands. Played race game. Roy won 4/s. I lost 10/s.

Toole amusing. Left at 11.0pm & back. Bed. (Red ink: Last severe cold came on only 5 weeks ago.) Felt cold come on at once in shape of horseness at 5.0pm very sudden.

Monday April 3 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Purnell had taken horses to Barkam at 6.0am.

Breakfast. Club. Most lovely clear day. Very little wind. Roy & self caught the 10.40 on S.E Rly. Talk to news vendor. On to Barham. Long wait at Canterbury. Rush on from there to Barkam. Got there 12.20. Purnell had been waiting 2 hours. Sharp trot to Barham Downs. Guns & firing. Saw hunt contingent. No Percy Oakes. Hare got amongst people & was killed. All over by 1.45. Left sharp. Major Gen Lord William Seymour. Rode home through Adisham etc etc. Nowhere to get bite or sup. Lucky had lunch with us.

Sandwich at 3.55. Glass of ginger beer. Home by 5.15. Firing at Pegwell.

Rested in chair & at 6.30 dressed. Left at 7 30 in fly for Westwood. Met Prof Horsley, Dr Croke & wife & a youth. Fair dinner. Left at 10.15 & home. Mite & Roy still up. Bed 11.0. Rubbed Jacob's oil on chest. (Red ink: Lovely bright day.) (Red ink across page: Rode from Barham Downs to Ramsgate after seeing sham fight.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Tuesday April 4 4 Prospect Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Round Club. Looked at Directory etc, after 'Times'. Played Roy 100 up. Owed 25. He beat me by 10 points. After at 11.0 rode. Called F.C.B. Cold wind. Thro' Manstone & diagonal towards Margate. Roy thrown off Cob. Had one leg out of stirrups. On past Lydden & to Westwood. Saw Prof Horsley shooting. Home past Hereson. Posters up of Pall Mall magazine. Home 1.30. Lunch. Rested in chair till 4.0. M & self went 4.30 to tennis at Buckmasters. Roy & Maud had gone at 3.0pm. Played 3 sets. Left at 6.0pm with Mite & flowers. Home. Sent Purnell to station after magazines. Dind 7.30. Oysters, Dumeny & fowl. Good dinner & sleep after.

Bed at 11.0pm. Roy & M & Mite went 10.0am. (Red ink: Lovely bright day.)

(Red ink across page: Roy pitched off Cob.) Wednesday April 5 4 Prospect Terrace. Got up 7.50. Cold felt better. Out. Sea fog. Breakfast.

Club. Got off by the 10.0. Cart took luggage. Only 1 copy of 'Times'. Got it.

F.C.B, Illiken & Charles Ready in train. Up to London, 4 wheeler home.

Ordered steak at Slaters. Lunch after putting photos away cab & put clothes away. Cold came on very badly hot all over. Had to knock off & rest. Felt ill.

After wrote letters & diary & then felt better. Went out to post letters etc.

Called on Chesterton & settled stables & after called on Tatton & instructed about will. Tea. Felt better at 6.30 had cab (hansom) to Bouverie St. Saw Furniss. P.D. Lucy, E.T.R, B.P, E.I.M, P.A, Hy F, R.L, A à B, self & J.T. Discussion. My cold bad after dinner. ½ bottle Champagne. Left at 11.0 with Tenniel. Put down at Isthmian. Home. Fire & gruel. Bed & sleep 12.0. (Red ink: Cold very bad. Felt feverish & very seedy.)

Thursday April 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30. Put bathroom in order. After wrote letter. Breakfast & put away photos etc etc. Looked out material for cut of Fox & Guinea Pig directors. Lunch. Lazy after. Turner came in morning & moved furniture.

Began work & skemed cut at 4.0pm. Dressed & at 5.0 took good hansom to Turkish baths. Had bath. Hair cut. After walked to Camera Club. Saw Mrs Davison. Looked at Studios. Bought 3 Fox photos. After Beefsteak Club. Next Leslie Ward. Corney Grain, Graham etc etc there. Empire, slow, & Garrick Club. Johnny Toole & Routledge there. Left in hansom 12.30 & home. Too strong a cigar. (Cutting glued in: Death of Vicat Cole. 'Times' Sat Apl 8th, 10th & 11th.) (Red ink: Interred Monday April 10th.)

Friday April 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Bath. breakfast. Got to work on Fox etc. Organ man again. Wrote Store order etc. Mervyn called 11.30. Also model (poor) at 10.30am. Got to work & worked all day up to 9.0pm on Fox & Guinea pigs.

Dined by self, ½ bottle of wine & slept after. Bed at 11.30. Did not go out.

(Red ink: Fine bright day.) (Cutting glued in: Death of James Aldous. 'Times' April 11th.)

Saturday April 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down & tidied things up. Off to catch 10.0 train.

After called in cab on Chestertons. Saw clerk. Cab went back to fetch stick.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Victoria. Stupid porter lost place in carriage. Uncomfortable journey centre seat. Last journey down to Ramsgate spring '93. All out but one at Margate.

At station M, Maud & Roy met me, Purnell carrying bags. Lunch. At 2.30 rode mare, Roy Cob. Past Cliff End. East wind. Saw paper chase. Great difficulty with Cob near Collard same as on March 11th (one month ago). Up to sea mark. Canter & after past Quex & Drapers Arms & home to Ramsgate at 6.0pm. Dinner. After played Roy 100 up. Tired. Roy won by 10 points & more.

Bed. (Red ink: Bitterly cold east wind. Dull grey weather.)

Sunday April 9 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.30am. Dull wretched morning, sea fog. Out on Parade. At 10.30 rode in sea fog to Margate & back. Roy had adventure with Cob trying to jump mast. Cob cantered with him for about a mile without stirrups, finally Roy came off. All on acct of spurs. Home at 1.10. Changed.

Lunch after. Quiet afternoon & went to Club to write letters. M had seen Mr Burgess RA. Talk before dinner to Curling. All lies said Edwards. One more whiskey & potash will settle E said his friend. After dinner (bottle Ayala '74 & oysters) we all went round to Burnands. All playing Spoof. Ran round with Roy & got there before M & Mite. Left 10.45 & home. Fire. Very cold back room. (Red ink: Cold east windy. Sea fog at Ramsgate.) (Cuttings glued in: Death of Eleanor Swanborough. Aged 53. Augusta Wells. 'Times' Tuesday Apl 11th.) (Rachel Orlebar. April 12) Monday April 10 4 Prospect Terrace. Up 8.0am. Packed bags etc. Out on Parade. Breakfast.

Club. At 10.30 rode for last time in Thanet season '92 '93. Went along sands in brilliant sun to Broadstairs with Roy, up to look at Bleak House. Along to name on cove & back. Met F.C.B & Cuthbert. Wd not ride but I went on to gap at Kingsgate. Home at 12.20. Changed. Hurried lunch. Burgess RA called. Away after good bye. Walked up to S.E Rly. Purnell saw me there.

Left 1.15. Weary journey to Charing X . Slept. Surly 4 wheeler. Home. Called Chesterton & went & looked at stables. Back. Wrote letter Canon Bourne etc.

Dressed. Dined well. Roy & self went to Haymarket & had Royal Box to see Hypatia. Saw Beerbohm Tree after in costume. Cab home. Roy no change.

Sat & smoked. 2 goes of whiskey. Woke up with head in morning. (Red ink: Saw Mrs Jarratt that was. Vicat Cole interred Kensal Green.) (Cutting glued in: Marriage of George Bancroft & Effie Hare. D.T. Tuesday Apl 11.93.) (Red ink across page: Came up to Stafford Terrace for good from Ramsgate after season 1892-3.)

Tuesday April 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Dressed. Roy in bath. Breakfast. Wrote Purnell.

Cold east windy dull day. Letters from M etc etc. All morning putting things straight etc etc, setting up camera. Lunch. Still putting things away. At 5.30 M & Maud came home. M seedy. After dined at 7.0. Something wrong with clock in dining room. Hand slow. Roy & self left at 8.0 for Adelphi Theatre. Very cold driving. Saw good play, melodrama, 'The Black Domino'. Arthur Williams good. Roy amused. Saw no one we knew. Left 11.15 & drove straight home.

Crude sausages. Bed 12.30pm. (Red ink: M, Maud etc home for good from 4

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Wednesday April 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Bath. Breakfast. M in bed. Fine morning. Wrote letters & cheque to Perks. Roy went with it. Perks called & X'd letter. Roy went to Queen's Club. Tidied up all day. Skemed Sketch cover etc. Man doing photo hut. In afternoon at 6.30 took cab to Garrick with dress coat in it. After to Punch dinner. Annoyed at not being asked to the New Gallery this evening to meet H.R.H. P.D. F.C.B, E.T.R, B.P, E.I.M, R.L, D.M, self & J.T. No Agnew or Bradbury. Left at 11.0 & cab to Garrick. Changed coat. Up in reading room. Rested in chair, nearly asleep. Went to fancy dress ball at Covent Garden. Saw Arthur à B, Holland Craik etc. (Red ink: Went to fancy dress ball at Covent Garden Theatre. Missed reception at the New Gallery.)

Thursday April 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. No letter from F.C.B. Put things in order all morning & afterwards lunched. Roy out with Bunbury & went to see raquets at Queen's Club. In afternoon after feeling tired in chair got to work & did small drawing for F.C.B's next week's article. At 7.0 dressed & walked to dine at Pollocks. Met Americans, Sophy & Fritz Jackson, Miss Weigal next me at dinner. Fair dinner. Walked home & bed by 11.45pm.

Friday April 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. At 9.15 Roy & self rode in Row. Saw Alderman Phillips & Stella, also Lockwood. Back 10.15. Mrs Batey had sent boy away. Very angry & put out. Never came back till 11.45. Sent Purnell to Mr Tenniel. Finished small drawing. Boy came back with photo of The Moneychangers by Quintin Matsys. Got to work & finished & dined 9.0pm.

Mite & Madame went to see Hypatia. Back all right. Roy dined with us at 9.0 having eaten 2 dinners.

Saturday April 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Room being done. At 10.0 got away in cart & drove to Camera Club. Lovely morning. After photod Mrs King & Miss Derben.

Left 1.15. Lunch at the Garrick. Saw Gillie F, Maclean, Chudleigh & Arthur Blunt. Left at 2.30 for Savoy Theatre. Saw Haddon Hall, M, Maud, Roy & self.

Put M & M & R in cab & had Turkish bath. In 5.30 out 6.45. Walked home.

Bought pine. Irritable & very thirsty in evening. Barney left at home. Nuisance & spolit evening in drawing room. (Red ink: Photod Mrs King & Miss Derben.)

Sunday April 16 Stafford Terrace. Up nine am. Lovely morning. Westerly wind. At 10.30 Roy & self rode to Battersea Park. Met Sterne & Mrs Tate & Mrs Heilbut & Dr Orwin.

Twice round sharp. After home by 12.15. M at her mother's. Mite & Madame in Row. Put camera up & took 2 photos of room. Lunch. Slept & rested in chair afterwards. At 4.30 tea. Roy bump thumping. After developed photos & 9 taken yesterday. Wrote letters. Dinner. Bottle of Ayala. Quiet evening. Mite had a cold. M messing with carbolic. Had nightmare in chair after. Could not get up. Bed at 11.45pm. Mr Frisby called with lovely black & white poodle

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 called Jock. Stayed from 4.30 to 6.30pm. Talk of Midge & Langley. Mervyn in also.

Monday April 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.10. Bath. Down. Very dark dull morning & slight rain, 1st time for weeks & weeks. Roy worrying about raquet. No milk in tea. Purnell never brought coals up. Wretchedly dull cold east wind. Rode with Roy in Park. Good ride. Home. Lunch. Went to play lawn tennis in covered court with Reed. Played 4 sets. Roy, Reed & self. After to tea in Reed's new house. Left 5.0. Home by buss. Rested. Dined at 6.45pm. A 7.40 left in 4 wheeler for Lyceum. Clara Pretty knocked down by hansom. Saw Becket. Very good. Not one soul I knew in theatre. Left at 11.30 & home by 4 wheeler. All well. Bed. Felt tired & rather seedy.

Tuesday April 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 10.0 Roy & self rode in Park. Most lovely morning. Bright sun & hot. Saw Guards cross Park etc. Finlay, Alexander, Forbes Robertson, Soloman etc. Back at 12.0. Changed. Got to work & began Sketch drawing. Lunch. Rest. Played game of bump thump with Roy. Worked & put figure in in ink. Head before dressing. Dressed & at 7.45 drove to dine at Wills's, 35 Hyde Pk Gdns. Awful dinner. Hot dining room. Took Lady Carbutt in. Fry's cocoa, Mappin & other tradesmen. Boughton & wife.

Left after talk with young man, Lord knows who. Drove with M to 12 Haymarket. Supper with Arthur Blunt, Winchester Clowes & Forbes Robertson & 2 nice girls in black. Electric light went out at 1.30am. Left. Home 2.0am. Read papers. Bed 2.30am. (Red ink across page: Bad hot dinner at Mrs Wills's.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles and Hannah Mortlock. Wed Ap 19.)

Wednesday April 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Roy hot bath. M in bed tired. Breakfast. At 10.0 Roy & self rode in Park. Met Stone, lady, Soloman etc. Saw Frisby with his wife Miss Rich that was. Oh! Home 12.30. Rested. Lunch. After slept 1 hr.

Went on with work. M out & to give Pretty notice. Roy wanted money. Out to baths & after bump thumping. Left off 5.30. Dressed in blue suit. At 6.5pm rode Cob thro' Kensington & to Punch dinner. Arrived exactly at 7.0pm. Punch dinner. William Agnew back again. F.C.B, H.W.L, E.T.R, B.P, L.B, W.A. Hy F, R.L, A à B, E.L.S & J.T there. Very long discussion of cut, only over 10.30.

Got parody of Dürer for self. Left at 11.15 with Tenniel. Put down at Isthmian Club. Cab home 2/s. Read Gazette. Bed 12.30.

Thursday April 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30am. Intended to ride. Very heavy showers at 8.15am. Back to bed. Breakfast. M poured troubles into my ear about Maud's dress. At 10.0 Roy & self rode in Row. Very hot, like July. Saw Mrs Tate, Alexander, Stone etc. Roy riding with Banbury. Left him & home at 11.30 am.

Looked at upper rooms in stable. M out. Wrote Alexander. Rested. Lunch.

After rested. Began cut of parody of Dürer's Melancholia. Worked till 6.30.

Bump thump with Roy. Roy water in his ear. Dinner 7.30. Mite & M dressed afterwards & at 10.15 went in 4 wheel cab to Prince's Hall, Princes Gate to a

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 ball given by Lady Reed & another lady American with composed daughter.

Sat Custmere( ?) Harrison etc etc. David Murray & others. Took Lady Reed in to supper. Left after talk with Mrs Rawlinson. Home 1.30. Bed 2.0am. Mrs Foster the lady. (Red ink across page: Maud's 1st dance, Sir Edward Reed.)

Friday April 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Bath. Roy a little troublesome. After breakfast wrote letters. Lovely bright warm morning. Worked all day on parody of Albert Dürer's Melancholia. Finished 7.0pm. Dined & M & Mite, Roy & self all went to St James's Theatre & saw Liberty Hall. Good play. Stone never turned up.

Had large box. Felt sleepy rather. All back in cab. Supper & bed. (Red ink: Went to see Liberty Hall.)

Saturday April 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. After Roy & self rode in Park. Lovely morning.

Not many people. Saw Stone. Asked him for box this afternoon. Met Alexander, Tates walking. Back lunch. After went in cab to morning performance of 'The Amazons' very good. Box. Stone there. Roy & self in next box. Draught. Shut window. Miss Lily Hanbury good. Went to Grossmith's dressing room. Saw him & Elliott. After strolled home. Met Lord Frederick Hamilton. Walked back with him. After met Keith & wife. After Robinson. Walked with him (R) to Kensington. Great anti Home Rule demonstration in Albert Hall. Belfast delegates. Bought pine. Dinner. Roy went by himself to Lyceum to see 'The Lyons Maid'. I followed after. Had 2 stalls. Prince of Wales there. Roy pleased. Walked to Garrick. Ginger beer.

Home by cab. (Red ink: Went to see 'The Amazons' & 'The Lyons Maid'.)

Sunday April 23 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30. Breakfast earlier. At 9.15 started with Roy & got to bridge to meet Lockwood & Matthews. Met them near Sheen. Walked all way to Richmond. Hazy morning. Bright & hot. Good ride through Park, on to Wimbledon Common. Met F.C.B. Talk. After trotted home. Lunch. At 3.0 went up to dress for the Lewis's. Reed & wife called in hansom. Roy, Maud & self went to Lewis's. 5 good games. Roy & cake. Mite & Miss Kemp. Left at 6.30.

Home. Nearly poisoned at dinner by colza oil & chocolate shape spoilt by dirt.

Bottle of '80 Pol Roger. Quiet restful evening. Bed early. (Red ink: Spoke to Lockwood about Tenniel's knighthood.)

Monday April 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Intended to ride early, did not. Rode 10.0am, saw young Farquhar & introduced Stone to Frisby. Home 11.30. Left Roy in Park. Back & got to work on drawing for Sketch cover. Lunch. Worked. After at 5.0 played tennis at Queen's Club with Reed having had tea there with Roy. Young Wilson came after with wife. Roy worried with questions of Irving & Ellen Terry. Back by buss. Dressed. Dined. At 8.0 cab to Haymarket Theatre. Saw 'A Woman of no Importance'. Claude Watney came to box.

Beerbohm Tree asked me into his dresing room. Don't know whether I liked the play or not. Back straight home. Mite dined with Sir Benjamin Baker. (Red ink: Went to 'A Woman of no Importance'.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Tuesday April 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30am. Roy & self rode in Park before breakfast. Lovely morning. Saw 2 regiments of Guards. Rode fast. Hat blew off. Saw D'Arcy.

Home. Breakfast at 10.0. Got to work with 4th Sketch drawing. Finished at 7.0.

Roy worried about money. Went after to see Diplomacy. At 9.50 M & self drove to 1 Collingham Gardens & dined at the Tates. Met Mr & Mrs Brunton, Mr & Mrs Norman Shaw, Mr & Mrs Boughton, Colin Hunters, Messels, De la Rues, selves & hosts. Splendid dinner. Left at 11.20. Found Roy on the doorstep, could not get in. Slept in chair till 2.0am. (Red ink across page: Dined at Mr Tate's. Very good dinner & very pleasant company.)

Wednesday April 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Lovely morning. Roy in bath. At 10 rode in Park with Roy. Called & left cheque at Simmonds who had left cheeky letter. Met Trower, Mr Tate & daughter. Home 12.0. Saw stables & saw Lockwood. Talk about Tenniel. Lunch. Rested after. Mr Vernon of Vaus & Crampton Ltd called about process at 3.30pm. Roy preparing to return to school. Altered mind about riding to P.D. Sent Roy twice. At 6.0 rode Cob to Bouverie St. Saw Lindo & son at top of Row, after Arthur Blunt. Tenniel drove up in cab & looked at Cob. Small P.D. F.C.B, E.I.M (late) P.A, A à B, self & Tenniel.

Suggested cut of Jorrocks. Got fair one for self. Left with Tenniel 11.15. Put down in Piccadilly Isthmian Club. Home 12.0. Slept till 1.30am. Bed. (Red ink across page: Roy went back to Eton.)

Thursday April 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30am. Bath. At 8.15 rode mare in Park. Colder & duller. Mare went very well. Saw Scots Guards & Grenadier ditto. Talk of D’Arcy, Romer Williams, & rode with 'Peeps' Cockerell. Breakfast 9. 20. Got to work. Worked steadily all day. Alice Linley in to lunch. Talk of poor Barker.

Dined at 8.0pm. Quiet evening & slept in chair until 1.30am. M came down to get me up. Were to have dined at the Trowers. Wire came or note at 1.0pm to put it off as Trower was ill with fever. Worked all day on Hawkins, Justice & Fox & Guinea pig.

Friday April 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30 & got to work on drawing of Hawkins & Justice with Fox & Guinea pig. Breakfast 9.0. Worked after. A 10.40 M & Mite went to Private View of Royal Academy. Worked on. They were back at 2.0pm.

Lunch. At 3.40 Maud & self went up to R.A. Blocks along the road. Called & left ties at Ludlams. Into Academy. Saw Riviere, Hook & many others. Val Prinsep. Left at 6.20 & home by cab at 6.45. Got to work & worked till 9.30.

Finished drawing & sent it off. 1st drawing sent to Vaus & Crampton. Dined.

Bottle Ayala '74. M tired. Bed at 1.30 sharp. Sent Purnell up to Ludlams. Saw Mrs Charley Burnand, Conny, Fildes, Phil & Morland Agnew & others at the R.A. Great crush. Mrs Millett, Parsons etc etc, Lockyer. Letter from Roy for £1.0.0 (Red ink across page: Private View of Royal Academy.)

Saturday April 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Bath. Fine morning. At 10.0 rode Cob in park for 1st time. Went well. Long talk with Alexander. Met Sterne, the Tates etc,

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Romer Williams. Back at 12.30. Called de Vere Gds. Ordered flowers. Room being done. Annoyed with pail mark. Wrote diary. Lunch. Dressed & after M, Maud & self went in cab to Private View of the New Gallery. Immense crowd.

Saw Gregory etc etc. Sargent's picture big success. Left at 5.0 & home to tea at 5.30. Rested & after dressed. After quiet dinner M & self drove up to Palace Theatre. Saw Sandow. Good box & quiet evening. Home. Tooth loose & pain in wrist. Went up to bed at once & glad to get there. (Red ink: Academy banquet. F.C.B & D.M went.) (Red ink across page: Private view of the New Gallery. Went with M to the Palace Theatre.)

Sunday April 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Down. Breakfast & at 10.20 rode mare to Putney Bridge. Caught Lockwood, Matthews & young Russell up on Putney Hill.

Trotted mare fast. Rode over Wimbledon & through Richmond Park to Star & Garter. Met F.C.B at gate 12.30 exactly. Fine morning. Colder & much wind..

Jumped mare over ditch. Lunch. All went into large room & had 3/6 dejuener.

Very good. Had (illeg) beer, coffee & liqueur. Saw Sedger & wife come in. On horses 2.15. Rode round Richmond Park across common. Matthews & self rode very fast, rest after us. Left them at foot of Putney Bridge & home to T at 4.30. Changed into blue suit. Stanhope Forbes & Miss English called. At 6.0 drove in cart with Cob to call on Seymour Lucas. Got costume. Back at 7.45.

Dinner. Quiet evening & bed. Had fire. (Red ink across page: 1st meet of the 2 Pins Club. Lunch at Star & Garter.)

Monday May 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. At 9.45 rode mare in Park. Long procession of Barker's carts. Met Stone, Jones etc. Talk of Alexander. Dull & threatening rain. Home 11.25. M & Maud going out. Wrote Coward about chimney. Lunch. Rested & read. Put things square. At 7.0 cart drove me up to Reform Club. There 7.20. Waited. Saw John Livesey. Dined with Alfred Parsons, Joe Carr & Macilvaine there. Fair dinner. Prince Teck dining next table. After cigar drove to Black's rooms. Played poker. Black in 11.45. Lost £1.11.0 after winning £2.0.0. Left with Parsons 3.0am. Home 3.30am. Bed. (Red ink across page: Dined with Alfred Parsons at Reform Club, Black's rooms after.)

Tuesday May 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.20am. Breakfast at 10. Rode Cob in the Row. Long talk with Stone. Introduced to Miss Lampson. Talk of the Lopez girls etc etc.

Home 11.30. Letters. Lunch. After rested in chair until 4.0. Got to work on Sketch drawing. Miss Sewell that was called, also C.Hartree. At 6.15 rode mare 3 times round Park. Back 7.30. Dined 8.15. Rest after bed 10.30. Rest.

Wednesday May 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Rode by 8.15 in Park on mare. Went well. Met Coward & Mills, Mr Smith etc. Gallop back. Breakfast. Wrote letters. Polly cried over books & expenses. Decided not to ride. Lovely morning. Mrs Batey troublesome. Drew cheque for £25 extra for house. After got to work on drawing for Sketch cover No 4. Worked all afternoon. At 5.30 dressed. Cab to 148 New Bond Street. Talk with Brown over show. Left 7.0, walked to Camera

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Club. Glass of sherry & looked at Sketch & papers. Took locker at 7.35.

Walked thro' Trafalgar Square & on to Athenaeum Club. Looked at pictures thro' United Service window & statues after. Dined with Norman Lockyer & Col Stirling, a guardsman. Prince Edward of Sax Weimar there. Very slow dinner. Next Major (blank). Talk of Gerome's Bellona. Left 11.0 & drove in cab to Farquharsons at home. M & Mite there. Mite admired. Left at 12.45 after supper. Talk to Colin & Jack Hunter. Home & bed. (Red ink across page: Dined with Norman Lockyer & Colonel Stirling at Athenaeum Club.

Farquharsons at home.)

Thursday May 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Bath. M in bed, after at home at 10.30. Rode Cob in Row. Met Lockwood, Lord Lawrence etc. Cob stumbled badly with me.

Home after at 11.0. Letter from F.C.B with subject of Anthony & Cleopatra.

Sent boy back to F.C.B. Announcement in papers of formal engagement of the Duke of York & the Princess May. Did not have to do cut. Worked on drawing for Sketch cover & after at 4.0pm began to skeme the cut of Cleopatra & Anthony. Carriage home from Corbens'. Dined quietly at home & snooze after. M & Mite & self went to the Tates' at home. Left 10.30. Heaps there. Took Mrs Fildes in to supper. Mal elvé men lounging on sofas. Talk to Mr & Mrs Henderson. Election at Academy. Woods, McWhirter & Henry Moore elected. Val Princep lost by 1 ball only 30 against 31. Fildes tragic story. Boughton taken away by Mrs B. 'We don't care a snap'. Left at 1.15am.

Tired to bed. Saw mother & Mervyn in cab looking ill. Mr Hall called in afternoon. (Red ink across page: Went to Mrs Tate's at home. 3 Royal Academicians elected.)

Friday May 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.15am. Did not ride. Got things ready to photo Stace.

Did so at 8.45. Man called about chimney at 9.30. After photod Purnell in helmet etc. Got to work on cartoon of Cleopatra at 11.30. Worked on outline all afternoon up to 7.45pm or 8.15pm. Dined at 8.20. Quiet dinner. 1 st time ever had to put off finishing a cartoon until Saturday morning. Went to bed at 11.0pm & slept well waking at 5.45am. Louise Blondel's last whole day. (Red ink: M lost latch key of door. Not to be found anywhere.)

Saturday May 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.0am & got to work 6.20 on drawing of Cleopatra & John Bull. 1st drawing for page sent in from here on Saty. Worked till 10.0. No boy turned up. Annoyed. Sent trap away. Had wired Ada Fletcher not to come to Club. Worried. M & Maud out. Dressed & at 12.15 drove up to Camera Club with mare. Drove self. Left box & sent Purnell on to Mays etc. Examined camera & after to Garrick. Lunch with Evans. Had lobster & potatoes. Talk after in smokimg room with E & 2 others on Egypt & Australia. After upstairs saw Lockwood. Tenniel to be knighted. Left at 3.30 walked to Park. Bought gloves etc. Cob took me home with Purnell. No boots on. M & Mite up in school room. Louise Blondel had left. Annie Tallant came for 2 nd time. Dinner.

Rested after. Purnell came up with cart 10.30. (cold) Drove to at home of the Marchioness of Breadalbane. Saw Lockwood, Ritchie etc etc, Eykyn. Left at 11.45, walked to Garrick. In smoking room. Talk to Furniss about his work &

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 pay. Home by cab 1.30pm. (Red ink: Not well with indigestion. C.W.) (Red ink across page: Marchioness of Breadalbane's at home.)

Sunday May 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0. At 11.0 got on Cob & walked up to Camera Club.

Photod at 12.0 Ada Fletcher for Sketch. Wash & lunch at Garrick. Cold lamb & Pilsner beer. Left by cab & home at 3.0. Called for bag. Great demonstration for the 8 hours Bill in Hyde Park. Home. Mite & self went to Sir Alfred Hickman's. Played 5 sets of tennis. Captain French & Tyrrel there. Mite & self walked home. Miss Rose Innes there. Dressed. Hamilton, Tabs & Bee Barrs dined. Long talk & look at furniture. Good dinner. They left at 11.0. Bed. (Red ink: Fletchers dined with us. Not well. Indigestion & colly wobbles.)

Monday May 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode mare in Park in moning. Lovely day. Duller & colder in afternoon. Wanted M to drive in cart. Changed & sent Purnell to Hickmans & to Mays for things. Began to design card for Private View of own show at Fine Art Socy. M & Maud went to Lady Margaret Watney's to sew. Mr Brown from the Fine Art Socy called. Had begun the figure of politics on paper. Long talk. Dined quietly at home & bed early after. Mr Smith called in morning & measured me for things. Heard of death of Mrs Smith senr in Novr last, much shocked. Death of Daddy Levy. (Red ink: Not well. Indigestion etc.)

Tuesday May 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Rode Cob in Park 8.30. Went beautifully. Saw Merton etc. Home. In morning photod self with Purnell at 11.30 for card for Private View. Had folly cap on & hand through paper. M out with Maud. After developed them & printed. In afternoon drew the card. Took out head just before dressing for dinner & put it in again all right. Dressed. Carriage up at 7.45. M & Mite went, self in cab. Dined at Mrs Medleys. Young man very attentive to Maud. Chapman & wife & daughter there & one other young man.

Long talk to Medley. Home 11.0. Bed after sharp 12.0. (Red ink: Carriage used 1st time.) (Red ink across page: Mrs Medley's dinner.)

Wednesday May 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am, down at 9.15. Rode Cob to look at Park.

Brilliant lovely day & weather. Regiment of Lancers passing. Rode to Institute.

Met Lockwood in Park. Carriages all along the Row. Home. Met the Australian Guards, about 20. Dressed. Had wired to Tabs & B.Barrs. Poor Mite could not go. Left at 10.45 & cab to line of soldiers Queen's Gate. Got to Institute. Saw Prof Flower. Inside. Good place. Great crowd of notables. Waited standing nearly 2 hours. Saw the Queen distinctly, Prince of W, Duke of Edinboro’, Duke of York & Princess May etc etc. Long time getting out. Did so by side door after officer. Saw Burne Jones, Monckton etc. Difficulty in passing cordon of police. Pointed out house. Saw Aird & Furniss & Oh! Mrs F. Dense crowd. Got out & home to lunch at 2.0. M & Mite there. After changed & got to work. Did card for invitation to Private View of my own drawings. Left off 7.0.

Florry Blair called. Dressed for Fancy Ball. M stitching up etc. Left in carriage 7.55. Drove all over the place. Angry with Purnell & dropped my stick on to stones. Got to Heilbut's dinner 8.30. Mrs Lewis & Mabel, Colnaghi, Ponsonby,

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Mr & Mrs Tate, Sterne etc. Mite looked A1. She got up from dinner faint. No carriage. Went on with Mervyn. Ball at De la Rues. Great success. Danced etc. Took Miss Casella to supper. Left at 3.15. Home with Mervyn. Daylight & after M came down & met us in hall. Bed at 4.0am. Dear Mite feverish. (Red ink across page: Opening of Imperial Institute. De la Rue’s Fancy Dress Ball.

Heilbut’s dinner.)

Thursday May 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.30am. Hot lovely morning. Dear Mite feverish & in bed all day. Sore throat. At 11 rode Cob in Park. Talk to Finlay & Forbes Robertson. Saw Trower. Back 12.30. M in. Lunch. After finished card for Private View of own drawings. M went out in carriage at 4.0. Made calls. Mite in bed. Sorted drawings etc etc. Dined 8.0. Went out before dinner. Bought cigars. Called with drawing at Huish's. Dined M & self. M slept in Mite's room.

Bed 10.50pm exactly & long sleep. (Red ink: Fairly well after ball. Looked out drawings for show. No subject from F.C.B.) Friday May 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. M up in Maud's room. Did not ride. Breakfast.

Lovely morning. Young man from Fine Art Socy called & took away drawings & pictures. After waited for subject. At 11.0 Burnand called on his Cob. Settled to do German Emperor & Bow Wow Wow. Went round to mews at 12.15. Photod boy & Mrs Batey. Developed them & prints before lunch or just after. Rested & got to work. Worked till 8.0pm. Dined & went to bed after at 10.30. Slept & woke at 4.30am Saty morning. Maud still seedy.

Saturday May 13 Stafford Terrace. Woke up 4.30am. Rustle on stairs. A 6.0 got up, did 3 hours work till 9.0 on finishing drawing of German Emperor & Reichstag. 'Nana won't give me a bow wow'. Breakfast & at 10.10 sent it off. Put room in order.

After put on costume at 11.30 & Annie T exposed 20 plates of costume. M & Maud out, not back to lunch until 1.50. Developed plates after resting in M's bedroom in afternoon. Read the Black Poodle etc. At 7.30 dressed. Dined.

Had whiskey & soda. After cab to Savoy Theatre Saw boshy opera of Jane Annie by Barrie & Conan Doyle. Left at 11.15 with Percy Reeve. After to Club.

Wrote Aldeman Treloar & Roy. Had supper, grilled ham. Sat next Reeve & Furniss. Left at 1.40 & home. Bed 2.30 exactly. Found 2 drawings Harcourt & Eel & G.O.M & sent them with Vol for 1889 by youth.

Sunday May 14 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am very tired in morning. Breakfast & left at 9.30 exactly. Rode Cob to Putney Bridge. Got there 10.13. Waited 10 minutes.

Lockwood, Russell & Matthews came up. Rode to Richmond Pk. Mistook the path. Furniss rattled past us at bridge near Robin Hood Gate. On to Kingston.

Went to Royal Stables etc. Lunched with Sir George Maude, Col Maude & Mrs T. Penn that was there. Young Lucas & friend, 2 others. After Lockwood, M, R, F & self looked over the yearlings. Furniss bored. Cousin of Abington Baird came up. Also naval officer & wife. Mr Bourke & dark man. Got late, left at 5.0 exactly. Cob fresh. Rode fast with Lockwood up to top of Roehampton Lane. Walked home from there. Passed by Prince Teck, Tweedie & also

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Lucas etc. Home at 7.15 exactly. Rested in chair. Dressed had bottle of Lanson for dinner. M looked well. Bed 11.0pm exactly. (Red ink across page: 2 Pins meet. Lunched at Sir George Maude's at Hampton Court. Saw yearlings. Good day.) (Red ink: Sir George Maude died May 31 1894 aged 77 years.)

Monday May 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Breakfast. Rode in Park on Cob in white breeches. Saw the Jones's, Henry author & Captn. No one else. Back at 11.45. Barney very ill. Saw Cole's man about carriage. Developed plates of self taken Saty & 8 of Sketch taken May 7th. Rested in afternoon. At 6.15 dressed & ready 6.40pm. Purnell late with carriage. Annoyed. Drove to Park St & dined with Tabs & Ham. H had bought Pears Soap drawing of Bubbles.

After dinner drove to Gaiety Theatre & saw Round the Town. Saw Earl of Euston & Routledge. Out 1.20. Walked to King St. Many carriages for Opera.

Home at 12.0. Read papers & bed. (Red ink: Slight rain coming home the 1st since beginning of March.) (Red ink across page: Dined with Hamilton & Tabs at Park Lane. Went to 'In Town' after.)

Tuesday May 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Bath. Duller weather. At 9.30 rode Cob on Park.

Saw poor Barney dead. Met Lawrence, De la Rue, Lilley, Mrs Heilbut & also Soloman & cousin of Miss Olive Tucker. Home 11.15. Developed 4 plates of Sketch taken Sunday May 7th. Made sketch of self as Chinaman. After got on with drawing for Sketch. Lunch. Rest till 3.0. Worked on drawing. Mrs Barker sent dresses etc to M. Very good. Dressed at 7.15. Went in carriage to 51 Montague Square. Dined with the Trowers. Met Mr & Mrs Maude (née Kirk) Hendersons, De la Rues, one other couple, Trowers & selves. Good dinner but slow. Left at 11.0 exactly & home by carriage. (Red ink: Heavy rain in the night & fresh in morning.) (Red ink across page: Dined with the Trowers at 51 Montague Square.)

Wednesday May 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Dressed for ride. Heavy & rainy. Did not ride.

Wrote letters & diary. After got to work on Sketch drawing. Worked all the morning. Summons from Lange. Lunch. M & Maud went out in carriage at 3.0.

At 4.0 frightfully heavy rain came on. Finished drawing 4.30pm. Sent for at 5.0. After did small Japanese drawing. Left at 6.15 & took Metropolitan Railway to P.D. Met Reed at Temple. Walked to office. Found that card had not been sent for Imperial Institute. Also M had forgotton Critchetts at home.

Went out & wired. P.D: F.C.B, A.G, E.T.R, L.B, E.I.M, W.A, Hy F, R.L, A à B, self, J.T. Good dinner. Rambling statement from Tenniel about chalk drawing.

Left at 10.30 & drove home by 11.5. Dressed. M & Maud up dressmaking.

Drove to Critchetts. Good cab. Saw Medleys & many others. Grossmiths back. Miss Fortescue, horrible voice. Mrs Routledge etc etc. Left at 1.30.

Home & bed by 2.0am. (Red ink across page: Soirée at Imperial Institute.

Went to Critchetts at home by self.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Thursday May 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Breakfast. After rode Cob at 9.45am through Park. Met Charley Hartree. On to photo shop in Charing X Road. Bought kangaroo. Wood pavement very slippery. Back to Park. Met Miss Bernstein.

Rode twice up & down. Home 11.30. Poor Barker's crop & spurs sent.

Drawing returned from Ingram. Lunch. After got to work on Money Boxing Kangaroo. Skemed it & put ink bottle in. Mite & M very busy preparing to send Mite to Hampshire tomorrow. Quiet dinner. 1st night of Riley, new maid. Quiet evening & bed early 10.50. (Red ink: Riley only stayed 1 fortnight leaving Friday June 2 1893.)

Friday May 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not ride. Got to work on Money Boxing Kangaroo. Mite getting ready. Bother about pass. Send P.O.O boy. Had been in letter box all the time. At 2.45 M & Mite left in carriage to go to Hants with Lady Margaret (Mite only). Worked on. M back at 5.30. Finished drawing carefully by 7.20pm. Dressed. Dined 7.45 pm & after bottle Perinet '84 left in cab & took M to Pavilion Music hall. Heard Bessie Bellwood, 2 Macs etc etc.

Left 11.20 & cab home. Window open in drawing room. Bed at 12.20pm.

(Red ink across page: Took M to Pavilion Music hall in the evening.)

Saturday May 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Wet. Put old coat on & rode Cob at 9.45 till 11.30. Walked up & down with Stone & Mrs Oxendon. Home 12.0 & put on costume. M photod me. Tried old plates since 1884. All right but all frilled.

Stayed in & developed & printed photos. M out in carriage at 4.0. Called Miss Innes & Mrs Speed etc etc. Policeman called with summons from Ramsgate for 6/s. After tea looked at red book. Tidied desk & letters etc etc. Dinner 7.45pm. At lunch time Irish terrier on mat outside door. Stayed very friendly for an hour & then left when M was buying flowers. Did some photos. Afer M & self dined quietly at home & went to bed quietly after.

Sunday May 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Breakfast at 9.30. At 10.0 rode Cob to Wimbledon Common up Roehampton Lane. Slight shower. Called Oak Lawn.

Saw new drawing room. Could not make Abel Watmore hear. Home by 1.15.

After lunch changed & put up the barometers. Tabs called. Did some photos.

At 7.45 Sylvinia Rose Innes & William Stone dined with us. 2 bottles of Champagne. Long talk. They left at 12.0 in a hansom together. Slept in chair till 2.0am. Bed after.

Monday May 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After breakfast rode mare at 9.45 in Row. Mare went very well. Saw Macnamara. Story of Col Copeland & Collard's horse.

Home. Took photos of room for Westminster Gazette. Printed some of self in costume. After developed the room photos. At 5.0pm got to work & altered Sketch drawing. Took arms out bodily. Afer dined quietly at home. Bad lamb & salad all vinegar. Went out after dinner & walked to try to get evening paper. Lots of vans about. Home. Rested. Hot in the evening. Took collar off.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Bed at 12.0am. Letters from Mite & Lady Margaret W in evening. (Red ink across page: Bank holiday. Lovely day.)

Tuesday May 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode Cob in Park in morning. After worked on drawing for The Sketch. Altered the arms & finished it sending it off by boy in afternoon at 6.0pm. M & self spent quiet day. Dined quietly together. Read after & bed early.

Wednesday May 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After good ride 9.30 on Cob in Park. Home & wrote letters. In afternoon went with M in carriage as far as Berkeley Square.

Went to Club (Garrick) & wrote letters to press, 'Times' etc etc about my show of drawings. After met Furniss & walked with him to the Punch dinner. Full of complaints about Agnew & the firm etc. Good dinner. F.C.B, Guthrie, B.Partridge, Milliken, William Agnew, Furniss, Arthur à B, self & Tenniel.

Derby sweep drawn. Drew Isinglass. Lucky. Told the table about having drawn Isinglass at the Garrick sweep. After left with Tenniel & put down at Lyric Club. Home by 11.30 & bed. (Red ink: Punch sweep drawn. Drew 'Isinglass'.)

Thursday May 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Letters. After rode Cob in the Row. Back & at 12.30 photod Purnell in my frock coat for Rising Tide & Householder. Took some on Rouch's plates 10 years old. Printed them & in afternoon got to work. After in evening Hamilton & Tabs dined wuith us. All went to Court Theatre after & saw The Amazons for the 2 nd time. Poor play. Home by cab.

(Red ink: Hamilton & Tabs dined with us. Went to see The Amazons for 2 nd time at Court Theatre.)

Friday May 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not ride in morning. Worked on drawing of Rate Payer & Rising Tide all day. Thought should finish early. Did not. Hard up for time. Finished 7.30pm & after dressed & took cab to the Union Club & dined with Stone. Good dinner. Left at 8.55 & cab to the Royal Institution.

Heard Beerbohm Tree's lecture. Not bad. Crowded audience. Curious Jew girl near me after Stone felt faint. Times reporter just at the back of us. After went into Dewar's rooms. Saw old Mrs Beerbohm, Madame Sernon & others etc. Left after whiskey. Alfred Gilbert & pretty woman. Called Empire Theatre & on to Club. Talk to Toole, Pinero & Routledge etc etc. Left at 1.15pm & home by cab. (Red ink across page: Dined with William Stone at the Union Club. Went to Beerbohm Tree's lecture at the Royal Institute after. He was st the 1 actor that ever lectured there.)

Saturday May 27 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Slight headache. Breakfast. Out 9.30. Rode Cob in Park. Saw Stone. Cob bucked very much with me. Home 11.15. Mr Smith waiting to fit on clothes. At 12.30 took cab to Club. Lunched. Talk to McLean. Had mince chicken with egg. Bottle of Pilsner. After went up stairs & wrote heaps of letters invitating etc. Home by cab at 6.0. Put wine out. Stokes

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 & wife dined with us. Jumped at Mervyn about box. After M & Mrs Stokes left in carriage & Stokes & self in cab. Went to the Garrick Theatre & heard 'Diplomacy'. Mr Hare very good. Mrs Bancroft better. A1 play. Left at 11.0 & home by cab. (Red ink: 1st night of the 2nd Mrs Tankerville - Tanqueray - 26 May '94. Great success of Mrs Patrick Campbell.) (Red ink across page: Stokes & wife & Mervyn dined with us. Went to see Diplomacy afterwards.)

Sunday May 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Breakfast 9.30. At 10.30 rode Cob up to north of London, along Oxford St. Saw Alfred de Rothschild in Park. Great building alterations in Grays Inn Road. Along thro' Wilmingon Square. Looked at Lloyd Sq. Walked down Pentonville Hill. Home along New Road. Conny & Mary B to lunch. After began to write letters. Mr Wheat (young man) called at 3.30.

Stayed till 5.0. Conny B left at 4.20pm. After wrote letters. At 8.0 Guthrie came to dinner. Quite by ourselves. Felt very sleepy after. He left 11.15. Bed after. (Red ink: Rode to Pentonville on Cob.) Monday May 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode Cob in Park after breakfast. All morning writing letters & addressing envelopes etc etc. Lunch. After dear Mite returned from Lady Margaret's. Being brought by her maid. Brought luggage. At 2.30 took cab up to Fine Art society & hung all my pictures. There from 3 to 7.30pm. Spielmann came. Long talk. Also man from Sala's Journal. Left with Spielmann & drove as far as Porchester Terr. Walked home with envelopes etc cards etc. Dined quietly. Bottle of Ayala '80. Bed quietly after & glad to get there. Dull & heavy & much rain in afternoon. (Red ink: Mite returned from Lady Margaret Watney's at 1.45pm. Hung my drawings at the Fine Art Society.)

Tuesday May 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Rode Cob in the Park. After addressed many envelopes etc etc. Wrote many letters. Looked out drawings. Lunch at 2.30. A Mrs Mildred interviewed me for Sala's Journal. Kept me ¾ hour. Left in cab for Fine Art Socy. James Knowles there. Selected a drawing of A Cabinet Council. Settled to send all drawings I had left at Stafford Terrace. Borrowed red book. Went round with Browne & priced all the drawings. Huish & his brother in law there. Left at 7.0 & home by cab. Addressed more envelopes.

Dined quietly at home. Bed early after. (Red ink: 2nd day at Fine Art Socy.

Went & priced all my drawings.)

Wednesday May 31 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. After rode Cob in Park. All morning addressing envelopes & writing letters. In afternoon had Cob in cart up at 3.30pm & drove to Fine Art Socy. Cob went well. Stayed there an hour. Lucy had been in & bought a drawing. Left at 5.30 & home. After dressed & M & self went in carriage to Fildes dinner. Dr & Mrs Sernon, Sir Arthur & Lady Blomfield, Mr & Mrs Rhodes, Mr & Mrs Maclean, selves & Fildes. So so dinner. Looked at Filde's portrait of Princess May & Duke of York after. Left in carriage at 11.10 & home to bed. Man called for pictures & rest of drawings after at 9.0am. Mr Smith called & fitted on my new dress clothes. (Red ink: Derby Day. 'Isinglass'

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 won.) (Red ink across page: Dined at Luke Fildes in the evening. Lovely day. nd 2 day at Fine Arts Society.)

Thursday June 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & after breakfast rode in Park on Cob. Very great crowd. Saw Guards pass. Rode with Mrs Tate. Home & wrote many letters & more invites to Private View of my show of drawings. No subject from Burnand. Wired etc. Lunch at 3.30. Drove in carriage with M & Mite to 148 New Bond St, W. Saw Mrs Wagg & Lady Margaret & Vernon Watney, Col Grant & 2 pretty girls etc etc. Show bid fair to be a success. Left at 5.15 & in carriage to Alfred Parson's at home to meet Mrs Millett. Parsons drawings in watercolour A1. Saw Mrs Stone, Rollers, Mrs Harrison etc etc. Left 6.30.

Walked home, M & Mite in carriage. Dined quietly at home & bed early after.

(Red ink: 1st small Private View at Fine Art Society. M, Mite & self went.

Drawings going well.)

Friday June 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Rode in Park on Cob at 9.15am to 11.30. Cob went well. Saw Sir E.Lawson, Harry L, Lockwood etc, Mrs Heilbut. Home.

Letter from F.C.B. Difficult subject. M out. Photod M for Columbia Squeers.

Developed it. Got on with children & globe in afternoon. Figure not drawn.

Dressed at 6.10pm & down in carriage to dine with Claude Watney. Stone there already at 7.10. Left 8.0 after good dinner. To St James's Theatre. Saw the 2nd Mrs Tanquerville. Wonderful play. Mrs Patrick Campbell very good.

Saw Smalley in interval. After had supper with Claude Watney at Willis's rooms. Kidneys & champagne. Left 12.30 & drove by carriage. Press Day on my drawings at Fine Art Socy. New dress clothes sent home in the evening.

(Red ink: Riley took herself off, 'Whom we thought of so highly'. Press Day at my Exhibition in New Bond Street.) (Red ink across page: Dined with Claude Watney with Stone & M. To see the 2nd Mrs Tanqueray. Splendid. Supper after & home.)

Saturday June 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 5.45am. Got to work 6.10am & worked up to 9.0 on drawing of Columbia as Mrs Squeers. M down & Mite. Announcement of Sir John Tenniel's knighthood. Also Ingram, Wills etc etc, Robinson, Lang etc.

Back to work until 11.45. Sent drawing off 12.0. Dressed & at 12.30 left with Mite in cab for G.W.Rly. Caught 1.0pm train & down to Eton. Met Roy. Roy had black eye. Mr & Mrs Mortimer at Aingers. Harcourt, Aston etc etc. After lunch went to cricket field with Roy. Many friends. Saw McLarens, Petos, Pollocks, Murrays etc etc. Back to tea in Roy's rooms. Strawberries etc. Left at 5.30. Roy begged for money for subscriptions etc etc. Got into 3 rd class carriage & up to town. Home by cab at 7.20. Dressed & dined at 8.0. Rested after & at 10.15 started with Mite for F.O Reception. Late. Got there 10.45, 1 hour getting up stairs. Great crowd. Saw Sir Reg’n Welby etc. Left 12.30. No difficulty in getting carriage at top of Birdcage Walk, took cab from yard of F.O. Home at 1.0am. Mite to bed. M seedy. Huish called at 9.0am. Very pretty little girl of about 11 in carriage at Slough. (Red ink: Tenniel knighted. Wills & Ingram barts.) (Red ink across page: Private View of my Exhibition in New

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Sunday June 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Packed bags etc. At 8.45 breakfast. M down.

At 9.30 had Cob & cart up & down to Paddington Station. Great crowd.

Bother to carry bags & after got to reserved carriage. Hon Schomberg Macdonell, Mr & Mrs Hulse & F.C.B went down. Break at Taplow. Drove to Hall Barn. Met Sir Edward Lawson & Dr Roose walking. Arrived at 11.45. Got cameras out. Took some photos. Great row between moorhens & muscovy ducks. Party in house. Sir E & Lady Lawson, Mr & Mrs Hulse, Harry Lawson, Dr W.H.Russell, F.C.Burnand, Hon Schomberg Macdonell, Dr Robson Roose, John Hare & self. Lunch 2.0pm. Junket & old brandy good. After played 2 rounds golf. Self & Sir E.Lawson against Macdonell & Hulse, only ½ one hole.

F.C.B came & went. 2nd between Macdonell & self & Mr & Mrs Hulse. Won by 2 holes. After at 5.4 into Turkish bath. Good shampoo. Talk in room about women. Dressed for dinner at 8.0pm. Good dinner. Very sleepy after. Hare tired & said he felt old. Dr Russell on Home Rule. Talk to Lady L about dogs.

Bed at 12.0. Sleep at once. (Red ink: Miss Rose Innes dined at Stafford Terr.

Spiers, Phil Agnew, Huish & Weigall called.) (Red ink across page: Went down at 9.30am to stay with Sir Edward Lawson at Hall Barn. Lovely day.)

Monday June 5 Hall Barn. Up at 8.20. Bath below & plunge. Took 3 photos before breakfast.

Breakfast at 9.20. At 10.0 left in break with Mr Hulse, Schomberg Macdonell & Harry Lawson. Caught train at Taplow & up to town. Got bag & hansom, home by 11.45. M in bed. Talk & read Times notice. Put photos away & sorted letters. Lunch. Very hot & stuffy. Like a small storm. M & Mite left in carriage at 3.35pm. Wrote up diary for 10 days. Dressed at 5.15 & left in cab 5.45. Drove to 148 New Bond Street. Saw Brown. £630 worth sold up to 6.0pm. Cab to Metropole. No Stokes. On to the Salters Company St Swithin's Lane. Poor dinner & most uninteresting people there. Saw Sydney Packer, old Park, Sir Myles Fenton etc etc. Left with box of sweets at 10.0pm. Drove to Garrick & on to Empire Theatre. Saw Panoni & Round the Town. After to Club. Cumming Macdona, Toole, Joe Knight etc there. Left at 1.40 & home by cab.

Tuesday June 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 6.10am. Breakfast. After at 10.0 rode Cob in Park. Saw Stone & rode with Mrs Winch. Out at 11.30. Up in M's room. Wound clocks & wrote letters. At 12.15 lunch. Very tired & heavy after. Liver attack. Tea & got to work on Head of Line for poster. Dressed at 7.15. Dull heavy afternoon.

Dined at the Montefiores. Took Mrs Spielmann in. Sir William & Lady Corrie there. Left at 11.0 & home straight. Talk to Pigott about 2 nd Mrs Tanqueray.

(Red ink: Dined at the Montefiores, Hyde Park Gardens.)

Wednesday June 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After breakfast worked on poster for show. Left off 11.30. At 12.0 rode Cob in Park to meet of Four in Hand Club. Met Finlay & old Wyndham. After sat with Mrs Oxenham & Mrs Winch etc. After met

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Gertrude Cook. Home 1.30. Lunch. Finished poster by 4.0pm. Left at 4.0 exactly & rode mare to Hampton Court. Very hot. Mare went well. Over Putney Hill, Wimbledon, Richmond Park & along the river. Dressed in small bedroom with Phil Agnew. After dinner health to Sir John Tenniel. Good dinner. Left at 9.40pm. F.C.B, Guthrie, Reed, Lucy, Phil Agnew, Milliken, W.A, Lehmann, Furniss, Arthur à B, self & Sir John Tenniel. Back in railway carriage. Milliken gave me pipes. Cab to Stafford Terrace & then on to De la Rue's at home. Many there. Took Mrs Tweedie in to supper. Left 1.45 & home. Sales over £700. (Red ink across page: Lovely ride to Hampton Court on mare. Sir John Tenniel's first dinner at Hampton Court. De la Rue's at home after.)

Thursday June 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45. Down. Lovely morning. At 10.30 rode Cob & went to meet of Road Coaches. Saw Mrs Heilbut, Collinson, Claude Watney, Harold Powers etc. Talk to Mrs Oxenham. Saw Fletcher, also Prince & Princess Pless. Lady Curzon driving Baron Hirche's team. Sir George Wombwell. Sharp trot home at 12.30. Changed. Lunch. Rested. M pottering about. Waited in vain for subject. No good. In afternoon wrote letters etc etc.

At 4.30 after tea went to call on Spielmann. Sat & had long talk with him & Mrs S. Left 7.0 & walked home. Letter from F.C.B about subject. Figaro & Lion. Dined. Dressed. After at 10.15 M, Mite & self drove in carriage to Henry Arthur Jones's place. Saw Stone etc. Introduced to Col Welby. Mite introduced to Mrs Winch & Mrs Oxenham. Rowdy party. Baroness von Seydlitz. Left at 1.0 & home. Sorry took Mite. (Red ink across page: Henry Arthur Jones at home in evening. Rowdy party.)

Friday June 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30am. After breakfast letter from Milliken. Got to work.

Sent Purnell with Cob to return things to Seymour Lucas. At 12.30 photod him in costume with guitar for Figaro. Lunch. Developed it. After M & Mite out in carriage at 5.0. Worked till 8.15 dinner. After dinner got at 9.30 to work & worked on & on until 3.15am when finished shading drawing just as dawn was breaking. Nearly 6 hours of it. Went to bed not so very tired, drank Bourbon whiskey. (Red ink: Worked till 3.15am on drawing.)

Saturday June 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Down & great rush to pack bag & touch up drawing. Sent drawing off at 8.20am. Breakfast. Gave M £3. Left in cart & Cob at 9.20. Down to Victoria. Saloon carriage. Met Sir Wm Pearce, Sir William Marriott, Lord Folkestone, Mr Walter Long & Mr Penrose Fitzgerald.

Down to Dover. Lovely day. East wind slight. Went on board Lady Torfrida at 12.0. Splendid lunch. Steamed to meet yachts. Pretty sight. At 4.0 steamed over to Boulogne. Lay inside the mole. Down 7.0. No dress. Good. Long talk after. Walk in dark. Talk of Broadley. Turned in at 11.0 & slept well. (Red ink across page: Went down by 10am L.C & D & got on board the Lady Torfrida.)

Sunday June 11 On board Lady Torfrida. Off Boulogne. Up at 8.0am. Lovely bath. Yacht steaming ahead. Out on deck. Walk. Breakfast 9.0am. Lovely. Pipe after.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Cloudy morning. Read book on Soudan. After pipe at 11.0 settled to write many letters till 12.45am. Lovely lunch. After magnificent afernoon. Took photos. Read Westward Ho etc. Dressed for dinner. Lay off Ryde after running nearly to Yarmouth. Posted letters. Told parrot stories & after dinner had long walk with Sir William Marriott on deck. Sleepy after. Turned in at 11.30. Changed plates & slept at 12.0.

Monday June 12 On board Lady Torfrida. Woke 7.40. Steaming round Isle of Wight. Bath.

Walk. Breakfast 9.0 good. Dull morning. Talk to Sir Wm Marriot about trycycle. Round Isle of Wight. Saw Ventnor, Needles etc. Sun out at 11.30pm.

Saw Elmhurst in distance. Took some photos. Lunch going up Southampton water. More photos. Left boat 2.30. Caught 2.45 train. Out at Vauxhall 4.30.

Home by slow cab (wretched) at 5.0pm. Great scurry to dress unpack & pack bag. Got off by 5.40 & drove in car to Waterloo. Purnell's old breeches. Took train to Egham. Fast pony to house. Got there 7.50pm. M & Mite in room.

Down to dinner. An archdeacon, Mr Palmer & his son, Captain Nathan, 2 other Cohens & a lumpy Miss Cohen. Fair dinner & after a game of billiards with Mr Palmer. Beaten by 30. Bed 12.0. M asleep. Dark uncomfortable bedrooms. (Red ink across page: Dined with Cohens at Englefield Green.

Slow dinner.) (Later note in red ink: Did not develop these photos until this day Tuesday July 5 1904, 13 years & a month nearly after. What has happened in the world since? L.S.) Tuesday June 13 Round Oak, Englefield Green, Surrey. Woke early. Out at 8.15 after bath.

Read Lady de Ros's book. Breakfast 9.0. After cigar wrote Pawson & Brailesford a nailer. At 11.45 all started for Ascot in 2 traps. Forgot glasses, others the camp stools. Mr Cohen's 'hat off' & M's remark 'I'm sure it’s most amusing'. Very hot. Drove to course by 1.0. Into box No 99. Saw Lethbridge, Colin Hunter, old Cox etc etc. 1st race. After went for stroll up course with Capn Nathan, M & Miss Cohen. Young Palmer. Saw Gilbey, Secker, Holland etc etc. Lunch. Very good. After to paddock with Mrs Cohen. At 3.30 the Cup Race. 14 horses. Very good. After went to tea with Captain Nathan in hot tent.

Back & across to train at 4.45. Sleepy coming up. Capn N with us. Got out at Vauxhall & home 6.45pm. Saw Huish feeding next us. Mr Palmer attentive to Mite. Went to dine at 7.45 at Harry Dickens's. Mr & Mrs Boughton, Mr & Mrs Joachim, Mr & Mrs Brunel, Mr & Mrs Whitehorne, Dickens & selves. Home at 11.15. Bed 12.0. (Red ink: Saw Huish. Drawings sold amount four figures.)

(Red ink across page: Went with M & Mite to Ascot. Dined with Harry Dickens in the evening.)

Wednesday June 14 Stafford Terrace. Lovely morning. Up 8.20. Bath. After at 9.45 rode Cob in Row. Very hot. Saw Stone & Miss Steincopff. Talk of Ascot dresses etc. Saw Gertrude Cook with spoony ugly man. Left & home at 12.0pm. M writing.

Skemed drawing for portrait of Tenniel. Worked at it. At 5.30pm drove mare in cart to Fine Art Socy. Saw Mr Dunn. Sales £980. After to bottom of Bouverie Street. Punch dinner. Room unsufferably hot. Took coat off. Saw W.Agnew, Millken, Partridge, Reed, Lucy, F.C.B, Tenniel, self, Guthrie, Furniss.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Furniss's imbecile chaff of yacht. Talk about my work to F.C.B & Vaus & Crampton. Left after talk with Milliken & cab home all way, 3/6. Good level going horse. Bed 1.0am.

Thursday June 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After at 9.30 rode mare in Row. Saw Ward Bennett etc. Back. William Agnew called with photos of French actors. At 12.0 finished portrait of Tenniel & after did small cut of Cat. At 7.15 dressed & left in cab for Colin Hunter's dinner. Took a Mrs Hendywick in. Hunter not very well. A bride & bridegroom & other uninteresting people. Lethbridge etc.

Stayed till 11.15 & walked home with M. M told story of a jam makers. Bed at 12.0 after reading paper. (Red ink across page: Colin Hunter's dinner. Fairly good.)

Friday June 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not ride. Worked at drawing of Punch & Molière hard all day. M & Maud resting in afternoon. Caught Purnell walking Cob up & down stones in back mews at 5.30pm. Went round & stopped him.

Also stopped organ in the morning. Worked until 8.30 when sent drawing off.

Dined. Bottle of Ayala. M & Maud left in carriage for Orchardsons ball at 10.15. Rested in chair & after at 10.45 dressed & drove in cab to Orchardsons. Saw many people. Kendals, Taylor Whiteheads etc etc.

Winchester Clowes etc etc. After at 1.0 left in carriage & home. Horse dead in road. Dining room at the Orchardsons awfully hot. Smoked cigar. Felt seedy on getting off carriage & sick from smoking. Seedy. Apollinaris. Bed 2.0. Saw the Lucy's. Lucy & M. (Red ink: Frightfully hot day & weather.) (Red ink across page: Orchardsons’ dance. Very good.)

Saturday June 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20am. Frightfully hot. Put things away & did up photos for Drury Lane. At 9.45 rode Cob in Park. Frightfully hot. Saw Lilly & wife. After Stone. Introduced to Misses Lopez & after to Miss Lampson. Talk of yachting. Home at 12.0. Put all photos away. Wrote out Income Tax paper & sent it, £840. After drew cheque. Packed bag. At 3.35 M & Maud left in carriage, self in awful 4 wheeler cab. Man jagging at wretched horse. Left by 4.20 for Adisham from Victoria. Saw Mr Ward. Down to Canterbury. Changed & very long wait. Got to Adisham 7.0pm. Difficulty about luggage. Helped by a clergyman. Arrived 7.45 at Knowlton Court. Dressed. Dinner 8.15. Very good.

Plenty of wine. Col & Mrs Corrie, Walker, Captain Chapman, Mr & Mrs Harding, Captain Tattersall. After long wait in drawing room 100 up with Capn Chapman. Apollinaris & bed at 1.0am. (Red ink across page: Went down to Knowlton Court.)

Sunday June 18 Knowlton Court. Up at 8.0am. Good bath. Put on flannels. Breakfast 9.0. After very hot. Took photos. Sat on bank. Some back from church. Old clergyman.

Lunch. After piping hot. Finished photos. Went in small room after upsetting inkstand in billiard room. Read & slept for 1 hour. At 6.0 out & tea. Played 2 rounds of golf. Beaten. After dressed. Dinner. In saloon & drawing room. After

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 small room downstairs. Story of picture. Bed at 12.0. Talk to Peto of the D'eaths. (Red ink: Knowlton Court. Lovely hot summer day.)

Monday June 19 Knowlton Court. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Another lovely morning. Very hot.

Breakfast. After Peto & Harding went to Sandwich to play golf in broiling sun.

Wrote 12 or 14 letters in morning & also took photos of grounds & rooms. At 12.30 changed. Lunch. After put bags up & at 3.30 left in Victoria for station.

Very hot & said goodbye. Drive to station, took 2 photos. Long weary journey up to town. Travelled 1st. Changed at Herne Hill to 2nd class. Victoria. Drove home & got there only just in time for dinner. Dined quietly at home, M, Maud & self. Quiet evening after & bed fairly early. (Red ink: Frightfully hot day. Left at 3.45 for London.)

Tuesday June 20 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull morning for 1st time. At 10.15 drove in carriage to Victoria Hotel Northumberland Avenue & got on coach for Reigate.

Met Mrs Hewett on steps of hotel. Gave her coffee, paid 2/6. After at 11.0 caoch party. Claude Watney, Mr Squeeze Spottiswood, Mr Whitbread, Mr & Mrs Rae, Mrs Hewett, Mr & Mrs S & Fritz Jackson. Pleasant drive through Wimbledon. Picked up Sir Guy & Lady Campbell & dear little boy. Boy lovely eyes & very perky. On to Reigate. Guard like Frith blowing horn. Steep hill.

Good lunch at Reigate. Caves after. Left 3.45. Back same way. Dropped Sir Guy Campbell. Arrived Victoria Hotel at 6.48. Cart met us. Home. Mary Nicol there. Dined 8.15. Bottle Champagne. Rest after. At 10.30 left in carriage for Hendersons' dance, 52 Princes Gate. Took Mary N. Good dance. Met Burgess & Mrs Burgess etc etc. Took Mrs Rhodes down to supper. Mr Costin not attentive to Maud. Left at 1.15am. Home by carriage. Bed 2.0am. (Red ink: Weather much cooler for 1st time.) (Red ink across page: Good day with Claude Watney in coach to Reigate. Hendersons' dance.)

Wednesday June 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am & breakfast. Did not ride. Got to work on Preface drawing. Worked hard all day. Lunch. Had wired to Stoker about seats for Lyceum. House full. Mary Nicol & M went in afternoon to 148 New Bond St to see my pictures. Back. After at 6.45 finished Preface. Left 6.55 & took cab to Bouverie St. Good cab. Punch dinner. F.C.B, Tenniel, self, Arthur à B, Phil Agnew, Milliken, Reed, Partridge, Guthrie. Got cut of Bismarck after.

Suggested small boat tugging Home Rule vessel. After Sir John Tenniel fell foul of me about my portrait of him. Remarks about back of head etc. No matter. After left at 11.30. Cart at bottom of Bouverie St. Left in Tenniel's cab & after saw Cob trotting past. Changed at Isthmian & drove home by 12.0.

Fell asleep till 2.0am. Woken by Mary Nicol coming home from Mrs Frank Lawson's party. Went up to bed 2.10am. (Red ink: Tenniel displeased with his portrait.) Phil Agnew said he did not care a damn if Hy F never came to the Table again (to E.I.M.) (Red ink across page: Finished Preface. Cab to Punch dinner. Furniss's relations with firm strained.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Thursday June 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not ride. At 9.0 Mary Nicol left in cab. Sent Purnell round to Stace. Stace followed on & at 9.30 photod him for Bismarck playing piano. Developed plates & also plates of sun dial. Lunch. Rested & slept in chair from 2.30 to 4.30pm. Tea. After drew cartoon of Bismarck playing piano. Dinner at 8.15. Changed coat. At 9.30 Maud went to bed.

Worked for 2 hours till 11.35. Read book on London & to bed at 12.0. X'd M. Heavy rain in the night 1st time for weeks. (Red ink: H.M.S 'Victoria' sunk in 6 minutes by collision with H.M.S 'Camperdown' near Tripoli about 3.30pm.

Admiral Tryon 22 officers & 337 men went down 3.40pm. At 3.45pm ship sank.)

Friday June 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Breakfast 8.30. Sent wire to Vaus & Crampton.

Got on at 9.15 with drawing of Bismarck playing piano. Worked all morning shading. Lunch 1.30. After printed self taken yesterday. Finished Bismarck 3.0pm. Wrote wire. Began Index & did capital drawing & finished between 4.0 & 6.0pm. V & C sent for drawing 4.30pm. M & Maud went to call on Lady Anne Blunt. Back 6.30. After between 6.0 & 7.15 did small tail piece for Preface. Finished & dressed 7.30. Left 7.50 in carriage to dine at Macmillans.

Sat next Mrs (illeg) Macmillan. Met German lady, Scoones etc etc. Mr & Mrs Pratt Barlow etc. Pleasant dinner. Left at 11.15. Home. Sat up with M for Mite.

This day Mrs Batey left. Emma Reffell & a new maid returned. Change in the weather, cooler & rain at intervals. News in Evening Paper of frightful naval disaster. Sinking of H.M.S Victoria, 400 men lost. (Red ink across page: Dined at Frederick Macmillans. Good dinner. Mrs Reffell returned. Mrs Batey left. New maid came.)

Saturday June 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.30. Got to work & drew tail piece for Preface, 2 figures.

Hurried breakfast. Got finished 11.20. Sent it off. Dressed & walked to Club.

Called Wings & got tie. On to Club. Lunch. Saw Gillie F & Col Jones etc. Had beef steak & kidney pudding etc. After went up & wrote addresses. M called in carriage at 3.45. Raining. Went to Fine Art Socy. Saw Tilda, Mr Fenn (blind) Dove Keithley etc etc. Heavy shower. Out at 4.40. Left M at Albert Hall Mansions. Home. Put photos away after tea. At 6.30 rode Cob in Row. Round Park, home 7.45. Many Volunteers in Park. Cob very fresh. After dressed & dined quietly at home. M came down at 11.0. Went up to bed at 12.20pm.

Good night.

Sunday June 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.15. Breakfast 9.45. At 10.30 rode Cob to Putney across by foot of hill to Barnes Common. Saw Mrs Fildes & 4 children in a Victoria. Trotted home. Drew Shark. Changed. Good lunch. After wrote letters & issued dinner invitations. Mr Kindersmann called. At 5.15 left & went to Sir Alfred Hickman's to play lawn tennis. Played 5 sets. Won all bar 1. Saw very pretty servant girl laughing going in. Capn Trench & 2 others there, one a duffer. Left at 7.15. Home. Dressed. Miss Rose Innes & Mr Cyril Spottiswood dined. Good dinner. They stayed until 12.0am. Took cab & drove to Sir Augustus Harris's lovely garden party. Saw Bram Stoker, Kingstons etc etc

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Harry Nichols, Weedon Grossmith etc etc. Left at 1.0. Home 1.30. Read till 2.0am Vanderdecken story. Bed. (Red ink: Dinner at home Miss Rose Innes & Cyril Spottiswood. Sir Augustus Harris garden party to meet Sigr. Mascani.)

Monday June 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.20. Bath. No head. At 10.30 rode on Cob in Park.

Lots of people. Saw Lilly, Stone, Miss Steinkopff. After introduced by Frisby to Col Rich. Long talk on Arabs etc etc. Home 12.0. Mite tearful because M not ready to go out. Wrote diary. Wrote letters & ordered wine from Stores.

Lunch. Rested for 2 hours in chair. After lunch at tea time began at 4.30 6th Sketch cover drawing. Got on with it. Dinner 7.30. Réchauffé of duck etc etc.

Bed at 11.0 & long night's rest. M & Mite went to Rhodes's at home.

Grossmith entertainment. (Red ink: H.M.S. 'Victoria' sunk in 6 minutes by collision with 'Camperdown' near Tripoli. about 3.30 pm. Admiral Tryon & 22 officers, 337 men went down 3.40pm, at 3.46 ship sank.)

Tuesday June 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Had rained in the night. Out at 9.40. Rode 9.45 Cob in Park. Poles being put up in Kensington. Met Mr Rhodes & daughter in Row. Rode twice up & down with them. Saw no one else but Lilly & Miss Warre. Home 11.15. Wrote letters. M out. Windows cleaned by Nash's man.

Mite went to lunch at Miss Davis's. Got to work on 6th Sketch cover. Worked till 8.0pm. Dressed. After at 9.30 went with Mite in carriage to soirée of Royal Academy. Drove past the Queen & got in without any trouble. Lots of friends.

Lovely band. Bill W troublesome. Listened to the Tannenhauser. Young Burgess etc etc. Left at 12.30pm. Left Mite with Sir John Tenniel. Got carriage without the least difficulty. Home 12.55. Supper & bed 1.45am. In the afternoon Purnell fetched trycycle from Sir William Marriot's stables. Heavy wet. 2nd meet of Coaching Club 1.0pm.

Wednesday June 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not ride. Letter from man at Calcutta. After got to work at Sketch cover & finished it at 1.15pm. Sent it off. Lunch. Mite at Sir Alfred Hickman's to lunch. After lunch M & self both rested for nearly 2 hours. After at 4.15pm Mite came home. Dressed. After M, Mite & self went to Mrs Parr's to tea. Queen past at 5.25. Heavy shower. Poor Queen. Fine after.

Home. Changed & drove in hansom at 6.45 to P.D. Arrived late, 7.20.

W.Agnew, Bernard P, E.T.R, Anstey Guthrie, F.C.B, Sir J.T, self, Arthur à B & Lehmann there. Milliken after late. Chaff about my show. Got subject of the Guillotine 1st. After left at 10.45. Drove to Mrs Williamson's at home, 16 Upper Berkeley St, Portman Sq. Saw M & Mite there. Slow. Lots of Gladstonian members there. Left 12.20 & walked to South Audley Street, Quilter's at home. Smoking. Saw Shadow Hands, Dolly Storey, Charles Agnew, Dicksee, Dobson etc etc. Out 12.25am. Caught M & Mite in cab. Home. Civil hansom.

Mite (illeg). No paper. Bed at 1.25am. (Red ink across page: Queen unveiled statue at Kensington. Heavy rain. Mrs Williamson's at home. Quilter's smoke party.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Thursday June 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. M in bed. Down. Breakfast by self. New maid gave notice to leave at a fortnight. Got on with drawing for heading of Volume 105. At 11.0 Purnell round & photod self for Punch in carriage. After developed them & at 12.30 rode Cob with new bridle to meet of coaches. Saw none & no people. Rain came on. Went down as far as Addison Road & after got on Sir William Marriott's trycycle. Lunch. Mite out till 2.0pm. After got to work on heading & worked till 7.15. Wrote this. M dressing. Drove in carriage to dine with Messels. Good dinner. Took Mrs Farquharson in to dinner. Never spoke to right hand neighbour. Met Boughton asked him for 11 th. Arranged to drive together to Mansion House on Saty. M had young Messel to take in. Left 11.15 & home by carriage. Apologies to Mrs Messel about book. (Red ink across page: Dined at the Messels. Very hot.)

Friday June 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.30. Got on with work. Did not ride. Finished drawing of Punch in carriage driving to wedding at 11.30. Sent it off. After began cartoon of Guillotine at 12.0 & worked hard & finished it by 7.30.pm. Portraits of Gladstone Harcourt & Morley. Dressed hurriedly (M & Mite had left in carriage) & took cab to 56 Onslow Square. Dinner of 26 or 28 at Miss Thomson & Prof Moulton. Very good dinner. Took a Mrs Wallace in who was born in Petersburgh & lives in De Vere Gardens & has £6000 a year & one little boy. Mite & Coupé & M had Professor Dewar. Good dinner & company.

Left at 11.15 by carriage & home by mare all the better for work & dinner.

(Red ink across page: Dined at Fletcher Moulton's. Good dinner.)

Saturday July 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. After went for ride in Park. Lovely morning.

Saw old Wyndham, Finlay, Stone etc etc. Band. Mrs Harvey. Back & after lunch rested & put things away. Had hair cut before lunch. At 5.0 tried the trycycle of Sir William Marriott. Got very hot. Home. Dressed & after at 6.20 Boughton called in Victoria. Drove through Park & along Embankment to banquet at the Mansion House to Art & Literature. Numbers there. Sat next a Mr Courtney & Mr Moberly Bell of 'the Times'. Poor dinner, not enough wine.

Incident of making the liqueurs go round. No smoke. Long weary speech from the American ambassador Mr Bayard. Out. Saw Trelour & Mr Barratt. Coffee.

Left in cab & went to opera. Great difficulty in getting in. Wanted me to pay.

Saw Albani in Flying Dutchman. Very hot close & stuffy. Stone in the box. Left at 10.45. Got 4 wheel cab, M, Mite, Sophy & self. Left Sophy at Albert Hall Mansions. Home. Gave cabby 4/s. Furniss illness in 'Times'. (Red ink across page: Lord Mayor's banquet to Literature & Art. A mixed assembly. Opera after, Flying Dutchman.)

Sunday July 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0m. Breakfast. Lovely hot morning. At 10.30 rode Cob to St John's Wood. Called on Tenniel. After to enquire of Furniss. Much better. Rode past Kent Terrrace. Saw Joe Carr. Home by 1.0pm. After lunch rested. Mademoiselle called. Also Will Oakes & Miss Rose Innes. Left at 5.0 & cab on to Sir Alfred Hickman's. Played 5 sets. Many there. Ass of Owen & plain wife. Left at 7.15. Home. Changed. Dined quietly. Had bottle of

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Burgundy. Bed at 10.30pm quietly. (Red ink: Furniss ill. Rode over. Tennis at Sir Alfred Hickman's.)

Monday July 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Awfully hot. Rode Cob in Park. Met Mrs Tate.

Rode round. Saw Holland etc. Band. After met F.C.B. Talk of Furniss & also Xmas number. To go back to the Almanack. Rode round by Bayswater & home by 12.30pm. Dressed & at 1.10 had cab to Lords. Went to Sir Alfred Hickman's break. Good position. Oxford & Cambridge match at cricket. Sir A & Lady H, Mrs Nootts, Mrs & Miss Owen, Major & Mrs Trench, May & Lily H, Miss Underhill, self & Mite. Good lunch in the hot sun after. Left at 6.15. Poor cricket, Oxford getting the worst of it. 4 wheel cab home. Quiet dinner.

Apollinaris. Rest after & quiet evening. Bed 11.15pm. (Red ink: 1st day at Lords. Oxford & Cambridge cricket match.)

Tuesday July 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Felt fairly well. At 10.0 rode Cob in Park. Met Barclay, Oh! After Stone & Miss Steincopff on new horse. Very nice morning.

Cooler. Back 12.0. After wrote leters. At 1.30 took cab for Lords with Mite.

Called Buckles & changed cheque. On to Lords. There 1.55pm. In break.

After to lunch against wall under awning. Mr Owen corrected by daughter. Eat huge lunch. Made mistake with Lady Kitson. After walked round with Mrs Nootts. Met Welman. Back to break. Saw Reddy. Tea & left with Mite at 5.0.

Drove to corner of Row. Sent Mite to ask Miss Rose Innes to dinner. Walked Wings for tie, Fortnum & Mason for chocolate & also Marks' for cigars. Cab home. Great preparations for wedding. At 8.0 Sir Benjamin Baker, Bret Harte, Frank Dicksee, Norman Lockyer, Miss Rose Innes, M, Mite & self dined. Had Golden to wait. Very good dinner & great success. Heavy rain at night. Left at 12.30. Lent Dicksee umbrella. Bed 1.0. M tired. (Red ink across page: 2nd day at Lords. Oxford & Cambridge. Cambridge won. Dinner at home. Bret Harte etc etc.)

Wednesday July 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Close stuffy morning. Dark after rain. Down 8.45. M & Mite down. Rode Cob in Park. Met Stone, Adrian Jones, Suberbeille etc etc. Row very heavy with wet. Back 11.30am. Letter from Mrs Mocatta about going to Datchet. Wrote letters. Quiet lunch. Hungry. M & Maud rested after. Out in carriage at 3.40. At 4.30 left in cab for Turkish bath.

Drove round by Victoria straight there. Had good bath. Not many there. After strolled on to Punch dinner. Got frightfully hot. Streets crowded. Collar disappeared. P.D. Guthrie, Reed, E.I.M (all the time) Arthur, self, Tenniel, F.C.B. Hottest night I recollect. Left in Tenniel's cab at 11.15. Got 2 good cuts. Eel on nose. Cab from Isthmian. Very tired. Dozed on sofa. At 1.30pm up to bed. Saw light under servant's room. M rung her own bell & was frightened at it. Went down & looked round. Sleep at 2.0am. (Red ink across page: Preparations for Royal Wedding.)

Thursday July 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Letter from Mr Ainger saying scarletina at his house. Most anxious. Sent Purnell round to Stace. Photod Stace 9.30, Purnell

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 10.0, Mite 10.30. Developed 9 plates by 11.35. Out on mare at 12.10.

Frightfully hot. Walked to top of Row on mare. Saw nothing but the top of Guards helmets. Met Col Rich going back. Lunch 1.15. After printed photos & put them out. At 3.35 left, M, Mite & self, for Punch office. Drove in hansom to Bouverie St. Walked to P.O through Salisbury Square. Saw at 5.0 procession of Royal Marriage, Duke of York & Princess May escorted by the Blues & Lancers. Good party & nice & cool on roof. Burnand, wife & Winny & Baby, Mr & Mrs Arthur à B, Mr & Mrs May, Mr & Mrs C.H.B, Mrs Lockwood, Nokes, Milliken, Lawrence B, Agnew etc etc. Good tea. Cigar. Left at 6.0pm. Home after walking along the Embankment by cab at 7.0. 4/6. No letters. Wrote letters & order to Stores. Dined 8.10pm quietly. After on posting letters got cab & took M & Mite for drive round to see the illuminations 9.30 to 10.30pm.

Round park. Servants out. Bed tired at 11.30pm. (Red ink across page: Marriage of Duke of York & the Princess May. Very hot. Went to Punch office in afternoon.)

Friday July 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Bright lovely hot day again. 'Times' out with flower borders. Wrote Roy etc. At 10.0am got to work on drawing of Rosebery's County Council & London. Worked all day. Frightfully hot up to 7.20 when down & went in carriage to dine with Fritz Jackson at St Ermin's Mansions. Met Admiral & Mrs Bridge (like M) young Herkomer, an American, Robertson (no longer vegetarian) 2 Miss Meinertzhagens Fritz's aunts, M, Mite & self. Thermometer at 84° outside on balcony. Talk of Greece etc.

Admiral Bridge interesting had commanded sister ship of the Victoria. Very hot. Songs etc. Left 11.30pm. Drove home sitting on box of carriage. Purnell told me had been in America & Canada. Faint from cigar. Lay on sofa & slept till 2.0am. Woke & to bed at 2.5am. (Red ink across page: Dined with Fritz Jackson at St Ermin's Mansions. Heat culminated. 84° in shade in evening.)

Saturday July 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.30am & got on with drawing of Rosebery & County Council. Finished by 9.0am. Boy never came till 10.45. Hung about. Too bad.

Very much annoyed. Round stable. Did not ride. Ordered cart at 3.30. Packed things. Drove in cart to Fine Art Socy. Very few there. Heavy clouds overcast & rain came on. Last day of show £1265 worth sold & over 200 drawings. Left at 4.30. Cob frightened with thunder. Awful flash of lightening & thunder immediately overhead. Struck the Burlington Arcade. Changed into hansom & drove to Waterloo. Waited & met M & Maud. Heavy rain & change in the weather. They came at 5.30. Saw Lady Catherine Gaskell & Mrs Crutchley at station. Down to Datchett. Met by Mr & Mrs Mocatta. Pretty little girl Rita Mocatta & little Lydia M. Mr & Mrs Wedderburn staying & Miss (blank) Dressed 7.30. Good dinner & magnum of wine. Intensely sleepy afterwards.

Bed at 12.0 after cigar. Young Militia officer there, forget his name. (Red ink across page: Violent thunderstorm in afternoon. Went to Datchett to stay with the Mocattas.)

Sunday July 9 Leyfield, Datchett. Up at 8.0am & went for swim with Mocatta. Strong wind & heavy rain in night. Back & good breakfast. After sat in Indian chair & went

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Mite & self in punt with Mrs Mocatta. Saw punt upset by squall & gent & lady on bank looking for a rabbit. M went in boat with Wedderburns & Mocatta.

Back. Lunch. Afer sat in Indian chair & dozed. Children about. Up in billiard room. At 5.30 went in boat to Eton. Saw Mrs Crutchley & Lady C.G. Went to lock & also saw lots of Eton boys throwing stones but no Roy. Back at 7.0.

Dressed. Dinner. Claret, also Champagne. Played billiards after & a sort of battle game. Felt livery & air close. Bed at 11.30. No spirits. Smoked cigar.

(Red ink: At Datchett with the Mocattas.)

Monday July 10 Leyfield, Datchett. Down 8.30am. Mocatta gone. Dull raining morning.

Breakfast. Read book, Cornhill, & sat in hammock. Wedderburn left after breakfast. Decided to go up by 11.30 train. Did sketch in Mrs M's book after packing. Bags over to station. Left. Went to Garrick. Had lobster for lunch.

Saw Jones etc. Walked to Edwards & Roberts. Selected candelabra & table etc. Very close. Back & went to Goffs & got Maud portmanteau. Carriage at Club at 4.30pm. Drove to Fine Arts Socy. Saw Parsons. All my drawings down & his nearly up. Drove home. M & Maud not back till nearly 8.0pm.

Quiet dinner & bed early. Heard of death of Mr Mackinlay in America.

Tuesday July 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Rode at 9.30. Ordered carriage at 9.45. In Park, met Mona Kemp & gentleman who knew no one. After Alexander, Stone, Miss Steincopff & Mrs Oxenden. Out & home 12.30. M still away.

Prepared all day for dinner. Miss Rose Innes called. Put out wine. 12 bottles Ayala '80, 5 ditto Geisler '74, 2 Sauternes, 3 Burgundy. Letter from Alfred Gilbert, not coming. Little girl pottering about house. Turner hung pictures & man polished statues etc etc. Dressed at 7.15. Candelabra from Edwards & Roberts. At 8.0 Ayala, F.C.B, John Penn, H.W.Lucy, Claude Watney, Rudolph Lehmann, Schomberg McDonnell, self, Lockwood, Alfred Parsons & Brandon Thomas dined. 15 bottles champagne drunk. (illeg) soup after.

Jokes & laughter Penn & Bolton. All left by 2.0am. Moody & Golden waited.

Heavy rain. Lots of cabs outside. Caviar, Spring soup, cold salmon, pigeons cold, tomato salad, roast lamb, peas, haricots verts, hot roast chicken, salad, russian salad, macedoine of fruit, ices, savory etc. (Red ink across page: Dinner to 11 men at home. Great success.)

Wednesday July 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.45am. Slight head on which lasted all day up to dinner time. Breakfast at oval table as in April '89. Rode at 12.0 after resting. Wired Mrs K to put off sitting. After wired again, changed my mind. Home at 1.0 to lunch after riding once round Park & Serpentine. Very heavy rain in morning.

Lunch. At 2.30 took cab, forgot case & back. Dispute with cabby, wanted to change horse. Gave him 6d. Took another cab & drove to Camera Club.

Found Mrs K waiting. Up & took about 30 photos. Awfully heavy rain came on afterwards. Left at 5.15 & walked to Turkish bath. Had good bath. Out 7.15 & cab to Bouverie St, P.D. F.C.B, Reed, Agnew W, Lehmann, self & Sir John there, Milliken after. Got Mrs Nickelby subject for Tenniel. Self got Sultan & Khedive. Drank wine & Apollinaris. Left 11.0 with Sir J.T. Put down Isthmian.

Rain. Home. M & Mite out at the French plays. Let them in at 12.30. Driven

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 home by Miss Rose Innes. Bed at 1.0pm. (Red ink: Photod Mrs King Camera Club.)

Thursday July 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Down & breakfast at 9.45. Rode Cob once round Park. Dull morning. Called & arranged for boy to come round from mews. Skemed subject of Khedive & Sultan & at 12.35 photod boy & Purnell self. Maud's square leather trunk came home, paid £4.10.0 for it. Developed plates & put them to dry. Lunch. Rest after. Printed photos at 4.0pm. Wrote many letters. Purnell round. At 12.30 the kitten came. Tea. Got to work. M & Maud dining with Fritz Jackson & going to the opera. After got to work on subject of Khedive & Sultan. Worked up to 8.0pm when went down as I was & dined by self. Annie waiting. Slept after & waited up for M & Maud. Got back at 11.45. Bed. Friday July 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Did not ride. Got to work at 10.0 on drawing of Sultan & Khedive of Egypt. Worked hard all day. Roy did not turn up for lunch st as we expected he would. Came at 7.0pm after 1 day of Eton & Harrow match. Dressed at 7.30 having not quite finished my drawing. Roy, Mite & Madame went to see the 2nd Mrs Tanqueray. M & self at 7.45 to dine at the MacLarens. Drove back for watch. Met young Waring at door. Took in Mrs Milman. Amusing to talk to, otherwise a slow dinner. Dillon there, Williamson etc etc. Left at 11.0 & home by carriage. Stayed up for Roy & finished cigar outside gate. Never came till 12.0am. Bed after at once. (Red ink: Eton & Harrow cricket match. Roy home at 7.15pm.)

Saturday July 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.0am & got to work & finished drawing by 9.10am. Roy preferred not riding so went by self on Cob. Met Mrs Oxenford. Up & down.

Saw Dilke. Stone not there. Back at 12.0. Valeted things. Lunch & at 2.30 went with Maud & M to Lords. Wandered round. Met Bill Weigall. Stood by Eton boys' stand. After Eton won by 9 wickets out in the open. Saw Lucas & young Williamson, asked us to Table 86 for tea. Could not find it. Had tea with Mrs Faudel Phillips & after with Williamsons. Out at 4.45 & drove home.

Changed & Roy tried the trycycle. Wrote many letters. At 7.30 walked through Kensington in evening dress. Cab on to 11 Gt Stanhope St. Dined with William Agnew. Met Tenniel, F.C.B, Lucy, George A, Lockett A, W.A, Dr Molton, Mr Luke, Sir George Lampson, Sir Charles Tennant, Mr John Morley & five others. Very good dinner. Turtle soup, last of the '65 Perier Jouet. Left 11.45. Home by cab. M in bed. M & Roy, Maud etc went to see the Hunchback at Daly's Theatre. Poor. (Red ink across page: Dined with William Agnew. Very good dinner. Eton & Harrow cricket match.)

Sunday July 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Wet dark morning. Doubts about riding. Roy & self at 11.0 got on Cob & mare & had lovely ride all round Wimbledon & Richmond Park. Mare cast a shoe. Very dark cloud when at Star & Garter.

Slight rain. Home 1.45pm to the minute. Not wet. Had very good lunch. After changed & rested in chair till 4.0pm. M asleep also. No one called. At 4.20

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Roy & self went to play lawn tennis at Sir A.H's. Had tea. Played 6 good sets.

Roy & self against Sir Alfred Hickman & Major Trench. Lost 4 & won the 2 last. 2 of the 4 were 5 all & vantage games. Good champagne cup. Left at 7.15. Roy hit his legs with the bat. Walked home. Changed. Dressed. Dinner at 8.0pm. After pine. Bottle of Perinet & rested after. Bed 11.30. M had tooth ache. Good day all round. (Red ink: Very good ride with Roy in morning & 6 sets lawn tennis in afternoon at Sir Alfred Hickman's.)

Monday July 17 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Roy in bed, down all by 8.45. Breakfast at 9.30. Purnell went for cab. Difficulty getting it. At last at 9.40 Roy got off. Put boots etc on & at 10.10 rode in Park. Walked up & down 3 times. Long talk with old Kahn, after Finlay & Capn Heathorne. Home 12.0. Sun out. Also met Suberbeille. Home & wrote in afternoon after rest after lunch on many mounts etc for Fine Art Socy. Dined quietly at 8.0pm, M, Maud & self. Bed early after.

Great fire in the City at 2.0am 18th. (Red ink: Roy went back to Eton.) (Later note in red ink: Major Trench's little daughter born at 22 Palace Gardens. This written 11 years after, 18 July 1904. The Trench’s there at Sir A's also & Roy & self.)

Tuesday July 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely summer's morning. Good breakfast. Out at 10.0 & rode Cob in the Park. Walked. Met Stone, Suberbial. Long talk.

Home 12.15. Wire for Mite to dine at Burnands (Charley). Did Clear & Cool for Fine Art Socy. Wrote letters etc. Mite out in white dress. Lunch. After rested till 4.0pm. Dressed in frock coat & went up to Lewis's for Miss Lewis's wedding party. Saw many friends. Lady Blomfield in particular & dear little girl.

Lovely presents. Lady like Mrs Inverarity. (Mrs Etherington). Left 6.15. Caught carriage. M & Mite & self dined 7.40 & after went by self to see Love in Tandem at Daly's Theatre. Sat next Routledge. Saw young Cotton etc. Ada Rehan good & Bourchier. Called Garrick after. Saw Toole & Irving. By cab to Princes Gate Rooms to Madame Suberbeille's ball. Splendid supper.

Terraro's, Phrene Knowles etc etc. Left 1.45. Great difficulty in finding coat.

Cigar. 3 home together. Bed at 3.0am.

Wednesday July 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am, felt very well. Did not ride. Wrote legends under many drawings of Fancy Portraits etc etc. M in new blue dress. Dull close morning. M & Madame out. Began to put something in Mrs Messel's book.

Lunch. After at 3.0 dressed. Intended to have ridden up to Turkish baths.

Rain came on. Could not. After round to stable & told Purnell to take Cob out.

Went by Met Rly. Saw old Mr Pellew. Out at Westminster Bridge. Walked in rain to Turkish bath. Good bath. Bothered with old Jewish gent about his ailments. Out 6.25. Walked very slowly to Punch dinner, nevertheless got very hot. William Agnew, Lehmann, Arthur à B, self, Sir J.T, F.C.B, Guthrie, Lucy, E.T.R, & after Milliken. Chaffed Guthrie about skates, seal skin gloves etc & Allardyce & Bangkok. Got subject of France & Siam changed from the River subject. Left at 11.0 with Sir J.T. & home, fairly well.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Thursday July 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Rode after at 10.30. Got drenched with rain.

Saw Stone & Miss Keysor. Home. Changed. Could not photo. Skemed subject. Maud drew in Mrs Messel's book. After Maud took photo of self for French sailor. Sent Purnell for rifle & cutlass & to Mays. Back. At 7.30 dressed & cab to Claude Watney's dinner. Not very well. Cards after. Mr Ogle, Mr Cyril Spottiswood, Mr C.W, self, Mr Ponsonby & Mr Baily an American. Bad luck at cards till just the last when left off winning £1.3.0. Left at 1.15. Home in cab. (Red ink: Dined with Claude Watney for game of poker after.)

Friday July 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.45. Down & prepared to photo Stace. Did so at 9.30 having taken Maud for arms. M & Mite left at 9.45 to go on river to Mrs Ionides. Out all day. Not back till 11.30pm. Went on to work. Long time developing & printing. Photod Purnell. Got to work at last only at 3.45pm.

After resting got on till 8.30 when dined. Too tired to work after dinner, slept till M came back. Bed at 11.45 sharp & glad to get there. (Red ink: Very hard day's work photographing etc etc. M & Maud on the river at the Ionides.)

Saturday July 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.30am, down & got to work & finished drawing at 10.45am, having breakfasted in interval. Very tired. Did not ride. Tidied up.

Wired for places to see Love in Tandem. Lunch. Went in hansom M, Maud & self. Saw play, very good. M saw Mrs Matthews. Wonderfully preserved. Out & Purnell in Garrick St. Sent M & Mite home. Tea at Club. Strolled home at 6.15 as far as Albert Hall. Cab home. Got on Cob & rode round Park. Cob went well. Home & very quiet dinner. Rest after & bed early. (Red ink: M & Maud went to Madame Suberbeille’s at home in afternoon after the play.

Went to see Love in Tandem in afternoon.)

Sunday July 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am & after breakfast Wirgman called. Left 10.30 & rode with him up Putney Hill & over Wimbledon. Talk of Noott. Richmond Park & home at 1.30 exactly. Spencer & Hilda there. Lunch. Rested after.

Broken rest. Weigall called. Left at 4.50 for Sir A Hickmans. Had 3 sets & a half. Rain came on. 5 to 1 beaten. Played with Smith against Sir Alfred & Major Stewart Trench. Rain came on at 6.20. Left off & walked home by 6.45.

Dressed. Wrote 4 letters. Bottle of Burgundy at dinner, M Mite & self. Rested after. Read Swift in Century & bed at 11.30pm. Molesworth called. (Red ink: Rode withWirgman to Wimbledon & Richmond. 3½ sets tennis after.)

Monday July 24 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.30am. Dull morning. Finer after. Made out accts etc.

Wrote Tabs. 1st things. Made acct out for Index £45.3.0. Mite preparing to go away. Wrote many letters & Store order etc. Mite & M left at 3.45pm. Tea & commenced drawing in Mrs Messel's book. At 7.15 rode Cob in Park till 8.0pm. Went all right. M & self had quiet dinner by selves. Read Swift paper in Century & bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Dear Mite went to the Messels.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Tuesday July 25 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Breakfast. M in bed. At 10.15 rode mare in Park. Met Mrs Oxenford & Stone etc. Long talk to discontented Capn Jones.

Left at 11.25 & rode to 161 Brompton Road. Cob there waiting. Tenniel came up in cab. Had 6 plates taken, 2 of self, 2 of J.T & 2 of both of us together.

Back into Park. Listened to the band. Mare very fresh & pulled after. Home to lunch. After got table ready etc etc. Candelabra, candles etc etc. Mended the boar's head centre Empire piece. At 6.0 finished drawing for Mrs Messel's book, also touched up French drawings. Dressed. Bad smell in morning room.

Burnt pastille. Golden came. After Col & Mrs O'Callaghan, Miss Knowles, Sir John Tenniel, Fritz Jackson, Vernon Watney, William Stone, M & self dined.

Good dinner. 4 bottles of Perinet & 2 Ayala '78 drunk. Sir John stayed till the last left at 1.0pm. (Red ink: Good dinner at home. O'Callaghans, Sir John Tenniel etc etc.)

Wednesday July 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Slight head. Down. Heavy shower of rain.

Undecided whether to ride etc. Up in M's room. At 10.15 rode Cob in Park.

Saw Col Rich & after old Kahn & rode with Mrs Oxenford. Talk of Leech etc.

No Stone. Left at 12.15, home 12.30. Wrote letters & wrote up diary etc.

Lunch. Rested after & thunderstorm came on. Put off carriage from 3.45 to 4.45. Left with M & drove to Turkish bath. Good bath. Very weak shampooer, Nº 2. Bought 1 doz tickets, used 1. Met a stained glass man who had known me at the Langham Life School. Out 7.0 & cab to Bouverie St. Punch dinner.

William Agnew (talking abt picture) Lehmann, A à B, self, Sir J.T, F.C.B, Guthrie, Lawrence B, Reed & B.P. Millken afterwards. Suggested Wolf & Lamb. Also cut Phryne before the Judges. Got a duffer for self. Chaffed Guthrie. Left with Sir J.T at 11.15. Home 12.0. Slept till 1.30am & bed.

Thursday July 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely summer morning. Breakfast by self. Out 10.0am on Cob. Met Wirgman. Turned back with me. After Stone & Miss Steincopff, Mrs Tate & brother. Back 11.50. Wrote many letters, theatres etc etc. Ordered studs. At 12.45 skemed drawing of Chamberlain & stained glass window design by W.E.Gladstone. Lunch. At 2.25 Purnell came round.

Photod him for Chamberlain & the Devil, self for Bill. Developed plates.

Rested 3.15 to 4.0. Printed photos & got ready for work by 4.45. M went out in carriage at 4.0pm. Called on Charley Hartree & Colonel Welby, also Molesworth. Back at 6.30pm. Dressed 7.40. Dinner 7.50pm. Fine lovely summer weather. Quiet dinner by selves. Read Pall Mall Magazine afterwards & bed early.

Friday July 28 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Did not ride. Got to work after on Stained Glass Window cut. Worked all day & finished at 6.40. Dressed. Dinner 7.15. After drove in carriage to Shaftesbury Theatre & saw Morocco Bound. No lights in carriage. Cigar went out. Purnell whipped mare. Stopped & got matches at Albert Gate. On to theatre. Good box. Not bad piece. Young Grossmith, J.L.Shine etc. Saw Archie Stuart Wortley. Back to box & left 10.50. Steady drive home. Whisky & bed at 12.30pm. M tired.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Saturday July 29 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Good breakfast. At 10.0 rode Cob in the Row. Lovely morning. Talk to Finlay & said good bye to Stone who leaves on Monday for Cornwell. Passed Romer Williams. Shower came on after & got out. Home by 12.0. Doubts about what to do in evening. Decided for Aquarium. Lunch. After put things away. Cleared drawers hunting for Peal's acct etc. Felt very tired & done up. Weather exceedingly close & stuffy.

Having nowhere to rest my soul or body went up to M's room & rested in chair. M left at 4.0 in carriage & called at Aquarium, Col Welby's etc etc. Back at 5.45. Put all photos away. Dined 7.10 & left at 8.15 & drove in good hansom to Aquarium. Saw the Boxing Kangaroo (very good) & drop from the roof into tank etc. Felt hall very stuffy & hot. Headache. Left 10.45 & home in same cab. Good. Irish whiskey & bed about 12.30am. Had talk with Ben Fuller the diver. Melancholy creature. 'Do you think so sir'. (Red ink: Killed from Tower Bridge Novr 15th 1894.)

Sunday July 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.45am. Breakfast 9.0. Finished 9.30. M down. Went to stables. Got on mare with new stuffed saddle. Went to corner & saw Wirgman. Went trotting down Hammersmith Road & on thro' Mortlake & on to Richmond Park. Jumped ditch. Canter to Gate. Glass of ginger beer at Robin Hood. Round through Gate & on to Common. Good gallop up hill & along Common. After to great sorrow mare went lame. Thought so walking. Had to walk all way home. Met F.C.B foot of hill. Got home 12.45. Purnell said blow on coronet(?) of foot. After changed & took cab to Garrick calling Camera Club. Lunch. Saw Ashly Sterry at lunch. Round C.C at 2.20. Up in Studio.

Waited until 3.15 for Maud Easton. Came at last. Knee bad. Poor posing, very. Took 2 doz plates which will not be good. Out after tea at 5.40. Cab home. Mother there. Dicksee, Bret Harte, Miss Clarke & also the Walter Cranes had called. Wrote cheques to Marriott & Hunt for taxes. Dressed. Met Milliken on doorstep. Good dinner. Millken & self settled 2 pages in Almanack.

Munchausen. After Millken & M long talk on religion, theology etc. Self slept.

Milliken left 11.15. After bed at 11.45. (Red ink across page: Lamed mare on Wimbledon Common. Milliken dined.)

Monday July 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. After breakfast rode Cob at 10.0am through Park & twice round St James's Park. At 11.12 called on Col Welby. Stayed till 11.50. Rode Cob home through Park. No one there. Home 12.30. Gave M cheque. Letter from Roy. Lunch. Rested after. M went out 3.15pm in fly with her mother. Wrote Store orders to send with Purnell. After looked out all the Sketch, Gentlewoman & Black & White numbers & tore out the leaves. M back at 6.30. Dined quietly at 8.0pm & rest & bed early after. (Red ink: Called at Colonel Welby, 15 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.) Tuesday August 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.20. Dressed & out bottom of Argyle Rd at 8.0am on Cob. Trotted to Row. Lovely morning. Met Phil Agnew & after Mr Williams, husband of a Russian lady. Home to breakfast at 9.15am. After wrote letters.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 rested. M out with Madame later. Rested in afternoon. Mrs Charles Matthews called. Dined at 7.20pm. At 8.20 drove in good cab to Trafalgar Square Theatre. Saw Mam'selle Nitouche. Frank Wyatt's theatre. Strolled to Garrick with cigarette. After M & self left at 10.55. Home in poor cab. Raining. Letter from Siamese Delegation. Supper & bed. Wired Claude Watney could not come. M & self went to Trafalgar Square Theatre. Saw Mam'selle Nitouche.

Wednesday August 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.40. Dressed & bottom Argyle Rd 8.20. Met Mr George Smith in Row. Out & back by 9.17am. Breakfast. Read Times.

Squared prints & wrote cheque for Wellby & sent it off by Purnell. M out to new Kensington dressmaker. Squared prints & skemed Calendar. Thought of Chiron & Apollo for New Year. At 4.0 went in carriage to Welby's. Mrs O'Callaghan called. Chose crescent for Maud & small brooch for M. Called Goffs & Goffs portmanteau place. M would not have it. After put down at Turkish bath. Good bath & hair cut. Cab on to P.D. F.C.B, Guthrie, Reed, B.P, E.I.M (later) Phil A, Lucy, Arthur à B, self, Sir J.T. Told Arthur he ought to knit stockings. Great discussion over my suggestion of Phryne. Guthrie chaff of Allardyce. Got good subject, Isaac Walton. Tenniel the Stormy Petrel. Left with J.T & put down at Isthmian Club. Home by cab after.by 12.oam. Bed. Thursday August 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Rode in Park on Cob before breakfast at 8.30.

Saw no one except Mr Warren, architect, who worried & bored me dreadfully.

Back. Skemed drawing of Isaac Walton. Dull showery muggy morning.

Purnell sat for Walton. Developed plates after lunch & put them to dry. More or less failures, can't tell why. Went on with drawing. M out in carriage. Got prints dry by 5.0pm & worked until 8.0 when dined 8.15pm quietly & after to bed early.

Friday August 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50am. Did not ride. M late down. Roy arrived 8.35 from school. Very well except a lot of spots on his face. He went off to the Oval to see cricket match. I got on with work all day of Isaac Walton & anglers. Roy back in aftenoon. Worked up till 7.0pm when left unfinished drawings 2 hours shaded. Dressed & after dinner drove in carriage one way to Adelphi Theatre. Mare rushed with Purnell at Park Lane. Row with policeman. Saw A Woman's Revenge at the Adelphi. Good scene in court.

After back home in cab, M, Roy & self. Bed after sandwiches etc etc. To get up in the morning. Violent thunderstoms & heavy rain all aftenoon. Lovely evening afterwards. (Red ink across page: Roy came back from Eton at 8.40am with spots on his face.)

Saturday August 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.30am. Got to work & finished drawing at 10.50 of Isaac Walton. Tired. Did not ride. Put things away & all in order in morning.

Ordered carriage at 2.45. Drove to Gardening & Forestry Exhibition. Difficulty about getting in. After saw Exhibition. Gordon Hunter manager to Captain Boyton. Went down the Shute with Roy. M & Spencer there. After the Switch Back Raily. Got M in. Home to tea. Tired. Spencer in to dinner. 2 bottles

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Champagne. After drove in 2 hansoms to Globe Theatre. Saw Charley's Aunt.

Good box. Not so pleased with play. Very tired. Saw the Earl of Ilchester & young Fox Strangeways. Out & home in cab. Spencer came in. Whiskey.

Bed. Went out 2.15 into Kensington bought Roy balls, pine & lobster. Back 3.40pm. Gave up idea of going to Virginia Water through Slough. Wired to Vallis, Radcliffe of Wheatsheaf (Surrey) & Sophy. (Red ink across page: Went to see Water Show at Earls Court.)

Sunday August 6 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Felt rather seedy which lasted all day.

Something disagreed with me. Slight diarrhoea. At 4.40 went with Roy on Cob & self on mare to Hampton Court. Good ride over Common. Flies very troublesome. On through Kingston Gate & on to The Mitre. Controversy with a sergeant at Gate about crossing Park. Could not ride. After to Mitre exactly at 12.50. Ordered lunch & went on river for a row with Roy. Back at 2.0. Lunch.

Salmon, lamb etc etc. Out at 2.45. Went over Palace, old pictures & into the Maze. Roy delighted with Maze. After back. Felt tired & seedy. Cup of tea & cigar. Payed bill, on to horses 4.50 & rode thro' Bushey Park. Mare fresh or would have been, & trot’ Twickenham & Richmond. Over Q Bridge & home through Hammersmith. Fast trotting little pony. Went very fast for 3 miles.

Home at 7.0. Met Dr Orton. Bath. Bad salmon at dinner. Went to bed very shortly after. Roy & kitten. Had colly wobbles all day. Drank whiskey & potash at dinner. (Red ink across page: Rode with Roy to Hampton Court. Lovely day.)

Monday August 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. M's stiff neck bad. Roy a bath & Eno's salt.

Down. Roy went off to cricket match at 10.0. Wrote many many letters all the morning. Sent cheque to bank etc etc. Lovely day for Bank Holiday all day.

Tidied up etc etc. Developed plates & M & self had quiet peaceful day. Did not go out the entire day. Gave Purnell a holiday. Afterwards dined, M Roy & self. Emma had changed the salmon. Games after at guessing. Roy thought of the two monkeys. Went to bed (Roy & M) at 10.15. Self slept in chair. Had nightmare & dreams all night. M took a little Carter. (Red ink: Stayed at home.

Bank Holiday. Roy went to Lords for entire day's cricket.)

Tuesday August 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Went for ride on Cob by self. Met gent I met at the Möllers, don't know his name. Roy went to cricket match afterwards. In morning developed some photos taken in April. Very hot morning. Mite came back with M at 12.0 looking well. Wrote letters & put dates on photos etc.

Lunch. After again wrote dates etc. At 5.0 dressed in blue suit. After went to Barkers to be measured for 3 pairs of trowsers. Got on Cob at 6.0pm & rode to Punch dinner. Met Mr Williams at Buckingham Palace, rode back with me as far as Queen Anne's Gate. Got to dinner at 7.10pm. Took 1hr & 10 minutes. Wm Agnew, Lehmann, self, Sir J.T, Arthur à B (presiding) Lucy, Reed & E.I.M there. Pleasant dinner. Tenniel got the Ancient Mariner subject, I 'King Coal'. Talk to Agnew. Lehmann invited Roy & self to go on river next Sunday. Lucy told us of losing £10,000 in Australian bank. Left with Tenniel at

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 11.0 & home 1.50am. Many letters. Siamese refused my drawings. (Red ink: Punch dinner instead of tomorrow.)

Wednesday August 9 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. With difficulty got Roy up & rode at 8.28 in Park. Very very hot. Met Hensman. Talk & home 9.40. Breakfast. Rather confusion after Roy's waistcoat lost, could not be found. Worry about his clothes. Wrote letters. Stace could not come round. Skemed subject of King Coal after. Sent Roy to Barkers to be measured. (Red ink: Thermometer 80° in shade in my room, noon.) Sent Roy on trycycle to Goy's 398 Fulham Road.

In afternoon worked. Dined 7.30. Mite at work on dress. Went 8.30 in cab to Palace Theatre. Had very good box. Hensman came in. Stood lemon squash, cigars etc. Poor entertainment. Pal o’archie’s. Cab home at 11.25. Bed at 12.15. Letter from Henderson's brother with list of securities. (Red ink: M, Roy & self went to the Palace Theatre. Got wet. Saw Frank Hensman who came into box. Very hot weather.)

Thursday August 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45am. Mite in bath. Roy allowed to sleep on till 8.40.

Breakfast. Very hot morning. At 9.0am Stace round. Photod him in chair for King Coal. Developed. Roy went to Barkers for trowsers. Got to work 11.0am.

M putting things away etc etc. Worked on till lunch. Rested after. Read story in Harpers. Worked after 4.30 to 7.0. Put in King Coal. Roy went for ride by himself. Back 6.45. Afterwards at 7.15 dressed. Wrote letters & sent Fox cheque for £10.0.0. Had sent a registered letter. George Macmillan wrote for drawing of Isaac Walton. At 8.10 carriage took Maud, M & Madame to Water Show. Roy & I walked. Very hot evening. Saw show. Col North in next box & Sam Lewis. After Roy & I came down the shute. Had charge of 2 girls. Got wet sitting in front. Walked & listened to band. Kinderman & Dr Messel met us. Missed carriage walking home. M, Maud & Madame sat on step. Roy broke tumbler after, the 2nd today. Smoked & read. Bed at 1.0. Very hot in room. (Red ink across page: Went in evening to Boyton's Water Show for 2nd time. Got wet with spray from water shute.)

Friday August 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head, why or wherefore who knows.

Down. Did not ride. M had interview with Nash. After writing letters got to work at 10.0. Man came to do trycycle. M went to Imperial Institute & could not get in with Sir Somers Vine's letters. Annoyed. Very hot. Wired Vaus & Crampton & Vernon Watney. Again wrote Somers Vine. In afernoon got on with drawing & finished 7.15pm. Dressed & dined. After drove in carriage, Roy outside, M & self in, & went to Gaiety Theatre. Saw 'In Town'. Understudy company, very stupid. Judge Bacon came into our box. Left at 11.15 & home in hansom.

Very hot weather. Bed 12.30am. Went to Gaiety Theatre. Saw In Town with understudy company. (Red ink: Went after work to the Gaiety Theatre. Saw In Town. Poor. Sir John Tenniel knighted by her majesty at Osborne.)

Saturday August 12 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Put things away & tidied room & clothes etc in morning. Roy out for ride. Lunched at home. After at 2.30 Roy & self went in

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 hansom & M & Maud in carriage to Criterion Theatre. Had good box. Saw La Fille de Madame Angot. Decima Moore very thin. Saw Ainsworth & his wife.

Left box & went to Lincoln & Bennetts. Bought black & white straw hat. Back.

Saw M & Maud to top of Piccadilly & Roy & self went & had Turkish bath.

Roy's 1st bath. Roy's hair cut. Out of bath 7.0 & cab home. Called & got greengages & pears etc at Butts. Frightfully hot night. Quiet evening after dinner. Bed early. Smell like gas in room. Got up, was from stables. Slept uncomfortably from heat. (Red ink: Went to Fille de Madame Angot at the Criterion Theatre. Roy had his first Turkish bath.)

Sunday August 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Packed. Breakfast. Cart at door 9.15. Drove with Roy to Paddington. Caught the 9.45 train down to Bourne End beyond Cookham. Lehmann met us. Nice house. Went & were taken out in gondolas, Lehmann in catamaran punt. Col Groves introduced to Miss Hammersley, General Hammersley etc & Miss Dash. Shot with bows etc. After lunch wrote letters. Out in Miss H's gondola. Tea. Saw the Dean of Westminster's children. Last Sunday at Cliveden. Sad. Astor a cad. Back late. Missed swim.

Played quoits. An 8 oared boat had been out with 2 men, brewers from Marlow. Col Grove, Genl H, Lehmann etc. Dinner. 6 there to dinner. Sat long time. Roy very good. After smoked & talked. Bed 11.30. Long talk with Mr Du Fonblanque on riverside. (Red ink: Roy & self went to Field Head, Bourne End to see Lehmann. Frightfully hot. Had good time. Miss Hammersley.)

D.M's mother daughter of late Duke of York.

Monday August 14 Field Head, Bourne End. Up at 7.15am. Woke Roy. Tea. Out at 7.30 with Lehmann & Roy. Lovely swim in river. Took 2 photos. Roy would not jump off spring board. Breakfast. Left 8.50 for train. Lehmann lent me his Japanese book. Caught 9.0am with Roy & Mr Rowe. Saw Seymour Grenfell in train.

Paddington 9.45. Cart met me. Home 10.15. M packing. Wrote letters & packed bags. Frightful heat. Buss at door at 1.10pm. Roy on trycycle. Got off 1.20 & drove to Waterloo. 2nd class reserved. Ran straight down to Christ Church. Court met us. Roy went on in trycycle. Stopped at Post Office. Wrote Emma. On to Elmhurst. Tabs & H met us. Tea in arbour. Mrs Stuart Wortley there. After at 6.45 Roy & self went to bathe in sea. Lovely. Woman sat down in front of bathing house. Back. Dressed. Dinner. Took Mrs S.W in. Roy long time to wait for ginger beer. Cork pool after. Roy noisy. Beat S.W one game by 30 odd. Slept in roof with Roy. Good room. (Red ink across page: Came up from Field Head Bourne End in morning. Left at 1.15 for Christ Church.

Down in evening. Bathed in Thames in morning & in the sea in the evening.)

Tuesday August 15 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up at 7.0. Roy & self bathed 2nd time. Breakfast.

Stuart Wortley sad. After at 9.30 went on board the Alba. Stuart Wortley, Mervyn, self, H & Gwenny & Eveline. No wind. Long day smooth sailing in hot sun. Read boshy book about Chinese jar. Back 7.15. Too late for swim. Roy playing croquet. Stuart Wortley left. Dined quietly. Champagne. After H & self had 100 game of billiards. H won easily. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: Lovely day's quiet sail on the Alba along the Solent.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Wednesday August 16 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 7.0am. Roy & self went for swim. Very hot, sea like oil. After in morning Roy & self took dinghey & rowed to Ch Ch. Very hot.

Got cheque changed for £20 for H. Bad ginger beer at Newlyne. Back. Man discontented with 2d. Saw H in the Kitten sailing, good breeze. Back to lunch.

Rested after. Lazy afternoon. Roy & self bathed in the evening. Very hot. H & Mervyn stole Roy's trowsers. Dinner. After at 10.0 McCrow & Mervyn left & went on board the Alba. Saw them off in dinghy. Back. Smoke. No billiards.

Bed 11.15pm. Lovely hot day. (Red ink: Frightfully hot. Roy & self rowed dinghey into Christ Church.)

Thursday August 17 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up at 7.0. Roy & self bathed in sea. Lovely but rougher. Breakfast. After in garden & read book on Man. Hamilton & self & M & Roy went in dinghey & speared & caught fish. Back. Lunch. After H & self went for sail in the Kitten. H back by 3.45. Gt rush, H hot. Caught carriage.

Tabs, Mite & H went. They only just caught their train. Self & Roy after tea played 2 sets of lawn tennis. Each won one. After wrote many letters. 1 game of cricket & swim at 7.15. Took from 7.0 to 7.50. Back past Capisthorne.

Dinner by selves. M, Roy & self. Champagne. After changed plates. M & Roy at billiards. Played Roy 100, owed 25. Roy won easily. Bed at 11.0. Very hot.

(Red ink: Temperature in London 94° in shade.) Sent Madame Maake cheque for £20. (Red ink across page: Hamilton Tabs & Maud left in afternoon to go on board the Alba at Weymouth.)

Friday August 18 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up at 6.0am. Down 6.30. Out on lawn. Very hot.

Breakfast. Caught the 7.34 train from Ch Ch driving in cart with The Brick.

Changed Brockenhurst & up to town 10.30, on to Stafford Terrace. All right.

Very hot. 90° in room, 94° in London by evening paper. Skemed subject. At 12.30 photod Purnell in dress for Gladstone & Shoe. Very hot. 2 plates all went futt with heat. Got one only. Developed & lunched 1.45. Man from Nash doing blinds. Got to work after rest. At 4.0pm tea. Worked till 8.30 when dined. Had fish & grouse. Cigar. Apollinaris & whiskey. Slept till 11.30 uncomfortably & bed 12.0. Door banged in night. (Red ink across page: Went up to town early from Ch Ch. Long day's work in London, Frightfully hot, 87° in room.)

Saturday August 19 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.0am. Got to work 6.15. Breakfast 9.30. Finished 11.0am. Cut of Gladstone & Shoe with Bills as Children. Put things in order & after paid Purnell for stable etc. Not so hot. Thermometer in room 80°. Wrote legends under drawings for F.A. Socy. At 12.45 dressed. At 1.15 lunched.

Cab at door. Left 1.35. Drove to Waterloo. Paid 3/-. Down with drunken man in corner & mild deaf creature opposite. They got out at Southampton. On to Ch Ch. Roy met me on tricycle. Roy's birthday. Back to Elm Hurst. M & her mother had gone to Bournemouth. Played 2 sets of lawn tennis with Roy. Each won one. Bathed at 7.0pm after game of cricket. Change in the weather came on. Dinner. Champagne. Gave Roy £1.0.0 as present. Changed plates.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Played 100 up at billiards. Bed at 11.0pm. (Red ink: Came back by 2.15 pm train to Christ Church. M & her mother at Bournemouth. Roy's birthday.)

Sunday August 20 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up at 8.0am. Strong gale & heavy rain. Put on mackintosh. Roy & self charged high waves. Breakfast. Lolled about & read after. At 11.0 started on tricycle with Roy. Uncomfortable & changed for H's tricycle. On en route for Bournemouth to call on Burnand. Rain came on & strong wind beyond Ch Ch station. Pushed on to Southbourne. Took shelter under glass & talked to man about his breeches etc. At 12.40 turned back & got home very hot & wet at 12.55. Had bath. Lunch after. Sat at end of garden & read. Doubt about yacht coming. Tea. After Roy & self bathed before dinner. Dined. Whiskey & soda & played 100 up at billiards. Beat Roy. (Red ink: Roy & self attempted to get to Burnands at Bournemouth on tricycles. Got very wet. Tired after. Weather broke.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Mary Ann, wife of Latham Thomas. T. Sat Au 26.)

Monday August 21 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up at 8.0. Went with Roy to bathe. Strong gale & wind. Bathed. Rain hurt like whips. Dropped key from mackintosh. Breakfast.

Read after. Mademoiselle asked for key. Went with Evelyn & Gwenny to look for it. Found it. Again went back for camera. Took 12 of Evelyn & Gwenny.

Saw people from Seekins. Lunch. After Roy re-marked court. Played 2 sets after tea. Each won one. Cricket. Roy knocked ball over wall. At 7.30pm H, Tabs, Mervyn & Mite back from yacht. Dressed. Dinner 8.15. Hamilton X & unpleasant to Tabs. After no billiards. Smoke & bed 11.15pm.

Tuesday August 22 Elm Hurst, Ch Ch. Up 8.0am. Went with Roy to swim. Strong wind. Back.

Breakfast. Played Roy 100 up. Beat him by 20. Read & wrote diary after.

Decided to go into Bournemouth with Tabs. At 12.15 did go with Tabs & Mite.

Drove to Burnands, dropping Tabs at watchmakers. Tabs dropped watch.

Found Burnands house. Milliken there. High fowl at lunch. Shown over house.

Lawn tennis grounds. Billiard room & chickens. Miss Hollingshead hanging about. Left at 2.50. Walk with Mite in heat to Bath Hotel. Got carriage. Called for Tabs at dentist's. Drove back at 4.30. Tea in arbour. After saw Roy playing Hamilton at L.T. Each won a set. Played H after. Beat me 6 to 1 & 6 to 5.

Close thing. The last cricket with Roy. Dinner. After played H 100 up. Beat him by 35. Bed 11.30. M in Tab's room. Met Ponting & Tags in morning. (Red ink across page: Drove with Tabs & Mite. Lunched with Burnands at Bournemouth.)

Wednesday August 23 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 8.0am. M in bed. Heavy rain. Went for bathe.

No one there for 1st time. Mackintosh. Played Roy 100 up, beat him by 7. H backwards & forwards on acct of the Kitten racing. Pouring with rain. Went down & watched race between 'Mystery' & Kitten. H all behind. Wrote many letters. After lunch went & sat & watched race of small yachts. H came in 3 rd.

Roy & Waddy. Chaff about Nana. After at 4.30 wrote 3 letters & went into Ch Ch on trycycle with Roy. Back 5.0 & tea in summer house. After H beat Roy &

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 self 6.1 lawn tennis. H & self beat Roy 6.5. Dinner. Good bisque of lobster.

Guessing game. Rest with cigar after. H beat me at billiards by 15 points. Bed 11.15. Read Vanity Fair. (Red ink: Regatta day at Mudeford. Hamilton's Kitten came in third. Heavy rain in morning.)

Thursday August 24 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 8.0am. Roy & self went to bathe. Johnny Bounder at side of our hut. Out. Pushed Roy down bank. Met Ponting. M in bed. Breakfast. After played Roy 100 up. Beat him by 65. Lovely hot morning.

Took 12 plates of Tags. Roy & Mervyn playing billiards. Roy won by 4. Read in morning. Lunch. After sat in garden. After tea played cricket. Mr Jacomb Hood came down at 5.30pm. Played set of lawn tennis, Roy & self against H & J.H. Won 6 to 5, R & self. Dinner. After played cork pool. Gave Roy winnings, 4/3. Bed 11.15pm. M not so well.

Friday August 25 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 6.0am. Breakfast. Caught the 7.34am train up to town in carriage by self. Cooler. Arrived Stafford Terrace 11.0. Purnell there. Skemed subject & a 12.15 photod P for Mr Gladstone diving after cup.

Developed it before lunch. Also 12 Tags plates taken yesterday & 6 of pairs Mrs K & Miss D. Got to work 4.0pm & worked till 8.0. Wrote letters & dressed at 8.30. Dined 8.45 & after with cigar went to Empire T. Saw Mr Slater. Ballet.

'In Town'. Met J.Jones. Club. Saw Jarvis & Sir Charles Russell. Left 1.0am & home 1.45. Bed. Read Alison's History of Europe. (Red ink: Furniss horsewhipped & 'shaken like a dog' by Swift MacNeill in the lobby of the House of Commons.)

Saturday August 26 Stafford Terrace. Up at 6.30 & at work 6.50am. Worked till 9.30. Breakfast.

Finished 11.0am. After put photos away etc. Sent Purnell for bag of H.F, to Reeds & to Benjamin. Parcel from Stores. Lunch, ½ bottle of Champagne.

Left at 1.35 for Ch Ch. Lady (pretty) & plain little girl in carriage & 2 nd class passenger. Cart met me. M out driving with Tabs & Jacomb Hood & Gwenny.

Played cricket with Roy. Bowled him out 5 times. Hood played. Dinner. Talk of Furniss & Wetherall bankruptcy. After played ordinary pool. Won 1/6, Roy 9d.

Bed at 11.30. Weather much cooler. (Red ink: Went down to Christ Church.

Roy bowled out 5 times by self at cricket after.)

Sunday August 27 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 8.0am. Hood, Roy & self bathed. Water colder.

Breakfast. After read Alison at end of garden. H looking for yacht. Tabs sat to Jacomb Hood at 11.0. M not so well. Mother seedy. Wrote letters etc. Roy on tricycle. Lunch. After at 3.15 left on tricycle with Roy & went by road to F.C.B at Bournemouth. Caught in shower over bridge by river. Sheltered under barn shed for wagons. On after to Portarlington Road. Got there 4.30. Tea. Philip, Miss Hollingshead etc, F.C.B, children on tricycles. F.C.B dropped purse. Left at 5.40, top of hill Bournemouth 5.45 & home in 1 hour. 9 miles. Very hot & done up. Had hot bath. Changed & after dined. Tabs pretty. Talk after.

Snooze with cigar in mouth. Hood made sketch. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink: Roy & self 18 miles run on trycycles to Bournemouth & back.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Monday August 28 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 8.0am. Mr Hood, Roy & self bathed. Lovely morning. East wind. Sea colder. Breakfast. After smoke went at 11.0 on board the Alba, M, self & Hamilton. Good sail nearly to Hurst Castle. Read Alison's History of Europe, fall of Venice. After lunch snooze on deck. Sailed round by Alum Bay & the Needles. After home by 5.0pm. Landed. Tea. H & self & Mr Hood had set at lawn tennis. H beat 6.0, after H & self, H won 6.3.

Roy playing cricket match at Sir Thos Mayrick's. Made 42 not out & took 4 wickets. Dined. Good dinner & livelier. Mrs Sermon came in & lost 3 or 4 shillings at pool. Left at 10.45. Talk & bed 11.30. (Red ink: Good sail with M on 'Alba' from 11.30am to 5.0pm.

Tuesday August 29 Elm Hurst, Christ Church. Up 8.0am. Swim with Hood & Roy. Ricardo's dog swam out to us. Back. Breakfast. After met M coming from Seekins. Went on on tricycle to Christ Church as far as station. Got watch. Pallant, trycycle man in town. Home 11.30. Packed bag 12.15. Lunch 12.40. Left with Tabs in carriage at 1.0 & up to town, M, Maud, Roy & self by 1.37 from Ch Ch. Change at Brockenhurst. ½ hr wait. Got pears. Waterloo at 4.45. Home 5.40.

No Purnell. Letters. Stupid letter from Arthur à Beckett. Went to Buckles. Sent letter. Knickerbockers back to Benjamin. M & Maud doing washing. Dined 7.50. 65° in room. Quiet evening after. M & Roy went to bed at 9.30pm, self at 11.0.

Wednesday August 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Gave M & Roy Eno. Breakfast 8.30. Roy & salmon. Workmen in house. To pack for going to Scotland. Packed all morning. Looked through things. Got boots ready etc etc. M & Maud out. Roy & self lunched together at 1.0pm. M back at 3.0. Roy & self left in cab at 4.10 for Turkish bath. Found had left key at home. Wired Purnell from Charing X. Roy in bath weighed 6s 8lb. Had hair cut. Roy swam. Out at 6.45pm. Put Roy on buss & walked to 1st Avenue Hotel. Found F.C.B, Reed, E.I.M, Arthur & Sir J.T there. Furniss came in after full of his assault by Swift McNeill. Dull dinner.

Heard of poor Fred Evans's bankruptcy. Home as far as Edgware Road in Sir J.Tenniel's cab. Cab on after. Home 12. Slept on sofa till 1.40am. Bed. M had bad neuralgia face ache in the night. Sent cheque for £552.8.6 to Greenwood & Co etc etc.

Thursday August 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wrote letters after breakfast. Roy hanging about.

After at 10.30 got to work on subject of Little John Bull & Russia & France, swimming boat etc. Lunch. M & Mite out. Worked up to 7.0. Dined. After at 9.0 Roy & self took cab to the Pavilion & had box. Saw Variety entertainment.

Roy delighted. Very pretty girl in bicycle show. 'There you are', 'My silly little man's at Sandown Park' etc. Left 10.50. Met Dr Russell on the stairs. Home in cab. Sandwiches & bed at 12.0am. (Red ink: Quiet day's work at Stafford Terr. Went with Roy to Pavilion in the evening.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Sir William Cusins.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Friday September 1 Stafford Terrace. Up 7.50. Breakfast. Wrote letters etc. Got to work on drawing, Little John Bull & France & Spain. Ship in tub. Worked all morning.

M & Mite packing. Finished 4.30pm. Tea & finished packing. Wrote labels etc etc. Roy went to Lords to see cricket match. Home at 5.40. Dinner at 5.50.

Bottle of Champagne. Omnibus round at 6.30. Purnell got boxes on etc. Left at 6.50pm. Left Roy at his Grandmamma's. On to Euston. Met Mr & Mrs Farquhar there. Got good carriage to selves & pillows & left at 8.0pm. Tucked M & Mite up & got to sleep about 9.30pm. Read magazines. Slept fitfully on & off & woke up near Stirling. Sent Purnell to Stores for ink etc. Drew cheque for £10.0.0. (Red ink: Home Rule passed in Commons, 34 majority.) (Red ink across page: Left Stafford Terrace at 7.0 for Tressady.)

Saturday September 2 On board train. L & N.W.Rly, Stirling. Woke 5.0am. At 5.45 shewed Maud Stirling Castle & Wallace Monument. Perth. Went thro' Aberdeen at 8.19am.

Met the Farquhars. Breakfast for 3, 4/8d. After wash. Small minister's son washing. Left Maud with Farquhars. Started 9.30. Carriage to selves. Lunch Inverness 2.0pm. Saw fight between outside porter & stout curly headed man.

M did not like it. Walk in Inverness. Back. Sat in coupé. Started 4.15pm. Long weary journey to Rogart 7.40. Drunken sailors etc etc. Trap met us. Got to Tressady 8.5pm. Dressed. Dinner 8.40. V.W & Lady M, Mr & Mrs Foot, Miss Taylor, Mr Ryle, Thring, Newton & Richards. Good dinner. After smoke & whist. Lost 1/s. Foolishly took whiskey. Bed at 11.45. Vulcan, brown & white terrier, slept in our room. M very tired. (Red ink: Arrived Tressady 8.5pm.)

Sunday September 3 Tressady, Rogart. Up 9.0am. Down. Breakfast 9.45. Lovely morning. After at 11.0 went up to golf links & played foursome game. Newton & Vernon against Thring & self. Halved the 1st round. Holes all. Same 2nd rd. Then ½d a hole to decide at 1.15pm. Then back. V.W & N won by one hole. Back to lunch. After Richards & Miss Taylor beat Vernon W & N easily by 4 holes. Rested in smoking room after lunch & fell asleep for 2 hours. Uncomfortable dream of being in the same room. Woke up at 5.0pm. Wrote many letters. After in for tea. Waller dog had bitten Ryle which riled him. After dressed & sent letters & cheque off. Dinner. Claret. After dinner had mock trial of Waller. V.W & foot were judges. Richards, Newton, Thring & self council. Very good but too long.

Ryle did not like it. Over at last. Game of whist. Lost 2/6. Bed after. Vulcan came up in our room. Put him on my lawn tennis jacket. Bed 11.30pm. (Red ink across page: Quiet day's golfing at Tressady.)

Monday September 4 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.0am. M had had very bad face ache & seedy generally. Down breakfast later at 10.0. Started in break to shoot with Richards & Thring. Very hot. Walked up past Watney Rock. On to moor. Took waistcoat & collar off. Very hot. Shot 3 brace before lunch. Lunch. Sun on head. After rested at rock for ¾ hr on back whilst setters went along by burn & back over moor. Poor scent. Got 4 or 5 shots after. Lost 2 snipe & 2 rabbits.

Left off 5.15. Sent short Angus for spring water. Back home 6.15. Miss Taylor very hot & thirsty. Had milk & soda. Bath & dressed. Good dinner. After

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 played at guess game. Smoke. Lost 2/6 at whist. Bed at 11.30. Ryle left at st lunch time for ‘the Mound’. (Red ink: 1 day's shoot at Tressady. Very hot.)

Tuesday September 5 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.15. Breakfast 9.0. Lovely day. Vernon W, Newton & Richards went shooting. Mr & Mrs Foot & Thring fishing. Self stayed in.

Looked over Arts & Letters in morning. Began drawing of Girl & Curls & Mutton C Whiskers for Punch. M in room. Lunch. Back. Sun unfortunate in eyes. Bad for drawing. Began subject again & got on. Marshall came in at 5.30pm. Finished 6.10. Upset ink & general discomfort. Tea. Went for walk with Marshall & Vulcan up to top of moor. Back 6.45. Wrote to Roy & Maud & Henderson. Posted drawing. Punch came. Drawing so so. Dinner. Took Miss Taylor in. After drew the Ledger sweep. Rosalind W drew Isinglass, M Royal Harry. After played whist. Won 2 rubbers, held 4 honours. Won 4/s. Paid 5/s for 2 chances in sweep. Roy went down to Seekins.

Wednesday September 6 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.15am. Bath. Down 1st at breakfast. At 10.30 started to walk for grouse drive on Scotts Moor. Long walk. Vernon on pony. 4 drives.

Long walk between 1st & 2nd. At 2nd drive had more birds. Did not hit one.

After at last drive got one. Walked home. Drizzle. Hot. Saw little Mick. Tea. Bath. Leeson Marshall mentioned my gun swinging round. Nonsense. Rested 1 hour. Read Arts & Letters. Dressed. News of Leger being won by Isinglass.

Good dinner. Made speech. After smoke. Rubber of whist. Treble treble. Won 4/s. (Red ink: 2nd day's shoot. Grouse drive at Tressady. Fine day.)

Thursday September 7 Tressday, Rogart. Up 8.0. Breakfast 8.30am. Down. Brown suit. Went at 10.30 in break to station. On to Brora. Long wait for train. Games etc on platform. At The Mound Depart't got in. Had bed prepared for him in carriage.

Chaff. Past Dunrobin. On to links. Station master & Secy. Played round of 9 holes against Vernon. Self 80, V 86. Self 2 holes up. Lunch. After foursome game. Richards & self x Foot & Vernon. Holes all. Rest. Sat by sea & saw gulls dive. Picked up cigar case. Store. Station. Hopping match, Dept & Foot.

Saw little girl like Mary Burnand. Pretty eyes. Beautiful colley dog. Train very late. Got in carriage by self. Out at Rogart. Met Thring who had fished. Home.

No letters from Roy. Heavy rain came on. Dressed. Wrote Seekins & F.C.B. Dinner. Took Mrs Foot in. Good sea trout & grouse. No games. After pipe etc.

Won 4/s treble treble at whist. Bed at 11.15pm. (Red ink across page: Golf day at Brora.)

Friday September 8 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.10am. Pouring wet morning. Shoot given up. Foot, Richards & Marshall went to Lairg to fish. Thring in barn. Read Dods. Silly book. After at 11.0 went down to burn. Slight spate on. Spoke to Mrs Murray about her girl. Back to house. Got camera & walked down road to bridge.

Took 5 plates, one of pig. After to house. Lunch. Boiled fowl & chutnee. Read & pipe. Played foursome match, Vernon & self against Newton & Miss Taylor.

Beaten by 2 holes. Wonderful put of Miss T. Back. No letters from Maud or Roy. M went out in carriage. Wired Seekins. Wrote many letters. Tea. After

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 M, self, Newton & Miss T went on to links. Played 3 game. Lost a ball. Venon shooting rabbits with rifle. In at 6.50pm. Wrote more letters. Lighted fire.

Dinner. At 9.0 wire from Seekins. Took Lady M in. After had Dum Crambo.

Acted Isinglass. Waller disturbed. Smoke. One rubber. Lost 2/6 to Thring.

Bed 11.30.

Saturday September 9 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Lovely morning. Good breakfast. Trout, buttered eggs, kidneys etc, melon. After read Thos Hardy's story of Fellow Townsman. Very good. At 11.45. walked with M down to burn. Back.12.30.

Played round with Dryhurst, 3 holes up, 3 divided. Round in 8,7,8,13,4,6 = 49.

Back. Splendid lunch. After cigar. Then at 3.15 up came piper & 200 children.

Games etc etc in field on hillside. Took 24 photos, changing them in cellar.

Football. Langley. Danced etc etc. Tea. Vernon made speech. Showers occasionally. Mrs Logan the minister's wife. Dept left with post cart. Changed plates. No letter from Roy. Fire at 7.30pm. Weather very much colder. Foot went to sleep. Self also sleepy. After speeches etc, smoke, played 2 rubbers of whist. Won 6/s. Bed 11.45pm. Put rugs on bed. (Red ink: Children's fete at Tressady.)

Sunday September 10 Tressady, Rogart. Up 9.30am. Breakfast 10.0. Ryle & Dryhurst walked over.

Lovely morning, not so cold. Read Guy de Maupassant's 'A Coward'. After wrote Peal etc. At 11.45 went on to golf ground, watched play. After Vernon & self went round. I played very badly & also bad luck. Round in 59. Lunch.

After cigar on golf ground again. Played 2nd round with Vernon. Little better.

Ball in pond. Round in 53. After tea the others went on with rounds. Ryle & Dryhurst left at 5.30. Took pole out of dining room & got golf ball out of pond.

Also went round with Thring, Newton, Foot. At end 6.15 Newton won the tournament. Home. Letters from Maud, Roy, F.C.B, Emma etc etc. M in bed with neuralgia. Fire. Wrote Roy & F.C.B, etc etc. Dinner. Champagne.

Speeches after. Newton presented with jug. Talk in drawing room, after down in smoking room. Drowsy. No cards. Bed 11.30. Thring's last evening. (Red ink: Ryle's birthday.) (Red ink across page: Medal Golf competition.)

Monday September 11 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Out at 10.0 & drove up road towards Lairg. At 10.40 commenced to walk. Long day's walk over Scott's shooting. At 12.0 shot grey hen. Missed black cock. Waved to Thring leaving by train. On over hill. At 1.10 lunch by loch. 2 man in a boat from hotel. Uncomfortable lunch. After long weary walk. Never got a shot. Poor old Sam killed by breaking his neck after a hare. Stopped for tea (burn water & claret.) Left off by quarry & long walk home. Blistered heel, spoilt my day. Home. Ladies not yet back from The Mound visiting Ryle. Milk & soda & tea. Bath. Rested. M back. Wrote letters. Dinner. Took Lady M in. Great talk. After played at guessing words. Smoke. Whist. Won 3/6. Bed 11.50. 3 rd day's shoot. Long walk on Scott's shoot.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Tuesday September 12 Tressady, Rogart. Up 8.10am. Bath. Down in Lamb suit. Breakfast. Smoke after. Accident to poor little Rosalind. Fell on a pencil & cut artery. Richards, Newton & Marshall went to shoot. Mr & Mrs Foot & Miss Taylor fishing. Round of golf with Vernon in morning. Poor score. Lunch. Doctor to Rosalind. Wrote many letters. Another round with Vernon. Worse score. Letters. One from F.C.B. After men back from shoot. Lady M & baby in our room. Tea. After read Dirmea(?) in smoking room. Others at whist. Up in room. Sent letters.

Packed portmanteau. After had dinner. Good. Games. Went out. Looked for thimble. Pipe. Whist played against Dryhurst. Lost 3/6. Bed 11.30. To shoot tomorrow, the Brora.

Wednesday September 13 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.10am. Bath. After saw gale & pouring rain. No hope of a shoot. Met Vernon in passage. Had put his arm out. Most unfortunate. Breakfast, trout etc. Baby down all right. After pipe & read about Marat in Art & Letters. Pouring rain, cleared 12.0. M, self & all went down to look at spate. Logs of wood swirling round.. Richards in waders. After back.

Sun. Got camera & walked down again & took 4 of spate & 2 of bathing pool.

Back 1.45. Lunch. After cigar & walked to Watney Rock with Dryhurst. Others shooting. Took 6 phos, 1 spoilt. Back. Played bad round with Dryhurst. 59, 58 self. After tea, then foursome game. Mr & Mrs Foot v. Dryhurst & self. We lost by 4 holes. Back. Saw baby. Packed. Changed plates. Dinner. Took Lady M in. Good dinner. Made farewell speech. After quiet evening. Pipe. 2 rubbers, one against Dryhurst. Lost 3/6. After Marshall & self against Newton & Vernon. Won 1/6, lost 1/3.

Thursday September 14 Tressady, Rogart. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Finished packing. Down to breakfast, last morning at Tressady. Had trout, snipe, bacon, egg, & slice of melon for breakfast. Smoke. At 10.30 left in omnibus. Good bye to all. Man asked me for my golf clubs. Ha! Ha! Lady M brought small bottle eucalyptus oil. Heavy rain. Richards came down in our omnibus & went to fish. Off from Tressady in reserved coupé. Lord Fitzhardinge at Lairg. On long weary way to Inverness. Through carriage. Lunched 1.10pm. Rain & heavy clouds. Hot bearing at Kincussie. Perth ¾ hr late. Stupid old guard. Settled down & off at 8.30pm. Had soup at restaurant. Bad. Dined in carriage. Claret, fowl etc.

Settled to sleep at 9.45. Woke up Carlisle, porter opening door. Tucked M up.

All right en route for Euston. Total of whist: won 21/6, lost 14/-, gain 7/6. Less 5/- sweep, 2/6 to good on visit. (Red ink: Last morning at Tressady.)

Friday September 15 On board train. Woke up 7.0 at Bletchley. Washed etc. M slept very well.

Euston 8.15. Hour late nearly. Saw fine family on platform. Father, sons, mother & daughters alike. Buss. Drove home. No runner. Arrived 9.10.

Letters. Breakfast. Subject of 3 Jovial Huntsmen. Wrote many letters. After sent Purnell to Peals with boots. Begun work at 12.0. M out. Lunch. Worked on till 7.0. Dressed. Dined 7.30pm. Bottle Perinet. After M & self went to see 'The Other Fellow' at the Court Theatre. Pretty good. Groves as Champignol.

Saw Hugh Spottiswood & Coningsby D'Israeli. After over at 11.0 drove home

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 in hansom. Hot & stuffy. Sandwiches. Lemon squash. No spoon. Bed 12.0am. M tired. Sent cheque to Palatine company etc, Gas company. (Red ink: Arrived home at 9.0am from Tressady, Rogart.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Charles Goss.)

Saturday September 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.0am. Bath. Down 7.30am. Finished drawing of 3 Jovial Huntsman after Caldicott. Put things away after finishing at 10.20.

Breakfast 8.45. M in bed. Mother called 10.30 & stayed with M till 11.15.

Packed bags. Sent Purnell for cheque etc. Rather a rush. Lunch. At 1.30 started with M in 4 wheeler for Waterloo. 2nd class carriage reserved, very comfortable. Down Ch Ch. Roy met us on platform riding bicycle. Court & Bill met us. On to Seekins. Tabs & Mervyn called. Hamilton back. After went round to Elm Hurst. Saw Mrs Shakespeare & Dorothy & Evelyn & Gwenny.

Back. Dinner ½ past seven. Cider, Burgundy. Fair dinner. After smoked cigar.

Rain. Roy dressed. At 9.0 went round to Elm Hurst. Felt seedy & tired & headache. Played 3 games of shellout, Roy, self, H & Mervyn. Roy played badly. Whiskey, very little. Left 10.40. Back. Very dark. Bed 11.15. Very tired, head uncomfortable. Bed. (Red ink across page: Went down with M to Christ Church.)

Sunday September 17 Seekins's, Christ Church. Got up with a headache at 8.35. Went for bathe in the sea with Roy at 9.0. Breakfast 9.40. Honey. M in bed. After put things in next room to Roy's. Dressed at 11.0. Lovely morning. Wrote many letters.

Finished by 1.30, after had lunch. Very good. Roast beef etc etc. At 3.15 started to go to Elm H. Met Tabs, Miss Holland & Mrs Shakespeare & Tags.

Saw Hamilton. Got bicycle & rode towards Ch Ch with letters. Passed Roy at brewery. Roy walked on. Got bicycle etc after & rode over to West Bournemouth. Left Ch Ch 4.0, arrived Burnands at 5.30. Saw F.C.B & family.

James O'Reilly Esqr & Miss Hollingshead. Left at 5.45. Good ride home, arrived Ch Ch at 6.30 exactly. Roy left bicycle. Walked back Mudeford. Heel bad walking. Dressed. Roy not good. Had to speak to him about dressing.

Dressed. M sewed buttons on. Dined at Hamilton's. Good soup & dinner.

Guess games after. Left at 10.40. Back & bed 11.15pm. Better but not quite the thing. (Red ink: Went on tricycle to F.C.B's.)

Monday September 18 Seekins's, Christ Church. Up at 8.20. No bathe. Cloudy morning. but not cold.

Good breakfast but still a headache. Sat in M's room. Man tapping window.

Sent Roy into Ch Ch for plaster & to bicycle works etc. Wrote letters. All morning squared up prints from papers etc. Sent them to Fox. At 12.45 put plaster on foot & walked to Hamilton's. Lunch. Irish stew & rice pudding. Felt seedy. At 1.20 went on board Kitten. Silly imbecile Dereham. Blowing fresh.

H, self, Mervyn & Shakespeare went. Went out to the 'Old gentleman' fishing.

I caught 4 lemon soles, S 1, Mervyn 1. Back 3.15. Muddle with rigging. Seat hurt me. Bad attack of P. Back. Read paper. Tea. Tried trycycle, gave it up.

Roy away at a lawn tennis tournament. Came in 2 nd lot. Had bad partner.

Home. Read etc. Letter from S. Dressed. Roy back late. Dined. Bottle of Saumur. Quiet evening at home. Bed early, 11.0pm. Mervyn's birthday. Took

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 2 Carters little liver pills. (Red ink: Mite arrived home from Scotland. Very seedy all afternoon.)

Tuesday September 19 Seekins's, Christ Church. Up at 8.0am. Hip bath. Good breakfast. Lemon soles, eggs etc etc. After read Alison's Hist. At 11.0 began page for Almanack. Skemed it & took camera & at 12.45 got 6 photos of children. Back with Roy. Lunch. Lobsters etc. After cigar. M writing French letter. M & self walked round to E.H. Sat in arbour. Read Sala's book. Mrs Shakespeare & Mervyn there. At 4.0 put new seat on tricycle & went to Seekins. Called Roy. Wrote 5 or 6 letters. Back to Elm Hurst. Tea. After went into Christ Church with Roy. Posted letters & got P.O.O for 10/6 & sent to Ryle. Called on Pallant. Talk & settled for bicycle for Roy for 10/6 per week. Rain. Back to Elm H. Walked back with M home. Wrote 2nd letter to Purnell & diary. Dined at 7.30. Bottle Saumur. Smoke after. Roy & self at 9.15 walked round to Elm Hurst. Played 150 up at billiards. Owed 50 & beat Roy by 50. Lemon squash.

Left at 10.45. Home to Seekins. Had potash & read. Bed & took 2 Carters little liver pills. Potash & whiskey.

Wednesday September 20 Seekins's, Christ Church. Up at 8.0am. Roy & self went to bathe. Not so cold.

Lovely morning. Saw cutting was filled up across Major Stuart Wortley's path.

Back. Breakfast. Got camera & photod children in garden & also saw Morant drawing in net. They caught flat fish, smelt, stingers etc etc. Most lovely morning. Back at 12.0. Packed bags. M in room. Drew cheques. Paid Seekins etc. Lunch at 12.45. At 1.0 Mervyn round with pony trap. Sent it back. Round again. Roy went back on trycycle for stick & hat. On to train. Roy back. 20 minutes to wait. Goodbye to Christ Church. Up to town with tricycle. Carriage to self. Purnell met me & took things home in 4 wheel cab. Cab on to Turkish bath. Heavy wet. Bath. Persuaded to buy razor 5/6. Lost it. Met Major Trench on going out. Cab to Bouverie St. Heel bad. Punch dinner. F.C.B, Sir J.T, Reed, Milliken, Arthur à B, Furniss & self. Good dinner. Chaff. Furniss went to 1st night of Tree's piece 'The Templer'. Left at 11.0 with Sir J.T. Put down at Isthmian. Cab home. Saw 'Kerrie' for 1st time on getting home. Bed 12.10am.

Thursday September 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Slight head. Went thro' letters. Wrote some etc etc. After at 10.30 got to work on drawing of Knight & Water Snake. Had photo just the thing. Mite came round looking well. Stayed. Kerrie about.

Worked up to 5.0pm when dressed. Mite lunched & went back to her grandmother's at 4.30 pm. Took at 5.40 Met Rly Gower St. Called 226.E.R. Walked to Garrick & Beefsteak. At 7.45 dined at Beefsteak. Sat next Lord Onslow. Long talk between Lord O & Joe Carr & others. Wrote six letters, to M etc etc. Called at Empire Theatre. Saw Round the Town. Left at 11.30 & cab home to Stafford Terr. 2/6 to man. Never thanked me. Le Coq de Lautreppe, 8 Quai de Billy, Paris, called on me about cartoons for American Review.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Friday September 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.0am. Down 7.30. Worked at drawing, Knight & Water Snakes. Sent Purnell to F.C.B & to Peals. Worked all morning & got done at 12.30pm. Mite round. Packed bags etc. Lunch.1.45. Purnell got 4 wheeled cab & on to Paddington at 2.30 to catch the 3.0pm train. 20 minutes to wait. Took tickets to Highworth. One other gent (Schiff) in train. Run to Swindon straight thro'. Arrived H at 5.0. 9 mile drive to Buscot. Got there 6.10.

Mr & Mrs Henderson etc. Tea & after walk in Park. Boy on bicycle etc etc. At 7.0 dressed. Could not find braces. Down 8.10. Burne Jones's pictures in drawing room. Very good. Dinner. Took Mrs Henderson in. All plain women except Mrs H & Maud. After long tedious games with billiard cues on table.

Played 2 hours. Bed at 12.0 after lemon squash. (Red ink: Went with Mite to Buscot Park.)

Saturday September 23 Buscot Park, Farringdon, Berks. Up at 8.0. Bath. Felt livery & something disagreed with me. Down 9.15 in shooting boots etc. Breakfast. After doubts about shooting. Heavy rain. Up in room & wrote letters etc. At 11.0 started shooting. Took cape. Began 11.20 & walked till 2.0. Got one hare. No birds.

Birds wild. Curwin Head Keeper. Very stout. 'Old Sollis'. Felt seedy & bilious all day. Something disagreed with me. Also my heel hurt me. After lunch stayed by self on top of hill. Squall of wind & rain. Pottered about until 6.0pm.

Home. Tea. & at 7.0 dressed for dinner. Took Mrs Henderson in. Played pool after. Took 2 whole pools & divided one. Won £1.3.6. Bed 12.15am. Changed plates of photos. (Red ink: Very seedy all day. Indigestion etc. 1st day's shoot Buscot Park. No birds. One hare.)

Sunday September 24 Buscot Park, Faringdon, Berks. Up 8.0am. Bath. Better. Good breakfast at 9.40am. Sausages etc. Stroll round stables etc. Great vine after. Got photo case & took laundry & grindstone etc. After a walk with Mr Schiff to Thames.

Buscot Lock. Gave small boy 6d with bundle. Young Henderson caught me up. Back to house at 1.46. Lunch. Too elaborate. Talk of old Doetsch. After cigarette & coffee. Put lawn tennis things on. Played 2 sets & after 3 or 4 games at squash raquets. Frightfully painful attack of P came on. Got books & went up at 5 to rest in room. Slept 1½ hr. Bath. Wrote diary & dressed.

Slightly better. Dinner. Took Mrs H in. Opposite Mite. Game of 'It' after. Mrs Torrens long time over it. After smoke in Henderson's room. No billiards.

Read book on Brazil before sleeping. Changed plates. Sleep by 11.45pm.

(Red ink: Very seedy in afternoon.)

Monday September 25 nd Buscot Park, Faringdon, Berks. Up 8.0. Bath in 2 room. Still seedy with P. Overcast morning. Down. Breakfast. Mr Schiff left. After got Cruise of the Bacchante. Left for shooting 10.30am. Walked to dairy. Wonderful machinery for manufacture of butter etc. Long walk over wurzals etc. Got 2 birds. 2 shots at hare. Lunch 1.45. Table spread. Talk of Punch. After long walk backwards & forwards after birds. Heavy plough. Left off at 5.15. Back to house. Whole day spoilt by great pain & inconvenience from P. Why or wherefore who knows? Tea. Mite playing hide & seek. Man on lawn with hose from turbine.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Bath. Hot. Up in room. Gorgeous but not very comfortable. Lay on bed with electric light & read about Shannon in Cruise of the Bacchante. Dressed 7.30.

Wrote diary. Dinner. 4 extra to dinner. Judge Snagge (very complimentary) & wife. Vicar & wife. Long time after dinner. Mite upset vase. After divided one pool. Lost 3 pool. Won 3/s. Bed 12.0. Read. Still not quite the thing. (Cutting glued in: Death of Albert Moore RWS.) Tuesday September 26 Buscot Park, Faringdon, Berks. Up 8.0am. 2 letters from M, one from F.C.B. Breakfast. Started shooting early, 9.40. Walked over high field, 270 acres.

Shot 1 partridge. After back to covers. Met ladies. Henderson left for Bench of Magistrates. Lunch in road, jugged hare. Rain. After went on shooting up & down mangolds etc. Henderson back about 3.30pm. Shot rabbit. Cartridge jammed in gun. Got bird flying up lane. Round by railway of estate. Left off earlier than the others. Tea. A Captain in the Army Service Corps there.

Wrote letters etc, many. Dressed & took Mrs Henderson in to dinner. Small dinner. Slow. Mrs Tubby, 2 ladies there. 1 pool after. Divided it. Won 2/6.

Electric light wrong in some way. Very dull. Bed 12.0. Read Defoe's Plague.

(Red ink: Felt all right for walking etc. Shot 3 birds 1 rabbit.)

Wednesday September 27 Buscot Park, Faringdon, Berks. Up 8.0am. Brown suit. Breakfast. Found had to shoot. Changed & got off 10.0am. Very hot & close. Put cap in pocket.

Walked backwards & forwards. Got one hare. Shot in hind legs. Squeaked badly. Left off 1.5pm. No birds for self. Walked back to house with Henderson. Changed. Scurry lunch. Off at 2.5pm. Good bye. Fees, keeper £1.0.0, valet 10/-, maid 5/-. Drove to Lechdale. Two boys on tricycles. One had bad fall. On to Oxford. Met the Trowers. Arrived Paddington 5.15. Home 5.45. No Purnell. Looked at Roy's papers etc etc. Returns tomorrow. Wired M. Left Mite & took hansom to Punch dinner. Tenniel not well. W.Agnew, Lawrence B, E.I.M, E.T.R, Hy F, F.C.B, Sir J.T, self, Arthur à B & Lehmann there. Awfully long discussion about coal. Put down at Isthmian Club. Home by cab. Kerrie troublesome. Bed 12.10am. Foot hurt me again in the night.

Gathered at heel. (Red ink: Shot 1 hare. (Cuttings glued in: Death of Joseph Gordon Davis. Sep 30, Oct 2. Oct 2. 1st time of 'Times' with large letters.)

Thursday September 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bright morning. Read story in 'Pall Mall' magazine. After wire from M. Sent passes back to L & N.W Rly. Heel very bad again in morning. Gathered. Began work on Almanack. After dressed & at 1.30 went with Mite to station. Heel hurt me. Rain. Saw Mite off. Limped to Club. Long talk to David Plunkett. After met M & Roy. Home to Stafford Terrace. Roy good. Dined. Bottle of Saumur. Roy left for school at 9.0pm. M & self went to bed at 10.30. Heel hurt me very much. (Red ink: Roy went back to Eton. Heel came on bad, painful in night.)

Friday September 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. M's birhday. Heel fightfully painful. Had to call Orton in. Clock weight dropped & broke, end of clock. Sent Purnell with prescription. Wrote cheque for £30 for Nash. Death of Joseph Gordon Davis

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 in the paper. Waited about, no subject came. Tried to get on with Almanack.

Could not do much. Got book of proverbs by sending Purnell to Bouverie St. Arranged after lunch the other proverbs. Rude letter from Mr Darling. Foot very bad all day. Dined quietly with Polly. Whisky & soda. Mr John Ward called & kept me talking ½ an hour outside of door. Bed quietly at 10.30pm.

(Red ink: Called Orton in for heel. M's birthday.)

Saturday September 30 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Foot still very bad. In morning began work on Almanack. Could not do much. In pain. Sent out for lotion to Barkers. Lunch.

M out at her mother's. Maud came back from Christ Church at 6.0pm. Quiet dinner at home. Gave up going to Beerbohm Tree's. Mr Wm H Ward called on me about a drawing in the morning & also Edward Reed at 11.30. Agreed to do a drawing for Ward. (Red ink: Heel very bad.)

Sunday October 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Foot dressed. Still very bad. Breakfast. After got to work on drawing for W.H Ward of John Bull & Yankee. Foot slightly better. Orton called at 12.45 & stayed 2 hours talking. Did not lunch till 2.45.

Rested after. Got to work after reading Dr Pascal. In afternoon Edgar, Claude Watney, Henderson & son called. All left by 6.0pm. Worked till 8.0. Dined 8.15. Foot still very bad. (Red ink: Many called to see me. Claude Watney etc, Henderson also. Edgar said room was full of young men.)

Monday October 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Foot still very bad. More local in inflammation.

Breakfast. Wrote returning pass to Mr W Birt & condolences with Mr Davis.

After got to work in morning at 10.0 & finished drawing for Ward, £10.10.0. At 1.30 lunch. Rested after & read Dr Pascal. M & Mite went out. M had £1.0.0.

After got on with Almanack. Put in House of Lords. 2 ladies called to look at house. Tea 5.0pm. Got to work till 8.0pm. Dinner at 9.15. Orton came in after, lanced foot twice. Very painful. Felt faint. Upstairs after. Bed & sleep 11.45. In 'Times' first big block letters for obituary notices. (Red ink: Heel bad. Lanced after dinner. Nearly fainted.)

Tuesday October 3 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Foot still very painful. Poultice.

Breakfast. Went to Photo House oh! Man doing windows. Photod man from Nash for Almanack & Purnell & Mite. Leg very painful but got thro' somehow.

After lunch rested & got print at 4.30. At 5.0 got to work till 8.0pm. Purnell fetched the mare from Horlick's. Dined at 8.0. Sent Maple cheque at last for £10.0.0. Wrote to D'Oyley Carte etc etc. Slight headache. Foot very painful after dinner. Bed 10.30pm. (Red ink: Mare came home from Horlick's.)

(Cuttings glued in: Death of William Seabrook, and David Belasco, known as David James. David James left £36,000 & more.)

Wednesday October 4 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Foot dressed, come more to a head. Printed photos after breakfast of Maud etc, Purnell. Got to work on Almanack drawings. In afternoon put in Tennis Girl & finished the Socialists. Quiet

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 dinner at 8.0pm. Foot painful all day. Bed 10.30. (Red ink: Foot very bad. Did not go to Punch dinner.) Sore throat came on in night. Got up with it in morning 5th, developed all day & next day got on my chest.

Thursday October 5 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Foot still being poulticed. Breakfast. No letter from Table. Wrote F.C.B. At 11.30 Furniss called on G.G & F.C.B also a little after & left letters with instructions for subject. Orton had called about 11.0am.

Saw foot. At 12.0 William Agnew called in carriage. Talk of subject. Mines & coal owners & Punch. Very full one. Sent Purnell round to Nash's foreman to ask him to come at 2.30pm. Never turned up. Photod Purnell for Owner & for Punch. Sent to Nash's 3 or 4 times much put out. Man came at 3.10. Got photo in the sun. Developed it & got to work after. In afternoon after tea worked till dinner time. Put children in as background, locomotive & ships, houses etc. Dined at 8.0. Very tired. Bed 10.30. Wrote Mr D'Oyley Carte.

Gruel at night & mustard leaf on my chest. (Red ink across page: William Agnew called. Talked & settled Coal cut.) (Cutting glued in: Death of Henry Savill Clarke. Daughter died Jany 29th 1894.)

Friday October 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Foot still poulticed etc. Breakfast. Got to work as soon as I had printed photos. Orton called & interrupted me in morning said poulticing must cease. Wrote a prescription for oil & carbolic acid. Went on with work. Spencer called at about 7.0pm as I was shading head after poor Charles Hutton. Dinner 8.0pm. Shaded 2 figures. Did not work after dinner. Bed 10.30pm. Had oil rag on. Lovely day all day. Maud had a cold come on. Gruel at night. This day had frightful cold on chest all day.

(Red ink: Did very good cut on Coal Strike.)

Saturday October 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Bath. Foot better but still so so. Oil lotion on it.

After at 9.30am got to work & finished by 12.30pm drawing of Miner & Coal Owner. Rather a rush. Sent it off. Put photos away & tidied up etc. Lunch.

Wire from Vaus & C & F.C.B about drawing. Went on all afternoon putting things away. Kerrie howled at music. Maud a cold. Got to work 5.0 on Almanack. M reading. At 5.30 Milliken called & stayed till 7.0 having tea & smoking one cigar. Squared up prints. Dinner at 7.45pm. Read papers & magazine after. Rubbish story of Mystery of the Red Fox. After at 10.30 bed.

M said foot offensive. Dressed foot & to bed. (Red ink: Milliken called in afternoon.)

Sunday October 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Shave. Lovely morning. Foot still hurt me.

After breakfast read for ¼ hour. Then skemed 4 Almanack subjects. At 11.0 Purnell round. Photod him in travelling ulster etc. Stace at 11.30. Took two positions & another of Purnell. At 12.30 went out for the 1 st time since Sep 28 in bath chair. M walking with Kerrie tied to a string. Lovely beautiful sunny morning. Met Mrs Parish. On to end of Row & round by memorial after. Kerrie followed very well. Lunch 1.30. Orton in at 2.0. Looked at foot. After in room after developing photos. Vernon & Lady M called 3.30. Spencer & Will Oakes,

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Mrs Parish & Miss Drummond Hay & child. After Mr Rowlinson who had been north near Tressady. Wrote letters. Sent cheque to Hodgman etc. Wrote F.C.B. Mite practising. Mite had a very bad cold. M sent for diaphoretic for her. Mite came down to dinner after all, bed 9.30. Made wire profiles of Roy & self. Bed at 10.30. M knocking. (Red ink across page: Foot bad. Went out in bath chair, M walking with Kerrie.)

Monday October 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Mite in bed with bad cold all over. Colder & duller. In morning wrote letters. After took me till noon to print phos taken yesterday. Lighted stove. Put in figure running along for advertisements in morning. In afternoon rested. Found a lot more photos of Sketch, Gentlewoman etc in nursery. Tore sheets out. Sent Fox prints after. Steady 4 hours work to dinner time. Put Alderman in etc. Dinner 8.0. Purnell forgot to fetch Kerrie. M knocked at 10.30. Bed. Mite in bed all day. (Red ink: Mite in bed with cold all day.)

Tuesday October 10 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning after heavy rain in the night. Had foot dressed. Mite still in bed. After breakfast developed 12 plates taken March 8. All right bar one. At 11.15 Orton called. Foot getting on all right. At 12 got to work on drawing. Skemed Brittania. Lunch 1.30. Mite down. At 2.0pm went for drive with mare 1st time since coming home. Round Park, back 2.50. M & dressmakers. Washed foot & burnt lint. After worked till 8.0pm. Mite down & dined quietly all together after.

Wednesday October 11 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine in morning but rain about noon & continued pouring wet all day. M seedy in bed. Got on with Almanack drawing. Put in haymakers etc. Re-drew figure of Penny in Slot. Worked till lunch & after decided to go to Punch dinner. At 6.15 M drove me up with mare. Pouring rain. There 6.55. Up in room. Agnew complimentary about cut & also Maud.

Dinner. Tenniel 20 minutes late. Drank whisky & potash. Full dinner. W.A, E.I.M (late) Bernard P, E.T.R, Lucy, Guthrie, F.C.B, Sir J.T. self, Arthur à B, Lehmann & Hy F. Long discussion. Felt seedy. Left at 10.45 & home in good hansom at 11.15. Read paper & bed. Pouring with rain. Agnew left to play piquet. (Red ink: Very wet all day. Went to Punch dinner with foot bad.)

Thursday October 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. After at 9.30 photod Maud for Britannia. Forgot to down top light. Spoilt all. At 11.0 Orton came. Looked at foot, said put stinking powder on. After did Maud over again. Not very successful. Lunch. Disappointed about carriage. Smoke & rest after lunch.

Got to work at 3.0pm. Put in Britannia. Lady M & Miss Rosalind called at 5.0.

Tam Tam Baby & doll that shuts its eyes. Worked till 8.0. Lady M sent for Maud at 6.30 to go to dine & the play. Mite saw Gilbert & Sullivan's new opera. Stayed up for her after dinner. Missed her coming in. Went to bed 1.0am. Foot not dressed. Maud home about 11.50. Never heard her. (Red ink: Lady Margaret & Tam Tam called.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Friday October 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Bath. Talk to Mite about last night's play. Bother with powder for foot. Smell. Up in room. Bright sun.

Hippopotamus or rhinoceros subject came at 9.50am. Worked all day at it.

Maud Paxton came in the afternoon. Dined quietly at 8.0pm. Quiet evening & bed after 10.30pm. (Red ink: Maud Paxton arrived with her box & stayed a fortnight.)

Saturday October 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Worked in morning on drawing Lion & Hippo.

Finished at 11.0, sent it off. Put all things away & after lunch developed some photos. Did a little work on Almanack. At 6.0pm dined. At 7.0 started for Drury Lane Theatre. Mite & self in cab, Maud P & M in carriage. Very wet. Saw play of Life of Pleasure. Wm Stone in box. Had large stage box. Long weary play.

Battle good. Out at 11.15 & on to Stone's rooms in the Albany. Supper.

Oysters & Champagne. Pet cat Tommy. Left at 12.15. Home in a 4 wheeler.

M's tooth & neuralgia bad. (Red ink: Went to Drury Lane & saw a 'Life of Pleasure'. Stone with us. Supper at the Albany after. Foot still in slipper. Hurt in box.)

Sunday October 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Breakfast. 1 hour's work etc. After decided to ride. Did so on mare at 12.0. Walked to Fulham. Met Col Grant. On to Putney & round past Barnes Common home. Home at 1.45. Lunch. Orton in after & looked at foot. Got very hot. Worked in afternoon hard on Almanack, put in borders of Briar Rose. Molesworth called. Quiet dinner & bed 11.0pm. Very warm. Felt seedy in morning from last night. (Red ink: 1st ride on mare after foot being bad & her coming up from grass.)

Monday October 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wrote letters. At 11.0 rode mare in Park 1 st time.

Dull morning. Very warm. Put brown suit on. Met Stone & Miss Steincopff & after Finlay & son. Home by 12.15 & got on with work. Worked all afternoon & up to 8.0pm. Dined quietly at home. Bed 12.0. At 10.0 Mite, Maud P & self went in carriage to Mrs Louise Jopling's at home. Very slow. Hung about till 11.30. Saw Mr Smale & Cockerell etc. Mite disappointed. Home by carriage at 11.25pm. No corkscrew for Apollinaris on getting back. Annoyed. Death of C.B.Birch ARA, 5.0pm. (Red ink across page: Very slow at home, Mrs Jopling.)

Tuesday October 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull wet day. Worked all day on Almanack 2 blocks. Began shading in afternoon at 4.0. After at 8.0 Orton came in & dined with us. Stayed till 1130pm. Bottle of Saumur at dinner. Talk of fishing etc.

Orton did not look at foot. Mr Hood called on the 2 Mauds. (Cutting glued in, obituary of Charles Birch, ARA.) Times Wedy 18th. Poor Birch only left £277.

Wednesday October 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. fine day. In morning did not ride. Got on all day hard with Almanack page. Shaded small subjects. Lunch. M went to dentist's.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 After worked till 6.30. Dressed & had very good hansom to Punch dinner, 3/s.

F.C.B, A.G, H.W.L, E.T.R, B.P, E.I.M, Phil A, Hy F, A à B, self, & Sir J.T there. Long discussion after. Got cut for self of Scotchman & Gov't. Drove back in same cab with Reed. Home at 11.30pm. Slightly foggy. Foot still being dressed. Cheque for £590 sent from Fine Art Socy.

Thursday October 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Fine morning. Bright sun. After in morning worked till 1.0 on Almanack. Put in shading of 2 ¾ pr cent & Punch.

Background to slum etc. Lunch. After at 3.0 began cut of Highlanders Piping etc. Got on with it till 7.15 when dressed & went to dine at Col Welby's, Queen Anne's Gate. Fascinating elderly woman there. Mrs Lin Linton & Alfred Gilbert. Good quiet dinner. Talk after. Left at 11.0. Carriage both ways. Mite, Maud Paxton & Mademoiselle Jackenot went to Daley's Theatre. All home by 11.30. Bed. M got fish bone in her throat. (Red ink: Good dinner at Col Welby's. Foot in slipper. Met Gilbert RA & Miss McKenzie.)

Friday October 20 st Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Wedding day. Forgot it at 1 . Breakfast.

Jackenot there. Wrote diary & letters after. Instructed Lowndes to buy £600 worth of London & County Bank shares. Mite & Maud P went out for drawing to Blanche Cole. Got to work at 10.45 only. Worked hard all day & up to 8.0pm. Dinner. Began to shade at 6.30pm. Worked after dinner from 9.0pm to 1.0am. Very tired. (Red ink: Wedding day 19 years ago.)

Saturday October 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Breakfast. Wrote F.C.B, Beerbohm Tree & Daly.

Worked from 9.15 to 12.0 (noon) on drawing. Sent it off. Shading took 7 & ¾ hrs. At 12.30 rode mare in Park. Very muggy & warm. Met Finlay & one son.

Saw Mr & Mrs De la Rue & rode back with old Wyndham. Lunch. Mite & Maud Paxton had gone to Surbiton to see Mr Hook. Rested & slept for 1½ hrs after lunch in bedroom, being very tired. Tea 5.0pm. Refreshed & at Almanack again. Had wire from Tree to say house was full. Worked till 8.0pm.

Shaded Britannia. So so. Don't like lines on face. Maud P playing after. Read Lives of the Caesars. Bed at 11.0pm sharp. Pushed tooth out, quite sound.

(Red ink: Lost a sound tooth. Came out whole.)

Sunday October 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Pouring wet morning. Nevertheless at 10.30 rode mare in wet to Wimbledon. Through Richmond Park & home by 12.30.

Never went better. Man & lady cantering in Park. Never could pass one along the road after. Mite & Maud P at church. Had bath & changed things. Wrote diary. Lunch 1.30, after rested in chair & snoozed till 4.0pm. Young Messel called & also young Dyce. Talk of dogs. Wrote letters & sent cheque for Life Assurance. After got to work at 6.0pm till 7.45. Shaded Britannia's face.

Dined. Rest after. M came down after keys in dressing gown. (Red ink: Lovely ride on mare to Wimbledon & Richmond. Wet but nice ride.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Monday October 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Venolin on foot. Colder. Got to work at 9.30 on shading drawings for Almanack. Maud P with bad face. M out to see her mother. Worked till 1.35. Lunch. After got on & worked all afternoon up to dinner time. Put in tennis girl. Worked till 8.30pm. Took out head of Britannia & put it in again. Got it better than at first. Dined 8.30 & at 9.15 worked another 2 hours on it. Bed 11.30pm.

Tuesday October 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. At 9.0 got to work & printed lettering on 2 pages for Almanack. Sent them off exactly at 11.30am. At 11.45 rode mare in park.

Saw Stone, Finlay & old Wyndham. Old W told story of Le Clerk the dancing master, 'Tam Tam'. Home 1.30pm. After lunch people came to look at house.

Did aquarium. At 3.30 got to work on Calendar. Col Welby & Miss Muir Mackenzie called, also Mrs Finlay & Mrs Paxton looking ill. Worked till 7.30.

Wrote letters till 8.0pm. Conrad dined with us. Bottle Saumur. Stayed till 12.0.

Bad lamps. Bed at 12.30am. Something disagreed with me. Slight colley wobbles & indigestion. Fine warm lovely weather. Darling wrote about editor wanting to know about Almanack. (Red ink: Very warm weather.)

Wednesday October 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bath. Dressed foot. Undecided as to letting house. M went off to Mr Bartlett at 10.0. Maud to drawing. Dull morning.

Thermometer 66 with window open. Got on all day with Calendar. Lunch.

Worked, found could not finish & rather bothered with head of Punch. Newton called at tea time. Came up & saw me. Left 6.0pm. Went on to work & on up to 7.0pm. Dressed & on in cab to Bouverie St. Got there 7.30. Lawrence B, E.I.M, B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G, F.C.B, J.T, self, R.L, & Hy F there. Easy cuts.

Shadow of Africa for J.T. & 'When the cat's away' for self. Furniss pitching into Shepherd's work. Hass! Left at 10.45. Took wrong gloves. Home by 11.20. Heavy rain. Squelch of rain by Kensington Gore. M & girls went to Court Theatre. Not back when I got home. Arrived 5 minutes after in heavy rain. Difficulty in getting carriage. Bed at 12.0. M very tired.

Thursday October 26 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Most lovely day. At 10.0 skemed Cat drawing & at 10.45 photod Purnell in 5 positions, self in one. Developed them & out at 12.0. Rode Cob for 1st time since coming up. Good ride in Row. Met Mite, Maud P & young Paxton & Kerrie. After Finlay & Beerbohm Tree. Rode round

by Marble Arch. Cob very quiet. Home to lunch 1.15. Printed phos taken this morning. Lunch off Store mutton. Bathed prints. Wrote diary. M resting.

Chesterton's man called about letting the house. Refused for season '94.

Rested till 5.0pm & then finished Calendar by 8.15pm. Dined quietly. Troubled by indigestion etc. Worked for ½ an hour after dinner when went to bed 11.0pm. (Red ink: Finished calendar for 1894.)

Friday October 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. At 9.30 rode Cob in park. Met Lockwood. Back 10.30. Purnell sent with straw to Blanche Cole's studio. At 10.40 went & photod Leech's old house being pulled down. Back. Put photos

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 away. Got to work on Cat o' Nine tails cut at 12.0. Mite & Maud P out. Lunch 1.30. Letter from Miss Muir Mackenzie about Brabazon. Maud Paxton left in the aftenoon. Never said goodbye. Worked till 8.0pm. Dined, M, Maud & self together. Squared up page after & sent it to Brightmans. Quiet read of Century Magazine afterwards. Bed 11.30pm. Tired. (Red ink: Maud Paxton left for Walmer.) Dance at the Arthur Lewis's. Mite not asked much to her chagrin.

Saturday October 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After breakfast went on & finished drawing of Cat o' Nine Tails by 11.30. At 12.0 rode Cob in Park. Saw Stone, Findlay & son & old W. Home at 1.30. At 2.30 went in carriage to Lyric & saw Little Christopher Columbus. Pretty girl with contralto voice & E.J.Lonnen good. Out 5.0pm & put M & Maud in carriage at Jermyn St. Bought sausages. Walked on to Turkish bath in Northumberland Avenue. Got razor left there on Wedy Sep 2nd. Fair bath. Eyes hurt. Hair cut. Out 6.55. Home by omnibus by 7.50.

Quiet dinner & evening at home after. Read Century about the voyage of Napoleon to St Helena. M came down at 11.0. Bed. Slept well. Put shoe on to st ride & boot to walk for first time. (Red ink: Shoe on foot for 1 time to ride.

Went with M & Mite to see Little Christopher Columbus. Turkish bath after.)

Sunday October 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Lovely morning. Dressed in Court suit.

Sausages. After breakfast at 10.30 Purnell took 6 photos of self. Developed them. A 12.10 went for ride on tricycle down Hammersmith Road & up Roehampton Lane, Putney Hill. Knocked a little girl down in Fulham Rd. Police took name. Gave 2/s & 1/3 to labourer. Fellow bicyclist said he would drop me a post card. Home 1.30. Lunch. Printed photos. Changed. Wrote diary. M & Maud went into Park at noon. Developed plates till 4.0pm. Rested after. Bergheim & wife called at 5.0pm. Stayed 1 hour. Talk of Reginald Money Wigram. Left 6.0. Read. Squared up prints. Dined quietly at 7.30.

Bottle of '74 Ivory. M buzzy. Bed at 11.0. (Red ink: Rode on tricycle. Knocked a child down at Fulham.)

Monday October 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Lovely bright morning. Colder. From 9.30 to 11.0 printed phos of children & for cut. At 11.30 rode in Park on Cob. Met Stone, Finlay & old W etc. Up & down. Left at 12.50. Back 1.15. Lunch.

Bathed prints after & at 4.0 got to work on page Punch & children. Wrote orders for coal & peat fuel in morning & also for training creeper. Man called, father of little girl run over yesterday. Gave him 2/6 at 2.0pm. Worked till 7.40 when dined. M & Maud out in carriage for 3¼ hours. Tea at Colonel Welby's.

After dinner guess game, Robinson Crusoe & Livingstone. Bed 11.0.

Disappointed with cut lines out of cut in Punch. Sent cheque to Vinten & Son for breakages.

Tuesday October 31 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Bright sunny morning. Letters from Roy & Mr Ainger. Roy bad, got into scrape & been hauled up at Police Court. Very vexed. At 10.0 wrote letters till 10.30. Rode Cob in Park & met Stone, also

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Mrs Heilbut & Mrs Tate. Cold & bright, 1st frost this morning. Back home at 12.15. Did work till 1.0 lunch. After at 3.0 M went out in carriage. Ruth Messel & sister called & stayed with Mite all afternoon. M back at 5.30. Coals in from Stores. Worked till 7.45. Dined quietly at home. Fire in dining room bright & cosy. M read Nero in afternoon. Bed at 11.0. Very cold at night. (Red ink: News of Roy's disgrace of throwing stones last Sunday week. Letter from Mr Ainger.)

Wednesday November 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Cold duller morning. Did not ride. Worked all morning at page for Almanack. M out in carriage at 11.0. Mite walked to meet Ruth Messel & her brother. Parcel from Vaus & Crampton. Annoyed at reproduction of work. Lunch 1.30. German maid with M. Wrote letters & after worked till 5.0pm. Mr Brabazon called & Lilian Laver also. At 5.30pm started to walk to Punch dinner. Called club. No letters. Walked all way. Good Punch dinner. Phil Agnew, E.I.M (late) B.P, E.T.R, H.W.L, A.G. F.C.B, J.T, self, A à B, R.L & Hy F there. Cut settled at once, France & Russia. Got Dr Dulcamara cut for self. Left at 11.15 with Sir J.T. Wrote bogus latin on card. Words with Lehmann. Dull night. Letter from Mr Ainger, Roy, & Schomberg McDonnell about Ayala. Read after 'Defeat of the Matabele'. Bed at 1.0am. (Red ink: Walked to Punch dinner, 1st time since foot bad.)

Thursday November 2 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dark wet morning. Breakfast. Wrote Ayala & Schomberg McDonnell. Got to work at 11.0am. Did not ride. Drizzle rain all morning. At 1.30 photod medicine liqueur case & at 2.0 in drizzle Purnell & self for Dr Dulcamara cut. After developed them & dried by stove. Could not get prints. At 4.48 Mite & M drove to Victoria. Mite to go down to dance with Mrs Torrens. Worked on Dulcamara cut. M back at 6.0. Bill for coals came in £3.13.0 per 2 tons. Could not find papers before dinner. Dined 8.0. Wrote letters from 9.15 to 10.15. After read mag & Budget & bed 11.45. 1st tried peat fuel.

Friday November 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Drowsy. Barkers bill rendered, all Mite's ribbons etc etc. Rode Cob at 9.45 in Park. Dull wretched morning. Met Speed. Baby poisoned. Also Delarue. Rode home by Imperial Institute by 10.45. Work at 11.0. M out with Kerrie. Thermometer 62° with no fires & window open.

Worked all day on drawing of Dr Dulcamara up to 8.0pm. Kerrie set on with fox terrier. Too great a coward to defend himself. Mite back at 6.0pm. M had been to fetch her in carriage at 4.0. Returned 5.0pm. Mite had not enjoyed her stay & dance. Stingy people. Quiet dinner by selves. Mite tired & went to bed early, M & self at 11.0.

Saturday November 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.0am. Got to work 7.35 & worked till 8.40 on drawing Dr Dulcamara. Breakfast after till 11.15. Sent it off. Put photos away & after walked to bottom of road & took buss to top of Piccadilly. Heavy rain. On to Club. Saw McLean. Sir R Romer & Arthur Blunt. Had minced chicken for lunch. Wrote 4 or 5 letters, Roy etc. Out at 2.15pm & walked to Comedy

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Theatre. Waited & met M & Maud in carriage. Had good box for 'Sowing the Wind'. Good play. Brandon Thomas, Cyril Maude & Miss Winifred Emery very good. M cried. Comyns Carr came into box. Out 5.5pm. Bought sausages.

Missed carriage at top of Jermyn St. Got it after & home by 6.0pm. Tea. Worked for 1½ hours. Dined quietly at home & quiet peaceful evening after.

(Red ink: M, Mite & self saw 'Sowing the Wind'. Good box. M cried.)

Sunday November 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 9.0am. Dullish half rainy morning & cold. At 10.20am got on Cob & rode via Campden Hill (Gave old Xing sweeper 6d.) to Lloyd Sq. Got off Wharton St, on tho' Claremont St & Angel. Along by Duncan St, High St Islington to Highbury. Saw same hatters shop Shipway & Loomes etc.

Huge advertising shop keeper. Turned into the Liverpool Road from Holloway Rd, Upper Park St & thro' Barnsbury. Down thro' the maze of Rly stations & down thro' Portland Place. Home 1.30 exactly. Lunch. Changed. Dyed leggings mahogany brown. In room, not a soul called. Tea & worked on Almanack from 4.0 to 7.45. Dinner. Bottle of No16 Burgundy, not very good.

After dinner acute toothache came on with M, had to go to bed early. I slept in chair till 11.30 when put out fire & went to bed. (Red ink: Rode to north of London, Lloyd Sq & Highbury.)

Monday November 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine cold morning. Worked till 11.15. Wrote Corben, Ayala & Agnew (Phil). After at 45 past 11 rode Cob in Park. Met old Wyndham, Finlay & George Alexander. After Sir David Cooper & Admiral Willis. Home 1.30. Lunch. Read paper. Lady after Annie's character. Man from Stores came & tapping at wall doing creepers. Got to work after on last Almanack page, Punch's Party. Put in figures, Punch etc. Dinner 8.0pm.

Tuesday November 7 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. After breakfast got to work & went on last page for Almanack. Punch's Fancy Dress ball. Put in last figures & began to shade at 4.0pm. Dined 8.0pm. After sat with M in my end of room by stove. 2 mice came out round by stove, quite perky. Bed 11.30pm. Letter came by last post acknowledging cheque from Corben. Went out for ride on Cob at 11.45 being lovely morning. Met Mite walking with Annie & Ruth Messel.

Wednesday November 8 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am & after breakfast got to work on last Almanack drawing. Shaded it all day. Coud not finish it at 4.0pm when V & C's man called. Finished at 6.45pm. Changed & left in cab for Punch dinner. Fair cab & after block in Piccadilly got to Punch dinner at 7.30pm. Good dinner. F.C.B, A.G, E.T.R, B.P, E.I.M (late) William Agnew, Hy F, Arthur à B, self, & Sir J.T. Agnew suggested cut of Cobden. Furniss imitated him after. Got no cut for myself. Left 11.15 in Sir J.T's cab & home by 12.0. (Red ink: Finished the Almanack for 1894 at 6.30pm.)

Thursday November 9 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Cold but fine. No subject. Put things away from cut yesterday in morning. Dressed & at 11.45 started with Mite in carriage for

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Bouverie St. Had police passes. Got to Fleet St 12. 30. Drove to Salisbury Sq 1 hr & a ¼ too soon. At 2.45 procession passed. Poor. Very cold. Model Tower Bridge & Caxton printing. Mrs à Beckett with dyed hair. Mr & Mrs Lucy, Mr & Mrs à B & friend, Millken, self, Lawrence B, Phil & Wm Agnew there.

Noakes & Maxwell. Nice American lady. Lunch after. Left 3.0. Got cab in side street & home by Bayswater (past D.M's house.) Home 4.0. Tea & slept 2 hours. Dressed 6.30 & left 7.30 to walk up to 1 Seamore Place. Met Bernard Partridge outside. Dined with Alfred de Rothschild. Alfred de R, D.M, Wilson, E.T.R, Hy F, Dr Sir W.H. Russell, Leopold de R, Mr Henry Chaplin, Lucy, self, Arthur à B, Lord Battersea, F.C.B, Duke of Fife, Sir Rivers Wilson, Sir Horace Farquhar, Lawrence B, Guthrie, Lord Royston, B.P, P.A, E.I.M, William Agnew, Sir John Tenniel. Lord Hardwicke came in after & many others.

Doetch, Bancroft, Alexander, Tree etc etc. Miss Yoké sang three or 4 songs after. All after her. Smoke & talk after. Mr Chaplin asked me to dinner next Monday. Left 1.15. Home by cab. Took some bi-carbonate of potash. (Red ink across page: Lunch at Bouverie St for Lord Mayor's Show. Dined with Alfred de Rothschild.)

Friday November 10 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Felt pretty well. Got to work after writing letters on drawing of Rhodes & Lord Ripon. Took no photographs. Worked all day. M & Mite went out in carriage. Did not ride. Dined 8.0pm & worked 2 hours afterwards. Mouse came & looked at me whilst at work at 11.0am. Read after work & went to bed at 12.30am.

Saturday November 11 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.45. Bath. Breakfast. M in bed. After at 9.30 got to work on drawing of Rhodes as Lion King. Finished at 12.30. Put photos away & dressed. Lunch 1.30. Roy back from school in cab at 1.30. Left 2.0 for Drury Lane. Got there at 2.30, just when scene on the Thames on in Life of Pleasure. Cold in stalls. Got changed for box for battle scene. Left 5.15. Cup of tea & cocoa in the Garrick Club. Saw Bancroft & Jones. After walked to Jermyn St. Sausages. On to Piccadilly & cab home. Dressed. 1 st book home from Mudies. Dined at 7.0pm & after at 7.50pm M & Maud went in carriage to Haymarket Theatre, Roy & self in cab. Splendid box & Guthrie in it also. Saw 'The Templer'. So so. Beautifully put on stage. Gilbert in stalls, also Mr Goodall & Rica. Whiskey & soda & cigarette in room behind box. Left at 11.15. Saw Mrs Ward & daughter. Home by 12.0. Room cold. Bed 12.15pm.

(Red ink: Emily Copers took herself off.) (Red ink across page: Roy back from Eton. Went to Life of Pleasure in afternoon & to The Templer in the evening.)

Sunday November 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 9.0am. Tired. Lovely bright sun lasted the whole day.

Breakfast. Roy sausages. At 10.30 Roy & self rode along Earl's Court up to Wimbledon. Picked holly. On & had ginger beer at Robin Hood. Nearly round Richmond Park. Met Captain Abney. Roy got off twice. Home by 10.30.

Changed. Lunch. Mite at her grandmother's. Rested after. Tired & cold. Roy fetched Maud. At 4.45 Miss Rose Innes called. Stayed till 6.50. Roy lolling about. Dined 7.30. 1st night of new maid with more than a score of years character. Slept & rested after. Roy drank all my lemon. Snooze till 11.30

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 after when to bed after reading book on Pyramids. (Red ink: Most lovely day.

Roy & self rode to Wimbledon Common & Richmond Park. Miss Rose Innes called.)

Monday November 13 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning but cold. Roy did not put vest on.

Sent him up. Roy left at 9.40 in hansom, gave him £1.0.0. Went up & squared prints etc. After at 11.45 rode Cob. Passed battalion of Grenadier Guards.

Finlay met me at Princes Gate. Up Row. Met Alexander, Barclay etc. Rode with Stone. Stone's horse reared with him. Home at 1.20. Changed. Lunch.

Mite at her grandmother's. Developed 12 plates taken Hall Barn June 4th.

Cold. After sorted desk of letters & papers. At 5.0 Fanny Barker & Alice called. Talk till 5.30. M & Mite back 5.45. Wrote diary. Dined quietly with M & Mite 7.30. Rest after by fire. Very cold. Read Petrie's book on the Pyramids.

Very interesting. Slight sore throat came on I believe from going into Photo Hut. Rested 11.30, when to bed. Wrote Store orders for lemon squeezer & mousetrap etc etc. (Red ink: Cold came on, only interval of 6 weeks. Lovely day. Bright sun.)

Tuesday November 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. 1st yellow fog of the season. Bad. Cold on throat & chest. Candles to breakfast. Sat by fire & after marked all silk shirts & linen ones etc. Purnell said mare was slightly lame from Sunday. Squared prints & after at 12.30 dressed to go to Guthrie's lunch. Wrote Black & White & Pall Mall Budget. M, Mite & self walked in wretchedly foggy & wet weather as far as Albert Hall Mansions at 1.0. After I walked across the Park diagonally to South Audley St & on to Guthrie's lunch. Met Mr Pym & Bernard Partridge.

Good talk. Poor lunch. Left at 4.45 after smoke. Called at Peals. Saw Scone.

Walked home in fog. Chest hurt me. Home 6.10pm. No M or Mite. Changed & sat & read Petrie's book on the digging in Egypt. Very interesting. Dined 7.30.

After to bed at 10.45, M playing all evening. Had gruel & mustard leaf. Cold very troublesome & painful. Cold very bad on chest. (Red ink: Awful day. 1st fog of season.) (Red ink across page: Walked to Guthrie's lunch & back.)

Wednesday November 15 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Dull wretched morning. Cold on chest bad but better for poultice etc. After breakfast M went to Stores. Wrote many letters, diary etc etc. Did not ride. Lunch. M at home. Molesworh & Miss Clarke & Mrs Medley & Mrs Boughton called. Left at 4.0 to walk to Club. Did so. Cup of tea at 5.0pm. Read Edinburgh Review, Marie Corelli's book etc. Left at 5.30 on to Punch dinner, 7.5. W.Agnew, F.C.B, Reed, B.P, Guthrie & Sir J.T, self, Arthur à B & Hy F there. Long discussion afterwards. Guthrie obstructive. Told story of Roy. At 11.0 saw sparks falling & looked out. Immense fire. Turned out to be in Newgate. Masses of fire falling in Bouverie St. Arthur à B & Furniss went. Came home with Sir J.T. Put down at Isthmian. Cold came on in head very bad. Gruel & bed at once. (Red ink: Cold very bad on chest. Got into head coming home.) (Red ink across page: Great fire opposite Newgate, Crown's Perfumery Compy.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Thursday November 16 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. M not good. New cold in head very bad. Bunged up with cold. Down. Doubts as to riding. Skemed cut of Chamberlain as Clown. Decided to ride. Photod Purnell at 12.0. Kerrie lost. Rode 12.30 to 1.30pm. Saw Stone. Met Mite. Back 1.30. Rested after lunch. Set mouse trap.

M out & back at 5.0. Got to work. At 6.0 a mouse caught. M gave it to the cat.

Worked from 5.0 to 7.30. Dressed & left 8.10pm for the Amphitryon Club.

Dined with Mr Henry Chaplin. Very good dinner. Splendid wine, Lafite '64, Brandy 1793. Stayed till 12.30pm when home. Arthur Balfour left at 10.0 for the House. My cold most troublesome. Simply bunged up. Felt better after.

Straight up to bed at 1.15. Letter from Oswald Crawfurd. (Sketch of table seating.) Sambourne, Curzon MP, Dr W.H.Russell, Hy Lucy, Henry Chaplin, Senator(?), Arthur Balfour MP, Lord Royston, Hy Furniss. (Red ink: Cold awful at night. Bunged up.) (Red ink across page: Mr Chaplin's dinner at the Amphitryon.)

Friday November 17 Stafford Terrace. Up latish 8.30. No headache. Cold better. Lovely fine morning. Warm. Wrote letters & diary. Purnell round 11.0. Decided to ride at 12.0. Did ride. Most lovely warm west wind & sun. Met Stone & old W riding down. After M, Mite & Kerrie. Ride with Alexander after. Left 1.30 & home 1.45. Lunch. After bathed prints & rested. At 4.0 went on to work on Chamberlain as Clown & worked till 8.0pm. M read to me. Dined. Up at 9.0 & worked till 11.0pm when M came down & went to bed. (Red ink: Most lovely bright warm day, quite hot. West wind. Rode from 12.0 to 1.30pm. Major (blank) killed in the Park near Marble Arch.)

Saturday November 18 Stafford Terrace. Up at 7.50am. Down punctually at 8.30. Breakfast. News of end of coal strike. At 9.30 got to work on Chamberlain as Clown. Finished at 12.30. Did not ride. Very wet. Put things away. Dressed at 1.0. Lunch 1.30pm.

Carriage at 2.0. M, Mite & self drove to Criterion Theatre & saw St John in Madame Favort. Very good. Curious girl Miss Jefferies with long thumbs.

Great gale came on. Cold & snow. Back home at 5.45. Tea. Wrote 6 or 7 letters & diary. Annie Tallant leaves tonight. New maid Alice Turner comes.

Quiet dinner, 3 of them waited. After read Pyramid book by Proctor & so to bed at 10.30pm & glad to get there. (Red ink: Great gale & snow fom the north. Bitterly cold & piercing. Many wrecks around coast.) (Red ink across page: Went to Madame Favort.)

Sunday November 19 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Down. Very bitterly cold. Snow on roofs & dreadfully sloppy pavement. Coud not ride. At 12.0. went for walk with M & Mite. Left Mite at Albert Memorial to X road to her grandmother's. Back.

Lunch & rested & read Pyramid book. Mite back at 3.0. No one called. At 5.0 got to work & legened all Claude Watney's drawings. Dressed at 7.10 & left 7.40 in cab, pouring with rain, for Lockwood's dinner at Brooks's. Sat between Alexander & Willie Matthews. 12 minutes late. Parkinson's story about Harness's belt. Up in room. Curious bats in book. One about Atlantic cable.

Left at 12.30 & home by cab. (Red ink: Frank Lockwood's dinner.) (Sketch of

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 table seating) A.W Pinero, C Matthews, Linley Sambourne, George Alexander, H Beerbohm Tree, Joe Hare, Frank Lockwood QC, MP, Sir Douglas Straight, Harry Furniss, Joe Parkinson, S.B.Bancroft, A.W.Pinero.

(Red ink across page: Lockwood's dinner at the Reform Club.)

Monday November 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0. Awfully cold north wind. Put things in order etc in room & decided to ride at 12.0. Did so & nearly chilled. Met Mr Peter Reed at the other side of Park with another. Cob very fresh. Home 1.15 & after lunch sat round stove. Wrote letters etc. After early dinner 6.45, M, Mite & self went in cab to Daly's Theatre. Purnell did not know the way as usual. Arived 8.5pm.

Saw Tenniel & Stone in hall of theatre. Good box with gas stove in it. Saw School for Scandal. Very bad. Sir Oliver & Jew also Rowley. Adah Rehan not good, Farrow A1, Bouchier so so. Left at 11.15 & to Stone's rooms to supper.

Oysters & pheasant. Champagne. Tommy the cat etc. Left after cigar at 12.40am. Home by 4 wheeler at 1.15am. Mite tired. (Cutting glued in: Death of Cornelia Furniss. Times Nov 22.) (Red ink across page: Went to Daly's Theatre. School for Scandal. Supper at Stone's rooms after.)

Tuesday November 21 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Fine morning. Not quite so cold. Tidied up generally. Cleared drawers with drawings out. At 11.30 rode Cob on the Row. Met Stone. Introduced to Cyril Maude. Saw M, Mite & Kerrie. Back 1.20.

Purnell at end of mews. After lunch rested & snooze. Bad attack of P after T. Sorted drawings etc. Squared up the Hans Andersen drawings. After at 7.10 dressed. Sent cheques to Knightley & Kennedy. Left at 7.40 for Lucy's dinner.

Purnell as usual did not know the way. Arrived. Pleasant dinner 12. Sat next Mrs Harry Lawson. Left 11.0. Lucy upset wine. Bought picture home. (Red ink: Henry W Lucy's dinner.) (Sketch of table seating.) Mr Harry Lawson, Mrs Linley Sambourne, Sir Donald Currie, Mr H.W.Lucy, Lady Fanny Marjoribanks, Sir James Robinson, L.S, Mrs Harry Lawson, Mr Jackson MP, Mrs H.W.Lucy, Sir Douglas Straight.

Wednesday November 22 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.15am. Down. Strong cold west wind. Sorted drawings in morning. At 11.45 rode Cob in Row. Saw Finlay. Complimented me on my cut of Clown. Bored by Barclay. Home 1.15pm. Effie Harrison there.

Changed. Lunch. Wrote letters. Sent cheques to Tatton & also to Davis. Also wrote letters etc. Did no work. At 6.15 went in carriage with M as far as Savoy. Walked into Strand. Changed slippers & on to Punch dinner. Saw pearl necklace at Attenborough's, 36 guineas. Arrived P.D 7.10. Not down yet. Good dinner. W.A a bad cold, Arthur & Lucy at City dinner. W.A, Milliken (9.0pm) B.P, E.T.R, A.G, F.C.B, Sir J.T & self. Poor dinner. Cut made up quickly, A bicycle made for two. Self had Children's cut. Left 11.30 with Sir J.T. Very cold. Cab from Isthmian. Home 12.15. In lower room. Notice of Maud in Westminster Gazette.

Thursday November 23 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Lovely morning. Bright sun. Sent Purnell to Wells. Wrote letters till 10.30 & got to work. M out in Kensington shopping.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Mite to go into Row. Skemed subject of Balfour feeding children. At 11.0 Purnell back. Asked him to get a small child. Photod child at 11.20. Cried bitterly, could not get it to do what I wanted. After took one on Lumiere plate of Purnell for Balfour cut. Developed them. Finished 12.30. Bright sun. Found could not ride. Purnell back 1.0. Complaint of gas. After lunch rested, bathed prints. (Got print by 1.45pm.) Very cold. Rested till 4.15 when worked till 8.0.

Traced photo. M called on Thompsons & also on Suzy à Beckett. Quiet dinner. Rest after by fire. Bed 10.30 & had chest rubbed. Sleep by 11.0.

Cheque for £15.15.0 sent by Mr Pym. Friday November 24 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. Cold dull morning. Letter from Claude Watney to say he was going to India. No shoot this year. Breakfast. Kerrie out of sorts. Got to work on drawing of Arthur Balfour feeding Children with Logic.

Worked all day & up to dinner. Felt hot & cold & feverish towards night.

Worked 2 hours after dinner & at 10.30pm sent for Orton. Came in & said I had taken fresh feverish cold. Orton stayed 1 hour talking. Bed 11.30. Very seedy. Had medicine & hot whiskey. (Red ink: Feverish 2nd cold came on in evening. Sent for Orton.)

Saturday November 25 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Got to work 9.25 on drawing Arthur Balfour & Children. Orton in at 10.0. Hindered me. Worked on & finished 12.30. Very seedy & weak. Did not ride. Fine morning & bright sun. Stayed in all afternoon & rested by fire. Read Pyramids book. M & Mite out in carriage with Effie Harrison, went to see Morocco Bound second edition. Mervyn called at about 4.30. Long time writing & talk. M back on stroke of six. Mite went out at 8.15 in carriage to Hollands at Niddrey Lodge. After rested & went to bed at 9.45pm. Cold very heavy & very bad. Cough toublesome. Effie Harrison went home at 7.30 in cab. Maud back 11.0pm.

Sunday November 26 Stafford Terrace. Up nine am. Sent Purnell with wire. Wet morning. Did not ride. Cold still very bad. Stayed in all day. Read etc in morning. Lunch. Chops etc. After rested in chair. Bret Harte, Miss Rose Innes, Olive Shakespeare & child called at 4.0pm. Stayed till 5.15. After wrote many letters. M & Mite reading. Also wrote diary. Wrote Brightmore. Worry letter from F.C.B on Table in morning. Rainy morning. Heavy wet all day. Sat over fire etc. Lunch. After slept in chair. Dined quietly at 8.0pm. ½ bottle '74 wine, Ivory. After M got seedy, cold came on her chest. Went to bed at 10.0pm & put plasters on etc etc. I went up at 10.30. M had gruel. Cough very troublesome in the night, could not get to sleep. M also seedy. A poor poor couple.

Monday November 27 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Very cold morning & hard frost. Not allowed to go out. M's cold worse. Orton came in at 11.0 & sent M to bed. Lunch. Chop. M in bed. Mite out & about. Wrote letters etc & sorted papers. Wrote putting off dining with Ayala after dinner. Mite & self dined together. After Mervyn came in at 9.15pm. Up in M's room. Mite got red ink from pen on my desk on her sleeve. After M sleeping. Went to bed at 11.0. Mite put lotion on M & self.

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Cough not quite so troublesome but bad enough. (Red ink: M taken ill & went to bed at 12.0 (noon) Subsequently proved bad cold & slight influenza.)

Tuesday November 28 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10am. M still in bed. Breakfast. After wrote letters etc.

At 11.30 went for walk to nearly top of Row with Mite & Kerrie. Saw Stone, Wyndham, Finlay, Maude etc. After met Heathorne & he walked down with us to bottom of Row. Much warmer. Got very hot. Home by 1.30 past Upper Phillimore Gardens. Lunch & after changed things. M in bed. Down for cigar.

Orton came in. Had revolver out. Said M had slight attack of influenza. Mite very useful. Windows cleaned this day. Orton left at 3.50. Wrote letters etc.

Mite went to dine by herself at Mrs Tweedie's. I had dinner by self in dining room.

Wednesday November 29 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am in morning room. M in bed with her attack of influenza. Wrote letters etc. In morning at 11.30 rode Cob. Went top of Row. Saw Alexander & Finlay. Rode on & called on Agnew. Cold wet wind. Round the Park & up again & round by Barracks Lane. M down to lunch in drawing room. Did drawing for Mr Chaplin, water colour of 1793 brandy. Orton round to write prescription. Sent Purnell to Stores to change tooth powder & thermometer etc. Left in carriage at 6.40 for 11 Gt Stanhope St. Cold very bad. Punch dinner at Agnews. (Sketch of table seating.) Lawrence Bradbury, Rudolph Lehmann, Anstey Guthrie, H.W.Lucy, F.C.B, Sir John Tenniel, Linley Sambourne, Arthur à B, Phil Agnew, Hy F, D.M, W.A, E.I.M, E.T.R. Arthur fooling. Perrier Jouet 1874 & one jereboam of Perier Jouet 1865 after. Left after Micawber hand shake with W.A at 12.0. Carriage waiting. Home 12.20.

Cold very bad. (Red ink across page: Dined with William Agnew, 11 Great Stanhope Street.)

Thursday November 30 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am in morning room. Slight head. Cold no worse, hope on the mend. Breakfast. No appetite. Skemed cut of Football. Sent Purnell for football & jersey to Barkers. At 10.45 photod him in jersey etc.

Mervyn round at 11.0 also photod him. Did not develope them. Went for ride at 12.15. Saw Stone etc. Lovely warm bright day. Thermometer outside 59°.

Met Mite & 2 Miss Messels. Cobby gay. Back 1.30. M down to lunch in drawing room. At 2.0 developed plates & using spirits of wine got them dry & a print by 3.30, spoiling 2. After at 4.30 got to work & put in outline of drawing.

Dined at 8.0pm & rest after. Worked ½ an hour & bed at 11.0. Warm close night. Could not make clinical thermometer work properly. (Red ink: Cold still very bad & seedy.)

Friday December 1 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Dull rainy morning. M in bed with her cold. Got to work on drawing of Fowler & a football. Sent letters off. Worked all morning. M down to lunch. Worked all day & up to 8.0pm. Mite out in carriage. Called her grandmother's etc & out with Sylvinia Rose Innes. Dined 8.0pm. M had small bottle of wine. Too tired to work after dinner. Snoozed in

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Saturday December 2 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Went in front room. Down 8.45am. Breakfast.

Very cold. After at 9.20 went on & finished drawing of Fowler at Football & others after him. Finished 11.0. Dressed. At 12.0 Mite & self walked up Row. Cold frosty morning. Met Col Weymss, Stone (who turned & walked up with us) after Miss Steincopff & her mother, Field Marshall Haines, Miss Hollingshead etc. Put Mite in cab with Kerrie & walked with Stone up to Club.

Got there 1.15pm. Lunch 1.40. Beef etc. Saw Routledge, Straight etc. Young Hare looking ill. After wrote 2 letters. Sent acct to Darling & talk with James Greenwood. Left 3.45. Called Camera Club, paid 3/s. Got key of pigeon hole.

On to Turkish bath. Good bath. Hair cut. Out 6.0pm. Nº 5 shampooer.

Carriage waiting. Called sausages & home at 6.30. M & new books. Very cold at 7.15pm. Down to dinner at 7.35. Poor appetite. After upstairs. M's cough troublesome. Slept in chair until 12.0am exactly when to bed in front room, very cold.

Sunday December 3 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30am. Dull & very cold. Down. M in bed. Maud (illeg) after. Put phos away. M cold. At 11.30 dressed & walked with Maud as far as 11 Gt Stanhope St. Agnew in Manchester. Back, met Heathorne, after Stone, in flower walk. Back 1.35 exactly. Lunch. Mutton not so good after all. In chairs round fire. At 3.30 Edgar called. At 3.45 Bret Harte, at 3.50 Miss Rose Innes, at 4.15 Hensman. All stayed to tea. 2 fires in room. Talk. Wrote diary.

Mite about. M's cough very troublesome. Kerrie troublesome, ran at Hensman's legs. Miss Rose Innes stayed to dinner. Sleepy in chair after dinner. M went to bed at 10.30, self 11.45 exactly. Not quite so cold.

Monday December 4 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15. Dull morning. Warmer. M down. Letter from Roy urging returning from school. Sent Purnell off etc. Mite went to drawing class.

Doubts as to M going out. At 11.30 rode in Park. Row very hard. Saw girl like Miss Warre cantering up & down. Captain Fox chaffed S about his at home there yesterday. Rode with him (Stone) & Mrs Oxenham. Home 1.30. In afternoon began Index etc. Long time thinking it out. Dined 8.0pm, M, Mite & self. Quiet evening afterwards & bed early after reading. Letter from Mr Darling taking objection to small extra charge in acct. Mite made out her acct & sent it in, £4.14.0. First money earned. (Cutting glued in: Death of William Speed. Times Tuesday Dec 5th.)

Tuesday December 5 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Lovely day. Fine. Wrote letters etc. Rode in Park at 11.30. Saw Stone, Wyndham etc etc. Home 1.30. After lunch rest & went on with drawing for Index. Girl & Skirt Dance. Worked till 6.0pm. when went up & dressed. Depressed & not very well. Took cab to Berkeley Restaurant & found Ayala sitting alone & waiting for his nephew. Dined. So so dinner, 1878 Ayala. Left 9.30 & went on with them to the Pavilion Music Hall.

Saw Wrestling Lion, Fanny Leslie etc. After Stone came in at 10.0. Sat till

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Wednesday December 6 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Fine morning. Dresed for riding at 10.0 after breakfast & writing, rode Cob in Park till 12.0. Saw Sir Charles Dilke riding etc etc. Met Mrs Oxenham & rode up & down. No Stone. Home & got on with Index drawing. Wrote letters etc. Worked all afternoon and at 6.0 went in carriage as far as Garrick Club. Sylvinia Rose Innes & Mrs Hammond called.

Walked from Club to Punch dinner. Looked at Scribner & saw Arthur Stirling.

Did not feel A1. Got to dinner 7.5. William Agnew, E.I.M (late) B.P, Reed, Lucy, Guthrie, F.C.B, Sir J.T, self, Arthur à B & Furniss there. Arthur very feeble chaff about Football. Furniss held forth in an inane way against Leech, Caldecott, etc etc. F.C.B had passed M's acct. Left feeling not very well & depressed. Home by cab at 11.30. Lady Jeune's reception. Sir J.T & Guthrie went. Gentleman (Mr Duncan) called on me at noon about illustrating a card of Britannia. Agreed for 30 guineas.

Thursday December 7 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Skemed subject before breakfast expecting Stace. Sent Purnell round. Stace to come 10.30. Photod dear Mite in ball dress in bright sun in drawing room at 10.0am. Stace round at 10.45. Photod him. Stace looking ill & seedy. After developed the 4 plates & put them to dry.

Went for ride at 12.0. Met Alexander & rode up & down. Had talk about Sardon etc. Home at 1.15. Coachman opposite took cab. Garrulous & silly.

Home. Printed copies of plates before lunch. After got to work at 2.30pm & worked on till 7.20. when dressed. Subject President Cleveland & Free Trade.

Left at 7.45 in carriage with dear Mite to drive to the Bristol Restaurant. Dined with Sylvinia Rose Innes. Party Jack Robertson & wife, Miss Lehmann who sings, Mite & self, Fritz Jackson, a Chilean & Miss R.I. Left 8.30 & drove with Fritz to Savoy Theatre. Fritz took 1/3 cheerfully. Saw Gilbert & Sullivan opera, Utopia Unlimited (sic). 1st act very slow. Large double box. Saw Mr Duncan in stalls who called on me yesterday, after Harry Livesey. 2nd act better. Drawing room reproduced wonderfully. Difficulty to find carriage on Embankment.

Back. Ladies had gone on to supper at the Savoy Restaurant. Annoyed. Mite enjoyed it. Left at 12.0, drove home. Went straight up to bed.

Friday December 8 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Strong windy morning with rain. Got to work on drawing of President Cleveland asking Free Trade to dance. Purnell in at 1.0 & 2.0. Carriage ordered for 4.0pm. M went out. Worked up to 8.30pm. Not finished. Shaded Cleveland most carefully. Many blots on page. Dined.

Afterwards worked from 10.0pm till 1.30pm when finished. Smoke & bed at 1.45am. M slept in chair till 12.30 when she went to bed. Still blues & feeling of depression. Cold disappearing.

Saturday December 9 Stafford Terrace. Very tired disinclined to get up. Packed bag etc & got off by 9.15am after breakfast, Mite looking after me. Caught 10.15am. Feeling depression & blues still on. Arrived Ropley at 12.30. Cart to meet me. Most

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Arrived at lunch. 5 guns, Captain Irvine, Captain Wynn, Mr Baring, Hamilton F & Higgins. Shot 4 or 5 rabbits, hare & 2 pheasants. Came on to blow & slight rain at 4.0. In to tea. Changed things. Talk after & smoke. To bed at 11.0 & got Colonel Howard Vyse's book on the Pyramids. Sleep at 11.30pm. (Red ink: Went down to shoot at H's Brookwood Park leaving 10am.)

Sunday December 10 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up 9.15. Dressed. Breakfast 9.45. Strong gale of wind & rough. Cold. Talk to Mrs Irvine after. Sat in study & read summing up of Lord Chief Justice Bovill on the Tichbourne case. At 3.30 pm went for walk with Irvine & Hamilton. Back 4.10pm. Read Fox's Monmouth. Dressed 7.15.

Dinner. After Mrs Irvine played & sang Yohés song. Hot whiskey. Bed at 11.15pm. Read Pyramids & sleep. (Red ink: At Hamilton's Brookwood Park.)

Monday December 11 Brookwood Park, Alresford. Up at 8.45. Breakfast 9.10. Only children down.

After Hamilton decided I could not shoot at Dutton's. H & Captain Irvine left at 10.20 to walk across Park to Dutton's. Wrote Scotter & Lehmann. Stroll.

Lunch. Goat. Drove at 12.30 to station, Ropley. Caught the 1.20 train taking hare & 2 pheasants. Empty carriage as far as Aldershot. 3 men got in, one with photos of fencing. Waterloo. Drove home. M & Maud out. Tea. Changed & put things away. Wrote letters (many) up to dinner time & dined quietly at 8.0. M wrote again to Miss Robinson. After read book about Flood. Slept. Bed 11.30pm.

Tuesday December 12 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.10pm. Down. Dressed for riding. In Park at 10.15.

Went right round Park. Met Mrs Tate. Long talk about horse. Turned out badly. Back home. Got to work. Spencer in. Painful nostril came on. Woke up with it. Got to work at 1.0 after writing letters. After lunch frightful gale from due south came on. Blew hard in at window. Very tired & disinclined to work after lunch. At 3.0 finished drawing of skirt dancing, Index. Finished 7.15pm.

At 5.30 whilst Miss Gill was in room stone from coping fell & broke window in top flight. Bill Weigall called at 5.0pm. Miss Gill at lunch. At 7.50 drove in carriage to Lehmann's dinner at Reform Club. Sat next Reed & nice Cambridge man. Nose very painful. Careful what I took. Lucy, Tenniel, E.I.M, Arthur à B, Reed, self there. Left at 11.40 & home in carriage. Sir James Robinson Pym & Weymss Reed there also. Barry Payne etc etc. (Red ink: Nostril swelling in morning.)

Wednesday December 13 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.15am. Felt pretty well. Breakfast. After read & sent cheque for £84 to Bank. M went out at 10.40. Went to dress for riding, out at 11.10. Very rough & strong wind. Nostril most painful. Met Wirgman. Rode once up Row. Cob very nervous. Coming out saw Maddy QC. Home & window being mended. Did small drawing of girl dancing. Not very successful.

Mrs Messel called. No one to answer door. Rowed Emma. Mite trying on opera cloak. Left at 6.0 with M in carriage. Drove me to National Gallery.

Walked. Engaged Studio at Camera Club for Sunday. Wrote 4 letters at

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P.D. Wm Agnew, (E.I.M late) Lawrence B, E.T.R, Lucy, Guthrie, F.C.B, Sir J.T, self, Arthur à B, Lehmann & Furniss & Partridge.(13) Chaff about nose.

Furniss a cad. Long discussion. 3 cuts to make up.. At last got cut of Were Wolf. Left with Tenniel at 11.30. Home by cab. Pouring with heavy rain. Home 12.15. Fire in morning room. (Red ink: Nostril very bad & painful.) (Red ink across page: Punch dinner, last in year. 13 with Milliken. 3 cuts to make up.

Did not feel very well.)

Thursday December 14 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Nostril still very bad. Down. Got to work & drew Girl Dancing on tinted paper. At 10.30 rode Cob in Park. Saw Mrs Tait etc.

Met Stone, asked him to dine on Sunday. Missed M & Maud. Back. Finished drawing before lunch. After began Were Wolf. Had ridden in morning to Mrs Evans Charing X Road & bought 4 photos, 10/s. In afternoon did outline of drawing of Wolf. & got ready for tracing on paper. Dined 7.0pm. After M, Mite & self went to Court Theatre & saw Triple Bill Mimicry. Good. Mrs Warre in box opposite. Nose painful. Got away just before 7 & walked to carriage at top of Sloane St. Home by 11.30. Verity's wrote about drawing. (Red ink: Nostril very painful. Went to Court Theatre.) Heard of death of James Brand 3 weeks ago from Lindo.

Friday December 15 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Did not ride. Fine lovely day bright sun. Got on & worked all day on drawing of Were Wolf. Worked up to dinner time & after dinner from 9.30 to 12.15am. Began to shade at 6.0pm. Went to bed tired at 12.45am after pipe. M & Mite went into Park, saw Mr Stone. (Red ink: Nostril slightly better.)

Saturday December 16 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. At 9.20 got to work on drawing of Were Wolf.

Finished it at 11.35. Rode at 12.0 in brown boots. Met Alexander. Saw M & Mite in Row. Home late for lunch at 1.45, M in at 2.0. After slept on sofa. Very tired. Noisy maid at 4.30. Got to work & skemed the Britannia picture for Duncan etc etc. Dressed 6.0pm. Dinner 6.30. Miss Rose Innes dined. After M, Mite, Miss R.I & self went to the Garrick Theatre & saw Diplomacy. I went in carriage taking photo bag, shield & spear for tomorrow. Called Camera Club & also Garrick. At theatre by 8.20. Very good. Saw Miss Young, Lady Lewis etc etc. Left 1.15. Home in Miss R.I's trap. Supper. Mite snuffly cold. Bed 12.45am. (Red ink: Nostril getting better.) (Red ink across page: Miss Rose Innes dined. Went to Garrick Theatre after.)

Sunday December 17 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.30. Breakfast at 9.0. Left at 10.0 & took cab to Camera Club. There 10.30. Cold raw morning. Studio not ready. No fire. Cheeky attandant. Smoke. Miss G came at 11.0, had to wait till 11.45. Took 18 photos. Stout model. Shy. Had to leave 12.40. On to Garrick. Ordered chop.

Lunch at 1.20. Read Observer & Modern Thoughts after. Cigar & coffee.

Wrote 8 letters. Walked home & got there 5.5pm. Mrs Sington there. After got to work & did good cut of Mince Pie MP for Xmas. Finished at 7.15. Got bottle

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Felt sleepy after dinner. Stone left at 11.20. (Red ink: Nostril about well.) (Red ink across page: Went to Club. William Stone dined with us alone.)

Monday December 18 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.5am. Down 9.45. M & Mite at breakast. Mite's cold not worse. Wrote letters etc. Sent drawing of Mince Pie MP to V etc. Rode at 10.40. Cob went well. Met Lindo & also Seymour Trower. Talk of Stead. Dull raw morning. Back 12.0. Got to work on Preface. Put in letters before lunch.

Mite left for Ramsgate with Kerrie & Agnes at 2.25, M with her. Rested in chair till tea time. M back at 4.20. Worked on Preface till 8.0. Dined. Read Ardlamont case. After Punch came. Cut of Were Wolf A1. Wrote 3 letters. M to bed 10.30. (Red ink: Mite left for Ramsgate with Kerrie & Agnes.)

Tuesday December 19 Stafford Terrace. Up rather later, 8.20. Down 9.0. Boots on. Rode 10.0am.

Met Lockwood. Saw Adrian Jones. Home 11.15. Wrote 5 letters, Stores etc.

M had lost hunting flask. Worked from 11.30 to 1.0 on Preface & after all the day & after dinner till 12.45am on Preface. Lunch. Night of Mite's ball at Ramsgate given by Mrs North Buckmaster. Wire from F.C.B about Preface at 8.0pm when hard at work. Turned wet in the afternoon. Hunting flask lost.

Emma went about it to Annie Tallant. (Red ink: Worked late on Preface drawing. Wire fom F.C.B about it.)

Wednesday December 20 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Tired from last night. Finished drawing of Preface in morning. Boy never came until 10.45am. Wired. After did another drawing sharp for tail piece. Sent it off 1.0pm. Lunch. M left in 4 wheeler for Ramsgate at 2.15. Rested, tired after, had 1 hour's doze till 4.0. Tea & after got to work on Punch Opening Volume with Maxim gun. Worked till 8.0pm.

Dressed. Dined 8.35 at home. Oysters & fowl. After took hansom to Empire Theatre. Sat in stalls & saw stupid ballet, Race course & Highland Regiment.

Saw no one I knew. All very dull. Called Beefsteak. Saw Arthur Blunt, Leslie Ward & D'Oyley Carte. Wrote Roy. L.W hard up & could not get his money.

Home at 12.30am by hansom. Colder. Bed 1.15am. Heavy wet all morning.

(Red ink across page: M went to Ramsgate by herself.)

Thursday December 21 Stafford Terrace. Up 8.0am. Down 8.30. Wrote etc etc. Read. Bright sun. Up in room. Wrote letters etc. Opened Stores parcel. Decided to take drawings down to Ramsgate, also to ride at 11.30am. Worked till 1.30 when rode in Park, met Stone & introduced to Mrs Salt. Back at 1.30. Rest after lunch when at 4.0 went on with drawing of Opening Volume, Punch & Maxim Gun. Worked till 8.15 when dined. Had sent Parnell to Camera Club when he fetched my square bag shield & staff. Worked after dinner from 9.30pm to 12.30am on Maxim Gun. (Red ink: At home at Stafford Terrace by self all day at work on Maxim Gun.)

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Friday December 22 Stafford Terrace. Up at 8.0am. Down. Finished drawing of Index. Roy came back at 8.45am. Breakfast. Dull rainy morning. Roy went out & tried bicycle.

Came back wet & with torn breeches. Put things up & packed bag. Lunch.

Got off by 2.35pm. Sent Roy up to Lincoln & Bennett for hat & to Walls. Met Roy at Charing X. Down to Ramsgate. Old gent & man in carriage smoking vile pipe. Heavy wet. Difficulty with luggage at Ramsgate S.E station. Came down to 14 Royal Crescent with fly, 3/s. Unpacked. Dined at 7.30pm. Fair dinner. Tired after. Bed at 11.0. Did not go out. Vedict on Monson in the Ardlamont case for charge of shooting young Hambrough. 'Not proven'. (Red ink across page: Roy came back from Eton early in the morning. Went down with him to Ramsgate from Charing X.) Saturday December 23 14 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate. Up 8.0am. Most lovely morning. Breakfast.

Sent Roy to get his hair cut & to order horses. At 10.30 went for most lovely ride at 10.40 to 1.40. To Sarre, round by Birchington, Margate & St Peters, to Ramsgate. Back to lunch 1.40. Had got very hot. Changed after. Had fire & dried things. Went out with M at 3.45. Met F.C.B & young Frank.On to the Granville, called on Mrs Heilbut & the Alexanders. Met Montefiore père et fils.

Back at 4.45. Called Club & saw Sooby & Hammond etc. Had 100 up with Roy at billiards, Roy 54, self 100. Into the town. Bought haddock. Also got book & called stable & station for Strand magazine & paper. Home 7.0. Read.

Dressed & after dinner rested. Bed 11.0pm. (Cutting glued in: In memory Sir George Elliot.) (Red ink across page: Most lovely ride in bright sun to Sarre & round by Margate. Mare went well.)

Sunday December 24 14 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate. Up at 9.0. Good breakfast 9.30. Roy came down with cold. Bright sun in morning, came over cloudy after. Letter from Mr Ainger about Roy smoking & hinting he would have to leave Eton. Very much vexed. Went for ride 10.30 to 12.20. Met Mrs Hammond & Miss Hollingshead.

Went past Granville & to Broadstairs. Across thro' St Peters, Westwood, & home by Haine. Met the Squire. Changed. Kerrie had torn the drugget being shut in the room. Wrote diary. Worked for one & ½ hour. After Mrs Heilbut & also Mrs Alexander called. Worked again with lamp until 7.15. Dressed & went in fly to the Granville. Dined with the Heilbuts & Alexander. Mr & Mrs H, Mr & Mrs S, Mr & Mrs A & Willie Humphries. Good dinner. Talk after. Left at 11.0. Good fox terrier tyke. Chicks in bed. (Red ink: Mr Ainger's letter about Roy's disobedience in smoking. Very angry. Dined at Granville in the evening with Heilbuts.) (Cutting glued in: In memory of Henry Pettitt.)

Monday December 25 14 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate. Up at 9.0am. Most lovely day without a cloud in the sky all day. Cold easterley wind. Horses ordered at 10.0. Out. Met Charles Ready & Frank B on horses. Did not wait for F.C.B. Went for ride lower road to Minster & up across Canterbury Road & past Tree's & home thro' St Lawrence. Met the Squire walking. Home. Never saw the Burnands.

Home 1.30 a little early. Lunch. After up in small room & went on to work on Greek cartoon. Worked from 3.0 to 7.0. Dressed & had Xmas dinner. M, self,

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F.C.B not well. Presents given by Mr Hammond & young Frank. Silly game of what people said after. Poor Philip badgered. Tired in evening. Left at 12.10 & home. Roy's cough troublesome.

Tuesday December 26 14 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate. Up at 9.10am. Breakfast 9.40. Horses round 9.15. Started for meet at Star Inn. Passed by Lord Southwell. Cold. Saw Squire, Conny B, Mr Lindley etc etc, young Jerry Weigall. Many on foot at meet. Mare very excited & fresh. Found hare other side of railway beyond Westwood. Spoke to Cobb & many others. After mare pulled & decided to leave. Did so. Hounds came round again. Mare slipped sideways in cross road near North Down. Came down, self under. Cut her off fore leg at knee very badly. Bled very much. Got on again & walked the whole way home from North Down. Young Hodgman had mare washed. Bled very much & very nasty place. Home. Changed. Lunch. Felt depressed & not well. Rested till 3.0. Up in room & worked till 7.30. Purcell & Mrs Hammond called. M up & told me about Cuthbert having scarlatina. Maud cried about party. Did not let M & Roy go. Dinner. Maud went in alone. Rested on sofa from 9.0 to 11.30.

Put papers up. Wrote diary. (Red ink across page: Accident to mare at North Down. Cut herself badly. Very much annoyed.)

Wednesday December 27 14 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate. Up early & got things together. Sea foggy morning. Breakfast. After left in fly at 9.30. Up to town with young Frank Burnand. Victoria. On home in cab. Purnell met me. Undid bags etc. My gold key could not be found. Bother about it. Got to work & finished drawing of Greek Micawber. Lunch. Sent drawing off at 3.0. Put things together & left in hansom taking gun at 4.10. Drove to Charing X. Remembered had left my dress coat. Stopped & wired Emma. After saw dear M & Roy at Charing X. All down together to Brasted, Kent. Arrived about 5.10. Drove on to Foxwold. Met at door by Pym. Very comfortable house. Miss Hogarth there, also Guthrie & Mr Luxmore an Eton master. Invalid son, young Evelyn Pym, nice boy. Roy all right. After tea dressed & had velvet jacket lent. House covered in pictures & prints etc. Very good dinner. Roy dined & behaved well. Game after in library.

Smoke & bed at 11.30pm. (Red ink across page: M & Roy & I went down to stay at Mr H.N.Pym's at Foxwold, Brasted, Kent.)

Thursday December 28 Foxwold, Brasted, Kent. Up at 8.0am. All arrangements comfortable. Pipe after breakfast. After went with Guthrie to see boys ferreting for rabbits. Not much good. Walked to Westerham. Got hot. Beer at Inn. Guthrie missed his way & asked woman & knocked at cottage. Back. Changed. Heavy lunch.

Sherry after & splendid cake, Fowler. After paper & looked at books etc etc.

Boys out again at 5.0. Saw them playing at vingt et un. Roy's dirty hands.

After looked through Pym's drawings. Up at 6.30. Dressed for dinner.

Moustache. Down. Mr Burnaby Atkins, Mrs B.A & a daughter like a dutch doll dined. Took daughter in. Good dinner, also punch sorbet. After in library looked at Sala's oil paintings. Mrs B.A a very pretty woman. They left at 11.0.

Talk & bed at 11.30pm. Guthrie seedy, indigestion. Mr Pym gave me a book

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 of Pepys Diary & also Portrait of Dickens. Heavy dull fog all day. (Red ink across page: At Mr Pym's. Very damp foggy day. Walk with Guthrie.)

Friday December 29 Foxwold, Brasted Kent. Up at 8.10am. Breakfast. After at 10.45 went out with Evelyn Pym & Roy with gun. Walked round estate. Shot one very fine hare.

Saw the others walking. After round & about. Bottles etc. Roy eager to shoot a sparow. Little Miss Pyms not very good with their governess. Back.

Changed. Lunch. Again a good lunch. After looked through French Revolution. Mr Luxmore in room. Drew Water Baby in book for Mr Pym & put 1894 by mistake. Dressed & packed bags. Roy acting charades & carrying Miss Pym pick a back. After down to dinner. A Mr Gordon, rich Scotch American, there & Mr, Mrs & Miss Johnstone. Took Miss Hogarth in to dinner.

Sat next Miss J. After long interesting talk with her about Pyramids & Egyptology. In library great chaff about Greek bracelet & also diamond bra.

Laugh after they left. Pym's story of Dickens about young lady & lover in bedroom & hairdresser. 'She took him for the hairdresser'. 'Why don't you begin'. Finished packing. Bed 12.15am.

Saturday December 30 Foxwold, Brasted, Kent. Up at 8.10am. Down breakfast. After got off with Guthrie at 10.0am. Drew Pig & 3 Mackerel in book. Very cold frosty morning.

Waved umbrella from carriage. 20 minutes wait at Brasted. Up to Charing X. Civil cabman. Poor Emma lost her husband. Sorted photos for Verity's drawing. Wrote diary. Lunch. Up in room putting things up. Found gold key.

Very glad. At 2.50 left for Victoria in cab. Met Robson Roose & young F.Burnand. Down together. Fly home. Walked into town. Saw mare. Bought haddock & tobacco etc. Back. Changed. After dinner all went into F.C.B's.

Dreary. Dr Robson Roose there. Chaff about mare. Miss Hollinghead. Roy in chair, moved out by Dr R.R. Slow evening & intensely cold & miserable at night. Bed at 12.0. (Red ink: News of death of Emma's husband Reffell.)

Sunday December 31 14 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate. Breakfast 9.30. Bad kidneys & so so.

Intensely cold & heavy sea fog all day. Started with Roy & Kerrie for walk at 11.0. Met Dr Robson Roose coming back with Philip. Went along sea shore beyond Broadstairs. Roy cut his name in chalk. Turned back 12.15pm. Roy found a large piece of cork. Brought it home. Wrote 2 letters at Club. Saw F.C.B. Lunch. Good beef. Sleep & rest after. Conny Burnand called at tea time. Made boomerangs. Up in room & wrote letters for 2 hours from 5.0 to 7.15. Posted them with Kerrie. Dressed. All dined together & had bottle of Champagne. Did not turn out after. Very cold & damp. Chicks to bed at 10.30pm, self 11.0. Read Froude's West Indies. Agnes went to the midnight service. (Red ink: Finished up year. Our small family all together. Happy evening but cold.)

Notes and addresses at back of Diary:

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LINLEY SAMBOURNE'S DIARY 1893 Editors of papers etc, A.K Moore Esq, The Morning Post.

Mr G.Mildred, Sala's Journal.

D Williamson Esq, The Sketch, 198 Strand.

E.T.Cook Esq, Editor of Westminster Gazette, The Westminster Gazette, Tudor St, Blackfriars E.C. C.Kinloch Cooke. Pall Mall Gazette, 18 Charing X Rd. Sir F.R.Robinson, Daily News Office.

Lewis Hind, Pall Mall Budget, 18 Charing X Rd. Sidney S.Low, St James's Gazette, Whitefriars E.C. M Voules, Truth, Carteret St, Queen Anne's Gate S.W. W.Allogate Esq, Great North of Scotland Rly, Secy & Genl Managers Office, Aberdeen.

James Thompson Esq, Caledonian Railway Compy, Genl Managers & Secys Office, 302 Buchanan St, Glasgow.

Andrew Dougall Esq, The Highland Railway Co, General Managers Office, Inverness.

William Gowenloch Esq, Secy. Same as above.

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