MARION SAMBOURNE’S DIARY 1908
Notes on preliminary pages Mrs Jones, Blatcher, Little Caulfield, Dunmow, Essex. Marie wages £24 a year. I give her £1 extra a year whilst she maids me & looks after Lin’s things. £2.0.0 a month. Pat a Beckett, 3rd Mountain Battery, Royal Artillary, Mhow, India. Mrs Hall, Longford, Westgate on sea Thanet Nurse F. with chicks S.M. Franck for dressing gowns. 35 Camomile St, City Miss & Sir John Tenniel, 52 FitzGeorge Avenue, West Kensington Nov 1908 S.M. Franck Stories Gladys Crozier sung to monotonous tune, soldiers. We are all painted dummies & all our movements are worked by the clock works in our hum hum Lady complaining of tough fowl: You should always in choosing poultry feel the breast. Well mum, you could not with this fowl as it was a cock bird” O. Seaman’s. Litle Linley asked Gladys “Have you got a country house?” No. “Has your mother got a country house?” No. “Oh! I see you stay with people who have!” The King at the opening of Parliament said “My Ministers propose bringing in a bill for the prevention of children” but quickly corrected himself & said protection of children! Little Linley said “Mother I want to see uncle Edgar” Why darling? “I want him to tell me if Fitzroy can ride. I don’t believe he can. I think he can only just get on a donkey.” Ethel Dilke’s little niece & nephew always fed their cat after luncheon. Their mother told me not to feed her today. Oh mother we must she was not well yesterday. “No darlings not today as she has some kittens & I don’t want to disturb her.” I am glad there are kittens, did they come from the same place as Oliver? (their small brother)! Miss Brenda McLean’s engagement was broken off & it was said “The prisoner of Brenda has escaped.” Sir F. McLean’s dau. A jew had arranged for the keep of his horse at a livery stable for 13/- a week. Telling his daughter with glee of the small sum she said “But 1