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 Thursday, 10 March.

The [other Yorkshire visitors] are to go on Monday, when I can say:

"Thank God, they're gone!"

''And I pray that the table next to ours may not be given to people with provincial accents. Let it be noted that the friend of "McKannar" is manager of the—branch of the L. J. C. M. at Leeds, so that, when I go to live at Leeds, I may bank elsewhere''

Friday, 11 March.

At the club, I win 1861 points at bridge in 90 minutes.

£.       s.        d. In money, at 2-1/2d the 100, this represents                4       0

At the Cleveland it would have represented         9      12       0

At the Reform Club it would have represented       2       8       0

Sunday, 13 March.

''John ("Shane") Leslie's book on Cardinal Manning seems to me very good. Leslie is very nasty to Purcell, who no doubt deserves it.''