June 12 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “MacMillan, dinner—8.15 52 Cadogan Place. / Hon. Mem. for 1 month from date. Beefsteak Club, 9 Green st., Leicester W.C. Maj. Stuart Wortley” [NB 43 TS 16]. Note: Beefsteak Club, founded in 1876, was the descendant of several other clubs from the 1700s. It was an after-theatre club bohemian in nature with about 200 members, including Henry Irving, John Lawrence Toole, Henry Labouchere, and others. Major General Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (1857-1934); dismissed and disgraced in WWI.

At 30 Wellington Court in London, Sam wrote to Eleanor Bridge (Mrs. Cyprian Bridge), that he had “a great desire to see you & Sir Cyprian again.” Cyprian Arthur Bridge (1839-1924), British Royal Navy Officer, had been Commander-in-chief of the Australian Station during Sam’s world tour, and had hosted the family on the HMS Orlando on Sept. 18, 1895. See other Vol. II entries [MTP].