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... Henry Calcraft - Society in the Early Fifties - Al- mack's and the Cocoa - tree Club - Fashions and Feeding - Break- fasts and Smoking — The Decline of Drinking — The Misses Berry's Salon - Lansdowne House - Lady Ashburton's Humor- Sir ...
... Henry Calcraft - Society in the Early Fifties - Al- mack's and the Cocoa - tree Club - Fashions and Feeding - Break- fasts and Smoking — The Decline of Drinking — The Misses Berry's Salon - Lansdowne House - Lady Ashburton's Humor- Sir ...
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... Henry and Monty Corry- " Jacob Omnium " and the Guards - Lord Somerton and his Wife - Delane , of the Times : his Meeting with Disraeli - Dicky Doyle - With the Militia at Barnet - The- atrical and Operatic Memories - Visit to Althorp ...
... Henry and Monty Corry- " Jacob Omnium " and the Guards - Lord Somerton and his Wife - Delane , of the Times : his Meeting with Disraeli - Dicky Doyle - With the Militia at Barnet - The- atrical and Operatic Memories - Visit to Althorp ...
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... Henry and Charles Greville - Sir John Pak- ington and the Duke of Somerset - Visits to Ireland , Howick , and Wentworth - Anecdotes of Lord Fitzwilliam and the Silent Cavendishes Installed at Kensington Palace - Disraeli's Re- form Bill ...
... Henry and Charles Greville - Sir John Pak- ington and the Duke of Somerset - Visits to Ireland , Howick , and Wentworth - Anecdotes of Lord Fitzwilliam and the Silent Cavendishes Installed at Kensington Palace - Disraeli's Re- form Bill ...
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... Henry Austin Bruce : His Unselfish Character ... ..202 CHAPTER X 1870 Our Thursday Dinners at Downing Street - Anecdote of Mr. Glad- stone - Massacre of Englishmen by Greek Brigands - Death of General Grey - Instances of Mr. Gladstone's ...
... Henry Austin Bruce : His Unselfish Character ... ..202 CHAPTER X 1870 Our Thursday Dinners at Downing Street - Anecdote of Mr. Glad- stone - Massacre of Englishmen by Greek Brigands - Death of General Grey - Instances of Mr. Gladstone's ...
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... Henry Bulwer's Elevation to the Peerage - Dinner at Edward Levy's - Sir Henry James's Quotation - Episodes of the Session -- Visits to Nocton and Somerley - My Last Shooting - party - Tom Price's Appetite -The Prince of Wales's Illness ...
... Henry Bulwer's Elevation to the Peerage - Dinner at Edward Levy's - Sir Henry James's Quotation - Episodes of the Session -- Visits to Nocton and Somerley - My Last Shooting - party - Tom Price's Appetite -The Prince of Wales's Illness ...
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