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I went to a large dinner last night
at the Ladies Empire Club. The ladies
made very good hosts. I saw
Admiral Fisher, & Arthur Lee, the Civil
Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord & Lady
Stanhope and a lot of others.
The great difficulty afterwards was
finding some place to smoke,
– a thing that ladies' clubs neglect.

I am pretty busy just now,
as the Revenue Sittings begin
on Monday, & I have
many cases to prepare for the