Beefsteak Club, 9, Green Street,
Leicester Square, W. C. Tuesday.
March — 1899.
[DEAR MOTHER: — ]
The faithful Jaggers should have arrived to-day, or will
do so this evening — I am sure you will make the poor little
chap comfortable — I do regret having sent him on such a
journey especially since the papers here made such an infernal
row over it — However, neither of us will lose by it in the
end —
I dined with Lady Clarke last night and met Lord
Castleton there and he invited me up to Dublin for the
Punchtown Races — I have a great mind to go
and write a story on them — Castleton is a great sport and
very popular at home and in England and it would be a pleasant
experience. Kuhne Beveridge is doing a bust of me in khaki
outfit for the Academy and also for a private exhibition of
her own works, which includes the Prince of Wales, and the
Little Queen of Holland.
Hays Hammond has invited me down to South Africa again,
with a promise of making my fortune, but I am not going as it
takes too long.
DICK.
