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the 30th had "a round of golf at Sandwich 

 with Johnny and Harold." 



Early in June he was at the dinner given to 

 Roosevelt by the Society for the Preservation of 

 the Fauna of the British Empire. He says that 

 " Roosevelt made an interesting speech and 

 enlarged on his view about protective colouring. 

 He praised our officials warmly." 



On the 15th he was in the chair at a " Meeting 

 of the Anglo -German Friendship Committee, 

 which was well attended, Lamington, Brassey, 

 Sir F. Lascelles and Weardale spoke — all well 

 and shortly." And two days later, " Took the 

 chair at the annual meeting of the Society for 

 the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Prince F. 

 Duleep Singh read a good paper on old Norfolk 

 Houses. There was a large attendance." 



The next day, a Saturday, they went to Cam- 

 bridge, to stay over the Sunday with the Master 

 of Trinity. But on the following Saturday, the 

 25th, his entry for the day ends laconically : 

 " Bad throat," and this bad throat was, no doubt, 

 the culmination of trouble which had been gather- 

 ing for a long while, and was the beginning of a 

 long period of ill -health, perhaps too bravely 

 combated. From time to time he regained such 

 vigour that he could play golf and resume most 

 of his avocations, but he was never really quite 

 his old self again, and seemed to lose weight. He 

 was at High Elms at this time and was laid up for 

 rather more than a fortnight. On July 12 he 

 writes : " Slowly improving. Went up to town, 

 but I have cancelled all my engagements." On 

 the 20th they motored down to Kingsgate. 



