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one of his yearly elections to the committee, 

 kept by him doubtless for the sake of the auto- 

 graphs of his friends. Unfortunately it is dated 

 merely "January 11th," but as it is on club 

 note-paper, headed "371, Strand," I presume 

 it belongs to one of the elections between the 

 years 1875 and 1878, in which latter year the 

 club removed to the Caledonian Hotel, Adelphi, 

 where " the wanderers spent three years in 

 tolerable comfort " before opening their own 

 suite of rooms at Lancaster House, Savoy, in 

 April, 1881. The document bears some fifty 

 signatures, among which are those of Robert 

 Soutar, Savile Clarke, Henry S. Leigh, Lennox 

 Browne, Byron Webber, Tom D. Kendal, Lionel 

 Brough, Henry Woods, Charles Collette, Wallis 

 Mackay, Henry Kemble, and many another 

 interesting personality. When the club pur- 

 chased its own furniture and household effects 

 on its starting house-keeping, Tegetmeier's know- 

 ledge of domestic economy came in useful, and 

 he helped in the selection of glass, cutlery, 

 napery, etc. 



Among the journalistic members, both writers 

 and artists, he was very popular, and they often 

 made " copy " out of him — his activities, his 

 figure, and his interesting personality. I have 

 quoted from Fun and Society already', and as 

 instancing both his popularity and that of the 

 club in the Press of those days, I give two more 



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