Describes a meeting of the Lantern Club. Transcription: with [John] Brougham and [Frank] Bellew to Lispenard Street, the [Lantern] Club. Some half dozen assembled, whom I had met before there. The others, [Fitz James] O ?Brien &c arrived, the Secretary read over the minutes of last meeting, took money & (I paying 62 1/2 /100 for Constitution &c Bye laws) Then dinner was served, and in good style. Roast sirloin & boiled mutton & accessories [accessories]. That being over with success, fumigation & imbibition. The Club proceeded to customary fooling, each member finable if denominating any memb
Describes a meeting of the Lantern Club. Transcription: with [John] Brougham and [Frank] Bellew to Lispenard Street, the [Lantern] Club. Some half dozen assembled, whom I had met before there. The others, [Fitz James] O ?Brien &c arrived, the Secretary read over the minutes of last meeting, took money & (I paying 62 1/2 /100 for Constitution &c Bye laws) Then dinner was served, and in good style. Roast sirloin & boiled mutton & accessories [accessories]. That being over with success, fumigation & imbibition. The Club proceeded to customary fooling, each member finable if denominating any member out of his luminous name. [John] Brougham as president was Great Wick ? the Vice, lesser Wick ? the dinner committee ?ǣHonorable Grubs ?, and the rest Bulls eye, Blazes, Rocket, Torch Camphine &c, and the like. They tried [Fitz James] O ?Brien with much mock formality Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 90, April 17, 1852 . 17 April 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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