P K Randolph ~ Adventures In A Diary

The following correspondence was take from volume 5 of P K Randolph's letters to Marmaduke. Each volume held some 900 entries and was used by Historian Hertz Van Rental to clearly chart Randolph's travels during the spring of that year. He had travelled extensively in mainland Europe in February and had returned home unexpectedly, for one week only, to attended a charity event in Bloomsbury.

Little has been discovered as to the exact nature of what followed, but within 2 days he had left the country and did not return for some 13 months. He was reportedly spotted in Vienna and subsequently Moscow by a contemporary of the Royal Society of English Antiquities at a cafe on the outskirts of Vienna, but this was never verified beyond the gossip of society circles. There is however a brief mention of the sudden departure in a letter from Prince Albert to the Royal Horticulture Society at Kew, Subscribers and Patrons review yearbook (Page 10, Paragraph 4) and a further brief mention in the local Police report, following the initial incident.