Personal diary including an eye witness account of the Wimbledon 1879 All Comers' Final

Personal diary compiled by Ernest de Montesquiou Lacon (1850-1936) that includes an eye witness account of the 1879 Wimbledon lawn Tennis Championship 1879 All Comers' Final with John Hartley defeating Vere St. Leger Goold,
an entry reading “Gloomy but fine. All went to Camp [Rifle Shooting] at Wimbledon and lunch with Patterson. and afterward to lawn tennis, Hartley beat St Leger easily.”; sold with a page from the London Illustrated News with with a report of the 1879 Championship, and to the other side illustrations.

Also offered with this lot is a folder of research carried out by the seller regarding the Lacon diary which also notes the compiler erroneously made the entries in the wrong week of the diary. He was the son of Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, 3rd Bt.