He was a member of many London clubs but he seldom visited any of them.

There were a number of organizations, however, which he regularly attended.

The Society of Dilettanti, a company of distinguished men interested in promoting the arts and improving the public taste, which has been continuously in existence since 1736, enrolling in each generation the greatest painters and writers of the time, elected Page to membership.

He greatly enjoyed its dinners in the Banquet Hall of the Grafton Gallery.

"Last night," he writes, describing his initial appearance, "I attended my first Dilettanti dinner and was inducted, much as a new Peer is inducted into the House of Lords.