Thursday, 28 January 1858
Rose latish ― 7½. ― Yet after breakfast worked ― from 9 ― all day till 4 ― at the Janina picture.
Παπαδόπουλοσ came in ― about 1 or 2 ― poor man ― quite unhinged & wretched, ― Little Mary & Ellen Reid came in too.
At 4 I went out, the Parga round ― half ― returning by 6. T. Bunsen came to dine ―: his first manner ― that beebuzzing hiccuppy intervalejaculatory bothering is frightful. But he is very likeable on a longer stay, only his frivolity oddity of conventional manner bores one. At 10½ he went.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]