1 Mrs. Monk
2 Miss ―
3 Miss
4 Miss
5 Sir R. Day
6 Lady Day
7. Count ―
8. M. Rochedien
9. Mr. Storey
10 Mrs. Storey
11. Authoress
12 ― daughter
13. Miss Hawarth
14 ― Eaton
15 ― R. Bright
16. S.W.C.
17. Browning

Rose, ill enough. A weight, & constant cough I cannot shake off. ― Drew ―: & at 12 came the πλῆθος.1 I was glad when it went. But its going did not at all bring me peace ― au contraire, irritation & bother prevented all work. X9. ―

At 4 I walked to St. J. Lateran ― compensating a little for the dreadful day’s imprisonment. ― At 6 I came home & dined: & Giorgio sate & talked about our Zagori & Σαλονίκι2 travels. How valuable is this good fellow! ― Yet I suffer bitterly here somehow, & there seems no end to trouble. Pizzerani’s bill ― 4 70 sc. has come in, & Cagiate’s ― 70 ― how to be paid I don’t quite know.

[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]

  1. “Crowd, throng, multitude.” [↩]
  2. Salonika. [↩]