Thursday, 1 March 1860
Very fine & not cold. Cold & cough dreadfully bad. Unable to work. Went to Macbeans, & to Benouvilles. Letter from Daddy Hunt*
Worked from 12 to 2. ― Called on Williams. Walked to Pal. Caffarelli, & heard a really good lecture on the Mausoleum of H ἀλικαρνάσσος1 by Newton. Many folk there.
Walked out of P. Pia, & met P. Williams, with whom home back. ―
Dined alone.
Penned out Worked at Musters’s S. Sabbas.
Fire in bedroom.
* Daddy has done his picture ― dear old lad.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
- Halikarnassos. [↩]