Quite gray ― & very cold tho’ dry. ― My cold bad.

Wrote. ― At 2, & to 5 ― walked to Caburn Mount with B.H.H. Dark & gloomy as a December day ― but no rain.

Dinner at 6 pleasant.

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