Very fine early: & all day ― but windy & rough.

Worked off & on perseveringly ― tho’ not very successfully. At the Whitmore picture, & Skies of Athos & Thebes ― & the Matterhorn.

Letters from
Lady Reid ― very kind & nice.
& evening post
Daddy Hunt, who does not come.

At 4 ― Alfred Fowler & his wife came ― & 2 children, a friendly pleasant lot & intelligent.

I worked till 7 ― then bought postage stamps & Photographs, & dined for 4/6 at the Sussex Hotel.

Alas! it is to be high tide again to night about midnight, which the constant increase of row & squash, prevents sleep.

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