Friday, 18 October 1861
Fine: directly after breakfast went to Waterloo Station, where were Caroline Jones & two of her daughters, who went back when C. & I went to Leatherhead ― by 11.10 train.
(When last in England Mrs. Chalmers had called on her! ― It seems my cousing [sic] Emily C. is dead: also George C. ||Frederick C. has married Miss Marsh ― sister of Miss Marsh the well-known.) ― At Ellens ― after a walk across the fields ― very pleasant ― it was sad enough. Yet that most amiable Caroline sees only the bright side of all, & is an A. no. 1 Christian. She & I returned at 5.25, & I put her into an Omnibus at the Strand.
Walked home: supper.
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[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]