Very cold, & bright all day.

Wrote to
Mrs. G. Scrivens
Jameson.
Daddy Hunt.
W. Nevill.
Ellen Newsom.
Mrs. Clive.

& packed & arranged drawings. ―

At 2 went to the Fairbairns’. ―― Wonderfully interesting children ―― Constance & Arthur ― the deaf & dumb.

At 3, with them & their Father, to the Gt. Exhibition, wh. is certainly most astonishing[.]

Sandford, the Secr.y.

The 2 children are delightful.

No one else dined there ― but I cannot remember to have passed a pleasanter evening.

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