Very fine all day ― lovely & calm ― towards sunset.

Accounts ― & then went to Taylors, & got £25. Called & left a Nonsense book at Woolffs.

Boles all corny. Returned at 10 ― & by 10.30 was working at Athos (Ἀγιού Διονυςίου) till 5. ― Dr. Roberts ― Capt. Vernon ― & latterly Col. Maude called.

Steamer not in from Trieste.

Luard dined with me, & I read him some Tennyson, & penned out afterwards (Cavalla sketch,) till 11.45.

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