Saturday, 22 February 1862
Warm, ― gray: rainy at times ― all day. Earthquake at 7 P.M.
Worked at Janina ― hardly more than outline ― for I did all wrong yesterday.
Worried & fussed.
Letters from Dickenson ― both the {Corfu & | Cedars are “accepted.”
Ellen.
Sophy Bergmann.
Note from Mr. Craven ― he goes to Charteris’s rooms in the Politi house ―― I, upstairs, when he goes.
Walked out at 5.30 ― overtaking Col. & Mrs. Herbert & Miss Fergusson ― & walking to Kastrades & back.
Woolffs little girl remains in the same state.
At 6.35 ― home ― & when sitting down ― beginning to eat fish ― a smart wrench=shock of Earthquake ― at 7. All the bells rang.
Yet George was uncertain at the moment as to if it was not someone trying at the door!
Upstairs, Mrs. Maude understood it at once, since there, so much higher, the windows &c. jingled.
That poor lonely little woman!
Penned out till 9.30.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]