Wednesday, 4 September 1861
Rose at 6 pretty always. ――― Cloudy.
After 12 it rained till 6, & then only muzzled: gray ― dark, stormy boisterous windy: a bore.
Letters from
Mrs. Wyatt ― very pleasant.
Charles Cockburn. Beadon is somewhat better.
James Uwins. ― wrote to these 2
Emmy Parkyns.
Worked only middlingly ― at Dead Sea & the 2 Egypts.
Dined badly ― 2 small fishes.
At 6 walked to Hastings ― & sat for an hour with the W. Scrivens. The G.S. come back this day week.
Rain & wind bored me coming back.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]