Monday, 28 April 1862
Clear, fine, warm: mist early ― till 8 or 9.
Rose at 6.30. Not well.
Wrote to Julia Goldsmid at Constantinople.
Unable to write.
Post brought Saturday, & Wednesday Review, ― but no Evening Mails ― no letters ― whereat [wroth].
Worked a little off & on at S.F.G.’s Mt. Athos.
At 4.30 ― went up to Candoni Hill & made a small outline of Καλιάκοπουλος, & the hills. Below, the race course shone. ―
Saw M. Grasset ― & returned at 5.45 or 6 ― by the Parga path-way. Fell in with good Craven ― a kindly good man.
Dined at 7.30. ―
Penned out till 10.30.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]