Colder ― if possible. Last packings. Paying bills ――― Cab to Farrant’s & other places. Chappell of Cramer’s out. At 2.30 came to Brighton Rail ― meeting B. Husey Hunt there. At Lewes by 5.20. Cold horribly intense. ― Dinner ―Mr. H. & Julia S. ― Pleasant: but [ye] cold is very bad. ― My […]
Cold & foggy. Cough & Asthma. Wrote 30 letters. Clowes came at 2. Walked with him to Bethells & back. Wrote till 6. Dined at the Bethells ― only Lady B. & Gussie. ― Afterwards W. Howard. Bitter cold ― & unwell. X10 [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
Hardly so cold ― less wind. Yet very cold & dry. Letters from Husey Hunt, & Talbot, ―: Packed. ― Walter Coombe, Dickenson, & Morier came. At 12.20 to Cramer, where were Rimbault &c. ― Then to W. & Newton’s ― & home. At 2.30 ― to Talbot: always seems a nice good fellow, talk […]
As cold ― less wind though ― & foggy withal. Wrote to Ann, B. Hunt, Clowes ― & others: & packed a bit. At 11 went to Hunt’s ― paid him 7.8.4. ― & took leave of him & Stephens: H.H. is going on now with his picture, Neville having paid him for the little […]
Bitterly cold ― dry. Letters from Ann ― (about N. Zealand & the R.B.’s &c. ―) & Husey Hunt: he can’t go to Rome. ― Wrote to him, Col. Talbot, Lady Derby, Lady Stanley, & others. ― At 12 went to Sophy Bergmann’s, ― she was out of town. Then to Woolner’s, where was Halliday. […]
Letter from Clowes ― & I nearly resolve to go on at once to Rome. Finished Gibbs’s drawings. Sorting papers & sketches: & clearing out. Wrote to many. Gradually I resolve to give up the visits. ―― At 3 went to various shops: ― & at 5 cab to 1. Trafalgar Square. Fanny C. & […]
Bitterly cold. ― Unwell, doubting as to going North, or if I should flee at once. Dear old kind C.F. breakfasted with me at 10.30. ― After breakfast ― (& I see him no more as yet ― ) I worked at Gibbs’s drawings ― suffering always from cold ― till 3. Sir R. Bethell […]
X7 Still very unwell. ― Better when up. Bitter cold. ― At 12 ― took leave of good kind wonderful Lady Waldegrave ― & Mr. H. who is more agreeable than I ever knew him. ― & came to Sheen. ― Mr. P. & Emmy, Mrs. L.V. Lucy Bagot, & 2 Miss Φitzroys. ― After […]
Windy & very cold & dark. Bad cold coming on. Sat in Library with W.H. & C.F. Lunch. ― Thought I should be better by walking ― so Lady W., C.F., W.B. & Miss Murray & I walked to Teddington & back. ― I smell of Castor oil. ― Bitter cold wind. Cold much worse. […]
Morning cold, dry, fine. Wrote to Ann, Shakespear, Boyd, A. Empson, Giorgis & Spiro, ― Macbean, Mrs. Thomas, & others. Great alarm at the folio of finished drawings ― sent Hansen in a cab to Tor Villa, where it had been left. Packed all for Pantechnicon. At 2.30 ― lo! dear good Mrs. Empson & […]
