Perfectly fine & clear ― & less cold. Rose at 7.30. Wrote some Palestine journal. At 8.45 ― walk with T.G.B. in the park: ah! bright orange & green beech, & truly! very beautiful. At 10.10 ― return to breakfast ― all sitting, pleasant: Miss B. ― & the 2 younger Miss B.s ― all […]
White frost ― & fog: ― cleared to gray cold: & sunlight after 4. Rose at 7 & packed. Breakfast before 8. After preparing for showing sketches, talk with Mrs. B. her account of the quiet death, of her mother, & of the dreadful of her father ― raging to the last; his latest words […]
Fine all day ― & cold. Fire in bedroom ― & needful. Slept well. But how cold is the morning! Breakfast at 8. Mrs. B. lively & ambulatory & demonstrative. ― Afterwards ― gave a “lecture” on the Palestinian drawings ― half of them. Then at 10.30 I, not going to Church ―(Brodie & heaven […]
Fine again, but colder. “Packed” once more. Breakfast, == (Did I write of Daddy’s journal in Palestine? ―) Afterwards, painted in 5 skies: ― & then came in a cab to Seymour St. Awful hurry ― finding it 12.20 hustle to get to Waterloo Station by 1. ― Rail: the Ensign of the 9th going […]
X13 Lovely weather again ― all day ― but colder. Began, & worked from 10 to 4 at a drawing of Petra for Husey Hunt ― & nearly finished it: ― no bad lot of work, if I could but have pleased myself. At 5 ― walked to Shepheard’s Bush & Notting Hill with Daddy […]
A wet day! ― And a day ― all broken up, for though I painted off & on at the Bethlehem, yet it was at times too dark to see ― & S. Clowes came & staid 2 or 3 hours. I shewed him drawings ― &c. ― & we agreed how impossible it was […]
Perfectly lovely all day. ― Wrote. Breakfast ― Daddy’s affairs ― which I must say are queer & sad enough. ― I, quoque,1 was unsettled ―: & I can’t bear to think of the Rome journey. Worked at the Masada till 2. Then wrote to Clowes ― & walked to Seymour Street. Letters from Ann, […]
Excess of irritation alone. Very fine all day: what a year of weather this! ― Wrote to Mrs. Blackmore ― Baring ― Dickenson & Mrs. Husey Hunt. Painted at the Masada ― pretty well. Dickenson came. ― At 4 walked to Bolton St. & met S.W. Clowes. ― He is lame from a hurt ― […]
Very fine all day ― colder: bright full moonlight. ― Wrote till breakfast. ― Then, H.H. told me much of A.M. ― & of the “Locket” ― &, owing to letters coming from her & the Governess, (which I read ―) of his intention of sifting the whole thing. As it is, I fear, he […]
Fine ― but gray ― & coldish. Wrote & drew ― after breakfast till 2. At 2½ went with H.H. ― by short cuts through a world of new streets & cabbage gardens ― till we came to Fulham ― (days of the Edward Blackmores! ―) by the Bishop’s walk. Poi1 ― Πουτνη2 ― & […]
