X10 Very fine all day. ― Headache. Painted till 4½ at Jerusalem ― sunset. Then went to Ann ― who is rather better & in better spirits I think ― poor dear. Came back to dine with H. & R. ― which last is a bore ― & stays till we are worn out ― […]
Wrote 6 letters & some Journal before breakfast. Lady Bethell ― Mrs. Evans ― Mrs. Hornby ― Gromek ― F.L. ― & ―― One thing is a fact ― living with Daddy Hunt is more a certain chance of happiness than any other life I know of ― yet we see but little of each […]
Very fine all day. Wrote till breakfast. ― painted at Jerusalem sunrise all day ― hard ― till 4½. Then went to Ann, who seemed to me in better spirits. Returned to dine. Reynolds went. James Uwins came. Penned out till 11. Letters from Fr. L. ― Col. Leake, & Mrs. Evans. [Transcribed by Marco […]
Dully ― dreary day ― foggious ― yet not wet. Wrote early ―. Breakfast. Talk of Leighton, Rome, &c. ― for this is the only time I have to see H.H. quietly. Painted hard from 10 to 4 on Lord C.’s Jerusalem, & better nor normal. ― At 5 bus to Holborn, & walked to […]
Dark, & rainy all day. Worked at the Bethlehem till 4½. Walked to Seymour St. ― letters from S.W. Clowes & Mr. Husey Hunt. To Col. Leake’s ― out of town, back ― rain. Dinner. R. & H. Penning out till 10, bed tired. X8 [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS […]
Gloomy ― sunless, damp day. Wrote to R.D. Drewitt, & others. Breakfast. Work all day at Bethlehem ― & better than usual. At 4.45 went to see Ann: ― poor dear ― her face is very sad: ― & so is her loneliness at the dark end of life. ― I soon made her laugh […]
Cloudy early. ― Breakfast at 8. At 9.30 ― H.H. & I walked out, & then to Regents Park, & to Woolner’s. That youth’s room is very bright & good, like himself. We went to the study, & then saw Rajah Brooke’s boat ― one of the finest human heads I know. Maurice’s ― not […]
X7. Did not rise very early ― but yet wrote some journal. Ann leaning towards recoloring on a large Jerusalem picture. Yet I do not like the idea of Rome ― unless I could be sure of its being quite otherwise than the Rome of ’38-’48. ― Painted till 1½ ― Bethlehem. The 12th case […]
Fine all day. Rose ― & wrote to Sir J.R. Mr. Cortazzi ― Ann, & W.N. ― & some Palestine Journal. ― Breakfast at 9. Talk about A.M. ― & the brother, a letter to whom & the Governess H. gave me to read. ― Palgrave came ― but I saw him not. Worked at […]
Fine all day. Wrote from 7 to 9 ― sending letters to Mrs. Empson & J. Hutchinson. Then painted ― Jerusalem sunrise 2nd day. Bonomi called. ― Worked till 4.15. Then walked to Charlton’s & ordered a writing table for H.H. ― whom I must settle with somehow. ― Returned by the Park & at […]
