Wet. ― Rose early & wrote notes. Breakfast late ― 9½. Headache. ― Day gloomy, & cold indoors. Egg called. Worked at Jerusalem ― Sunrise ― 1st day. ― At 5 walked to Fanny Coombe, & sat ½ hour. ― Mr. Peachey’s at Tarring, was then Henty’s ― so I have been doing a Bethlehem […]
Bright & fine, as was yesterday. ― Wake, to impatience blindness & misery. Incapable of deciding whether life can be cured or cursed ― I totter giddily, refusing to take any road, yet agonized by staying irresolute. To go to Brighton? To see H.C.? ― To take a place at the I. of Wight ― […]
At 9 left Seymour St. ― cab to Tor Villa. Reynolds & H. at work. I worked on the Sunset Jerusalem till 5 ― rather better. Then called on Ann, whose life & state distresses me sadly ― but how to help it? ― Worried & hurried ― Ann to dinner ― R. & H. […]
Staid indoors. Pouring rain. ― Saw Hansen’s boy & girl. At 1 called on Crake & saw Hamilton C. & [P.] ― On to W. Beadon’s. Mrs. B. only. ― Then came to Tor Villa, where at 3 C. Fortescue joined me ― H.H. out. ― F. looked over the Palestine drawings: but nobody knows […]
Rose early ― & wrote journal. Breakfast. ― Afterwards, Reynolds came ― which is piuttosto1 a bore. Hunt’s Nazareth ― Painted at the Masada, but quite badly. Unhinged ― unhooked, unhappy ― un-everything. Letter from C.F. ― with whom I am to dine. ― At 5 walked to Seymour St. ― & at 7 to […]
Rose at 6½ ― writing out Syrian journal. ― Breakfast. Very pleasant life. ― Worked all day ― day very bright & fine. Lunch. ― Work again ― Masada ― [3]1 4? day. At 5 went to Ann’s ― & walked with her. ― Letter from Frederic. Mill burned ― & other ill luck ― […]
Rose at 6½. ― Windy & dull morning. ― A very windy & rainy day. Worked more or less ― but discontentedly & not well. Lunch with Reynolds & H.H. At 5.30 walked to Seymour St. ― & then to J.H.B.’s ― to give them their Palestine objects, & to see their children. J.H.B. walked […]
Very brilliant morning. Waked early ― & no end of thought. ― O! then 5 paintings & 7 drawings! A wall beyond which the mind-eye sees not. ― And my education? ― My early hour life? ― My Greek? ― And H.C.? ― Hansen came after breakfast, with letters ― & others by post ― […]
Rose early. Lovely day all through. ― Poor dear Ann went at 9. I, with Hansen, painting &c. ― to Hunt’s, at 10. ― Half the day went in “settling.” ― the east in beginning, & painting in, in blue ― the Masada. We dined at 6½ ― & penning out, music, & bed at […]
Rose at 6. Breakfast at 7 ― & left the kindest-hearted man Bern Husey Hunt. ― He is going to open schools at Compton. Few have lived as well as he, considered his great draw box. Rail at Brighton at 7.55 ― & to Worthing, & walk to Tarring. Here, I resolved to go to […]
