Up at 5. Warmer & fine. Wrote introduction to Athos Journal. Letters from Letters from [sic] C.F. ― & Hutchison, & in the afternoon a 2d from him, & others from Mrs. Empson & Mr. Edwards. ― At 11 to Brighton. All the H.T. Catts away but Henry with whom I passed some time & […]
East wind & cold still. Letters from Ann, Foord’s & Mrs. Bell. ― Wrote all the morning, & finished the Athos tour. At lunch John Blencowe came. Letters from John Cross: ― Maria Hornby: ― Miss Clowes, & Emily Tennyson: Dear old Adml Sc. Phipps has become quite blind. ― Sent letters to G. Scrivens, […]
Bright, & somewhat warmer, yet bitterly cold, as is evident from their having fires all day. Rose at 5 ― & began to write at 5½: all the last journals of Ἄγιος Ὄρος. ― Letters from C. Church, J. Blencowe, & Scrivens. ― Breakfast after which, all went out ― & I wrote all day […]
Rose at 5.30. ― Cold & gray. ― Just now the certainty that Mrs. Hornby is dead comes to me. O! life! Wrote to 20. Mrs. Empson a 21. B. Carter 22. A. Seymour 23. T. Baring 24. Sir J. Reid 25. Mrs. Bell a At home all the morning ― writing Athos journal & […]
Much colder, but a harder grayer sky. Rose at 5½ ― & wrote “Athos”. ― How strangely doing so brought back those days! Letter from Foord ― the first lot of paintings & drawings arrived, & the 3 for them here coming down today. Letter from Hansen. At 11 they came, & were much liked. […]
Dampy, coldy, snuffly. ― Umph. ― All day long I wrote letters. ― At 5, though it rained hard, I walked out in a Macintosh. Evening al solito: ― 1. Ann a 2. C.F. a 3. C. Church a 4. J.B.H. a 5. Giorgio 6. Miss Hornby a 7. J. Cross a 8. Mr. Edwards […]
Cloudy & wet. By 9 was aboard the Newhaven Boat. ― The Passage over ― starting at 9½ ― was a misery, though more on account of the probability of worse weather, than the actual roughness. I just kept from being quite knocked off. At Newhaven by 3. ― Custom House, & off at 4. […]
Before midnight the punchy Colonel go out, at Dijon, & thence we all 3 slept as we might, Victor on the ground. At 4 or 5 we all woke & began to be merry, tho’ the morning was gray & damp, & the endless poplar trees not lovely. I cannot remember any livelier or less […]
Slept pretty well. ―Breakfast at 7 & at 7½ we 3 took a Carriage to the Douane, where adroitly acting, we got out all our roba in no time, & had it examined. Then down to the Station by 9, & walked about facetiously joking, or sitting, or seeking the great Cemetery ― till 9.40 […]
Rose at 6 ― not very well. Got G.’s ticket, & went on board the Quirinal with my luggage. Returned to Rolandi’s to breakfast, & then walked with good excellent Γεώργιος in the avenue, wh. he calls “Πανάθεισος.” At 10.30 he took me on board my ship, & left me ―: but long before one, […]
