As usual, perfect clear cold brightness. Went out at 7.45 ― with Giorgio, to shew him Williams’s home: & to read papers, but the shop was shut. Breakfast, & the man hanging the white room. At 10 to McBean’s, & to the Dogana: where the undoing my largest box ― & the annoyance thereby was […]
Rose, al solito at 7.30. Very cold ― & bright. Went out to “Monaldini’s” & read papers & bought Dennis’s Etruria.1 ― Breakfast. ― Worked at a Jerusalem for Mrs. Empson. S.W.C. came in. At 2 ― (fuss about hanging the rooms, &c. ―) (& the cases are really come to the Dogana,) set off […]
Always clear & bright, & all the day, very cold. ― For a while, on rising, I doubted if I would write all the morning, ― but finally, having heard Giorgio read, ― I dressed, & went to S.W.C. ― & with him to Church. ― The old crush & bustle & nonsense: ― happily […]
Rose at 7-8 ― reflecting. Breakfast ― as yet in the same comfortable mode. Wrote a longish letter to Ann, ― & a long one to F.L. ― Clowes came in ― & the 2 Huskissons ― the latter to ask to “evening Party.” ― At 11.45 I called on Miss Tullok ― where was […]
