Awful day ― sunless, & pouring rain ― happily not cold. Breakfast at 8 & wrote letters ― / when the “femmine” went to church ― to J. Hutchinson W. Holman Hunt. A. Empson E. Newsom. J. Edwards & W. Beadon. Pouring rain. Shewed Photographs. (As a sample of how even intelligent middleclass Angli know […]
Fine early, but soon clouds & wind, & at 11 ― rain. Worked a little at Athos, & the Dead Sea sky, & packed most things. At 1 called on Crakes & Fowlers, & Mrs. G.S. The Fowler’s have worse accounts of little Alfred, & go up to town tonight. Pouring rain: returned to lodgings […]
To dine with A. Fowler. Fine very early ― but cloudy & very windy by [8].1 ― At 10 stormy, & then rain. At 2 fine again, but rough & windy. Fine, but cold all the rest of the day & night. Letters from Margaret Caetani ― & Daddy Hunt. Worked at La Petraja ― […]
The same superlative loveliness as yesterday. And nearly the same destructive supineness & languor διὰ τὸν ἐμαυτόν μου.1 O! my Greek! ― o all things ― O Earth! ― o life! ― o time! Yet I worked at times ― on the 2 statue Thebes, & pretty well left it spoiled. Then ― (having read […]
Perfectly & wondrously calm, bright, & lovely ―― all day. Yet, for all that, a strange & sad day. It is inconceivable how my days distance all speculation as to their nature. ― I got wrong ― between 7 & 8, ― over the Thebes picture, getting it all hard & gaudy with Color too […]
Calm & gray all day ― but hardly any sun. Cold, thereby. Evening, feeble moon. Letters from Dickenson Book ― Dodds abroad, recalling the many Levers. afternoon ― L.J. Goldsmid, & Mrs. Chaworth Musters. Worked hard at times ― Dead Sea: ― then a little at Petraja ― & later at Whitmore Thebes. Dined on […]
A fine day ― barring 2 showers: but cold. Worked at Athos ― part well, part not. No letters of any sort. Wrote to Daddy Hunt. Little boy next door came in to see drawings. Dined at 4 ― sole solo, al solito. Van Crake & old Mr. Harness came ―. Walked out from 6 […]
Wrote letters answered 1 Mrs. Bergmann ―――――――――― 2 S.W. Clowes ――――――――――― 3 Dalziell. ― posted from 9 Pelham Pl. ― with 14 ˇ[drawings for] woodcuts. ―― 4 Augustus L. Egg ―――――――――― 5 James B. Edwards. ――――――――― 19th 6 C. […]
Very fine ― but windy early ― & to noon. Afterwards, stormy & showery till 5 ― then fine again, but noisy sea & wind, the moony night. Worked at Dead Sea, Lake & foreground, & at Matterhorn, & used up colours in beginning a Via Reggio sunset. Letters from J. Gould ― with 2 […]
Cloudy ― then rain more or less all day: ― from 4 to 7 very hard. ― & stormy wind ― rough sea. Worked at La Petraija ―trees & Cypresses till 3: ― rest of day ― at Athos, painting the sea from the window, & making fun with the little boy next door, who […]
