Same ― wonderful Paradise weather. Queer mechanical life I lead! ― Breakfast ― uncomfortable ― bacon uneatable, & tea cold. No letters. Wrote to J. Gould. Dalziell & later Mrs. Hunt. Looked over Nonsenses, & gave some nonsense prints to the little boy next door. Painted at the 2 Thebes all day, but wearily. Letters […]
Most perfect paradise=day! no wind: all sun & quiet. Worked pretty well all day ― at Matterhorn & Sc[h]loss Elz. Letter from Manby ― asking me to Eastbourne, to which replied, & sent one to Wyatt also. At 3.30 came Mrs. Augustus Hare & Mrs. Charles Stanley ― (Charlie’s widow,) ― a very pleasant visit. […]
A wonderfully calm bright warm day ― all through! O the calm loveliness of this morning, ― if one had but time to enjoy it! But I must go downstairs & mix paint. Painted a sky to/of Petraja, ― uncertain as to result, yet the whole looks well. Breakfast. Letters from nobody: but afternoon post […]
Very pleasant & fine all day. Painted pretty constantly all day ― at Joannina, & the 2 Thebes. ― & showed Petraja. Letters from, J.E. Cross ― very nice. Emmy Penrhyn, d° Lady Westbury ―d° Emily Beaufort ―d° afternoon post ― Mrs. G. Scrivens. ― Wrote to J.E. Cross Miss E. Beaufort Emily Penrhyn & […]
Fine all day, cloudy at 4, rain at 10. Rose latish ― 7. Dirty water &c. ― these lodgings are not as clean as of old. ― Letter from F.L. ― Wrote to 1 Gussie Bethell ˇ[answered] 2 S. Street. 3 E. Newsom. ―― 14th 4 F.L. 5 Mrs. Evans 6 Mrs. Musters, ― 7 […]
Very fine early: & all day ― but windy & rough. Worked off & on perseveringly ― tho’ not very successfully. At the Whitmore picture, & Skies of Athos & Thebes ― & the Matterhorn. Letters from Lady Reid ― very kind & nice. & evening post Daddy Hunt, who does not come. At 4 […]
Fine early ― cloudy midday. Rain from 3 to 7 fine after. Rose at 6. Worked shilly shally all day ― but the work ― foreground of Dead Sea, was ‘troppo’1 a bore. After dinner ― Schloss Elz. Letters from J. Uwins Daddy Hunt ― to whom wrote ― asking him here tomorrow. Wrote also […]
Fine all day ― cloudy at times… Mighty dark & gloomy. Rose at 6 ― & got a good hour & a half before breakfast, of work ― Athos: on which, off & on, I worked all day: ― letter writing ― reading Levers “Dodds,”1 & B. Martineau calling interrupted me more or less. Letters […]
Rose at 6 pretty always. ――― Cloudy. After 12 it rained till 6, & then only muzzled: gray ― dark, stormy boisterous windy: a bore. Letters from Mrs. Wyatt ― very pleasant. Charles Cockburn. Beadon is somewhat better. James Uwins. ― wrote to these 2 Emmy Parkyns. Worked only middlingly ― at Dead Sea & […]
Rain at times, & high wind all day. Perhaps the best day yet. Worked more continuously: at the Whitmore picture & the other Egypt & Jánina. Dined at 4 ― cold half fowl & plum tart. Letters from Dickenson Mrs. Cockerell very nice indeed. & Gussie Bethell At 7 went to Van Crake’s ― the […]
