Clear, hot & fine, but always airy. Rose about 6. The strain still painful. Drew a little at the bridge scene. Ate as little as possible for breakfast, To post, & after that, Pitti Palace: very gorgeous sumptuous rooms! But how could I ever have looked with delight on Gaspar Poussin or S. Rosa? ― […]
X4 Unwell all day ― boles shut up. ― Ate next to nothing & at 9 P.M. became better, tho’ the strain is at times painful. Drew a little at times all day ― out of the window, & penning out. Slept: moaned. ― The past is the past ― the present seems nonsense, & […]
Slept well: good bed. Fine all day, but mostly gray, with beautiful streaky clouds. Worked at the window=outlines till 8.30. Breakfast. Post: letter from T. Cooper, with cards of visitors. ― Went on to the Sta. Croce. Funeral mass for Count Cavour: a very wonderfully beautiful as well as sad sight. Vast crowds ― & […]
Very lovely day all through. ― “Packed” again. breakfast at the New York: then walked to Post, S. Croce, ― & all sorts of places. At 10 saw a very large room at the Hotel de Ville, & took it: it is delightful: this & one for G. if the poor fellow comes ― 5 […]
X3. ― Breakfast at 8. Clouds, & rain. At 10 called on Mr. Lever: but could not see the other part of the Palazzo yet. ― So, leaving heavy luggage with Landlord, took a carriage (& little blk dog,) to V. Mozzi. Lo, arriving there, Mr. Spence seemed to have been oblivious, & had gone […]
Very bright at sunrise. At 7 ― 9 ― thick clouds: then clear & fine. Dawdled. Breakfast at 8. ― Afterwards went to the Boboli gardens, which are wondrously beautiful ―& then to the Duomo ― returning to the Hotel at 12. At 1 called on the Marchesa Farínola, ― all out. After which, walked […]
Quite cloudy & gray early, & a little rain; fine at noon. Rose at 5.30. Got out paper & brushes, & divided luggage till 8. Breakfast. Straw hatted women of Florence. ― Carriage to Villa Albrizzi, where Galileo lived. Very grand view of Florence, but wanting the River. On to the Certosa d’Ema: much like […]
Fine: hot. Read W. Collins’s Woman in White ― late & early. At 5 rose, & at 6 got some coffee ― & went up to S. Miniato, ― & back by 8. Breakfast. Letters from C.M. Church. Lord Clermont. E. Drummond. Mr. Rose ― with dearest Ann’s Doctor’s bill. o Ann! My dear dear […]
Cloudy bad early ―― finer, later, later ― fine. Woke at 5, rose at 6. At 7 the Servitor di Piazza said the Malta boat was in, but no George. It boots nil to regret or wonder why. So I left a letter at Macbean’s, & came off to the rail. Many people came by […]
Cloudy. Rose at 8. No use going to Lucca, or the Pisan Hills in such weather: ― so, better at once return to Leghorn. Slow train: 2nd class: priests & monks. Vettura ― 1 fr. to Hotel ― having taken no luggage. Carriage to Montenero, but it began to rain. Hills, a sort of bare […]
