Very fine & warm all day. Letters from F.L. & one very nice from J.B. Edwards. “Packed.” At 10.30 walked to Waterloo Station ― & Rail to Leatherhead 11.10=12. At poor Ellens, by 12.30 ― where I lunched. She does not, & never will get over good William N.’s death. Mary’s last letter is more […]
Very fine & warm. Went early in a Hansom ― to Mrs. Woollett ― Mr. Rose ― Miss Peale. Miss Giles.1 Highgate Cemetery ― where dearest Ann’s grave is finished then back to Stratford Pl. Then to Fanny Coombes Holman Hunts Mrs. Straham’s & Mrs. Cabusai’s, ― & lastly to see poor dear W.F. Beadon. […]
Rose at 7. ― Fine. ― Called on Woodthorpe’s ― out. Came home by 11. Maclean. Blencowe ― |||| Went out to Foord’s, Robersons, John Senior’s, &c. ― & back: rainy showers. I wanted to go to Daddy Hunt but gave it up. Mrs. ˇ[Spenser] Robinson Mrs. ˇ[Spenser] Montagu very nice pleasant women: ― Mrs. […]
Fine all day … Weary. Went to J. Senior’s in a cab ― out. Packed & arranged. Slept. At 5 cab to Woodberry. W.N. only. XXX [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
Very fine & bright, & not cold. Good lack! shall we ever be free? Arranged clothes & colors &c. all the morning. A message from the Duc d’Aumâle to say he is coming to day. ― Lunch at 2. At 3-4 Mrs. Robinson & Miss [Lowes]. At 5 Duc d’Aumâle, & a Secretary, certainly a […]
Fine & warm ― aye & sunny ― throughout. Rather an odd day. Rising at 8 ― wrote a long letter to Mrs. G. Clive & some notes. At 10.20 C. Fortescue came ― very unexpectedly ― for I thought him away. Hamilton, his brother in law is dead: ― so now, only Mrs. H. […]
Gray dull, cold, dry. ― Some sun, later. Letters from Mrs. Clive ― & Frankland. Put outlines on Canvass, (tracings,) for Lord Clermont’s Dead Sea Mr. Whitman’s Thebes ――――――― Thebes ― Jameson’s Ioánnina. No-one came at all at all. Packed & arranged mightily. At 6.30 went to Brie’s & ordered 6 ft. of drawers, ― […]
Darkish ― gray & cold again. Mrs. Gurney Mrs. Curwen Miss Curwen Mr. Curwen. Lord Wenlock. Mrs. Stuart Wortley. Absolutely set to work on J.E. Cross’s Dead Sea ― & finished it ― & took that & Jerusalem & Baalbek to Foord’s at 5. ― The Gurney visit, was cheerful ― but decision as to […]
Very fine ― warm. S.W. Clowes. W. Evans. Mr. S. Bradshaw Mrs. S. Bradshaw. Dr. Henry Mrs. Henry Archibald Peel Earl of Durham. Took up carpets. Finished ― in a way, ― the Cedar drawing ― possibly for E. Clive. Anyhow ― put away all drawing & painting, which, with my connexion of multiplicities, is […]
Harvey Bagot Alfred Bagot Col. Bagot. T. Wyatt. Ellinor Bagot Miss Sneyd. Willy Nevill. Mr. T. Baring. Fine. But, having got my Clive Cedars into a mess ― I could not work any more, & meant to give them up ― as well as the Cross 3 drawings: being in a state of upsidedownness. The […]
