Fine early & sun!! ― Later clouds. Warmer. C. Fortescue. before I went out Octavius Smith | when I was out. ―――? | Mr. [Malsden] | Lady F. Harcourt | Mrs. Somers Cock & 2 children | after I returned Lady Buxton | Mrs. Head | Harvey Bagot. | Mrs. Wyatt | Miss Prie. | at 10.30. […]
Dry ― but quite sunless ― out cold. Drew at Edwd. Clives’s Cedars, from 10 to 3.30. No-one came!! & no letters!! Walked to Daddy Hunt’s, & found him working at Lord Lansdowne’s little sketch of the Lantern Maker: ― the quaintest letter from Lord L.! ― who, having been at the R.A., & having […]
X O bother. Dark & damp. What a horrible climate is this of England! I was beginning breakfast ― when C. Fortescue came, it is very nice & good of him. Just as he was going, at 1 ― who should come but Majr. Shakespear!!! ―― I agreed to dine at the Sayers ― so […]
Pouring rain till 12 ― damp, hot, & showery, after. What weather. At 9.30 came Foord’s men, who placed the Cedars back in the room, Beirût below on the same side, & Pentedatilo above, so a world of space is left. ―― Then I sent off my piano, not a whole month in hire, ― […]
XXX Cedars, ― perhaps finished. Τὸ κακὸν.1 Lighter day, looked at Cedars, & I think finished all ― or nearly all I can. At 5 came poor Lady Selina Vernon ― alone poor dear, her visit was very pleasant to me. At 6 I called on S.W.C. out ― & on Lady James ―. Dined […]
Pitch dark ― miserable. Could not work: except on the 2 Egyptian novelties. At 3 it was lighter, & Mrs. Mildmay, 2 Miss M.s Miss Clive & H.M. came & looked over drawings. Tom Fairbairn also came & Mrs. F. Walked to Crake’s, but they had company. Dined at home. ἔφαγα και ἔπεα παρὰ πολὺ.1 […]
Wet at times: dark always ― sometimes pitch dark fog. Worked at putting all nick-nacks in closets: [secretion] in paper. Later, ― wrote ― & sent letters ― to Giorgio Kokáli ― telling him to meet me at Leghorn by the end of the month: to Boyd ― Ellen, Sarah, Lady Goldsmid, Lady Waldegrave, & […]
Gloomy, gray, & bitter cold ― every day grows colder now. C. Fortescue came just as I had done breakfast ― riding: he does not seem well ― as how con he well be? I set to work to arrange the back room, & look over books &c. ― but grew very tired. Yet the […]
Drew 20£ from Drummonds The Damascus went at 10. At 10.30 I went & placed it at Lady Farquhar: then to Drummonds, & James: ― Watercolor, New Watercolor, & Academy Exhibition. Paid a bill at Charltons, & home by 1.30. … Duckworth, [Junr.] W. Lushington | I out Lady Georgiana Grey | M. Halliday. | […]
Dry ― dull, gray. Rose late ― & breakfasted at 10.30 ― expecting W. Holman Hunt, but no-one came. Passed all the morning ― arranging dearest Ann’s letters & ˇ[the] little things I shall always keep for her sake. Lacäita came at 2 & staid more than half-an-hour, he really seems a very good fellow, […]
