Lighter day ― & fine all through: colder. ― dry. ˇ[Thomas Baring called.] Letter from Widdrington ― very nice: replied to. Did portions of Bethlehem ―, Interlaken, & the Cedars, but thought I should work better if it were framed. So at 1, I went to Foords ― & ordered the frame ―――― a queer […]
A dull cold day early ― barely light at 12.30. Afterwards, fine. Unwell all day ― chilled from that damp place last night, ― perhaps it is that I am obliged to work in a fireless room, the smoky chimney forbidding firelighting. ― Worked at Interlaken, but I don’t know if well or ill: ― […]
Interlaken. Finer ― & a little colder. Tarrant called. Worked pretty well from 10 till 4 ― at Interlaken. Mr. Sayer called & sat: ― Invited to dine on Friday ― but I could not go ― so ― as I wished to go once ― καὶ ὅχι πλέον1 ― I said ― to day. […]
Dull ― damp ― dark. Worked only till 1 P.M. at the Bethlehem. Then out. Called on Mrs. Somers Cocks, who was very vaticinative. Then across the Park to Daddy Hunt, who was fortunately alone: ― sate with him till 4: very pleasant. Then ― call on G. Middleton ― out. Poi, walked home by […]
Wrote to It don’t matter when one riz ― for it was pitch dark ― No hope of work ― thick fog ― opposite houses unseen. So I lit a lamp at breakfast & arranged drawings till 11.30 & at 12 it grew lighter. Then, ― Dickenson came, & once more the “Cedars” are “before […]
Bethlehem Darkish early ― but a fine day ― & “frightfully warm.” Worked at the Bethlehem ― ἢ κακως, ἢ καλῶς, δὲν ἐξεύρω.1 ― At 3 resolved to make up the room for visitors, & to wind up by the end of February if possible. ― Went to Foord’s, & ordered the Beirût & Damascus […]
Rose late. ― After breakfast wrote to Windm Hornby ― & to G. Richmond. ― Then looked over Campagna drawings, for Mr. Whitman’s picture. ― Day very warm, & “fine.” Went out at 1.30 ― calling at Crake’s ― & across the Park to the G. Clives. ― Mrs. C. ― Miss C. Charley, & […]
Thurston Thompson? Photographer?1 Fine: ― rose at 7.30. Letters from E. Tennyson, & Windham Hornby & J.B. Edwards ― the last satisfactory. But my eyes & stomach were ill at ease & I worked [], at the Bethlehem ― the black from the chimney annoying me horridly. So at 2 I cabbed to Foord’s ― […]
Rose at 7.30. Dull ― dark. ― Wrote a long letter to J.B.E. διὰ τὴν Κυρίαν Λίζαρ.1 & a reply to a nice letter from the Comte de Paris. Ann came at 11 poor dear: she grows sadly aged. ― Sarah S. goes to her tomorrow. Worked from 10.30 to 3.30 ˇ[or 4] at the […]
Bother. Rose at 7.30 ― did a little Θουκυδίδης. Worked ― fitfully & slovenly ― at Bethlehem. But I was much interrupted. Foord’s man, to put up curtains ― W.F. Beadon ― I think better a little, and later, Ralph, Allan, & Mary Nevill: ― 3 dear little children. Ralph ― by far the best […]
