to Munich. X3. O dear! what a bore! But boles & stomach are wholly uncontrollable when one is travelling. So I rose at 6 ― (Mem. I do not go to the ‘Maison Rouge’ any more.) At 7 to Station: ― (nice family ― leave-takings ―) off at 7.40. By 8 ― (my time) at […]
to Strasbourg. X2. Rose at 6. Carriage to Rail at 7. Registered all baggage to Vienna. Off ― 8.30. Only 3 men in the Carriage, & 2 of those got out at Epernay. Weather damp, cold, gray. 3rd passenger uninteresting old gent as he would not talk & was quite right not. ― 6.45. Strasbourg, […]
Paris. Rose at 9. Breakfast 9.30. Afterwards ― lo! ― Tom Wyatt! so we “combinavamo”1 for a day. Walked out, & called at the Bristol, where I saw C. Fortescue, who seemed to me unwell still & too much excited. (Ward B. was there.) I did not go to see Lady W. but returned to […]
to Paris Slept well. Day very fine & calm. Wrote notes from [8].30 till 12. Registered luggage ― & at 2, off in Folkestone boat. Wonderful old Lord Brougham aboard. Lord Harrowby, ― & a nice fellow & his wife, friends of the Crakes, & Penrhyns: ― Plumer ― having a letter from Mrs. Parker […]
Drew 30£ from Drummonds. To Folxton Rose at 7 ― packed: finalities. At 10 to 40scue, but he is unwell in Paris & has not arrived. So I breakfasted wth H.J. Gfell ― very agreably ― the more so that he gave me commissions for 2 pictures ― a Philœ ― (I shall see &c.) […]
Wet mostly ― afternoon finer. Packed & wrote. At 11 to Drummond’s & drew out 120£ To Scotts & then Bank ― & shops &c. Took ticket to Vienna. (9.12.) Placed 100 in new 3 per cents ― & got 24.10 dividends. Paid Dent: & called on S.W. Clowes ― who asked me to dine […]
Slept well ― & am in better health, thank God,, than for many months past. Came to town at 10. Called on Dalziels. Pouring rain. Agreed with Routledges about the Book of Nonsense. All the rest of the day went in packing & shopping ―. Dined at home. XX1 [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton […]
Damp ― rainy. T. Fairbairn came at 9.30 & we went to Woolners ― where the child=[grousse] is beautiful. Then I to Routledge. Afterwards to Dents ― Passport &c. Robert (Dr.) Phillismore called me in the Strand, & asked me to dine on two days, ἀλλὰ δὲν ἐμπωροῦσα.1 At 3 to W.N.’s ― & to […]
Very cold, & bright all day. Wrote to Mrs. G. Scrivens Jameson. Daddy Hunt. W. Nevill. Ellen Newsom. Mrs. Clive. & packed & arranged drawings. ― At 2 went to the Fairbairns’. ―― Wonderfully interesting children ―― Constance & Arthur ― the deaf & dumb. At 3, with them & their Father, to the Gt. […]
Heavy fall of snow ― large flakes! ― from 7 to 9 ― when it cleared, & was cold & fine all day. ― Bad headache. Wrote till 11 ― when Mrs. Robinson came. Lady Louis is dying. Afterwards ― T. Woolner, & AT. At 1 cab to Dalziells ― more talk about the book […]
