Dry ― (dry) i.e. (dry.) & dull ― fine all day. Wrote notes till 11. ―― Cab to Dalziells. Bother about the Nonsense. ― Foords. ―― & so to Routledge ― where we think 2/6 is too little a price ― & 3/6 proper & just. ― A wary Scotchman is Routledge. ― Then Roberson’s, […]
Wrote to 1 Maclean 2 R. Boswell ― with 2nd half of 10£ note 3 W. Nevill. 4 Jessy Foy 5 Taylor 6 G. Kokali 7 Lady Goldsmid 8 Lady G. Grey. [Ver]y fine & bright day. It certainly has been a lovely autumn. No letters: ― wrote 8. Dickens came. ― At 11 to […]
Exceedingly lovely till noon ― then cloudier, but fine. Out on the Terrace at 9. Breakfast. Mrs. Galton is not altogether pleasant, ― tho’ civil to me. ― Shewed Julian drawings. ― Talked a great deal with Lady G. who grows as it were sensibly. Sir F. & I walked out from 12.12 to 1.15. […]
Morning very fine. Rose late ― 9. ― Terrace & Autumn tints. ―― Breakfast. Mrs. G. has a certain harshness. ― Shewed drawings ― & Sir F. & Lady G. chose an Athos picture ― for 12£. Nothing can be nicer than their wholly well-bred modes & ways, nor more lastingly pleasant than the memories […]
28398. Number of Bank Note for 10£ ― half of which I sent to R.S.B. by post. At 11.10 to L. Bridge: & so to Puckley; & to Surrenden Dering by 2. Lady Goldsmid was at Lunch, with Mrs. Galton & her 2 little girls ― & a Miss Thomas ― (Frances T.’s niece,)[.] Afterwards […]
Fine. Wrote to James Edwards. F.L. Mrs. Husey Hunt. Dickenson. & Maclean {about the “Nonsense” &c. &c. & C. Fortescue Went out at 3. ― Walked to the Post ― C. Fortescues ― & then Belgrave Square. Lady Grey’s ― &c. &c. ― & Mrs. Stanley’s. Mary Stanley was there ― not Arthur ― & […]
Very fine all day. Dalzells man came ― & brought the last of the 112 prints of nonsense. Cab to Rail ― Waterloo ― & so to Leatherhead, ― Sarah & Ellen, the last sisters, coming to meet me. It is not so long ago, since dearest Ann, besides Harriett & Mary were there also. […]
Dull gray, but not wet. Maclean came ― & seemed willing to give up all idea of the Nonsense book in future ― & also willing to undertake a Corfû book. Then T. Fairbairn, Mrs. F. & 2 boys: ― F. was greatly delighted with the pictures, & gave me a commission for a 150£ […]
Fine ― & always warm anyhow. Letters from R. Jameson W.G. Clark Mrs. G. Scrivens. T. Baring ― R. Sumner, ― (asking me to Addington ―) & later C. Fortescue ― from Florence. At 10.30 came the 2 Miss Beauforts ― & were delighted with the Thebes particularly. Also with the Nile sketches ― wh. […]
Bother. Very fine all day. But Dalzells’ people came, & Mr. Bergmann early: & later Woolner & Palgrave, & later Jessie Foy & Emily Jones ― which last staid a long time. Jessy must have been amazingly pretty ―. ――― ἀλλὰ1 ――― I painted very little, except that early Ι repainted Mr. Whitmore’s sky & […]
