Fine up to 10 ― after wh. dark & wet mostly. Worked somewhat at Statues of Thebes. Came ― Elim Avigdor Mrs. Beadon Mr. Snow. Mr. Whitmore. G. Middleton. ― At 4 Scratched out the Duck in Whitmore’s Thebes. At 5 ― in cab ― pouring rain ― to Bergmanns. Mr. Philip B. & a […]
Lighter. Worked somewhat at the last of the 1860 pictures, ― the 2 statues of Thebes. ― Wrote to F.L. Lady Westbury. No one came. So at 3.30 I went across the Park, & to Brompton, & called on the “Jones’s” ―― & there was Jessie Foy ― Jessie is wonderfully like her father & […]
XX9 Wrote to E. Avigdor Lord Clermont J. Edwards Lady Goldsmid H. Grenfell B. Husey Hunt Capt. Jameson W. Nevill E. Newsom Adml. Robinson Mr. Whitmore Pitchy dark day. Awful fog & darkness all through. Wrote or slept by fitz. At 4 called on “Miss Beauforts,” whom, however, after all, I scarcely saw ― it […]
Fine & bright as yesterday. Finished Lord Clermonts Dead Sea, I believe ― & Jamesons Jannina. At 2 Foords people came & framed in all but the 2 Statues of Thebes. Did not go out all day. Dined at home. [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
Fine: directly after breakfast went to Waterloo Station, where were Caroline Jones & two of her daughters, who went back when C. & I went to Leatherhead ― by 11.10 train. (When last in England Mrs. Chalmers had called on her! ― It seems my cousing [sic] Emily C. is dead: also George C. ||Frederick […]
Morning light ― worked at the Jánnina. Wrote to Ralph Nevill. Ellen Newsom Marstrand James Edwards ― Mrs. G. Clive. A day nearly light throughout!!!!!!!!!!! So that I did more work at the Jannina, Thebes, & Athos & the Dead Sea in 3 hours, than for days past. At 2.30 W.N. came ―――――――――― ? At […]
Dark ― fog. ― No letters. Worked a little at the Thebes ― & put in the Duck. After which, a frightful fit of indigestion, & blackness, followed by (XX7) ―sleep & total eclipse. ―― But, apart from health, how is it possible to sit to work in a dark room? At 5 I walked […]
Fine overhead, but fog below. (Letter from Mrs. G. Clive.) After breakfast ― to Gt. Western. Roëd & Heléna R. ― Post boy & ticket=taker. Off to Windsor ― thick fog! nothing, not even the Castle visible!! ― “Going over the Castle” ― the anti, Vandyke & other rooms; & the odious hustle. From the […]
Very fien all day. Letter from Mr. Edwards ― wrote to him, Ellen, Caroline Jones & Bickers & Bush. Mrs. G. Scrivens & Daddy Hunt. Dickenson sent & placed Petraija, Matterhorn, & Schloss Elz in their frames. Good Roëd & his daughter came. After that worked ― not over well, at Athos, & Thebes. At […]
Fine all day. Wrote early to Roëd cum Boothwick, about the Windsor excursion. Then at 11.30 ― to Omnibus, & the Angel ― walking thence to Highbury Woodberry. Only W.N. Miss Head, & Ralph N. there, the last of whom is a very nice humanity ― &, for all I can see yet, by a […]
