Very fine all day ― lovely & calm ― towards sunset. Accounts ― & then went to Taylors, & got £25. Called & left a Nonsense book at Woolffs. Boles all corny. Returned at 10 ― & by 10.30 was working at Athos (Ἀγιού Διονυςίου) till 5. ― Dr. Roberts ― Capt. Vernon ― & […]
Gray ― soft, rainy=looking ― but no rain, warm. Rimasto1 at home, & wrote to Mrs. Clive, & various others. At 2.30 went up to the Maudes: & at 3 to church. Craven preached, not badly. At 5 ― home, & walked out, the longer ― or middle giro, ― meeting Craven, & Luard. At […]
Gray & misty early: fine ― later. East wind. Worked from 9 to 4.30 at S. Dionysio: & well. Col. Maude came in & sate. Early ― at 10 ― I went up to them: howling dog ― “Τι νὰ γίνα ― διὰ τοῦτο πρᾶγμα; ―”1 said Paramythides’s nephew. Letters from Lucy Franville Reg.d Fowler. Mrs. […]
My dearest Ann’s birthday: she would have been 71 today. Alas. A fine gray sunless day, like an English Autumn. Worked principally at S. Dionysio. I wonder what comes after death. Worked till 5 ― when Luard & Le Mesurier came. ― & stayed till 6. 6.30 dined. Penned out from 7.15 ― to 10.30. […]
Fine day ― but very warm & moist, ― clouds ― & 2 small showers. Worked at the [S.] Dionysio, which I put on canvass, from 9 ― to 4. Aubrey de Vere came. At 5 ― went up to the Casino ― to ask after Mrs. D.V. ― met the Lord High ― who […]
Gray ― moist, rainy now & then, very warm. Went early to Taylor’s, to ask about cases arrived by Sidon Steamer: ― & at 10, sent G. for them. Lo ― they came, but one was too large to come upstairs, so we had it opened below: & got all the things out by degrees. […]
Very pouring wet day ― & darkish. Placed, on canvass ― Mt. Blanc from Col de [Balm] Mt. Blanc from St. Martin & Dead Sea ―looking North. Letters from {all by the Regular Trieste Boat, Charles Church T. Cooper. Dickenson. Lady Goldsmid Mr. Gush. Hansen. Mr. Jones. F. Lushington ― he is to be married […]
Wonderful weather again. 1 ― but towards evening ― cloudier, yet always fine. Did not go out all day. Unwell more or less[.] Placed on canvass in outline ― Courmayeur ― Pont Pelissier & Mer de Glace ― Dined at 6.30. (but, tho’ the Ἀτμόπλεον1 came in at 5.30 ― no letters were given out.[)] Penned […]
Fine early: cloudy at 12 ― & mist: hard rain after 1. Unwell: & physic. Did little but read. ― At 2 called on the Maudes, then on the Herberts, & lastly on the Sargents ― getting home by 5.30. At 7 ― to the Woolff’s. Good wines: food così. Evening pleasant. The Florentine is […]
Fine, but cloudy mostly: gleams of sun. Cold, & not well all day. Worked at Turin ― Alps chiefly: from 9.30, to 4.30 Major Peel & Capt. Clifford came ― just as I had set all my paint, whereat I was horrid-cross: but then, Capt. C. is doubless a great bore. Letter from Drummond ― […]
