Bad cold: unwell.

Horrid cold weather but bright & fine.

Letter from D. Fowler.

Wrote to
D. Fowler
J.H.B
C.F.

Could work but little ― yet I imagine that at last I concluded the Campagna.

Sat. read. slept. wrote.

Various folk came ― the 4 pictures being set out.

One old lady thought I said Petrarch ― & asked if the other Arab was Laura!

Mr. & Miss Wagner ― Ricardos ― St. Quentin &c. &c.

At 5 went to the Post. At 6 dined at the Wagners. Mr. Darby ― Mr. C. Darby’s brother. Mr. & Mrs. J.H.W. ― pleasant enough. Sang a good deal afterwards. Lightening & cloud.

Horribly cold.

[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]