Sunday, 18 March 1860
Very clear & fine. ― Rose late.
Church. Burgon is intolerable ― Lazarus & Dives,1 ˆ[arguing that it was certain we should have all our members ― vide “the tip of my tongue.”]
Calls on Miss Cushman, & Macbeans.
Walked with Jameson to Tor di Schiavi.
Dined at the Bertie Mathews: ― very pleasant. ―
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
- Dives (the rich man who will be damned) and Lazarus (the poor man that is saved) were common figures in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century moralities and interludes. [↩]