Rose at 6 & worked at 2 Gethsemanes till 8.45. ― Walked on the Parade, & again with G.S. ― … Breakfast: ― & drawing & talk.

Rain. ― At 2 G.S. & I walked ― standing up now & then from violent rain ― to V. Crakes. Crawling children ― persecuted dog. ― Then we walked at the back of Hastings, ― rain, again, ― & so to old Mrs. S.’s ― who is now 84. ―― At 6 dinner ― Mrs. W.S. also. Evening very tolerable.

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