Rose at 5.30: ― & drew till 9 ― (Gethsemanes.) Very calm & pleasant. Walk with Sir J.J. ― Breakfast.

Peel & Morier went afterwards. ― Walk with Granville Vernon. C. Newton is to be married, to Miss Severn! ― ― I am extremely glad.

Later ― walk with Lady W. & G.V. ― & we fix on a print from a topography. Then came C. Fortescue.

Then Lunch. ― Then no end of storm & rain ― & cloud ― but I got to the “hint” with Mr. H., & also drew a good (sic) but by degrees. ― Sang to Lady J. & Mrs. M. ― At 6 ― walk with C.H. ― & Sir John J.

Dinner: much laughter & fun. Evening ― si cantava (― cioè ― io ― assai.[)]1 ― Bed at 11½.

Lady W. wants a 2nd picture ― but I do not see my way to that this year.

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

  1. One sang (― that is ― I did ― quite a lot[)]. [↩]