Monday, 29 October 1860
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Off the rails again! ―― Ahi!
Rose at 7 ― not well. 8 to 9½ ― saw the 2 Nuneham pictures hung up.
Breakfast. ― Left at 10, Sir H.J. Willoughby also.
The French Princedom at the Station.
Stratford Place: not at all well.
Slept ― κῶμα1 till 2.
Lunch. Worked at Cross’s Baalbek.
At 4 walked towards Daddy Hunt’s ― but met Egg ― who told me Daddy was at Hastings: so I walked back with Egg.
Boles out of order.
Musters’s 7 drawings came back framed.
Went to R. Hay’s: found him ill enough. ―
At 7½ went to Edgar Drummond’s ― a most pleasant evening. Mrs. D. is really interesting ― but was unwell, & looked so.
Talk of Greece & Sinai.
& D. walked partly home with me. ―
I wish Γιώργιος would write.
Letter from Lord Clermont, declining the Civitella.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
- [In a] coma. [↩]