Wednesday, 19 December 1860
Very hard frost ― bright & very cold. Rose at 7½ ― & packed.
Left Oatlands at 10.30 ― to be absent for a week ― the 6 unfinished pictures left behind. Took the 7 small ones with me. At Foords by 12 ― & then to 15 Stratford Pl.
Letters from C.F. & F.L. both very nice.
Pleasant banker’s balance.
Wrote to C.F. ― F.L. Ann, S.W.C.
Foords people came to put in the small pictures.
London is truly dreadful to me ― yet the place is at least quiet. From 5 Greek till 6.15.
Dined at the W. Beadons’. W.F.B. rather better. ἡ Κυρία, παχεία.1 ― Willie at home.
Mrs. Sneyd, (Mother of late Mrs. Cecil Beadon) ― Rev. ― Edwards, & a Mr. Beecher.
Η Ἑσπέρα, μάλλον βαρεία.2
Cold.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]