Est-il possible? ― rain ― then snow: ― then frost ― all kinds of filth.

W. Raleigh came at 9.15. Breakfast & looking at drawings & the Masada picture. ――――― Writing to Foord, & then “Institution[.”]

At 2, with Raleigh walked to Paines’ Hill & Cobham, & on to Esher, & back by Hersham. ―

Dined at 6½. ―

Talk & Tennyson. W. Raleigh is certainly a most interesting & pleasant fellow: fully colonial & foreign experience for so young a man: & [withal] of taste & “cleverness.” ―

He went away at 10.30.

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