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Finer=cold. No good accounts of the Beadons. ……

Sorted letters ―― what affection in all her life! ―

At 3 or 4 Rose came; ― he examined & pummelled  & what-notted me ― & says there is no rupture; but a bad strain, wh. will ― in all probability come right.

At 5 I went down to Waterloo Place & bought a belt. Left cards on F.L. ― Lady W. ― Mrs. Gladstone, ― Lady Farquhar, ― & Col. Hornby ― & Gibbs.

Dined alone ― & sorted letters from myself to dear Ann, in 1846 ― 47 ― 48 ― 49 ―― 1853, 4 5―6―7―8 ― & 1860. ―

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