Saturday, 18 May 1861
Gray dull, cold, dry. ― Some sun, later.
Letters from Mrs. Clive ― & Frankland.
Put outlines on Canvass, (tracings,) for
Lord Clermont’s Dead Sea
Mr. Whitman’s Thebes
――――――― Thebes ―
Jameson’s Ioánnina.
No-one came at all at all.
Packed & arranged mightily.
At 6.30 went to Brie’s & ordered 6 ft. of drawers, ― & to S.W. Clowes, who was just going out: so we joined tactics, & dined together at the Blue Posts ― very pleasantly & well, ― for 8/― each. ― Went home & smoked with him afterwards. Home by 11. ―
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[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]