Monday, 17 June 1861
Same clear lovely weather.
Slept well, thank God.
Rose at 6. Coffee & a small bit of bread. The dead weary thinking of Ann, & now of Mary, every now & then seems to exhaust all nature within me, & force me to sleep. ――― Penned out till 10. ― read a little. Wrote to Hutchinson & Mrs. Bell. ― Just before 1 Mr. Lever called: he is really a nice fellow.
Dined ― 1.30 ― and at 2.30 went to Villa S. Firenze, where I drew from 3 to 7.30. ―
Called at the Φαρμακερὸς Doctor to get some medicine, for the constipation is returning.
Home by 8.15. ―
Ices & wafers, & b.dy & water & bed at 10.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]