Tuesday, 25 June 1861
Hotter, if possible.
Rose before 5. Half=strength medicine.
Penned out La Petraja.
Letters from J. Senior.
F. Lushington
Mrs. G. Scrivens
& Ellen, ―― about poor dear Mary’s last hours.
Went ˇ[at 11] out to see about the Medicine Receipt, & to buy Photographs: very hot.
Home by 12, dinner.
No sleep for there was just time to square out the Petraija sketch for large outlines.
At 2.30 to Petraija: high wind: & could not draw well, irritated ― & nervous.
Came away at 6.40 ― sad & silent walk home in the dust.
This Petraija affair is a trying one. ―
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]