Rose at 5½. Very wet, but it cleared at 8 ― & became misty fine. Wrote many letters, & some of the April 1857 Journal all the morning till lunch, & then till 2½ again. ― Read & dawdled till 4. ― Poi,1 ― walked alone in the woods, & partly in Up-Park: ah! those trees! ―

Dinner, ― & singing afterwards. ―

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

  1. “Then,” Italian. [↩]