Very dark at intervals ― & at last, rain.

Letters from Jessy Foy ― E. Tennyson, ― & Mr. Edwards.

Wrote to []1 ― & Mr. Bell.

Worked at the Cedars.

M. Parkyns came & sate 2 hours: a really nice good fellow.

At 6 ― S.W.C. ― but I walked out with him, to Pall Mall & back.

At 7.30 ― came Daddy Hunt ― & our dinner & evening were, as always, ― delightful. He is a very solid good fellow, & wonderful in contrast to J.E. Millais ― all outside & froth. We talked much: ― of many things. ―

At 11.15 he went.

William Raleigh called at noon, to wish me good bye ―: he starts for Melbourne to day.

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

  1. A symbol I don’t understand, which may refer to the “Jessy Foy” written above it. [↩]