Fine early & sun!! ― Later clouds. Warmer.

C. Fortescue.                 before I went out
Octavius Smith |          when I was out.
―――?                       |
Mr. [Malsden]              |
Lady F. Harcourt |
Mrs. Somers Cock & 2 children          |          after I returned
Lady Buxton |
Mrs. Head |
Harvey Bagot.                                     |
Mrs. Wyatt |
Miss Prie.                                             |

at 10.30. Went to the R. Academy, a task necessary. Also to National Gallery.

Also to Daddy Hunt’s picture & bought a life of him.

Worked at E. Clive’s Cedars for a time, & at 6.30 to Frith’s.

Variety of duty at dinner time. Both Mrs. A. & Mrs. D. are very pleasing, but a triad of discourse was impossible.

The Dixons are very Tropic=English.

Frith is as good-tempered & small as of old. Mrs. F. more cheerful. Ansdell always pleasant.

Evening ― Mrs. Broox played. ― But there were ― ἂς εὐχαριζοῦμεν τόν θεόν! ― κανεῖς χαλία.1 ―

Ἣλθα είς τήν οἰκείαν διὰ ἒνα Κὰβ.2 at 12 P.M.

Frith said, Mulready once told him this. He, (M.) had called on Wilkie, then living in Norton St. (?) ― & had found the street noisy with Bagpipes ― which noise increased to the house & was found to be inside it, & insupportably loud [continues in the previous page, connected by a line] Said Wilkie, when he came down ― “Its just my mother who is dee=ing, & the Bagpipes were what she liked best, so I’ve just had them to her bedside!” ――

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

  1. Let us thank God ―no one was bad (NB). [↩]
  2. I came home by Cab (NB). [↩]