Monday, 10 October 1859
Fine. Letter from P. Williams: they seem utterly ignorant in Rome.
Wrote P. Williams & others.
With pictures unfinished & unpaid for, I do not know what to do. ― Yet I think I must go. ― o what a bore it all is.
As Daddy H. said yesterday ― there is no repose.
‘Still from one trouble to another thrown ―’
Accounts from Italy still more doubtful. ―
Unwell & head bad.
X5
Worked at Campagna. ― Despairing of completing the Petra.
Day fine.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]