Damp ― rainy.

T. Fairbairn came at 9.30 & we went to Woolners ― where the child=[grousse] is beautiful.

Then I to Routledge.

Afterwards to Dents ― Passport &c.

Robert (Dr.) Phillismore called me in the Strand, & asked me to dine on two days, ἀλλὰ δὲν ἐμπωροῦσα.1

At 3 to W.N.’s ― & to Bells’ ―

(They are all away ― “going to their mountain home.”[)]

Ἐτελειώθη2 Broad St. ―

Then to W.N.’s ― & with him to Woodberry.

Willie ― Ralph ― & Albert Jourdan were there ― & the Evening was very pleasant though poor W.N. feels leaving Woodberry.

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

  1. But I could not (NB). [↩]
  2. Perhaps “finally,” Nina writes “this means finish or complete, make perfect.” [↩]