[XXX]1 ― a sad morning! Dry & cold.

Mr. Wood
Miss Wood            most pleasant & nice
Lady Mary Wood

Lady Elizabeth Grey
[Sir] Francis Grey later these 3 ― also delightful2
Fred Sykes. ――― at 5: greatly altered, but a good kind fellow ―: it is not easy to resume anyone (after 14 years,) at once.

Walked out & left cards at Mrs. Farquhar, & Lady S. Vernon. Saw F.W. Gibbs.

At home ― dined at 7.30 ― μόνος.

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

  1. Blotted. [↩]
  2. The list is in part blotted and difficult to read. [↩]