{"id":13497,"date":"2011-02-11T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2011-02-11T02:27:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T00:27:44","slug":"monday-11-february-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2011\/02\/11\/monday-11-february-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 11 February 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interlaken<\/p>\n

Fine early \u2015 but then dark, & at 10 \u2015 snow. Also a \u2018favourable\u2019 notice of \u2018Masada\u2019 in the Times,1<\/a><\/sup> but which of these occasioned the other \u2015 the snow or the critique, I am at a loss to say. Wrote to Sir R. Bethell<\/a>. \u2015 C.F.<\/a> & Mrs. Davidson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Painted for some hours at the foreground of Interlaken. Alfred Tennyson<\/a> came \u2015; he was particularly nice & friendly, \u2015 & I was wholly wrong in thinking he had got into Pattledom \u2015 since he & the Welds<\/a> went about in a cab yesterday to all sorts of Strafford, & Stafford places & streets!! \u2015<\/p>\n

Soon after he went came Dr. & Mrs. Gray<\/a> & Mrs. Stokes<\/a>: \u2015 I had my Egyptian drawings out \u2015 & after a time they became interested in them. Then came William Lushington<\/a>. \u2015 \u2015 All went at 4.30 \u2015 except W.L. who & I, walked down to Whitehall Gardens. Sir Walter<\/a>, good slow Sir dreamy Walter! \u2015 & kindly & almost perfect Lady James<\/a>! \u2015 fancy \u2015 their daughter is 17!!<\/p>\n

Walked with W.L. as far as Belgravia, & then returned, to dine at St. James\u2019s Hall. \u2015<\/p>\n

Home by 7.30.<\/p>\n

Wrote to Mrs. Empson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n

  1. \u201c… for truth and conscientious work,, perhaps the most noticeable thing in these rooms, is Mr. Lear’s large picture of the \u2018Rock Fortress of Masada, on the Dead Sea\u2019 (349). The time is early morning; from a foreground of arid cliff rise\u00a0 the yellow sandstone buttresses, on the very top of which stand perched the scanty ruins of the stronghold of Eleazar, overlooking the deep slaty blue of the plain that stretches to the Dead Sea, whose steely waters are\u00a0 backed by the wall-like mountains of Moab. Overhead is a limpid, gray sky, with a few wreaths of cloud.\u201d “Exhibition of the British Institution.” The Times<\/em>, 11 February 1861, 10. For more reviews, see Blog of Bosh<\/a>. [↩<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Interlaken Fine early \u2015 but then dark, & at 10 \u2015 snow. Also a \u2018favourable\u2019 notice of \u2018Masada\u2019 in the Times,1 but which of these occasioned the other \u2015 the snow or the critique, I am at a loss to say. Wrote to Sir R. Bethell. \u2015 C.F. & Mrs. Davidson. Painted for some hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13564,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}