{"id":15046,"date":"2011-05-16T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=15046"},"modified":"2011-05-15T22:30:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:30:06","slug":"thursday-16-may-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2011\/05\/16\/thursday-16-may-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 16 May 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very fine \u2015 warm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/clowes-sw\/\">S.W. Clowes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/evans-walter\/\"> W. Evans<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/bradshaw-samuel\/\"> Mr. S. Bradshaw<\/a><br \/>\nMrs. S. Bradshaw.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/henry-dr\/\"> Dr. Henry<\/a><br \/>\nMrs. Henry<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/peel-archibald\/\"> Archibald Peel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/lambton-george-2nd-earl-of-durham\/\"> Earl of Durham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Took up carpets.<\/p>\n<p>Finished \u2015 in a way, \u2015 the Cedar drawing \u2015 possibly for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/clive-edward\/\">E. Clive<\/a>. Anyhow \u2015 put away all drawing &amp; painting, which, with my connexion of multiplicities, is wholly impossible in May of London.<\/p>\n<p>Dunque, non v\u2019\u00e8 altro a far.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_15046\" id=\"identifier_0_15046\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"So then, there&rsquo;s nothing else to do.\">1<\/a><\/sup> \u2015<\/p>\n<p>The first visit was jovial &amp; friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> was sedate &amp; surprising.<\/p>\n<p>The 3<sup>rd<\/sup> was aristocratic &amp; incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>At 5 I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/foord-and-dickenson\/\">Foord<\/a>\u2019s, &amp; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/james-sir-w\/\">Sir W. James<\/a> \u2015 &amp; back, making calls. Then at 7.30 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/fairbairn-thomas\/\">Fairbairn<\/a>\u2019s. \u2015 (Intanto<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_15046\" id=\"identifier_1_15046\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Meanwhile.\">2<\/a><\/sup> \u2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/lushington-franklin\/\">F.L.<\/a> had called.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15048\" title=\"1861-05-16\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/1861-05-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The evening as well as dinner were delightful: constant converse of a good order. Mrs. F. is, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/holman-hunt-william\/\">Daddy<\/a> had described her \u2015a kind of Emily Tennyson.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy\u2019s Two Gentlemen of Verona was on the walls \u2015 &amp; <em>what<\/em> a picture!!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_15046\" class=\"footnote\">So then, there\u2019s nothing else to do. [<a href=\"#identifier_0_15046\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_1_15046\" class=\"footnote\">Meanwhile. [<a href=\"#identifier_1_15046\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very fine \u2015 warm. S.W. Clowes. W. Evans. Mr. S. Bradshaw Mrs. S. Bradshaw. Dr. Henry Mrs. Henry Archibald Peel Earl of Durham. Took up carpets. Finished \u2015 in a way, \u2015 the Cedar drawing \u2015 possibly for E. Clive. Anyhow \u2015 put away all drawing &amp; painting, which, with my connexion of multiplicities, is [&hellip;]<\/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\/15046"}],"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=15046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}