{"id":2013,"date":"2008-11-07T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2008-11-01T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T09:13:04","slug":"wednesday-25-august-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2008\/11\/07\/wednesday-25-august-1858\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 25 August 1858"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rose as soon as I could see \u2015 but the dull gray gloom gives me a world of depression. After breakfast omnibus to Great Northern Hotel \u2015 where were Alfred<\/a> & Emily Tennyson<\/a> & the 2 boys \u2015 dear little fellows. Passed 2 hours there \u2015 pleasantly \u2015 & then in a cab with [AT]1<\/a><\/sup> to 40 Sackville St. where he took lodgings. \u2015 I to Drummond<\/a>\u2019s,\u00a0 whence I got \u00a3100 \u2015 & then to Farrant<\/a>, Roberson<\/a>, Foord<\/a> & Jones<\/a> \u2015 & cab to Lord Carysfort<\/a>\u2019s by 12\u00bd. Poor Proby<\/a> \u2015 wasted to a skeleton, & helpless \u2015 yet lively & just as he was in most things. Speaking of B.<\/a> I lost my temper, & foolishly mentioned his having abused him to me. We lunched, \u2015 & I staid till 2. \u2015 Then cab home. Omnibus to City. W. Nevill<\/a> just returned from Bonn: \u2015 he seems in doubt & difficulty about his boys \u2015 & I agree to go there. We started at 4 \u2015 & on the way called at Vertue\u2019s, where Frith<\/a>\u2019s Photography highly delighted me. \u2015 At Woodberry,2<\/a><\/sup> Willie, grown a gaunt lad, odd \u2015 but yet cheery & I think good at heart \u2015 & Jeffrey, very tall & thin & apparently good & amicable. We walked in the garden \u2015 but neither respect Will enough. However, things were not bad, \u2015 nor at dinner \u2015 nor afterwards, with little Guy \u2015 & I cannot but hope better days may yet come. Marriage is a doubtful matter. \u2015 At 7 I was driven home in a perspicacious pony chaise.<\/p>\n

X<\/p>\n

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

  1. Lear uses Tennyson’s monogram. [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  2. William Nevill’s residence. [↩<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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