{"id":6028,"date":"2009-06-13T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2009-05-31T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:50:48","slug":"monday-13-june-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2009\/06\/13\/monday-13-june-1859\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 13 June 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finer. Rose, not very early, but I read over a great deal of the Mt. Athos tour in bed. \u2015 Prayers, breakfast, &amp; mirth, &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/empson-rev-wh\/\">W.E.<\/a> &amp; I walked a bit of the way to Embley: I all the way. A beautiful depth of greenness is this country.\u00a0 What trees &amp; flowers! \u2015 Pleasant breakfast &amp; afterwards walk with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/long-mr\/\">Mr. Long<\/a> about the grounds \u2015 Rhododendra \u2015 pines &amp;c. &amp;c. Anecdotes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/byron-george-gordon-6th-baron-byron\/\">Lord Byron<\/a>, from Mr. L. \u2015 to whom at Harrow he, Lord B., always gave 5 guineas when he came down. Mr. L. says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/trelawny-edward-john\/\">Trelawny<\/a>\u2019s account is infamous \u2015 &amp; false: that B. had only one club foot: that he had seen him frequently \u2015 [continually] naked in bathing, &amp; that he never wore drawers. \u2015 Walked home: talk with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/empson-mrs\/\">Mrs. E.<\/a> &amp;c. \u2015 &amp; then, 12\u00bd came, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/taylor-dr\/\">Taylor<\/a>, a Doctor, who dined with us. \u2015<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like dining at 2 \u2015 unless I must be quiet afterwards. \u2015<\/p>\n<p>At 3.15 W.H.E. &amp; I set out in a pony chaise \u2015 &amp; went near Lyndhurst &amp; up to Stoney Cross, &amp; W. Rufus\u2019s stone<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_6028\" id=\"identifier_0_6028\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"The Rufus Stone is located in the New Forest, near the village of Minstead, in the county of Hampshire. The stone is a memorial to William the Conqueror&amp;#8217;s son, William II, nicknamed Rufus.&nbsp; It was erected in 1745 and marks the spot near which King Rufus was accidentally killed by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrell on august 2, 1100.\">1<\/a><\/sup> \u2015 &amp; so back to Wellow by 6.45. \u2015 I was much surprised &amp; delighted by this excursion. The afternoon was bright &amp; lovely; \u2015 the glades &amp; [fresh] tufts I had been prepared for, but not for the views over the whole woody district. \u2015 At the door, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/nightingale-family\/\">Mr. Nightingale<\/a> \u2015 who told us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/temple-henry-3rd-viscount-palmerston\/\">Lord Palmerston<\/a> is in again. \u2015 Tea with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/people\/empson-mrs\/\">Mrs. E.<\/a> \u2015 &amp; talk &amp; some music after, but I was not very well. Supper &amp; singing also again.<\/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_6028\" class=\"footnote\">The Rufus Stone is located in the New Forest, near the village of Minstead, in the county of Hampshire. The stone is a memorial to William the Conqueror&#8217;s son, William II, nicknamed Rufus.\u00a0 It was erected in 1745 and marks the spot near which King Rufus was accidentally killed by an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrell on august 2, 1100. [<a href=\"#identifier_0_6028\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finer. Rose, not very early, but I read over a great deal of the Mt. Athos tour in bed. \u2015 Prayers, breakfast, &amp; mirth, &amp; W.E. &amp; I walked a bit of the way to Embley: I all the way. A beautiful depth of greenness is this country.\u00a0 What trees &amp; flowers! \u2015 Pleasant breakfast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028"}],"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=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6120,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}