Slept better: yet would not rise before 8. No letters. \u2015<\/p>\n
Noise of front room distracting. \u2015 Despair.<\/p>\n
Wrote several letters. \u2015\u00a0 Thurston Thompson<\/a> the photographer came: \u2015 afterwards C. Wynne<\/a>. \u2015<\/p>\n Could not apply to work: London kills all my energy, & confuses me wholly. \u2015<\/p>\n At 3 went to Zoological Gardens. \u2015 (Thompson<\/a>, whom I heard was dead, is yet living.) \u2015 At 6 called at the older Gibbs<\/a>\u2019s, & waited \u2015 but only saw him as I was going away at 6\u00bd. \u2015<\/p>\n At 7\u00bd I walked across the Park \u2015 & at 8 was at T. Baring<\/a>\u2019s.<\/p>\n There were Mrs. B. \u2015 looking unwell \u2015 alas! how silly! \u2015 & Maltby<\/a> \u2015 (afterwards I found him to be a friend of Tom Lushington<\/a>, & he had been lately at P.H. \u2015) \u2015 Sir G. Grey<\/a> \u2015 one of the most agreeable of men ever. \u2015 Lord John Hay<\/a>. \u2015 & Layard<\/a>.<\/p>\n A very pleasant dinner in all ways. \u2015<\/p>\n After all went \u2015 Baring & I smoked & sate till late: \u2015 he is thoroughly kind & good: & always \u2015 it seems to me, improving & improved.<\/p>\n Walked home: \u2015 nearly 1. \u2015<\/p>\n X18<\/p>\n [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slept better: yet would not rise before 8. No letters. \u2015 Noise of front room distracting. \u2015 Despair. Wrote several letters. \u2015\u00a0 Thurston Thompson the photographer came: \u2015 afterwards C. Wynne. \u2015 Could not apply to work: London kills all my energy, & confuses me wholly. \u2015 At 3 went to Zoological Gardens. \u2015 (Thompson, […]<\/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\/6261"}],"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=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}