{"id":7251,"date":"2009-09-27T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2009-09-23T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T07:50:16","slug":"tuesday-27-september-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2009\/09\/27\/tuesday-27-september-1859\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 27 September 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wrote to
\nGush<\/a>
\nPonsford<\/a>
\n J. Hornby<\/a> &
\n R. Fowler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greek till 8. \u2015 Very wonderfully lovely day all through, & now are beginning those beautiful evening Western skies, which often go on till Xmas.<\/p>\n

At 12 W.<\/a> & E. Newsom<\/a> came, & I put out my 2 pictures carefully for them; & they really were pleased. \u2015 Then I showed them a few of the Palestine drawings which he entered into more than she: but how difficult must it be to do that! Even I believe that after a few years, if I lived here, I should forget all I have seen, save dimly generally, or brightly by fits. We are as we are. Bother! How little way of improvement one makes! \u2015 \u201cIs it worth the keeping?\u201d \u2015 so hard a trial? \u2015<\/p>\n

Yes. Better strive on.<\/p>\n

Concerning painting, I worked at the big Petra to day. At sunset, walked by the sea \u2015 low tide \u2015 & Martello towers \u2015 & to the post. Then dined on everlasting cold beef & novel oysters. \u2015 Read Channing<\/a>.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Letter from R. Martineau<\/a>: very nice. Daddy<\/a> & he return here next week.<\/p>\n

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

  1. Perhaps the Transcendentalist poet William Ellery Channing<\/a> (1818-1901), but more probably his omonymous uncle, the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century (1780-1842), whose works had had several editions in the first half of the century. [↩<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wrote to Gush Ponsford J. Hornby & R. Fowler. Greek till 8. \u2015 Very wonderfully lovely day all through, & now are beginning those beautiful evening Western skies, which often go on till Xmas. At 12 W. & E. Newsom came, & I put out my 2 pictures carefully for them; & they really were […]<\/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\/7251"}],"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=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7337,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions\/7337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}