Monday, July 13th.--Hunt, with Gabriel’s co-operation, removed the majority of his property to Brown’s study, etc.... A most cheeky letter received from Cottingham, in answer to a civil enquiry relative to the price payable for the _Morning_ and _Evening_,[161] left him in a state of profound disgust; when he was relieved therefrom by a note from Egg[162] informing him that he had sold the Rienzi picture for 160 guineas to Mr. Gibbons, and requesting to see him to-morrow morning on some other business. Hunt swears that he’ll cut Cottingham altogether, and leave him to find another man of talent (of whom Cottingham asserts that he knows plenty) to do two fair-sized pictures for £50. In the evening Gabriel and I went to Woolner’s with the view of seeing North[163] (whom, however, we did not find at home) about a project for a monthly sixpenny magazine[164] for which four or five of us would write and one make an etching, each subscribing a guinea, and thus becoming a proprietor. The full discussion of the subject is fixed for to-morrow, at Woolner’s.... Woolner has been working at the _Euphrosyne_. Tuesday 14th.--Hunt called on Egg, and received the money for his picture. Mr. Gibbons is also to give him a commission for not less than another 100 guineas; and Egg thinks that, after seeing the picture of the Early Christian which Hunt is now engaged on, he will probably select that. Gabriel has settled to go with Hunt to Paris, passing by Ghent and Bruges, which Egg strongly recommends them to see. A second letter to Gabriel from John Orchard,[165] the painter, has been received. He had written for the first time nearly a week ago, expressing the most intense admiration for the _Mary Virgin_, and entering into a long metaphysical disquisition on the principle of adopting the mode of thought and the practice of any preceding age, which he condemns. In his present letter, in answer to Gabriel’s reply, he says that he hopes to call and see the picture on Saturday.... We went to Woolner’s to settle on our contemplated magazine. The title is to be _Monthly Thoughts in Literature and Art_, with a sonnet on the wrapper.... Wednesday 15th.--... It was proposed that the magazine should be increased to forty pages, two etchings, and 1s. each No. I wrote the first eight lines of a sonnet for the wrapper, to be considered with others.... Thursday 16th.--Gabriel made a study, from a girl whom Collinson recommended to him, for the head of the angel in his picture,[166] which head he means to do over again.... Friday 17th.--Gabriel began painting the head of the angel; and he wrote two stanzas of a French song, _La Sœur Morte_[167]....