Tuesday 27th.--I had a letter, with a message from Gabriel in answer to my enquiries, that the table of contents for No. 1 of the _Thoughts_ remains as before settled, with the addition of Patmore’s poem and Stephens’s paper on Early Art ...; also that several are proposing to alter the title of the magazine to _The P.R.B. Journal_, and desiring me to write my opinion on the subject to Stephens. This I did accordingly, representing many objections which appear to me quite decisive, especially connected with the share in the magazine of some who are not P.R.B.’s. I also wrote Gabriel in the same sense, requesting his and Hunt’s views of the matter. In these letters I brought up an old proposal to get “P.R.B.” printed somewhere on the wrapper--a course to which the same objections do not apply. I did 116 lines more of my poem.... Friday 28th.--Gabriel left yesterday morning with Hunt for the continent.... Monday, October 8th.--Collinson, to whom I went in the evening, is getting on with his _Emigrant’s Letter_; he has done a considerable part of the window and its adjuncts, finishing up the trees outside to a pitch of the extremest minuteness; he is advanced with the heads of the boy writing, and the girl. He has made a sketch in colour for the picture, and has introduced another boy looking over the one writing.... Wednesday 10th.--A letter came from Gabriel, who gives me an elaborate criticism of my blank-verse poem, and sends me five sonnets he has written--the first suggested by hearing the bells while ascending to the summit of Notre Dame; the second written leaning against the July Column, and musing on the Place de la Bastille; the third concerning “the rate of locomotion which the style of the Old Masters induces in Hunt and himself at the Louvre”; the fourth on a picture by Giorgione, of two naked women and two men with musical instruments; the fifth excited by the disgust he experienced at witnessing the cancan at Valentino’s. In reference to this last scene, he declares Gavarni to be “a liar and the father of it.” He has been to see the working of the Gobelins tapestries, which has so altered his ideas concerning the matter that he says he shall probably make an entirely new design for Kate the Queen,[178] when he is prepared to paint the subject.... Saturday 13th.--At Stephens’s I saw Hunt’s and Gabriel’s letters. The former says that they are to leave Paris on Saturday for Brussels. The latter sends three sonnets--the first, _Whilst waiting for the train to Versailles_, being imitated from the introduction to Tennyson’s _Godiva_, the second, _On the road to and in the Garden of Versailles_; the last, _On a Dance of Nymphs by Mantegna_....