Monday 12th.--... Woolner has been hard at work these two days on his new figure in sculpture, which he has blocked out in clay. Patmore called on him yesterday, and talked of my poem,[187] in which he finds a most objectionable absence of moral dignity, all the characters being puny and destitute of elevation. He means nevertheless to read it through again, that he may be able to judge of it in detail without looking so much to the scope--or want of scope. These are very much the objections that we had all foreseen, and acquiesce in.... Thursday 15th.--Gabriel got the paper stretched for of his study. He and I saw Hunt, who has suited himself somewhere in Bayswater.... Thursday 15th.--Gabriel got the paper stretched for the nude cartoon he intends to make for his picture of the Passover, and began drawing the figure of Christ from a little boy whom Collinson discovered some time ago, and whom he has painted in his _Emigrant’s Letter_. Gabriel wrote to Miss Atwell to come to-morrow, as he wants her for the figure of the Virgin. We went in the evening to Calder Campbell,[188] who offers his services for our Magazine, and will hunt up subscribers.... Sunday 18th.--Gabriel began at his design for _Paolo and Francesca_, but did scarcely anything. We therefore read away at Browning, Tennyson, Lowell, and the _Stories after Nature_. Monday 19th.--Gabriel was occupied about his design.... To-night was a P.R.B. meeting at Millais’s, at which we were all present with the exception of Woolner.... Millais means to make the spirits in the air[189] half human and half like birds. His brother has begun painting a little from still life etc., and Millais intends to get him to do landscape-pieces. Hunt has gone on with his etching. Stephens is still engaged during the day at the Museum. He offers to draw-in the perspective scale in Gabriel’s picture.... We discussed two or three points concerning the magazine. First, that of advertising; and it was unanimously considered that, as anything of the kind would, to be effective, swallow up some £10 or £15 without doubt, it will be as well to drop it altogether. In the second place, as regards the big “P.R.B.” printed at the head of the prospectus. To this Hunt now most strenuously objects[190].... After our return Gabriel continued making sketches for his design. He intends that the picture should be in three compartments. In the middle, Paolo and Francesca kissing; on the left, Dante and Virgil in the second circle; on the right, the spirits blowing to and fro.... [Illustration: (Alfred Tennyson, sketch by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)]