Sunday, 1st December.--Gabriel completed the repainting of the angel’s head in his _Ecce Ancilla Domini_. His translation of the _Vita Nuova_ has been returned by Tennyson, who says it is very strong and earnest, but disfigured by the so-called cockney rhymes, as of “calm” and “arm.” Gabriel intends to remove these before any step is taken towards publication. Monday 2nd.--Stephens, whom I had not seen for some months, called.... We discussed the shamefully obsolete condition into which P.R.B. meetings have fallen.... I spent the evening with Hunt, who has painted some more of the foreground of his _Two Gentlemen_ picture--fungi and dead leaves. He goes to Lambeth Palace of mornings, to do the cell in his other work, the _Claudio and Isabella_. While I was there he fulfilled the pleasant duty of making out an account against the Trinity House for work done on the Rigauds thereof in September, to the value of (between him and Stephens) £54 odd. We talked a good deal of the chance of establishing a P.R.B. household, where three or four could live, and paint in common. It might probably be to be done, if Millais would join; and he seems very anxious to live out of London.... Tuesday 3rd.--Gabriel did something on his design, _Music, with a Dance of Children_.[247] He talks of sending his ballad _Denys Shand_[248] to _Tait’s Magazine_, having found a good poem of the same class in last Number. I read through almost all the new matter in Mrs. Browning’s volumes, included in which is a poem I suppose to be that which Patmore says she borrowed without acknowledgment from his _Woodman’s Daughter_. The resemblance, however, is merely in the moral; the treatment being utterly, and the details of incident considerably, different; nor is the title here printed _Maud at her Spinning-wheel_.... Thursday 5th.--Gabriel painted on the head of the Virgin in his last picture. Friday 6th.--Gabriel painted a left hand to his angel Gabriel, thinking it objectionable that one hand only should be visible of each figure. Saturday 7th.--Woolner, having written at Gabriel’s request to know the price of the rooms in Red Lion Square lately occupied by Harris, called with a note from North Senior[249] the landlord, saying that he will “submit” to £4. 4s. monthly or 20s. a week. He stipulates however that the models are to be kept under some gentlemanly restraint, “as some artists sacrifice the dignity of art to the baseness of passion.” This seems a very advantageous prospect for Gabriel and Deverell, on whom we called to acquaint him. Little seems to have been done to his pictures: to the _Hamlet_ scarcely anything.... We called at Millais’s, having engaged to see his picture and design, but found we had over-stayed our time. However, I met him almost immediately, parading Tottenham Court Road, together with Hunt and Collins, on the search for models....