5th.--Started in the rain over the mountains by Eskdale to Windermere. 6th.--By rail to Liverpool. Saw my _Wiclif_ there up high: looked damned bad. 7th.--To Chester, thence to Birmingham; saw Exhibition, and back to London that night. 8th.--Went to Gravesend to see my darling. 9th.--Went to City; afterwards painted at my view of Windermere at the sky (two hours’ work). 10th.--All day writing a letter to _Builder_ about Thomas.... 12th.--Began a portrait of R. Bromley’s daughter (four hours). 13th.--Portrait not dry enough to go on with. Sent for Mrs. Ashley and child, and began a sketch of them for a little picture of a mother and child.[51] Made a sketch in the evening, in black and white, of the view of Windermere (three hours’ work). 14th.--Laid-in the view of Windermere with a thin coating of asphaltum, and white for the high lights: drying-oil and copal. After dinner sketched the outline of a small sketch for _Mother and Child_: after tea worked on the helmet and sword of Lord Byron[52] (eight hours’ work). 15th.--Painted a sketch of the _Mother and Child_: in the evening worked at the Byron’s sword (seven hours). 16th.--Worked at the portrait of John Bromley about four hours.... 18th.--Went out with Rossetti to see his picture.[53] 28th.--Painted other arm of Julia Bromley (two hours), and in the evening wrote a defence of Thomas’s Lectures for _The Builder_.[54]... 31st.--Wrote all day at the letter to _Builder_.... 4th November.--Tooth all day; in the evening wrote about influences of antiquity in Italy.[55]... 12th.--Did very little; painted a copy of Lucy’s head[56] (two hours). 13th.--Drew a portrait of Mrs. Ashley’s baby, and wrote in the evening on Italy and Art (three hours).... 16th.--Worked at the little picture: laid-in the background, and altered the legs of the child. In the evening thought a great deal about the subject (four hours). 17th.--Wasted half the day, and composed _Lear and Cordelia_.[57] 18th.--Went to Pratts’s, and subscribed for armour and old furniture: tried to work, but did little.... 19th.--Began work late; composed _Lear and Cordelia_ (six hours). 20th.--Wrote an answer to “Amateur” in _The Builder_, and started for Gravesend. 21st.--Came home by 8 p.m. Drew at sketch of _Lear_ (three hours). 22nd.--Went to Pratts’s. Set to work at one till half-past three at the mirror; spent the evening studying grammar (three and a-half hours). 23rd.--Began work at ten till half-past three, at mirror and gilt leather: asphaltum, cadmium, lemon-yellow, ivory-black, sienna, etc.; magilp and copal. In the evening worked at the composition of _Lear and Cordelia_ (six hours’ work).... 25th.--Up late. To work by eleven till one at the gilt leather. John Marshall came in: did little more but arrange a bunch of keys, and begin them. In the evening worked at the _Lear_, but have not yet settled it (five hours).