About this time I lost many days through interruptions of a domestic nature, but resumed work again about the 15th May at the pictures of _King Lear_ and _Baa Lambs_; doing about two months’ work to the _King Lear_, which I sent to Manchester along with the _Waiting_, and perhaps five weeks’ work to the _Baa Lambs_ for Glasgow, all of which returned unsold. During this period we were residing at Hendon till the 1st September ’53, when we removed here at Church End.[77] About the 15th September I recommenced painting on the _English Autumn_ picture, and finished the view from the back window about the 20th October. From this period till the 10th of June 1854, I must have wasted four weeks through Lucy’s holidays, two through nervous disorder of the brain, and about one through Emma’s illness. Of the remaining time, about two months was taken up again repainting the _King Lear_; one month on the picture of _The Last of England_; three days on repainting the picture of _Winandermere_ (since sold to White[78] for £5); ten days on a lithograph of _Winandermere_ (a failure);[79] nearly a month on an etching of _King Lear_, yet unfinished;[80] six days on a lithotint of _Baby_ (a failure); and the rest of the time on _English Autumn Afternoon_, which last (which took about six months) was sold at Phillips’ Auction for nine guineas to Dickinson, the frame having cost four. He has since sold it to Charles Seddon for £20, and declares he will not make any profit by it, but put it to my account. The _King Lear_ was sold at the same time for fifteen guineas to John P. Seddon, having cost eight months’ work, and the frame £3. 10s. Shortly after this, White, who had just purchased the two Wiclifs from McCracken, came here, and bought the _Cordelia_ sketch for £10; picture of _Waiting_, £20; sketch of _Baa Lambs_, £5; and _Winandermere_, £5; in all £40. Since which I have spent one month in finishing the _Cordelia_ for him along with the others. Having finished these and got the money, I wasted about a week, and have since been engaged finishing-off a study (two views of the same girl’s head, painted at Southend in ’47)--one day at this, and the rest at making a picture of study of _Windermere_ painted in ’48, when with Lucy at the Lakes. I must now endeavour to keep up this diary more accurately, but have become lazy through discouragement--yet not so much so as some people think--but broken in spirit, and but a melancholy copy of what I once was. “Ah what to me shall be the end?”