6th.--Walked to Tottenham to call on Godfrey’s Cordial:[111] found him polite, but not too _empressé_. Told me his rooms were full, which is surely true; and that he did not buy any more pictures, only a sketch now and then of White. He thinks old White “of exquisite taste.” He has Millais’ _Isabella and Lorenzo_, which looked much faded, but I suppose it is I who have brightened; it is, however, very fine in expression. His _Huguenot_ was being engraved. Windus would not let Millais make a sketch of it. Millais threatened “he should never have another picture of his”: if he sold one to a dealer, it should be with the proviso that it never should be sold to Windus. Windus would not let it go to Paris. His collection is a strange medley of good, bad, and indifferent. Some noble drawings of Turner, however; one good Etty, _Robinson Crusoe_; a fine Bonington; a lot of Stothard’s drawings; and some X X X P.R.B.’s;[112] also a noble study of Millais, an ugly girl in black receiving bad news; also a very queer one, of a girl all hair with a wedding-ring.[113] My _Wiclif_ looks quite faded, but my sketch of _Cordelia and her Sisters_ noble. He did not ask to see what I was doing, nor I him. I had better not have gone; it was Seddon made me. 7th.--At the _English Fireside_ again: finished it.... 9th.--... Began the baby’s hand in the Emigrant picture from Emma and Oliver; painted them in badly. In the evening drew-in the man’s hand again, from self and Lucy in a glass. 10th.--... Out into back yard, and painted the man’s hand from my own, with Lucy holding it (in a glass): snow on the ground, and very cold.... Katty seems as if she would turn out witty. Funds reduced to £5--not received the money for the picture. 11th.--Sunday.... Obliged to work. Rain; so could not paint in the yard after sweeping away the snow. Altered the drawing of the hand again; painted the skirts of the coat indoors. After tried to get out again, but it came on to rain. I hope this will not be a month of bad weather, or I am floored--only 28 days left. This evening put the _English Fireside_ in its frame.... 12th.--Out in the yard--three hours at the hand. Rain, then worked at it three hours in. Evening, little boy and nurse as models; he too big, so drew-in Katty.... 14th.--Changed cheque (£9. 9s. for _Studies of Head_) received. Enquired after models: all the red-headed boys in Finchley came here to-day. Tried to work from one, could do no good; painted-in the hair of the boy in corduroys detestably; sent him off by five. After tea another boy with Mary and my Kate for the group behind the principal ones. Terrible work trying to do anything from a woman and two children. However, I did what is the only way in such a case; I did nothing, not even get in a wax; and at length I saw some faint glimmer of an opening to begin through. I did a very little: and then, after they were gone, I drew the group from inspiration. Katty sits well.