17 October 1910 – 23 October 1910

Dissected a Squilla for which I paid 2s. 6d. to the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Ambition Am attempting to feel after some practical philosophy of living--something that will enable me to accept disappointment with equanimity and Town Council meetings with a broad and tolerant smile. At present, ambition consumes me. I was ambitious before I was breeched. I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy. Since then I have struggled with this canker for many a day, and as success fails to arrive it becomes more gnawing.