William Allingham’s diary, 1850

April

1. 7 April 1850

   A guinea from Household Words for ' Lady Alice,' with a compliment from Dickens. Walk, Rockfields, the valley edge ; Hanagan's steps. After tea wrote ' The…

2. 12 April 1850

   Busy at Office. Goethe's Auto- biography. Riverside, lie on grass, hat off, scribbling down poems ; an ant or spider sometimes crossing the sunny page ; bee…

3. 25 April 1850

   Letter from Patmore, returning ' The Music Master ' ; is going to show my lyrics to Tennyson. Copy twelve new ones and send them with letter.

4. 28 April 1850

   Lines on Wordsworth's death. Evening — revise ' The Music Master.'