14 August 1865 – 20 August 1865

Sunny. Yacht Pilgrim — the monkey — am shown the young Millionaire's sea-journal and observe such spelling as, ' addopt,' * to or three,' * oceant,' — but of course he may spell as he likes.

Headache, depressed. Walk to Aubrey House, meet Captain Barton, pleasant friendly man ; he has a turn for languages ; has lived near Buda, and knows Hungarian. Charles Tennyson Turner, like Alfred, though of shorter stature. Manner peculiar to the family, at once dignified, odd, very easy and natural ! Way of speaking odd but distinct, and the phraseology always original. Enter C. R. Weld with fishing tackle and one trout, — talk on Natural History — terrible to be attacked by an Eagle, ' like a flying bulldog,' I say : ' Couldn't be anything much worse than that,' says C. T. T. I like him much, and we seem to take to each other.