9 October 1865 – 15 October 1865

To Lyndhurst and visit Miss Dickson at her new house 'The Bird's Nest.' Miss D., quick and pleasant in talk — writes music (as ' Dolores ') and sings her own songs very sweetly in a small voice. Her setting of Tennyson's ' Brook ' is enormously popular and has brought hundreds of pounds to the publishers: she has got about ^\q by it altogether. But (they would argue) it was a speculation, and the success has helped her name.