29 January 1866 – 4 February 1866

To Brockenhurst by train, where Aide meets me and we walk to Lyndhurst. Forest Bank, dinner — Aide and his sweet courtly old Lady Mother, ' Gussy ' Gore (son of Mrs. Gore the novelist), and his wife, Paul Graham, etc.

Forest Bank. A. and Paul Graham to church. I at home, look at A.'s sketch- books (1847, etc.), chiefly of foreign scenes. Find Vol. of my own poems, marked here and there. After lunch, A. and I call at the Gore's — a curious place. The house was a brewery, and an odd delightful room was made of a storehouse and loft thrown together. Mrs. Sartoris, who thought of taking the place before the Gores, said it would be 'the romance of rheumatism.' Dinner at 7. Drawing-room, fashionable chat of Mrs, Aide and Paul Graham (who is just of age).