3 September 1866 – 9 September 1866

N. and G. sup with me. Heywood's Woman Killed with Kindness^ and Heine's honest Lottery Office Keeper (which delights N.), After they go I read in Swinburne's volume, lent me by Ned, but can't like it : great display of literary power of a sort, to what result } so elaborated, so violently emphatic, so really cold-blooded.