William Allingham’s diary, 1873

C. picked up a bit of bread in the street and put it on a ledge, blaming such ' waste of food.' He often praised Cobbett's Cottage Economy, ?in6 spoke of a poor…

Arranged with Messrs. Longman, Green and Co. for the publication of an edition of the Rambles of Patricius Walker.

To C, Sir Baldwyn Leighton there, who asks, ' What has Emerson written } ' C. — ' Oh, many little books, which are very well worth reading. English Traits can be…

To South Kensington Museum, Emerson and Browning in the porch, Miss E. inside. Walk round musical instruments. Browning looks fondly at Handel's favourite…

Call at Royal Institution, 2.40 ; upstairs Miss E., Tyndall, Huxley, Emerson ; Huxley (looks ill), ' Indigestion — so depressing.' W. A. — 'Carlyle boasts of having…

Call at the Priory on Mr. and Mrs. Lewes — friendly reception. Mrs. Lewes had sent me her 'reproachful regards.' Carlyle, Emerson, Max Miiller on Language. Lewes…

At Carlyle's house about 3. He spent about fifteen minutes in trying to clear the stem of a long clay pipe with a brass wire, and in the end did not succeed. The…

Bright and mild. To Carlyle 3.15. We walk, Kensington Gardens. C. said, 'Here is May — poor May ! not forward with her work this time — Tyndall has not come near me…

Fine and warm. To C. 3.15. ' Not seen you for a long time.' He is smoking, throws a printed circular into the fire, and denounces the Promoters of Companies —…

To C. 3.10. Walk, Gloucester Road, Kensington Gardens, sit. ' Browning w/// very likely do the Claimant by and by.' ' And call it, what .'' Gammon and Spinach,…

Met Carlyle. We had been talking, on some previous day or days, about Stratford on Avon, to which I had paid a visit this May. When I quoted the tombstone lines '…

To C. at 3. In a new book he found ' — Whatever are you doing .'' ' — ' an abominable word.' We walked to Hyde Park, talking of Russian Tales, Gaelic Tales, J. F.…

To C.'s, carrying some books of poetry to him. He is having a course of reading in English Poetry, and I have lent him Hazlitt's Selections^ Campbell's, etc. Walk,…

C. urges me to visit Crecy and Agincourt on my holiday ; but the truth is that (while I know what the lust of battle is, and read eagerly the story of a well-fought…

Carlyle tells me he is ' sitting ' to Whistler. If C. makes signs of changing his position W. screams out in an agonised tone, ' For God's sake, don't move ! ' C.…

Carlyle remarked, 'I believe I have been a Ritter of some sort these twenty years or more. The diploma is in the drawer yonder.' W. A. — ' Have you ever put on the…

I returned from a little tour in Normandy, Brittany, Jersey and Guernsey.

Carlyle. * Tom Paine has been entirely misrepresented. When I read The Rights of Man I found I agreed with him.' I amused him by quoting from a speech of Lord Derby…

I found C. had been reading Lanfrey's book. He said, ' I am amazed at the character of Napoleon, — it is most devilish ! ' Napoleon must have been dreadfully…

Carlyle's. W. W. Story the sculptor. S. and I speak of Browning. J. S. Mill's autobio- graphy. I walk with Mr. Story to Alexandra Hotel. He is returning to Rome…

Lady Ashburton about Latin tutor for her daughter. C. praises Mary B. ' Tom Stanley going to stand for Maidstone against Lubbock. Amberley, etc' C. preaches morals…

C. speaks of the second part of Faust^ which he has been reading again : ' All this is very inferior to Shakespeare.' We talked of death — I recalled Goethe's…

Germany and Frederick — Carlyle visited various battlefields and ' found something to go on ; Frederick occupied me thirteen years ; about eight in writing ; I knew…