30 June 1873 – 6 July 1873

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. Campbell, and Macpherson. The Q Highlanders C. once more declared to be of Scandinavian origin. Thornton Hunt is dead — ' Leigh Hunt was saying one day, what a fine thing it would be if a subscrip- tion could be made to abolish Hell\ but I remarked, " Decidedly a bad investment, that would be ! " — which grieved Hunt considerably.'