3 November 1873 – 9 November 1873

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 ; and then talks without censure of Goethe at Weimar and Frau von Stein. Leslie Stephen writing on Jonathan Edwards. C. : ' What is the use of it } — sticking like a wood-louse to an old bed-post and boring one more hole in it. — There is deep truth in Calvinism.'