5 October 1874 – 11 October 1874

Helen and I about 9.30 to 5 Cheyne Row. Upstairs : Carlyle in gray dressing- gown, reading. Mary Aitken ; C. returned lately from Scotland. ' Saw many things that were interesting and pathetic to me — at Kirkcaldy, the Provost extremely attentive. To Edinburgh ; wished to speak to no one, but could not manage that. St. Andrews, curious place — ruins, getting larger now.'