11 January 1875 – 17 January 1875

Helen and I call at Cheyne Row about half past ten in the evening — show him proof of Early Kings of Norway^ second article. (He is particular to the minutest point, and rages against printers. Mary copied out all the MS., with no small labour.)

Carlyle calls at my house about 4. I go with him in omnibus to Oxford Circus, and we walk to Wells Street for Samuel Laurence's Studio. The painter is gone for the day, but a civil pleasant woman shows us in, and we see L.'s copy of the picture which C. maintains to be of John Knox — also portrait of Thackeray. We walk down Regent Street to Piccadilly. C. in a very kind mood ; he into omnibus.