4 October 1875 – 10 October 1875

Back from Eastbourne — at C.'s 3.20. Carlyle and Mary back from Keston Lodge. C. and I go out, rain, shelter in public-house, allowed with scant civility, and then go back for his coat. Carlyle never carried an umbrella ; in wet weather a waterproof coat. He very seldom caught cold. C. — ' We had a successful stay at Keston. Saw Sir John Lubbock ; Charles Darwin several times. ' I had not seen him for twenty years. He is a pleasant y^/Zj-minded man (I thought this a very curious phrase), with much observation and a clear way of expressing it. Has long been an invalid. I asked him if he thought there was a possibility of men turning into apes again. He laughed much at this, and came back to it over and over again.' C. praises Owen's paper on ' Petroleum ' in Fraser.