William Allingham’s diary, 1881

H. and I at Cheyne Row with Mary and Alick. The Funeral to be entirely private.

To Cheyne Row — upstairs, into all the rooms. Everything in place, quiet, unchanged — with one exception ! — grave, pathetic, venerable.

Meet Mary Carlyle and Tommy — Tommy happy.

Dine at Birket Foster's — Keene's sketches, etc.

Sandhills. H. and I to Blackdown — Foxholes. H. draws. Tennyson and I sit with her. Beauty and picturesqueness — T. says, ' take a trim, snug, unbeautiful house,…

To York [The British Association].

Fryston. Breakfast 8.30. Lord Houghton reads out part of letter from Carlyle to his wife, written here at Fryston (for which he paid ^io : I OS.). It begins, 'My…