23 August 1886 – 29 August 1886

Lucy Toulmin Smith, meet her at train. Garden — grammar, British Museum, Petrie's music, etc.

Tc Aldworth. Tennyson on lawn with Dr. Grailey Hewitt, who has taken a house down here. Ghosts — T. said, ' My grandfather, one night sit- ing up late reading, at College, looked up and saw, close to him, the ugliest old woman he ever saw in his life ; and he also saw his cap and gown, which were hanging on the wall, going round and round the room. He shut up his book and said, *' I'd better not read any more for the present." ' Tennyson looked very fine to-day, grandly simple, gently dignified : the marks round his mouth soft in expression as dimples.