12 July 1847 – 18 July 1847

Having received a civil little note signed ' S.R.' giving me leave, I went to Mr. Rogers's house in St. James's Place, and was shown through three rooms hung with good pictures. In the parlour Raphael's ' Christ in the Garden,' Guercino (Mr, Rogers's favourite, the servant says). Landscape by Rubens, Guide's ' Crown of Thorns,' Rembrandt, etc.

Liverpool. Coach to George's Dock, Maiden City steamer. Walk, dull narrow lanes between huge warehouses, numbers of Irish. Breakfast in small hotel. Steamer — Cumberland mountains. Isle of Man — gentleman on deck remarked that was ' a fine island to be out in the sea.' Drunken sailor-passengers at horseplay on deck, afterwards fell asleep in a heap.

Came on deck at Moville, beautiful morning ; the Foyle looked spacious and fine as we glided up to Derry.

Coach, fine day; Strabane, Stranorlar, and through Barnesmore Gap to Donegal. Old James greets me with his kind old smile and says, ' Sure, you've seen all sorts of elegance.'

To Ballyshannon. My father in the garden.