3 September 1849 – 9 September 1849

Unexpected letter : appointed Sub- Controller at Ballyshannon. ;^i2o a year. Ramsey^ October 10. — Walk on shore — into coffee- room : characteristic island scene : Mr. G. at table, a plate of sandwiches before him, nodding stiffly off his chair with half-closed eyes : T. asleep on the sofa. I waken G. for half a minute, when he goes to sofa and lies down, half on T., half on a chair. 1 sketch them. Landlord comes in. ' When you've done with them I want to get 'em off.' Sketch done, I waken them with a tune on the poker and fire shovel : G. puts a bed-chamber candlestick twice on his head before he is convinced it is not his hat ; they get away somehow. Island of Trinculos and Calibans, no Prospero, alas no Miranda.