23 January 1865 – 29 January 1865

At Farringford. Breakfast. A. T. says my poems are * cleaner cut ' than most. ' Are you going away .'' ' ' Yes.' ' You'd think it graceful of me to stay with you now .? ' I assured him I wished him to do exactly as he liked. ' Stay till three ' ; but I could not, so bade him Good-bye. He asked me about E. B. Jones and said he should like to know him better. Mrs. T. tells me that her father likes Aubrey House.