10 June 1867 – 16 June 1867

Fine, warm. To Brockenhurst by invitation to the Bowden Smiths, croquet, roses, hot sun. Field-path to station, red campions and kingcups. Down train comes in with Mrs. Cameron, queenly in a carriage by herself surrounded by photographs. We go to Lymington together, she talking all the time. ' I want to do a large photograph of Tennyson, and he objects ! Says I make bags under his eyes — and Carlyle refuses to give me a sitting, he says it's a kind of Inferno ! The greatest men of the age (with strong emphasis), Sir John Herschel, Henry Taylor, Watts, say I have immortalised them — and these other men object !! What is one to do Hm ? ' This is a kind of interrogative interjection she often uses, but seldom waits for a reply. I saw her off" in the Steamer, talking to the last. Dine 7.30 — Sit on door- step and hear corncrake in the moonlight. Haymaking now.