2 August 1869 – 8 August 1869

Internal gloom. To Lyndhurst (invited) ; Whitehorn meets me with Miss Dickson's carriage : Bird's Nest, Miss D. and Mrs, A'ide. I walk off over moor, Matley Wood — nothing good ! Begin to feel better. Mem. — ' Songs of despair, O Poet, only songs of despair,' ^ Return by road. Dinner at 8. Miss Dickson and I talk ' gloom, Lymington etc' She speaks wisely and kindly as usual, but agrees that Lymington is no abiding-place. ' Poem, in Allingham's Blackberries.

Walk to Whilley Ridge ; cowboy says the bull ' blared ' {i.e. bellowed).