19 November 1877 – 25 November 1877

Ask Tollman at new bridge, * Seen Mr. Carlyle ? ' ' Yes, gone round other bridge, with two gentlemen.' I over and meet them in Battersea Park. Carlyle, Sir James Stephen, and a quick-eyed, good-looking, semi- American old young man who talks very fluently and well on China and Japan. * The Japanese are trying the languages and systems of England, France, Germany, Holland.' Describes the suicide, by order of the Tycoon, of a noble who fired on some foreigners : temple, by night — dirk or knife wrapt in silver paper on small table of white wood. Speech — bows — throws off upper garment — cuts his belly across — head cut off by friend. It is Mr. Mitford {Tales of Old Japan), now in the Woods and Forests Department.