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Appendix II
Virginia Surtees (Editor)
Description: The Diary of Ford Madox Brown
The Diary of Ford Madox Brown
Appendix II
Author
Virginia Surtees (Editor)
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 1981 by Yale University
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Appendix II
Text of verso and recto adjoining missing pages (see p. 163).
as we were putting up holly in the parlour (our drawing Rooms) for/ folding doors looked so beautiful that I thought I had as/ yet undecided, but it will be a family on Christmas eve putting/ but this idea is as yet in embryo. She will be ill somehow seated/ to her children. Katty will be lugging nolly along to see the/ years old — & she holds him under the arms & drags him about by/ & paint. Yesterday I worked at thinking it over & settled much/ nothing & the frame I have although not paid for. I stick/ already painted save the figure. Last eveng I did little but send/ to church with Lucy & the sermon being unutterably dull/ work a pretty way of doing it some will say. After church I/ plaid as a tartan the same that was painted in the last of England/ to spread out & I rather ashamed of it being of a faded light/ an other this winter, money goes so fast & fearfully. The/ my dressing & lumber room. I find by a rough calculation/ 29 yesterday I began at Lowes Dickinsons painting in a black silk dress/ insisted on making it £40 instead of £39.9. & paint for the/ am to designe & show him, after this home found a letter from/ save for bare outlay so of course this is knocked on the head/ to Maria feeling forced to decline their kind offer, Lowes/ 8th Feby To Dickinsons again before 10 at work at the black silk/ I worked at drawing in the parlour in the “Holly” Picture also at the/ Wednesday 31st to Dickinsons & there on going in at a man in [illegible]/ [?chin] for all intricate outlines from nature not figurs/ sound knowledge of the human figure does anatomy/ persuaded me & Lucy is go there for £35 per ann. / kind persuasion to this favour. Sunday all/ at night Cromwell. Wednesday spent straining a / Hunt & William Rossetti called & we had a grand/ of the Accadm. Hunt thinks a curse hangs over all/ approve of the doings of the R.A.s we will have nothing/ of his travels & a stout hearted traveler he has been/ left at ½ past one. Thursday to Dickinson as above / idea of it. Cromwell one hand in pocket looks at/ on his active period) his horse is to be old & pale as/ foreground crosses the grass touching the horses. / seen through the horses legs. A straw yard to the/ over the meadow behind through the gateway into/ Huntingdon town in the distance the Ouse &/ worked late & enthusiastically at this in a state/ to designing in earnest. Yesterday morning saw/ are marvellously fine some of the others so so. / the eveng from 9 till past 12 at the Cromwell design. 9 hours/ began it, eveng went to Princess’s at half Price with Emma 6 hours/ 10£ on account home, had the butcher boy, painted him in Woolners sketch 8 hours/ morning from 10 to 5 at Lowes. Painted Bonnet etc very tired after Dinner — slept 6 hours.