in want of a cook & man, I fancy she
is a poor housekeeping, one of the kind
who dont [sic] much neglect her house
by being [illegible deletion] out of it, but the other way
She seems a good creature, faultless
temper, but oh, so lazy - she tries his
soul I know.
Thursday Feb 9th - My darling child has
been an angel - seven years today -
Walked through the Strand & Fleet St to
St. Pauls, but after Italy churches as such, don’t
astonish me - This is doubtless very large &
beautiful, but so unfurnished - and
dreary. Saw the old Fleet St prison
where so many literary people had to
retire when they got into tight places.
Christ Church School, where Coleridge
& Lamb had their young ideas taught -
took a bus home & soon Mrs Rich
called, a pleasant old lady, once
handsome - Walked with nurse baby &