Jonny almost the length of Regents St.,
enjoyed the store windows much -
Came home in a snow shower, and
to summon a cab - got home safely
for a shilling. Mrs Morgan & Miss Dow
called, Mr Deane too. Letter from Mr
Robinson enclosing Capt Clite’s photograph
which Kelton & Pegrini had been
commissioned to send me; very good
likeness.
Friday Feb 10th Spent some hours at the
British Museum, a perfect world of itself,
such immense collections of ancient &
modern curiosities, such wonders of fish
flesh or fowl - of wood & stone - mummy
of Cleopatra - the Portland Vase disappointed
me - though really a beautiful work of art
but such a small affair to what I had
expected. Saw Lady Jane Gray’s prayer book
which she used on the scaffold - Among the
many interesting & makeable autographs was
a letter of Joseph Addison - precisely
like mother’s writing, I would have sworn