August 29. Monday.
I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica all the morning, & writing some of his emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They seem to me ingenious & satisfactory.
Not in the humour for trying to make the darkness of the digamma at all visible & I stumbled & grumbled over Kidd’s notes & Dawes’s text on that subject, nearly vainly & quite stupidly!— N B. Try it tomorrow.
Henrietta to the heath: & B & A in the carriage to the Bartons. My company was asked for in a dispensable manner,—of which I eagerly took advantage by staying at home. Read a few pages of Isocrates. I wish I had a more readable copy than mine, which is dark & squeezy,—& printed in columns.[1] My wishes are so miscellaneous, that I might as well be comprehensive, & wish for Aladdin’s lamp at once.
Mushroom hunting. Bro was pick nicing today on the Malvern hills, with twenty eight other persons, besides Sam. It was proposed that they shd. meet “on the top of the monument”.[2] In that case they might have also met at the bottom of a monument.
1. H. Wolf’s 1613 edition, which formed Lot 785 of Browning Collections.
2. A 90-foot high obelisk erected in Eastnor Park by Earl Somers in 1812 and inscribed to the memory of three members of his family.
