Wednesday Sept. 7.
Wrote a note to Mr. Boyd about the direction to Mr. Bohn, & about Papa’s letter—[1] No letters from anybody.
I began to consider Romans, as Mr. Boyd desired me to do. I read also a little of Isocrates. An invitation from the Martins to Bro & Henrietta, to go with them down the Wye.[2] Henrietta was heroic enough to resist; & was good humoured besides, as I say of myself sometimes.
1. For the letter, see BC, 2, 326–327. Henry G. Bohn, a London bookseller, had advertised (in The Times, 2 September 1831 and other issues) a catalogue of “above 4,000 articles of the first quality, in every department of literature, … Among the black letter and Aldine editions are many that have never before been heard of.”
2. A river that rises in Wales, and flows west of Hereford, to join the Severn near Chepstow. Large stretches of it are renowned for scenic beauty.
