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1830 March Friday 26 7 10/.. 12 1/4 Fahrenheit 46° at 7 3/4 a.m. – Went out (walked) at 8 35/.. Round about way to furniture shop beyond Dupuytren’s, Place de L’Eglise Saint–Germain l’Auxerrois – Thought the things in general dear – 1/2 dozen good strong common chaises en paille d’occasion, at 18/. and a small round noyer table à diner 11/., not worth more than 14/. new – Then went to rue Traversière St. Honoré, No. 41 – Things really reasonable there, as said Madame Droz – who recommended the place – Little round mahogany washstands 20/. and ditto table de nuit 20/.   A nice new mahogany bookcase with green silk curtains 80/., really cheap – Small tables à thé with marble, new 45/.? but new, strong bottomed chairs good (en cerisier or noyer) 5/. (said 5/50 at first and that these chairs would be elsewhere 6/50, as I found to be correct – Very nice little table à marbre with a leather top, the other side covered with cloth making a bureau, breakfast or card table 45...

1830 March Thursday 25 7 12 3/4 Twenty five minutes dozing on the pot. Fahrenheit 48 1/2° at 7 3/4 a.m. Read from 116 to 138, volume 1, Flore de France – Got Annales des Sciences Naturelles for January – Breakfast at 9 1/4 – Dawdled over it reading the Annales till 10 – Off to Madame Galvani at 10 1/4 – She was not quite ready – Waited 10 minutes – Talked – Read aloud to her from page 374 to 384, Volume 4, French translation of Hallam’s Middle Ages – She gave me a letter for ‘Miss Paxton, Honorable Mrs. Leeson’s, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Angleterre,’ which I myself directed, promising to send it by the courier tomorrow – My aunt came for me at 1 – Left Madame Galvani at 1 20/.. – Drove to 56 rue des Arcis, and gave back 1 of the pounds of tea I got there yesterday, as MacDonald thought they had perhaps cheated me and given me four franc tea !   Then drove to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk as far only as Auteuil in 1 10/..hour, then to the Jardin du Roi – Risi...

1830 March Wednesday 24 7 1 + NN Fahrenheit 48° at 7 3/4 a.m. – Breakfast at 9 1/4 in 20 minutes – Read (before breakfast) the first 34 pages, Volume 4 Moyen Âge traduit de l’Anglais de M. Hallam – At 10 7/.., drove off to Madame Galvani’s,. supposing she would be at home to give me a lesson – No! Just going out to Madame Brownrisse, No. 32 rue de Rivoli, so set her down there – Then went to No. 56 rue des Arcis to my old tea shop, removed from No. 3 rue des Lombards – Then bought cheese at Bertrand’s, and home at 12 10/60 – About 1/2 hour talking to my aunt about the tea, etc. etc. – From 12 50/.. to 2, read from page 50 to 70, Volume 1, Flore de Français – A little drowsy once for a few minutes – Drove out with my aunt at 2 1/4 to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk in 1 40/.., and home at 5 – Very civil note from M. Droz of excuse – Madame Droz not well enough to come – Note also from Dr. Tupper – could not come because called out of town – Dressed – D...

1830 March Tuesday 23 8 50/.. 1 10/.. Got up for 20 minutes at 7, but lay down on the bed and slept – Breakfast at 9 3/4 in 20 minutes   – M. Julliart came 10 – and staid till 12 55/.. 19th lesson – brought another sheep’s eye – dissected it in part myself – He separated the sclerotic from the choroide, and both from the retina, and shewed me each of the 3 membranes, particularly the latter, very well – At 1 20/.. Set off to M. Audoin’s – Admitted into his cabinet d’étude – His wife drawing – Painting a small wooden table beautifully – Never saw people look happier – Quite taken with his nice, light study – Pamphlets and manuscripts beautifully arranged in little portefeuilles made so as to contract or enlarge at pleasure – Saw the abdominal contents of a largeish butterfly – Very curious – About 1/2 hour there – M. Audoin then went with me to my little apartment – Paid him for brick floors covering and for the fastening penny to the porter – Then drove to B...

1830 March Monday 22 6 50/.. 1 5/.. Fahrenheit 49° at 7 3/4 a.m.   Dawdled in dressing – Doubting whether to go out or not, Bois de Boulogne – Out at 8 5/..   Walked my usual walk (to Boulogne, Auteuil, La Muette, and back to Porte Maillot) in 1 40/.. hour and back at 10 1/2 – Breakfast at 10 40/.. in 20 minutes – At my desk at 11 5/.. – Drowsy and sleeping for about an hour, then reading very attentively from page 195 to 211, Volume 1, Gregory Economy of Nature – On effects of convex and concave mirrors – A woman from Mademoiselle Paulmier, couturière rue de la Ville l’Evêque, No. 29, brought bill for Miss Hobart amounting to 327 francs, which she seemed, from George’s saying she begged to know when she might call again, to expect me to pay immediately – I said I would write to Miss Hobart, and settle the matter when I had heard from her – Then wrote the following ‘Paris Monday, 22 March 1830 Dearest Vere, I was just going out as George brought me the ...

1830 March Sunday 21 6 55/.. 12 3/4 Out at 8 – To the bois de Boulogne – Walked just 2 hours from porte Maillot to porte de Neuilly, by Bagettelle to Longchamps, thence down to the river – then by the rue de l’Esperance to Boulogne, and Allée de Bourbon and rue de Madame to La Muette, and home at 10 3/4 – Breakfast over at 11 1/2 – Nodding over Volume 2, Haüy’s Physics, article lumière – Dressed – From 12 20/.. to 1 10/.., read the morning service and Sermon 3 Bishop Ogden – Came to my room at 1 1/4 – The porter at Bagatelle told me to apply to M. le baron de Damas for permission to see the place, generally shewn on Wednesdays, but might give me another day – Wrote these 5 lines and then asleep till two.   This sleepiness is terrible – Reading and nodding over Haüy again till 3 50/.., when M. Audoin called and staid till 5 – To go to his house at 1 1/2 on Tuesday to settle about some things for my little apartment and to see a butterfly dissected – At 5 10/..,...

1830 March Saturday 20 7 12 10/.. Incurred a cross last night thinking of Vere – Reading Satire 6, libre 2, Horace .   Breakfast at 9 25/.. in 20 minutes – Then reading and nodding over Cloquet on the eye – M. Julliart came at 10 1/4 and staid till 1 1/4 – brought 2 sheep’s eyes – 18th lesson – Off at 2 – called at Amyot’s – saw the catalogue – Flore Français published at 48/. and Magendie at 15/. and should only get 10 per cent de remise , that I should not mend myself by buying of Amyot’s instead of B- [Bechet]   Then took back M. Julliart’s books, the folio volume. Cloquet’s Anatomy and the volume of Bichat’s Anatomie Générale and volume 2 Physiology de Dumas, and left them with the porter No.18 Quai Pelletier, then to the College de France – Cuvier’s 25th lecture brought us down to the 16th century, from which time to now he will divide the subjects into 5 branches, anatomy and physiology, zoology botany, mineralogy and chemistry – He divided the whole...

1830 March Friday 19 6 3/4 12 5/.. No motion, but one after breakfast. Out at 8 – Fahrenheit 49° at 7 and at 7 3/4 a.m. – incurred a cross last night thinking how nice it would be if I could have some nice girl at my little apartment near the Jardin du roi – Walked 2 hours – My usual way to Boulogne, then all along the edge of the bois to Auteuil and thence as usual to the La Muette gate – Walked to the Etoile on the route Elysée Charles to make up the 10 minutes wanting of 2 hours, and home at 10 3/4 – What shall I do with [so] much hair on my head! – though not at all hot this morning (very pleasant, rather hazy at 1st).   My hair too moist to dress – Breakfast over at 11 20/.. – Wrote 3 pages and the ends to ‘Miss Norcliffe, Langton hall, Malton, Yorkshire, Angleterre ’ and sent it at 2 1/2 – Wrote a little note to Miss Hobart, and was going to send it at the same time with Madame Galvani’s letter to ‘ Lady Glynne, 36 Berkeley Square,’ my own directing, whe...

1830 March Thursday 18 7 5/.. 12 5/.. Dawdling over 1 thing or other till 9 – Bad cold that came on yesterday and a little sore throat last night.   Not worse this morning – Cut open Volume 4, French Edition Hallam’s Moyen Age – Breakfast at 9 50/.. in 20 minutes – at 10 1/2. Went to Madame Galvani, taking Volume 4 Hallam, meaning to read aloud and have a regular lesson – Found her in a warm bath – ordered the carriage at 1, and sat talking of one thing or other till that time – no reading – Said I would go every Wednesday and Thursday till the commencement of M. Flourens’s lectures – Today to be counted my 1st lesson.   Lady Craven, to whom she goes every day, rue de Rivoli, hotel Dovilier, going to Italy in 2 months – Madame Galvani’s yearly expenses, living as she does now, 2400/. – Asked what she thought of my idea of taking a little apartment away from my apartment, rue Godot – She said I might have the apartment below her – Said it was too far from the J...

1830 March Wednesday 17 7 12 25/.. Fahrenheit 46° at 7 1/2 a.m..   Finish morning – Streets rather wet – At my desk at 8 10/.. Reading first 50 lines, Satire 2, Juvenal – Then dozing – How is it I am so perpetually sleepy?   Is my little study too small, too close? or (which I think is the case) does my hair want cutting – The turn up and the comb too heavy – Breakfast at 9 25/.. in 25 minutes – M. Julliart came at 9 50/.. Staid till 1 35/.. – Brought his case of trepanning instruments – Had brought up from the kitchen the bone of a leg of mutton, which we trepanned – Then speaking of écrouelles ( Scrofula) cest l’état étiolé des hommes, said I after listening to his description – yes! Exactly that.   Then spoke of the case of my aunt Lister – The shortening of 1 thigh – Shewed me how there was luxation (and then the condyle was slipt behind the socket , so as to be shortened 2 or 3 inches – Then unluckily got on the subject of politics – I standin...