1825: Recievd a letter from Mrs Gilchrist in which she says that Barron Field has offered to edit Octave's miscellaneous papers

1825: A person of the name of Clay came to see me the 'Editor of the Scientific Receptacle' he stopt with me all the rest day he talked much of poetry & Poets but the latter were such names that nobody knew but himself the correspondents of Deweys Mathematical Companion &c &c - he told me an odd...

1825: Wrote a Letter to William Hone's 'Every Day book' signed Roberts with a copy of Verses which I have titled 'A Farewell & Defiance to Love’ & fatherd on Sir John Harrington but I don’t suppose they will get inserted

1825: Heard an old Fen Farmer say to-day that on his farm he finds a great deal of wood particularly Oak Hazel & Yew in the earth he says that the earth is actually nothing else but a decomposition of wood & that it will grow nothing but Oats he says that the Hazel will burn well as fire wood...

1825: Recievd a letter from Mrs Emmerson in which she has discovered me to be the Author of the Verses on Death in the every day book signed Marvel she has oftener been wrong in her guesses & I think if I had not given her some hints of it before I sent it she woud not have found it out now

1825: Sharp came to bid me good bye before he started to London A young Lady was with him of very amiable & pleasing manners who was very fond of Poetry & flowers.

1825: Received a proof from Taylor - the plan is again altered & he now intends to print the Months only & leave out the Tales this plan is one that puts the worst first & leaves the best for a future oppertunity - this proof contains 'February' & 'April' - the last is good for nothing & is not...

1825: Recievd the 28 No of the Every Day book in which is inserted a poem of mine which I sent under the assumed name of 'James Gilderoy' from Surfleet as being the production of Andrew Marvel & printed in the Miscellany of the Spalding Antiquarys - I shall venture again under another name after...

1825: ‘A hive of Bees natives of New South Wales has been recently brought to this country - The Bees are very small & have no Sting but their honey is peculiarly fine' - Stamford Mercury

1825: Found a species of Broom in Bushey Close of a dwarf kind the like sort grows in great quantitys on Casterton Cowpasture - the weather changed very cold but still dry

1825: Paid Stevenson for the Stamford Mercury & gave it up as too expensive

1825: Still uncommonly Hot.

1825: Recievd a letter from Mrs Emmerson in which she tells me that Rippingille is come up & she wants me to start tomorrow - this is one of the hottest days I have known & all my ferns is nearly scorchd up - Began to teach Eliza Holmes the common rules of Arithmetic at the restless request of...

1825: Recievd a letter from Lord Radstock in which his Lordship has made another troublesome request for his letters which he has written to me I cannot hunt them up at present

1825: This day I am thirty-two (or thirty three I am not certain which) - & my health was drunk at Milton by 2 very pretty girls Mrs P-r & Mrs B-n who wishd I might treble the number but I did not drink it in return [3 lines scored out] Henderson has promised me a curious 'Everlasting Pea' a...

1825: Went today to see Artis found him busy over his antiquitys & Fossils he told me a curious thing about the manner in which the Golden crested wren builds her nest he says it is the only english bird that suspends its nest which it hangs on three twigs of the fir branch & it glews the eggs...

1825: Started to Milton - a yery pleasant morning saw a bird that was an entire stranger to me about the size & shape of a green linnet with wings of a brown grey color & the crown of the head a deep black that extended downward no further than the eyes it had an old appearance & tho Artis...

1825: Recievd a letter from Hessey with the £10 which I wanted more then my Sallary came to - & with the News also that they have sold the London Mag:

1825: Mr Sharp from London called on me

1825: Wrote an answer to Hesseys letter of the 30th of June which contained a draft for my dividend & salary & enquired after the stoppage of the new poems also was forced to solicit them anew to send me £10 which I want to pay off my half-yearly accounts

1825: Today is Helpstone Feast Wrestling & fighting the ploughmans fame is still kept up with the usual determind spirit

1825: Recievd a letter from Hessey with the Dividend or half yearly payment of the money in the funds & Lord Spencers Annuity - they always send it in written drafts to be drawn on their bankers for what reason I cannot tell unless it is to make a safe carrying I wanted £10 more than my sallarys...

1825: Wrote to Mrs Emmerson & sent a letter to Hone Every Day book with a poem which I fatherd on Andrew Marvel

1825: Wrote a letter to Taylor - found a birds nest in the thatch of a hovel gable end in Billings yard think it a Flycatchers it resembles in color & shape something of the chat or White throat or more like the sedge bird than either the female sits hard & the cock feeds her with catterpillars...

1825: Recievd a letter from Taylor in which he says that there is twice as much more as he wants for the Shepherds Calendar a few months back one of his causes for delay was that there was not enough to begin on nothing has made a wide difference here by time & left a puzzling Paradox behind it...

1825: My dear Eliza is 3 years old today - I feel anxious to insert these memorandums of my affections as Memory though a secondary is the soul of time & life the principal but its shadow - Observed an Eclipse or some other Phenomenon of the Sun this Morning not noticed in the Almanack I first...

1825: Saw the blue-grey or lead-colored Flycatcher for the first time this season they are called 'Egypt Birds' by the common people from their note which seems to resemble the sound of the word 'Egypt' they build in old walls like the red start & Grey Wagtail

1825: Recievd a letter from Mrs Emmerson & wrote an answer to it - Returned the proofs of January & the Broken Heart & wrote to Taylor - sent some flowers to Mrs Bellairs & am promised the 'Scarlet Anemonie' 'White Peony' & 'Pink Brompton Stocks'

1825: Poor old Coz Day the Mole Catcher dyed tonight after a short illness - he has been a tenant of the meadows & fields for half a Century

1825: Recievd another parcel from Hessey with another proof of the Poems Viz the 'Sorrows of Love' Taylor has cut out a good deal & some things which I think might have stood the parcel also brought a present of Aytons Essays a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these...