19 February

Sunday 19.th Wet day. All the day taking a list of my books &c.

preparing for my departure next week. In the Ev~g _ altho’ it

rained hard, I met A. G. We first went to a Confectioner’s, then

to a Restauranteur’s in the Haymarket, lastly ad Casam Candidam

^(the White House)* in platea’ Soho vulgariter dicta, — ubi puellam, ### licet

primo repugnantem ^et mecum colluctantem — tandem vici, et in amoris

amplexibus #### subagitavi. Dii boni ! Quantum#### voluptatis habui ! Nun=

quam me memini tam bene tam pulcre formatam mulierem iniisse.

########## Satis est! —

* Afterwards pulled down, & on its site the house of Cross & Blackwell erected.

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