March 19 Friday

St Joseph's day: so a fiesta, shops shut.
Cross-copying Claudius.
Laura going over her poems.
Wet day. Walked to Lugano by upper way in rain.
Four drafts of a poem – The Fallen Tower.
Have lately read (re-read) or reading The Hill, Heart of a Child1 by Frank Danby, Leonard Merrick stories, Choice of Evils2 by Mrs Alexander.
Recapture of Brihuega from Italians.

Editorial Notes

1 The Heart of a Child by Frank Danby a.k.a. Julia Frankau. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. eds.
2 A Choice of Evils, A Novel by Mrs. Alexander a.k.a. Annie Hector. London: White, 1894. eds.