Sept 17 Friday.

Thunder storms, several of them, alternating with strong sun.
Goodbye to Margaret & Leonard & in the evening David Reeves came.
9 pp [pages] of ch [chapter] X Belisarius.
Saw some Chippendale [sic: Chippendal] chairs at Ch[RG] Cranleigh: thinking of furniture, now, for flat.
Walk with Alan there: suggested first lines for his poem & mine.
mine: 'That ghosts walk here, forgive me.'1
his: 'Marshes|should|not be drained, because....'

Editorial Notes

1an early version of No More Ghosts? eds. Check drafts in Buffalo for this 'first line'. DW