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9 March 1845: Dickens has been to the Vatican, where the art is all rather familiar. He writes to Forster "The most famous of the oil paintings in the Vatican you know through the medium of the finest line-engravings in the world..."
2 March 1845: Arriving back in Rome again, Dickens receives a letter saying that his friend Laman Blanchard has died. "No philosophy will bear these dreadful things, or make a moments head against them, but the practical one of doing all the good we can, in thought and deed."
Monday 3 February 1845: "All the carriages were open, and had the linings carefully covered with white cotton or calico, to prevent their proper decorations from being spoiled by the incessant pelting of sugar-plums"
Thursday 23 January 1845: "Nor is it only distance that lends enchantment to the view; for the fruitful country, and rich woods of olive-green through which the road subsequently passes, render it delightful."
Wednesday 22 January 1844: "Standing in one of the many studii of Carrara, that afternoon...it seemed, at first, so strange that those exquisite shapes, replete with grace, and thought, and delicate repose, should grow out of all its toil, and sweat, and torture!"
Wednesday 15 January 1845: "Suddenly she cried out, in great agitation, "Here's my brother! Here's my brother!...Oh he is so sad! He is so sad!...He is thinking of me!"
Wednesday 1 January 1845: "Punctual to the time, another letter came: with an appointment to do anything of Matthews's I pleased, before him and Charles Kemble, on a certain day at the theatre."
On his way back to England Dickens had stopped in Paris, where he'd planned to meet Macready who would be performing there. Alas, a fall delayed Macready's arrival in Paris, leaving Dickens forlorn. "It is painfully clear to me, that I shall not hug you tonight."
Thursday 21 November 1844: "Emerging from this cave, and coming again into the moonlight, and across a dizzy bridge, it crept and twisted upward, through the Gorge of Gondo, savage and grand beyond description, with smooth-fronted precipices, rising up on either hand".