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Victorian Books, The Diary of George Price Boyce 1869

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1869 is in The Diary of George Price Boyce.

9th January 1869. Mary Leslie1 came to sit to me.

Note 1. Probably for the picture "Pensosa d'altrui".

10th April 1869. Mr. J. R. Davidson called to look at my drawings and bought my large "Bridewell Precincts" for £60 and the little head of Mary Leslie ("Pensiero d'Altrui") for 20 gns. In the evening called on Burne-Jones (Gabriel Rossetti came in). Mrs. Jones sang several things of Gliick and Beethoven and Schubert, and charmed us in this way till nearly 1 o'clock. Rossetti and I returned together."