To Dorking, Englefield Green and Littlehampton.
George Smith offers £7,000 for "Romola" to appear first in the Cornhill Magazine.
1863 "Romola" finished June 9.
To the Isle of Wight and Worthing.
Removed to The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regent's Park.
1864 Sat to Sir Frederic Burton for portrait, which is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
To Scotland.
To Italy for 7 weeks.
To Harrogate and Scarborough.
Began a drama in verse ["The Spanish Gypsy"]
1865 Poem on a subject previously treated in prose, "My Vegetarian Friend."
To Paris.
Finished poem on Utopias.
Articles for the Pall Mall Gazette on "A Word for the Germans" and on the "Logic of Servants."
Letter to the Pall Mall Gazette on "Futile Lying."
Began a novel, "Felix Holt," March 29.
Article for the Fortnightly Review on "Rationalism."
To Normandy and Brittany for a month.
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