November 29 + 

The anniversary of our engagement day two years ago. How mad the idea of marriage seemed to me⁠—and my instinct was right: if only I had known! Yet she says she does not regret anything. + 

This morning I turned to read with avidity accounts of the last hours of Keats, Gibbon, Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire. I gained astonishing comfort out of this, especially in the last⁠ ⁠… who died of G.P.I. in a Brussels Hospital. + 

E⁠⸺ is awfully courageous and⁠—as usual ready to do everything in her power. How can I ever express sufficient gratitude to these two dear women (and my wife, above all) for casting in their lot knowingly with mine? + 