January 25 + 

I should be disappointed if at the end of my career (if I live to see it through) I do not win the F.R.S. I should very much like it.⁠ ⁠… My nature is very mixed⁠—ambitious above all things and yet soon giddy with the audacity of my aspirations. The B.M. and my colleagues make me feel most inferior in fact, but in theory⁠—in the secrecy of my own bedchamber⁠—I feel that there are few men there my equal. + 