March 6 + 

Spent a most delightful half-an-hour today reading an account in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (one of my favourite books⁠—it’s so “gey disconnekkit”) the history of the Punch and Judy Show. It’s a delightful bit of antiquarian lore and delighted me the more because it had never occurred to me before that it had an ancient history. I am thoroughly proud of this recent acquisition of knowledge and as if it were a valuable freehold I have been showing it off saying, “Rejoice with me⁠—see what I have got here.” I fired it off first in detail at ⸻; and H⁠⸺ and D⁠⸺ will probably be my victims tomorrow. After all, it is a charming little cameo of history: compact, with plenty of scope for conjecture, theory, research, and just that combination of all three which would suit my taste and capacity if I had time for a Monograph. + 