"Monday." Dated by BR.

OM has read two chapters of Prisons. "It is so clear and chiselled and fine and sympathetic." She asks if the Whiteheads have read Prisons yet. She comments on truth and how it is expressed in Prisons.

"One must take risks and live bravely and cheerfully and venture as Keats used to say."

Philip is happy and there are no problems. They are still reading Gibbon and she comments on it.

OM calls Waterlow a gossip. She says it was "foolish of Arthur Dakyns to tell him <Waterlow?" and asks if Dakyns is very unhappy.

She hopes BR will be able to find a chaperone for Miss Cox. OM asks if BR has heard anything of "Old June"—she has a new book coming out.

She mentions Clive Bell's article in the Nation.

OM has met the Mentz Tonzoks who live near Fiume. She heard from Lamb yesterday. Lamb saw Lytton Strachey.