"11.30 p.m." Dickinson. Begun thinking he'd better read for a Fellowship. Marshall gave him an enormous list of books to read: at least three months to read them at four hours a day. To report progress to Marshall in October, when specialist books to be recommended if interested. "I shall, I think, take his advice in toto until I have a right to views of my own." Anne Elliot and her governess Miss Young: talked Ibsen. Finished Bebel's Woman: it suffers (at end) from want of a scientific training in exact reasoning.

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