A lovely morning. Rev A V Cox, Rector of Hook Norton, wrote to me by messenger yesterday that his father, Rector of Blackland, Honiton, was dead, and that he would have to be away next Sunday and would be thankful to me to take his service at Hook Norton at 6.30 on that evening which I promised to do.

I visited Miss Dix, Anna Aris and Elizabeth Wilkes (not in).