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'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.
'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'
'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.
'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'
'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.
'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.
'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'
'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'
'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'
'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.
'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.
'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'
'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'