The Diary of George Price Boyce 1859 is in The Diary of George Price Boyce.
3rd January 1859. Took Simeon Solomon [aged 18] to the Hogarth to see the works exhibited. Rossetti [aged 30] has a beautiful solemn purple drawing of Mary in the house of John. As Simeon said, "The impression of intense, thoughtful repose after the strife and excitement of the previous years is most impressive." R. also sent my little "Caper Nimbly" drawing, but has changed the subject into a "Borgia," and made the old grey-haired man into a Pope.
6th March 1859. (Sunday). (At Oxford.) Crowe, Faulkner, Jones and self rowed to Godstow where we saw the "Stunner" [Jane Morris nee Burden [aged 19]] (the future Mrs. William Morris); on our return we all dined (Swinburne included) at Topsy's (Morris'). He and Swinburne [aged 21] mad and deafening with excitement; adjourned to Crowe's to dessert; the chaff and row continued with great spirit and cleverness. Swinburne, a man of great reading, memory, and intellectual cleverness and accomplishment, seemed to be wanting in human feeling. In the evening we all went round to Johnson's, where we looked over a bundle of sketches among which were some beautiful things of Rossetti's.
30th April 1859. Found Simeon Solomon [aged 18] and Poynter [aged 23] in Burges' room and appropriated (by leave) a caricature by Simeon of Morris and his wife.
15th October 1859. Went to see F. C., and took her some apples and walnuts. Had a long chat with her. She told me that R. had had a call from Annie Miller [aged 24], who had left a card. He is in the habit, she says, of sitting in a large chair o’nights reading Balzac’s novels.
22nd December 1859. Miss Annie Miller [aged 24] called on me in the evening in an excited state to ask me to recommend her someone to sit to. She was determined on sitting again in preference to doing anything else. All was broken off between her and Hunt [aged 32]. I pitied the poor girl very much, by reason of the distraction of her mind and heart.
Called on Hunt in the evening to tell him of her visit and that, finding she was resolved on sitting again, I should ask her to sit to me instead of to any stranger. He said it seemed now as if she could do nothing else for she rejected (naturally enough) all his efforts to find employment through friends. Finding he could not get her to do what he wanted to make her a desirable wife for him, nor to wean herself from old objectionable habits, he had broken off the engagement; but the whole affair had preyed on his mind for years. The interview was friendly throughout. I had another long look at the "Christ and the Doctors" picture.
28th December 1859. Annie Miller [aged 24] came and sat to me. Rossetti [aged 31] came in and made a pencil study of her. She looked more beautiful than ever.