In January he undertakes sketches for the Grillions Club; in July he notes a curious meeting with
Gladstone where he tried and failed to avoid the statesman and then he severely criticises Gladstone's policies, going so far as to accuse him of "treason"; in September is pasted a newspaper cutting on Prussian honours bestowed on British artists, amongst them
W.B. Richmond; in October he notes giving a self-portrait from 1866 to the Painter Stainers' Company and a drawing of Tivoli, by
Palmer, to
Dr. Acland; a letter from W.B. Richmond to the Times of a proposed national exhibition of the arts is placed in November, also in November he gets paid for the
Pusey bust; at the rear is a list of Autumn holidays from 1855 to 1877.