Exams
Grammar examination in morning. Russell unwell with bilious attack. Suggested he should be moved to the sick room. Wrote to Mrs. R. but finding the Warden had written did not send it fearing to alarm her. Went out with O’Brien [b. 1842], he was very reserved and I could make nothing out of him. Walford of Ed[mund’s]. Hall came over with a message from Barrow for me about Hills. Major Owen arrived.

William Wood’s Diary 1855-1861, ed. by Mark Spurrell, is available from Oxfordshire Record Society. These excerpts are presented to give a flavour of life at Radley in the 1850s