'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound interesting in a few years ? when the fashion has passed. Elections in both Warbreck and Walton ? busy at Committee rooms. Read ? ?Shorter Poems? (Matthew Prior) I like the light epigrammatic stuff in this book, but I could not get wildly excited over it like Pat [George Eric Paterson, friend of Moore's] ? but then no one can emulate the wild abandon of Pat?s enthusiasms. In any case he certainly understands Matt. and his contemporaries better than I do.' [Matthew Prior, 1664-1721 - Poet, politician and diplomat. As ambassador to Paris negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht 1713, popularly known as 'Matt's peace'. Subsequently impeached and imprisoned. On release, his poems were published in 1717].