The beard on the upper lip had not been properly clipped, and makes the space seem too long for him.

Another time I will mend that.

I was very unusually tired after my journey, but am getting past it.

Weather was hot; but within two days we have had some cooling rain.
Give my best love to M.Milsand, beside the photographs, and thank him for not being offended in his 'patriotism' by my Congress poems.

If he approved of the preface as he says, I can't see how he can have written anything about 'intervention' which I would not accept.