Tuesday, 2 November 1880

For about a week I have been having my lunch brought from home to the atelier; it has been organised in a thingamajig of straw or rush, the way soldiers do. It is much more sensible than running from the rue Vivienne to the Champs-Élysées and losing the hours when the light is finest. In this way I work from eight to twelve and from one to four o’clock.