Wednesday, July 15, 1829

1829 July 15th Wednesday

(Got up at) 6 1/4 / (Went to bed at) 11 50/60

At my desk at 7 20/60 settling accounts, etc.  From 8 1/4 to 9 20/60, wrote out Lecture 10 on the mollusques of Tuesday 30th ultimo.  Breakfast at 9 20/60.  An hour at breakfast and getting back again into my bedroom, for Cameron had fastened the only door left open.  Therefore, all the keys being inside, George obliged to pick one of the locks.  Then wrote out pages 45 and 46,

Lecture 11 on the mollusques of the 2nd instante mense.  Then dressed.  Wrote note to Messers Galignani for their Guide Through the Netherlands and to ask the distance from Paris to Frankfurt on the Maine and whether there is a regular and comfortable steam packet from Cologne to Rotterdam.

Off at 11 39/60 and there per fiacre at 12 1/4.  The lecture had just begun, on the animaux marsupiaux; over at 1 1/4.  Told Monsieur Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire the niece of Madame L’ambassadrice was so ill, she Lady Stuart and her party could not go to the Jardin du Roi on Friday.  Walked slowly home over the Pont Neuf all along the Rue de Richelieu (seeking in vain for the nacre shop) to the boulevard.  Bought a pair of slippers next door to the Bains Chinoi. 

Came in at 2 3/4 – Mrs. & Miss Barlow had been almost 2 hours with my aunt and were only just gone.  Very hot with walking though now a refreshing breath of air.  Had felt as if in a bath at the lecture.  Ate a plate of gooseberries.  Had sent George from the Rue de Richelieu to Gaglignani’s with my note , vide above.  He brought back word that it is 118 lieues from Paris to Frankfurt on the Main, and brought me Galignani’s Travelers Guide through Holland and Belgium.  From 3 1/4 to 6 (dressed and dinner at 6 1/4 ) and afterwards from 8 to 9 read the first 197 pages, preparatory to speaking to Lady Stuart about our journey (a little tour) on Friday. 

Wrote the last 8 lines.  Settled my accounts.  Coffee at 9 10/60.  Looking over maps in the drawing.  Came to my room at 10 3/4. Very fine day.  Very warm, Fahrenheit 89 1/2° now at 10 3/4 p.m.


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/12/0056


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