Monday, July 18, 1831

 

1831 July

Monday 18

(Got up at) 10 20/..  /  (Went to bed at) 11 3/4

Fahrenheit 67° at 10 1/2 and fine morning, but dullish.

Breakfast at 11 1/4.  Sat downstairs talking to 1 or other till after one. 

Then wrote Messers Rawson acknowledging the receipt of their letter of the 12th instante mense and ditto desire to pay immediately £500 to Messers Hammersley. Then wrote to Hammersleys saying I ordered the payment of £500 and begging to have a letter of credit to that amount on the Bankers at Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Brussels, and saying I should be much obliged by their sending me at the same time a passport for Holland and Belgium from Harwich to Helvort for myself (Miss Lister) and my friend (Mrs. Lawton) and my 2 servants (Caroline Helvetia Cameron and George Playforth).  Anxious to be off as soon as possible and begging them to direct to me here at ‘Mrs. Norcliffe’s, Langton Hall, Langton, Malton, Yorkshire.’

Changed my dress.  Off with Charlotte in the gig to Malton at 2 40.. Charlotte drove to Dunlop’s.  George put into the post my letter to ‘Messers Hammersleys, Bankers, Pall Mall, London’ and to ‘Messers Rawson, Bankers, Halifax.’ 1/2 hour at Rutter’s ordering four pair strong boots, and talking to poor Rutter, who is sadly shaken and rheumatic and not well, aetatis 69.

Charlotte, whose driving I had watched most anxiously, having never driven Blucher, a fine, spirited young horse before, gave me up the reins, and I drove to Captain Newbury’s, at old Malton, where Mrs. Norcliffe would have us call for me to see an old pillar in the cellar.  A stupid lounge enough; very civil people.  1/2 hour there.  The tower of the church (once the abbey) and the archway of the quondam great west door, very handsome. The pillar in the cellar is the low, old pillar supporting the gothic groined arches of what must have been the crypt of the abbey.  Drove home in 33 minutes.

Dressed and at dinner in 1/4 hour at 5 25/..  Before 6, came Isabella Dalton and her brother Charles (6 feet high, aetatis 19, going out in September to Gibraltar in the artillery) from Croft.  

While we were out, poor Tib sprained her left ankle, (sprained her right when last at Croft, and it is still weak) and one of her right side upper double teeth fell out, and the one next to it is loose, and will probably soon follow.

Came to my room at 7 3/4 and in 1/2 hour wrote above of today, then downstairs.  Came to my room at 10 50/..

Fine day – F 66° now at 11 25/.. tonight.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/14/0089

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