Sunday, July 17, 1831

 

1831 July

Sunday 17

(Got up at)  10 20/..  /  (Went to bed at) 12 20/..

At breakfast at 11 1/4.  Downstairs talking.  Old Mr. Bower called. 

Church at 2.  Mr. Simpson did all the duty. Preached 33 minutes from Luke xiii 24, enter in at the strait gate. 

Afterwards talking to Mrs. Norcliffe and Charlotte, what the latter to write to Mrs. Milne and my plans for Mariana, Mrs. Milne having written to Charlotte that Mariana’s plans depended on mine.  Said I could not very well have her at Shibden.  Spoke of a little tour that the Norcliffes made to Lincoln, Cambridge, etc. , and said did not know what I might do if we got to Harwich.  Mrs. Norcliffe will take all in here (painting in Petergate – cannot be there).  Mariana, too, to come here, and she and I be off from here for Lincoln.

Dressed – dinner at 5 1/4.  Came upstairs at 7.  Charlotte in my room talking about an hour, then  wrote 2 1/2 pages to Mariana to propose her being here on the 26th, and our being off the next day by Hull and Batton to Lincoln, Norwich etc. etc.  Said I should write to Myers about a carriage. If Mariana could have Charles’s carriage, though, perhaps we should be better without it.  There would be an end to all carriage difficulties, supposing we could leave the carriage in Mr. Cheese’s coachhouse if we wanted to get rid of it for a little while.  To bring travelling habiliments and a good cloak for boating, for we might be a good deal on the water.  Said the Norcliffes spoke of Crower as a charming sea place.  Begged to hear from her immediately, a line or 2 would do.

Then wrote to Myers to say the carriage he had let me have was in so bad a state for traveling I did not dare venture to go much farther in it.  Begged him to let me know as soon as possible whether he could let me have Mr. St. Andrew Ward’s carriage, which Tib told me would be good enough for my purpose.  Thought of making a little tour of four or five hundred miles here, and of being off on the 25th instante mense.  

Waited 1/4 hour for Charlotte’s letter to Mrs. Milne, and at 9 sent off George to Malton with her letter and mine to ‘Mrs. Lawton, the Priory, Leamington, Warwickshire’ and to ‘Mr. Myers, Coachmaker, Little Stonygate, York.’

Went downstairs at 8 3/4.  Tea – supper – as usual.  Charlotte and I left tête-à-tête about an hour. Talked the tour with Mariana to Holland.  From here by Hull, Lincoln, Norwich, Yarmouth to Harwich, made out to be about 260 miles.  Returning by Harwich, Cambridge, Ely, and Peterborough, and perhaps Derby, made out to be about the same distance.  Then 260 X 2 = 520 miles and 10 days on the road in England and 2 days crossing and recrossing, and 3 weeks in Holland.  Would cost about £80 each or £160, of which the England posting to be £60.

Came up to my room at 11 3/4.  Fine day – F. as last night – Told Tib what Charlotte and I had been talking of.


WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/14/0088 and SH:7/ML/E/14/0089

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Saturday, September 26, 1835

1835 September Saturday 26 8 12 1/4 No kiss. Rain last night from between 11 and 12 to after one – Rainy morning, but not heavy rain till near 9, then fair and F 55° – Breakfast at 9 1/4 – Ann getting off her speech for the first stone laying and I writing out mine.   Put on my new pelisse and had my hair done – Marian was to have gone to the 1st stone laying, but got nervous and staid at home – Ann and I off at 10 3/4 in my own carriage with our 2 men behind, to Northgate hotel – Not quite ready for us – Began looking over the drawings of Northgate, and, by mistake, kept the people waiting and did not begin the ceremony till about 11 3/4, which lasted about 1/4 hour – Ann did her part very well – the coins of the king’s reign (William iv) i.e. a sovereign 1/2 ditto, 1/2 crown, shilling, and sixpence ( Could not get a 7/. piece; very scarce – Swanns, the bankers in York, had only seen two of William iv 7/. pieces) were put into a large mouthed green glass bott...
Read more

Saturday, July 13, 1839 Travel Journal

1839 July Saturday 13 3 3/4 Fine morning – Fahrenheit 73° at 4 1/4 a.m. – Off at 5 – At Quickvorn [Quickborn] at 7 10/.. – Good cultivation, grass and corn about Hamburg – Asleep – at 5 10/..,   Stopt 10 minutes – At Quickborn, asleep – Not much of a place – Paid as might be – Some moor about 1/2 way between Hamburg and Quickborn and ditto ditto between Quickborn and Bramstedt, nice little rather scattered picturesque town where we stopt to breakfast from 9 20/.. to 10 50/.. – coffee – little cups and milk as in England and bread and butter – 1 mark each – Nice, clean public room and nice, civil people, but as usual could not, through Gross, understand the money till a civil English speaking Dane came in, who explained to me intelligibly – Now at 11 1/4 = 6 1/4 meilen to Kiel –  Just as we came away, the Eilwagen Diligence arrived – 5 or 6 gentlemen had come in, one or more ladies seemed to be still in the diligence – 3 compartments or divisions as in Fran...
Read more

Tuesday, July 14, 1829

1829 July 14th Tuesday 5 20/60   /   12 5/60 A cross last night thinking of Mariana.   Left for the post my letter written last night to Mr. James Briggs, Horton Street, Halifax, Yorkshire, Angleterre.   Gave George several commissions to do, to order horses at 2 1/4 etc. etc. and to be at the Jardin on my leaving the chemical lecture at 10 20/60. Breakfast at 6 20/60.   Walked to the boulevard, then per fiacre to the Jardin des Plantes in 34 minutes at 7 34/60.   The door shut.   Could   not go into the gallery, so missed the botanical lecture and walked about.   Sat some time reading lesson 35 Chimie Générale, then went up to the belvidere or temple and stood there 1/2 hour looking about me enjoying the fine view over and around Paris.   W ent into the Amphitheatre at 9 10/60. 35th chemical lecture began at 9 20/60; came away at 10 20/60.     24th lecture on the mollusques from 10 1/2 to 11 3/4, then 18th geologica...
Read more