Sunday, November 21, 1830

1830 November

Sunday 21

(Got up at) 6 1/2  /  (Went to bed at) 12 10/..

At my desk at 7 1/2.  Wrote out last 12 lines 21st and the whole of 22nd and 23rd October and breakfast at 10 1/4. Then till 11 35/.. cutting open 6 volumes Constable’s Miscellany. Dressed.  From 12 55/.. to 1 35/.. read aloud prayers and one of Ogden’s sermons. Came to my room at 2 1/4.  From 4 to 5, to save my eyes that felt a little tired, cutting open some volumes of  Constable’s Miscellany.  Dinner at 6 20/.. Came to my room at 7 1/4 and then a little nap – but all the time unaccounted for from 2 1/4 to 9 20/.., at which hour coffee, writing out private journal.

Doctor Tanchou called at 9 1/2 to bring me his book, which he gave me. ‘Nouvelle Méthode pour détruire la pierre dans la vessie,’ a quarto of 387 pages with a great many plates of different surgical instruments, Paris 1830, Chez Crochard, rue and Place de l’Ecole de Médecine, no. 13.  He staid 20 minutes.  Had called before, but I was en voyage.  Did not rise on his entering the room, not feeling at the moment particularly glad at his coming (I do not want acquaintances in this line), which I rather reproached myself for afterwards, though in fact I had no business to rise?  Lady Stuart rarely does it for gentlemen on entering and never on going away.  However, he brought me his book and I was very civil and said I hoped to see him again.

Asked M. Tanchou after Madame de Rosny.  He has not seen her for long.  Is rather out of patience with her.  He moved his hand oscillatingly to say she was like that – had no fixed opinions.  She is now royalist – for the Bourbons – The national guard will not support a verdict for the Ministers – The heads of Polignac and Peyronnet are due to the people.

After M. Tanchou went,  talked to my aunt of my father and Marian and going to Shibden – what to pay and to do.  Two shillings a day for herself and the rest up to sixty pounds a year for wine and beer and coals, and twenty-five pounds per annum for her maid. That is in all eighty annually.

Fine day – F 42° at 7 1/4 a.m.

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/13/0109 and SH:7/ML/E/13/0110


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