Thursday, December 8, 1831

 1831 December

Thursday 8

7 3/4

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Rainy soft, windy morning – F 52° at 8 3/4 – but rain in the night and recently, and threatening more – Skimmed over the paper till 9 40/.. , for the rain made me determine to breakfast before walking – Bowels all wrong and lumps this morning just as before taking the calomel overnight this day week – Made a little extract from Gibbon volume 3 – Breakfast downstairs at 10 in 1/2 hour, and came to my room –

Out at 10 55/.. Walked to the 4 mile stone on the London [road] – In returning, bought little almond paste pot and plated nutcrackers, and came in at 1 50/.. – The two things are to give Miss Hobart.  She asked me for the latter.

Dressed – Windy and rain more or less all the time I was out – Asked Cameron to make me some lemonade – she could not! so cooked it myself – Dressing and cooking till 2 50/.., then till 4 making extract from volume iii, Gibbon – Miss H- came soon after, and staid above an hour till after 5 – then till 6 1/4, making extract from Beechey’s Voyage to the Pacific and Beerings Strait, volume ii – Then before and just after dinner (at 7 10/.. in 40 minutes), read from page 357 to 452, volume ii, Beechey – A little music – Coffee at 8 1/2 – Played and lost 1 hit at backgammon – From 10 1/4 to 11 1/4 read the first 45 pages Gibbon, volume iv.

Came to my room at 11 1/2 – Very good. I being cheerful and natural but never bordering on tenderness.  I really never think or care about it now, and feel very comfortably coolly.

Windy rainy day – F 65° in my room now at 11 3/4 p.m. and F 53 1/2 in the balcony now at 12 25/.. tonight and rainy night –

 

WYAS Finding Number  SH:7/ML/E/14/0160

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