Tuesday, July 12, 1831

 

1831 July

Tuesday 12

(Got up at) 9 3/4  /  (Went to bed at) 1 3/4

F 69° and fine morning at 10 1/4.   Saw Tib wash.

Letter 3 pages from my aunt (Shibden) to say my father was still complaining of weakness though ‘evidently stronger, and his cough far less troublesome today’– Sunday the 10th.  Better still yesterday morning.  My aunt had had ‘rather less pain the last day or 2 but the damp air affects me very much.’

Letter also 3 pages, the end, and under the seal from Mariana, Leamington.  Had been much annoyed at Charles’s determination to leave Leamington and go and live at Cheltenham.  Impossible to turn him from it, and he has at great expense got rid of his lease, and is to give up the house on the 1st of August. So Mariana says this may leave her a little at liberty, as she will not go with him for the month or five weeks he talks of going to Cheltenham, and therefore proposes a journey to the English or Scotch Lakes or to Edinburgh for 2 or 3 weeks. Mrs. Milne and William to leave Leamington for York, as yesterday fortnight the 25th instante mense and Mariana will come with them.  Can remain with her mother till I have settled things at Shibden.  Advises me to write to Charles to tell him the result of the examination of the baggage, but I do not much like any further and useless trouble about it.

Went down to breakfast at 11.  Sat talking all the morning to Mrs. Norcliffe about 1 unimportant thing or other.  Went to luncheon with them all.

Afterwards changed my dress, and out from 3 2/5/.. to 4 3/4. Walked to Birdsall church.  Hot and sunny, but a finish air or breeze.  Much heated.  Thinking about a journey.  Can she arrive in York on the 25th, stay there 3 or 4 days, then I, having remained here all the while, meet her in York, leave Cameron there, take George, and be off – to Leeds to Glasgow by the Mail Steam,  on [to] the Giant’s Causeway and do as much more as we can, see Killarney if possible.

Dressed.  Dinner at 5 20/..  Afterwards, Mrs. Norcliffe wrote me memorandum of things to be seen viâ Cambridge to London. 

Then sat an hour with Tib in her room, then came to my own room and in 20 minutes till 9 5/.. wrote all the above of today.   Half hour cutting toenails.  In bed at 1 1/4.  Wrote 3 pages of 1/2 sheet chitchat to Mrs. Duffin just before coming up to bed, and left the letter to go by Peacock in the morning.


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/14/0087

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