Tuesday, July 28, 1829

1829 July

Tuesday 28

(Got up at) 5 1/2  /  (Went to bed at) 12 10/60

Breakfast.  At the Jardin in 1/2 hour from the Boulevard at 7 32/60, just in time. Promised the cocher 2 francs if he drove me in 25 minutes, but as he took 1/2 hour, paid him as usual 1/60. 36th botanical lecture from 7 33/60 to 8 36/60, then walked about reading Chimie Général leçon 41, and 41st chemie lecture from 9 20/60. Came away at 10 20/60. 29th lecture on the mollusques from 10 35/60 to 11 3/4.  M. Audoin going a journey, and would lecture after if we chose.  Proposed lecturing tomorrow and Friday, but this not suiting all the students was negatived.  24th geological lecture from 12 to 2 5/60. M. le commandant Deleros told me, he believed M. Corbier’s course would be over in 8 or 10 lectures more.

Called en passant at the administrators.  Mentioned to M. Royer this business with Drake about the carriage and horses. He said it was quite an imposition; advised me to lay the matter before the juge de paix of our district.  As for the bell-hanger’s bill, he thought I could get no redress. He himself had been charged and obliged to pay 27 francs for merely drilling a hole through a thin wall.

Walked home.  Called at Mrs. Barlow’s – not at home. In going, met near between the admiralty and the Russian Ambassador at the entrance of the Rue des Champs Elysées, 2 calèches stopping, the 1st with shafts and 3 horses and a gentleman and lady, and the 2nd with 2 horses and apparently only servants, man and maid.  Saw that the lady was Mrs. Forster, really looking very nice in a nice lace cap or some sort of cap. 

Got home in about an hour at 3 35/60.  From 3 3/4 to 6, wrote the last 38 lines of Sunday and the whole of yesterday.  Dinner at 6 1/4. 

Came to my room at 8.  Setting out my table with Swiss cotton and Neuchatel figurines for Miss Hobart if she comes according to promise in the morning.  Then wrote the above of today. 

Coffee at 9 10/60.  Started talking to my aunt, all about the servants as is tiresomely often the case. No Drake tonight. Came to my room at 10 20/60.  The start rather wet when I got up this morning, but fine day.  Stood looking over the Itineraire Complet de France in 5 parts till 11 1/2.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/12/0064


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