Wednesday, December 14, 1831

 

1831 December

Wednesday 14

8 10/..

1 25/..

Pretty good motion; that is, one longish, natural, moderate-sized roll. Then forty minutes washing night chemise – Finish, soft morning. F 65° in my room at 9 1/2 and 53° at 9 50/.. in the balcony – Went down at 9 50/.. – Breakfast, and skimmed over the paper, and came upstairs at 10 55/..

Out at 11 1/4 – Ordered a pint gravy soup at Paines to be eighteen pence.  Walked to the 2nd mile stone on the London road.  Walked very slowly reading (1st time here) and getting by heart as I went along the German verb werden and the German articles –

Back at 1 – 5 or 10 minutes with Miss Hobart.  Changed my dress – Out with her at 1 3/4. Met Lady Ann Scott coming to call on us – she would not let us return, but walked with us on the parade 3/4 hour – Lady Margaret’s marriage to be in February – Both the brothers, the duke and Lord John, here at present – Lord Marsham, aetatis 23, the bridegroom elect was at school with them – Both families, Lord Romney and the Scotts, delighted at the match – Then went into High Street – We staid some time at the shop just beyond opposite the bank, eating shortbread etc. –

Came in at 3 1/4 – a little while (a few minutes) downstairs – from 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 read from 67 to 317, Memoirs of Lavallette – Dressed – Dinner at 7 – Had chestnuts 1st time, and did not leave the dining room till 8 10/.. – Miss H- sleepy and tired and lay on the sofa till coffee at 8 1/2 – Afterwards German, then from 10 1/4 in 32 minutes, read aloud from page 191 to 226, end of chapter 24, volume iv, Gibbon –

Came upstairs at 11 20/.. Miss H- 1/4 hour in my room – Then wrote the above of today – Fire in the room and F 64 1/2 now at 11 50/.. – Finish morning, but a smartish shower in returning.  Began as I got to the middle of George Street – Afterwards, fine afternoon and evening – F 46° in the balcony now at 12 50/.., till which hour, reading the 2 first chapters (pages 18) of the history of Greece published by the Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge.


WYAS Finding Number  SH:7/ML/E/14/0163

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