Wednesday, July 29, 1829

1829 July

Wednesday 29

(Got up at) 7  /  (Went to bed at) 12 1/4

At my desk at 8.  Breakfast a 9.  Before and after, till 11 1/4, at my accounts.

At the Jardin des Plantes in 1/2 hour from my own door at 12 5/60.  Just as I had got into the fiacre at home, Henry brought note from Lady Stuart and ditto from Miss Hobart.  Sent back my compliments that I was going out in a great hurry and would send an answer in the evening.

M. Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire gave me 3 billets for the galerie du mort at the Institute for the séance (Inscriptions and Belles Lettres on Friday). Lecture final on the marsupiaux. Lecture from 12 1/4 to 1 20/60.

Fiacre à l’heure.  Drove to Madame Galvani’s in 1/4 hour.  Staid there above 2 1/2 hours.  She wrote me a note to an avocat she highly recommended for this business about Drake, which note I shall probably take tomorrow. Will get the Wrote me note (dictated while I wrote it) to M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire to ask him to get me in at the door of the members of the academy.  

Said Miss Hobart said I had promised to take her to see Madame Galvani on Sunday, and had told her I was going a little journey with herself and Lady Stuart. This said, we talked a little about it, I saying it was not quite certain  on account of my aunt’s health.  She told me the curious trick Madame Defumel played her, calling for a debt Madame Galvani owed to Agent Leman, but was not to pay of four years or never at all.

Dismissed my fiacre on the Pont Royal, having kept it just 3 hours.  Walked home in 1/4

hour and came in at 4 3/4.  Looking over guide books for distances from here to Frankfurt, Strasbourg by Brussels, to Cologne along the Rhine, to Stuttgard etc.

Found Drake had been while I was out. The coachman came after I came in.  Asked if he had particular message from Drake. No.  So said I had nothing to say to him and did not see him.

No time to dress.  Dinner at 6.  Came to my room at 7 3/4. Wrote note to ‘The Honorable Lady Stuart’ and ‘Miss Hobart’ and sent them at 9 1/2, a parcel directed to ‘The Honorable Lady Stuart’ containing the Itineraire Complet du Royaume de France 5 volumes, and the “Panorama du Bords du Rhin.’

Coffee at 9 1/2 and came to my room at 10 1/2.  Dawdling over 1 thing or other.  Wrote the above of today, all which took me till 11 3/4. 

Rainy morning till between 10 and 11, and afterwards rained a little.  Rain during the lecture and rained a little as I left the lecture and rained for an hour or more.  Fair as I returned from

Madame Galvani’s.  A little before 6, very heavy rain with thunder and lightning.  Tolerably fine evening about 7 and afterwards.

In bed at 12 1/4.  The following is a copy of the note to Lady Stuart

‘Wednesday evening.  My dear Madame, I trust you would excuse my not answering your note immediately as, at the moment of my receiving it, I was at the door, and just setting off in a great hurry, fearing to be too late at the Jardin des Plantes.  I send the Itinéraire from which I hope you will easily get all the information you want respecting France – I did not find anything respecting the foreign poste.

 

‘Paris to Frankfurt .

72 3/4

or

Paris to Strasbourg

60

or

Paris to Bruxelles Brussels .

37 1/4

‘Frankfurt to Stuttgard .

25

 

Strasbourg to Stuttgard

20

 

Brussels to Cologne .

29

 

97 3/4

 

 

80

 

Cologne up the Rhine to Frankfurt about . 184 lieues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frankfurt to Stuttgard .

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

91 1/4

 

 

 

 




If we merely go down the Rhine, we shall steam it perhaps at the rate of 12 or 14 miles an hour and cannot dwell much on the beauties of the scenery.  I grieve to find that you have been so unwell, but hope it was merely in consequence of the oppressive heat, and that you will feel no further inconvenience but have strength as well

 

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


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