Agreeableizing

1832 October Monday 15 6 10/.. 1 Washing and mending my stays till eight Fine morning, F 57 1/2° at 6 1/2 a.m. – Busy over 1 thing or other – Had Cordingley helping to take trimming off old French silk petticoat. Breakfast with my aunt at 10 1/2 – Miss Walker came in 5 or 6 minutes – Off with her at 11 – Shopped – Sat in the carriage while Miss W- called on Mr. Hudson at Ward’s End – Mr. Edwards came to the carriage door to ask me to vote (from the Northgate property) in favor of I forgot whom, against the radical candidate Rawsden for the constableship – The town in a bustle – voting at the Waterhouse’s Arms – The poll to close at 5 p.m. – I had heard, nor knew anything about it – Mr. Edwards had just voted in right of his executorship to the late but one Mr. Walker of Crow Nest – Odd enough to say this before his daughter sitting by me, who afterwards observed that she was now the 2nd in succession to that property – Went to Throp’s – then got out at the Trim...

1832 October Sunday 14 8 20/.. 11 1/4 Incurred a cross just before getting up thinking of Miss W-. Had lain awake thinking since six. Very fine morning, F 56 1/2 at 8 1/2 a.m. – Breakfast with Marian at 9 1/4 – Staid talking to her till near 10 – Then to my aunt – Out at 11 for an hour in my walk – Then in 50 minutes, read to my aunt the morning services and Sermon 13, Mr. Knight – Marian sick and obliged to leave church between the lessons, – but   well again on getting home – My aunt but poorly – Out again (in my walk) at 1 35/.. and there till 6 – 2 1/2 hours altering the border and little walk Pickles had made round the hut – 2 or 3 little showers, and damp and drizzly after 3 – Sat in the hut or walked up and down when not working, which latter I did so in earnest that I came home quite heated and changed my things – Dinner at 6 1/2 – Almost asleep – Went into the other room at 8 35/.. – Read over tonight’s Courier – Came to my room at 10 1/4 – Fine day t...

1832 October Saturday 13 6 10/.. 12 20/.. Wild, windy, wet morning – F 59° at 6 1/2 a.m. – Wrote copy of letter asking Eugénie’s character – Breakfast at 8 1/4 with my father – Staid down talking about the road thro’ Trough of Bolland Wood, etc. etc., my father taking it all now with composure, and really seeming not even the least annoyed about it at heart – Just saw my aunt for a minute – Read my father his letter from Marian to say she would be back between 6 and 7 this evening, and came to my room at 9 40/.. – Wrote 1 page to ‘The Honorable Mrs. Herbert, 84 London Road, Brighton’ and left this letter and my letter written yesterday to ‘ The Honorable Lady Stuart, Richmond Park, Surrey’ on my desk ready for the post tonight, for fear I should not happen to be at home before 6 p.m. when John goes for my sister – Out at 10 20/.. – Went down to the hut – Found Pickles and Dick there moving earth from the back of it – Went with Pickles to see the line of road he had t...

1832 October Friday 12 6 55/.. 11 55/.. Finish morning, F 62 1/2° at 7 1/4 a.m.   Read over last night’s Courier – Breakfast with my father at 8 40/.. in an hour, for stood reading the Nos. 1 and 2 of the ‘Extraordinary Gazette,’ a foolish quiz on the late public breakfast and dinner given by the Whigs to the candidates, Messers Wood and Rawdon Briggs – Very high wind – Out at 9 3/4 – Went down to the weaning and took off Pickles and Dick at 10 5/.. to 12 1/4 to remove more stuff from behind the hut – So rainy they could not go on – I fell asleep in the hut and sat and lay sleeping or dozing there till 2 1/4, then sauntered home thro’ the rain and came in at 2 3/4 – At my desk at 3 – From 3 20/.. to 5 wrote 3 pages and ends to Mrs. James Dalton – Kind letter of anxiety on the occasion of her accident (falling over a footstool in the drawing room and dislocating her ankle, as mentioned by Mrs. Norcliffe) – Beg that some of them will write and tell me how she goes on ...

1832 October Thursday 11 5 50/.. 11 5/.. Very fine morning, F 62° at 6 and 6 3/4 a.m. – Evidently there had been rain recently – Off to Lidgate at 7 10/.. and there in 35 minutes, just before it began to drizzle and rain along my walk – Miss Walker came down in two or three minutes.   Above an hour at breakfast.   She then shewed me the letter from her cousin, Mr. Edwards at Kinson, thanking her for her offer of lending him five hundred but asking the loan of three thousand.   Wrote her a copy of answer, which she wrote verbatim, saying she had meant to give him the five hundred, but could do no more.   Straitened by her late purchases, etc. for the present.   The magnitude of her expenses uncertain for the future, and she would not anticipate her resources by borrowing.   Confidential conversation.   She influenced by all I said.   Mrs. Hartley tipples brandy and water.   advised her by no means visiting her at Bingley. ...

  1832 October Wednesday 10 8 20/.. 10 3/4 At eight incurred a cross thinking of Miss Walker.   Had been musing about her for an hour before –   Rainy morning at 6, but fair and fine when I got up – Down at 9 1/4 to Mr. Henry Bates of the firm of Bates and Son of Washer lane, and paid him by check on Rawson's his bill of £191.15.0 for wheel and other work done at Mytholm Mill – He then sat talking politics and country news above an hour – Keeps 40 men in constant employ – He or his son will be glad to shew me over their workshops – Breakfast with my aunt at 10 1/2 – Staid talking to her till out at 11 50/.. Dick having just finishing walling and sodding up banking in my walk, sent him to do the bit of trenching and planting in the bit of Well Royde upper brow cut off by the new Godley road – Then with John Booth setting up lilies of the valley etc. in the garden.   Sauntered about while he got his dinner and helped down with the plants in the hand ...

1832 October Tuesday 9 6 1/2 11 40/.. Rainy morning.   Breakfast at 8 10/.. with my father in 3/4 hour – Wrote the whole of yesterday – At 10 1/4 note , basket of grapes from Miss Walker – Lidgate, to my aunt and note to me, 3 pages of 1/2 sheet in envelope, to consult me about her tenant Collins, who has the Lidgate farm, removing to Wika and having sent his cows away without saying a word or her knowing anything about it till her cook told her this morning she had no milk – Asked what to do – The substance of my advice was that on the man’s coming to speak to her, she should be very civil, say she was rather surprised, and that she would think about it – being cautious to avoid giving any hint of what she would or would not do – and to let him and her servants be as little able as possible to calculate from her manner what she thought of doing – Probably the man wanted to annoy her into doing something or other he could turn to his own advantage, but her perfect s...

1832 October Monday 8 7 35/.. 12 Damp and rainy and Fahrenheit 57° at 7 35/.. – Out at 7 40/.. – Do wn the old bank to Stony Royde at 8 1/4 – breakfast over, but brought in again for me – Mrs. Rawson very glad to see me – Sat with her till 10 10/.. – Mrs. Clarke took off with her a fortune of five and twenty thousand pounds.   Christopher Rawson was told by her just before the sale of the Walker navigation shares she would not marry, he might count upon it, [for] seven or eight years, or else John Rawson would have bought the shares.   Doctor better informed. Jeremiah Rawson commissioned Mrs. Priestley to tell me he should be glad to steward for me.   Said we should have got on very well together, but he was too late, and laughed and said Miss Walker had provided me so that I had never seemed to be without steward – Joked and told her to take care of Frank Rawson against Kennys and Clarkes, as I meant to take the best [care] I could of my sister – From S...

1832 October Sunday 7 7 1/4 12 1/4 Rainy morning,   F 55 1/2° at 7 1/4 – Breakfast with my father at 8 20/.. – Talking to him – Looking again at last night’s paper and the last Gardeners’ magazine – Off to church with my father at 10 down the old bank – 1 of the curates preached 28 minutes (stupidly) from 2 Corinthians iv. 3. Returned up the new bank – Home at 1 10/.. – 2 hours musing in the library passage how to fit it up – at 3 10/.. my aunt and I read the evening service to my father – Off to Lightcliffe at 3 50/.. – sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Priestley to say good bye and excuse myself from going to breakfast tomorrow –   She said Miss Walker was not at church in the morning – I observed all the blinds down – She must be ill.   I said I would call and inquire after her. Mrs. P- proposed going with me, and off we went about 5 – Mrs. P- sat a few minutes and would leave me there – Tea – Then cold tongue and bread and butter and wine at 9 – and staid till ...

1832 October Saturday 6 7 1/4 11 40/.. Wrote and sent by John before breakfast note to ‘ Mr. Christopher Rawson, Hopehall’ to say that Mrs. Walker took the pen pump pew in the old church, at four pounds a year 1st October last year. Mr. C R-’s brought back the key here Thursday 20th ultimo and I therefore concluded Mrs. Walker to be aware that one year’s rent was due – wrote note also to ‘Messers Rawson, bankers,.Halifax’ to ask for order (on Letter paper) on their London bankers for £12.10.0 payable at sight to Miss M. J. Bolland, and wrote also ‘to the Sexton of the old Church Halifax enclosing the 2 keys of the pew and saying that tho’ Mrs. Walker paid £4 per annum, Mr. Haigh might have it at 3 guineas, the price mentioned by the sexton, on condition of his, Mr. Haigh’s, lining the pew himself and doing the repairs he chose – Had Washington, who gave me Mr. Jones’s of Huddersfield valuation of the stone of Mytholm quarry at 6d a yard – Washington owns it is worth a shi...

1832 October Friday 5 6 1/4 12 1/4 Flags damp, but fine and F 61° at 6 1/4 – Out in an hour – to the bottom of my walk and back.   Dick walling up staking in the walk – Breakfast with my father at 8 in about 3/4 hour – Changed my pelisse and out at 9 1/4 – Began to rain a little beyond Lower brea – Took shelter 1/2 hour in Mrs. Scholefield’s 1 story raised new public house – Then for 1/4 hour in the Hipperholme Turnpike house and at Lidgate at 10 1 /2 – Mr. William Priestley called between 1 and 2 – Would not go in with Miss Walker to dinner (she had done in 10 minutes) but sat till she came back and walked with her at 5 20/.. to the door at Cliff hill – Raining heavily – Took shelter for 10 minutes under the wall and post of the 1st entrance to Cliff hill, and then off home – Still raining heavily till I had got almost to Mytholm – Changed my things (tho’ not very wet) on getting home at 6 1/2, and dinner at 7 – Thinking of my determination to be cautious, g...