Monday, March 19, 1832

1832 March

Monday 19

8 5/..

12 1/4

Finish morning, F 61° at 8 1/4 in my room and 41 1/2° at 9 in the balcony –

Out at 9 1/2 – Took back the number of the work on the Pyrenees – Staid there some time – in returning went to Murray’s to look at pretty gold earrings pair £3.5.0 –

Came in at 9 20/.. – Breakfast at 9 35/.. – Came upstairs at 11 20/.. from then to 1 5/.. asleep?

Then, till 4, looking over my writing desk – Then, till 6, wrote and sent off at 6 10/.. 3 pages and one long end small sized sheet Parisian paper to ‘Mademoiselle Mademoiselle de Noé, Rue de l’université. No. 5 Faubourg Saint Germain, Paris, France and to ‘Mr. Charles Bessell, Secretary to the General Steam Navigation Company, 68 Lovibonds Street, London, Postage paid’ – To ask the days of the steam packets sailing from London to Calais and the length of quarantine required and it whether it was likely to be longer or shorter 3 or 4 weeks hence –

Chit chat kind letter to Mademoiselle de Noé – Saying I hoped to be in Paris by the 1st of May at latest – Should be here 3 weeks longer – Hoped to hear from her, and that I should really be happy to be employed if I could do anything in the world for any of them on this side this water – Had first written a rough draft of the letter – Downstairs with Miss Hobart for a few minutes before 4 – and she let me read her letter to Lady Foster of explanation and anger about the thirty thousand they lost from the nonenrollment of a deed in chancery –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 3/4 – Afterwards sat talking over my interview with Miss Ponsonby in 1822 at Llangollen – Coffee at 8 – Afterwards played and won 1 hit and a gammon at backgammon – from 9 35/.. to 10 40/.. read aloud from page 246 to 296, Chapter 56, Volume X, Gibbon –

Came upstairs at 11 5/.. and in a minute or 2 came to my own room – Good friends, cheerful and proper.  No effort to me now to let her alone.  We shall part without a real sigh from me. –

Tolerably fine day – rather hazy and highish Southwest wind – F 62 1/2° at 11 10/.. in my room and 41 1/2° at 12 1/4 in the balcony --


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/15/0042

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