Sunday, March 4, 1832

 1832 March

Sunday 4

9 10/..

12 1/2

Dampish morning – F 55° at 9 1/2 in my room and 43 1/2 at 10 in the balcony –

Breakfast at 10 1/4 to 11. Mr. Duke called as I was leaving the room –

At Church as they were beginning the psalms – Mr. West preached 32 minutes from 1 General Epistle of Saint John, verse 4. Asleep –

Sat with Miss Hobart and read the paper till 2 1/2 – Then in an hour, wrote a full 1/2 sheet to Lady Stuart. Mention Mr. Duke’s opinion that Miss H- ought not spend next winter in England and ought to be off early – From what I wrote last night, took it down and read it to Miss H-, this never to be known to Lady S.

1/2 hour downstairs with Miss H-  

From 4 to 5 1/2, wrote 3 pages and long ends, very small and close, and under the seal to my aunt – To try to get £8, or £7.10.0 for the gig, and if the man will not give more than £5, had better let it go at that than keep it to get worse and worse and be only litter – Not to despair of seeing me – Better not to go to Shibden now, but that not to last always – My next sojourn abroad may not be so long as she fancies – Mention what I wrote to Mariana on Friday about not going to Lawton, on account of Shibden and the bug-business which last I have not yet had time to recover, and that I had proposed her meeting me at Saint Albans – Mention Mrs. Robinson’s letter for Mrs. Norcliffe and what I should say in answer about no plans fixed beyond Paris – My friends might from there turn the horses heads which way they liked – My stay here not quite determined – It will do if I am in France the very end of next month or 1st day or 2 of May – Do not want the dam-banks planting too soon – Not before November and then with oaks, not shrubs – Mean the oaks to be kept copse for binders etc. etc. Not large trees to blow about and shake the banks and let the water out as George Robinson was afraid – Shall want some journal books of Whitley – he can be paid for these and the last numbers of the Yorkshire (know it is hardly worth binding) altogether by my aunt or Mr. Briggs, just as she likes – Perhaps better by the latter – I fear to put too much on her my aunt – Ask her to write again soon –

Hope that Bado and I are likely to get on pretty well together – his character excellent – On calculating, think he will cost about the same George had done – Went down to Miss H- at 5 3/4 and sent off my letter to my aunt ‘Mrs. Lister, Shibden hall, Halifax, Yorkshire’ and to the ‘Honorable Lady Stuart Whitehall’ enclosed with Miss H-’s –

Came up to dress at 6 10/.. – Dinner at 6 3/4 in 40 minutes – Coffee at 8 – Miss H- cutting scraps out of the newspapers and I making short notes from Gibbon volumes 8 and 9 –

Came upstairs at 11 and to my room at 11 5/.., at which hour, F 57° in my room. Dampish, windyish morning – rainy, windy, boisterous afternoon and evening from about 3 p.m. F 43° at 12 in the balcony. Wrote all the above of today till 11 1/2 p.m. --

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/15/0034