Tuesday, October 2, 1832

 

1832

October

Tuesday 2

Fine morning,  F 66° at 9 –

Stood at my desk writing the whole of yesterday till 9 5/.. Breakfast in the little room with my father at 9 10/.. – Saw my aunt in her room for a few minutes and went out 10 1/4

Dick finished breaking ashes – got down the load from the acre field to where he had made the sough in Dolt wood – Brought the roller down and with John’s help dragged it up the walk again and then got the load of soil from the acre field to the slope near the Calf Croft pit hill and finished the making, up the bank there before he went home at night –

William Green picked up stones spared from the channelling in Charles Howarth field and carted scraplings to back up Tillyholm bridge in the morning and large stone (John helped him to load them) in the afternoon into a heap to be barrowed over to strengthen the banking up of the walk in the Hall wood –

Nobody working by day for me but Dick – Charles and James Howarth painting back of the house and Shaw’s man the plaster pointing or rather painting his pointing –

Pickles in lifting a heavy stone yesterday strained his back very much – went home early in the afternoon and had 12 leeches and a strengthening plaster put on his back –

In my walk today up and down and in the hut (1/2 hour asleep there) reading 34 pages French vocabulary till very near 4 – 

Then came home and staid talking to my aunt in the drawing room till 5 50/.. – Then in 1/2 hour went twice to the bottom of my walk and back (2 miles) and sent off for Mr. Sunderland (my father’s stomach not quite well) and dinner at 6 50/.. – 

Came into the little room at 7 3/4 and wrote the above of today having merely staid to read my letter 2 full sheets from Isabella Norcliffe, Langton and 1 1/2 page letter of thanks from Burnett for the gown I sent ages ago, with a fine pine and 2 brace of partridges from Isabella – Account of their tour – above 1600 English living at Avranches. Got back to York on the 12th and to Langton on the 15th ultimo – Tour cost less than a hundred and sixty pounds.

Mr. Sunderland came about 8 1/2 – Thinks my father had got cold – a little feverish, but nothing to be apprehended – Does not seem to think him so fast declining as Marian does –

Mr. Sunderland came to my aunt and me in the drawing room – I got him on the subject of shooting and guns, and he sat talking above an hour (till 10) and my father was gone to bed – Promised to lend me Colonel Akers’s Sportsman – a quarto – the best work on sporting – Colonel Akers the best sportsman in England –

Went up to my father for a few minutes – then sat with my aunt – Read her the whole of Isabella’s letter – 

Came to my room at 10 3/4 – Fine day – F 66 1/2 at 10 3/4 p.m. –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/15/0125