Wednesday, March 7, 1832

 

1832 March

Wednesday 7

7 40/..

12 5/..

Fine morning (began to rain in 1/4 hour –) F 58° at 7 40/.. in my room and 43° at 8 1/2 in the balcony –

Kind Letter from Miss Crompton 3 pages and ends, dated from her oldest brother’s place, Sion hill, 3rd instante mense – Expects to be in London next month and hopes to see me – The Herrieses going to move from 35 Clarges Street to 5 Stratton Street – The house in York left to the unmarried sisters and they will live there –

Out at 8 55/.. but it rained so much and was so windy, came back immediately –

Miss Hobart peeped out of her room as I passed on returning to say she had had an answer from her banker. The money sold in August was done by other bankers than hers and paid to the account of Captain Cumberland. Very strange, certainly. Thinking and musing over it, what and how to advise.

Breakfast at 9 35/60, talking of 1 thing or other –

Out at 10 50/.. – walked (reading French vocabulary) to the 3 mile stone, London road, and back at 12 50/.. –

Dressed, then went downstairs and staid till 5 – Made some little corrections and additions to the letter Miss H- had written to her uncle and Sullivan, and taking a few lines of her letter to Mr. Frampton.   Wrote all the rest for her, which took me a longish while, but it happened to be just what she liked.  She thought it beautiful; that is, to the purpose.  Wonders what she shall do without me, and we are capital friends.  Her brother’s debt is now three thousand, three hundred and twenty. Put her up on getting her fifth share with interest from twenty-one August, 1819, of Charles’ seventeen hundred and twenty-two pounds, eighteen and eight pence, which will get up her claim on Lord Buckinghamshire to near five thousand pounds.

Wrote the above of today till 5 1/2 – Dressed – Notes from Gibbon – Dinner at 6 35/.. in 35 minutes – Conversation – Coffee at 8 – From 8 50/.. in an hour played and won a gammon and a hit at backgammon – From 10 to 11, read aloud from page 429 to 467, Chapter 51, Volume 9, Gibbon –

Came upstairs at 11 10/.. and to my room at 11 1/4 –

Rainy morning from 8 to after 10 – Fair while I was out – Began to rain again soon after 2, and afterwards rainy (with a heavy [storm] of hail) afternoon and evening, with highish wind – southeasterly – F 58 1/2° at 11 20/.. in my room and 40° at 12 in the balcony –


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/15/0035 

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