Agreeableizing

  1833 November Saturday 9 1833 7 50/.. 12 1/2 Very fine morning, F 48 1/2 at 8 a.m. on the marble slab in my bedroom and 51° at 9 a.m. on my writing desk in my bedroom and the same in my salon – Breakfast at 10 having written out in 3/4 hour my German translation for this morning – Monsieur Christiani, Lesson 18, from 10 1/2 to 11 40/.. – Then wrote German translation for Tuesday and had a little nap till 12 1/2 – From then to 3 3/4 wrote 3 pages and ends and under the seal all but the 1st 1 1/2 page very small and close – Nothing to regret but the having no better account of my aunt herself – But to keep up her spirits – How much we can recover from! How Lady Stuart much older than my aunt recovered from that terrible erysipelas in her legs! Shall go on hoping for my aunts being better by and by – if not, or if she wishes me to return, though impossible now by   sea, can manage it some way – The post is seldom interrupted – Then much afterwards asking he...

1833 November Friday 8 7 25/.. 12 1/4 Incurred a cross last night thinking of π Mariana Fine morning, F 50° at 7 40/.. and at 8 1/2 a.m., at which hour breakfast and German in 1/2 hour – Wrote little note to ‘Mrs. Hage’ to ask if she would take a drive this morning – would call for her about 12 1/2 – Out at 9 35/.. Walked to 1st barrier on the Roskilde road as usual and back at 12 5/.. – Dressed – Note from Mrs. Hage to say would have been very happy to take a drive with me but princess Julia had sent for her and she feared she should not be back by 12 1/2 but begged me to drink tea with her this evening – Wrote little note to say would be happy to do so – Out at 1 – Left my note for Mrs. Hage at her door, and called to ask if Countess de Blucher or Miss Ferrall would drive out – The former going to ride – The latter not inclined to stir out – Staid about 1/4 hour, and then drove to the 2nd barrier on the Coast road.   Read the whole of the Hamburg Reporter of the...

1833 November Thursday 7 8 1/2 12 Rainy morning (much rain in the night), F 51° at 9 1/4 a.m. – Breakfast at 9 3/4 – Monsieur Christiani from 10 10/.. to 11 1/4 – 17th Lesson that I have taken (having missed 2, which however are paid and to be paid for) – Read the Hamburg Reporter of Monday 4th instante mense – M. Christiani brought me Hollis’s bill, 11.3.0 instead of 8 dollars as agreed, for my 2 days jaunt to Rȳgaard etc. Monsieur C- seemed prepared for my being annoyed, and hoped I should not blame him – No! Not at all said I, and gave the bill to the waiter to pay, declaring I should neither see the man nor have anything more to do with him – This prevented my asking Monsieur C- anything about restaurateurs – I shall probably not trouble him much in future – Went out in the carriage at   12 20/.. – Called on Madame Hage – Not at home – Then to the   Bluchers for about 1/4 hour.   Neither of them would drive out – Some youngish lady (Dame d’honneu...

1833 November Wednesday 6 8 3/4 12 Rainy morning, Fahrenheit 52 1/2° at 10 1/4 – Breakfast at 10 20/.. To 11 5/.., reading German all the while – Fair by this time (11 5/..) and the sun endeavoring to get out – Went out walking at 11 20/.. my usual walk to the 1st barrier on the Roskilde road – Very windy and in the face going – Back at 2 5/.. – Dressed – My foot a little blistered again – How is it – They perpetually blister now when I walk as far as 4 or 5 miles – whatever shoes and stockings I have on – At my desk at 2 50/.. and feeling very sleepy – I find both my servants are fatter since being here, and none of us, I suspect, the more on the alert for it – M. de Hagemann called for 1/2 hour at 4 1/4 to tell me he had called on Miss Dÿring (During) at 12 (She had called at his house last night but was not admitted) and Miss Gall’s apartment was to be 50 species a month – Some difficulty about having the use of the crockery, but Miss Dÿring took upon herself ...

1833 November Tuesday 5 10 2 20/.. Very fine sunny morning, Fahrenheit 51° at 10 1/4 a.m.. Mr. Christiani came a few   minutes after I got up – Obliged to send him away – this is the 2nd time I have missed – Breakfast at 11 1/2 and had read the Hamburg Reporter of 1st instante mense at 12 1/2 – Wrote another 1/2 sheet (a 3rd) to Lady Stuart and out at 2 1/4 – Met Mr. Browne at his door and gave him my letter to ‘the Honorable Lady Stuart, Whitehall’ containing my note or letter to ‘Miss Tate’ – Had told Lady S- in my 2 half sheets dated Saturday merely chit chat –  Account of the Queen’s birth night ball – She very gracious, princess Caroline Amalia very handsome, and princess Wilhelmina waltzed most perseveringly enough to turn a dozen such heads as mine – Knew a great many people and very much amused – Everything very handsome – The rooms well enough filled by about a hundred ladies and 1/2 as many more gentlemen – A pity the Brownes so long and far o...

1833 November Monday 4 8 5/.. 3 35/.. Fine, frosty, sunny morning. F 52° at 8 1/4 a.m. – Breakfast at 10 1/2 – Before and after till 12 1/2 wrote a 2nd 1/2 sheet full to Lady Stuart and 3 pages of 1/2 sheet to Miss Tate, and enclosed it under cover to Lady Stuart – Called at Mr. Browne’s to leave my letters – Nobody there but the porter, so brought them back – At the Bluchers’ at 12 50/...   A gentleman and lady there – Sat waiting some time – She did not introduce, and I, as the last time, never asked who the people were – We called on all the Maids of Honeur except Madame Bucholz and M ademoiselle Pechlin – The former ill so did not call, the latter forgotten.   Left cards for all but Mademoiselle Oxholm who admitted us, and we sat near 1/2 hour with her – Found Mrs. Hage with her and they were reading Lord Byron’s poetry in 1 large volume, Brussells edition – Miss Oxholm in a shabby black gown and her room not good, a few steps from the ground in Princes...

1833 November Sunday 3 8 25/.. 1 Wild, very windy, rainy morning. F 52 1/2° at 8 1/2 a.m. – At German – Breakfast at 10 25/.. German till 12 – from 12 1/4 to 12 50/.. Read the morning service – Before 12, Mr. Browne’s servant brought card of invitation for Mr. and Mrs. Browne, myself,   and Mrs. Stuart Courtenay to Prince Christian’s for tomorrow evening – Reading Paul and Virginie (French) till 1 1/4 – At 1 1/2, drove to M. de Hagemann’s – Found Countess Radzinsky there, the Prussian minister’s wife – Lady Harriet introduced me – Mrs. Browne had done it the day I was presented – Lady Harriet went with me (and picked up M de H- by the way) and he went too to the Russian baths to see Miss Gall’s apartment – Very nice one – Should like it, if they do not ask too much for it – Miss G- pays 550 dollars a year for it – Then what will she ask me for 5 months, taking into consideration the furniture?   Lady Harriet thinks 300 dollars will be enough – Lady Harrie...

  1833 November Saturday 2 8 10/.. 1 10/.. Fine morning, F 54° at 8 1/4 a.m.   Breakfast at 9 1/2 in 3/4 hour – At German, M. Christiani Lesson 16, from 10 20/.. to 11 1/2 – He is, as Mrs. Browne said, very fond of talking – Told me in German he was going to give lessons to Mrs. Stuart Courtenay – Mr. Browne had sent for him to go to her – Said the people wondered why I was here – Came to learn the antiquities history etc. of the place? Was I only plain Madame – Here where they lived on titles, could not understand being without them – But they put the de to my name – Yes! said I, and much better they may than to many of their own people, for I really have an estate to be called and they have not – (Shibden) – He repeated the word, as if to get it by heart to tell again – He will act as to bellman in any case required – He said people could not imagine why anyone should come and stay here – Nothing to see, or be amused with – I praised the town and society – Yes...

1833 November Friday 1 8 1/2 12 10/.. Captain Ross’s narrative. Rainy morning, Fahrenheit 57 1/2° at 9 35/.. a.m. – Breakfast at 9 50/.. in 1/2 hour – Read thro’ the Hamburg Reporter of the 29th, published every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday evening – Quarterly subscription 6$ dollars 2₻ marks –Advertisements 4β (4 pence) a line   – Interesting Letter from Captain Ross to the admiralty, dated on board the Isabella of Hull , Baffin’s Bay September 1833 – The expedition sailed from England in May 1829 in search of a N.W. passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, particularly by Prince Regent’s Inlet – The winter of 1829 (from October) and 1830 passed about north latitude 70° and longitude 90 west – Here in January 1830 ‘a most interesting consociation of natives who, being insulated by nature, had never before communicated with strangers’ Told them they (Captain Ross etc.) had ‘seen the continent of America, that about 40 miles to S.W. there were 2 great seas, o...

1833 October Thursday 31 8 40/.. 11 5/.. Very fine, sunny morning. F 57 1/2° at 9 a.m. – Breakfast at 10 – at 10 1/4 to 11 1/ 4 (finished breakfast while M. Christiani spoke German to me), M. Christiani 15 Lesson – Did a little German.   Read the Hamburg Reporter of the 28th instante mense, and then a little nap till 12 50/.. – Out at 1 10/.. to Countess Blucher’s for near 3/4 hour – Then took Miss Ferrall and the youngest little girl to the Long Line, and kept the carriage waiting while we walked up and down for about an hour meeting almost all the royal family en voiture or on foot – Must stop for the King or queen, but merely bow to the rest – Home about 3 – Did a little more German.   Dressed at the de Hagemanns’ to dinner at 5 – Coffee immediately after dinner – Tea at 9 – Not a soul came – Talked over court (all couleur de rose) and Mrs. Stuart Courtenay – Home at 10 1/4 – A little German till 11 – Fine day – F 58° at 11 p.m. --   WYAS F...

1833 October Wednesday 30 7 35/.. 4 35/.. Queen’s birthday ball My cousin coming gently when I got up.   Had all to prepare.   Very fine morning, Fahrenheit 56° at 7 3/4 a.m.  Breakfast at 9 1/4 in 22 minutes – Out at 9 3/4 – Walked as usual to the 1st barrier on the Roskilde road in 1 10/..hour and back in about the same at 12 10/..  Washing and putting on linen against my cousin – Dressed – Lady Harriet came at 1 – Off with her in 10 minutes to call on Mrs. Browne – At home and he too – He took me aside and gave me the letter he had written me concerning Mrs. Stuart Courtenay – Quite in debt – Believes £10 or £5 would pay all she owes here – Lives quietly and inoffensively – Her greatest fault poverty – May shew the letter to anyone I please – A foolish rigmarole nevertheless – Madame Hage came in – Somehow I don't think Mrs. Browne much likes Lady Harriet.   I fancy she likes me better – Just went to Lady Harriet’s for her work, then t...

  1833 October Tuesday 29 7 55/.. 12 40/.. Very fine sunny morning, F 56 1/2° at 8 a.m..   Pity I could not go out – but expect M. Christiani to re-begin German – Breakfast at 9 40/.. in 1/2 hour – From 10 3/4 to 12 1/4 Monsieur Christiani 14th Lesson.   Began today per month, so that on the 29th of next month will be due 12 dollars – This morning the 1st lesson I had had since Sunday the 13th instante mense – Wrote out a little translation till about 12 3/4 when Compte and Comtesse Blucher and Miss Ferrall called (the latter to see my white satin dress – and all saw it) and staid till near 2 – Out at 2 5/.. to Lady Harriet.   A t 2 25/.. to her, out with me to Charlottenlund in an hour – 20 minutes walk in the wood there – Set her down at home, and home myself at 4 3/4 – To send the carriage for Lady Harriet tomorrow at 12 50/.. To bring her here to see my dress, and then to take her with me to call on Mrs. Browne – Dinner at 5 1/4 – And that ...