Monday, March 4, 1833 (Partial Entry)

1833

March

Monday 4

6 55/..

12 5/..

Fine morning. F 48° at 6 55/.. inside and 42 12° at 8 outside my room –

Breakfast at 8 3/4 with my father – in 1/2 hour – with Charles Howarth in the library before and after breakfast – About 8 1/2, damp and small rain came on, but tolerably fine at 9 3/4 when off to Halifax down the old bank to Mr. Parker’s office –

Signed Thomas Greenwood’s lease.  Mr. Parker to get Greenwood to sign it in a day or 2 – Signed my name in Messers Parker and Adams’s book against each of the 3 sums they have lent me 8th ultimo and a day or two before = £300 – Mentioned the chance of my buying Godley and in that case wanting £3,000 – Might probably be trust-money at 4 per cent – Should I have any objection to leave the deeds with Messers Parker and Adams? No – Said if I should not get Godley I should lay out no more money here – The cottage paid for to Michael Booth and the deeds registered – These to be sent up with Greenwoods lease, and the draft of coal-lease, which Mr. Parker said I might, to be sure, as well have, as I should have it to pay for – Mentioned my having sent immediately and offered the coal to Hinscliffe as I had promised to do in the event of Mr. Rawson and I not agreeing –

Then went to Whitley’s – Parkinson’s Organic Remains £10.10 in the catalogue and Scrope’s Geology of Central France £3.3 and his work on Earthquakes 12/. Sowerby’s Botany not in the catalogue –

Then some time at the Philosophical Society’s room (museum) looking at Daniell’s Essays on Meteorology 18/.  and put my name down for 1 share of the new building to be erected by the Society – Mine the only name down.

Then to Stony Royde and sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Rawson  Very glad to see me? Was it fancy that I thought her less making much of me than usual? She did not seem to want me to stay longer.  Good account of Mrs. Christopher Saltmarshe (who broke a small blood vessel on the lungs 6 weeks ago) but she is still in a precarious state –

Then up the old bank (at 12 1/4) to Cliff hill – there in an hour and sat 1 35/.. hour talking to

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/16/0024

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