Monday, October 7, 1833

1833

October

Monday 7

8

12 20/..

Damp rather rainy morning, F 59° at 10, at which hour breakfast –

Wrote compliments and should be much obliged to Mr. Browne to arrange my passport for Sweden – Enclosed this with my passport under cover to ‘Peter Browne, Esquire, H. B. M. S. [Her Brittanic Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires]’ and sent it by the valet de place at 10 3/4 –

At German.  M. Christiani from 11 25/.. to 1 3/4 11th Lesson, but paid him 6 species for 12 lessons (1 sp. species = 2 Ecus thalers or dollars here), the lesson I missed yesterday week, as by agreement, paid for to make up the 12 – To take a lesson at 11 a.m. tomorrow and afterwards par hazard till the 29th instante mense and then to have 3 lessons a week for a time not fixed – To pay 1 paper thaler per lesson – hour from 10 to 11 a.m.

Had had note and my passport from Mr. Browne –

German and slumbering (no sun today – yet very sleepy) till Lady Harriet came about 2 1/2 for 1/2 hour – Just as she was going away came Mr. Browne, our Chargé d’Affaires here – Lady Harriet soon left us –

Mr. B- very civil and obliging – Gave me a letter to our consul at Elsineur in case I should wish to go over to Sweden – Will inquire for a private apartment for me – Will lend me books – Very civil – Asked him about going to court – Mentioned my not having been presented at home – Will be happy to present me – Not necessary, but owned I could not get into the society without going to court – Said I would consider of it and let him know –

Even easy to find from him that the de Hagemanns are not at all liked.  M. de H brusques the court because he has no rank there and the king is not all a man to be bullied  M. de H is in fact nobody, and gives himself too many airs.  Mr. Brown said Mr. Foster got him made Aide de Camp to the king.

All the history of Mrs. Stuart Courtenay – She does not get into debt – but her income so far anticipated that she sends her maid round with a book asking of the tradesmen a month’s credit – but then she always pays at the time – Lives in a garret and sleeps with her maid because her means so small cannot do otherwise – pity she will go to court, because it will be inconvenient to pay for the carriage to take her there, and she is under a cloud for having divorced her husband which is known here – but Mr. B- will present her, and will ask her to his house, and do whatever he can for her – Said I was sorry to have given the thing an unfair colouring to Lady Stuart, and would write again to correct this – He said M. de H- wished him not to present her because he felt she was a sort of connexion of Lady Harriet’s and he did not like this, as she was so oddly thought of here but he, Mr. B- , did not see how he could refuse presenting her –

He sat about an hour with me – after he was gone wrote 2 1/2 pages large 1/2 sheet note paper to be ready for Lady Stuart – Dinner at 5 50/.. – Mr. Brown is, however, as much like a little common Methodist as a Charge d Affaires.  Had dirty nails too, but very civil to me

Mr. B- Browne thought I was staying at the de Hagemanns’ and could not want anything he could do for me, or would have called before – He evidently does not like them.

From 8 1/2 to 11 at German writing out translation (2 pages) for tomorrow and every now and then asleep – How very sleepy and lethargic I have been of late! 

Damp, disagreeable, rather rainy morning till about 3.  Afterwards fair and tolerably fine – Fahrenheit 59° now at 11 35/.. p.m. –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/16/0120