Saturday, February 23, 1833

1833

February

Saturday 23

7 50/..

12 20/..

Fine morning. F 46° at 7 50/.. before lighting my fire and F 36° outside my window –Breakfast at 9 5/.. and read the Courier till 10 3/4, then with my aunt – Came to my room at 11 1/4 – Then with Charles and James Howarth till 12 3/4 – Then read from page 55 to 149, Latrobe’s Travels in Switzerland till 2 55/.., when Hinscliffe came and staid till 3 1/2 (during which time showers of snow and then of rain) –

Surprised to hear that my agreement was off with Mr. Rawson – Explained how it was that they now wanted to have liberty to come lower than the Wakefield road, that they objected to the penalty against damming up the water on the coal, and to giving me the power to go into the upper bed. Mr. H- owned that I had only behaved too well in giving them so much time, and that he himself would not yield the 3 points above named – Said I thought it right to let him know I was now at liberty – But he said the case was altered now –

On this, I said I really thought it the best thing for him that he would then get rid of Walsh, and had better take what he could get of Mr. Rawson for his 2 sixth shares (Walsh had only one sixth; the other 3 doubtful to whom they belong) – He said he thought perhaps I was right, but said he had not sold them yet – tho’ I rather fancy he has at least almost done it –

Said the Willy Hill pit would now cost £20 opening again but owned that it wanted £10 worth of repairs before – Thought the stones of the shed etc. should be worth 1/2 what they cost and thought they cost £4 –

Made out a good story against Walsh, and said they had been threatened to be fined if they did not free the pit up – If he had known I might have given anything for the waste, seemed as if he would not have filled it up – But said the waste was Mr. Rawson’s – I said it was mine, and I should perhaps take it in –  

Hinscliffe said the Willy Hill pit was 56 yards deep and the nearest place in my own ground where I could sink down to the coal would be in the hollow above, and then the pit would be 80 yards deep –

He said the stone the present road way made of or repaired with were his – I said No! Mine, as they were in the coal pit road they rented of my uncle but never paid the rent for – He said Mr. Briggs had ordered him to remove them and he had done so, therefore they were his (but he was very civil about it).   They were lying underneath the wall on the new road, and John Bottomley had taken them without saying anything to him –

Some time with my aunt – Then a little with Charles Howarth in the library, putting up the cupboards near and under the window and making shelves for them. 

Then came to my room.   Wrote all but the first 2 lines of today and went out at 5 – having (1/2 hour) before had civilish note from Mr. Carter Giles house, saying that from old age, he gave up the management of his concerns to his sons – Sorry the thing had happened and would be glad to pay me for the tree – ‘Would beg to remark that I think there is one or 2 yew trees in Joseph Hopkin’s garden of a superior quality and a very strong one in the Long marsh’ –

35 minutes in going to and returning from Miss Walker of Cliff hill, with whom sat 1/2 hour, saying I intended calling before but had been prevented – She seemed glad to see me – Talked of Miss Walker of Lidgate – Would not allow that I thought her close – Said I had prevailed upon her to give up her correspondents till her return home, and that I myself, not to break my own rule, did not expect hearing from her – Told her all about Mr. Carter and the yew tree, and talked and amused her as well as I could –

Home at 6 3/4 – Dinner at 6 50/.. – Had Pickels –

Read from page 48 to 57 to 60,  De la Beche’s Geology – Had a little nap – Wrote the last 5 lines – Went into the little room at 9 3/4 – Sat talking to Marian and then to my aunt and did not come upstairs till 10 50/..

Fine day on the whole, tho’ between 3 and 4 p.m., shower of snow and then of rain and a few drops of rain as I went (at first) to Cliff hill. F 44 1/2° now at 11 p.m.

Read a little of the Courier --

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