Saturday, September 21, 1833

1833

September

Saturday 21

7 40/..

12 1/4

Very fine morning. F 63° at 8 3/4 – Breakfast at 9 –

Madame Hage called between 10 and 11 and sat near an hour with me – Then had Fife, the coachmaker, to take the carriage this afternoon for the little repairs necessary –

Then M. de Hagemann, and staid near an hour – Very civil and kind about calculating my expenses,  including carriage at 100 dollars (Ecus of 6 marks.  One mark = 16 Danish schillings) per month and everything, said I ought to live for £50 per month – But he calculated nourriture at only 1.00 dollars (about 3 dollars a day) and it will be more than double –

Madame Hage seemed as if she would put me in her pocket – Since Lady Harriet told me she was Rospigliosi the famous dentist’s daughter, and having before observed her English and manner were not first rate, I have not thought much of her.  Besides, she is too much all at once.  I believe she would be glad to travel with me; a hint at it this morning, but I shall not be so easily caught again --  

Till 5 3/4, wrote 3 pages and ends and under the seal very small and close to M- [Mariana] –

Hoped Dr. Jephson’s remedies had been successful and that Mr. Lawton was better – We sometimes did not quite know the value of a thing till we had lost – I had especially for the last year past contemplated her position with anxious and sometimes fearful solicitude.  She had little understood – I had told her my opinion in 1825 at Buxton, but dreampt what her own sentiments would be 7 years afterwards – But then, not even the Parson’s Daughter could have put her more on her guard than I had been able to do alluding to Willoughby but I could say now with as much truth as on the 9th March, 1816, her happiness was dearer to me than my own –

People tell her I shall not like here – it is ‘the Court of dullness’ – Say I thought I should not have time to find it so – A knife and fork always at the de Hagemanns – Dined there Thursday and yesterday – Refused today – Should go tomorrow and should go if I could to Countesse Blucher this evening – Miss Ferrall very pretty – had been very agreeable and useful, but Comtesse Blucher fascinates me more –  Reminded me of Lady Eastnor, that gentle interesting manner –

Thanks for all M-’s good wishes – Knew she had my interest at heart in wishing all my ‘plans and projects to answer’ – Said I had never formed but one project that had failed and that surely was not my fault, alluding to herself.

Should be now and always, in this place or that, very especially and entirely yours,

 AL –

Said to pay the money to Hammersley when she liked, but to let the £500 at 4 per cent or whatever the sum might be beginning 1 January 1834 – I would name it to my aunt and write her a letter that would be security if anything happened to me, but hoped we should live to meet again –

Mentioned Mrs. Hage having called this morning, being a clever traveled friend of the Bluchers, pleased to think me clever – Afraid if M- was here she would think me going to be spoilt again –

Account of my journey, amusing enough – 

The 2 first pages of my letter to my aunt were written at Lubeck –

Left off journey (good account) at Coblentz – Brief account of journey from Coblentz here – Then thanks and answer to her letter –

Would not be at any chancery expense about the upper brea water – Might write to Mr. Parker next week or Leon, or rather wait perhaps till I had heard again from my aunt – Hoped rather than believed the Misses Walker of Walterclough would act with common sense about the Walterclough Mill water level –

Mr. Jno [John] Lister at Paris to improve himself – Till he knew what was to be done by Parliament about the India Company –

Should be satisfied with whatever my aunt did, but thought £50 enough to be sunk on the Denholme Gate road – Principal could never be paid – Interest not much to be depended on – If the arrears now due could be paid, would rather Washington – Now especially if Mrs. Walsh and her son agreed to sell the bit of Sour-milk-hall land, should be glad of all I could towards it –

Glad her maid suited her so well and to have such good accounts of them all etc. etc.

Dinner at 5 50/.. – Sent down my letters at 7 to go by the post in the house at 7 1/4 – Could be only be paid as far as Hamburg – to ‘Mrs. Lister, Shibden hall, Halifax, Yorkshire, Angleterre’ and to ‘Mrs. Lawton, Claremont house, Leamington, Warwickshire, Angleterre’ –

Wrote all the above of today till 7 3/4 –

Mr. Sieveking the banker sent me this morning about 10 for number 2095 £25 Hammersley’s circular in paper + 11 marks in copper –

Off at 8 and in about 20 minutes at Comtesse Blucher’s – Found her and Miss Ferrall just sitting down to tea – Very glad to see me – Spent a very agreeable evening till 10 40/.. – Home at 11 (walked there and back) – Very fine day.  F 66 1/2° now at 11 1/4 p.m. --

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/16/0115 and SH:7/ML/E/16/0116