Sunday, February 24, 1833

1833

February

Sunday 24

7

12 1/4

Windy, damp morning.  F 44° at 7 just before lighting my fire, and 35° at 8 1/2 outside my window – Great deal of trouble with my fire – Lighted it 3 times.  Got shavings twice from the library, which made me be not dressed till 8 1/2 – Reading De la Beche’s Geology –

Breakfast with Marian at 9 1/4 in 40 minutes – Then reading De la Beche again till 11 55/.. Altogether read from page 61 to 84 attentively, consulting the geological sections etc. –

Prayers at 12 – in 35 minutes, and long sermon (32 or 33) Mr. Knight in 24 minutes –Then staid talking to my aunt and came to my room at 1 3/4.  Had been raining for the last hour and more – wild, windy, rainy day –

Letter 1 2/3 pages from Mariana (Lawton), dated Friday, merely to say they were to be off as yesterday to Coleshill and be at Leamington on Monday (tomorrow) – She herself hurried and ‘hors de combat,’ but pretty well – Will write again in a day or 2 after reaching Leamington –

From 2 to 5 1/2 (had Cordingley a longish while between 3 and 4, talking of having my man servant here etc.), read very attentively (finding in the maps all the places mentioned) from page 84 to 101, De la Beche’s Geology – then cut open Sir Humphry Davy’s Consolations in Travels and read 3 or 4 pages of them – Dinner at 6 10/.. –

Wrote and sent off at 7 by John note to ‘Mr. Carter Giles house’

‘Sir,

Whatever sum you consider me entitled to on account of the yew tree, I beg you to accept, or distribute in charity in whatever way you may think best –

I am sir, etc. etc.

A Lister’ –

Meant to have written to Mrs. Norcliffe, but took up again ‘Consolations in Travel; on the last days of a philosopher, by Sir Humphry Davy, Baronet, late president of the Royal Society, 3rd Edition, London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1831.’ ‘London: printed by William Clower, Stamford Street,’ 1 volume duodecimo, pages 264, and till 9 40/.. read from 57 to 218 very much interested –

Then went into the other room – Came upstairs at 9 35/.. – Till 11 50/.., read from page 218 to 264, end of Consolations in Travel – More and more interesting from 1st to last –

Wind, cold, east wind, damp morning – Rain before 12, and afterwards, wild, windy, rainy, snowy day – the ground [covered] at 4 p.m. – F 48° now at 12 tonight, but fine now and all the day in my room --


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/16/0021

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