Thursday, September 19, 1833

1833

September

Thursday 19

6 1/4

12 3/4

Rainy morning. F 65° at 7 a.m., yet out at 8 25/.. to 10 1/2 though it rained more or less all the while – Went straight along the street opposite to my bedroom to the ramparts, and a different way home by several different streets to the Exchange, and some time there looking at prints etc. –

Breakfast at 11. M. de Hagemann sat an hour with me – then at my journal.

M. Sieveking, the banker, of 32 Nyhaven (Newhaven) called for 10 minutes to pay his respects till 2 40/.. –

Wrote out journal of yesterday and Tuesday –

Lady Harriet de Hagemann brought Comtesse Blucher and her sister.  Miss Ferrall called about 3 1/4 for about 1/4 hour, and then Lady H. de H- took me with them an hour’s drive round the pretty outskirts of the town – Then set down the 2 ladies and went with Lady H. de H- home –

Dinner at 5 in the summer house.  M. and Lady H. de H- and myself.  Soup, grilled or fried maccarel with fat brown sauce, good mutton cutlets, and a pudding. Claret and Madeira – Talked of going to Jutland, and should like to go to Iceland – Inquired what was worth seeing – Had told M. de Hagemann in the morning I thought of being at Leipzig fair in April – He had said he could not go to Norway – Could not get leave long enough – Lady Harriet might go – But said he should like to go with me to Leipzig and Berlin and Dresden – But letting it slip that he did not want to go to Norway, just where he could be of most use to me, so did not encourage him going anywhere with me.  Merely quite civil about.  Poor little man, he could give me no information I asked for.  He did not even know of Mallet’s History of Denmark in French; Miss Ferrall mentioned it –

Countesse Bourke and Miss Ferrall at 8 1/2 and afterwards 2 gentlemen came in the evening – The de Hagemann sent us all home in the carriage.  I set them down and got home myself at 11 1/4 –

Fine day after 12 at noon – F 67° now at 12 10/.. tonight – Have felt it very hot all today –

M. de Hagemann gave me Letter, 3 pages and ends, from M- [Mariana], Leamington, of 21 August and 7 September – Mr. L- [Lawton] had been in London to see Brodie about his knee – Brodie attending the duke of Devonshire, so saw Sir Astley Cooper – A fluid between the knee and knee-cap, for which must have severe blistering – Mr. L- very ill on returning, with something like cholera – M- and Watson alarmed, and began to think they wondered what they should do without him – Nobody to assist π [Mariana] but Willoughby Crewe and Mr. Wood, the latter with a family, etc. So π would, as she seemed to think, fall into Willoughby Crewe’s hands. M- had read The Parson’s Daughter – Struck with the resemblance of Harbottle to [F?].  Had she read it 2 years ago, many things might not have happened.  About Willoughby Crewe, she now sees plainly how it is.  Well, let her take him.  I have lost all confidence in her.  She can never be the same to me again.  I doubt if we should be really happy together.  Let her take Willoughby, and even in that case I doubt her perfect happiness –

No letter for me from Mrs. Sutherland – Perhaps she did not quite like my last.  Well, I am easy about it.  If I can only make my income do, it is all I want --

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/16/0115

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