Thursday, January 15, 1835

 1835

January

Thursday 15

9 25/..

11 55/..

No kiss.

Ready in 3/4 hour, and breakfast at 10 10/.. –

Ann very poorly during the morning, sickish and I think bilious.  Pain in her stomach and tendency to bowel complaint, but it went off.

Charles Howarth as yesterday putting up oak wainscot in north parlor passage –

From 11 to 2 10/..(but Ann very poorly about 12 and this interrupted me) wrote Tuesday and the first 22 lines of yesterday –

Ann not having been out since Saturday (except church on Sunday) thought a little fresh air would do good, and got her as far as Park farm (in spite of small rain and disagreeable wind in our faces) then returned and walked a little on the flags in front of the house out for 1/2 [hour] till 2 55/.. –

Then I out again in 1/4 hour at 3 10/.. Till 6 – at Whiskum Cottage – Pickles and his brother Nathaniel and son John putting 2 large rag covers over the reservoir – Stopt them – Told them I would have a pillar run up in the middle of the reservoir for the covers to rest on –

Then went with Pickles to John Bottomley’s water drift – and Walker Pit to see the rag wheel -stones laid there (Stones and delivered at the spot at 11 1/2 per yard) – Then down with him to  look at the draining (soughing) in the low land, and to see the walling just done, all but tops, against the low point of Trough of Bolland wood –

Returned by the Godley road and Park farm, and came in at 6 – Dinner at 6 1/2 – Coffee – Came upstairs at 7 3/4 – No going in to see my father – Marian’s friend there --  

Sat some while talking to Ann, then settled George’s account etc. and from 8 25/.. to 9 3/4 wrote out from line 22 of yesterday to line 25 of page 278 of today – Then 20 minutes with my aunt till 10 5/.., at which hour, F 43 1/2° in my study –

Thaw – fine morning overhead – Dampish,  rather small rainy afternoon –

Ann poorlyish towards night – gave her a glass of hot weak wine and water after she was in bed which did good –

Very rainy night at 11 p.m. and afterwards till after I was in bed --


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0146

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