Friday, January 2, 1835

 

1835

January

Friday 2

7 35/..

11 1/2

No kiss.

Very fine, white, frosty morning. F 42° at 9 25/.. –

Off to Booth’s at 8 1/2 – Asked him to think about buying the cottages for me in the Haugh, on ground sold off from the Staups Estate – He will see about it, and may perhaps be able to give me an answer a month or 2 hence – Thinks the cottages let for £30 a year – Should not give more than £400 for the property – Then asked him for his vote for Mr. Wortley, but did not press it much – asked him to bring his wife (as he reminded me of having promised to let him do so) to see my walk, and drink tea – and promised when at Vienna to inquire after his cousin Mr. Booth, and send some message about him thro’ Mr. Parker or Mr. Washington –

Then went to Mr. Parker’s office – Said I could only raise  £1100 towards the payment to be on the 8th and that he, Mr. P-, must take care for the rest – Then mentioned the business of the hunters and their late trespasses last Friday week – Showed a copy of the notice (recommended by Mr. Jonathan Gray) to be sent by Ann – Mr. P- advised taking the opinion of a special pleader, to which I agreed – A case to be drawn up and a good opinion to be had by next week –

Had called at Whitley's, to say I should send this morning the morning Herald of last year (nearly complete) to be bound –

Returned up the old bank and home at 10 – Breakfast – Dawdling in the house over 1 thing or other – With Ann or my father and Marian till near 12 – The carriage took the morning Herald to Whitley’s to be bound,  went for Miss (Ann) Plowes at 10, and she arrived about 12 just after I went out –

Out with 1 or other all the day except came in for near 1/2 hour at Ann’s luncheon – Miss Plowes a fine looking, dark complexioned girl of 18, two inches, at least, taller than I who am 5 feet 5 inches without shoes on – Shy perhaps, or very stupid –

Pickles building up heads for the run from the drift – Much talk with Joseph Mann about iron rails instead of corve-wheel stones – Can lend me 80 yards of rails – I can perhaps borrow of Holt or Hinscliffe, or buy some – A ton will do 60 yards.  Iron dearer of late – Perhaps now about £10 per ton for rails –

Had Pickles down in the afternoon and gave orders for walling at the bottom of Trough of Bolland wood against the top Godley field – 4 foot high fence wall with limed tops to be done by Pickles at 14/. a rood – i.e. 2/3 per rood walling 1/. per rood lime and tops putting on – Turnpike (once a day from Northowram for 2 horses) 7d or 6d = 3/10 or 3/9, and stones (6 loads per rood at 4d) = 2/. per rood, which leaves 8/3 for carting per rood –

John Bottomley cannot go more than 6 times a day ⸪ [therefore] will bring a rood per day – He is [to] pick stones large enough for drain covers, and thus we shall have covers at 4d per load for which, if we asked for drain covers, we might be charged 1/2 crown –

Some time with my father and Marian –

Changed my pelisse – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Coffee upstairs – Read the newspaper – Thankful for it, the poor girl too shy or stupid to have anything to say beyond yes! and no! –

Had dessert, and George and Matthew waited.  Found cousin come gently by or before noon but made no preparations till night on going to bed –

Miss Plowes left us about 8 1/2 or nearer 9 – Walked down with her to the carriage door – purposely and particularly civil and attentive to her –

Sat talking to Ann till 10 – then not thinking it so late, went to my aunt and staid till she was just getting into bed at 10 25/.. –

Very fine day –

Mr. Parker sent me up the Case this afternoon – Read it over, made an observation or 2 in pencil, leaving it to him to pay such attention to these observations as he thought proper –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0136