Sunday, January 4, 1835

 

1835

January

Sunday 4

9 35/..

11 1/2

No kiss.  Very fine morning – hard frost.  F 38° in my study, sun shining, at 10 1/2 a.m., at which hour, breakfast –

Till 11 1/2, wrote the last 29 lines of yesterday –

Went in to my aunt at 12 1/4 – Read the morning service in 35 minutes – Sat talking till Mr. Sunderland came – My aunt pretty well, and Cordingley better –

Mr. Larcelles had declined being a candidate for our Riding because his father, Lord Harewood, thought his election doubtful and it would cost him £10,000 –

Had just written the above of today at 1 40/.. –

At Lightcliffe church in 22 minutes at 2 20/.. and waited 1/4 hour – Mr. Lockwood read the prayers and Mr. Akroyde preached 33 minutes from 1 Corinthians and XV. 19, very well, considering the man – but his pronunciation and manner of delivery so far from good, I could not make out above 1/2 he said – 

Home at 4 3/4 – Read a few pages of Volume 2, Plumpton Wilson’s sermons.

Dinner at 6 – Dessert as on and since Friday, and, as then, and since then, Matthew helped George to wait – Coffee – then Ann and I 25 minutes with my father and Marian, and came upstairs at 7 55/.. – 

Note from the Halifax Philosophical Society to say their next general meeting will be on Monday the 19th instante mense of Monday the 5th instante mense – Read the newspaper and then from page 80 to 99, Phillips’s Guide to Geology till 9 1/2 while Ann was asleep on the sofa – With my aunt from 9 3/4 for 20 minutes –

Very fine day – hard frost – F 37 1/2° at 10 5/.. p.m. in my study – No fire in the stove today --

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0137