Tuesday, January 27, 1835

 1835

January

Tuesday 27

9 10/..

11 1/2

No kiss.

Up at 4 1/2 for 1/2 hour and went to bed again – so much cousin, got up and washed and came to my study and got worsted stocking prepared and put on –

Very fine morning. F 46° at 10 25/.., at which hour Mr. Bradley – Out with him and Pickles, setting-out the alterations at the dry bridge till 1 1/4, then Mr. Bradley dined, and sat with him talking of different alterations till he went away at 2 20/.. – He would be glad to have what was Mr. Scatcherd’s office if I could let him have – Told him the place, house and land, was promised, but I would see what I could do – Did not mention to whom it was promised –

Ann to Cliff Hill at 1 25/.. – Washed and put on my other worsted cousin stocking to walk in.  Off to Cliff Hill for Ann at 3 – 10 minutes with Charles Howarth – He and James sawing up pine 12 foot planks into 1/2 inch boards for venting the drift – At Cliff Hill at 3 40/.. – 35 minutes there – Mrs. Ann Walker very good humoured – Walked back with Ann home at 5 –

Then in the barn talking to John or Charles Howarth, then 25 minutes with my father and Marian till 6 1/4 –

Dinner at 6 1/2 – Coffee – Ann and I 1/2 hour with my father and Marian –

Upstairs at 8 – Read partly aloud from page 35 to 85, Essay on the Church by a Layman – Very good –

Then 1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 1/2; staid to put chloride of lime (1 coffee cup to 10 quarts water) into her feet water –

Fine day, tho’ a little damp or very small rain between 1 and 2 p.m. – F 46 1/2° now at 10 40/.. p.m. –

Letter this evening 1 half sheet full (franked by Lord Stuart de Rothesay) from Lady Stuart de Rothesay – Very kind thanks for the shawls which she was impatient to see and receive –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0155