Wednesday, January 7, 1835

1835

January

Wednesday 7

8 1/4

11 1/2

No kiss

Hard frost again; fine morning –

Out in the workshop – Charles Howarth not come till 10 – Poorly last night –

Had Pickles – Said I would settle with him for the 3 hares killed on Monday, one yesterday, and more he is to try for today –

Then had John Bottomley – he is a good staunch blue plumper – Has behaved very well – Paid him for carting etc.  £6.16.4 ready for his rent –

Breakfast as I could between 10 and 11 – Then from 11 20/.. to 11 55/.. wrote yesterday and so far of today –

Off to the Stag’s Head, Mytholm (my rent day) and there at 12 20/.. – Washington there and had already had several of the tenants – the rents very well paid – Carr, Greenwood, and Denniston who had the Hopwood Lane fields, not there – Too busy at Halifax with the election and this £24.6.0 + the pew rents can be had on Saturday –

Brought home the rents collected, and came in about 1 1/2 – Brought three hundred and twenty three pounds, four shillings, and sat with Ann counting it over, and she put it away to be ready for tomorrow.  (I had one hundred and three sovereigns and the rest in five pound country notes)

Some while with my aunt – Ann and I went out at 4 1/4 – Just looked at the drift – Joseph Mann can have light rails at £8 per ton and heavy at £    – Farrer said to have the best metal –

Too busy to attend to Joseph Mann yesterday.  Mr. Rawson’s foreman (Christopher and Jeremiah Rawson, old lane foundry) would take the order at £7.10.0 per ton of light rails – a ton will do more than 60 yards

Ann and I walked in the walk, and came in at 4 25/.. – John Booth soon returned from Halifax –

one Jennings, Cow Green, had given the casting vote for Protheroe – By and by came Mr. Washington, who had it from Wortley himself at the Swan Committee room that the casting vote was in his (Wortley’s) favor, the state of the poll being

                                      Wood          336

                                      Wortley       308

                                      Protheroe    307

 

What a hard run race!

Came upstairs and in 50 minutes (till 6 20/60) wrote 3 pages to Vere – 

Would she thank me for a scrawl per post merely to say I hoped we had succeeded – gave the statement of the poll saying I heard there were 2 bad votes – Would not be made known till tomorrow to whom they belonged – But the weight of property certainly on our side, and I hoped they did not belong to us –

I had not seen Mr. Wortley – out when he called – but no matter – he was sure of all the support I could give him – Vere herself had asked me to do what I could for him – and I had thrown in my [unité] –

We none of us thought the Radicals could have pushed us so hard, but we hoped better times would come, and that before another election we should one and all of us (conservatives) be stronger – Hoped that my own influence would not be decreased –

Thanks for her nice, long letter – Anxious to hear more of her Cameron’s eye – Hoped Vere need feel no alarm – Anxious for herself, but have no fear now (for her safe accouchement) –

Will write in a day or 2 to dear Lady Stuart and a note to Vere herself by a parcel of warm shawls –

Ask what they had done about Gisbourne – but had not her letter before me so merely added the town was in a sad turmoil – The windows glass and frames of many of the principal houses, Inns, and shops, (blues) smashed to atoms – The 2 front doors of the vicarage broken down – Mr. Rawson’s carriage (the banker with whom Mr. Wortley had been staying) completely broken up – One of our servants going to the post yesterday had been knocked down but escaped without much harm – Another of our servants escaped with difficulty today, having seen a poor blue taken into a surgery, almost trampled and bruised to death –

Dinner at 6 1/2 – Sent off George with my letter at 6 35/.. § dated this evening 5 1/2 p.m.  Matthew waited  -- Coffee – then till near 9 with my father and Marian – I was then some while with my aunt, then again with my father and Marian – then sat talking to Ann, and then till 10 10/.. wrote all but the first 5 lines of today –

 

§ my letter to ‘the Lady Vere Cameron at the honorable Lady Stuarts Whitehall, London’

 

Very fine day – frosty -- F 39° at 10 1/4 p.m. in my study –

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/17/0138 and SH:7/ML/E/17/0139