Friday, January 1, 1836

1836

January

Friday 1

8 5/..

12 3/4

No kiss.  Ann took two pills last night.  Peewee and poorly and hipped this morning, but says she is better –

Ready in 50 minutes – Breakfast at 9 10/.. In about 1/2 hour at accounts and settling about Étrennes before and after till 11 25/.., at which hour snowing (small snow, the ground whitish), F 30 1/2° –

Went out at 11 1/2 – No, had Sharpe the cook and ditto George and gave them their new year’s gift – Long talk to the former as to managing the house and keeping order –

Out from 12 to 1 20/.. in the farmyard and about –

Then 10 minutes with Ann, then (in the north dining room) from 1 35/.. to 4 making notes and extracts from Volume 2 ‘A Steam Voyage Down the Danube, with sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, and Turkey, etc., By Michael J. Quin, Author of ‘A Visit to Spain’, 2nd edition Revised and corrected, In 2 volumes, Volume 1., London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street ,1835’ Printed by ‘Cox and Sons, 75, Great Queen Street Lincoln’s Inn Fields’, 2 volumes duodecimo, pages 321 and 324.

Out again from 4 to 5 1/2 – Had Mr. Husband with Nelson’s bill (2 men not quite a day) but, of course, charged a day = 8/. for fitting the 4 additional rag-stones that raised the Lower fishpond cistern 2 feet higher, so that the cistern is now 6 feet deep and 3 feet by 2 feet 6 inches inside– Mr. Husband told me Mr. Harper said it was odd that Firth called the 28 lb. pounds overweight in his bill for lead pipe (from the Lower fish pond) solder – Solder being 10d per pound and Firth would probably have charged me 1/. a pound for it – Instead of putting it in at the same price as the lead i.e. 2 3/4d per pound, setting solder and everything included as agreed – However Mr. Husband seemed to think Firth had best perhaps furnish the 30 to 40 yards wanted of 1/2 inch pipe for the farmyard, and I could employ Mercer in future – Agreed –

1/2 hour with my father and Marian – Dressed – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Coffee – Ann and I with my father and Marian 1/4 hour till 7 3/4 – I sat reading the Greek botany in the Encyclopædia of Geography till 8 55/.. and staid with her till 10, during which time read the newspaper – Found Marian with Ann – all annoyed about John Clarke and Mary Rhodes – A little partiality between them – John bad to get out and keep out of the parlor – Marian sick of her household – no order etc. etc.  Consoled her as well as I could – Proposed setting all right by my being considered in my father’s place – My being master and Marian mistress – Made this plan palatable to us all – Marian staid till 10 50/.. and had been 20 minutes with Ann before I came – but we all seemed satisfied at the conclusion come to – Such steps to be taken as might, on consideration, seem best for the purpose – Ann and I sat up talking till long after 11 –

Fine day – F 24 1/2° at 11 1/2 p.m.

Note this morning by George from the Post Office from the Halifax Philosophical Society and Letter this evening from Mr. James Peat, 167 Piccadilly, acknowledging the receipt of my letter and check on Hammersleys and Letter this evening from Mr. Robert Walker, 2 Jones Street, Berkeley Square, London, with his bill for the morning Herald.

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0153