Friday, December 18, 1835

1835

December

Friday 18

8 1/2

11 1/2

Pickles gave up

Whiskum Cottage

No kiss.

A little headache this morning, but better, I think, than yesterday –

Damp and driving small rain, but the sun shining through it and F 41 12/° now at 9 35/.. Breakfast at 9 1/2 –

Messers Washington and Armytage came during breakfast to measure the outside of the house for laying down in the valuation of the township – Asked them in  – (Mr. Armytage to see Mary (Rhodes) and Mr. Washington to see ourselves – He advises the Engine wheel being put six yards lower down in the field so that the top of the wheel, instead of being 2 yards below the surface, should be nearly even with it, and said the wheel, if lower in the field, would also be more convenient for a mill in front –

Went out about 11 – Robert Mann and company sloping down the perpendicular rise all along the upper side of the walk to the cascade bridge and moving the soil so as to form a hill on the right going to the bridge –

Mr. Jubb came about 11 1/2 – My aunt had a good pulse at 80 – Jane and John doing very well, but Sharpe, the cook, very poorly – To be moved from the Low kitchen chamber out of the way into my waiting woman’s room, and Mary to go into the Low kitchen chamber –

Sat some while with Ann – Meant to have gone to Halifax, but Mark Hepworth and Mawson came.  Mark’s son, Mark, began to be ill last night – Settled with them for carting soil from Northgate –

Then out again about 1 1/2 – Had Mrs. Pickles this afternoon – She brought me the key of Whiskum Cottage and 3/1, the last payment from the bar – Poor woman! She seemed affected at parting – Was in tears – I said I was very sorry – and that George Pickles had better sleep in the house tonight, and I would tell Joseph Mann to get into the house tomorrow –

Almost all the afternoon with Robert Mann and company, lastly went to the Lodge – About 1 1/2 yard raised above the present surface – Booth then – poorlyish –

Ann returned from Cliff hill about four –

Sauntered about till dark – Came in at 5 1/4 – Dressed – My aunt had been up from 11 to 4 – Went in to her room at 6, but she seemed asleep so I would not speak and sent Ann back again, who had gone with me –

Then wrote the above of today till 6 1/2 – Dinner at 6 1/2 – Went upstairs to my aunt again -- still asleep.

Coffee – 3/4 hour with my father and Marian – then read tonight’s paper upstairs till 10 – then 5 minutes with my aunt – She was awake and seemed rather better, but could not bear to speak so I came away –

Fine day – F 40° now at 10 5/.. p.m. –

Settling accounts till 10 25/.. p.m. – Note tonight from the Philosophical Society

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0146 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0147