Friday, October 2, 1835

1835

October

Friday 2

7 50/..

12

No kiss.

Fine morning and F 57° at 9 –

Sitting down to breakfast at 9 when Marian sent for me – to talk about the servants – Said I intended Eugénie to go tomorrow – therefore Marian would send Matthew off tomorrow –

Had finished breakfast at 10, then 1/2 hour with Ann –

Ann off to Cliff hill at 11 1/2 to take leave of her, sister and back at 1 50/.. just as the men had returned to work – An hour with – Cheered her up – She was very low on parting her sister – The Sutherlands to dine at Mr. Parker’s at 5 and sleep there and be off at 7 a.m. tomorrow per coach to Manchester, thence per rail road and steam home – Ann’s carriage went at 3 to take them to Mr. Parker’s –

Except the hour with Ann on her return all the day from 10 1/2 to 6 1/2 with the workmen – With William Keighley and his man felling trees oaks in the old hedge row between the Pearson Ing and Calfcroft and upper brook Ing – or at the Cascade bridge – There all the afternoon and made Mawson’s 8 men really work for the last hour or 2 –

Dressed – dinner at 6 55/.. – Coffee – An hour with my father and lastly with Marian – 1/4 hour or 20 minutes Ann and I with my aunt till 10 5/.. – She had written her will herself (copied from Mr. Gray) and Ann and Oddy witnessed this as they had done the other –

Wrote the whole of yesterday and today till 11 p.m., at which hour, F 58° – Fine till about 2 p.m.; afterwards, rain for an hour or two, and then fair from about 4 p.m.

Letter tonight from the Halifax Philosophical Society to announce the annual meeting on Monday

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0108

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