Friday, September 18, 1835

1835

September

Friday 18

8 3/4

12 1/2

Ann at Cliff hill – Fine morning, F 56° at 9 1/2, at which hour, breakfast – No! Called out to Mr. Husband – The dry wallers not satisfied – Mawson came – After much talk, left them to settle the matter – The job taken at 3/. a rood – but that not enough – Desired Mr. Husband to measure off what is done, and came in to breakfast at 11 – The tea almost cold –

Out again about 11 1/2 – 18 1/2 roods done at 3/. = £2.15.6, but Mawson has paid the men £6.2.6 – To have his bill tomorrow – Said I would pay the money, but we must have a new ordering – Kept 2 of the men at days wages till the job get regular (the buttresses to be done by Booth) and sent off the one most discontented waller –

Just looked at the Adney bridge masons, and the 2 underfooting George’s room, and stood by Booth and his 2 masons at the farmyard gate lowside buttress till after 1 – Then to the tail goit – Robert Mann and his 3 men doing the job right – Began it yesterday.

Holt came – He settled on the spot with Turner’s son to give 10 pence per yard running measure for springers for turning the arch on, in addition to the 6/8 per yard running measure, according to the contract drawn up by Washington – I had ordered the drain covers to be 4 feet long and 6 inches thick –

Then settled with Holt about the Stump Cross Inn Cistern – to be done with field wall-stones and well puddled instead of with single-stones which, from the immense size (for a cistern 8 feet X by 4 inside), would cost delivered £10. 

Told Holt of  Mr. Parker’s note – It seems that, by making all speed, I may be ready for the water on my own Engine wheel in eighteen months from this time – cannot therefore agree with Keighleys and company to let them have it for 3 years – but I might let them have it for 6 months in the year when there is water enough, and then take it back in summer – and as for loosing the coal in Northowram hills, I might have an acreage upon it – Told Holt to consider what he would advise me to do – and I thought he had better meet Hinscliffe on the subject here – Keighleys have nothing to do with the concern now – Samuel Holdsworth has bought their share and cannot return it on their hands – The Keighleys only apply to me because their parties think they are the most likely to get me to make an agreement – Told Holt to let me know his opinion on Monday, when he will have to be here about other things – Said I should tell Mr. Parker the Keighleys had nothing to do with it – and the parties really interested must apply to me, or I should take no notice –

Seeing that the 2 farmyard diggers would be long enough barrowing out the stuff for the dunghill, went to Mark Hepworth, levelling at the Cascade bridge (fishpond side), and at 4, got 3 of his carts as they came from Northgate – Stood in the farmyard till after 6 and John Booth and got a good deal of stuff out – Think we can finish it tomorrow – Had the clay taken to the intended new fishpond to be ready for puddling – Then staid with Booth, planning about pigsties and tower –

Came in at 7 – Dinner at 7 1/4 in 1/2 hour – Then 3/4 hour with my father and Marian – Said I did not think Ann would agree to my taking all into my own hands – Marian thought it would be difficult to arrange money matters – It seemed she had thought of my taking the Shibden land (Carr’s and my fathers) and £300 a year – I said this was sufficiently near to my own calculation, which was to take all, and out of this, allow my father £200 a year, which only made a difference of about £30 per annum for taking all at £600 a year and deducting Carr’s rent (keeping his land in my own hands) £70.10.0.  I should just have about £330 per annum into pocket instead as by Marian’s plan – Said I supposed that at this rate, I should just lose, alias spend in housekeeping, more than I do at present from 3 to 4 hundred a year – Marian thought I was right, and seemed pleased at my intended proposal being so near to her own plan – I am better as I am, and so Ann will  wisely think, and we shall go on as we do during my father’s life  

On leaving my father at 8 1/2, had coffee and read the newspaper till 9 40/.. Then with my aunt till 10 – Then wrote the above of today till 10 3/4

Letter tonight from Mr. Johnson on the 3[rd] page of Mr. Sharpe’s sheet, which Mr. J- owns is not a very precise answer to my letter to Mr. J-, whose manner of writing is, as to style, rather more free and easy than I should have expected, but he is very obliging –

The parcel that came last night and letter, neither of which I opened till this morning, are from Rundell and Bridge, with and about the watches, Ann’s and mine –

William Green gave me this morning his account made out by Messers Parker and Adam of monies paid to him on account of the 2 cottages I have bought of him – I am to keep (take care of) this account for him –

Note this morning by Eliza Hepworth from Ann.  Captain went last night to York.  Ann wishes me to have all ready for going tomorrow, if it should be so determined on our talking matters over –

Fine day till about 5 – then an hour’s rain or more – but not heavy –  F 57° now at 10 50/.. p.m. –

At accounts till 11 1/4 –

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0098 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0099