Monday, December 21, 1835

1835

December

Monday 21

8 3/4

1110/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour – Better this morning, but still a little headache –

Fine hardfrosty morning.  Breakfast at 9 3/4 to 10 35/.., at which hour, F 35° hanging out of my study window to the South, therefore a little affected by the sun that seems as if 1/2 inclined to appear –

Had Charles Howarth – Long while settling with him from 17 September to 14 November, having paid him £20 in account during this time besides a little bill or 2, the rest being unsettled so long on account of the Barraclough Cottage job – And for this (£17.15.0 1/4 + 11/), Mark Town had paid him, so that he, Charles Howarth) had to give me back £8.13.3 this morning –

Did not get out till near one – Robert Mann and Wood had just dined and the other 2 men came in a few minutes – They had done moving the clay from underneath the Rockwork before dinner, so set them at work in the farmyard this afternoon – They set the watering trough – and began trough dry wall to hold up footway along the pigsties –

Mr. Jubb came soon after 1 – Went upstairs with him to my aunt – Much the same as yesterday – The fluttering still continues – She does not gain ground, but does not seem worse – Lay in bed as yesterday till 4 p.m., then got up –

Everybody else going on well – John Clarke may come back into the house again tomorrow morning – Brought Mr. Jubb into the blue room for a minute.  Laughed and made him feel Ann’s pulse and my own – I much better – She well – though I had had a good deal of head ache –

Out again about 2 – and saw Ann off to Cliff hill about 2 1/2 and back about 4 1/4 p.m. –

In the farm yard – Went down the walk to the tail goit – Joseph Mann not there – He, and his men helping him, busy flitting to Whiskum Cottage –

Then went to Mytholm – Told Aquilla Green’s wife to tell him I had had a man this morning purporting to be from Mr. Edward Alexander, to ask leave to take a tree or 2 that had been felled at Belvidere along the Cowgate road – Refused leave – Said my uncle had refused giving leave and I had refused always before as I did now – I did not know Mr. Edward Alexander had anything to do with Belvidere – If he, Mr. Edward Alexander, wanted anything of me, he had best come and ask himself and not send him (the man who came) to ask for it – Aquilla Green not to give leave on my account, to any passing to or from Belvidere along the Cowgate road –

Then a few minutes at Hannah Green’s just to ask her how she did, as I happened to be there –

Home by the road – the Lower fish pond not yet full – Robert Mann and company had discovered a leak this morning near the hollies at this end – Stopped it, and the pond had risen 1/2 an inch since so that they hope there will be no more leakage –

Then in the farm yard – Went to the Lodge – Nobody there – the frost stops them –

Then walked on the terrace till came in at 5 1/4 – Dressed – Ann and I went to my aunt – Sent Ann away in about 10 minutes, and then I sat with my aunt till dinner at 6 – She seems as well as yesterday evening –

Dinner at 6 – Coffee – 1/2 hour with my father and Marian – then Ann busy at her accounts in the blue room and I at mine in my study – A minute or 2 with my aunt at 10 – at which hour F 33°.  Fine frosty day –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0148