Monday, December 28, 1835

1835

December

Monday 28

8 1/2

11 25/..

No kiss.

Ready in 40 minutes.  F 43° at 9 10/.. and fine morning –

Breakfast at 9 10/.. – Sat reading the last Quarterly Review, on astronomy and comets, very interesting, and on Lieber’s Reminiscences of Niebuhr – Sat reading till 10 1/2 and afterwards from 12 to about 1 1/2 –

Then out in the farmyard with Robert Mann and company, setting out dunghillstead – Rain sent me in at 12 – The men went to dinner and the rain kept them away in the afternoon –

Had Mr. Jubb between 12 and 1 – He saw my aunt – She spoke to him in rather stronger voice today than on Saturday – But there is no very promising sign of progressive amendment –

Had Charles Howarth about 1 3/4 – Long while with him – Paid him everything up to today and had him looking over Greenwood’s wood note for Barraclough Cottage etc. –

At 2 1/2, Mr. Harper came – Took  him to the Cascade Bridge and to see the sites proposed by Mr. Grey of gardener’s cottage and Walker Pit cottage – Consulted him about icehouse and rockwork – He thinks the latter the artificial rock he ever saw – Thinks we may rustic-arch-over the south side Cascade Bridge very well –

Mr. Harper went away about 4 – Then had Mark Hepworth – Nothing to be done with carting now – But said I would begin with a few yards of baring at Whiskum quarry – Then about (fair from about 2 1/2 or 2 3/4 p.m.) till Firth the glazier came.  Paid him his bill, which took me some time looking over and making the deduction for solder etc.

Then Ann returned about 4 3/4 – Then dressed –

Had Mr. Husband about 5 1/2 with the model of the Casino roof at Northgate – Very nicely made – Very convincing that the woodwork of the roof is of very sufficient strength –

Wrote all the above of today (but the 1st line) till 5 50/.. Then went to my aunt for 1/2 hour –

Dinner at 6 20/.. – Coffee – Ann and I about 1/4 hour with my father and Marian and I afterwards staid 1/2 hour or more – Then at 8 40/60, went to my aunt for 50 minutes – She seems more cheerful and considerably better tonight – Said the fluttering had not been so bad today – Begged Mr. Jubb might only come once a week or at any rate twice a week –

Tea at 9 1/2 to 10 10/.., at which hour F 38 1/2 and soft but fair weather – Fine day till noon then a couple of hours heavy driving rain – wind highish – but calm and fair from about 2 1/2 or 2 3/4 p.m. for the rest of the day –

John Booth spoke to me today about his son John coming here to help – Spoke to Marian about it this evening – She had before mentioned to me my father’s taking the boy in William Green’s place – I said I thought we had children enough – 2 in the kitchen and one out of doors would be too many, but John Booth asked for little John to come merely while he could be put out to something – I am for his going to Scott’s to be a groom – Marian is against it – Would recommend the boy to be a wool-sorter if his father could get him so good a place – His father would like to apprentice him to Matthew Booth the shoemaker in the new bank – The boy is for the present to help George in a morning and his father in an afternoon – I wish the boy was off altogether.  I cannot make a scholar of him, and therefore he may leave school this Christmas –

Till 10 20/.., wrote the last 16 lines – Sent George to Crow Nest this evening instead of to the post, with note to Mr. Samuel Washington asking to come by here with his theodolite tomorrow morning to verify his levels, Mr. Harper being able to be here – Answer – Sorry, could not come – Going to Leeds tomorrow –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0151