Monday, September 28, 1835

1835

September

Monday 28

6 50/..

12 1/4

Ann at Cliffhill – Ready in 50 minutes.  Fair at 6 50/.. but rain at 7 3/4 that kept me in the house – siding in the blue room till 8 –

Then a little while with Marian about Mr. Gray’s dinner etc. etc. –

Then had John Bottomley – paid his bill 22/. for carting stones to Walker Pit, and respecting the north west wall of his long field – Said he must cart the stones and get them for nothing and I would pay for the walling – He said 4 feet high – I said 5 feet 6 inches high if he meant to do good as a shelter –

Then came Mr. Husband – Had him in the library and ordered about the stove-place – another new one to be prepared tomorrow and put up on Tuesday – The men had a very good dinner and got so drunk none could look up yesterday – Did not get home till last night, and very few at work today, but promised to come tomorrow – All very much pleased – Said the Blues were the best – if it had been a yellow, they would have got nothing –

Then came Mr. S. Gray about 9 1/4 – Asked him to look about him while I breakfasted –

Breakfast at 9 1/2 in 20 minutes – then out –

Saw what Mr. Gray wanted – Took Mawson’s 2 wallers and a 3rd man just then (after 10) come to help to wall and sent them and Frank with barrows etc. to the Cascade bridge – Then went along the walk and sent Robert Schofield, who was laying on ashes to the Cascade bridge.  Joseph did not come till after 2 p.m. – (Met him coming and sent him to the bridge) – and went down to the tail goit and at 11 20/.., sent up Robert Mann’s 3 men, and walked up with himself, explaining about the goit – He says what they have done (20 or more yards) falls 2 inches – Told him to level it exactly – Found Mawson at the Cascade bridge with 2 workmen – Told him to set them on in the afternoon –

Walked about with Mr. Gray in the little field, up to the reservoir, and thereabouts – Mentioned the 2 cottages to be 1 at the bottom, the other at the top of the Conery wood – He would have an easily ascending walk to and along the top of the Allen car, and a suspension bridge across the road to make this walk communicate with the grounds below – Said gently, I was not so ambitious – should be contented with walks within the precincts now railed off – This not a country for so many walks – gates and locks nothing – a bridge over the road out of the question –

At 12 1/4 Ann sent for me – in at 12 1/2 and sat with her 1/2 hour, then walked by her pony’s side as far as Mytholm – Mrs. Ann Walker. in very good sorts with Ann – but fatiguée de ces Sutherlands ils las gênent par eux mêmes et par leur petit garçon [tired of these Sutherlands; they are annoying by themselves, and their little boy] –

Called at Charles Howarth’s and returned and took him to Mytholm house to see about making it ready for Frank tomorrow –

Back at the Cascade bridge at 2 1/4 – All at work –

Found Mr. Gray in the new carriage road – walked with [him] by the Stump Cross Inn, up the new Northowram road, down Wellroyde wood, and by Lower brea to Tilley holme, and along there to past Wellroyde to see the proposed scite of the dam – Crossed the brook near one of the water surges – Returned to the house along the fields – Reconnoitered the line of new carriage road up to and past the new carriage road and then at the Cascade bridge about 3 1/4 – and there and about there all the rest of the afternoon till all the workmen went away at 6 10/.. –

Mr. Gray came in to tea – and I to dinner in the blue room – Mr. Gray dined at 1 1/2 in the north dining room, which I have entirely given up to him –

Dinner at 6 1/2 in 20 minutes – Coffee – With my father and Marian from 7 1/4 to 8 1/2 from then to 9 1/4 with my aunt, and from then to now, 11 1/4 p.m., wrote all but the first 14 lines of  page 198 and the whole of pages 199, 200, 201, and so far of this page –

Fine day – rain at 7 3/4 a.m. for about 3/4 hour – then fair and fine till a shower soon after 3 for a few minutes, and afterwards, fair and fine afternoon and evening and very high wind this evening since between 7 and 8 p.m.  F 52° now at 11 1/4 p.m. –

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0105 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0106