Saturday, December 19, 1835

1835

December

Saturday 19

8 3/4

11 1/2

No kiss.

Ready in 55 minutes.  Two motions, but of a nice clean yellow colour.  Bowel complaint yesterday, but dark coloured and not pure as now –

Very fine morning – sun shining and F 35°, and the flags quite dry now at 9 3/4, at which hour went down to breakfast –

Sat talking to Ann till 10 –

Out at the Cascade Bridge Rockwork – Robert Mann and 3 removing the clay from the bottom of Rockwork to the hampers, moved before to near the garden wall –

Mallinson and his boy here – Did up the farmyard necessary and hung the door of this and of the boilerplace and made boiler lid, and made and hung one pigstie door – The other done before –

At 11 1/4, down the old bank to Halifax – to the Yorkshire District bank – got £150 –

Then to Whitley’s – Told Booth to make out my bill and to be on the look-out for Beckmann’s work –

Then to Mr. Parker’s – Paid him £45 twenty for William Green and £25 for Mr. Nelson – Nothing to be paid the latter but on a written order from Mr. Harper or Mr. Husband once a week; supposed it would be £25 –Told Mr. Parker I would pay my aunt – He was to keep the navigation dividend for the weekly payments to Nelson –

Mr. Parker said the Nelsons were good workmen, but had no money – I feared I should be obliged to employ Brian Nelson – Mr. Parker said Bolton was not much better – none of them had any money – Difficulty now in transferring an Inn licence from one house to another.  Then, said I, I will have nothing to do with Miss Walker’s belonging to her new purchase –

Returned up the old bank and home about 12 1/4 –

At the Rockwork a few minutes – Holt came to me there – Said there were 35 yards done of the pheying at Walker Pit – Still find water in the drift – May be enough to fill a one-inch bore pipe with a pressure upon it, or enough to fill a 2-inch bore pipe with a common unforced, current –

Told Holt the Listerwick Engine pit cabin was to be 6 yards by 4 yards –

While the men were at dinner, came in and sat an hour with Ann, then out again –

At the tail goit – Gave Joseph Mann the key of Whiskum Cottage – Told him I should plant a hedge of something round the garden, leaving it of such dimensions as I thought fit and that he must sign a written agreement to leave at 2 months’ notice – He thought that rather too little notice – but I said it was the same sort of agreement as I had made before – Joseph to manage the bar – Mentioned his being sworn in a special constable –

He told me his daughter was en famille within 2 or 3 months of her confinement – Not going to be married – a worthless young man about 19 the father of 2 other natural children – Said I was very sorry – could not do with her being confined at Whiskum Cottage, and Joseph promised to get her off for the time – He said it was a great trouble to him – I told him if I was in his place. I would give the fellow such a licking as he never had in his life before –

Then at the Rockwork again, at the Lower fish pond – At the Lodge and about, till came in at 5 1/4 –

Dressed – Helped Ann with her note to Mrs. Dyson – Ann and I went to my aunt at 6 for a minute or 2 together, and I remained afterwards 1/4 hour with my aunt –

Dinner at 6 1/2 in 3/4 hour – Then went to my aunt for 1/2 hour (rather better tonight) then coffee, then Ann and I with my father and Marian – Then wrote all the above of today till 9 10/..

Letter tonight from the Herald’s College from Mr. George H. Rogers Harrison, Bluemantle, fearing that, as I had said in August last when at the college I would send the family pedigree to have some additions made – either there was some mistake or, if the roll had been sent, it might be lost –

Tea at 9 1/4 – 1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 1/4, at which hour, F 29° and fine frosty night – Fine day – Frosty in the afternoon and sharpish frost by five p.m. –

My aunt seems cheerful and rather better and right, but she cannot get the better of the fluttering at her chest – I think she cannot continue very long though she talks of being better in a few days, and seems to have no idea of her danger –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0147