Saturday, December 26, 1835

1835

December

Saturday 26

8 3/4

11 1/4

No kiss.

Ready in 50 minutes.  Fine morning, hard frost. F 26° at 9 35/.. in spite of sun peeping out – Breakfast at 9 40/.. –

Had Washington – gave him 2 guineas begging him not to forget to call and pay at Briggs’ bank my subscription to the Philosophical Society –

Out – No workman here – Robert Mann had some, but finding no one else come, went down to the tail goit – He and Joseph Mann moved the drift hut down to the tail goit – The Lower fish pond full and running down the cascade bridge drain –

Came in again and sat till 2 reading the whole but the 1st 20 pages of Volume 1, Quin’s Steam Voyage Down the Danube – Amusing enough – Not deep –

Then out again at 2 – At the tail goit – Lower brea, Frank began this morning throwing off the shade front the stuff taken out of the pit in repairing it, in the Daisy bank, into Lower brea wood Lane – Some while with him –

Then to Mytholm quarry.  Some time there looking about – Returned by the walk – Sauntered about – Took Robert Mann (coming to be paid) to turn the Lower fish pond water from the Rockwork –

Came in about 5 – Settled with Robert and Joseph Mann – Entered the settling in my books –

Dressed – Wrote the above of today till 6 5/.. – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Had not quite finished when Mr. Samuel Washington came to give Ann her navigation dividends – I came away the moment I had swallowed my pudding and had one cup of coffee sent upstairs –

From then to 8 55/.. making extracts and notes from Volume i Quin’s Steam Voyage Down the Danube – Amusing enough, but light reading – He is neither naturalist nor man of science, nor classic, nor artist, nor anything that I can find out – Did the Quarterly say he was something diplomatic? –

At 9, went to my aunt for 1/2 hour – Very poorly tonight – Said she had been worse today than before – This had been her worst day –

Tea at 9 35/.. and skimmed over the paper –

Fine day – hard frost.  F 34° now at 10 20/.. p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0150

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