Saturday, January 2, 1836

1836

January

Saturday 2

8 10/..

12 5/..

No kiss. Ann’s cousin came last night. Hard frost – F 27° at 10, at which hour, breakfast.  Over in 1/2 hour –

Had Marian – She came to speak about taking Sarah (that lived with Ann) in Sharpe’s place –

Mr. Washington happened to come in at the moment and he was to speak to her on his return from Leeds on Tuesday if he had no message to the contrary – In the meantime – Mr. Washington to come on Friday to level for Listerwick drift and to level the new approach road –

Had Holt – He had examined the Stump Cross Inn cisterns – Plenty of water – No fault of Mawson’s that William Green had no water – Some fault in the pipe – Holt will be here on Tuesday to measure the length of drift driven and the length of pheying to the coal – Can do 2 yards a day of pheying working hard –

From 11 to about 12, stood talking to Marian in the North parlour and then in the drawing room – All agreeable – Advised her keeping Sharpe a little longer (She had prepared her this morning for leaving here but said she would get her another place) and sending Jane to York to be under Dr. Belcombe’s care – Said I would write to Dr. Belcombe in Jane’s favor –

A little while with Ann – then out 1/2 hour (in the farmyard) till Mr. Jubb came about 12 1/2 – I was not with him when he saw my aunt, but he said she was considerably better – Ann’s pulse better – She is to put a blister between her shoulders tonight – The pills he is giving her are blue pill and pill galbanum, 2 to be taken every or every other night for a little while – the mixture of which a tablespoonful to be taken twice a day, is bitter infusion of cascarilla with a little soda to correct acidity in the stomach –

Out again till came in to Ann about 1 3/4, and at 2 got her off to walk to Cliff hill and ride back – Called en passant at Crow Nest and told Mrs. Washington to tell Mr. Washington not to speak to Sarah on Tuesday – Then sat at Cliff hill 20 minutes till 3 1/2 and left Ann.  I had not been at Cliff hill of a month – Thought Mrs. Ann Walker looking very well –

Home about 4 – in the farmyard and about – The glaziers (from Firth’s) had come about noon – found the pipe laid to the water running into the farmyard trough – Robert Mann + 3 (Wood not here – still walling the cabin and it will take 2 or 3 days longer) had done the digging for the pipe and done a little at the drain from cowhouse to main drain –

Ann returned at 4 1/2 – Went in with her and got her some hot wine and water and saw her comfortably lain on the sofa –

Dressed – Wrote the whole of yesterday – Answered Mr. Robert Walker’s letter of yesterday and sent him a check on Hammersleys for the sum of £9.15.0 for the morning Herald from 31 December 1834 to 31 December 1835 – Put my letter into the bag to ‘Mr. Robert Walker, 2 Jones Street, Berkeley Square, London’ –

Dinner at 6 – Coffee – Ann and I 3/4 hour with my father and Marian – Then sat with Ann till went to my aunt at 9 1/4 – No! Went down to Marian to take her Gardener’s Magazine, and she kept me 1/2 hour talking about and to Jane, who was with her, about going to York and being under Dr. Belcombe’s care –

Then 25 minutes with my aunt till 10 10/.. – She talked very cheerfully and in a good strong voice – She is very much better and may rally again for some months?

Fine day – F 24 1/2°

Put Ann’s blister on –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0154