Saturday, January 9, 1836

1836

January

Saturday 9

7 1/4

11 3/4

No kiss.

Ready in 1 5/.., having dressed Ann’s blister – Very sore – She tired, and went to bed again at 8 –

Sent off by John Booth before breakfast my letter written last night to Mr. C. Illingworth, 40 Coney Street, York, Postage Paid’

Fine morning, F 34° at 8 20/.. a.m.  

Went out into the farmyard – Mr. Husband there – The 2 paviours come – Mr. Husband ordering the farm yard to be cambered (raised in the middle) 2 inches – I said one quite enough –

Robert Mann and one of his men in the farmyard all the day, spreading Engine ashes carted by Mark Hepworth from Haigh’s mill – and setting curbstones against the farmyard road to pave up to, and helping the masons (2 men and a boy) with the caping stone on the farmyard end wall, finished tonight –

Mallinson and his boy here – Making Listerwick cabin door (of larch board), setting locks onto saddle room table drawers – gluing blue room chairs – putting a 3rd trestle under Swiss model-table in the drawing room and other jobbing –

2 sawyers cutting up larch poles into boards and 2 oak logs 2 or 3 cuts each log – Wood and Robert Mann’s other man making trenches at the foot of Slippery Clay (opposite the house and near rock work) to hold it up – The trench to be filled up large lumps of scale and form an abutment for the clay to push against –

Came in to breakfast at 8 55/.. – Ann came in 1/4 hour – Had Washington – Shewed him Mr. George Bates drawing of water wheel – Told S.W. not to receive the old church pew rents after today – I meant the sexton to receive them – with S.W. till about near 11 –

Then out again all the day till came in at 5 10/.. – Twice at the Lodge – In the farmyard with Mallinson – With Wood opposite the house – And with John Booth planting broom on the ledges in the Cascade Bridge wall opposite the house and broom plants taken from the bottom of the walk –

Came in at 5 10/.. – Some time in the drawing room about the model –

Dressed – Wrote and sent this evening, letter to A.B. under cover to Mr. Salter, Tea Dealer, 6 Dorset Street, Manchester Square, London, Postage Paid’.  Advertisement in Last night’s Herald – Lady’s maid or Lady’s maid and housekeeper, ætatis 30, no objection to the country – Wrote to ask with whom lived last and in what capacity – if a good dress-maker and hair dresser and getter up of fine linen – if accustomed to take the charge of an Establishment and what wages asked –

Dinner at 6 1/4 – Coffee – Ann and I 1/2 hour with my father and Marian – Skimmed over last night’s paper – Looked over the botany of Spain in the Encyclopaedia of Geography and wrote the above of today till 9 3/4, having had Marian upstairs 10 minutes or 1/4 hour to say it was fixed for Jane to go to York on Monday if well enough, and if she could have a place in the mail – George to go outside to escort her –

Went to my aunt at 9 3/4 for 40 minutes – Pretty well tonight – Did not get up till after 5 p.m. –

Very fine day – thick and hazy in the afternoon from between 3 and 4 p.m., and at 4 1/2 could not well see to work – F 31° now at 10 50/.. p.m.

On leaving my aunt, dressed Ann’s blister then put her clean linen on –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0158