Saturday, October 10, 1835

1835

October

Saturday 10

7 1/4

12 10/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour.  Very fine, sunshiny morning now at 8 3/4 and F 50° after a rainy night and rain as late as after 6 a.m. –

Settled with Turner for stone for farmyard and out at 8 3/4 – At the Cascade bridge – Breakfast at 9 1/4 –

Mr. Husband brought his model in clay of the Cascade bridge and culvert and water immediately below the latter and hill on each side of this upper water – To have been of use, the model should have taken in from the top of road wall to the lowest ground where the lowest water basin is to be – 1/2 hour with Mr. Husband about his model – His alteration in the shape of Mr. Gray’s top basin too great for me to adopt –

Washington also came before breakfast was over to speak to Ann – Mentioned that he understood Hunnal would sell the fields opposite to Lidgate –

At the Cascade from 11 (having been on the new road and in the new farmyard) to 6 – Nelson’s stone-hurry came in the morning, and his 3 legs from Northowram and 4 of his men to manage the tackling at Whiskum –

Got 2 hurry-loads of stone down to the Cascade bridge – The 2nd load consisted of one stone said to weigh 5 tons – Mawson and Frank and Mawson’s 2 men, Richard and Jagger, assisted Nelson’s 4 men in loading the stone – We had a great todo to unload the 5-ton stone – Ward the blacksmith was passing by and helped us – Left the stone just within the gap in the road wall on the East side of the bridge – ready to come down on Monday –

Robert Mann and his 3 men had made their walling ready for it – Robert with a long face wondered where the great square stone was to  be put ‘I know not wheere the grut square stone is to car (cower).’  This was said so drily and with such length of face, I burst into a fit of laughter before him and all the rest, and laughed all the evening afterwards whenever I thought of it –

Settled with the men – Dinner at 6 1/2 – Ann had her tenant Roberts and his wife – Ann was at Matty Pollard’s (rode) and at Cliff hill this afternoon out from 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 –

Some time with my father and Marian – Coffee –

Kind letter (one 1/2 sheet full) from Lady Stuart de Rothesay and in the same envelope a note (1 1/2 pages of 1/2 sheet paper) from Mrs. Canning – both letters from Highcliffe – Thanks and all pleased with my letters of congratulation – The Stuart de Rothesays having given up all thought of going abroad on account of the Cholera –

Letter, anonymous, 1 page close small writing respecting the Casino – Against its projecting so far beyond the hotel – My property would be made much more (some hundreds more) valuable by throwing the Casino 4 or 5 yards back –The Casino ‘steps will always be subject to the greatest of nuisances of dirt equal to the  street besides the appearance of the whole, as approaching it from the bridge twill seem at the termination of the street, your building on one side and the chapel on the other that to a stranger twill appear as at the end of a court, tis too delicate a matter to remonstrate with you as it is no business of any ones but yourself and although we all give you credit of possession of the highest attainments the public unanimously differ with you in this straight or crooked elbow to shut yourself out a beautiful and better approach, the difficulty and great assurance prevents personal application however these hints are hastily scribed in the most respectful possible way and if not taken the parties will be, I suppose, left out, freed from blaming themselves hereafter’ –

Finis of this oddly as well as ‘hastily scribed’ epistle – Very civil – not English – Not feasible – Written probably by Mr. Sudworth of architectural fame in Halifax, he having represented to Messers Parker and Adam my folly in building the Casino according to plan as laid down – Too late to make alterations now –

1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 10/.. – Shewed her Mr. Husbands clay model –

Wrote all the above of today till 10 3/4 – Very fine day – F 51 1/2° now at 10 3/4 p.m. –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0110