Saturday, October 3, 1835

1835

October

Saturday 3

8

11 35/..

No kiss.

Had Matthew and Eugénie’s boxes and bags opened but looked into them very slightly –

Very fine morning; F 53° at 9 10/.., at which hour, breakfast in about 3/4 hour – Paid off Eugénie and Matthew and slightly looked at my things, blonde, etc. till about 11, when Ann set off to Cliff hill to speak about and to Mary Rhodes to come to Ann and myself till we could suit ourselves with a lady’s maid – To tell her she must dust our sitting rooms and bedroom and help to make our bed, and must wash the fine linen and to give her £14 a year –

From 11 to 6 1/2 (Came in for a minute or 2 and heard from Ann that Mary was to come on Tuesday night), out at the Cascade bridge, and in the afternoon, backwards and forwards with Mawson and his 3 men getting up a largish ash and thorns between Wheatfield and Pearson Ing and Wheatfield and Coal pit field, 3 of which planted at the bottom of the Allen Car and 2 near the Cascade bridge – the ash planted against the wall about 1/2 way between the Cascade bridge and the present entrance gates – all the Cascade bridge men worked calculating to 4 1/2 (4 their hour of leaving off on a Saturday), a good hour over – and Robert Mann and his 3 men and Mawson’s men, Jagger and Jacob and Joseph, staid planting thorns and watering etc. till after 6–

Settled with Joseph Mann while the men were at dinner –

A man living at Caldwell hill did damage last night to the drift rails – The man there got hold of his bundle, and gave it into my possession this evening to keep till the owner claims it of me or the constable – Joseph Mann to undertake the affair –

Matthew and Eugénie went away about two or after –

Paid Charles Howarth and Frank in account and settled with Robert Schofield –

Ann dressed me – Dinner at 7 – Coffee – Skimmed over the paper and left Mr. Gray about 8 3/4 – My father gone to bed – Ann and I sat in his sitting room till 9 20/.. Marian having come – Then with my aunt 40 minutes till 10 –

Letter tonight, 3 pages and ends and 1st page and 1/2 the 2nd page crossed from Mariana (Lawton) – Just returned home – had been only at the Ackers’s and in London – ‘Mr. Ackers is now the tenant at High Cliff in Hampshire, Lord Stuart’s place, he rents it for the sake of a little fishery he had bought near, but which had too small a house upon it to accommodate more than a bachelor’ – Poor Mariana believes it is the Highcliffe Mr. Acker had taken – No! East Highcliffe, the nice little place close by that Lady Stuart de Rothesay joked and wanted me to take – Printed funny letter from Halifax, prospected of flower roots to sell a month hence at Rochdale – Very fine day. F 55° now at 10 1/2 p.m. –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0108

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