Saturday, September 12, 1835

1835

September

Saturday 12

7 3/4

11 40/..

[Marginal note] Letter this afternoon while siding, brought from John Crabtree, Brunswick Terrace near Hopwood lane, offering himself as slater for Northgate.

No kiss

Ready in 35 minutes.  Rainy night; fair and finish when I got up and now at 8 25/.. –

Out – about the house. 

Breakfast at 8 50/.., for Ann to go early to Crow Nest to copy accounts of repairs done by her father to the estates he left Ann –

Out at 9 3/4 – Had Mr. Husband, ordering about farmyard doors etc. etc., then had Booth – Took him to Mytholm to look over the old house there – Estimating repairs that should be done, and not back at home till 3 – Then gave Booth £20 on account, and some time ordering about jobs at home –

Then with Nelson’s 2 men and one boy wo repaired and reset the stove in my little library –

Then had Charles Howarth and John Booth, and George siding the hall chamber (had Charles to pull down all the remaining division between the Linen closet and hall chamber) till 7 1/4 –

Then had Mark Town – Declined letting the mason employed by him at Barraclough cottage have money (£5) on account –

Ann home at 7 – Dinner at 7 25/.. – Some time with my father and Marian – Coffee – Read the newspaper and wrote the whole of the above of today till 9 20/.. –

Letter this evening from Mr. Charles Sharpe from the  National School, Westminster, offering himself and his wife candidates for the Lightcliffe School – Letter dated the 7th instante mense – directed Shibden Hall, Yorkshire, so went to Wakefield and Leeds, and then came here – Siding with Ann in the low kitchen chamber – 10 minutes with my aunt till 10 5/.. –

Finish day, F 55 1/2° now at 10 1/2 p.m. --

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0096