Saturday, September 19, 1835

1835

September

Saturday 19

7 1/2

12 5/..

Ann at Cliff hill –

Much rain in the night – Got [up] and went downstairs over the house at one to see what made the knocking I had heard – a rat-fête in the beer-cellar – probably thence originated the noise –

Very fine morning and Fahrenheit 56 1/2° now at 8 25/.. –

Out for an hour in the new farmyard with Booth, finally settling plan of farmyard – Breakfast at 9 1/2 – a little while with my father and Marian, then an hour in the new farmyard – Asked Booth what he thought the corner buttress would cost (was worth) labor and stones (saying nothing of pulling down and putting up the 1st time) – Said I had calculated in my own mind – he said ‘Well! I knew very well what it was worth – did I think £3. Yes! said I, exactly that – The fact was, I had said to myself, 3 men, 3 days labor, 30/. and stone and carting 30/ = £3. I said also I thought one corner buttress = 1 1/2 of the straight buttresses at the gates i.e. 2/3 = £2 so that the 3 buttresses = £3 + /2X2 = £7  The door jambs cost me, of Nelson, 10/., and carting by Mark Hepworth me 1/6 and Charles Howarth is to face the doors and fill them à l’antique with wooden pegs, labor = 15/., wood, say 5/., and the doors as they are supposed worth at least 20/., and putting up 5/., then the 3 buttresses and doors will have cost me £9.15.6.

Down the old bank to Halifax at 11 – Saw Messers Parker and Adam about their note of Thursday – Explained – Said the Keighleys had now nothing to do with the business – It was Messers Samuel Holdworth and Company – I should want the water myself in 18 months – Might continue to let them have the water 6 months in the year for 18 months afterwards – but would not bind myself to anything without a proper agreement and reasonable recompense sufficiently secured for any loose that might be got – Messers Parker and Adam thought that I had no proposal to make – It was Holdsworth and Company to make proposals –

Mr. Parker seemed right again i.e., not as if something was wrong with him about Ann or myself, as had seemed to be the case for the 2 or 3 last times I have seen him, of which, of course, I did not appear to be aware –

Went to the District Bank and got £100 –

Then to Northgate – They are come to a bed of capital ashlar sandstone grit – Have got it in fine large blocks – excellent for building the cellars – I wish I had had this stone for the Lodge – it is better than the Norland stone – Looked at the Northgate upper kitchen fireplace, which I mean to have set in George’s room – The bar-room was to be ready for roofing tonight –

Mr. Parker told me the laugh and on dit of the town was that I could be compelled to take in travelers as the house was licenced – I laughed and said it was not I, but Greenwood, but that I would tell him all should be done to accommodate people if they paid handsomely –

Mr. Parker told me Mr. Sudworth, who had a reputation for architectural knowledge, was sorry I was spoiling the whole thing by bringing the casino so forward – Explained – Said I had had Greenwood in an agony about it – and that I now knew to where to trace all he had said – Returned up the new bank – and home about one – The horses not returned, so Ann not yet returned – Mr. Jubb with my aunt – went upstairs to them – then a few minutes with my father and Marian –

Ann had returned a minute or 2 after me and sent for me – looking thin and pale and tired – sat by her on the sofa till 4 – the talking all over did her good – It is her sister, not Captain Sutherland, who is awkward.  He returned from York this morning quite altered.  Delighted with Mr. Grey,  glad Ann had put the business into his hands, and apologized handsomely for what he, Captain Sutherland, had said to Ann yesterday.  It was Mrs. Sutherland, not he, who refused Ann the keeping of the books.  He told Mrs. Sutherland she was illiberal, so he has got right with Ann.  Mr. Grey said the books did not belong to either sister, but should of right be kept for the benefit of both by some indifferent person – but Captain Sutherland handsomely said Ann was the proper person to keep them – She cried all yesterday and was quite poorly, but held up as well as she could.  Mrs. Sutherland on the high horse and Ann stood up against it very well.  She promised her aunt to go again for two or three days, but I declared she should only go for one night.

Went out at 4 – in the farmyard – Settled with Mark Hepworth for jobbing up to last Saturday, and had Mawson, but gave him back his bills to be examined by Mr. Husband – Paid Robert Schofield for this week and the last – Have not seen Charles Howarth or James or Carter today or yesterday – All at Barraclough Cottage, I suppose –

Went to the Lodge – the men gone but saw that there was good progress with Adney bridge –

Came in at 6 10/.. – Ann had to dress as well as I – Dinner at 6 1/2 – With my father and Marian – Ann called to Washington – I did not see him, but staid with my father and Marian about 1/2 hour of his being here – Then coffee – Sat talking till 9 3/4 – Then 1/4 hour with my aunt and wrote the whole of the above of today till 10 3/4 –

Fine day till between 5 and 6 – then a little gentle rain and some rain during the evening – F 60° now at 10 3/4 p.m., and rainy night.

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0099