September 23, 1835

1835

September

Wednesday 23

8

12 25/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour – Frank Day, my new farming man, came at 8, to enter upon his service with me – F 56 1/2° in my dressing room at 9 – Went out at 9 into the new farmyard and to speak to Frank –

Breakfast at 9 1/4 in about 1/2 hour – Then long while talking to Marian in my father’s parlour – She is full of troubles, household and others – Talked her into rather better spirits –

Out again, and at 10 1/2 sent one of the Adney bridge masons to help at the farmyard buttresses –

Then had Messers George Hersfall and Simpson Baines, executors to the late Mr. James Walsh – Mr. Simpson Baines lives the next-door to the Joint Stock Bank in Waterhouse street – They came to ask if I would buy his (Walsh’s) share in the waste-coal, having heard that I had sent about it – Said I had given up all thought of it, hearing from Mr. Holt that they asked too much money – I had told him to offer 20 but that I was now doubtful whether it would be safe to buy it any price, or to have anything to do with it even if it was offered as a gift – but I would inquire about it – take a legal opinion if I could safely have anything to do with it, and let them know – Left them to drink their beer and went out for a little while – about –

Ann had 2 tenants, 1 from Golcar and 1 from Stainland a long while – Sat with her at her luncheon.  She was off to Cliff hill at 3 on her pony and back at 6 20/.. –

Then  with Charles Howarth in the library, doing up about the stove – Found Nelson’s man had not set the stone-work straight – Determined that he should come and right it –

Out with Booth in the farmyard (he came this afternoon) – With Frank, carting stuff from Dunghillstead, and with Mark Hepworth on the other side the Cascade bridge levelling the far slope –

Came in at 6 25/.. – Dinner at 6 3/4 – 1/2 hour with my father and Marian – Coffee –

The saddle arrived just before dinner, with bill enclosed from Peats, Piccadilly, London –

Skimmed over tonight’s paper – 1/4 hour with my aunt till 10 1/4 – Before and after till 10 50/.., wrote out yesterday and wrote all the above of today –

The man taken up on Sunday for cutting hollies, Mr. John Hodgson’s cart driver – an honest, sober, steady man – the hollies he had cut not worth 1/. or he would have been sent to Wakefield – All done that could be done – Fined 4/. and costs, which altogether cost him 18/.

Rainy day – Very rainy afternoon till 5 p.m.  Gleams in the morning – From 11 to one – tolerably fine and fair before 11 –and fair from 5 to 6 1/4 p.m.  F 58° now at 10 50/.. p.m. –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0101