Sunday, October 4, 1835

1835

October

Sunday 4

7 3/4

11 1/4

No kiss.

Very rainy morning; Ann could not go to the school – F 53° now at 9 5/..,Ann having been long in doing my hair – Breakfast at 9 10/.. to 10 –

Asked Mr. Gray what I was indebted to him – his Expenses at Carr’s from Saturday night to Monday morning 13/4.  Char maid 1/.  Waiter 1/6  Boots 6d pence = 11.4  Traveling expenses 10/.  Mr. Gray’s charge for the week £10.10.0 total £11.16.4 – Gave him £12, saying how much satisfied I was with his plans – Hoped not to want him again till February, but if I should want him before, would write to him at Dr. Simpson’s, York – Then sat an hour getting him (Mr. Gray) to explain his ideas and mark them in pencil on the Estate plan – I think I understand perfectly what he wishes, and that I can go on very well – Wished him good morning and came upstairs at 11 –

Some while explaining all to Ann.  She seemed rather tired.  I will say as little and do all as quietly as I can.  Her own mind can never quite settle itself here.  She will always long to be doing at Cliff hill, though she herself doubts whether that or CrowNest will be the place eventually.  But it is for me to be diligent and do the best I can for all sides –

Wrote the above of today till 11 3/4 then till 12 1/4 wrote 3 pages to Isabella Norcliffe –

At 12 20/.. in 20 minutes Ann and I read the form of morning prayers (shortened) to my aunt and Oddy – John and George were gone to take Mr. Gray’s luggage to the Stump Cross Inn, where he was to get into the mail for York at 12 1/4 –

My letter to IN- being on plain-edged paper, wrote it over again on medium broad black edged paper – Kind letter – My grief for poor Mrs. Norcliffe affectionately and sincerely expressed – Was not prepared for the event being so near at hand and thought I.N. herself ‘must have been taken a little at unawares at the last’ or she would have written to me – ‘You know that I sympathize with you very truly and very deeply – You know that I always appreciated the sterling excellence of her who is snatched away from us, and that I valued her highly as your mother, and as one of the earliest and best of my own friends whose kindness I could never forget, and whose steady regard I never for one moment ceased to return with grateful affection – with all my heart, my dearest Isabella, I grieve for your sake and my own – I think of all very much – but there is still a dreaminess about my thoughts I can scarce make out – I valued your mother more highly than you imagined’ – Anxious to hear from IN- how they are and what they are going to do –

Ann and I off to the school at 2 25/.. in spite of the rain – About 10 minutes at the school and at church at 3 – Mr. Fenton did all the duty – preached 1/2 hour from John viii. part of v. 47. but began reading a long printed extract from the Eveangelical Register which took 10 minutes of the 1/2 hour – The extract might have formed one of the columns of a newspaper – Mr. Fenton not much at home with it – Might have received it from Mr. William Priestley – It was evidently unconnected with the sermon –

20 minutes at Cliff hill –Very heavy rain as we went and rain heavyish all the way back –

Home at 5 1/2 – Ann and I dressed each other dinner at 6 1/4 –

George took my letter to ‘Miss Norcliffe, Langton hall, Malton’ – brought it back in the bag through the negligence of the people at the Post Office – Sent him back with the letter – Letter tonight, nice kind letter 3 pages from Lady Stuart Whitehall –

Above an hour with my father and Marian till 8 3/4 then wrote the last 22 lines till 9 1/4 – Then skimming over the advertisements in the Quarterly Review number 108, that came yesterday, then 1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 10/.. , at which hour F 53°.  Rainy day – a gleam while we were at church, but, except this and about 1/2 hour between 11 and 12, little else than rain.

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0108 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0109