Thursday, September 10, 1835

1835

September

Thursday 10

7

11 20/..

No kiss.

Nelson and one mason had been here since 6 at the hall chimney – Wanted me at 7 – Up and ready and with him in 28 minutes – The mid-feather Booth put up for the stove to be taken down and the whole chimney between distributed so as to prevent the hall fire smoking –

Very rainy night and morning, very rainy and F 55 1/2° now at 7 55/.. a.m.

Wrote copy of letter to Mr. Patience

Breakfast at 9 in 3/4 hour – Then with Nelson’s mason – and read a few pages of Bakewell downstairs till now 10 1/4, when fair (for the last few minutes) and sunshiny –

Out – about – Had Mr. Husband – Want hot air to be conveyed from the hall fireplace into my study – A little while with my father and Marian –

Then from 11 to 3 (upstairs in the hall chamber several times in the meanwhile), read from page 256 to 314 Bakewell’s Geology –

From 3 to 6 1/4 – out – chiefly at the Cascade bridge – Had Robert Schofield – there making a little sough or drain for the water behind the inner dry wall – Had Mr. Husband again – agreed to put off the hot air flue till Mr. Harper’s coming at the end of the month –

Ann returned from Cliff hill about 6 – I came in at 6 20/60 dinner at 6 1/2 – Coffee – Sat talking till too late to go to my father – Then skimmed over the newspaper and wrote the last 7 lines till 9 1/2 –

Rainy day with little intermission – in the morning merely fine for about 1/4 hour at 10 1/4 a.m., and only a gleam or 2 in the afternoon –

Read 3 or 4 pages beginning of the Bakewell’s Geology.  Have read 1/2 through the 2nd time over – as far as the tertiary formations, and am beginning the 1st part again – the 3rd time – The clearest system of geology I have seen –

With my aunt 1/4 hour till 10 5/.. –

Rainy evening and night as well as day (vide 5th line above) and F 57 1/2° now at 10 1/4 p.m. –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0095