Thursday, September 24, 1835

1835

September

Thursday 24

7 25/..

12 1/4

No kiss.

Ready in 50 minutes – Fine morning and F 59° at 8 1/4 a.m. – Out for 3/4 hour – Breakfast in 1/2 hour at 9 – Some time talking to Marian –

Captain and Mrs. Sutherland arrived at 10 in the carriage of their aunt, Mrs. Ann Walker of Cliff hill – Received them and sat a few minutes talking in the north parlour – Mentioned having a good opportunity, the coal business (the loose) between Captain and Mrs. Sutherland and Mr. Rawson – The latter threatens, if they do not agree, to set up a steam engine – I advised not being afraid, but letting him set up his engine – He had set up one already –

Left them about 10 10/.. and met Washington coming in at the court gates – In the new farmyard and about – Mr. Husband had come at 8 about the stove fire-place and Nelson’s man at 9 – all finished and set straight to within 1/4 inch ! at 10 –

Went down to the tail goit – Came in at 11 1/2 to see if Ann wanted anything – No! She had left the party to themselves – Sat talking to Ann about 1/2 hour – Eugénie and Matthew did up the bed in the low kitchen chamber, ready for Mr. S. Gray the landscape gardener –

Robert Mann came at 12 – Went with him to the Stump Cross Inn new cistern, an oval of 5 feet by 7, and 4 feet deep – Examined the old cistern – Not water-tight – Ordered it to be pulled up and done over again – Puddle to be got in the land (Hilly holy field) above – Robert Mann thought it would be done for £5 – Had Turner’s son, and ordered drain bottoms and tops, 25 yards of each if they suited me and came fast enough – The tops and bottoms to be delivered at 1/3 per running yard (i.e. 1 yard tops and 1 yard bottoms = 1/3) –

Came in at 2 just in time for the Sutherlands’ luncheon, set out in the drawing room – Ann and I did the honours as civilly and attentively and kindly as we could and all seemed well satisfied –My father and Marian came in about 3 and sat 1/2 hour, during which I explained (traced) on the model Ann’s and my journey round Mt. Blanc.

A few minutes with my aunt – Too poorly to be brought down to see Mrs. Sutherland as she intended – Had Mr. Jubb this morning, but I did not see him – Sent George to Halifax for medicine – He wanted to wait till evening, saying it would be a great deal of ‘trouble’ to go so often – I got annoyed at the word trouble and told him this would not do – If I wanted him to go 6 times or 60 X 6, he must do it, or if not I should see about it – Gave him a short but smartish talkation –

Then came in again after being out about 10 minutes, and we sat talking very cozily till 5 – I shewed up the Snips (William Priestleys) – Told the real story of Ann’s and my leaving Cliff hill pew, and how out of sorts Mrs. Ann Walker was at our going abroad, etc. etc. The Sutherlands seemed so well satisfied and amused, they forgot or never took any notice of Washington from 2 to 5 – then went to him for about (near) an hour –

In the mean while, I wrote to Mr. Charles Sharpe, saying I had been from home or should have acknowledged the receipt of his last letter 2 or 3 days sooner.  Not so satisfactory as I had hoped it would be relating to his mathematical attainments, but I thought he had best come over before a final answer was given – I would pay his coach hire from London here and back –

At 6, Mrs. Sutherland went upstairs into the low kitchen chamber to look at their deed box – then Ann shewed her our bedroom and the blue room – I then took up the lions-shewing and had Captain Sutherland up and shewed them the north chamber and all I had done above and below, and this and talking so whiled away the time that it was 7 25/.. before they left us –

Had sent George for horses after he returned from Mr. Jubb’s and then sent him again at 8 to the post office – with Ann’s postage-paid letter to the toy shop in York (a mistake made) and with my letter to ‘Mr. Charles Sharpe Central National School, Westminster, London, postage paid’

We sent the Sutherlands home in Ann’s carriage – Dinner at 7 3/4 – John gone with the Sutherlands and George to the post.  Eugénie brought in dinner and Matthew took it out –

A little while with my father and Marian, then coffee, then with my aunt from 9 1/4 to 10 10/.. – Read her what Mr. Gray had written for her will – She seemed very well satisfied and when Oddy came up at 10, sent for Ann, and she and Oddy witnessed my aunt signing the will –

Then came to my study and till 11 wrote all the above of today –

Fine day,  F 57° now at 11 p.m. –

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0101 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0102