Tuesday, October 13, 1835

1835

October

Tuesday 13

7 11 40/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour.  Damp, drizzly morning. F 51° at 8 a.m.

Out from 8 to 9 at the Cascade bridge – Breakfast at 9 in 1/2 hour – 1/2 hour with Ann from 12 1/2 (when the men went to dinner) to 1 – Then with Booth in the farmyard and with Charles and James Howarth taking up the paving of the Cow-stalls – wrong done – higher instead of lower at the head than at the foot of the stall – Booth had merely come to see how things were going on – no mason working here today –

from 9 1/2 to 12 1/2 and from 1 to 6 at the Cascade bridge – The workmen gave up at 5 1/2 just after setting the chair stone – The 5-ton stone set before dinner and the chair stone this afternoon – The whole of the day getting these 2 stones to their place – But they look very well – Worth all the expense and trouble – Look as if they had been there these hundred years – All the men pleased, and worked cheerfully in spite of the damp and drizzling before dinner and the driving rain and high wind this afternoon – Very wild since dinner –

The 5-ton stone has 72 cubic feet of stone in it, of very heavy kind of stone, say the men – 15 cubic feet commonly = 1 ton, therefore considering the extra weight of this kind of sandstone, this large stone weighs good 5 tons –

Nelson’s 4 men, Mawson’s 2 men, Richard and Jagger, and Frank and Mark Hepworth getting the stones (from just within the wall where shot down) to the place, and Robert Mann and his 3 men preparing the bed for them and pounding and puddling them fast – Mawson himself was here in the morning till dinner at 12 1/2, but not here in the afternoon –

Stood looking at what we had done (in spite of the rain) from 5 1/2 to 6 –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 1/2 – Coffee – 3/4 hour with my father and Marian, Ann and I as usual – Then read the newspaper upstairs – 25 minutes with my aunt till 10 10/.. then till 10 25/.., wrote all the above of today –

Letter this evening, 3 pages and ends and under the seal and one end partly crossed  from M- Mariana (Lawton), to say that she had got Martha Booth a place as cook at Mr. Wood’s, the surgeon at Newcastle, wages 10 guineas + tea and sugar = 2 guineas.  Martha had had a letter from her father wishing her to come home for a month at least – She herself did not wish to be at home so long – Mariana, of course, thought the request foolish, and begs me to explain that a week will be all that can be spared –

Mariana going to York on the 19th instante mense and if Mr. Lawton does not go all the way, she will travel from Manchester in the mail – Her niece Percy likely to spend the winter at Torquay, in which case, M- will want £50 out of my hands –

‘It occurred to me to tell Steph that you had a little money in your hands for Percy and that he might have the use of it for her now, if he would pay it back for her by little and little as he best could – What think you of this plan – I don’t like the child to lose what there is for her, and still I am obliged to remember that the time may come when I may require for myself a few pounds, for you cannot have forgotten that my settlement is so made that I might possibly have more than five months to wait before anything was paid’

I will pay all or any part M- Mariana likes of what I have of hers; but once paid, paid for always – At least no backwards and forwards paying with her brother –

Damp disagreeable drizzling small rainy morning till after 12 – from about then to 6 driving rain with high wind – Wild afternoon – Very bad working – Everybody wet –

Yet Ann rode to Cliff hill – got there pretty well – wet in returning – back at 5 1/2 –

Fahrenheit 54° now at 10 40/.. p.m.

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0111