Tuesday, September 15, 1835

 1835

September

Tuesday 15

6 3/4

11 20/..

[Marginal note] Stump Cross Inn cistern

No kiss.

Rain all the night and incessant this morning also.  Ready in an hour. F 59 1/2° at 7 50/.. a.m., at which hour, went out –

George’s room full of water by the inlet of an old drain – Set Robert Mann’s 2 drift- drivers (too wet to begin at 5 a.m. at the water drift) to phay out the stuff at the back of the room against the coal-place and on this side into the entrance court – Had Mr. Husband –

Breakfast at 9 – Ann removed my books, ready for the stove place in the library passage being cased with stone tomorrow – She had Mr. Washington about Brooke’s (at Hipperholme) pigsties – I in and out and with Ann till 11 50/..

Very rainy day – no farmyard wallers come – Cockroft’s brother under footing in George’s room and Robert and Joseph cutting up sticks in the 2 horse stable –

From 12 to 4, settled George’s account etc. Wrote and copied letter to Mr. Johnson respecting the schoolmaster Mr. Sharpe, and wrote and copied letter to Mr. Patience thanking him for his well-drawn-up account of the orphan asylum at Clapton near London and for the valuable information he gave me – From home and no parcels forwarded or should not have been so long in acknowledging the receipt of his packet – hoped Mr. Johnson had got us a schoolmaster and mistress (married) – Much obliged to Mr. Patience and enclosed him a five pounds Bank of England note – Very civil letter –

A long while trying to write copy of congratulations to Charlotte Canning late Stuart but could not manage it.  Stupid, and gave it up.

Booth the mason came at 4 to see about George’s room – out with him in the outbuildings or talking to him in the house till long after 5 – Told him I would have the farmyard entrance door buttress (the part done) (low side) pulled down and he, Booth, and his men should do the buttresses –

He said Holt had ordered the Stump Cross Inn Cistern to be 8 feet long and 4 feet broad within – the sides and ends and bottom to be each one stone – I never understood this – thought it would be a walled up cistern and well puddled with a foot thick of puddle all round –  Booth said the stone would cost 6 pence a foot at the delph – Reckoned up there would be about 170 superficial feet at 6 and the carting could not be done at 1 pence per foot,  say 2 pence.  Then 170 feet of stone at 8 pence, and the labor would be expensive – Said I would consider about it –

Dinner at 6 10/.. in 35 minutes – Some time with my father and Marian – My aunt sent a brace of moorgame to Mrs. Ann Walker, Cliff hill, between 5 and 6 this afternoon – The Sutherlands not arrived – Coffee –

Letter from Messers London, enclosing scale of the model from Monsieur Gaudin.  Very sorry he had forgotten to send it with the model. Came to my study, and till 9 25/.. wrote all but the 1st 7 lines of today –Sent this evening my letter to ‘the Reverend Mr. Johnson, Central National School, Westminster, London postage paid’ and my letter to ‘Mr. Patience, Newby Lodge, near Boroughbridge, postage paid’ –

Very rainy, thoroughly soaking day – F 62° at 10 35/.. and rainy night – with my aunt from 10 to 10 35/.. p.m.  Poorly, she said, this morning but seeming pretty well tonight --

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/18/0097