Wednesday, September 16, 1835

1835

September

Wednesday 16

7

12 1/2

No kiss.

Rain in the night, but fine morning and sun shining now at 7 55/.. a.m.  Out at 8 for 3/4 hour in the farmyard and about – Had Mr. Husband, and set Booth and one of his masons (John Cockroft) at the buttress – 1 of Mann’s men at the drain at the back and South side of George’s room, and Robert himself and one of the men finished it this afternoon –

Breakfast at 8 3/4 in about 3/4 hour – A little while with my father and Marian – and then out again –

Ann off to Hipperholme at 9 3/4 to meet Mr. Washington at Brooke’s – Back about 12 – Captain and Mrs. Sutherland and their oldest son, ætatis 4, Sackville, arrived last night at 7 –

Sent Robert Mann off to Turner about proper flag bottoms for the tail-goit – He was back before 12 – His man had told me the water had burst out of the old pit (in my Godley field) – Took Robert down to see about it – Nothing could be better – the water had found its way into the old drain from the pit to the brook, but had burst up into the field and was making a natural dam by laying Carr’s grass under water – Robert and sent John Booth to help him turned the water regularly into the drain, so as to dry the land and nothing can go on better –

Came in at 12 1/2 and sat with Ann or sat waiting in the blue room while she dressed – She in a great hurry – Much to do at the last – The horses here at 1 1/4 – put to Ann’s carriage, and we were off at 1 50/.. – Dirty postboy – Annoyed – Told John to give him only 2/. – Went with Ann to the turnpike, and there left her to go forwards to Cliff hill to dinner and stay till 1 a.m. on Saturday –

In returning, I walked by Lower and upper Place to Barraclough cottage, to see what Mark Town was about – Looked over what was doing but never spoke – He will lay out nearly as much as I proposed laying out, and not make so good a job of it – But no matter – It will suit him better of course; and he shall pay, as agreed, without abatement, 5 per cent on the money laid out in the purchase and repairs –

Returned by Whiskum Quarry – More stones ready for carting home –

Then sauntered along Bairstow wood of seedling oaks – The hill will soon be green again with whins and broom – they will be shelter for the little oaks – then 1/2 hour at Matty Pollard’s to order 5 [stacks] of flocks for beds for Lightcliffe school-house –

Home about 4 – From then to 7 about the house – in the farmyard etc. and at the cabin of old boards Charles and James Howarth and Carter were putting up at the mouth of the water drift – and at the Cascade bridge, Robert and Joseph continuing the great drain under it –

Soon after 4, 1/2 hour’s heavy rain with several peals of thunder.  I took shelter under the Cascade bridge –

Then with Booth at the farmyard buttress and afterwards (after 6) went with him to Adney bridge – Afraid of the turn being too sharp –

Dinner at 7 10/.. in 1/2 hour, then skimmed over the paper and had coffee in my father’s parlour till 8 55/.. Then looking over books from Whitley’s and 1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 40/.. wrote all the above of today in my study –

Sat downstairs looking over books from Whitley's. Key to Nesbit’s Mensuration and Whishaw’s New Law Dictionary.  Looking over the latter till 11 1/2 p.m. There is Tomlin’s Law dictionary vide London Catalogue.

Fine day till 4 p.m..  Afterwards heavy rain and thunder for near an hour and afterwards showers.  F 58 1/2° now at 10 3/4 p.m.

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