Wednesday, September 30, 1835

1835

September

Wednesday 30

6 40/..

12 50/..

Ann at Cliff hill – Fair and finish morning, fine morning now at 7 1/2 and F 56° – Out at 7 1/2 and it was raining but not heavily and continued more or less till I came in to breakfast at 9 40/..

Mr. Gray had come in at 9 1/2 – I staid to see Sycamore stubbed and roped down in the line of new carriage road – had been also at the Cascade bridge –

Breakfast in about 40 minutes and then out to Mr. Sharpe, who had waited some minutes, the candidate for the school Lightcliffe, or rather, as it is to be called, the Knowle hill School –

Owns he is not qualified in mathematics but will take pains and thus he can fit himself for all we wish – Spoke nicely of his wife – well-dressed, well-mannered man, but there an expression in his countenance I did not quite like –

Said I was sorry Miss Walker was not at home – Begged Mr. Sharpe to wait quietly at the Inn – (I would pay his expenses) till he heard from me – Mentioned his being examined by Mr. Warburton in the course of tomorrow, as I hoped  – but the thing not yet named to Mr. Warburton –

Mr. Husband was waiting for me – The morning so rainy, no chance of Mr. Washington’s coming to level for the open goit from the dam to the Engine pit, so Mr. Husband would not wait – So rainy Mawson’s men at the new road went home –

Out all the morning – at the Cascade bridge – Set Robert Mann and one of Mawson’s men to make puddle –

The men dined at 12 1/4 – it was rather fairer about 12 1/2 – Mr. Gray and I stood under the arch – Set them to work again at 1 1/4 – Mr. Gray went in to luncheon at 1 1/2 and staid in the house writing for some time – To the duchess of Cleveland – to be with her (at Newby?)

Marian talked of leaving here on Saturday afternoon – I want her to stay for the mail at 1 p.m. on Sunday –

Determined to pull up the whole of the drain under the archway – to puddle it properly – Could not get the water down it in the morning – All lost – sunk into the old drain very deep down going along the bottom of the garden – Stood over the man pulling up – Puddling – Digging out deep basin for the water –

Had 8 men at the Cascade bridge this morning and 12 this afternoon including Frank –

Sent the carriage for Ann to be at Cliff hill at 3 p.m. – Saw it return with Ann and the Sutherlands at 4 1/2 – Ann sent for me – Came and sat a little while with her while the Sutherlands were at their papers – George brought the 2 tin boxes from Mr. Parker’s this morning – All their deeds put into one of them and taken home with them in the carriage this evening at 8 1/4 – The other box left here empty to go back to Mr. Parker –

Out again at the cascade bridge from 5 to 6 – Just saw the Sutherlands in the blue room – Dressed, dinner with Mr. Gray at 6 1/4 in 1/2 hour while Ann made tea for the Sutherlands – Then went into the drawing room with the Sutherlands – Very civil to them – All very good friends – Mrs. Sutherland went up to my aunt for 2 or 3 minutes just before going away at 8 1/4

Ann and I sat talking till 9 1/2 – then 1/2 hour with my aunt – Then till 10 50/.. wrote the above of today –

Mr. Washington came at 2 to level for the open goit – Sent George off for Mr. Husband who assisted in the levelling/  3rd time and 3rd line of levelling – The greatest variation between the 3 levellings = 1 1/2 inches – Very near – Very good levelling – The open goit will have to be very sinuous and winding –

Rainy morning till about or near one – Afterwards fair and tolerably fine.  F 58° now at 11 55/.. p.m.

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/18/0106 and SH:7/ML/E/18/0107