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1830 April Friday 9 7 12/5.. Up at 6 10/.. for 20 minutes – Fahrenheit 55° at 8 and rainy morning   – At my desk at 8 – In my letter to Mariana, say that if we could choose our time I, at this moment, scarce know what I should prefer – Perhaps she would like better and profit more from a little excursion than staying here where she has seen everything and knows no one – She had seen so little of the continent, a pity not to make the best use of her time – ‘We must think about it’ – . . . ‘Will Charles help you?   A hundred pounds will not do – We might economize by taking no maid, but a 1st rate travelling servant would be indispensable . . . . . . the best thing you could do with your britzka would   be to travel in it – If you are likely to get a mere nothing for it, it would be worthwhile to keep it for your journey – I should like very well to have it if you brought it, and if you did not ask too much for it’ Mention looking at the phaeton – Said to be little us

1830 April Thursday 8 6 50/.. 1 10/.. But lay on the bed for ten minutes at seven. Fahrenheit 50° 7 3/4 a.m. – Breakfast at 8 20/60 – Madame Decante came soon after and staid till 9 1/2 – Talked of dresses – etc. etc.   To go on Monday to see some new dresses – Spoke of Madame and Mademoiselle Dobray, friends of Mrs. Barlow’s, hotel de Douvres sur le boulevard, who had heard of her indirectly through Delisle the banker, rue Blanche No. 5 or 7?, who paid money on her signature given at Rome, where she appears to have passed the winter – Madame Mackenzie rue de Loudres No. 63 has scarcely finished furnishing her house, and is going to sell all up and go to England – Going to have a sale, or agree with her tapissier for the whole ‘en bloc’ – Wrote the above of today – Set off to Madame Galvani at a little after 10 – Went to No. 5 rue Neuve de la Femme and saw the phaeton advertised in Galignani, lowest price 2000/. – Hardly worth 1/2 – Saw the servant – The tire as

  1830 April Wednesday 7 6 55/.. 12 50/.. Fahrenheit 49° at 7 1/4 a.m. Out at 8 10/.. to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk in 1 3/4 hour and home at 10 3/4 – Breakfast over at 12, having had Brion – Paid him for the last month – He came in to me to speak about the horses being maigris – Jacques said they were kept too long attelés, and he was then obliged to drive too quick – M. Brion very civil and so was I – He said I ought to have 3 horses – I said I paid as much as I wished to pay, and that M. Brion must think about it, and if he could not make things suit him according to my work, I really must give up the horses altogether, about which I was indifferent – I said when the horses had to wait, as on Sunday, Jacques might take oats with him for them to eat – I had no objection to this – but I really could not promise anything about lessening the work I had today – I should probably go to the bois de Boulogne – and the Jardin des Plantes almost every day during

1830 April Tuesday 6 7 12 40/.. Breakfast over at 9 20/.. – Fahrenheit 43° at 8 – Off at 9 1/2 for Miss Poore – Took her to Bagatelle – There from 10 1/4 to 12 – House very small – 2 little pavillions at a little distance, one for their little duc de Bordeaux, the other for Mademoiselle – The latter very pretty Meublé – Anteroom and salon hung with a pretty printed calico, little rosy pattern – Hangings, furniture, curtains all of the same – A beautiful little collection of butterflies, sent to Mademoiselle by the Emperor of Brazil as a birthday present, stuck on white paper, framed in handsome gilt picture frames (about 2 feet by 1 1/2 feet French?), the deep frame having the glass quite at the edge to admit the raising of the butterflies – Had a very good effect – Good hint when furnishing at home – Walked about the grounds by ourselves – Small but pretty, laid out à l’Anglaise, yet 2 or 3 formal little pieces of water still remaining – In returning, drove to the

1830 April Monday 5 7 50/.. 12 10/.. Got up for 1/2 hour   at 6.   Sitting on pot.   Feet asleep, so got into bed again.   Incurred a cross, thinking partly of π [Mariana], Miss MacLean, etc. Out at 8 1/2 – to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk in 1 3/4 back to Porte Maillot – Ordered brown loaf every 6th day – Home at 11 5/.. – Breakfast – Reading Voltaire’s letters – From 12 3/4 to 5, at my accounts 1/2 hour , and then musing over letter, 3 pages and the ends and under the seal from Marian (Shibden) and letter, 2 pages, from Mr. James Briggs (Halifax), and writing 3 pages and the ends to Marian, having first written 1 page   of another sheet which, on consideration, I threw away, thinking it best not to enter into any explanations not absolutely necessary – Her letter strikes me as being altogether rather an odd one – Mr. Briggs had only had one application for Lower Place, but this one likely enough to answer – His letter dated 31st ultimo. ‘ On Thursday last

1830 April Sunday 4 7 5/.. 12 25/.. Fahrenheit 55° at 8 a.m. Out at 8 5/.. to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk to the La Muette gate and then walked very nearly to the barriere.   Home at 10 25/.. – Breakfast over at 11 5/.. – Dressed – Had 1/2 hour’s nap – Prayers from 12 35/.. to 1 1/4 – Sat talking to my aunt – Went out at 2 10/.. – Drove (by Vincennes) to Pont de St. Maur, and alighted on the bridge at 3 20/..   – Stood some time on the bridge and at the foot of it – Then walked through the voûte du canal (the tunnel) 600 meters long – 5 meters high to the centre of the vault, channel 4 meters 75 centimeters deep, with chemin de halage (towing path) 2 meters wide, opening into a handsome basin 120 meters by 30 meters, a lock from this into a smaller basin from   which a lock opening into the river (Marne) – Very handsome piece of work – This short cut of canal saves a detour of 2 lieues by the river, which navigation was difficult and dangerous in winter – Rocks in

1830 April Saturday 3 8 12 1/4 Up twenty minutes on pot and saying prayers, then lay on the bed till eight. Fahrenheit 56° at 8 a.m.   Breakfast over at 9 1/2 – My thirty-ninth year is complete today! Made out rough draft of index from the 22nd ultimo to today – M. Julliart came at 11 10/.. and staid talking 1/2 hour – Could not get anything for the morning, so no lesson – Agree to commence chez moi, rue du Jardin du Roi on Monday week the 12th, to have 3 lessons, 3 days consecutively or more if required on a human head – The poor man at the hospital is recovering after having been sur le point de mourir – on en lui a rien fait que de donner des lavement – M. Julliart ventured to observe upon this, to say he should have bled the man, and the médicin threatened to report him for his interference ! – Before and after M. Julliart’s coming, reading from page 148 to 175, nodding over my book latterly till 12 50/.. – Then dressed – Went out at 1 35/.. – Called on

1830 April Friday 2 6 3/4 12 50/.. Fahrenheit 54° at 7 1/2 a.m.   Out at 8 – Drove to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk to Boulogne – then to Bagatelle – a little beyond there began to rain – got into the carriage – Returned by the route d’Armenonville and home at 10 20/.. in 35 minutes – Breakfast almost immediately – Had my hair done in case anyone should come.   Pretend to my aunt Lady Isabella Blatchford has not got my card.   She has got it, but perhaps will not return my call. At my desk at 11 3/4 – At foreign cash book – finally settled it for the last year, and found that after all I have only to place to ‘ Lost or unaccounted for’ 111/47 1/2 instead of about 500/. as I thought at first – At 1 10/.., letter per post from the Embassy from Miss Hobart from Lady Stuart and from Miss MacLean – Wrote 3 pages of a 1/2 sheet to Lady Stuart – In answer to what she says of Miss MacLean, say it is quite useless to say anything to her (Miss MacLean).   I have hithe

1830 April Thursday 1 8 11 55/.. On the pot and said prayers from seven for near half hour, then crept into bed again till eight – Fahrenheit 59° at 8 3/4 a.m.   Breakfast – Dawdling over 1 thing or other – Out at 10 1/4.   En passant, got buttons at Maurisset’s, and then drove to Madame Galvani’s – Talked – Read a little of Comte de Noé’s book – My aunt called for me – Left Madame Galvani at 1 1/2 – Spoke about the fountain – Then drove to the Passage des Panoramas, and got my Leghorn hat – Drove home for a moment – and then to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk, but only as far as the La Muette gate from 2 50/.. to 4 1/2 – Home at 5 – Dressed – Dinner at 6 10/.. – Read   (partly aloud) the paper – Civil note from the baron de Damas enclosing billet pour voir Bagatelle ‘le mercredi or au autre jour, mais on ne pent y rester que jusqu’à midi’– Very civil, for Wednesday is the only day, in general, on which one can see it – Came to my room at 8 10/.. – I asked

1830 March Wednesday 31 6 3/4 12 3/4 Fahrenheit 55° at 7 a.m. – Out at 8 5/.. – through gardens along the Quais (a long while looking at books, etc.) to No. 35 rue de Seine – Bought fontaine à 5 voies for 35/. Home at 11 1/4 – Breakfast – 3/4 hour nap in my chair – At my accounts – Dressed – Out (alone in the carriage) at 2 55/.. – Drove to the Comte de Noé’s to take Mademoiselle de Noé out – Met her and her father at the gate – Named what had been my intention and drove to No. 7, rue de Jardin du Roi to measure the settee, then to the Jardin des Plantes – Saw Neumann, and M. Pepin, head chef des Écoles de Botanique – To have admission when I liked – Then little boy shewed me the great cactus – more than 1/2 of it fell broke down before the winter came on – Fell away from age – Had been 130 years in the serre, and was 25 years old when put there – Then the father of the boy M. Piliou? shewed me the rest of the serres in that part of the garden (next to the mus

1830 March Tuesday 30 6 10/.. 12 25/.. Out at 7 25/.. Fahrenheit 51° at 6 1/2 a.m..   Went out at 7 35/.. meaning to go to the Jardin des Plantes, but so long on the Quais, turned back at the end of the rue de Siene and still did not get back till 10 1/4 – Breakfast – Sent the carriage for Miss Hall at 10 1/2 to Mrs. Bray’s, grande rue de Chaillot – Dressed – Off with Miss Hall from here at 11 1/2 to the Bibliothèque du Roi – Presented my letter from M. Audoin to M. Haase at the head of the Manuscripts – He was very civil – Shewed us the manuscripts, and then downstairs among the Estampes, where we were seated at the great table with a lady and a great many gentlemen – Miss Hall had 2 of the 14 immense volumes of prints of Raphael’s pictures, which most interested her – I had a quarto volume, the work of Lens the painter, on the costume of the nations of antiquity – Printed at Dresden (in French) in 1785 – Drove direct from the Bibliothèque to the rue de la Paix and

1 830 March Monday 29 7 1/4 12 40/.. Fahrenheit 49° at 7 3/4 a.m.. Wrote and sent at 8 40/.. by George a little note to ‘Miss Poore’ to say, of course, she got my note yesterday and should I call for her or not at 10 this morning – Should be off as soon as possible after 10 to find the men at work – Little answer (note) she will be ready – Wrote part of at note to Lady Stuart – Breakfast over at 9 1/2 – Dressed – Off at 10 5/.. for Miss Poore – drove to Sèvres – At the Porcelain Manufactory in the atteliers and seeing the China 1 50/.. – Saw the whole process – Both the Kaolin, of which the glaze (vernis), and the Stone, of which the pâte de la porcelaine, are from near Limoges – Every Thursday fortnight that the furnaces are lighted – Brongniart not there today – Will be there tomorrow – Drove to the Palais of St. Cloud – Could not see it of an hour – The Dauphine passing on her way to Villeneuve l’Etang? walked in the park – Went to the top of the column – Air a

1830 March Sunday 28 7 1 35/.. N Vc Fahrenheit 50° at 8 a.m.   Out at 8 – to the pont St. Michel, rue St. Audré des Arts where a good furniture shop – A very nice, large, new bibliothèque to stand on the ground, a considerable height 40/. – I gave the  man yesterday too much for the one I bought – walked along the streets in that quarter – rue de l’École de Medicine, etc. – Returned by the Hall au Bled, and place des Victoires and rue Neuve des Petit Champs and home at 10 – Little de Hagemann had only been come a very little while – Breakfast at 10 20/.. – Dressed – Prayers and Sermon 4, Bishop Ogden, at 12 10/.. in 3/4 hour   – Never was so sleepy – Slept immediately afterwards in my chair in the salon 1/2 hour   – Wrote   a little note to Miss Poore to ask if I should call for her at 10 tomorrow morning to go to Sèvres – Took little de Hagemann out at 2 1/4 – Called at the Poores’ – All out – Left my note for Miss Poore, then drove to the Tuilleries Gardens – W

1830 March Saturday 27 6 40/.. 1 10/.. Fahrenheit 51° at 7 a.m.. Out at 7 3/4 – The people not ready Place de l’Eglise de Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois –Waited – Went into the church for a few minutes, sauntered about till 8 55/.. Then   saw the people off with the bibliothèque and chairs – Went to my little apartment – Walked home in 55 minutes, including 2 or 3 little stoppings to inquire after this and that – Came in at 10 40/.. – M. Julliart here (20th lesson – ) but had only just come – Breakfasted – At my anatomy at 11 5/.. – He broug ht an ear which I dissected.   Not much to be learnt from this.   Paid M. Julliart for 20 lessons from Wednesday 13 January, including today, at 6/. – He then shewed me some of his notes of different cases à l’hotel dieu – 1/2 hour reading and talking them over – It seems a man entered was admitted into the hospital the day before yesterday with an inflammation sur les poumons – All that had been done was to give him lavement – and