Sunday, March 14, 1830

1830

March

Sunday 14

7 10/..

12 5/..

Quarter hour on the pot. Long in dressing – At my desk at 8 1/2.  Fahrenheit 46° at 8 10/.. Frostyish, fine morning –

Little de Hagemann gone to Faubourg Poissonnière, No. 53, alias Madame de Bourke’s. as before.  

Read from page 64 to 278, end of Conversations on Botany, vide line 8 of this page.

Then took small sheet and wrote 1 1/2 page to ‘Miss Maclean, 12 New Street, Dorset Square, London, Angleterre,’ to ask her to see that Sowerby sent me Gibbon in his entirety, not the mutilated edition for families – and asked also for the Conversations on Vegetable Physiology by the author of Conversations on Chemistry, 2 volumes duodecimo, 12 shillings/.  If there is an Edition in French, should prefer it –

Apologised for sending this hurried, worthless scrawl per post – Expected to hear by Thursday’s Courier – Anxious to know if she will be off from London by the 20th –

Sent off George with this letter (vide 6th line from this) at 12 40/.. –

Breakfasted with my aunt in the dining room at 10 40/.. in 1/4 hour – Prayers at 12 50/.. (leaving out the communion service) in 1/2 hour – Sat talking to my aunt 20 minutes –

Went out at 2 10/.. – Called at the de Noés’ – Staid perhaps 20 minutes – I proposed to send my carriage to them tomorrow, and some of their party will come back in it to go with me to Madame Catalani’s ball –

Then drove (my aunt with me) to the bois de Boulogne – My usual walk in 1 1/4 hour as far as about 1/2 way between Boulogne and Auteuil – then turned down to the Sèvres road and drove to Sèvres as far as the porcelaine manufacturers – Left the carriage then, and walked a little up the hill towards Mendon – Returned, passed the passage Choiseul –

Ordered Normandin at 7 3/4 tomorrow evening – no, at 6 1/4 –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 35/.. – Read, partly aloud, the whole of Galignani’s Messenger and Supplement – full of debates – 1 1/2 sheet full, no joke – Interesting on the question of recognising Don Miguel of Portugal – Did not leave the dining room till 9 10/.. –

Wrote the last 6 1/2 lines – Coffee at 9 20/.. Came to my room at 10 35/.. Settled accounts.

Fahrenheit 48° at 10 3/4 p.m. – Very fine day – Fine cool air, or light wind with sun –

Delightful walking today – Stood a minute or 2 on the bridge of Sèvres – My map of the environs of Paris not quite correct here – The bridge of Sèvres does not cross an island in the river of which a small point projects beyond the bridge towards St. Cloud – The island is altogether off the bridge at a little distance on the left, looking towards Sèvres –

The Vicomte de Noé set off on his journey to Italy etc. by the malle poste yesterday evening at 6 p.m. –

Took up Mérat’s Elements of Botany.  Began it again – how much better I understand it than before!  I feel myself much improved in French as well as in understanding of the scientific part – Reading and having hair curled till 11 40/.. –


WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/13/0011 and SH:7/ML/E/13/0012

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