Sunday, March 7, 1830

1830

March

Sunday 7

7 10/..

12 5/..

In the carriage and off to the bois de Boulogne at 8 – My usual round to the La Muette gate there almost to the barriere in 1 35/.. hour, and home at 10 20/.. –

Changed my dress – Breakfast in 25 minutes at 10 1/2 – Very fine morning – White frost on the ground and coldish at first, but soon the sun out and quite warm – Fahrenheit 42° at 11 a.m. – 

Reading and nodding over Bostock, Volume 1 on the circulation –

Letter from Mr. James Briggs, Halifax, –

The Wakefield branch road and the Leeds and Wakefield road both go through Hardcastle’s land, the 1st taking 15 perches, the 2nd,1 rood 4 1/2 perches at £140 per acre for, which received £52.1.3 –

The old road will be to sell – Advises me to buy at least 1/2 of it – I think to buy all that joins to my land –

Only one application for Lower Place – and wants the rent lowered to the times –

Good hay selling at Halifax at 5 pence per stone, and butter 1/ per pound of 18 ounces –

Mr. Hoyland, Mr. Foster’s attorney, is getting the £300 for Mr. John L- at 4 1/2 per cent upon a complete assignment of the mortgage –

Prayers and sermon 2, page 199 Ogden, from 12 1/4 to 1 –

Talked to my aunt 5 or 6 minutes and came to my room – Writing copy of note to Miss Mackenzie to go with Mr. Long’s book  

M. Audoin called at 2 1/4 and staid very nearly an hour – Approves my taking a room or 2 near the Jardin des Plantes – Will then shew me his dissection of insects etc. whenever he has anything of this kind to do – Will think what botanical work I ought to get – Recommends a Physiology, Richerand and Majendic –

At 3 1/2 drove out with my aunt – All along the boulevard across the Pont du Jardin du Roi to the turn off to the Bicêtre, then back and all along the external boulevard down to the river – Crossed the Pont de l’Ecole Militaire, and home at 5 50/.. –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Read partly aloud the whole of the newspaper and supplement, i. e. 6 pages – full of debates –

Came to my room at 6 1/2 – Coffee at 9 5/.. –Came to my room at 10 1/2 – During the day, began and read from page 330 to 379, Volume 1, Bostock’s Physiology, 20 pages of this partly aloud in the salon – Settled accounts and till 11 1/4.  Read the last 19 pages –

Very fine day – Fahrenheit 43° at 10 1/2 p.m. and fine, frostyish night –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/13/0008

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