Tuesday, April 6, 1830

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 Palais de Justice – too late to see the conciergerie, but went into one of the courts of Justice and looked about a little –

Then drove to the man about my fountain – Then to Lady Stuart’s banker – Very civil but as they had received no advice from Lady Stuart, declined paying the money, without hearing from her or having Lord Stuart’s name on the order –

Then brought Miss Poore to see my aunt – Got home at 1 3/4 – My aunt thinks Miss Poore a nice girl – Sent her home in the carriage at 2 –

Came to my room at soon after – Had a nap till 3 – Wrote the above of today – Then wrote and copied 1 2/3 pages to Mr. James Briggs, and dated today my letter to Marian written yesterday and copied the 1st page and first 3rd of page 2. –

Dressed – dinner at at 6 25/.. – Read the paper – Came to my room at 8 3/4 – Copying out letter 2 and part of letter 10, Volume 1, Voltaire’s letters on a loose bit of paper, merely for the sake of writing them out – 1st time of writing out French in this way –

Coffee at 9 20/.. – Sat up talking about Marian’s letter – My father and Shibden concerns and did not come to my room till 11 25/.., at which hour, Fahrenheit 47 1/2° –

A little rain after I got up – Hazy and damp, but quite fair from the time of going this morning at 9 1/2, to getting back to Paris, when a little drizzling rain – Then fair again and finish afternoon and evening –

In reply to Marian as to Miss Miss MacLean’s address for Mrs. Hartley – ‘You ask me for Miss MacLean’s address – I give it you my own house, as she was to have been here by this time; and I am, as it were, daily expecting her, not certain whether she will come by Brighton, and spend a little while (a few days) with her uncle, Sir Hector MacLean, there or not – At all rates, she ought to be en route, or in all the bustle of packing up and setting off, at this very moment’ – Musing over my letter to Marian –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/13/0023