Tuesday, March 2, 1830

1830

March

Tuesday 2

7 10/..

12 1/4

.. Proper motion.  Bowels right again I hope. 

Fahrenheit 50° at 7 1/4 a.m.  At my desk at 8 – Sent my note to Mrs. Hamilton (Breakfast at 10 20/60 in 1/2 hour) and till 11 1/2 read from page 307 to 375 Dumas volume 2 Physiology –

At 11 1/2 little 1/4 sheet from Lady Stuart de Rothesay.  Delighted to have me on her list –

Many thanks, dear Mrs. Lister.  I am delighted to have you on my list.  We have not done much business, but still we meet with enough agement and I hope shall have as many as we wish.  

Very truly yours,

E Stuart de Rothesay, 1st March

This is all well.  It would never have done to have been on Miss Hamilton’s list.  I did right in writing to Lady Stuart de Rothesay, as it happened –

Wrote the above at 11 40/.. Dressed in 20 minutes – Off at 12 1/2 alone – My aunt did not go as usual, for fear of spasms, which she had yesterday a little in her shoulders – But seems much better today – Had had nothing of spasms in any way for this year or two –

In passing sent up my card to Miss Hall, to ask if I should call at 2 1/2 to take her to the bois de  Boulogne.  No! Engaged today –

At the Jardin du Roi some minutes before M. Flourens’s 26th lecture on comparative anatomy – Summary of last lecture on the os hyoïde – on the members anterior and posterior –

Then to the bois de Boulogne – Took the whole of my usual walk in 1 40/.. hour – In returning, got biscuits at Michel’s, and home at 5 –

Dressed –  Read a few pages Dumas – Dozed a little – Dinner not till 6 1/2 – The woman (femme de peine) not here today or yesterday – Always some nonsense – They are ill or something or other – Talk of sending for Cordingley –

Read the whole of the newspaper – partly aloud – Read the whole of the King’s speech aloud – He opened the Chambers at 1 1/4 today in a speech (at the Louvre), longer, but very similar to, our King’s speech, therefore sufficiently good to my taste –

Came to my room at 8 50/..

On returning from my walk, found my cousin.  Did not put anything on till now, after dinner –

Little note at dinner per post from Miss Poore, to say Sir Edward had forgotten the number of the shop rue Saint Honoré, beyond No. 300 where he got the caoutchouc (Indian rubber-gum elastic) shoes –

Coffee at 9 3/4 – Came back to my room at 10 3/4 – Before coffee and after returning to my room, till 11 1/2, read from page 375 to 449, Volume 2, Dumas –

Very fine day – Fahrenheit 48° at 10 3/4 p.m. (vide 1st of today) –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/13/0006

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