Wednesday, March 10, 1830

1830

March

Wednesday 10

7 20/..

12 1/4

Fahrenheit 48° at 7 1/2 a.m. – At my desk at 8 1/2 – Reading cursorily Astronomie, les 22 Leçons – Breakfast in 1/2 hour at 10 1/4. 

Dawdling over 1 thing or other till 11, when M. Julliart came and staid till 2 1/4 – Brought a human heart with part of the lungs, very complete – Did not feel so much disgust as I should have expected –

M. Julliart pays 160/. a year for his one room au cinquième – Pays 1/75 for his dinner and 0/75 for his breakfast – His nourriture costs him 80/. per month – But lives well, as is necessary to those who attend hospitals and dissections – Recommends as a system of practice of medicine and surgery the work by Messers Roche and Sanson, 4 volumes –

Went out at 2 40/.. Note of Invitation this morning to soirée at the Embassy tomorrow – Drove to the Passage Choiseul – George ordered Normandin to come and dress my hair tomorrow at 8 1/2 –

Then stopt at Daldringen’s the coachmaker’s – George said the fore wheels too large – rubbed against the carriage in turning –

Then to the bois de Boulogne – Walked my usual (short) walk in 1/20.. hour –

Examined the going of the carriage – The fault struck me as being in the proportion of both the wheels being altogether changed – the hind wheels smaller than before – and more dislevelled –

Called again at Daldringen’s – Got out – Spoke to the man myself – He would not allow the hind wheels were less – In measuring, was not doing it exactly enough – Took the thing and measured them myself and shewed him that the diameter of the new hind wheel was 1/2 inch at least less than that of the old one – The fore old wheel not found – Long talk – By dint of reason, forced the man into allowing I was right – Offered to put the old wheels on again and so let me take the carriage – Said if he could not make me proper wheels, I should be in despair of getting them here – By dint of fair words and compliment, got the man right – The carriage to go back tomorrow for 5 weeks, and he will make me wheels exactly like the old ones –

Home at 5 50/.. Dressed – Dinner at 6 20/.. Read, partly aloud, the paper – Came to my room at 8 25/.. – On returning found the 2 cards, ‘Lady Poore Miss E. Poore Rushall’ and  ‘Sir Edward Poore, 35 rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré’ –

Wrote all but the 2 first lines of today – And then wrote 1/2 page to Mariana –

Coffee at 9 1/2 – Came to my room at 10 40/.. – Then wrote 1 1/2 page to Mariana – on her putting little Mariana to an expensive school, and seeming to take the responsibility of educating her upon herself – Against this – Should be careful not to give rise to greater expectations than it may be in her power to realize – But impossible for me in this case to judge 1/2 as well as she can –

Damp, rainyish day – fair, though, almost all the time of my walking the bois de Boulogne – Fahrenheit 47° at 10 40/.. p.m. –

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/13/0009 and SH:7/ML/E/13/0010