Monday, April 10, 1837
1837
April
Monday 10
10 1/2
11 40/..
Could not sleep for Ann’s snoring all night. Determined to sleep in the kitchen chamber –
Siding the room and not ready till 12, Mr. Jubb having
waited a long while.
Much better this morning, but not to go out today or tomorrow – Mr. Jubb will come again on Wednesday –
Ann had the servant from
the honorable Lady Shaw, and rode to Cliff hill about 2 p.m., and the young man went with her, and Mrs. Ann
Walker engaged him £13 per annum and livery and to be washed, for in the house
–
Breakfast at 12 – Ann got the
kitchen chamber ready for me to sleep in tonight. Told Mr. Jubb I had been so
disturbed by the horses in the stable could not sleep last night or the night
before –
From 12 3/4 to 6, looking over
my estate plan, and calculating and planning about the Incline from the top of
the bank to the yew tree – and definitively to about 60 yards below the yew
tree (the westernmost of the 3 yew trees in the quondam orchard)
Had Robert Mann from soon after
6 (about the Incline) till dinner at 7 20/.. –
Coffee at 8 1/2 –
Fine day, Fahrenheit 30° now
at 8 1/2 p.m.
Letter from Mr. Harper
tonight –
WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0044
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