Monday, April 3, 1837

1837

April

Monday 3

8 10/..

12 5/..

Pretty good one last night.  Much snow in the night – The ground all covered again pretty thickly.  Not a speck of green to be seen, and Fahrenheit 43° now at 9 40/.. a.m.

Found cousin come gently and had all to prepare, which has made me so long dressing –

Breakfast at 9 3/4 with Ann – and with her afterwards (wine currant cordial out of hall cellar given to Robert Schofield – his wife poorly) and dawdling downstairs till 11 –

From then to now, 1 40/.., read (missing for the present the 40 next preceding pages) from page 88 to 136, Higgins on the Earth – and look at maps, and several references –

Then 1/2 hour with Ann, not going out this afternoon –

Began snowing (small snow) about 1 and now snowy, wintry afternoon – all around trees and ground groaning under their white covering –

At 2 10/.. at my desk – Wrote 4 pages of 1/2 sheet and 1/2 page of another 1/2 sheet to Lady  Vere Cameron

Then at four and thirty five minutes had Joseph Mann, who came to pay me for the upper bed coal got in excavating the Long goit during the last month (since Friday 3rd ultimo) up to the 1st instante mense – 65 loads at 6 + 167 ditto at 7 pence = £6.9.4 received –

Long talk about getting water at the top of the bank – Joseph now agrees we can get it – Taking the Incline there direct will add 50 yards to the middle band water drift and 100 yards to the rag-water drift and £300 will get dirt-band water in the rag.  This will be got cheaply – 30 yards below the level of the Godley road – Would be 60 yards to pump at the Engine if set at the top of the bank – Joseph Mann thinks the Incline (from the yew tree in the garden as planned before) to the top of the new bank would not be 700 yards –

And now talk again of having an endless chain – 700 X 2 = 1400 yards of double chain – the Incline to the Godley road = 500 + thence to the top of the bank double chain 25 X 2 = 500 + 500 = 1000 and even if there should be 400 yards more chain, the saving of expense in gearing the engine will more than pay the difference of chain – and if £400 will get water and pay for the Extra drift-driving, I shall still save £400 at least in the non-sinking of the platform opening into the Godley road. Holt to come and talk all this over –

Then a little while in the stable – the 2 boys behaved very ill on Saturday carting clay in land near the meer – Frank thinks they will do no good – but did not tell me that till I had said if they would not do well I should sell them –

A little while with [Ann] – Dressed – Dinner at 6 35/.. – Coffee  –

Frank took the cart and went rather earlier to the post tonight, and brought from Smith’s warehouse 3 hampers containing the wine ordered the other day from Mr. Oldfield –

Came upstairs immediately after coffee at 8 35/.. for     hour and wrote all but the 1st 7 lines of today –

Spoke to Frank (just before dinner in the stable) about his son – What wages? 12/. a week for the summer and then go when I had nothing more for him to do – I agreed to this – but had hinted that perhaps he might do to stay and be under the gardener, Joseph Booth’s place not being a permanent one –

No workmen here today – Frank and John Day took the 2 teams and went once to Hipperholme quarry this afternoon for exercise for the horses –

Making memoranda in my rough book till 9 3/4, at which hour, Fahrenheit 31° – Much snow on the ground, but fair till about 1 p.m.  Afterwards, snowy, wintry afternoon but fair towards evening and fair in the evening –

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/20/0042 and SH:7/ML/E/20/0043


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