Monday, February 27, 1837

1837

February

Monday 27

1 1/4

11 40/..

No kiss.  

Breakfasted in bed – Better this morning – Could speak tolerably, but not without effort – Had Ann’s Cary’s Atlas to look at in bed, and thus amused myself, she sitting by me –

 Got up at 1 1/4 and ready in 50 minutes, just as Mr. Jubb came and sat with us till 3, telling us the news about the failure of Messers Rigg, father and son – The former owes the old joint stock bank £25 out of the £40 (besides deposits) they have to trade upon – Mrs. Lancashire and Mrs. Brooke not supposed to be sufferers – 

Mentioned the perspiration stopping broth of yesterday – Jubb not surprised; said he supposed there was salt in it – Said I should take my glass of wine – Something of this kind required after copious perspiration –

Ann rode off to Cliff hill at 3, and returned about 4 3/4, just as I had changed my pelisse and come into the blue room –

Had been out from 3 to 4 25/.. at the Rock bridge – at the meer-drift head, and about – Could not anywhere find Robert – Frank and his son John (2 teams) carting drain covers (rag) from Hipperholme quarry – Mark Hepworth today and Saturday carting soil from Northgate – A little while with Bligh – gave me a little plan for the little gallery leading to my uncle’s room alongside the north chamber –

Finished my letter to Mariana begun and dated on Thursday, 1st page written that day and 1/2 the 2nd page written the following day.  Wrote and sent today the latter 1/2 page 2 and page 3, saying I had been 2 days in bed with a bad cold – Thought I should be quite right again in a few days – Chit chat in answer to her letter received the 11th instante mense – Thought I had received enough work from the Misses Salmon and would not take any more to make up the amount more exactly (what I had = £4.10.0, Mariana said, therefore I might have 10/. worth more) – Had written on my 1st page on Thursday that we should not leave home these 2 months – would certainly let Mariana know when the day was really fixed so that we could get off at the time –

Sent off tonight my Letter to ‘Mrs. Lawton, Lawton Hall, Lawton, Cheshire’ and Ann wrote to Mrs. Williams, Register Office, Leeds to get a lady’s maid’s place or nursery maid’s for Charlotte Booth – Sent £30.5.0 by Frank to pay Shaw the plasterer and Braithwaite the Northgate blacksmith –

Dinner at 6 3/4 – Tea – Wrote out Saturday and wrote yesterday and so far of today 9 –

Feel better this evening – my cold leaving my chest and getting into my head –

Sat reading the Encyclopaedia of Geography till 10 40/.., at which hour, Fahrenheit 36°.  Several showers during the day –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0027

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