Monday, March 13, 1837

1837

March

Monday 13

6 3/4

11 25/..

No kiss. 

Fine morning – Out with Robert Mann and about, from 7 3/4 for 1/2 hour –

Then read till 8 3/4 last Quarterly Review –

Then had Mr. Husband – disagreeable talkation about the meer-drift clow – Mr. Husband denied that he ever told me he wanted it 11 inches or consented to its being a foot square –

Breakfast at 9 1/4 to 10 (Ann breakfasted with me) – Out at 10 – With Robert Mann +3 (Sam and Jack and Robert’s brother-in-law) at the low pool – getting stuff to bank up with from near the fig-tree –

From 12 1/2 to 1 1/4 (Jack had been at the Lodge road all the morning wheeling stuff on the places widened with rag-stones) with Robert and Jack at the rough walling just beyond the beech trees in the Lodge road – 1 1/4 hour at the Lodge (from 1 1/4 to 2 1/2) then went to the wheel-race (Robert had told me in the morning Joseph was continuing the arching of the drift) –

Found Robert there – Had just stopt Joseph – I mentioned Mr. Husband’s having asked me this morning who had the ordering of the drift – If he had had it, he should have done it very differently – They must not throttle it – He never knew such long drift – The water ran many a yard farther than it ought to do –

Joseph said he had done a few yards of walling and arching and had got to within 6 yards of the wheel -race – but was doing it without orders from anyone – He said he had set out the drift – Told him to see tomorrow how much he had varied from the direct line – To stop walling and arching till he had proper orders, and to set off directly, 1st to Mr. Husband to know what he wished to be done and to get Mr. Husband to write it down – and then to Holt, and then to the Engineer – To come and tell me tonight the result of his errand – Joseph off to Halifax.  It was 3 p.m. as he passed the house (Shibden hall), then with Robert Mann and company levelling up about the low pool, and he and Jack sodding up the East side of the Embankment all under the thorn chestnut till about 5, when they all went down to the meer-end clow to lay on another thickness of puddle – I went down to them about 6 or before, having been with  Ingham and his 2 sons at the new carriage court wall and necessaries (the well and drain) –

Came in at 6 1/2 – Dressed.  Dinner at 7 – Asleep in the easy chair in the dining room till 8 40/.. – then coffee –

Had Joseph Mann from 9 to 10 40/.. – Had seen Mr. Husband – Would give him no instructions at all – I said that was very odd – I had had Mr. Husband just before dinner – He told me he had said to Joseph Mann exactly what he said to me, which was that the wheel-race shuttle would be close behind the masonry of the wheel-race, and close up to that he wanted a 6 foot square well 6 inches deep and the nearer the bye-wash was to the masonry the better – he wanted it 1 foot above the level of the well – but it might be anywhere between the wheel-race and the end of the piece driven dead level –

He said the Engineer was a great fool – Never came – Ought to come – Would say nothing – Knew nothing – did not even know how the wheel was to work – I said somebody must know – somebody must give directions – if the Engineer ought to come, Mr. Husband must make him come – I only wanted to have done what ought to be done –

Joseph Mann still declared Mr. Husband would give him no instructions at all – Said he would have nothing to do with it, and wished he never had had anything to do with it –

Joseph Mann found Holt at home – They went together to the Engineer – Not at home – Met with him at Halifax – He said at once if Joseph Mann kept 4 yards off or 14 feet off the mason work that would be quite enough – But he would send a plan of what he wanted to Holt by noon tomorrow –

Long talk about the Godley road drift – I said I was not satisfied about it – would rather get water in my own land – Joseph Mann at 1st a little taken by surprise at this – then seemed to come round to my opinion – Mentioned the rag-water and driving waterhead in the dirt band – This latter would be 300 yards long – Rag-water would have to be pumped up 18 yards by the engine – but recommended trying at the Lodge, where there would only be 12 yards to sink – This idea pleased – If any water to be had , it would do for the Lodge – Would see Joseph Mann tomorrow morning and settle about it –

Fine day.  Fahrenheit 29° at 10 3/4 p.m. –

Ann forgot my letter written on Sunday to ‘Messers Gray, Solicitors, York’ but wrote a few lines and sent it tonight –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0033