Monday, March 6, 1837

1837

March

Monday 6

8

12 3/4

No kiss. A trial, for she came to me and, in the midst, said she could not bear it.

Fine morning; cold though, Fahrenheit 40 1/2° at 9 10/.. a.m.

Had been near half hour rewriting copy of letter for Ann.  Ann wrote to Mr. Buckle (Joseph Esquire) for a copy of the drawing and plan of old LightCliffe chapel, drawings and plans of old churches and chapels being sent to the diocesan before being taken down – Lightcliffe Chapel taken down in 1771 or 1772.

Breakfast at 9 1/4 to 10 – Put on my old pelisse and had Cookson, and got all the remainder of the books on Stove-side the Library passage into the drawing room , ready for the Stove-place to be altered – thrown farther back – With the exception of about 1/4 hour of having Wormsley to beg some flags left on the quarry-hole hill at little marsh to lay a causeway within the Limefield – siding books till 12 1/2 –

Then had Mosey who had brought back the one-horse new cart and was to take back the old 2 horse cart to be mended and bring it back on Thursday – and had Joseph Mann, who brought in a very fine specimen of                 from 85 yards deep in Walker Pit – These fossils only found in the measure called the whites –

Went out with Joseph Mann at one, – having just written the last 8 lines – went to the platform and to see his plan of bringing out the short Incline at the top the bank just above the viaduct – His idea exactly what I myself named on Friday – the Short Incline as then set out = 173 yards – to the new bank (at least to make the Staith there ) would add 80 yards of length and the mouth of the Incline would have 5 yards of cover.  At a rough guess, Joseph Mann thinks the Short incline would be completed, walled and arched and everything, for 25/. per yard; that is, 10/.per yard less than the other – Would be almost all to wall and arch – The stuff would be filled and carted to the back Lodge onto Charles Howarth’s field just above his house for 1/3 per yard cube – Robert Mann said afterwards it would be done at 1/. per yard – Joseph Mann said it would be impossible to have all complete, 2 Inclines and everything, by next October 12 month  – To begin taking the soil off in the paddock any time – The platform to be begun Monday 3 April, will take 4 months doing –

With Joseph Mann till near 2, then with Robert Mann +3 – A large hazel got up this morning and planted at end of ridge closing in the lowmost pool to the East – The drain along the bottom of the quondam orchard finished this evening – The gardener took up the little yews from the bottom of the old orchard to somewhere in the new one this morning – Came in at 3 and set the 2 masons, Edward and Abraham, to take down the stove-place and begin the large square recess in the Library passage –

Contrived and ordered yesterday about frame to hold my bookshelves, Bligh to get it done – and to order Stove-piping tonight for the stove in my study –

Out about and in the stable till came in at 6 3/4 – Ann did not return till after 6).  Dressed in 10 minutes; dinner at 6 50/.. – Coffee.  Ann read French – I read attentively the long and very interesting article (all but the few pages of  it read yesterday) on Steam navigation to India in the Foreign Quarterly Review of January last – Against the Euphrates lines – too good a key, for Russia already prepared to take advantage of Captain Chesney’s ill-advised expedition – For the Red-Sea line with a ship-canal from Suez direct north to Pelusium on the Mediterranean, 100 miles, through a series of lagoons, ‘commencing at Thaubastum that succeed one another in a northerly direction through the whole interval, as far as Lake Menzaleh and the Mediterranean’ page 367 –

Wrote all but the 1st 13 lines of today till 11 p.m., at which hour, Fahrenheit 34°.  Fine day –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0030