Thursday, February 23, 1837

1837

February

Thursday 23

7 25/..

12 35/..

No kiss.  

Out at 8 25/.. in the stables – the ground white with snow, and snowy rainy morning – Fahrenheit 33 1/2° at 9 a.m.  From then to near 10, reading in my study – Merat and Lindley –

Then had Mr. Husband – Stephen Mallinson to do the roof of the new building at the Stump Cross Inn – Ordered about the meer-drift clow – To be 2 feet 6 inches by 11 inches or a foot – I myself would see the passage to the clow set out – Booth to get his masonry for the clow done as soon as possible – Said I had written to Mr. Harper to send Crabtree or some good plasterer – Husband said he could send a man who would do the job very well – No difficulty in laying cement or the interstices as they are at present – Either Husband or Bligh must be wrong –

Breakfast at 10 1/4 in 1/2 hour, and wrote the above of today till 11 – Then till 1 35/.., planning – Sketch of tower and manner of communication with the 1st floor, etc. etc.  Then at accounts till 3 55/.. –

Had had Joseph Mann a little before, wanting a pipe of 3 inches square bore and 9 yards long to bore to the bottom (2 yards more to bore) a long goit vent – Hoped to get up to the engine pit by 1 April next but this wet weather backens them terribly – The lads constantly give up in the night on account of the wet –

Sat reading and cutting open Encyclopaedia of Agriculture till 5 1/4 – Then wrote 1 page to Mariana.

Had Mr. Husband with a parcel of bills –

Dressed – Dinner at 6 50/.. Coffee – Ann read French – I sat reading the Encyclopaedia of Geography and tonight’s paper till 11 p.m.,  at which hour, Fahrenheit 24 1/2° and stormy night – High boisterous wind – The ground white with snow that must have fallen this evening – The snow of the morning had disappeared by afternoon – Rainy, stormy, boisterously windy day –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0026