Thursday, March 9, 1837

1837

March

Thursday 9

7 35/..

12 5/..

No kiss.  Found my cousin just appearing, hardly discernable

Ann in bed 1/2 hour before me last night –

Finish, windy, cold morning –

Had Mr. Husband till 9  – Told him about the Chimney.  Seeing him with a smile on his lips about [it],  I looked grave – I said it would not answer – Would smoke – He began to defend the plan – Said he had done hundreds in that way – Where?  In London – No comparison between here and London – His foolish defending of the thing and talk of Economy led me to talk of folly and ignorance – He knew enough – If I could get a better, I had better do so – I said he was not employed by me.  Mr. Harper was the person to speak to about this, but if he (Mr. Husband) knew enough , he was contented with very little – I had told him, too, that a very small part of all he had thrown me away would have done the chimney right, and made the fire-place larger – Yes.  He said it would, and so far all was well, but his saying if I could get a better, and that he knew enough annoyed me – Bligh came in at the last, but I did not say much afterwards – Mr. Husband owned the Stump Cross walling was passable – Yes! said I, barely passable – but when I said how better the Hilltop walling was, No! There was some very bad walling there – What part of it? The wall that parted off the stable – But, said I, you never named this to me !

Breakfast at 10 3/4, having been about 3/4 hour getting my books off the shelves on to the library passage floor for Bligh to take the shelves down – 

Ann had Mr. Horner at 8 1/2 to about 11 – She came and took a cup of tea with me about 11 and then rode off to Cliff hill –

Out with Ingham at the new carriage court walling – George Naylor’s cart bringing rag from Hipperholme quarry and large rag vent-covers for Long goit (Joseph Mann) –

From 1 to 1 1/2 writing out journal of yesterday –

Then had Stephen Schofield, carpenter, asking for a rearing for the Stump Cross Inn new building – Referred him to Mr. Harper –

And had Holt the Engineer with his plan of the Engine and Joseph Mann with him – had them above an hour talking and explaining – The plan seems likely enough but the job will = £500 exclusive of rails at £9 per ton – Left me 3 specimens of iron chain –

Out at 3 – At the meer with Robert Mann +3 puddling about the meer-end clow – Charles Howarth had fixed on the frame this morning – Booth’s men getting to the spot the large rag stone for Robert Mann to form the by-wash with – Spoke to Booth about getting the stone door-frame out of Mr. Husband’s useless clow-house –

Robert Mann and company got up 1/2 a dozen fine large young oaks from under the Coffin-lane bridge (Lower brea wood) – and planted 4 on the East embankment near the pools, and 1 at the entrance into Trough of Bolland wood, and 1 at the bottom of the wood or wheatfield glen –

Left them just finishing at 6 3/4 and came in – Dinner at 7 – Coffee – Finished the journal of yesterday and the whole of today till 10 –

Fine day, though a little rain between 10 and 11 this morning – Highish wind and cold all the day – Wind higher towards evening

Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Edwards called and left their card about 3 this afternoon just after I went out –

Finish, cold, windy morning –

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/20/0031 and SH:7/ML/E/20/0032