Tuesday, Aprill 11, 1837

 1837

April

Tuesday 11

10 35/..

12

Slept last night in the kitchen chamber and slept very well – 1st time of sleeping alone since Ann has been here – Poor dear Ann ! Very lonely to be without her –

Ready in 55 minutes – Breakfast in the blue room at 11 35/.. and Ann sat with me – Sat talking till after 1 – Dawdling about –

My eye not quite so well this morning as yesterday morning ? Ann says I did too much yesterday –

At my desk now at 1 50/.. – Meant to have written letters, but when I had written and copied my letter to Mr. Harper, found my eye unwilling to do more – wrote to Mr. Harper in answer to his letter of yesterday asking me if he should get another estimate of the Listerwick millwright work – Astonished – £1150 instead of £500 – Told him to get one or more estimates from whom and from where he thought best – To bring with him the old brass thing (found in the clay west side of the barn and stabling)– and to bring the rough draft of the advertisement of the hotel, and said his idea of a building for the Mechanics’ Institute might enlarge itself to £2,000 or £2,500.

From 3 to 7 (unable to do anything else), dusting and arranging my books in my portable bookcase in the drawing room –

Ann off to Cliff hill at 2 1/2 back at 6 1/4 or 6 1/2 – Dinner at 7 5/.. – Coffee – Ann had taken sweet biscuits and sourish? currant wine at dinner and very sick towards 9 and 10 – Went to bed as fast as she could – In bed and had tea and rather better at 10 3/4 –

Sent off my letter tonight to ‘John Harper, Esquire, St. Leonard’s Place, York, Postage Paid’.  

Wrote the last 11 lines till 11 p.m., at which hour Fahrenheit 30° – Snow showers during the day – Several after I got up – Particularly in the afternoon –

Had Dobson just after dinner – George Naylor satisfied about the ground made up – Wants to get a post of stone into the Lane –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0044

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thursday, March 16, 1837

1837 March Thursday 16 7 3/4 12 3/4 A long pretty good one last night, she coming to me. Breakfast (with Ann) at 8 1/2, at which hour, Fahrenheit 35°.   Fine morning – cold – Sat in the little parlour reading the last Foreign Quarterly on steam navigation to India till after 10 – Ann had Mr. Horner before 9 – Out at 10 1/4 – Robert Mann +4 (the surly man he has had the last 2 days not come – very well.   I had told Robert not to have him about the house) – Mawson came to me about 11 (Robert   Mann and company began resetting the 2 rocks under the middle pool) at the rocks, to say what he would put the Whiskum road into decent repair for – 7/. per rood – 57 roods from the top to the Cottage – Walked with him to view the road – Ordered it to be done – And he will wall up the wall let down in John Bottomley’s field by getting Whiskum stone for 5/. per rood – about 3 roods – And will make a wall, finding stone and all on the low side of the road in John Bottomley’s meado
Read more

Thursday, September 17, 1835

1835 September Thursday 17 7 20/.. 12 40/.. No motion these three days Ann at Cliff hill – Ready in 3/4 hour – Fine morning, sunny and F 57 1/2° at 8 10/.., at which hour, went out – At the Cascade bridge, in the farmyard, and about till 9 40/.. – Then got 1/2 my breakfast, then a little while with my father and Marian and went out for a few minutes for the tea get rather stronger, but staid out till 12 – At Adney bridge – Had Mr. Husband and Charles and James Howarth and Robert Schofield and his man Joseph Sharpe to get an oak down to make room for bridge - road – All pulled at it – unshaken – Knew Messers Harper and Gray would say taking the tree down spoilt the job – Sorry to take it, but thought the road required it – Would be too narrow without taking the tree down.   However, happening to turn to Charles Howarth and ask him, he thought he would let the tree stand if it was his – so, 1/2 of his mind already, I took off the men and, no harm being yet done to the
Read more

Saturday, September 26, 1835

1835 September Saturday 26 8 12 1/4 No kiss. Rain last night from between 11 and 12 to after one – Rainy morning, but not heavy rain till near 9, then fair and F 55° – Breakfast at 9 1/4 – Ann getting off her speech for the first stone laying and I writing out mine.   Put on my new pelisse and had my hair done – Marian was to have gone to the 1st stone laying, but got nervous and staid at home – Ann and I off at 10 3/4 in my own carriage with our 2 men behind, to Northgate hotel – Not quite ready for us – Began looking over the drawings of Northgate, and, by mistake, kept the people waiting and did not begin the ceremony till about 11 3/4, which lasted about 1/4 hour – Ann did her part very well – the coins of the king’s reign (William iv) i.e. a sovereign 1/2 ditto, 1/2 crown, shilling, and sixpence ( Could not get a 7/. piece; very scarce – Swanns, the bankers in York, had only seen two of William iv 7/. pieces) were put into a large mouthed green glass bottle a
Read more