Tuesday, March 14, 1837

1837

March

Tuesday 14

6 50/..

12 5/..

No kiss.

Ready in an hour – Fine, hardfrosty morning, and Fahrenheit 33° at 7 50/.. – 

Out with Robert +5 getting up the old orchard wall South and East and levelling up thereabouts –

Breakfast (with Ann) at 8 3/4 to 9 3/4, at which hour, went out – With Ingham at the new carriage court walling – 

With Robert Mann and company, and then to Charles Howarth’s to inquire about the meer-end clow – Found Mr. Husband’s orders so at variance with all I had desired that I took Charles down to the spot to explain –

Met Joseph Mann waiting for me – He had pegged out the line of meer-drift, and measured it, and found the détour (the length greater than it would have been in a direct line) = 13 yards – no more! – This détour made to get cover – so Mr. Husband’s fault-finding with the ‘many a yard’ the water had to run more than necessary, not very material –

Had Charles and Joseph Mann at the meer-end clow – said how I meant to have it done – Robert Mann and Booth and Charles Howarth all to meet on the spot at 2 p.m. to settle about it, and I would be there, too, about that time –

Then went with Joseph Mann to settle about Listerwick pit soil taking off – Joseph Mann to give me an estimate of carting it away per yard cube –

Then to the Lodge – Met with Booth and told him to be at the clow at 2 – shewed Joseph Mann where to sink down to the rag at the Lodge – to give me an estimate of doing it –

Then saw Robert Mann at 12 3/4 till his dinner at 1 –

Then musing for 3/4 hour how to finish the walling off the front and west of the house – It is only within these few day that I have thought of a laundry-court and an entrance there along the west of it at the foot, and entering the house court between  the tower and brush house – and today for the 1st time it struck me to do the west end of the front of the house (the flower garden) in 2 terraces –

Came in at 1 3/4 for 40 minutes – Pottering about in the house –

Out again at 2 25/.. and found the people at the meer – Settled about the clow –

Afterwards with Robert and company getting up the old orchard walls, and Frank and his son John carting them away for Ingham – With Ingham and about till about 4 – Then musing on the Embankment in front of the house, and in my hanging hay – Like my idea of the terracing at the west end of the front –

Came in at 6 1/2 – Dressed – Dinner at 6 3/4 in 3/4 hour – then 50 minutes in the north dining [room] writing out yesterday – Then at 8 20/.., coffee – Read aloud part of the newspaper to Ann, and sat talking till 10 20/.. Then wrote the above of today  –

No Holt this afternoon – Sent Frank to inquire if he had got the plan from the Engineer (Wood) No! – There is some pother about it – Has Mr. Husband something to do with this?

Miss Mary Briggs called about (before) 1 today and left her card –

Fine day – very cold – Fahrenheit 30° now at 10 3/4 p.m. –

Ann would like to be from home at Easter, presented it tonight – Agreed to go to Bolton Abbey next Thursday week

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0034