Tuesday, March 28, 1837
1837
March
Tuesday 28
8 25/..
12
Long tolerable one last night, Ann quite affectionate. Says the change of air and Brodies plaster
have done her good. She was very irritable
before, she says and has said several times. Says she will have no more
mysteries and seems intending to be good tempered and as she ought to be, tho
she says nothing. I think she is sensible
of my having always kept my temper.
Fahrenheit 37° at 9 1/2 a.m.,
the ground covered with snow – Much snow must have fallen in the night – Snowing
when I got up and when Ann got up soon after 6 –
Breakfast at 9 1/2 to 10
25/.. – then dawdling, about the
house chiefly, and in the stables – Too wintry for any workmen to come this
morning –
Bligh +3 busy making doors
for my portable book cases, and doing up the doors of Ann’s and moving it down
into the north parlour, to be Ann’s sitting room –
Ann went in market cart
(Frank drove) at 1 to the school and Cliff hill –
I wrote copies of letters and
wrote the whole of yesterday and so far of today till now, 2 55/.. p.m., then with
Bligh and Robert in the north parlour putting up Ann’s book case, in the drawing
room with the other 2 York joiners fitting on the doors to my portable book
case, and out about. Walked a little
in front of the house till small snow and rain came on – and soon afterwards, at
4, snowing large flakes, and Ann returned in the storm –
Then sat in the blue room
reading Wordsworth’s Attica. Dressed
– Dinner at 6 3/4 – Coffee – Read tonight’s paper and Wordsworth (recommended
to Ann by Miss Rawson some time ago and Mr. Harper brought the book from Todd’s
on Thursday) till now, 10 3/4 p.m., at which hour, Fahrenheit 33° –
Wintry day – Very snowy afternoon
and evening since 4 p.m. –
WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/20/0039
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