Wednesday, February 22, 1837

1837

February

Wednesday 22

7 40/..

12 10/..


No kiss.

Great deal of rain in the night – Raining for an hour before I got into bed – Stood undressed talking to Ann.  Hail shower about 7 3/4 this morning, afterwards fine – High wind and F40° now at 8 1/2 a.m. 

Starving in my study till 9 25/.. Reading from page 155 to 181, end of Tombleson’s Upper Rhine – Then breakfast, and sat reading Wallace’s Mechanics Pocket Guide till Ann came to me about 10 1/2 – I thought she had been gone to the school –

Had Joseph Mann for a note to Mr. George Robinson for George Naylor to take his empty carts through Lower brea court-yard –

Out about (before) 11 with Booth the mason;  ordered about the meer drift clow – Then with Robert Mann +2 at the drain through the quondam orchard –

The Northgate Hotel.  Slater came – Paid him by check, Mr. Harper’s order, for £100 – Then out again – Sauntering about the rocks while the men dined –

In the afternoon had the 2 carts (Frank Day and his son John) and John Booth and Robert Mann +2 getting up hollies, and John Day carting them to be planted tomorrow at the Rocks while Frank carted to near the Lodge 2 loads of larger old Sycamore roots to fill up with at the widening of the new carriage road –

Came in at 6 1/4 in a heavy shower of hail – Ann not returned – Just sending off the market cart when she came at 6 40/.., wet with the hail and tired – Could hardly get on for the high wind, to say nothing of the pelting hail –

Dressed – Dinner at 7 5/.. – Ann asleep on the sofa 10 minutes – Then coffee – I sat reading the Encyclopaedia of Geography and tonight’s paper till 10, at which hour, F38°.  Then wrote the above of today.

2 or 3 showers of rain and hail during the day – A heavy hail shower about 6 1/4 – High wind all the day – and cold though finish day upon the whole –

Gave Joseph Mann this morning a note to Mr. George Robinson, Lower brea, to say I should be much obliged by his allowing George Naylor to take his empty carts back through Lower brea courtyard to Bentley’s delf at Northowram, so long as George Naylor should be carting stone for me – Parpoints to wall up the meer-drift head tunnel and about the clow there –

Came downstairs at 10 and sat in the north parlour till 10 55/.. writing all the above of today and at accounts – Raining at midnight –

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

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