Wednesday, March 15,1837

1837

March

Wednesday 15

7

11 55/..

A goodish one last night.  She came fondling, said in the midst I had never tired her so little.  She had been out of sorts the latter part of dinner. I took no notice at all, read aloud parts of the paper just as if all was right, and she came round. What a temper.  I must keep her sufficiently at distance have her in order, and perhaps I shall manage her.  I get out of her way now when she is wrong if I can, and if not, I give up all conversation and am grave and silent, but perfectly civil and shew no want of temper on my own part.

Fine morning.  Hard frost; Fahrenheit 33° at 8 a.m. –

Gave Ann last 3 admission tickets to the museum for old Mr. Washington and for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Washington, and 2 this morning for Oddy and Cookson.

Went out at 8 55/.. for a few minutes, having read the few first pages last Quarterly Review article on Landor’s Imaginary Conversations –

Breakfast at 9 10/.. in 40 minutes, then out again with Robert Mann +5 getting up the old orchard wall – With Ingham at the carriage court walling (necessary wall etc.) and about till came in for a few minutes at 1 5/.. –

George Naylor’s 2-horse cart bringing stone for Joseph Mann (Long goit or meer-drift arching in the afternoon and rag stone for Ingham and took from the great 9 foot long rag stone brought here last week down for the meer-clow –  Frank and his son John carting wall stone (old orchard wall) for Ingham –

Out again at 1 20/..  Set John Booth and Ingham’s boy to load in my own 2 carts till Robert +5  (five men today and yesterday) returned from dinner. (Had sent the masons to work again at 1 5/.. and said the bell should ring every day at 12 and at 1, that they might know the dinner hour) –

About, 1st with 1 then another, all the afternoon – At the Long goit about 3 – Only about 40 yards to drive to get up to the Engine pit  – Holt came soon after 3 – brought the Engineer’s plan – Told Holt he and the Engineer had best come over on Saturday –

Holt and Joseph Mann to be at Ann’s Shugden Head Colliery at 9 a.m.  on Friday and Samuel Washington to meet them there and finish the measuring business –

Holt quite of my opinion better to have nothing to do with the Godley road drift driving – To get water of my own – if no water in the rag (the coal being got) we can get it in the dirt band – Approves sinking a well at the Lodge – to try the rag – Of opinion the meer-bank will give way – that it will not bear the filling of the meer – Thinks my plan of wearing up the brook and laying the  middle band water drift-stuff at the back, very good –

Came in at 6 10/.. – Dressed – Dinner at at 7 – Coffee at about 8 1/2, having dozed a bit on the sofa –

Rigmarole letter from a Mr. Benjamin Ellison dated Birkenshaw near Leeds, the pith of which seems to be if I please, ‘if you please to take the Colliery’ –

Read tonight’s paper till 10 40/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 35° – Fine day – Very cold –


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


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