Friday, January 24, 1840

1840

January

Friday 24

9

3 3/4

Very fine morning; Réaumur 10 3/4° on the console and 11 1/2 ° at my bed head now at 9 55/.. –

Breakfast at 10 3/4 in 40 minutes then talking to Ann.  Ann crying and make up after having had had George – his wife will be glad to go with us – My terms 35/. per month wages and 30/. per month board = 65/. per month – Though he observed it was little –

Out at 1 20/.. En passant (near here below – had to turn back) :eft cards for Ann and myself chez la princesse Tcherkaski – and at the Orousoffs’ at 1 35/.. –

Princess Radzivill waiting for me – Shewed the Casserole, and out before 2 – Went to Sichler’s – Princess Radzivill chose a cap for me – Paid 30/. – and bought black velvet shawl lined with Crimson 180/. but to have it at 170/. – Then to Lebourg’s – Nothing pretty in the cap-way – then to ….. the man who made the Casserole on princess Radzivill’s account as also to Mrs. Kay’s, the staymaker – a Scotch-woman –

Princess Radzivill gay – Said she had not been out of 2 months was comme en enfant – Goes next Sunday week – Surely we shall be off by the day before –What should I do about Countess Goudovitch? – Answer send to inquire after her – And send cards? Yes! better –

Mentioned going direct from here to Odessa – Then, said she, send for my brother Paul, prince Paul Ourousoff – She thought with a courier de poste and George and his wife, we should do very well without Gross – Countess Chermicheff, the new Ambassador’s wife (appointed to London) speaks English very well – Not much conversation – Must be back before 3 –

Set her down at her father’s door at 2 55/.. and home at 3 10/.. Said where we were going tonight and tomorrow, chez Countess Alexandra Panin, but should see her, Princess Radzivill, again –

Should be delighted if I could ever be of the least use to her – if she wanted anything, begged her to write and whatever I could do, I would – Would she remember me? Cela est inévitable pour tous ceux qui vous ont connues – She is a thorough woman of the world, but good hearted capricious tempered? That is with a beauty spouting pettishness at times but her beauty is in the wane, her eyes deadening and wrinkling round about and the Russian bend in her nose becoming more apparent, but her teeth are good and smile lovely.  She will think no more of me.  She hopes to survive her husband.  Well she may, for he can leave her nothing.  She will be, as she said some time ago vis à vis de rien –

Home at 3 10/.. – Ann and I out at 3 1/2 to the Gastinoi Dvor for thread – Failed – To Lion’s for visiting cards – Then to Jackson’s – Would change nothing – Gave him a 10/. Note – Should ask for Jones, an English head of the fabriques at Tula – St. Petersburg or Moscow hotel there – only one large one, and all the drivers know it – London Hotel at Kief – good – But the time of Contract (a sort of fair) begins, 5 January and lasts till 1 February old style, he paid 12/. a day for 2 large good rooms – 80 Kopeks (copper) per portion for eatables –

Home at 5 1/2 – Walked about till dinner at 6 10/.. to 7 – Ann dressed – and I till 7 3/4 wrote all but the 1st line of today – Dressed –

Off at 8 1/2 and in 2 or 3 minutes or less at Princess Tcherkaski’s – Found Princess Annette Galitzine (princess Michel Galitzine) there, and a lady and gentleman and soon came another ditto and ditto in uniform – Tea, and by and by came Prince Metstchersky and a couple more princes –

By and by, Princess Annette Galitzine and another lady (a Madame) and prince –– and I sat down to the game called Favorite, and princess Tcherkaski and 3 gentlemen (Prince Michel- and 2 others) sat down to the same – and it was near one before we had done – I lost 57 points to Princess Annette Galitzine = 8/55 – Ann luckily was amused in talking to the English lady who was brought up by and is with the Princess Tcherkaski – Very agreeable evening – Very good tea and very good handsome abundant supper – Excellent ice – and light white wine the liqueur wise muscat de lunel –

Home at 1 5/.. – Tea and sat talking till 1 3/4, then wrote the last 10 lines – While I was out with Princess Radzivill – Monsieur and Madame Bachmetieff left their cards.  Had Grotza and read newspaper till 2 1/2.

Réaumur 13 1/3 on my table and 12 1/2 on the console at 2 3/4 tonight


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/23/0187


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