Monday, December 15, 1834

1834

December

Monday 15

8

12 5/..

No kiss.

Fine, soft, damp morning – Breakfast at 9 –

Had Washington – Wrote and sent by him note to Messers Parker and Adam to beg that, should the givers-in of the tickets for the Mytholm farm call for answer, they (Messers P- and A-) would say, no, and should a person of the name Dewhirst now on the premises call about the farm, that they should say, I was not inclined to let it to him –

Charles and James Howarth fitting up (with new back) Kendell’s chimney piece in the north parlour –

Letter, 3 pages and ends and under the seal (Kind and well written). from Lady Vere, dated Leamington, 13th instante mense –

Going to London tomorrow –

Mr. Cameron had had an attack of something (Brodie calls it determination of blood to the head) that had drawn inwards his right eye – And putting him on spare diet – Has reduced him very much –

They would like a place near Liverpool (to be near the Steam Communication with Scotland) for one year, as they cannot afford to hurry on the alterations at home next year –They have heard of Gisbourne Park and will bear it in mind – Only afraid of rent and keeping in repair (keeping up) being too expensive –

Old Lady Stuart, they hear, is looking pretty well –

Vere to be confined in April in the small house belonging to Lady Stuart and adjoining her own –

Ann off to Cliff hill at 10 1/2 and I wrote the above of today – Then till 12 20/.., dusting and siding my writing table desk etc. –

From 12 1/2 to 2, wrote 2 pages to Vere and looked at Nichols’s map to see the stiuation of Gisbourne Park etc. –

then gave sent down for Ann, and wrote ‘Miss Walker’ on the paper, 5/. to a Sarah Holdsworth, with written paper begging for some man of the name of Parkhill of Bailiff bridge –

Had Mark Hepworth to ask for an oak tree or tree of some kind cut down in Yew Trees land and for 3 deals to make out of his Stable that he is altering and doing up – Gave him the tree – Promised to go over and consider about the rest –

He said he would Cart the timber from  Halifax here for 35/. could bring 3 tons at a time, go 3 times a day, and would be 2 days about it – 4 horses and 2 men would be employed for 18 tons in 2 days –

Off to Cliff hill for Ann at 3 – Some time there – Back about 4 1/2 – 2 men from the Halifax wharf brought word the timber was arrived –

Talked to Charles Howarth – Said that according to the freightage bill, there was only about 6 instead of 18 tons of wood – Charles had calculated 12 tons to come at 6 times, but said the 4 horses could bring 2 1/2 tons at a time – He said he paid 3 pence per deal for deals carted for him from Halifax; and he had calculated me to pay 2 pence per plank for the 120 twenty-one foots and for the 50 twelvefoots, for 2 pence apiece was too little for the 21 foots – He averaged each 21 foot plank at 12 stones and each 12 foot pine plank at 6 stones and the oak logs at 2 tons apiece – and thought 35/. not too much to give – So told John to tell him (Mark) I would give him his price and he would go for the wood tomorrow –

A little while with my father and Marian – Dinner at 6 – 3/4 hour with my aunt till 7 1/2 – Then coffee – Played 3 hits,. of which lost 2 – Came upstairs (blue room) about 8 1/2 – Afterwards, looking over my journals, Ann and I, and sat over them till 11 20/.. – Then wrote the last 19 lines –

Fine day – Ann with Sykes planting and Richard Woodhead railing at Cliff hill all the day – Fahrenheit 46° now at at 11 35/.. p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0124