Saturday, December 6, 1834

1834

December

Saturday 6

8 25/..

11 20/..

No kiss.  Very fine morning.

Ann copied my letter to Mrs. Norcliffe while I was dressing –

Breakfast at 9 1/2 – Washington came –

I 1/4 hour with my aunt and off to Halifax (Fahrenheit 57° at 11 a.m.) down the old bank  to Mr. Parker’s office to shew him the trust deed of Mrs. Ferguson’s £2000 – Left him the deed for 1/2 hour while I put into the post office my letter to ‘Mrs. Norcliffe, Langton Hall, Malton’ and went to Whitley’s and Greenwood’s and got the latter to promise not to go away, but to stay and vote for Wortley – The latter pretty sure of being elected this time – Mr. Protheroe begins to despair.

Called again at Mr. Parker’s and brought home the deed – Home about 1 – Sat with Ann at her luncheon – Then walked her out (in the walk) 3/4 hour – Luckily, just gone out when Miss (Delia) Walker of Walterclough called on Ann, that we escaped seeing her –

All the afternoon back and forwards with Charles Howarth putting up again the coloured prints bought at Geneva, and siding things into the room –

Mrs. Ann [Lee] (sole) by herself, no assistant, making up and helping Charles to lay down the drugget in blue room and on the stairs into the library and into the upper kitchen – and put up the blue room curtain this morning –

Ann rather queer with me this evening because I said her four mahogany hall chairs would not look well in the blue room – Her temper is certainly odd, but perhaps I shall manage it.  At any rate, I hope I am sure of my own temper, and all its patience will probably be required –

Dinner at 6 1/4.  Coffee – Played and lost 3 hits and a gammon and won one hit – Then while Ann was upstairs, wrote till 8 55/.. the whole of the last page and so far of this – 25 minutes with my aunt till 9 3/4 – Ann and I then came upstairs at 10 1/2, at which hour Fahrenheit 52°.  Very fine day –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0121