Sunday, December 14, 1834

1834

December

Sunday 14

8 3/4

11 20/..

No kiss.

Soft, dampish, finish morning.  Fahrenheit 46° at 9 3/4 a.m., at which hour, breakfast – No fire in the stove this morning as yesterday for the 1st time –

With Ann or dawdling and siding in my study till 12 25/.. –

Then Ann and I (alternately except that I read the lesson – my throat still too sorely inclined to bear much) read prayers to my aunt and Oddy and Eugénie and George in 35 minutes till 12 55/..

Then dawdling and siding again –

Sat with Ann at her luncheon –

At Lightcliffe church at 2 20/.. – Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty – Preached 21 minutes (2 of which taken up with giving out the text) from Matthew xxxvi.31,32.  Goodish sermon –

Home at 4 1/2 – siding – Dinner at 6 10/.. – A little while with my father and Marian – Coffee and came into the blue room at 8 –

Writing copy of note to Mr. Parker for Ann about Greaves and his account of arrears.  Greaves’s account of arrears = £72.20.0 instead of £90 as per Ann’s rentbook –

Read a page or 2 of Bakewell’s Geology –

Just before church happening to see my subscription concert ticket, price 10/6, for Mr. Sharp’s concert tomorrow evening, thought of Mrs. Briggs, my late steward’s wife, and sent it to her (to go by George before breakfast tomorrow) with the following note – ‘Miss Lister has great pleasure in sending Mrs. Briggs a ticket for the concert tomorrow evening, in the hope that Mrs. or Miss Briggs, or some one of their friends will be pleased with the performance – Shibden-hall, Sunday Evening, 14 December, 1834.

20 minutes with my aunt till 10 20/.., at which hour, Fahrenheit 48°  Very fine day, though dampish and rather hazy in the afternoon –

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