Sunday, November 23, 1834

1834

November

Sunday 23

8 1/2

11 1/4

No kiss. Fine morning, Fahrenheit 42 1/2° at 9 1/4 –

Breakfast at 9 1/4 – Afterwards, copying navigation report till 12 1/2, then till 12 55/.. in 25 minutes, read prayers (omitting some of them) to my aunt – Staid talking a little while – Then copying as before for another hour –

Ann and I off to Lightcliffe church at 2 – Waited 10 minutes – Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty – Preached 20 minutes from Matthew xv.28 –

We took a turn or 2 in the walk – Then some time with my father and Marian – Dinner at 6 – Coffee – Ann had Marian about 1/2 hour while I was copying as in the morning –

Then had Greenwood from 7 35/.. to 9 3/4 –

Paid him in full for all but the wardrobe doors and the other door in blue room closet –

Crutch Sutcliffe a Whig, worth £20,000 – Would have me let Northgate on condition of having it at 6 months’ notice – A new market will be wanted in 3 or 4 years.  £10,000 will do it – Will pay me 20 per cent – Said I calculated cost £20,000 – Interest 10 per cent.  If I sell my coal, Rawsons will buy it underhand – Said not a word against it –

Told Greenwood to get to know what he could about eventually turning Northgate into an Inn – He is going from home on Saturday –

Joseph Wilkinson poor – knows it from Aquilla Green.  Old Wilkinson not rich –

Wilson deeply in with Alexander’s – will have to sell all by and by –

Carr poor – Must sell by and by –

1/4 hour with my aunt – Ann had been ruling and copying report all the time I had Greenwood – Came upstairs at 11 20/..  Wrote the above of today –

Fine day – Fahrenheit 43 1/2° now at 10 35/.. p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0113