Tuesday, December 16, 1834

1834

December

Tuesday 16

8

11 35/..

No kiss. Very fine, frostyish morning; Fahrenheit 45° at 9 a.m. –

Mark Hepworth arrived soon after with the 1st load of wood – 28 planks 21foots and 3 oak logs – Too heavy a load – The 4 horses sadly oppressed – Could not pull 10 yards up the new bank without wanting to rest – Wet as if they had been in a pond – The planks very heavy – Some of them 15 stone or more –

Greenwood’s man came about and with lock for blue room closet library door – It would not do – Gave him the little model of Mount Blanc box to make one in Satin wood, to be glazed with plate glass (for the model) and done the end of the week –

Out at 10 about putting the wood (planks etc.) in the barn – Then in the low and upper land and about at Whiskum, and ordered Pickles to cart away the pit hill stuff tomorrow and mend the road this afternoon, till down the old bank and at Mr. Parker’s office at 1 – There some time –

Dewhirst had been about Mytholm farm – Anxious for the buildings at least – Mentioned the plan floating in my mind about pulling down the old building and begged to decline letting to Dewhirst or Mark Town –

Bills to be prepared for letting the Stump Cross Inn – The papers will be ready by the 7th of next month, possession given and the money paid § –

Though the Mytholm letting was a failure, Mr. Parker did not know why – Thought the people would soon get into the way of it, and it was a good plan – I said I should not be easily frightened out of anything –

Mr. Sutcliffe to be applied to about Northgate house, whether he will take it, or not – if likely to come up here – He gives a plumper for § the cottage, i.e. house, tenants at Staups have the poor rates paid for them by the owner, so that I must make a fresh agreement with them –Wortley, which, said I, is in his favour –

Met Mark and went with him to the Canal wharf to see the deals, very good ones –

Returned up the old bank and home at 2 – No Mr. Bradley the architect as appointed –

Wrote the above of today –

Had brought Ann Grieves’s proposal to pay secured by note of Eli Taylor of Common wood £50 at next rent day and secured by note of – Misdale £40 at midsummer – Dictated her note and Ann sent note by George to Washington and to Hepworth about table etc.

Out again at 3 40/.. with Ann in the walk 3/4 hour – Then in the barn talking to Charles Howarth about the Mytholm farm till dark, till 5 – then 3/4 hour with my aunt (and Ann with her also)

Dinner at 6 – 20 minutes with my father and Marian – Mr. Tweedy the Stamp Collector and vote-returner died rather suddenly the other day – Some person or persons for mischief threw or let down a barrel of gunpowder into one of Mr. Holmes’s coal-pits at Causeyhead, and blew up the engine in the pit – The shock about 8 a.m. yesterday (I think) by the neighbouring cottagers –

Coffee – Played 4 hits – Lost 2 and won 2 – Then came into the blue room – Read (little bits aloud to Ann) from page 40 to 147, Volume 2, Sigmondi’s Literature of the South of Europe – Then till 10 10/.. with my aunt 25 minutes –

Very fine day – Fahrenheit 46 1/2° now at 10 1/2 p.m. –

Letter this morning from Kendell, Leeds (his bill)

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/17/0124 and SH:7/ML/E/17/0125