Tuesday, December 2, 1834

1834

December

Tuesday 2

8 5/..

11 3/4

No kiss.  Breakfast at 9 1/4 –

Wrote and sent by John at eleven to ‘Messers Kendell, Upholders etc., Leeds, Postage Paid’ and on the 2nd leaf note for themselves to forward to ‘Messers Baines and Newsom, Booksellers, Leeds’ ordering Nicolls’s map mounted in case 4 1/2 guineas – To be sent tomorrow week by Kendell’s, cart with drawers and chimney piece –

From 11 1/4 to 2 10/.., wrote the whole of these four last pages.

Out with Ann at 2 20/.. at Whiskum cottage.  Went in with Womberley to ask what toll he was to pay for 3-horse coal cart – I did not recollect – Mrs. Pickles said 8 pence.  John Bottomley was waiting with 2 one-horse carts full of coals to pay 4 pence each –Told him to come and speak to me this evening –

Ann and I then returned home and walked and came in at 4 5/.. – Moved papers drawers, now painted light oak, back into tentroom – A minute with my aunt – At my desk at 4 55/..  From then till 5 1/2, wrote 3 pages (wide) to Norcliffe, thanking him for his letter, which waited my return and probably arrived here the very day I left home (the day week) for York etc., where I drank tea in company with Charlotte that evening –

Very truly condole with them all on the death of poor old Fisher – ‘I very truly condole with you all, on the loss of so faithful, and invaluable a steward and friend – Few have passed through life with greater credit and respectability; and when it comes to our own turn’ to ‘go hence and be no more seen,’ may we, one and all, leave behind us as good a name as he has done’ –

Sorry to have no better account of his (Norcliffe’s) mother, and glad to have so good an one of his little boy – ‘Few have sons of better promise; and I heartily hope his future fortunes will exceed even a father’s most sanguine expectations –

Do tell Isabella, she ought to have written to me long ago –

You do not touch on politics – Perhaps you are glad to escape from them’ – Then add that is some hope for Wortley here – That they make sure of Sir John Beckett at Leeds –and that ‘the radicalism of Hull is abominable; and the Tories there are weak and disunited – You know I am a very moderate person; but I should be glad to be no worse off than I am –

My kind regards and condolence to you all at Langton, and believe me always very faithfully yours,

A Lister’

Had Pickles – and wrote the above of this page till 6 – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Coffee – Played and won 1 hit and 1 gammon, then had John Bottomley to get his vote for Mr. Wortley – He is all for him now of his own accord, so said nothing pleased me better and that I was  much obliged to him and only wished he could persuade some others to be as wise –

Then 10 minutes with my father and Marian – 10 minutes with my aunt till 10 10/.., and sat talking to Ann downstairs till 11 –

Fine day – Fahrenheit 48° at 11 1/2 p.m.

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/17/0117 and SH:7/ML/E/17/0117