Tuesday, February 4,1840

1840

February

Tuesday 4

8 40/..

Ann came for 1/4 hour – Fine morning; Réaumur 12 3/4° on my table and 12 1/2° on the console now at 9 25/..

Sent off my packet to Princess Radzivill on getting out of bed at 8 40/.. by George, who brought back note note while we were at breakfast at 10 10/.. to 10 40/.. – Sat down to my writing –

At 11 55/.. Mr. Camidge called.  Had sent back 2 newspapers this morning before breakfast with compliments and should be glad to see him for 5 minutes to take leave – Staid 35 minutes till 12 1/2 – Lord Londonderry’s book défendre – very favorable to Russia, till, just at the last, he seems to contradict himself and gives his own opinions of such sort as to condemn his book –

Had George or Gross – Went down about the Kibitka – It was 5 1/2 before I had done all my 8 letters –

Dinner over at 6 55/.. – I had apologized to the Ladies Stuart for not writing from St. Petersburg – and had made several lines mention of Sweden and Finland – on Ann’s shewing me that I had written (28 September) from St. Petersburg, I was obliged to write my 2 letters over again ! What a bore ! And it was 12 before I had done and sealed and directed and copied the 3 business letters into business letter book –

I forgot to let Ann copy Lady Gordon, but she copied Marian and I have the altered letters that I wrote first to the Stuarts

Had Grotza to my hair and then had her packing dresses in Russian portmanteau and hats and frills till 3 20/..

Then wrote all but the 1st five lines of today – 

Ann lay down in her clothes about 4 this morning and I about 6 1/2 for about 1 1/2 hour –

Fine day – What a hurry there always is to get off –

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/23/0195 and SH:7/ML/E/23/0195


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thursday, March 16, 1837

1837 March Thursday 16 7 3/4 12 3/4 A long pretty good one last night, she coming to me. Breakfast (with Ann) at 8 1/2, at which hour, Fahrenheit 35°.   Fine morning – cold – Sat in the little parlour reading the last Foreign Quarterly on steam navigation to India till after 10 – Ann had Mr. Horner before 9 – Out at 10 1/4 – Robert Mann +4 (the surly man he has had the last 2 days not come – very well.   I had told Robert not to have him about the house) – Mawson came to me about 11 (Robert   Mann and company began resetting the 2 rocks under the middle pool) at the rocks, to say what he would put the Whiskum road into decent repair for – 7/. per rood – 57 roods from the top to the Cottage – Walked with him to view the road – Ordered it to be done – And he will wall up the wall let down in John Bottomley’s field by getting Whiskum stone for 5/. per rood – about 3 roods – And will make a wall, finding stone and all on the low side of the road in John Bottomley’s meado
Read more

Thursday, September 17, 1835

1835 September Thursday 17 7 20/.. 12 40/.. No motion these three days Ann at Cliff hill – Ready in 3/4 hour – Fine morning, sunny and F 57 1/2° at 8 10/.., at which hour, went out – At the Cascade bridge, in the farmyard, and about till 9 40/.. – Then got 1/2 my breakfast, then a little while with my father and Marian and went out for a few minutes for the tea get rather stronger, but staid out till 12 – At Adney bridge – Had Mr. Husband and Charles and James Howarth and Robert Schofield and his man Joseph Sharpe to get an oak down to make room for bridge - road – All pulled at it – unshaken – Knew Messers Harper and Gray would say taking the tree down spoilt the job – Sorry to take it, but thought the road required it – Would be too narrow without taking the tree down.   However, happening to turn to Charles Howarth and ask him, he thought he would let the tree stand if it was his – so, 1/2 of his mind already, I took off the men and, no harm being yet done to the
Read more

Saturday, September 26, 1835

1835 September Saturday 26 8 12 1/4 No kiss. Rain last night from between 11 and 12 to after one – Rainy morning, but not heavy rain till near 9, then fair and F 55° – Breakfast at 9 1/4 – Ann getting off her speech for the first stone laying and I writing out mine.   Put on my new pelisse and had my hair done – Marian was to have gone to the 1st stone laying, but got nervous and staid at home – Ann and I off at 10 3/4 in my own carriage with our 2 men behind, to Northgate hotel – Not quite ready for us – Began looking over the drawings of Northgate, and, by mistake, kept the people waiting and did not begin the ceremony till about 11 3/4, which lasted about 1/4 hour – Ann did her part very well – the coins of the king’s reign (William iv) i.e. a sovereign 1/2 ditto, 1/2 crown, shilling, and sixpence ( Could not get a 7/. piece; very scarce – Swanns, the bankers in York, had only seen two of William iv 7/. pieces) were put into a large mouthed green glass bottle a
Read more