Tuesday, November 11, 1834

1834

November

Monday 11

7 1/2

11 1/4

No kiss.  Fine, cold, frosty morning. Fahrenheit 43° at 9 1/2 a.m. 

Looking over Baines’s map of the west riding –

Breakfast at 9 1/2 – Had Greenwood’s man about the washing-stand – Got him to take off and rehang the door between the blue room closet and the entrance to my study – Then ordered him to take measure for a new door (the 3rd) and for new doors for the armoire – Charles cannot make cabinet-work doors –

Dawdling over 1 thing or other and a little while with Marian, till 11 1/2 – Read Saturday’s (published on that day the 8th instante mense) paper –

Page 2, column 2, Mr. Adam Lee mentioned as ‘one of the most competent men in the architectural profession’ ‘clerk of the works for 25 years’ government works or 2 houses of parliament works –

Page 2, column 5, Prince Talleyrand continues in excellent health, ‘thanks, as he has often said , to his repugnance to physic and his taking only one meal a Day’ –

Page 2, Column 5, last article, the Earl of Kilmoreys estate in Huntingdonshire, some time in the market, has been sold by private contract by Messers Farebrother – It comprises the fine manor and domain of Waresley, including the whole parish and village thereof, mansionhouse, with offices of every description; finely timbered park, stocked with deer and game; extensive pleasure grounds, gardens, orchards, conservatories, graperies, fishponds, woods, several farms, with farmhouses and agricultural buildings, cottages and nearly 2000 acres of meadow, pasture, arable, and woodland. Rental and estimated value £2467 per annum.  The whole sold for £53,900.  If the estimated value be not too high, the purchaser has a capital bargain – nearly 5 per cent for his money – So much for Huntingdonshire, and the landed interest –

Till 12 1/2 reading the newspaper and writing the above of today – Then wrote to ‘Messers Holts and company, Coal merchants, Booth bank Halifax’ The number exactly as at page 199 Saturday 8th instante mense but dated ‘Shibden hall – Tuesday 11 November 1834, and the words goit and 20th replaced by drain and 22nd –

Till 2 1/2, read the 1st 120 pages, volume 2 Gützlaff’s China –

Left my Letter to Messers Holt and company vide the 4th line above for George to take to the post, and out with Ann at 2 3/4 for 2 1/4 hour – By Whiskum cottage and road to Pickles walling off road along the upper land – Then to the top of the hill and along the old Wakefield road by George Naylor’s and Lower Place into Ann’s Hipperholme stone-quarry, and thence clambered up into Miss Wadsworth’s wood and walked to the end of it; that is, to Mrs. McCauley’s boundary – Then back by the quarry and Mytham and Lower brea wood and the walk, and home at 5 –

A little while with my aunt and with Charles Howarth in the north chamber almost finishing putting on the crimson cord – Dinner at 6 5/.. – Ann and I 1/4 hour with my father and Marian. The latter talked of going to Market Weighton for 3 days to tell Mr. Robinson to tell Mrs. Boynton of the Low farm that 1 of her sons might choose one of his sisters to keep house for him and stay at the farm, but all the rest to quit !

Marian would be knocked up, she knew, by the journey – uneasy to leave my father but would leave Miss Sarah Inman (ætatis 14 I believe) from Miss Watkinson’s school (and of whom neither my aunt nor I take any notice) to take care of him !!! I asked if I could do anything to prevent the journey, as I might soon be passing through Market Weighton – No! I would write the copy of a letter for her if she would tell me the substance of what to write – No! Then would she really think it necessary to have her protégée to take care of my father, when Ann and I were in the house and Cordingley in the kitchen parted only by a wainscot and peeping in every minute? Oh! Yes! She should not be easy without having her (Miss Inman) !!!

Coffee and sat downstairs as we have done the last few evenings, Mrs. Lee and her assistant here today and yesterday doing the lining of our bed – Played 4 hits and lost all but one – Then read aloud from page 120 to 179 ii Gützlaff’s history of China – 20 minutes with my aunt –

Fine day – Fahrenheit 46° at 11 1/4 p.m. in my little dressing room, Ann having taken away the key of my study that I could not get in – meaning to make me by this means earlier in bed –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0107