Friday, February 22, 1839

1839

February

Friday 22

8 1/4

12 40/..

Rather a thaw – Fahrenheit 37 1/2° inside at 9 5/.. and 38 1/2° at 9 10/.. a.m. outside and breakfast till after ten had struck –

Then about in the hall – Had Booth a minute or 2 – Robert Wharton came just before dinner to help, and after they had laid the stone for our new stairs-gallery post, Joseph Booth squared the top and made the mortise hole – Robert busy today and yesterday and part of Wednesday preparing the post – Joseph at the new gallery beam (red plank to be cased with oak) – Yesterday and Wednesday and I think part of Tuesday making 2 new gantries for the beer cellar – Robert junior oiling today and yesterday stoothing and top of hall after he had finished the 3 china tables at noon (begun on Tuesday) for Ann.  Michael all the week oak-casing the staircase window –

Had Joseph Mann at 12 for above 1/2 hour about a centre for the engine flue Northgate, the fireplace, and about John Oates’s cattle road to his well – Had had John Oates about 11 to complain that he was afraid of his cows breaking their legs in the clay – It was Joseph Mann’s idea to flag it over and I told him to do so temporarily with the flags taken out of done-with mine-flue –

A few minutes twice or thrice with Ann –

Came upstairs at 2 10/.. and wrote the above of today – From 2 1/2 to 6 40/.., writing, except had Joseph Mann again for a few minutes.  Should he fill up the chimney shaft 11 yards deep below the surface – Yes! and had Booth to ask for a few old boards for centres, and a little while with Ann and ditto ditto with Robert the joiner –

Wrote out letter that is really to go to Lady Stuart de Rothesay till six.  Wrote and sent this evening Letter to ‘John Harper Esquire, St. Leonard's Place, York, Postage Paid’ with dimensions for plate glass for west tower Study windows.  Went into the cellar –

Dinner at 7 – Ann read French – Tea –

Reading the newspaper till came upstairs at 11 50/.. – Long and interesting law case and decision of Sir Herbert Jenner respecting the will of James Wood, Esquire, of Gloucester of 20 April 1836 – Property = one million or more –

Damp soft day – Fahrenheit 40 1/2 inside just before 12 (midnight) and 39 1/2° outside ten minutes afterwards.


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/22/0129


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