Friday, July 27, 1821

1821

July

Friday 27

8 1/2

1 3/4

In spite of my cousin’s appearance last night just at bedtime, we both being excited as we sat talking at my dressing table, undressed and got into bed before my hair was curled and had two good kisses both together, that is without having separated.  Had a quarter hour’s nap.  I then left π [Mariana] in bed and got up and curled, and on returning to her had another good kiss –

Harriet has had a bad sick headache, and not been able to come downstairs till evening – This left π and me a glorious day to ourselves and we have enjoyed it –

L [Charles Lawton] has thought of buying an estate for π close to Lawton that would bring her in three hundred a year.  He would give it her to do as she liked with.  He often talks of going first as thing of course.  He is ruptured and has worn a truss ever since they were last in town, when he consulted Doctor Keaney, a sort of quack practitioner tho a regularly bred surgeon –

He thought on examining L that he had only one testicle, which π inclines to believe, tho the man who brought and put on the truss said Kearney had been mistaken –

At breakfast arrived a parcel from my aunt (Shibden) containing a letter from herself (nothing settled about Godley), and a 1-ounce letter from IN [Isabella Norcliffe] (Sittingbourne, Kent), so heavy on account of containing about 1 1/4 yard coronation-riband for my aunt – Long account of the coronation – IN saw it – Mr. Vallance got seats for his family in Westminster hall at £4. each, and IN besides meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Dalbiac (4th Dragoons), he smuggled her into the Abbey, so that she perfectly well saw all –

In the evening talking over the merits of modern poets.  Steph prefers Southey, Hope, and Wordsworth to Lord Byron – Not so Mariana and I – He read us some extract from Hope – and is a very bad reader – We were to have gone to Trentham tomorrow and the Meekes were to have met us there; but, in consequence of Harriet’s illness, we begged to send back word –

Rainy day –

Came upstairs about 11 – and sat up as usual talking – Told π I had saved seventy pounds and had sixty in the bank –


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/5/004


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