Friday, July 6, 1821

1821

July

Friday 6

8 3/4

12

My headache not so bad today as yesterday and Wednesday –

Came upstairs at 10 1/2.  Sent for Jackman, and he has made what he calls an ash-draft in my fireplace to try if it will entirely prevent the smoking –

Letter from Miss Vallance (Sittingbourne Kent)  unknown to Tib, who was a little annoyed that she would not read her the whole of my last letter – The engagement is quite off.  I must take care to get into no scrape.  She likes me, see the top of her third page, were I with you you would not doubt the sincerity of my thanks or the warmth of my gratitude, alas the bosom is impressed with a deep and lively sense of a something which it cannot or may not utter – Tib dislikes Mr. W. Vallance.  Thinks him violent, etc. In fact, they do not agree and tis plain enough he sees her faults and is not very lenient towards them.  They dispute and differ in argument, etc.  Doubtless she lets herself down – Miss Vallance will write to [me] soon with Tib’s knowledge, but in the meantime, asks me to write to her privately.  I believe she has some hopes of me, but this will never do, and I must be very cautious, yet I must write –

Crossed the remaining part of one end and all the other, very small and close, and wrote under the seal of my letter to Mariana (Lawton).  Wrote last Monday and sent it this morning a little after 12, that she may get it tomorrow –

Then wrote the above of today – and then wrote 1 1/2 pages to Miss Vallance to go some time or other, for I did not feel inclined for Herodotus and my morning was broken into altogether, both in deed and thought – These pages to Miss Vallance took me from one to near five, most of the time over the first and half the second.  Perhaps it is too well written for a common letter.  I wish I could get into the way of writing more thoughtlessly.  It is the consoling part that takes so much time, and the care not to be too affectionate and yet enough so –

Went downstairs at 5 1/4 – In the evening making extract from Beloe’s Notes on Herodotus, Book 4 –

From 8 3/4 to 9 1/2, sauntered along this side of the foot of the wall of the new road and thence to Hipperholme lane ends and back by the road –

Rainy day, but fair and tolerably fine all the while I was out – Barometer 3/4 degree below changeable,  Fahrenheit 53°at 9 1/2 p.m. –

The alteration Jackman has made in my fire-place seems to answer.  There was no smoke at all when the fire was lighted this afternoon just before my dinner – Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – Turned to Cicero for a few minutes read part of Miss Vallance’s letter –


WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/5/0040 and SH:7/ML/E/5/0041


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