Sunday, February 17, 1839

1839

February

Sunday 17

7 40/..

11 3/4

Much snow in the night – The ground covered thickishly this morning – Snowy morning with cold wind and Fahrenheit 39 1/4 ° at 8 3/4 inside – and Fahrenheit 30 1/2° outside at 9 –

Breakfast at 9 5/.. in less than 1/2 hour, then putting away bills etc. etc. as before breakfast till 10 – Mended pens –

At my desk at 10 5/.. to 11 (Wrote a little to Lady Stuart de Rothesay) when Ann came to me and staid till 1 – We talked – Then stood reading Sir William Gell’s Itinerary in Greece – Then slumbered –

Very snowy day – At 1, told the servants to stay at home – Too bad for them to go to church – The poor old bay would have no easy work to drag them in the market cart –

Wrote a few lines more to Lady S. de R- –

Ann and I off to church at 2 – Waited in church 5 minutes – Mr. Horsfall did all the duty – Preached 32 minutes from Luke XIII. 3 –

Sat 7 or 8 minutes at Cliff hill – Mrs. Ann Walker better than last Sunday – Would have been glad of our staying longer – The horses could not drag us up the hill to the Lodge, till our 2 men and George Farmer (who came from the Lodge to help them) pushed at the carriage behind –

Home at 4 55/..with Ann in her room 1/2 hour – Then read a few pages Murray’s Pyrenees, Volume 1.  Interesting account of the little republic of Andorre which has existed ever since the time of Charlemagne –

Dinner at 6 5/.. – Ann read French before we left the dining room –

1/2 asleep on the sofa some while.  Coffee about 9 – Read the double paper till 10. Excellent letter from Mr. James Macqueen to Lord Melbourne against the anti-corn-law-clamourers – Wrote the last 9 1/2 lines –

Very snowy, wintry day – Came upstairs at 10 1/2, at which hour, Fahrenheit 37 1/2° inside (put the clock forwards 1/4 hour).  Fahrenheit 28° outside at 11 p.m.

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/22/0127