Thursday, February 15, 1821

1821

February

Thursday 15

7 40/60

11 1/2

Before breakfast, writing the copy of a letter for my uncle to send this morning to Mr. Bilton about John Howarth’s charges for manure etc. etc., to be paid before he gives up possession of the Pump farm.

Came upstairs at 11 – From about half past to three, wrote two and a quarter pages to Miss Vallance –

In the afternoon (at 4) down the old bank to the library – Staid some time looking over Volume 19, Quarterly Review articles, Evelyn’s Silva, and on Egyptian antiquities with an account of the early life of Belzoni, who is 6 feet 7 inches and of strength in proportion –

From the library up the town (called at Whitley’s and Miss Kitson’s), and returned by North parade – Home at 5 40/60 –

In the evening read  the first 112 pages of ‘Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America; or an account of the origin, Progress, and actual State of the war carried on between Spain and Spanish America; containing the principal facts which have marked the struggle By a South American. Fata viam invenient. Æn. lib. 10. London Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne. Paternoster-Row. 1817.’ ‘A.Strahan, Printers-street, London.’ 1 volume octavo  pages 362.  

131/238. Begun Thursday, 15 February, 1821.  Read Tuesday, 20 February 1821

Fine day – The ground white with a thin covering of snow when I got up this morning, but it was all out of sight by afternoon – Barometer 1/2 degree above fair – Fahrenheit 32° at 9 p.m. –

Came upstairs at 10 3/4 –


WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/5/0005


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