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1829 May Monday 18  6 3/4 11 20/60 Dawdling over 1 thing or other, but dressed at 8, and from then to 9 1/2, read Arnott’s Physics from page 24 to 48, end of the Introduction and the first 22 1/2 pages of the work itself – Breakfast at 9 1/2 in 20 minutes, then read the whole of Galignani’s Messenger in an hour till 10 50/60 – The Lord Chancellor moved the 2nd reading of his bill for improving and accelerating the mode of doing business in the equity courts – the Duke of Orleans and his son, the Duke de Chartres, gone to England – Report says hoping a matrimonial connection for the young duke with our princess Victoria – That would never do – From 11 5/60 to 2 3/4, wrote 3 pages and the ends to Miss MacLean and 2 pages 1/2 sheet note to Miss Hobart –   WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/12/0024

1829 May Sunday 17 7 3/4 11 40/60  Till 1/2 past 10 (partly dressed), arranging my books from Shibden and reading from page 153 to 165, Clark on the climate and diseases of the South of France, vide Dr. Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope, page 158, and page 160 et seq., observations on Dr. Broussais, his theory of treatment of fever, vide vide – At 10 35/60, dressed – While my sitting room was done, sat in my dressing room (my quondam little bedroom), cutting open and reading here and there Arnott’s Physics (the notes of critique on Mr. Charles Bell’s ‘animal mechanics’ – page 225 et seq.) at 11 1/4 in 1/2 hour – Then read the first 24 pages, Introduction to Arnott’s Physics – From 12 20/60 to 12 55/60, read the whole service (my aunt acting as clerk) and Sermon 4, Bishop Sandford – Then staid talking near an hour – My aunt has been poorly these last 2 or 3 days – McDonald carried her to bed last night and night before – She feels swells – Thinks the clima...

  1 829 May Saturday 16 5 20/60  1 1/2 Breakfast at 6 1/4 – Off at 6 43/60 – In the lecture room in 50 minutes – (my pendule 13 minutes too soon) The lecture lasted just an hour – Then, meaning to go by the rue Saint Jacques to the rue de Sorbonne, somehow turned into the place Maubert, and along the rue Montagne Sainte Geneviève till I came out upon Saint Etienne Du Mont – One of the handsomest churches in Paris which I have somehow (I think) never been in – Of course went in – It is a very good church, and among the handsomest – Then by Sainte Geneviève into the rue Saint Jacques and so to the rue de Sorbonne No. 3 by the rue de l’Ecole de Medicine etc., straight into the rue de Seine and thence to Madame Galvani’s (rue des Marais 15)for 5 minutes – Said I thought No. 34 rue Bourbon would suit me better than No. 9 – She will look at it today – said I thought 2400 francs per annum would be enough to give for it – Got home at 10 20/60 in exactly 1 1/2 hour...

1829 May Friday 15 5 50/60 11 35/60  Staid 3/4 hour undressed, reading la Grammaire des Grammaires, then sat in my dressing gown looking at 1 book or other, and lastly reading through the whole of Sir James Lawrence’s excellent little work ‘On the Nobility of the British Gentry’ till 10 35/60 – Then read from page 130. to 146, Des Instituts d’Hofwyl par le Comte L. de V., admirable reasons of M. Fellenberg’s for beginning the Study of languages with the Greek, vide – Breakfast from 11 1/4 to 11 35/60 – Then read the 5 or 6 first chapters, Liber i., Herodotus, to see if I had very   much forgotten my Greek – No, not irrecoverably – Then read the first 71 pages William’s Treatise on the Study and Practice of the law – Lord Mansfield’s plan for reading ancient and modern history from page 40 to 72. Excellent – all this took me till 2 1/2 – Then till 2 50/60, reading the first 10 pages, Worthington’s Precedent of wills – Dressed – went out at 3 20/60 – To th...

1829 May Thursday 14 5 1/4 11 55/60  Breakfast at 6 25/60, having waited 1/4 hour for it – A x cross last night thinking of π [Mariana]. No motion this morning, for the first time since my arrival.   I had just written this remark when I felt as if I could do a little and tried and succeeded – Off at 6 55/60 (our clock 1/4 too soon) – I think I was there in 50 minutes – Tried the 3 doors into where the ladies sit – All locked – Went into the gallery – There at 7 35/60 by the Lecture room clock – I must have tried the 1st door just as the lecture was beginning, yet was too late – Sat 1/4 hour in the gallery, but having unluckily got near one of the open doors, found it disagreeable, besides, though I heard tolerably well, I was too distant from M. Desfontaines, and he was merely recapitulating the last lecture about the épiderme, tissue cellulaire, etc., vide Mérat page 29 et seq. (20 ladies there), so I came away – Finding that there would be no chemical lec...

1829 May Wednesday 13 6 10/60 11 40/60 From 7 1/4 to 8 20/60, read carefully Leçon 11, Laugier’s chemistry – Out at 8 1/2 – Walked 1/2 hour in the Tuileries gardens – Then to rue de la Ville-l'Évêque No.   43 – There at 9 1/2 – Madame de Rosny just up – Saw her apartment – Would not suit us, though neat and comfortable for her – Stairs not good enough – Room too low – The two bedrooms too small and the 3rd a mere cabinet – A corner house, therefore 5 windows into the salon, one of them blocked up by Madame de Rosny. On looking at the apartment, saw her son – Pas si laid que je ne l’attendais comme je disais à Madame – She sent for him (ætatis 19 1/2) to shew me his sketches – He said he really had none in a state to shew – Somehow got him into conversation – He regretted having begun his education so late as at 13 – Finding that he requires more study now that his mother may fancy he has had enough – He is right – Is reading Demosthenes de Corona, and has read the ...

1829 May Tuesday 12 5 20/60 12 10/60 Breakfast at 6 1/2 – Off at 6 50/60 – From our own porte cochère to the Pont Neuf in 22 minutes, thence to within the gate of the Jardin des Plantes (rue de Seine) in 25 minutes – Our clock nearly 10 minutes too soon, so there a minute or 2 before the lecture began – Lasted just an hour – Rather meagre lecture – Walked about for 1/2 hour – Then went into the lecture room and sat there 20 minutes, reading over M. Laugier’s Leçon 10 (nature and properties of azote).   Chemical lecture from 9 20/60, by the clock there, to 10 40/60 – Much more interested in the chemical than in the botanical lectures – Got home in 50 minutes at 11 3/4 – Very warm – 1/2 hour’s nap on the sofa, to get cool – Then dressed – Out at 1 1/2 in the carriage to No. 5 rue de l’Université – The Comte and Countesse de Noé at home, though she did not appear of 10 minutes or 1/4 hour – Lady Blantyre there, and a Mr. and Mrs. Stuart or Captain? and Mrs. Stuart – ...

1829 May Monday 11 7 10/60 11 20/60 From 8 to 11, at my private accounts – Breakfast at 11 in 1/2 hour – Dr. Tupper called soon after 11, I know not what for – I not dressed, did not see him – Then dressed – Madame Coutaut came about pocket handkerchiefs for my aunt – Saw her for a few minutes – Then came Madame de Rosny at 12 20/60, and staid till 4 10/60 – It was her friend the Comte de Dadémare   (as pronounced) [D'adhémar] who out of compliment to her was so civil to Mrs. Barlow and Jane at the Ambassador’s ball, seeing them quite alone, and not speaking to, or seeming to know anyone – He danced with Jane, old as he is (ætatis about 50), and then got her young de St. Aulaire as a partner – Madame de Rosny thinks it rather extraordinary that Mrs. Barlow should visit where she (Madame de Rosny) introduced her, and should take advantage de sa société, and not be upon terms with herself – And what for? Said I thought it was on account of M. de Birague, who had written...

1829 May Sunday 10 6 3/4 11 20/60 Cameron did not immediately answer my bell at 7 3/4, so put on my dressing gown, and at my desk at 7 55/60.   From then to 10 1/2 at my accounts seeing what I paid for Miss Hobart’s company etc.   Her coming with me seems to have cost me about thirteen pounds additional .   I am now inclined not to begrudge it, for at ten, half hour ago, came the following little note from her ‘Embassy Sunday Dear Miss Lister, Have you made any project for today? I should be delighted to take a drive with you and am free, as my people dine out.   After half past two I shall be ready, but only in case it is perfectly agreeable and convenient to you. Yours truly, V Hobart’ This is not as if she willfully missed seeing me at the ball.   I begin to be better satisfied – At 10, little note from Miss Hobart, to say she should be delighted to take a drive   with me today if quite agreeable and convenient to me, and shou...

1829 May Saturday 9 5 1/4 1 5/60 Breakfast at 6 25/60 – Off at 6 3/4 – There in 48 minutes (our clocks 10 minutes too soon, so there in time) – Found about 40 ladies there, so could not get a good place – Stood up – There was a hissing for me to sit down again, which, of course, I did, but could not see over the ladies bonnets, so not much better for the specimens shewn by way of illustration – Lecture lasted 1 5/60 hour – Then went to the administration, and sat there reading M. Laugier’s lecture for this morning (neuvième leçon), having before spoken to the manipulator to let me have a seat close to M. Laugier – At the lecture room at 9 1/4 and got the best seat – Offered the man 5 francs – He said oh! no! he could not take it – An insult to offer it, but he would take care I should have the seat – I might give the money to the garçon if I pleased, which, of course, I did, apologizing for having offered it to M. le Manipulator for I know not what else to call him – T...

1829 May Friday 8 7 11 20/60 Out at 8 1/2 – Direct to the Tuileries Gardens – Beautiful, sunny morning – Sauntered up and down under the shade – Read the whole of Leçon 9, Laugier’s Chemistry, then took a sharpish turn or 2, and came in at 10 1/4 – Breakfast at 10 40/60 in 1/2 hour – Before and after, looking over my translation into French – Then wrote the following to Miss Hobart – ‘Dear ‘Miss Hobart – You would see from my note yesterday that I had not, at the time of writing it, received your little packet – The souvenir is very pretty in all senses of the word, and will be highly valued for the giver’s sake – I got the bag quite safe, so neatly tied and ticketed, one could guess who must have done it – I should have been more exact about the Eau de Cologne, had I been certain whether I said one bottle or a bottle or 2 – No matter – That very bottle shall be kept for Sibbella – I should, at all rates, have had no option as to seeing you on Saturday as I myself...