Sunday, December 24, 1826

1826

December

Sunday 24

7 5/60

11 25/60

Damp muggy Fahrenheit        44 1/2         at       8 1/4           a.m.

                                                46               –        10 1/2            –

                                                45 1/2         –        12 1/4          p.m.

                                                46               –        2                 –

                                                43               –        6                 –                

                                                41°              at       10 5/60       p.m.

 

Not a large motion this morning, but a right sort of one.

In my room at 8 10/60 – Finishing dressing – Read a few pages –

Covered up my fire and went out at 9 10/60 – Walked to the barriere de l’Etoile – went up this side, returned down the other and, en passant, seeing an affiche at No. 9 Avenue de Neuilly (where Mrs. Grieves lived 4 years ago), went in to look at the apartment au seconde,

a poor, brick-floored, furnished apartment of dining room and drawing ditto and 2 bedrooms, small, and kitchen and 2 servants rooms at 400/. a month, but would take 300/. now ! –

It began to rain a little just before I got home.  Came in at 10 1/2 – Bertrand sent the sugar loaf (extra good, from Orleans, at 1/45 a pound), 13 1/2 pounds, a little damp from being brought in the rain, yet 2 ounces underweight ! The 1/2 pound of almonds I got of him on Friday

good weight – How strange to have such underweight so often – so perpetually ! – Breakfast at 10 50/60 – I weighed both the sugar and almonds myself –

Read a little more (altogether) from age xxxix to lvii introductory pages to Montlosier’s Dénonciation – Went in to prayers at 12 1/4 – Read aloud the morning service and sermon 7, Bishop Sandford, and came back to my room at 1 20/60 – No spark of fire – Relighted it myself with a few matches – Wrote the above of today, which took me till 2 –

While out this morning, observed the baker’s cart of M. Boullot? rue St. Honoré No. 77, ‘Boulanger aux Princes’, French and sugarbread and muffins – I will see some day what sort of shop it is –

From two and a quarter to three and a half, writing the rough copy of three letters to both my bankers and to Mr. James Briggs, to go tomorrow –

From 3 50/60 to 5 1/4, made out and wrote last week’s summary and had the good fortune to get it right at first without unnecessary trouble –

From 5 1/4 to 6, made out a wine account, number of bottles we have received and returned and when –

Dinner at 6 10/60 – Came into the drawing room a little before 8 – Sat talking about 1/2 hour – Then read the whole of yesterday’s paper, and made out the washing bills for tomorrow –

Came to my room at 10 5/60 –

Damp, muggy morning – Walked with my umbrella up – A little rain just before I got home, and rain more or less afterwards almost all the rest of the day – Fair in the evening –

 

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/10/0035


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