Thursday, January 4, 1827

1827

January

Thursday 4

7 20/60

11 1/2

hard frost     Fahrenheit   23°              at       8 5/60          a.m.

                                         28               at       noon.         

                                         27 1/2         –        6                  p.m.

                                         26               –        10                –

In my room at 8 5/60 – From 8 1/4 to 10 1/2, read the whole of the 3 last newspapers –

From the paper of yesterday, see that from the returns received in the week ending 22 December 1826, the average price in England and Wales, of wheat 55/6; barley 36/3; oats 29/4; rye 39/4; beans 49/7; peas 50/9 –

Worse than ever accounts of the Duke of York – Given up by his physicians – Water on the chest, producing general dropsy –

Breakfast at 10 1/2 – Finished dressing – Went out at 12 1/2 – Talked a few minutes to my aunt.

Paid Mellerio for the teaspoons and tablespoons that came on Monday – The latter for the porter instead of the spoons stolen –

Then went to No. 10, rue Caumartin – The Drozs gone out – Left 3 cards – Looked at the premier in their house.  Dirty and comfortless – Looked at 2 or 3 more apartments there – i.e. inquired about them – Would not do –

Then sauntered along the boulevards – Went into the great magasin de meubles near the Bains Chinois – Went to ask if they would let furniture.  The man downstairs said yes! – The man upstairs said no! – Loitered some time in the magasin looking at the different furniture, all the prices marked –

Thence sauntered to the Passage de l’Opéra, up one down the other – Returned by the rue de la Paix and Place Vendôme – Looked at a seconde over an entresol in the rue St. Honoré on my left about midway the rue Castiglione and rue Neuve de Luxembourg – 2000/. a year – Plenty of rooms, but, except the salon, not good enough –

Bought beef at one butcher’s and returned at 3 to give my aunt some black riband I had bought for her – Talked 10 minutes, then out again to look at an apartment in rue Mont Thabor, a furnished premier at 4000/. a year that I could not see on going out this morning, the people not then up or at breakfast or something – On returning this afternoon, went to a wrong number – A premier, but too small – Saw or inquired after 1 or 2 more apartments in this street – Would not at all do – The one I meant to see, not to let – The people would not leave it –

Looked at a troisième 87 steps high in the rue Neuve de Luxembourg – Furnished – at 350/. a week – A much worse apartment than that we mean to take –

Came in again at 4 5/60 – Mrs. Barlow and Jane came at 4 1/4 and staid till 5 20/60 with me – Mrs. Barlow came to remind me of some little things I ought to mention in agreeing for the apartment, and to say that Monsieur __ was a very good sort of man – Madame very good – they have 100000/. a year – She was a great heiress – A coach maker’s daughter –

Settled my accounts – Wrote almost all the above of today –

Dinner at 6 25/60 – Dessert in the drawing room – Slept in the evening

Very fine, hardfrosty day –  came to my room at 10 –

WYAS Finding Number SH:7/ML/E/10/0041