Tuesday, October 13, 1829 Travel Journal

[Transcriber's note:  All of this material is crossed out in the travel journal, presumably when transferred by Anne Lister to her regular journal.]

1829

October

Tuesday 13

9

1 1/2

Breakfast at 10 1/4.  Sat talking at breakfast to Miss Hobart quietly, then read a little of newspaper to her. Lady Stuart, having breakfasted in her room, did not come till after 11 –

Lord Graves came about 12 and staid the whole morning –

Rainy morning, but fair at 3 and Miss Hobart and I went out, but it soon began to rain and rained all the time – Got back therefore after walking on the boulevards in 1/2 hour – Changed my dress – Had my hair curled –

Dinner at 5 10/60 – Miss Hobart went at 5 40/60 to dine at Mr. Taylor’s – Coffee at 7.  The Countesse Zamoyska and her husband called and sat with us 1/2 hour – then came Lord Graves and staid with us till 10 1/4, then came Dr. Drever – He and I unbandaged and did up again her leg better–

Miss Hobart came back at 10 40/60 just after Dr. Drever was gone – Lady Stuart left us at 11 20/60 and Miss Hobart played and sang to me till after 12 – Looked pretty and sang prettily.  She said she would sing if I would not sit near her, but then let me do it.  On coming to bed, let me unhook her gown but would not let me untie the petticoat.  She said while singing my thoughts were far away.  I denied it.  She asked if I heard the words.  Yes, they were pretty love ballads and I felt in love.  Were her manners to a man what they are to me, he would believe her attached to him.  Can it be possible she should like me? –

Lady S [Stuart], speaking of her debts, said two thousand five hundred would pay all.  Charles got almost all at her death, her youngest son very little.  Two years’ income would pay all.  Not her fault.  The long lawsuit had begun the thing –

When staying at the cottage, all obliged to get out of the way, and the King carried downstairs by 4 footmen –

Rainy day and night and windy – Hope Lady Stuart does not sail at 11 tonight from Ostende –

Letter tonight by the return Coachman – Got to Ghent at 7 yesterday. 

Call me their devouee friend – Just kissed her in bed at one and five minutes.  Did not stay more than two minutes, for she hoped I should not, though she said it kindly enough –

The blood settles sometimes in one place, some times another in the king – Latterly, in his eyes, and he near lost the sight of one of them from this inflammation but now quite better – When to get out of his carriage, Lord Graves jumped out first.  The King said God bless you, Graves – and Lord Graves said, bless you sir, and ran to his carriage, not to see the king lifted out  – How, therefore, could he bear to shew himself to the people –

Someone he wished to see something in Windsor chapels had not been able to get in – and the  dean and chapter foolishly claimed a right to some walk or other, so the King took buff against them all, would not let them have the right of walk (in fact, they had had it under Charles 1 and Anne only from sufferance) and would not even let them sit in the stalls, as they belong to the knights (of the garter?) –

Dr. Somner was to have been Canon of Windsor.  Was tutor to the Marquis of Conyngham’s son, but Lord Liverpool prevailed, so the King determined to make up for it, and resenting the thing as a personal thing, has made him Bishop of Winchester, the pleasantest preferment in the church – Remembers Madame Zamoyska 25 years ago in Vienna – The most beautiful woman he ever saw but Lady Galloway – Next to Zamoyska – Was the Marchess of Conyngham – From his journal (he shewed us this and his accounts this morning ) a horse will be kept at 2/50 per day all over France and 3/50 enough to give a servant for board, wages being 0/50 more than he will be charged at Inns when stationary – But 4/. a day enough to allow any servant of the highest order –

Wrote the journal of today since coming to my room –

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/TR/4/0002 and  SH:7/ML/TR/4/0003