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1829 May Thursday 7 5 35/60 1 3/4 Breakfast in 10 minutes – Off at 6 3/4 and got to the lecture room (Jardin des Plantes) in 50 minutes – just in time, our clocks being 5 minutes too soon – The lecture began at 7 1/2 and lasted till 8 40/60 by the lecture room clock – Repetition of yesterday’s lecture, or of the principal heads of it, because many persons today not there on Tuesday – Then proceeded to explain the tige or stem, and we got no farther – Walked about – Shewed George the fiacre stand in the street behind the musée d’histoire naturelle, and looked at the beans till 9 10/60 – Then to the chemical – M. Laugier 5 minutes later than the time.   Did not begin till 9 20/60 by the lecture room clock, and over at 10 3/4 – Though nearer than on Tuesday, still behind and could not hear well – Well I had his cours de chimie générale leçon 8, or I should have been little better for his lecturing – Must contrive to get quite near to him on Saturday – In returning, w...

1829 May Wednesday 6 6 3/4 11 35/60 Reading as usual while Cameron did my hair, 2nd leçon, Laugier’s Chemistry – Went out at 8 1/2 – Looked at several apartments, rue de la ville L’Évique – 10 bis, comfortable and large, a seconde, 3700 francs?   No. 12 rue Saussaies, narrow stairs, a seconde, plenty of rooms, small remise and 1 stall-stable.   Might do , 2500 francs per annum – But vide rue de Ponthieu No. 12, and above all, No. 4, same street, now occupied by Captain Collier, who has been there 3 years and leaves the apartment because now too small for his young family – 1800 francs per annum – Said to be 3 bedrooms and a large cabinet – Returned by the Champs Elysées, and came in at 10 1/4 – Breakfast at 11 in 35 minutes – Enjoyed my breakfast for perhaps the 1st time since my return from England – Before and after breakfast till 1 25/60, wrote out the whole of yesterday and so far of today – then till 4 10/60, wrote 4 pages, pretty small and close, and 1 ...

1829 May Had 1/2 hour’s nap – From 1 to 2 3/4 wrote out Saturday, Sunday, and the 1st ten lines of yesterday . At 2 3/4, M. Doseur came about the apartment au seconde, No. 11 rue St. Florentin – Said he had a person who would give 2700 francs, yet it seemed he wanted to have and would take of me 2500 francs – Said he had best let it for 2700/. I would give him 2000/., as offered yesterday, but no more, therefore it was useless for me to say another word about it, and, surprised perhaps to find me so little inclined to talk about it, he went away – He had let out yesterday, that it was let before for 2200/., – Then immediately came to my room, and sat musing on my sofa till after 4 – Shall we try to take M. Séné’s apartment, rue Neuve de Saint Augustin? Perhaps my aunt had better go to Shibden with the prospect held out of returning here on the death of my father; and for the present I can travel with Mrs. Barlow ? At my desk again at 4 10/60 – At 4 1/2, M. Van Raveschot, t...

1827 January Thursday 11 6 1/2 11 1/4 Very fine morning 46       at        8         a.m.                                48       –         noon                                41       –         6         p.m. In my room at 7 1/2.   Should have been 1/4 hour sooner, but after wasting near 10 minutes in the vain endeavour to hook hooks, obliged to call up McDonald – Sat down at my desk at 7 3/4 – Read over what I wrote to Mariana on Sunday week – From 8 to 10 1/4, wrote the latter 1/2 page 1 and 8 lines of page 2 of my letter to...

1827 January Wednesday 10 7 10/60 11 1/4 + fine frostyish morning Fahrenheit      40                          at        8                  a.m.                                                           43                          at        12 1/4          p.m.       ...

1827 January Tuesday 9 8 5/60 11 5/60 Soft, mild morning Fahrenheit 46°     at        8 50/60        a.m.                                                 48                –         12 1/4          p.m.                                                 43         ...

1827 January Monday 8 7 5/60 1 Soft morning Fahrenheit          38                          at                  8                  a.m.                                                        40                          –                  11 1/...

1827 January Sunday 7 7 5/60 1 1/2 very hard frost Fahrenheit         23 3/4 at 8 a.m. rather thawed at night              32 at noon                                                 34 – 11 3/4 p.m. In my room at 7 57/60 – Very cold this morning.   Stood or sat reading aloud to myself over the fire from 8 10/60 to 9 1/2 – Read from page 102 to 131, Montlosier’s Dénonciation – From 9 1/2 to 12 (breakfast at 10 10/60), made out a list of all we should want in our new apartment and finished dressing – Looking over my accounts – At 12 25/60, into the salon to read prayers – Read the epistle and gospel but left out the litany, and read no sermon, wishing to go soon to Quai Volt...

1827 January Saturday 6 7 1/4 11 1/2 very hard frost Fahrenheit       24 at 8 a.m.                                                 29 at noon                                                 28 – 6 p.m.                                                 25 – 10 p.m. ...

1827 January Friday 5 7 10/60 11 20/60 Hard frost Fahrenheit      27 3/4         at        8         a.m. white on the ground        28                          –         noon                                         ––––––––    6        p.m.                                   ...