Wednesday, 14 May 1834


Fine Fahrenheit 54 at 7 3/4 - ready in an hour and out with Pickells - breakfast at 8 1/2 - Marion's picture (view of Shibden dale by Mr. Horner £20) came last night - busy with Charles Howorth putting it up in the little sitting room hanging my father's bell

Asleep in my study from 10 1/2 for an hour rain about 10 20/60 prevented my going to Yewtrees wood - fair at 11 1/2 - but a shower, heavyish at 1st., soon afterwards - made me determine not to go - Mr. Sunderland came - saw my father - said he had, evidently had a slight paralytic seizure - my aunt's ankle bled more than ever last night - the linen kept unwashed - Mr. S- Sunderland said there might be 2 oz. ounces = 4 leeches - my aunt poorly today - but he said there was no material change in her general health, and still thinks she may get over the summer - difficult I think to say whether she or my father is the worst

Pickells and his 2 men in the garden today - I said too much had been cut away from under the house near the door - it must be raised again 4 or 5 inches - so all our levelling has to be changed - Sykes and another man holing posts - Hardy at brick wall against lower water closet would have finished it, but obliged to stop for alabaster (to mix with mortar to run in the wall and studding) and began to get the lower water closet window in the afternoon - 2 Carts bringing road stuff to level up the old lane in Hall Croft - John brought 1 Load coals this morning and lime this afternoon

Wrote the above of today till 1 10/60 - then looking over journal, and out at 2 (chiefly with Pickells relevelling in front of the house) till dinner at 6 1/4 - coffee - had Marion - then Cordingley - out at 8, with John, planting out Cowslips that came from Miss Walker yesterday, and weeding till 9 20/60 then with Marion till near 10 - then 25 minutes with my aunt and came to my study at 10 20/60 at which hour Fahrenheit 55 3/4 - rain in the morning (vide line 4 of today) fine from about 1 p.m. for the rest of the day and evening - Reading Hooper's Medical Dictionary till 11 20/60 -   

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/17/0032

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thursday 18 April 1839

Rainy morning and windy - fair about 9 - had Ann then with Robert Norton the joiner - till Fahrenheit 44 1/2 inside and 40 outside at 7 3/4 - moving books till breakfast at 8 5/60 in about 1/2 hour Mr Horner came about 8 40/60 - then till nine and a half preparing linen for cousin and sewing up one stocking for ditto Ann would be bad as ever but as I told her I would make no more inquiries and take the least possible notice From 9 35/60 to about 10 1/2 at accounts &c. then went down (Ann came for me to see her drawing) to Mr. Horner till 10 50/60 - then gave Ann her Brodie tonic 1 teaspoonful in 3 ditto of water and she lay down by me for a few minutes till 11 10/60 - then had her with me dusting and moving books till luncheon at 12 for about 3/4 hour or more - She had a Cup of sago with a glass of sherry in it - stood talking said I would ask her to trust but was decidedly of opinion she had better do it she says she will and we are to go to York on Saturday for the purpose of see
Read more

Wednesday 13 March 1839

Soft rainy morning a regular thaw - Fahrenheit 38 inside and 35 outside at 9 a.m. and breakfast at  9 5/60 in about 3/4 hour Sat having Ann repeat Italian vocabulary as yesterday morning and began this way on Monday morning - then with Robert the joiner, and look about in the hall and upstairs till came to my room at 10 35/60 Before breakfast read and made notes from page 394 to 408 and from 10 3/4 to 12 1/2 read and made notes from page 408 to page 446 end of volume 2 Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians very interesting From 12 1/2 to 1 35/60 had Ann read aloud to her the author's preface and 5 introductory pages of Sismondi's Italian Republics in 1 volume for Lardner's Cyclopædia - then sat till 2 1/4 skimming over the volume after Ann left me - Sismondi writes admirably - Then till 3 3/4 making notes from Murray's Summer in the Pyrenees volume 2 ascent of Mont Perdu Went out at 3 55/60 - in front of the house with Robert Mann and Jack Green a
Read more

Thursday 29 May 1834

Kiss last night Fine Fahrenheit 56 at 7 a.m. breakfast at 7 50/60 - off at 8 55/60 - at Alborough, the old Isurium, in 7 minutes - 3/4 hour there - saw 2 pieces of old Roman mosaic each perhaps about 3 yards square and in a garden - the 1st. chez Pybus covered over, descend 2 or 3 steps into the room built over it - the mosaic much sunk in the middle - covered with damp - no visible device - the other mosaic chez Charles Inchbald, at the other end of the town, very nicely kept - a lion in the middle but only the head and neck remaining - could merely trace where the rest had been Then in 2 or 3 minutes at the Devil's Arrows and 25 minutes there till 10 18/60 3 of them - of the same coarse sandstone grit as the rocks at Plumpton near Harrogate and probably brought from there - the tops a good deal furrowed and water worn - they were Druid deities, phalli,? merely my own idea At 11 1/2 alighted at the Dropping Well at Knaresborough - merely went to the well did not walk thro' t
Read more