Saturday 9 June 1838

Fine morning Fahrenheit 55 3/4 at 8 1/2 - no hair dresser this morning - carriage ordered at 11 - laquais de Place Lefevre third day today - breakfast at 9 - strawberries as yesterday (1st. time yesterday) - and sat reading Galignani till 10 3/4 - then dressed or rather changed my dress

Mademoiselle Rosalie (the Swiss femme de chambre not coming at 9 this morning) after all the talk with Madame Figarol yesterday not coming at 9 a.m. as finished - Ann and I took on valet de Place, Lefevre, (4th day) and having George at home went out in the carriage (4th day) at 11 1/2 - put into the post, Place de la Madeleine, Ann's letter dated yesterday to 'A. Jubb Esquire Lord Street Halifax, Yorkshire Angleterre' for which paid 3/40 - to announce her going to the South of France for the benefit of waters and begging Mr. Jubb to Mr and Mrs. Sutherland if he thought there was occasion respecting Mrs. Ann Walker

Then Madame Figaroll's after waiting some minutes for the dress could not be ready for me to try on - the femme de chambre perhaps could not come till Monday - I said that would be useless to come then for I meant to be off on Tuesday§

Then to Madame Contant's to go again at 5 p.m. to choose French cachemire shawl for myself

§annoyed about the dress not being ready to try on - tho' did not shew it - but immediately resolved to go to Miss Daniel C---- rue de la Villevêque no. 4 recommended by Miss Gassy

Miss D. C., on hearing Miss Gassy name, very civil - will alter and do all we want - au troisieme - likely enough to be useful

Then to Madame Contant from Miss D.C. to get the merinos for her to make Ann's Pyrenees riding dress - the merinos not there - to see patterns of it and shawls at 5 p.m.

Then drove to Père la Chaise at 1 40/60 and then about 2 1/4 and there walking about for near 2 hours - much changed since I first saw it in 1819 - now quite a wood of Chinese arbor vita, cypress, and other evergreens mixed with acacias &c. and crowded with tombs and monuments - enlarged too, by the purchase of adjoining ground - Massena's monument that I admired so much in 1819 quite spoilt - his arms leaning on a mantle of fleurs de lis gone - (mort 4 Avril 1817) he remained faithful to Louis 18 in 1815, - and the names of his principal battles written on the obelisk seeming to me less tall than it used to be - the most lofty of the monuments will be the grand lantern (light-house like) tapering tower almost finished to memory of the Marquis de Montjoie erected by his widow dame d'honneur to the queen - the fosses communes are now in long trenches filled up by degrees so that we could only see one child's coffin, or common deal rough base, peeping out from under the limey filling wanting nothing but water to make good mortar - one or two men were opening a new trench out of which we saw a nearly entire skull thrown aside - but tho' the ground can be turned up and interred in again in 5 years, if the room place be want, yet the poor people all stick little black painted crosses or something to mark the spot where their friends lie - these marks are stuck down at the moment and are raised up as the filling goes on so as to at the level of the ground at last

In returning, and passing the new bazaar on the boulevards (beyond the Jardin Turc) went in - very handsome building - 4 storys of bazaar - the lowest or cellar story for comestibles - meat, fish, vegetables - on 1er. I think it was saw a brèveté lamp Carcel or some such name that we will look at again - bought 2 little irons, at another shop, for plaiting our hair - and was here that on pulling out my purse from my pocket I pulled out and lost my pocket handkerchiefs - was it here - or did I pull it out in the carriage in paying for the letter at the Post Office?

At Madame Contant's at 5 1/2 and chose French cachermire at 295 francs; - I should have had one at 250 francs but she thought the colour not so good for remaining unchanged

At Madame Figarol's again at 6 1/2 - waited 10 minutes - tried one my new merinos

Home at 7 20/60 dinner - Ann and I sat eating our dessert (strawberries) as yesterday in the salon - the coiffeur, Carré, at 9 - dressed Ann by way of lesson for Oddy - I wanted Oddy to try to do Ann soon obliged to give this up and Oddy and the coiffeur curled her front hair, and then, Oddy had a lesson on me

Ann quite tired and poorly again tho' she had been much better all the day, and walked at the cemetery seeming not so tired as I was - for dawdling and sauntering always tire me - she thought herself much the better this morning for Dr. Double's dirty disagreeable liniment - it had even acted on her bowels in the best way possible

A minute or 2 at accounts - Oddy rubbed Ann's back tonight after the coiffeur was gone at 10 10/60 - had just written the whole of today at 12 - fine day Fahrenheit 64 now at midnight - 1 of Lord Granville's servants, one of the embassy livery servants, brought back my passport this afternoon signed at the French Foreign office and at the Spanish embassy

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/21/0119