Saturday 17 June 1837
Dullish rather hazy morning much rain in the night Fahrenheit 69 now at 8 50/60 a.m. breakfast at 9 in 3/4 hour
Had Mawson – gave him check for £50 on account He shewed me his bill of £32.1.11 to be examined by Mr. Harper for carting materials and digging away stuff &c. all on account of the new building at the Stump Cross Inn
Note from Mr. Waterhouse requesting me to send back the Registration subscription list, it being the only one the committee had – send it back by the servant - with civil note very sorry to have given Mr. Waterhouse the trouble of sending for it
Then out (very rainy) in the barn – Robert and his men there – long talk to Robert he said Mark and Mawson would have asked him 6d per yard for the garden stuff carting – was he bound to employ them for carting the platform stuff – no! if he could get it done cheaper than by them he was at liberty to do so; but if they would do it as cheap as anybody else, of course I wished them to have the 1st refusal
Then went to the Lodge with Robert Charles Howarth there resetting the old gate and 2 of Robert’s men, Michael and John Holmes, helping him
It was Mr. Edwards’s cart that ran over and killed poor Michael’s child yesterday – but Mr. Edwards had not sent to make any inquiries after the poor people
Took Robert round to the top of the bank to see my ashes left there 2 loads of which were stolen early in the morning a few days ago – Robert had his dinner brought and dined in the barn – during which time I had Booth giving him orders about wash-house fixtures &c. &c
Then with Booth Robert and Firth the glazer settling about the rainwater cisterns and pipes – all to be ready by noon on Tuesday and Firth to come on Tuesday afternoon and all to be done by Wednesday night – Robert and his men to prepare the cisterns and drains on Monday and my 2 carts to cart the stuff away
Then about 2 had Booth in and gave him check on account for £50 – he had seen Mr Husband who told him to tell Riley to go to Greenwood’s and choose what dry boards he wanted for Hill top house and barn doors – he Mr. Husband should have nothing to do with it. Riley had been at Greenwood’s before for wood and might go again
Ann wanted me a little while with her she wanted the original saddle-room cupboard to be moved from the house keeper’s room into saddle room for George to put his clothes in and make way for John Burton the footman coming tonight, arrived this evening about eight bringing a note from Mrs. Fenton to Ann
Mr. Jubb came at 2 1/4 to take out a front loose tooth for little Mary – he was here on Thursday for the same purpose but she would not let him draw it – today the same and he went away after a great piece of work and being here about 1/2 hour or more thinking, of course, the child sadly spoilt he had been at Cliff hill – thought Mrs. Ann Walker much better for the quinine he is giving her - I hoped we could get off to the continent for 3 or 4 months by the end of next month
Out at 3 – at the Lodge – took Robert and his 5 men from the scale moving to scrape (to shovel) off the dirt from the road – all this rain and Mawson’s stone carting had made it terrible – with them and about in the Lodge road till they went away about 4 3/4 – then sauntering about till after 6 – had Charles Howarth – ordered gate for intended ash-manure place just above the false cutting – gave him £5 on account – long talk about taking off the plastering and exposing the old outside stoothing of the house – Charles Haworth said it would stand longer just exposed, well oiled, then covered with plaster
Dressed – sat reading 1/4 hour Edinburgh Cabinet library Egypt – dinner at 7 – no coffee – was tea – asleep on the sofa
The King better – Ann read me the bulletins, and the city article – £20,000 in specie arrived from America at and for Liverpool – Came upstairs at 10 35/60 had Ann sat with me at twice about 1/2 hour and ate a couple of oranges while I ate 4
Wrote all the above of today till 11 55/60 – very rainy day till about 1 1/2 then fair and sunshine and fine for the rest of the afternoon and evening Fahrenheit 53 at 10 35/60 p.m.
Letter tonight from Messrs. Robert Harrison and Co. Leeds acknowledging the receipt of the order for the account of their bill for deals &c.
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