Tuesday 26 July 1836
No kiss
Fine but dull and Fahrenheit 55 at 7 10/60 a.m. at which hour out till breakfast at 9 – waited for Ann and out with her at 10 1/2
Walked to the Lodge and sauntered about till 11 1/2 – then with Wood again (Wood + 4) at the cave and embankment as yesterday – had Wood and Jack at slopping down behind the great sycamore till breakfast – afterwards at the Cave East wall – Wood wanted to be off in the afternoon to stack 3 Day Work for somebody – said he might send Matthew so he did and staid at his work here got another man in Matthews place for this afternoon – 3 at the run shifting soil to the embankment and Wood and Jack Green at the cave – had them off part of this afternoon putting up and loadening Frank (the cart and 2 horses) 1 load of stones (Earth fasts calliards as Mawson called them) dug up out of the meer – they do admirably for the cave
Frank carting lead and then slates from Halifax to the Lodge and a few stones this afternoon for backing up in the road wall against the cave – One man and 2 boys began it this morning Robert Schofield and Joseph dug cleared out the wall race yesterday - today making the odd bits of grass mown up and down – and doing other little jobs early in the morning - Booth and Amos at the new cellar and putting iron stauncheons into joiners shop window
Matty Pollard here today and yesterday doing the beds – feathers and ticks – Ann came in at 11 1/2 I staid out and musing at the bottom of the Rockwork till Flather came to me about 1 1/2 p.m. to speak for Benjamin Fletcher (cowjobber) of Birdholme, as tenant for Hill top said I wanted a vote and £50 per annum – and would do what was right – make what convenience he wanted in reason – nothing could get me to abate anything of £50 per annum – Benjamin Fletcher needed not come to me if he had not previously made up his mind as to rent and vote and written agreement the nature of which I explained – Flather said he heard Mark Hepworth neglected the fallow – did not take advantage of the fine weather in cleaning the land as he ought to have done – I said if Fletcher and I agreed, he had best look after the fallow himself – nearly 3/4 hour with Flather out of doors and in - then left him in the hall to drink his beer
Then with Ann till near 3 then left her to ride to Cliff Hill and went to Wood and to the meer with him and Frank and Jack – they returned with the stone and I some time with Mawson – the meer to be done in a week ordered some wearing of the brook – and where the water should be taken into the meer, and that the bubble-up (Spring) at the meer-head should be dressed off so as to issue from a little mound like a flat-topped haycock in the water of the meer.
Came in at 6 1/2 – wrote and sent note to ‘Messrs. Parker and Adam, Solicitors, Halifax’ to say I agree in opinion with Mr Turner (Mr Graham’s attorney) that £1200 belongs to Graham + £400 of the other £800 = £1600 which I shall be glad to pay in anytime or 3 months notice – the remaining £400 must be reserved for the boy (Graham’s son by his 1st wife younger sister to his present wife) and I think that considering the circumstances Graham ought to allow the interest of the £400 to accumulate for the boy at least till school time as he is old enough to require such interest for his own use.
It just occurs to me that in the hurry of writing I wrongly stated Mr Graham’s title to the £400 (1/2 of the £800, lapsed legacy, on account of the daughter dying before her mother) being in right of his 1st wife instead of being in right of his present wife to whom 1/2 the legacy lapses
Dinner at 7 – coffee – damp and Ann would not let me go out. From 9 to 10 with my aunt Ann with us the last 1/2 hour.
Letter from Lady Gordon 34 Hertford Street one 1/2 sheet full and 2 pages of another – disappointed at my aunt’s illness and not seeing me – ‘Let’s meet somewhere and above all let’s correspond – write to me enclosed to ‘Sir Alexander Duff Gordon Treasury Chambers’ and enclose the letter altogether to A. Y. Spearman Esquire Treasury London’ – By all means not to take the courier recommended by Lady Stuart Domenico Farrari – lived with Mrs Frankland Lewis and 8 months with Lady Gordon herself ‘insolent and imperious beyond what I could have imagined possible ….. he would be an excellent servant to a hard fisted and tongued master ……’ quite enough – Cosmo arrived in good health and spirits ‘quite prosperous’ – poor Lady Gordon writes from her sofa – fell in getting into her carriage last week and ‘broke my knee and bruised my leg’ – will be in London till the 4th or 5th of August – then goes to Mrs Frankland Lewis – then to Mr Peploe – goes to Naples in October 1837 and Rome all that winter
Had Turner this morning before breakfast with a note for stone gateposts ordered by Mosey for Aquila Green – told him to get Mosey’s name to the bill, and bring it again with the bill for 30 stone posts (such as I have had before) at 1/6 delivered
Fine day Fahrenheit 59 now at 11 5/60 p.m.
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