Wednesday 20 July 1836

No kiss

Fine morning Fahrenheit 54 1/2 and out at 7 3/4 with Wood + 3, Richard Benjamin and after breakfast John Frier, at the upper pool puddling and sent them with Frank to Whiskum quarry twice to loaden 2 great stones and fill up the load with little stones - Sam Booth and Jack Green in the courtyard barrowing away cellar stuff &c. down against the lime tree in the old dunghill stead

Breakfast at 9 in 3/4 hour – then out again ordering about one of the great stones getting down and setting near the water stone till dinner at 12 1/2 – had John Booth from about 10 till 1 tidying up and forming the uppermost walk at the back of the middle garden door David Booth at the Lodge chimney

Ann out and sauntering about with me from about 11 to 12 came in at 1 and wrote the above of today – then out with Ann at the Lodge about till near 2 when she rode off to Cliff hill and I went to the pool and staid with Wood + 2, Richard and Benjamin till 6 – puddling and laying floor-stones

Miss Briggs who was away all yesterday and last night getting ready their house in Halifax, returned this evening to say Mrs Briggs’s uncle Job Sutcliffe was ill – this made Mrs Briggs wish to be off this evening – I just saw them for a minute before dinnertime enough to express intense sorrow at their going and to give Mrs Briggs a ten pounds Bank of England note which she never expected – thought far too much but took without difficulty – and she and her daughter off about 6 1/2 leaving before I came in seen Ann and my aunt

Dinner at 6 1/4 – went out for 2 or 3 minutes then coffee – Ann did her French She and I out from about 8 1/2 to 9 1/4 in the walk, and garden – then with aunt from 9 1/4 to 10. I sat reading the London-paper – then wrote the last 10 lines.

Sam Booth and Jack Green staid till 8 this evening clearing away all the rubbish left in the garden after laying the lead pipes

Letter tonight in answer to my letter of inquiry for servants to Mr Braithwaite, from Mrs Thompson mentioning a man out of livery and desiring to hear further from me. She seems to be register office keeper

Fine day – Fahrenheit 47 at 10 1/4 p.m.  

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/19/0077

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