Thursday 26 October 1837

Fine but dullish morning Fahrenheit 42 at 8 1/2 - and sat reading Murray's Encyclopaedia of Geography

Ann came for me to breakfast at 9 - She had breakfasted and Mr. Horner came about 9 10/60

I out about 10 and out the whole day in the barn and stabling siding the cowhouse and piling bricks in the coach house 3 loads = 1500 by the George Naylor’s cart and a load = 350 by my own cart (Sam Booth) from Mr. Rawsons - Culpan to wall up the coach house against cow house to the top on Monday - Booths man hewing and finished putting windows into hay shed and did a little at the front stable and door

Robert Mann's men went home in the afternoon - and all the other men - Robert Mann helped John Booth to side and pile bricks - Booth here all the afternoon and part of the morning

Ann off to Cliff hill about 11 and not back till 6 20/60 had sent for Mr. Jubb to see her aunt - the blister put on last night had been troublesome

Came in at 5 55/60 - dressed in the tent room - Mrs. Ann Lee here all day mending blue room drugget

Made extracts from volume 1 Portugal and Gallicia - dinner at 7 5/60 coffee at 8 - Ann read French I asleep on the sofa and then read the paper - we came upstairs at 10 55/60 at which hour Fahrenheit 51  

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/20/0151

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