Tuesday 24 October 1837
Rain in the night and raining fast at 7 a.m. but fine at 8, and sunny and Fahrenheit 55 at 9 but all very wet about and hazy tho' sunny, and damp and autumnal - breakfast at 9 10/60 in about 1/2 hour
Mr. Wheatley the veterinary surgeon had waited a little while - he had just ridden the horse 'in the park'- he had gone very well and Mr. Wheatley thought his cough a grass cough I expressed my fear that this was not the case, but that the horse had been starved in early life got a bad cold from which he had never thoroughly recovered, and his present was the consequence and was a consumption - Wheatley owned he feared it might be so - the pleura might be affected and it might be sometime before the horse was laid up - (grass I think he said) - But he Wheatley would write to Mr. McAuley - say that the stable treatment was very good &c. &c. everything right done to the horse, and that if with this and above all he did not get better of his cough Wheatley should think of the horse being returned - I put the horse under Wheatley's care, and the case as to Mr. McAuley under Wheatley's management
Then came and told Ann what had passed and out again in a few minutes till came in about 1 1/2 and saw Ann ride off about 1 3/4 on to Cliff hill on Mangnall - walked by her side as far as the great sycamore.
It began to rain pretty smartly about (before) 2 and has rained incessantly more or less ever since till now 6 35/60 - yet more the less out about, in the barn and stabling and on and returning from Ann long while looking about low fish pond (thinking of garden entrance) - out all the day till came in about 4
Then in the cellar - Robert Mann brought in the 3 sacks of sawdust that came from Halifax with the wine, and Robert Norton the joiner again sand the hall cellar door - the cellar is so damp there is nothing but pother with the door
A little while with Ann dressed - wrote to 'Mrs. Thompson Register Office Coney Street York Postage Paid' newly to beg her to inform William Rennie I would write for his character to Mr. Clough the end of this week
Then wrote all the above of today till 6 40/60
I was at the Lodge with Booth at 1 p.m. or before to look at the fireplace mantel piece - ordered one like it for the Laundry room - staid a little while talking to William and Matty - he very poorly suffers from his legs as my poor aunt did
Very heavy rain about (before and after) 7 - dinner at 7 5/60 coffee - Ann read French then she read the Halifax paper and I the London (Morning Herald) and then read from page 183 to 217 volume ii Portugal and Gallicia and we came upstairs at 10 25/60 at which hour Fahrenheit 40
Rainy night as well as rainy afternoon and evening from before 2 p.m. -
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