Sunday 17 March 1839
Damp small rainy morning Fahrenheit 40 inside and 37 1/2 outside at 9 1/2 and whistling wind
Ann came at seven and a half and lay quietly with me three quarters of an hour
Breakfast at 9 1/2 in 1/2 hour, and afterwards from about 10 10/60 to 1 3/4 with Ann in the breakfast room looking over the Oakview mill bills
Off to church at 2 - Mr. Horsfall did all the duty - preached 1/2 hour from John vi. 43 and part of 44 - stopped a minute or 2 at the school in returning - then 20 minutes at Cliff hill
Ann had sent George to Crow nest to ask if Mr. Samuel Washington could call at Shibden hall tomorrow no! - not till 10 a.m. on Wednesday
Home at 4 55/60 - Ann and I walked 25 minutes in front of the house and I afterwards walked 1/4 hour longer alone - then looking about in the hall measuring doorways &c
Dressed - dinner at 6 1/2 - Ann read French - Coffee - I read skimmed over the London newspapers of last night and tonight - and then wrote copy of note for Ann Ann wrote note to Samuel Washington to go tomorrow giving him Whitehead's accounts, arrears still due = £24.18.5, to get settled on Tuesday and asking him what he thinks ought to be given to Mr. Whitehead's uncle for overlooking the workmen
Damp and gentle rain all the morning till between 12 and 1 - afterwards little showers - a threatening of small snow sent me in at 5 3/4 p.m.
Had just written the last 10 1/2 lines at 11 p.m. then read a page or 2 in Thirlwall's History of Greece volume 1
Came upstairs at 11 20/60 at which hour Fahrenheit 38 1/2 inside and 32 1/2 outside - put the clock forward 1/4 hour
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