Sunday 24 March 1839

Fine morning Fahrenheit 49 inside and 52 outside at 8 55/60 a.m. Highish wind

Breakfast at 9 and sat Ann and I reading aloud a page or 2 of Mitford's Greece and looking over Ann's Smith's map of ancient Greece, Italy, Germany Egypt &c. till came upstairs at 11

Then till 11 3/4 read (skimmed) over last night's London Morning Herald - It seems page 5. column 6 near the bottom Messrs. Holland, Thompson and Company of Oxford Street have just made (price above £400) a travelling carriage on an improved plan for the Duke of Lucca, 'containing a desk, cabinet, and bibliotheque'

Then had Ann till 1 1/2 - then walked with her 10 minutes and walked alone till 2 20/60 then dressed - off to church at 2 35/60 a few minutes at the school - Mr. Sutcliffe did all the duty - preached 35 minutes from 1 Epistle St. John i. 8 and 9. 22 minutes at Cliff hill - Mrs. Ann Walker as well as last Sunday and very newsy talkative - home at 5 1/2

Wrote and sent to M. E. if she had no objection to a place in the country to wait on 2 ladies Mrs. Lister wished to know her age, health, wages, and address of the family in which she lived last - directed (vide Morning Herald of 22 March page 8. column 4) Mrs Manktelen milliner 6 York Street Foley Place Portland Place, London Postage Paid and wrote desiring to have the Morning Herald of Thursday 21 March (instead of the Morning Post sent) to Mr. Robert Walkden 2 Jones Street Berkeley square London Postage Paid

Then wrote the last 8 lines till 6 20/60 - Returned by Sam tonight to Mr. Crowther librarian volume iii's Wilkinson read thro' yesterday

Dinner at 6 1/2 - Ann read French - Coffee - Ann and I reading Murray's Encyclopædia of Geography Greece

And I then turned to read partly aloud liber ix Oddyssey the story of Polyphemus - berger in his cabane - vide Encyclopædia of Geography page 963 number 4077 Nymphea nelumbo (sacred bean) κναμος, of India Nymphea lotos vide page 1153 the 'Zizyphus' lotos (jujeb) the food of the lotophagi according the Desfontaines Homer Oddyssey ix. Pope's translation Cyclops from chek lub or chek lelub Lubim vide 2 Chronicles xii. 3. Giants. Zamzummim. Deuteronomy ii. 20.

Came upstairs at 10 1/2 at which hour Fahrenheit 44 inside and 38 outside - fine day - wrote the last 10 lines till 10 3/4  

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