Sunday 7 April 1839

Fine sunny morning highish wind Fahrenheit 50 inside and 47 outside at 9 a.m. breakfast at 9 1/4 and sat talking then till from 10 10/60 to 11 10/60 Ann and I walked in front of the house talking of our getting off

She seems resolved to sign all over to me to go to York and get it done as soon as we can talked this morning and yesterday of going to Saint Petersburg by sea in June or July - then from 11 10/60 had Ann with me in the blue room reading

I wrote letter to go tonight to Hutton with order on Messrs. Hammersley and note to Mr. Charles Norris to go tomorrow with the Waterhouse charity cup - and then Ann and I put away the morning Herald newspapers, last year's to go to be bound

Poor Ann we shall be obliged to hurry off - she is getting all low again I shall enough to do to keep her up 

Tis now 2 20/60 - have just made rough draft of index for this volume up to the second instant

Dressed - off to church at 2 40/60 - the children gone so stopt at the school 2 or 3 minutes on our return - Mr. Horsfall did all the duty - preached uninterestingly (I 1/2 asleep, or asleep) 34 minutes from 1 Corinthians i. 23, 24. - 20 minutes at Cliff hill - Mrs Ann Walker well as of late - home at 5 1/2

Walked 20 minutes with Ann in front of the house - then had Robert Mann - settled for my own 3 horses and George Naylor's 2 to be at the water wheel engine pit scale tomorrow and a 2 horse Mark-Hepworth cart (and a standard cart) to bring engine ashes tomorrow for the entrance passage flagging and the terraces - Sam Booth and Robert Fielding to riddle the ashes for the passage 2 or 3 loads and to fill the carts - Robert to spare William Lord, and to get Joseph Sharpe to help him to go on with the Listerwick walling against the high road tomorrow

Sent off by Sam tonight (by tonight's bag) my letter (vide line 6 above) my letter to 'Mr. Hutton 114 Park Street Grosvenor square London Postage Paid' with order on Messrs. Hammersley and company for £7.6.0 i.e. 4/- paid for Ann to Rundell and Bridge, 6/6 paid to Strongitharm for buttons for George's clothes last May and £6.15.6 for George's groom's suit which arrived the 19th. ultima

Had just written the last 13 lines at 6 25/60 - dinner at 6 1/2 - Ann read French - coffee - Skimmed over tonight's paper till about 9 1/4 - then till about (near) 10 at Ann's rental making out - and completed notes of all but the cottages

Very fine day - came upstairs at 10 - Fahrenheit 39 1/2 inside and 31 outside at 10 1/4 p.m. rubbed Ann's back

WYAS: SH:7/ML/E/23/0016

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