| UserWrapped4 | Please be aware that this diary entry contains sexually explicit language. |
| Catalogue Finding Number | SH:7/ML/E/15/0133 |
| Office record is held at | Calderdale, West Yorkshire Archive Service |
| Title | Diary page |
| Description | [Diary Transcription]
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1832
October Tuesday 16
6 1/4
12 5/..
V
Did not sleep very well Left my room at 7 1/2 and Miss Walker not being quite ready, went to Yew trees — Saw Mark —
spoke to him about letting Miss Walker have what milk she wanted and sending it — Yes! She should
have anything he had — said in a manner evidently shewing that he was well enough aware this was the best
way of pleasing me — back and breakfast a few minutes past 8 after I had read prayers (the servants all
came in as last night) — Miss Walker not well — Lay on the sofa all the day —And I sat by her
very affectionately gave her her gruel at two and afterwards at four cut and put into her mouth one
sandwich nursed her very tenderly the more so as she was ssuffering from having
had me last night felt sickish had pain in her back and felt great heat and soreness
about her queer her cousin comes irregularly often suffers for a week before thought
it was perhaps coming never thought I should have made her suffer so much would
never let me do so again I took all this very well consoling and reassuring her as well as I could and being
so kind that I saw she was moved by it and we talked as if there was no chance of her
eventually refusing me in fact we go on as if all was ssettled I really feel in love with
her and have no fear of being very happy with her we settled to go to York on Monday
or rather make headquarters at Tadcaster and have Doctor Belcombe come to us — walked
very fast and at home in less than 25 minutes at 6 50/.. — dinner at 7 5/.. — sat up talking to my aunt — Told
her I really began to think Miss Walker would give up Cliff Hill and come to me — showery day —
Fahrenheit 58 1/2° at 11 1/2 p.m. —
Wednesday 17
6 50/..
11 20/..
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breakfast at 8 — my father did not come of 1/4 hour — off at 8 40/.. (along the walk) to Lidgate and there in
1/2 hour — sat with Miss Walker till near 12 — better but still far from well this morning — she settled
to have a sort of wing glazed so as to form a green house — walked with her to Cliff hill —
sauntered along Stoney lane and the fields alongside explaining that the tree-guards there were not
sufficient protection against the cattle — Very good friends more than ever as if all was ssettled
between us settled to go to York on Monday or rather to Tadcaster — drive over to York and
see Dr. Belcombe the next day — shop a little sleep again at Tadcaster and be back on Wednesday — I to go
and sleep there on Sunday — Consulted me about her concerns brought out her rent roll
evidently more at ease with me than ever and more affectionate she told me yester
day she had two five hundred a year and I should guess about one thousand at her own
disposal talked this morning more than ever as she really meant to say yes and take me
said nothing against my going tomorrow but asked me to breakfast she said on Monday
she was already much attached to me and I really believe she is left her at the Cliff
Hill home gate at one and home at 1 1/2 — found Throp had sent the plants — took John
and went down to the hut at 2 — Had Pickles and Dick from then till dark — the former planting
box and holly and the latter just taking the top grass off and John planting out trees and shrubs
till we could see no longer — Could not do above half my £5.15.0 worth — home at 6 1/2
so dark then could hardly grope along my walk — with them all in the little room — dinner at
7 — afterwards wrote out all but the 1st 2 lines of Monday, the whole of yesterday and so far of today — on
coming in at 1 1/2 found on my desk very kind letter 2 ppages from Mrs. James Dalton (Croft Rectory) seeming
much pleased with my letter and giving a pretty good account of herself and expressing herself very properly about the
intended match — hoping all the schemes of happiness would be realized and saying that as far as amiability
of character and disposition went she believed there was no doubt — adding that Esther was pleased by all my
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good wishes, and would have been the one to ask to write to me if Mrs. James Dalton had not written herself —
very kind letter also 3 ppages and ends from Lady Stuart (Richmond Park) who was on the point of writing to me fearing
from my long silence that all was not well — had been at home about a fortnight — wrote the instant
she received my last — to tell me that Vere devoted all her spare time to herself (Lady Stuart) — would have
sent me her last letter had she had a frank — very sorry to leave Stuttgard — they and the
Northlands to winter at Naples — Lady Stuart will see Eugénie for me — Charlotte
and Louisa with her — send their love — in short very kind letter — had just written so far at 9 5/..
and then went into the little room — staid talking to my aunt about Miss Walker said the more I saw of her the more
I felt satisfied with her etc. etc. came to my room at 10 3/4 — fine day. Fahrenheit 58° at 10 50/.. p.m.
Thursday 18
6 40/..
11 1/2
V
rain in the night and lately — finish but dampish morning Fahrenheit 59° at 7 1/2 — out at 7 35/.. — along
the walk — at Lidgate to breakfast at 8 10/.. — sat cozing as usual till Miss Walker’s dinner at 2 —
Hepworth the joiner came before we had done breakfast about the frame-work for the greenhouse to
be made — Washington’s estimate 11.16.0 — 60 feet glazing at 1/4 = £4. mason's work 10/. wood
40/. the rest for joiner’s work — allowing the same for masonry and glazing though the panes were to be bigger (3 in a row of 14 by 10 inches +
(instead of 4 in a row of 14 by 7 1/2 +) and bargaining to have 2 coats of paint on, got Hepworth’s
estimate at 9.15.0.) he charging only 20/. for the wood, and engaging to his job for the sum estimated —
It must seem to them all as if I had the ordering of the thing and as if my influence was paramount
she said she should like the greenhouse as it was the first thing we had a common interest in
talked of Shibden and Cliff Hill and exactly as if all was ssettled she was now convinced I loved
her thought at first I liked but not loved and mere liking was not enough something
more required for living together she owned she loved me I made strong love and really felt
it she said she should not mind her cousin coming on while we were away should not mind being
ill if I was with her I had right middle finger moderately and gently she making no resis
tance but say how kind and gentle I was with her she lay on my arm on the sofa as usual no objec
tion to my going tomorrow in fact surely she has no thought but of taking me ~ at the
wearing at 2 20/.. — Had Pearson and George Robinson — gave orders about more wearing near the dam-
stones at Mytholm and along George Robinson’s garden and had Dodgson about some soughing he wants
doing — then from about 2 3/4 to 6 with John planting out Spanish chestnuts roses, junipers, yews, violets, etc.
in the walk — home at 6 1/4 — almost 3/4 hour talking to Marian — Dinner at 7 in 3/4 hour — then came to my
room and wrote all the above of today — from 8 1/4 to 9 1/2 wrote 3 ppages and ends and under the seal to M- [Mariana] to
go tomorrow — went downstairs — read tonight’s Courier — sat up talking to my aunt of Miss Walker told of her
present to her cousin Atkinson and that it would have been double that is a thousand but for me ~
very fine day — Fahrenheit 57 1/2° at 10 55/.. at which hour came up to bed — Dick wearing grass off edge of west slope
of walk this morning and jobbing at James Smith’s for me in the afternoon
Friday 19
6
12 10/..
Vc
very fine morning Fahrenheit 52° at 7 a.m. Mending pelisse sleeves till 7 and three quarters breakfast with
my father at 8 — out at 8 1/2 and from then to one had John finishing planting out the hollies shrubs 6 Ragland
oaks and 1 gigantic and 1 weeping elm etc. that came yesterday from Throp’s — changed my pelisse and walked to Lidgate —
there at 2 1/2 — Miss Walker gone to Cliff hill — went there for about 1/2 hour and then returned to Lidgate with Miss Walker junior —
she would have me stay dinner which I did — dinner at 5 3/4 and tea at 6 1/2 — sat talking till near 11 — home (walked
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| Date | Oct 1832 |
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