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October Thursday 9
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No kiss her cousin came yesterday fine morning Fahrenheit 60° at 7 40/.. — out at 7 3/4
with Pickells — at Whiskum — agree with to do the bit of walling from the house along the pond to the
high road gate (finding everything stones and carting and walling) at 10/. a rood, and the walling also 4 feet high for
the new road into Mark Town’s fields at 9/. a rood also finding everything — Throp’s son and 3
men hacking up Bairstow — begun yesterday — a little while with them — the driving begun at John Bottomley’s
happened to mention at 3/6 a yard — Pickells said I must be mistaken — it must be 3/1 for he knew
a man who had delivered in (at the letting) at 3/2 a yard — home and breakfast at 10 in an hour —
Marian had come to us, and staid talking about inviting her protégée Miss Sarah Inman, and said
she had lately made up her mind to take her to live with her and had told her so — all
thought of Miss Mosey quite given up — should be miserable with her such a figure — out at 11, with
Charles Howarth went with him to Mythom about the chimney piece as a model for the blue room —
part of the mill unlet — too small for a worsted mill or would have let again and again — met
John Bottomley — Pickells had told me he declined signing his lease — said he must sign it,
or I would quit him next spring — he explained and so did I, and it ended, on his finding me
so determined, in his promising to sign tomorrow at Mr. Parker’s office — A- [Ann] came and met
me in the walk — out with her till 2 — then in and out — Mr. Alexander’s clerk brought
up the purchase deeds of ground on which the new museum is building for me to sign as one
of the 12 purchasers and subscribers of £100 each — bind ourselves not at any time to erect a
steam engine or place for any sort of trade or nuisance on the ground purchased at
the end of Dr. Kenny’s garden Barum top, 432 yards for £350. bind ourselves to
the repairs and ornament of the building — a majority of votes of the 12 proprietors being
binding on the rest — the property 1/12 to each a fee simple transferable by sale or
other deed capable of conveying other real property to heirs executors and assigns — I signed the
purchase deed of 4 or 5 skins, and the deed of constitution (rules of the society) on one skin —
with A- [Ann] dinner at 6 1/4 — read aloud to her from 7 3/4 to 8 3/4 the 1st 25 ppages of volume 1 Niebuhr’s history of
Rome — then won 3 and lost 2 hits at backgammon — 1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 — wrote the
last 20 lines of yesterday and the above of today till 10 3/4 — fine day till about 4 p.m. then
rain for the rest of the afternoon and evening Fahrenheit 60 3/4° p.m. — note from Mr. Parker, this
morning, being a form of agreement for cottage tenants to sign — William Green told me that Amos
Gauk pays £4 a year for one of the cottages (bought of William Green, and called Bridge-end) rent due 20 January
and 20 July, and John Green junior (William’s son) pays for the other cottage £3 a year rent due a fortnight
after Gauk’s — 48 bricks wall 1 square yard walling 1/2 brick in breadth —
[margin text:] Pickells entered to Whiskum cottage
this day Thursday 9 8br. [October] 1834.
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No kiss very fine morning Fahrenheit 57 1/2° at 8 3/4 a.m. at which hour went out — will want 1200 bricks for
George’s shoe-black place — went to John Bottomley’s to tell him to bring them — thence to the top of the hill
John Mann and company (2 Manns and another) began sinking the pit in Greenwood’s well field this morning —
some time with them — home and breakfast at 9 3/4 — then sat talking and some while with Marian — she says she will not
have more than £300 a year to spend — told A- [Ann] of the offer I had made Marian some years ago — £400 a
year and a knife and fork here or to pay for her man and maid after the rate my aunt pays my father
for hers — out with A- [Ann] about 12 to set acorns in Trough of Bolland wood — too hardwork
for her to stand on the slopes — walked her to Godley and by Lower brea and the walk home about 2 1/2 —
she lay down after luncheon, at 2 1/4 — wrote the above of today till 2 1/2 — with Charles Howarth then sowing
acorns in Trough of Bolland wood on the slope along the new approach road and in the bit of ground taken from Carr’s
field and afterwards in the old Godley road part of Park farm wood — latterly sowed them broad cast — the basket
of acorns (including basket) weighed 25 lbs. — John Bottomley brought 500 bricks at twice and 1 dozen
lime — 2 masons and 2 lads at the new coach house wall — Charles and James Howarth at wardrobe for north chamber —
came in at 6 1/4 — dinner at 6 20/.. — coffee — won 2 and lost 3 hits with A- [Ann] from 8 1/4 to 9 1/2 read from page 26
to 55 volume 1 Niebuhr’s Rome — then 1/2 hour with my aunt till 10 10/.. — very fine day — Fahrenheit 57 1/2° now at
10 1/4 p.m. — George Naylor’s 2nd wife died this afternoon of a fortnight’s illness — wrote to go by John in
the morning note to ‘Mr. Booth Bookseller etc. H-x [Halifax]’ saying I could only find one more
Leeds Intelligencer which I send to be bound with the rest and ordering the last quarterly review
and to have this review as well as the geological transactions regularly in future — ask why the last Gentlemans magazine
and A-’s [Ann] last Gardener’s magazine are not yet come — Charles Howarth said this afternoon £1000 too much for
upper brea but likely enough Stocks offered it — worth more to him than anyone else — would lose
all his northowram coal — Read 1/2 dozen ppages of Bakewell’s Geology to page 15.
[margin text:] I must buy upper brea
Saturday 11
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No kiss asleep as usual when I got into bed very fine morning Fahrenheit 53° at 8 a.m. out at 8 —
to 9 1/4 at which hour breakfast — had been with Charles Howarth beginning the ornamental part of Blue room chimney piece
from a clay model of the one at Mythom — and had been near 1/2 hour in the walk — Had Washington —
wishes me to make up my mind about his field adjoining Hardcastle’s — would wish to be paid in a
month or 2, or at the Xmas [Christmas] rent day — came upstairs at 10 3/4 settled with John — from 11 1/2 to 1 3/4 read very attentively
from page 15 to 39 Bakewell’s geology — A- [Ann] then came to me — off with her to Lidgate at 2 — there about an hour — just
saw Mr. Hird (Lampleugh) for A- [Ann] to speak to as he arrived and we were going away — an hour at Cliff hill till 3 3/4 — graciously received —
with Charles and James Howarth and about — paid Charles Howarth and Pickells — dinner at 6 — played only 3 hits and lost them all to A- [Ann]
then from 8 1/2 to 9 40/.. read aloud to A- [Ann] from page 55 to 85 volume 1 Niebuhr’s Rome — 25 minutes with my aunt till 10 10/..
very fine day — frosty, fine, cold morning but warm afterwards in the sun — Fahrenheit 55° now at 10 1/2 p.m.
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