| Catalogue Finding Number | SH:7/ML/E/21/0035 |
| Office record is held at | Calderdale, West Yorkshire Archive Service |
| Title | Diary page |
| Description | [Diary Transcription]
58
1838
January
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this took till near 7 1/2 at which hour dinner — tea in the dining room and I read aloud chapter 5 (very interesting)
Lardner’s History of Russia volume 1 (volume 3 that is to be, not yet published) — then came into the
north parlour about 9 — some time talking to A- [Ann] about value of Cordingley’s farm (he is coming tomorrow)
and about Mr. Holmes’s lease etc. then till 10 wrote all the above of today — then read the
newspaper and came upstairs at 11 1/2 at which hour Fahrenheit 26º — fine day — thaugh during the
day and no decided frost when I came in at 5 1/2 p.m. but hard frost again tonight —
Wednesday 31
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A’s [Ann] cousin came this morning fine but rather hazy Fahrenheit 24º at 8 10/.. and at 9 10/.. a.m. breakfast at 9 20/.. to 9 55/.. — then reading over
German (Kotzebue) read before till went in to Mr. Adam (A- [Ann] had sent for him respecting Mr.
Holmes’s Southedge lease and respecting Mrs. Broadbent’s property) at 10 50/.. for 3/4 hour — A butcher
(Smith? Smithies) wants the H-x [Halifax] fields 4 1/2 D.W. [days work] said A- [Ann], at £3 per D.W. [days work] I said my uncle Joseph Lister
let them at 17 guineas and I would have the £16 — rather leave them unlet for a year than not
have what I asked — then A- [Ann] had her tenant Cordingly — with the flashes in addition (deducting 1 3/4
D.W. [days work] for recent planting (will have 26, nearly 27 D.W. [days work] — at 40/. per D.W. [days work] and buildings should be
£60 per annum — I left them and went into the farm yard and loitered about — Sam chopping sticks —
John and George bodding about — desired John to take the horses to be sharpened this afternoon — his daughter
Hannah very ill off — said I would give her a stone of oatmeal and some potatoes mentioned a stone and a sack of coal
came in about 12 1/2 — then with A- [Ann] then in the cellar 1 marsala — then wrote the above of today till
1 1/4 — then at German — till A- [Ann] came to me about 1 50/.. and staid 10 minutes — she rode off to
Cliff hill, and I sat reading German Kotzebue till 3 1/2 having read from line 12 page 12 to line
last but 2 of page 16 — Snowing again now at 3 1/2 and began 1/4 hour ago — from 4 to 7 at my accounts except
had A- [Ann] on her return home for 1/4 hour or 20 minutes, and at 6 had for about 20 minutes Smithy I think he said he was his
name butcher who married the daughter of James Drake of Northowram — to take the H-x [Halifax] fields (vide line
4 of today) — offered £14 — no! I should take less than £16 — he said he should have £10 or £11 to lay out
to lay one of the fields down in grass — said I would make some allowance for that the 1st year and should
repair the fence-walls — but would not take less than £16 per annum — and after about 20 minutes
wished the man good night — saying that if he thought any more of the fields he might let me know
but I should have other offers, and should feel myself at liberty to let them — my uncle let them for 17 guineas —
I was vexed about them and if I could not let might sell — turned to my rough book of 1834
and began trying a rough draft of travelling and other accounts from 1 January 1834 — dinner at 7 5/.. — read
the paper — A- [Ann] had another from Mr. Scadomore respecting the £5 Samuel Washington paid to Mrs. Broadbent
being claimed and taken by the woman she lodged with and Mr. Scadomore seeming huffed that Mrs. Broadbent
had not a better lodging got for her and an attendant! tea — read Gibbon’s account of the Slavi and
Russians volume X chapter 55 from page 193 to 243 inclusive (A- [Ann] looking at Genealogical tables and making
notes from Lardner’s history of Russia volume 1) and then read from page 56 to 89 volume 2 Cochrane’s Journey — and
came upstairs at 11 10/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 30 1/2º and fair — finish day excepting snow from about 3 to after
4 — till 11 25/.. wrote the last 15 lines —
[margin text:] H-x [Halifax] fields — Smithy came
Began inking over
rough books
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1838
February Thursday 1
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Fahrenheit 31º at 8 and at 9 a.m. and finish morning — A- [Ann] breakfasted at 8 1/2 expecting Mr. Horner
who did not come — sat reading Lardner’s Russia chapter to me as I breakfasted from 9 to near 10 then out — about —
went to the Lodge and stood talking some time to Matty to tell her to keep the gate locked and not let
foot passengers come that way — home about 11 1/4 — sat with A- [Ann] reading her Geographical magazine 4to. [quarto]
article Russia till came upstairs at 12 1/4 — Ostrog signed island and Iwan John — the Cossacks
originally from Mount Caucasus — 13 falls in the space of 80 vessets in the Dnieper or Borysthenes
but vessels can be hauled over the falls in Spring when the water is high — wrote the above
of today till 12 25/.. — from then to 7 (except while A- [Ann] was with me 10 minutes before setting off to Cliff hill
at 2 and about as long on her return soon after 4) at accounts inking over and adding up page by page old
rough books — began yesterday at 1 January 1834 and got into the 2nd rough book to 9 March 1834 — dinner at
7 10/.. — A- [Ann] read French — tea — read the newspaper and came upstairs at 9 1/2 feeling so many drafts of air
in the north parlour that my right eye was uncomfortable — left A- [Ann] just beginning a letter to her sister
Mr. Adam sent us this morning a lithograp-plan and perspective view of several (above 20)
small houses projected in ground belonging to Mr. James Norris — to be called Savile Terrace — Mr. Parker
confined to his bed — not able to set off to Paris last Friday — several little snow showers since
noon today — then at inking over rough book from 9 March to 3 April inclusive 1834 till 10 1/2 (A- [Ann] had
come up to bed at 10 1/4 p.m. — Fahrenheit 29º now at 10 1/2 p.m. — tolerably fine day though several little
snow showers during the afternoon —
Friday 2
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fine morning Fahrenheit 28º at 8 20/.. and 29º 3/4 hour afterwards — 20 minutes at accounts and breakfast at 9 1/2 —
wrote and sent note to Mr. MacKean Yorkshire District Bank H-x [Halifax] and enclosed check no. [number] 212 for £100 —
gave John Booth too £25 to pay 4 bills A [Ann] let me have thirty pounds for this purpose and
fourteen six and six pence last night which she enclosed for me to Mr Jubb all this took me till
near 11 — then had David Booth who brought his bill, for last 1/2 year — for quarry and everything up to
the end of last year or rather up to the end of the work done here — looking over these and settling
about Mytham — will not lay out more than £30 that is one year’s rent — much to pay down from
Mallinson’s estimate of his job — reckoned mistal at £10 Booth’s job at £10 and [therefore] £10 left for
Mallinson instead of £21+ had Booth (in the little dining room) till 3 1/2 — gave him check 213 for £50
and now balance in his favour = £104 + — he expected it was two or three hundreds more! Told
him to examine his books — shewed him my book — from 3 1/2 to about 5 with A- [Ann] talked over Dr. Lyon’s
letter that came last night and Mr. Kennerley’s that came this afternoon about Mrs. Broadbent — Wrote co
py of letter for A [Ann] to Doctor Lyon A- [Ann] wrote to Dr. Lyon enclosing a £5 Bank of England note of which he
to take a guinea-fee, and the rest to go towards medicines and wine and 4 week’s weekly payments of
15/. to Mr. and Mrs. Kennerley being 8/. a week for bed and lodging and 7/. a week for attendance — at the
end of the 4 weeks (from this day) A- [Ann] will have determined what further should be done — she expressly says
the 4 times 15/. shall be all she will be answerable for to Mr. and Mrs. Kennerley but Dr. Lyon to order what is
necessary of medicine and wine (proposes the latter being sent in draught bottles — so medicine-wise as to
escape detection?) and A- [Ann] will remit the money — asks him to answer Mr. Kennerley’s letter by informing
him of what A- [Ann] has proposed respecting the 15/. per week — then had Joseph Mann who had waited some time
holed last night i.e. from drift from Engine pit into drift to meet it began a week ago at Listerwick pit —
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| Date | Jan-Feb 1838 |
| Extent | 1 page |
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