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1820
June Saturday 24
9
12 10/60
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Oh! that I could for ever break thro’ this terrible habit of indolence bad for my
health as for my understanding! – Came upstairs at 10 1/2 – copied the whole of my letter
written to Miss V [Vallance] yesterday – From 11 3/4 to 4 read the first 63 lines of Satire 2 Juvenal with all
the notes as well of Lubinus as of Marshall the edition of my uncle’s edition – Sent to
the post my letter to Miss Vallance (Sittingbourne Kent) – In the afternoon read the first 132 ppages of
volume 2 Biblical criticism – In the evening went with my aunt and Marian looking for seedling trees in the little field
etc. to plant out in the garden afterwards walked with my father down the fields to mytholm –
returned the same way and got back at 9 1/2 – Very fine summerish day – the hottest this year –
Barometer 3 1/2 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 66 1/2° at 9 1/2.p.m. – Came upstairs at 10 35/60 sat up
looking Satires 1 and part of 2 Juvenal and some of the epigrams of Anson –
Sunday 25
8 1/2
11 1/4
All went to church except Marian who stayed at home on account of her bonnet – Mr Knight
preached 28 minutes from Saint Luke chapter 19 verse 41 – Very hot and all of us very much heated –
sat down and put my legs up – slept a little – read over Satire 1 and the first 80 lines of Satire 2 Juvenal
and went down stairs at 4 – my aunt and I read the service – In the evening read aloud sermon 2 Busfield –
Very fine, hot summer’s day – Barometer at fair Fahrenheit 70° at 9.p.m –
Monday 26
6
11 1/2
N
Before Breakfast about 1 hour looking over the former part of Surds – 1/4 hour’s nap in consequence of the heat, and then
did from exercise 1 page 203 to exercise 2 page 205 volume 1 Hutton – Note from Mrs Henry Priestly
Haughend (dated so long ago as Wednesday 21 June) to say Mr Belcombe had desired her to ask me
to let them know when I ‘heard anything of Miss Norcliffe’ – Came upstairs at 10 3/4 –
From 11 to 4, Read from verse 64 to 170 (i.e. 107 lines) end of Satire 2 Juvenal with all the notes
both of Lubinus and my uncles edition – Very hot – in a great perspiration tho’ sitting quite
still – In the afternoon read from page 132 to 192 volume 2 Horsley’s biblical criticism – In the evening
from 8 to 9 walked on the terrace – Very hot tho’ a coolish pleasant air out of doors – Barometer 1/4 degree
above Fair. Fahrenheit 74° at 9.p.m. – Came upstairs at 11 –
Tuesday 27
7 10/60
12 1/4
Before Breakfast did exercise 2,3,4, and 5 page 205 volume 1 Hutton – Came upstairs 5 minutes before 11 – having previously taken
a pencil outline of the crest for my aunt to colour and send to Hoyland for the sign at Mytholm –
From 11 to 5 3/4 read the first 67 lines of Satire 6 Juvenal; having, however, spent a great deal of time
in looking over the notes to the other Satires and besides Crossley came about 1 and was full 3/4 hour cutting and
curling my hair – In the evening from 8 to 9 3/4 walking and sauntering about at the bridge, Charles Howarth’s, etc. with
my uncle and aunt and father and Marian. Charles said the thermometer Fahrenheit was 122° in the sun today – went to Hipperholme
lane ends – and walked on the terrace from 9 3/4 to 10 – Very hot day – In a rather profuse perspiration all the day –
pleasant air between 9 and 10 – Barometer at fair Fahrenheit 74° at 10.p.m. – Came upstairs at 10 50/60 – looking over Lyttleton’s latin dictionary –
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1820
June Wednesday 28
9
11 40/60
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thinking of miss vallance – Came upstairs at 11 10/60 – From 11 1/4 to 4 1/4, read from verse 68 to 185
Satire 6 Juvenal – together with all the notes of Lubinus, and Marshall’s edition – In the afternoon
read from page 292 to 330 volume 2 Biblical criticism – In the evening (set off at 7 3/4 got home at 9 3/4) walked
with my aunt and Marian to Halifax – Called at Miss Stead’s about Marian’s things, at Whitley’s, at
the Saltmarshes (they were out) to ask after them and how Mrs Empson got here, and sat a few minutes at Northgate –
Very hot day – but cool air and pleasant in the evening – Barometer 1 1/4 degree below fair – Fahrenheit 72° at 9 ¾.p.m. –
Thursday 29
9
11 3/4
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sad musing on line forty nine book two sat seven horace and line numbered one hundred
and thirty sat six lubinus juvenal which line is wanting in my uncles edition and also think
ing of miss valance – Mr Booth the taylor came to measure George – Came upstairs at 10 1/2 –
Find the line numbered 130 (but which is in fact 129) by Lubinus, in Satire 6 Juvenal, is wanting in my uncle’s edition –
Comparing the 2 editions – From 11 35/60 to 5 3/4 read from verse 185 to 353 (i.e. 168 lines) Satire 6 Juvenal (and all
Lubinus’ and all the notes to my uncles edition) – in a state of considerable eexcite
ment all the time and the close has made me add another shameful cross at the head of this day –
surely I will pray and try to amend – In the evening (from 7 1/4 to 8 3/4) walked on the terrace and read
over the first 350 vverses of Satire 6 Juvenal – Afterwards heard Marian read aloud a few ppages of volume 1 Mitfowl’s
Greece – Not near so hot today as yesterday – a little sun – A sort of mistiness all the day and dampish
in the evening with a few drops of large rain about 9 – Barometer 2 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 64° at 9.p.m. –
Came upstairs at 10 1/2 – Sat up looking at some words in Littleton’s Latin Dictionary crisso is for a woman to bend
herself impudently see the greek verb riknoosee thinking of these things after getting into bed in a
state of great excitement for a good while and afterwards it is ssad to confess another
cross thus three in so short a while it has not so happened to me of years even if it
ever was sso with me at all may this have been the firt [first] and last time of such sinful immodesty
Friday 30
9
11 1/2
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Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – From 11 to 5 read from verse 353 to 481 Satire 6 Juvenal with all their
notes of both editions – Lost a good while in looking at other notes of Lubinus then
those belonging to Satire 6 – particularly those on the eight line and the one or two next
following of sat one persius these aided the excitement felt before and led to
another cross in my chair just before four – this is shocking I must get the better of such shameful
irresolution let me try in better earnest in future – In the evening from 9 35/60
to 10 walked on the terrace, and read over what I had done of Juvenal in the morning – Fine day not much
sun – Barometer 2 1/2 above changeable Fahrenheit 59° at 10.p.m. –
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