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Incurred the cross just before getting up thinking of π- [Mariana] would not do then thought of Mrs. Barlow — Breakfast at 10 1/2 —
went out at 11 1/2 — went to the footpath sauntered about and sat on the rail at the Dolt old style till near 5 — read from page 70. to 120.
iv. [volume 4] Rousseau Confessions — Stood sometime looking over the workmen — then sauntered up and down the fields all round the house and came in at 6 20/60 —
Dinner at 6 40/60 — had to wait 10 minutes — read the 1st. 36 ppages Dr. Hunter’s essay on the Buxton waters published in 1793 — From 8 50/60
to 9 20/60 walked on the terrace — Came up to bed at 10, at which hour Barometer 4 degrees above changeable and Fahrenheit 64º. (near the hall window) —
my little Fahrenheit stood at 73º. on my writing desk near the window in my room — Very fine day — an occasional cool, pleasant air — E..[above] o.. —
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Mended my gloves went out to the new footpath at 8 3/4 — got back to breakfast at 10 1/4 — breakfast at 10 1/2 — Came upstairs at
11 1/2 — my aunt had just before set out in the gig, the 1st time of her venturing out in it since my return from France — sat down at
my writing desk at 11 50/60 — wrote 1 1/4 ppages to Louisa Belcombe in answer to her note of Thursday 30 June — This took me
till two having to be careful what I wrote satisfied and read it over two or three times — at 2 1/4
went to the new footpath — the drain or hollow to carry the water from the causeway — would have been finished today, but took off the
men to rail off John Oates’s field from the Dolt — Stood over them till about 7 — got home at 7 10/60 — Dinner at 7 20/60 — Came up to
bed at 9 40/60 at which hour Barometer 3 2/3 degrees above changeable and Fahrenheit 62º. Very fine day — fine, cool, pleasant air — my little
Fahrenheit in my room stood this morning at 10 1/4 at 70º and stands at the same now at 10 3/4 p.m. — E..[above] o.. — wrote the last 4 lines, and read 10 ppages
iv. [volume 4] Rousseau Confessions so that on the whole, while out today and since coming up to bed I have read from page 120. to 148. —
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Gave Hotspur oat cake above 1/2 hour looking out words in my little French dictionary — read from page 24. to 47. no. [number] 5 Zoological
Journal — breakfast at 9 3/4 — at 10 20/60 off in the gig — Called at Mr. Wiglesworth’s office — nothing owing to Mr. James Briggs —
then went to the bank — got money for my uncle and settled my own account, receiving the 2 last 1/2 year’s interest due —
That is sseven pounds ten leaving nothing in hand ~. Mr. James Briggs not at home — drove to Kebroyde — sat an
hour with Mrs. Priestley — very glad to see me — then drove to Haughend, and sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Henry Priestley and Miss
Eliza Belcombe — the latter said her sister Louisa begged her love, and desired to know if I meant to answer her note
during this century — I merely sent my love, but Eliza seeming to want some answer whether I would write or not, said
I liked not to make promises, but perhaps I might write by the parcel I was going to send to Mr. Duffin — having called
to ask if she had anything to send home — Called at Mr. James Briggs’s — he said all his expenses had been paid —
my uncle owed him nothing — on which I in my uncle’s name begged his acceptance of £10 bank of England note,
say we were obliged to him for his advice and I should be glad to consult him again should we want his assistance — he seemed surprised to find it £10 —
said £5 was enough — but was evidently well pleased — Got home at 2 10/60 — came upstairs immediately — settled all my accounts —
which took me till 4 — On settling my accounts with π- [Mariana] find I owe her four and nine pence now that I
have received her two last half year's interest amounting to three pounds fifteen and I have by me
twenty seven pounds one shilling and two pence and my uncle has not given me my half yearly twenty
five pounds he is I find to give my aunt one hundred and fifty to go to Buxton with and my twenty fi
ve is to be included in this ssum which I got this morning at the bank and all which my uncle has borr
owed — wrote the above of today, Had just done it at 4 3/4 — went down stairs at 5 — staid talking 1/2 hour to my uncle —
Gave him the money and he then took out and gave me my twenty five leaving the rest for my aunt — went out to the
workmen (James Sykes Frank Oates and Thomas Acomb) at the new foot path at about 5 1/2 — the sodded hollow, or drain, to carry
off the top water, finished and all will be tidied up and done tomorrow except the railing off — Sauntered about — got home about 6 1/2 —
talked some time to my uncle and aunt — Dinner at 6 50/60 — my father and Marian came in the evening — Very fine day — warm this afternoon —
and very warm returning from Kebroyde, and Haughend — fine air as I went — my little Fahrenheit stood at 66º. at 9 3/4 a.m. and now at
9 3/4 p.m. stands at 71º. on my writing desk in my room — Barometer 1 3/4 degrees above changeable and Fahrenheit (in the hall) 64º. at 9 40/60
p.m. at which hour came up to bed — E..[above] o.. — Read from page 148. to 162. iv. [volume 4] Rousseau Confessions which took me till 10 55/60 —
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Gave Hotspur oat cake — Staid out pulling up the dead hedge between the Hall croft and the lane — did not come in to dress till
8 25/60 — read from page 46. to 59. no. [number] 5, Zoological Journal — breakfast at 10 50/60 — Staid talking till 12 1/2 — Letter from Miss Marsh
(Micklegate York) all well — went to the new footpath at 12 1/2 — Sauntered about while the men were at dinner Sat upon the
Dolt old style, and then upon some hay just below it, reading the last 10 ppages of volume 4 (and last), ‘Les Confessions de
Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intus in ente Tome premier. Edition stéréotype d’après
le procédé de Firmin Didot, A Paris, de l’imprimerie et de la fonderie
stéréotypes de Pierre Didot l’aine, et de Firmin Didot. 1808.
4 volumes 18 mo [octodecimo] ppages 256. 252. 296. 244. from page 173 to the end of the last volume being the index to the whole.
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(vide page 110.)
about 3 p.m. when the men (James Sykes, Frank Oates, and Thomas Acomb) had finished the job at the new footpath, set them
to take up the old causeway and paved foot way, grown over with grass, in the upper brooking — let James Sykes go at 5, kept
the other 2 till 6 35/60 for which gave them a shilling to drink, and, as they could not quite finish, bade them come on Monday — Got home at
6 40/60 — dinner at 6 50/60 — Came up to bed at 9 35/60 at which hour Barometer 2 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 61º. - my little Fahrenheit stood at
70º. on my writing desk in the sun at 10 50/60 a.m. and now at 10 50/60 p.m. stands at 68º. Very fine day — wind in the east — cool — E..[above] o.. —
wrote all the above of today just before undressing — and read the 1st. 16 ppages volume 1. Rousseau Confessions
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Gave Hotspur oat cake — walked a little on the terrace — came in to dress at 6 3/4 — read from page 17. to 36. (aloud to myself) volume 1.
Rousseau Confessions — sleepy — threw myself on the bed — dozed from 8 to 8 3/4 — breakfast at 9 55/60 — Sauntered a little in the garden — ate
some strawberries and gooseberries — from 11 to 11 3/4 came upstairs and read no. [number] 5 Zoological Journal — at 11 3/4 went down stairs — read the morning
service — sleepy immediately afterwards and slept some time — came upstairs at 12 55/60 — resumed no. [number] 5. Zoological Journal now and before
read from page 58. to 158. Skimmed rather than read the greater part, leaving the continuation of the article by Mr. French on the nature of Instinct
to be read another time — then spent some time looking at Mawe’s introduction to Conchology and Parkinson’s to the study of organic
remains — then wrote the above of today all which took me till 2 20/60 — From 2 1/2 to 5, wrote 3 ppages and the ends of a sheet to Mr. Duffin —
(to go with the fire screens I bought in Paris, and which, on mentioning them Miss Marsh thought me foolish not to have presented —
I had thought them not good enough) — wrote a note to Mr. Knight for John Booth’s daughter Mary to take with her to the vicarage
tomorrow morning when some of the family will take or send the girl to Smith’s charity school to learn reading, writing and
arithmetic — and read over what I wrote to Louisa Belcombe on Thursday — nothing particular to Mr. Duffin — said we had succeeded in
getting the footpaths stopt, that my aunt was better and we only waited to hear from M- [Mariana] when we should meet her at
Manchester to know the day of our setting off for Buxton — went downstairs at 5 10/60 — read aloud the evening service
and sermon 127. volume 4 my uncle’s collection — dressed — dinner at 7 — Dr. Kenny came (invited him yesterday to tea)
at 7 1/2 and staid till 9 1/2 — agreeable and gentlemanly enough — spoke of the excessive pride of Lord Milton, and in particular of our county member
Mr. Wortley — at the house of the latter nobody however respectable and on business however important even asked to have
anything — Mr. Wortley asked the late Sir Joseph Radcliffe to call on him sometime when he passed — Sir Joseph did so — sat 1/2 hour — got
up to go — was asked if he would stay dinner — said he could not, his daughters were in the carriage — no notice taken of this —
and he was suffered to take his departure — Dr. Kenny knows Colonel Fitzgerald who married Miss Crowther of Bradford — his
family highly respectable in Ireland — he the oldest son — a leading man in his county — will have £5,000 a year — his mother
now living and had a jointure of more than 1/2 the estate — Dr. Kenny thinks the present Mrs. Fitzgerald (Miss Crowther that was) very ladylike —
Came upstairs at 9 55/60 at which hour Barometer 3 1/2 degrees above changeable and Fahrenheit 61º. very fine day — my aunt to begin bathing
twice a week at Buxton — to increase from twice to three times a week — heat from 94 to 100º — to have the baths gradually
warm cooler and cooler till they are only 90º. — to stay in from 10 to 15 minutes the less time when the baths are the cooler — wrote the last
20 lines, and read a few ppages volume 1 Rousseau Confessions all which took me till 11 1/2 — E..[above] ~ Rousseau set me rather wrong then turned
[margin text:] to Juvenal‘s ssixth satire which made me worse the Johannes Ssecundus finished the thing and I sat
astride one of the bed posts and incurred a cross
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