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wrote my note to Charlotte Stuart and at 2 1/2 had written so far of today, and had folded and sealed up in envelope my note
4 ppages of 1/2 sheet to ‘the Lady Stuart de Rothesay’ enclosing in the same my note to ‘the honourable Miss Stuart’
and enclosed these and my note to ‘the honourable Lady Stuart Whitehall’ under cover to ‘Lord Stuart de Rothesay
3 Carlton house terrace London’ — Sent the above letters at 7 p.m. by George — A- [Ann] and I out at 2 3/4
to Brearley hill to meet Holt about getting water for John Bottomley and about sinking pit to enable me
to look after Mr. Rawson — getting the water will cost about £16 to £20 sinking and driving at 3/. to 3/6 per yard
about 100 yards — ordered this job to be advertised next week for letting as also the pit sinking — Holt thinks
the pit will cost about 40/. per yard sinking about 100 yards deep to the lower bed — saw the place near the
upper gateway just above Conery wood in the Park farm Well field — with a small fire engine might
get coal there for many years — easily roaded along the foot of Bairstow, out just below Whiskum cottage
into the new bank to H-x [Halifax] — pit to be oblong 8 feet x 5.4 ⸫ [therefore] about not quite said Samuel Washington tonight, 5 square
yards stuff will come out at each yard depth of sinking — 5 x 100 = 500 yards of stuff carting down
to the foot of the wall opposite the house = about £20 — the water of dirt band (36 yards band) and four-
-score yards band to be gathered up in sinking and turned the Conery clough separately or not to the house —
Holt said the coal would sell at 8d. at the pit’s mouth — and no. turnpike to H-x [Halifax] would make a penny
a load difference — Rawson sells at 9 1/2d. in the town — we should sell at 9d. — would average 5 1/2 corves
or loads per square yard — 20 loads or one score would sell for 13/4 at the pits mouth —
getting . . 4.6
pulling and banking 2.6
Tools . . 1.0
Taxes . . 8.0
13.4 — 8 = 5/4
say 3d. per load profit
or 1/4 1/2 per square yard profit
say 1s. 3d. per square yard profit ⸫ [therefore]
1 acre or 4840 yards = £242 + £60.10s.0d
= £302 per acre
from Brearley hill A- [Ann] met me at Whiskum cottage — thence down the old bank to Halifax to the Bowling
foundery for fire-grates for north parlour north chamber and tent room — then to Miss Hebden’s — good account
of Charlotte Booth — then to Whitley’s — brought home volume 3 8vo. [octavo] Lyell’s geology and Busby’s Journal
the vineyards of Spain and Portugal — and pamphlet by Jno. [John] Travers on the Tea duties — then to Throp’s
about acorns, and setting Bairstow with them — home up the old bank at 6 55/.. — dinner at 7 — Coffee — had
Washington — nothing to be made of Mrs. Machin about the sale of her 11 DW [days work] of coal — but
Washington told her he would call again on Saturday — A- [Ann] and I sat talking and reading the newspaper George brought
back this evening — with my aunt from 9 3/4 to 10 3/4 — wrote all but the 3 first lines of this page till 11 1/2 p.m.
at which hour Fahrenheit 59 1/2° in my study — very fine day — note from Mr. Wilkinson Heath to say the front pew in the north gallery nearest to the west gallery is at liberty rent 1 guinea a year
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No kiss fine morning Fahrenheit 57° in tent room at 8 3/4 — breakfast at 9 25/.. — all the morning till near 1 looking for
Washington’s last rent-list — then dawdling about — with Ann Lee and her assistant who came 1st time about 10
this morning take Ellen Hatton’s place in doing up the tent-room the latter having only cut out, or rather
Charles Howarth cut out, the diaper for the top — a shower about 1 p.m. — wrote and sent at 3 1/2 by George note to ‘the Reverend Robert Wilkinson Heath’
‘Miss Lister’s compliments to Mr. Wilkinson, and is sorry that, in consequence of not having had his 2nd note till yesterday evening,
‘and of having had little hope of there being a gallery front pew at liberty, she was so desirous of being certain of a
‘pew immediately, that she made arrangements on Monday for occupying one of her own pews — Miss Lister
‘and Miss Walker beg their compliments to the Miss Wilkinsons — Shibden hall. Wednesday 17 September 1834.’ — making
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memoranda and dawdling over 1 thing or other till 3 3/4 — A- [Ann] and I out at 4 — walked in the garden — went to Whiskum
Charles and James Howarth sparring the stable — Pickells there with them — here in the morning — went to the Conery — some time at John’s
then sat a little with Matty — home at 6 3/4 — dinner at 7 — coffee — A- [Ann] won 2 hits and a gammon and I nothing — a little
while with my father — 40 minutes with my aunt till 9 50/.. — fine day — warm and close — a shower about 1 and
afterwards about 3 1/2 — then fair and fine — Fahrenheit 61° in my study at 10 5/.. p.m. —
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Very good one last night very fine morning breakfast at 10 Fahrenheit 62° at 10 50/.. — Note from Mr. John Waterhouse
junior to pay my 2nd £50 for the new museum ‘on or before the 30th instant’ — about 12 1/2 Sent off the yellow
carriage dragged behind the cart to Pickford’s warehouse at H-x [Halifax] (with note to Mr. Booth the bookseller to help John and George
Joseph to see it packed) to go in the same way to Huddersfield and thence by one of their vessels direct to London
to ‘Messrs. Pearce Baxter and Pearce coachmakers 103 Long Acre London’ to arrive on Tuesday —
A- [Ann] and I off at 1 50/.. along the walk to Hipperholme my 1st call on Mrs. Bateman — dressing to go
out to dinner at 2 1/4 and left my name on A-’s [Ann] card — called and sat 18 minutes with Mrs. William Priestley —
Mrs. Hartley with her — she (Mrs. William Priestley) held out her to A- [Ann] but not to me — yet talked civilly to us both — of
course I shewed no sign of hand-shaking on coming away — then at Cliff hill at 3 25/.. for 1 1/4 hour —
Miss Walker very civil — some hope of her at least seeming less cross with and at us in future? then to Crownest
in A-’s [Ann] wine-cellar from 4 50/.. to 5 50/.. — took an account of the front rows of bottles — the wine was
valued at £500 — dinner at 7 — coffee — I won 1 gammon against 1 ditto and 5 hits — with my aunt 1/2 hour
till 10 20/.. — fine, warm, muggy day. Fahrenheit 56° at 11 10/.. p.m. — the 2 sewers again — and Mallinson set grate in the tent room
[margin text:] did not send took box and foot pails and rug —
sent with carriage 3 yards stuff like lining and 2 old cushion
covers of the same — large front pocket — imperials — cap case
2 seat and 2 boot boxes — slipper and dragstaff — 1 key of imperials and cap case
and carriage door key locked up in the boot —
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Long trial last night really tolerable kiss to me the best I have ever had of A [Ann] but
very bad one to her — fine morning Fahrenheit 62 1/2° in tent room at 7 50/.. a.m. out at 8
(alone) to Holt’s — about his seeing about water for Pickells as well as John Bottomley — Pickells must
have a well — about 10 yards deep to dirt band (or 36 yards band) will be done for 5/. a yard —
at Greenwood’s at 9 for an hour seeing about sofa — looking at mahogany etc. a ditto wardrobe at
£17 wide 7.3 and high 6.4 — then to Whitley’s — will pay for the carriage on hearing of its safe
arrival in London — then to Stony Royde — Mrs. Rawson gone to Whitkirk — returned up the old bank — some time at Whiskum cottage — Walked
slowly from top of bank with my father and came in about 11 just as a heavy thunder shower came on —
thundered from the top of the bank home — breakfast at 11 50/.. — A- [Ann] and I unpacking wine from Lidgate and preserve
pots — Had John Pearson — for near 1/2 hour told him I should not take less than £65 a year for the Mytholm farm — at 1st I thought
he would agree — then I thought not — he wanted it at any rate for one year to quit his sister Mrs. Dewhirst —
could not get her off before November — what was he to do — said I did not know — he must settle that — he had no
business to let it to her — I was not inclined to let for one year only — he would charge me for what he
had in the land — he must pay me if he could not give me up the buildings at the proper time — off at
5 minutes before 4 to Lidgate — A- [Ann] off before — had forgot cellar key — I had to return from the bottom of the walk — at Lidgate at 4 35/.. —
the Hirds there — A- [Ann] had walked towards Crownest — overtook her — went there — home at 6 — A- [Ann] tired — lay down —
unpacking crockery etc. by our cart from Lidgate — dinner at 7 1/4 — coffee — had Greenwood’s man about north parlour
chimney piece — 35 minutes with my aunt till 10 5/.. — 1/4 hour at A-’s [Ann] bedside — wrote out yesterday and today till 11 — fine day
very warm and muggy (except the thunder and shower between 11 and 12 — Fahrenheit 67° in study now at 11 p.m. —
[margin text:] Greenwood could buy Norway oak at Hull and deliver 1 inch boards
at Shibden at 6 1/2d a foot —
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