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1835
November
Marian had been at H-x [Halifax] and seen Mrs. Waterhouse and Mrs. Catherine Rawson — the latter told
her it was said that if I did all I talked off it would cost me £30,000 — I had had £8,000
bid for the place and she (Mrs. Catherine Rawson) thought I had better have had that in my pocket than lay out so much —
Marian said I told her a great deal, but she forgot it all, and would seem to know nothing
about what I was going to do — but she (Marian) thought I had better have taken the £8,000 — mentioned
the subject of making bricks of the clay I wanted to get rid of here — Marian herself had no
objection and thought my father would have none — the thought struck me yesterday — asked Robert Mann
if he knew of a good brick maker — yes! Mitchell — told Robert Mann this evening to tell
Mitchell to come and speak to me on Sunday about 10 a.m. — Marian recommends somebody from
the Low river near Cave — much accustomed to brick-making there — tea (in the north parlour)
between 8 and 9 — A- [Ann] looking over her rent books respecting her Hatter’s field and Black Horse property —
Letter tonight 3 ppages and ends and under the seal from M- [Mariana] Minster court York — had
returned from Torquay where she left her niece for the winter — 3 or 4 minutes at
10 1/2 with my aunt to wish good night — she was just getting into bed — then till
11 wrote all but the 2 1/2 first lines of today — very fine day — Fahrenheit 52.° now at 11 1/2 p.m.
[margin text:] to make bricks.
Friday 27
6 3/4
12 1/2
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No kiss soft damp morning but fair — ready in an hour — talking to Mary a long while — sorry she
went out and made herself worse yesterday — said I was afraid I could not keep her — Fahrenheit 49° now at 8 20/.. a.m.
out in the farm yard and at the cascade bridge till breakfast at 9 to 9 35/.. — then talking to Marian — out again at 10 A- [Ann] had
gone to the school at 9 3/4 — Had a man near an hour with Fowler’s map of Yorkshire 3 1/2 guineas sells for 4 1/2 I would not purchase — backwards and forwards all the day — in the farm yard Booth and 2 men and a boy
at the pigsties etc. — and Mallinson and his boy making hen-house door frame, making new coach house new
doors fit — put on lock on the house kitchen at Mytholm — put lock on new coal-place here
etc. etc. — Frank and his son finished this afternoon carting clay out of coach house court — and Robert Mann
+ 3 puddling the cascade bridge upper pond — the walk partly formed near the archway — Holt
came this afternoon to measure the water drift — will come tomorrow to measure off Walker pit —
A- [Ann] came back at 5 — Had cut Mr. William Priestley — he spoke, and she cantered past without
taking any notice of him Wrote her copy of note to Doctor Barrow ~ A- [Ann] wrote tonight
to ‘___ Barrow Esquire M.D. Gloucester Post Paid’ to ask if he thought Mr. J.K. Davey late of Tewksbury fit to
undertake her intended school, as she understood from himself he had been 2 or 3 years ago
9 months insane under Dr. Barrow’s care — asked if Dr. Barrow thought Mrs. Davy had any
consumptive tendency such as to make objectionable her residence in the north of Yorkshire and
attending to a girls’ school — Friday is now pay-day that the hall may not be dirtied immediately after
the Saturday’s cleaning — walked about on the terrace with A- [Ann] from 5 to 5 20/.. — then out till 6 — beautiful
moonlight evening — dressed — dinner at 6 40/.. waited for A-’s [Ann] letter Which I wrote for her at six coffee — Coffee
1/2 hour with my father and Marian — read the paper and wrote the above of today till 9 20/.. p.m. A [Ann] low at my having
so many concerns oh dear! ~ skimmed over last night’s paper till 9 35/..
[margin text:] 1/4 hour with my aunt till 10 10/.. then tea and sat talking
till 11 10/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 47.° very fine day —
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November Saturday 28
7 10/..
11 50/..
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No kiss ready in 3/4 hour — fine soft morning turned to hazy at and before 11 — out in the farm yard and at the
cascade bridge and with Frank at Adney bridge planting long small sycamore (taken from the middle of where the new fish pond or
cascade bridge upper pond is making) against Adney bridge end, and planting there also an old oak root slipped down
from above near the Lodge — Mr. Husband there and helped us to pull along the truck — came in to breakfast at
9 1/2 — A- [Ann] had just breakfasted but came and sat with me — very poorly pee whee, this morning — much pain in the
back of her neck — a little while with my aunt in the drawing room and a minute or 2 with my father
Mr. Husband and his wife have got into the 2 rooms at Pump, — rent 3 1/2 guineas a year; and he gave me
this morning the key of the house he has been in ay Mytholm — Fahrenheit 46° now at 10 50/.. — had Charles Howarth
during breakfast — he and James Howarth came for the house-spouts to put up at Lower Place — out
again at 11 — in the farm yard — talking to Mallinson — at the cascade bridge till off to H-x [Halifax] at
12 40/.. — down the old bank to Mr. Parker’s office — no answer from Mr. Lister surgeon — he will give A- [Ann] as much trouble as he
can about quitting his house — navigation stock not saleable — every so frightened of the rail
road — Stocks has bid the owner of The Travellers Inn £900 for that and the cottages adjoining
altogether letting for £50 per annum — will not take it — asks £950 — would Miss Walker
give it? said I would ask her — Stocks wants to transfer the licence to an Inn to be
built on ground to be bought of Mr. Joseph Wilkinson! — told Mr. Parker to inquire about my
Denholm gate road interest — went to the bank — got a £50 Bank of England to send to
M- [Mariana] returned up the old bank — musing as I walked along — A- [Ann] had better buy this Hipperholme
lot of cottages and let us build a small house in the Mytholm quarry and transfer the licence
to there — home at 2 10/.. — sat talking to A- [Ann] 1/2 hour — she will make the purchase — she
off to Cliff hill at 3 and back about 4 1/2 — I out all that time — in the farm yard — at Adney
bridge with Frank and his son filling up the bridge — then at the cascade bridge till 4 3/4 — then
took a turn or 2 in my walk and came in at 5 1/2 — Had Holt — he will come again
on Tuesday morning between 10 and 11 — thinks Mr. Rawson has trespassed, and, if he has, he
will have loosed me some coal — enough to take publicly — Holt and Eddlestone will
bid at the letting — no water found in driving for the last 15 or 20 yards — only 100 yards
farther to the extent of my land — determined to drive on — though Holt not for it
till he saw me so determined to run the risk of finding more water — dinner at
6 40/.. — coffee — 20 minutes with my father and Marian — wrote paragraph about the Landymere
stone for A- [Ann] to send to her sister — to wait the result of the Mesdames Lancashire and Brooke
putting up to let publicly some stone (late Ramsbottom’s) adjoining Landymere — Freeman says the Landymere
stone is drowned in water and cannot be got — I think from what I hear from other quarters, the stone is, or soon will
be set free, and then if it shews as a good — face as expected the Sutherlands will get 5/. a yard for it —
wrote the above of today till 10 — then 1/2 hour with my aunt — fine day — Fahrenheit 39° now at 10 1/2 p.m.
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