| Catalogue Finding Number | SH:7/ML/E/21/0081 |
| Office record is held at | Calderdale, West Yorkshire Archive Service |
| Title | Diary page |
| Description | [Diary Transcription]
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1838
April
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|100 yards below Listerwick Pit which breadth might extend in length to within ten yards of my boundary
|at each end — i.e. having 10 yards barrier against Dovehouse land and the same against upper brea land —
|the length would be about 28 chains = 616 yards x 100 = 61600 yards = 12 acres 352 yards which will probably
|last getting 5 or 6 years from this time — If my scheme of carting my own coal does not answer then I see that
|it will be better to have more pits working — but if well managed no plan can pay me
|so well as delivering my own coal in H-x [Halifax] at 1/. per load — If I can do this I will not
|sell at the pit under 10d. a load — for 3d. per load for carting from Listerwick Pit to H-x [Halifax] is more than
|necessary to allow to the public? Some time talking to Joseph Mann between 1 and 2 and walked
|with him from the hall to the pit — he begins work at 2 p.m. and works his shift till 10 p.m. —
|the coal is of excellent quality but the bed only seventeen inches thick — but John Oates said it would
|average 5 loads to the yard 1 load = 6 strikes and 9 loads said to weigh a ton — had stood talking
to Robert Mann some time at least 1/2 hour on 1st. going out this morning — came in to A- [Ann]
for a little while at 2 — Mr. Mitchell came about 2 1/2 and rode with A- [Ann] to value the
tenant right in Cordingley’s farm (Cliff hill) — he said that for pasture-land mown
the damage was £5 per DW. [days work] — out all the afternoon with Robert Mann and company filling
soil as in the morning and levelling and forming the slope under the great yew trees — and between 6 and 7
planted holly from the old garden wall race (East side about midway between old brewhouse
and the yew trees in the line beneath) against the terrace steps — just below the pedestal —
the 1st. flat — Had Bentley who gave me his measurement of stuff on the Delf hill
at Sun wood quarry — Booth to be here between 9 and 10 a.m. tomorrow — came in
at 7 — dressed — dinner at 7 1/4 — asleep — Coffee — read the newspaper — Came upstairs at 11 at which
hour Fahrenheit 35°. — fine but very cold day though several showers of driving small snow in the
morning — wrote all the above of today till 11 1/2 p.m. —
[margin text:] Thickness of the low bed
of coal.
Saturday 21
6 40/..
1 35/..
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fine morning — stood undressed 1 3/4 hour reading last Quarterly Review — finished critique on
Wellstead’s travels in Arabia and read the greater part of the critique on some Translations of Plato’s
Dialogues into German and French — not dressed till 9 10/.. at which hour breakfast in 1/2 hour — A- [Ann] had
Hinscliffe come about buying a little more Lidgate coal of her — I began talking to Hinscliffe
about the Endless chain — he would not recommend it — took him into the breakfast room while
A- [Ann] had Samuel Washington — Hinscliffe had tried an Endless Chain — his practical reasons strong
against it — David Booth came — had him and Hinscliffe together — at 11 A- [Ann] and Hinscliffe and David Booth
and I all walked to Listerwick pit, and went down into it — A-’s [Ann] first time of ever going down
into a pit — Xistd [Christened] the pit Listerwick pit I laughing and saying A- [Ann] was godmother Hinscliffe and David Booth
the 2 godfathers and I parson — 1/4 hour in the bottom — A- [Ann] and I went down and came up together in
a corve — She behaved very well — shewed no fear, and seemed much interested — She and
I each gave Joseph Mann a sovereign towards the Christening drinking for the men —
A- [Ann] and I and Booth and Hinscliffe then went to John Oates’s to ask him how he did, and we soon left
Hinscliffe and David Booth there to talk over the endless chain — A- [Ann] and I in returning went down Charles Howarth’s
fields to the meer — looked about there — returned by the walk — then went up into the west tower — then luncheon
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and I sat with A- [Ann] at luncheon and till after 1 Writing her copy of letter to Mr
William Grey to ask if she was liable to the repairs at Water lane mill — then from about
half past one with David Booth talking over Endless chain — etc. etc. (said I thought Hinscliffe had
determined me against it) and settling Sun wood quarry account — very long business — Hartley came and
for long Booth could not make him understand the thing — he was after all dissatisfied, and I gave
him something over — on the last 52 yards of baring besides allowing him 3/. a rood for
getting wallstone instead of 2/6 as David Booth had all along said was agreed — but Bentley said they were
worth 3/. getting ⸫ [therefore] I gave it — It was after 4 p.m. before we had got rid of Hartley, and A- [Ann]
had just before ridden off to Cliff hill — Had seen Samuel Washington with her just before our going to Listerwick this
morning Samuel Washington had been speaking about Hannah Walker’s coal, and trying to frighten A- [Ann] with
the idea of Hannah Walker’s sinking a pit (opposite Lidgate) to get her coal rather than
pay £40 per acre for its coming up at A-’s [Ann] pits — A- [Ann] had proposed buying the stripe of
ground along the Crownest carriage road, and Samuel Washington seemed to think this a great thing for A- [Ann] though he owned the ground
was not worth the shilling a yard A- [Ann] offered — I just took the opportunity of shewing Samuel Washington I thought the
favour would be done to Hannah Walker not to A- [Ann] said the wall A- [Ann] would have to build would
cost 20/. a rood (120 yards or about 15 roods) and the ground taken if only 7 yards broad including 3 feet
from the centre of the hedge up against Captain and Mrs. Sutherland’s trees, would be dear and useless to A- [Ann]
I thought A- [Ann] had better consider about this — Poor Samuel Washington was probably taken in his own net
and think A- [Ann] would not be so easily taken or frightened as he imagined — After David Booth’s
going a little while at accounts and just before or at 5 went out to Robert Mann + 4 filling
George Naylor’s carts (or my own 2 narrow wheeled) 2 horses carrying clay from front of
present flower garden down to the foot of the walnut tree in the old orchard, and just laying away —
the men all went home — kept Robert — levelled away a little lower under the flower garden wall
and at 5 3/4 took Robert to look about at Sun wood quarry and Hipperholme quarry — Told him
I should be off next Monday or Tuesday but he was not to name it to anybody
Left Robert at the great Sycamore tree at 7 — he returned home and I sauntered about in the flower garden
and about till 7 1/2 — then dressed — dinner at 7 40/.. — sat reading down stairs last Quarterly Review
till 9 40/.. finished the article on the translations of Plato — sleepy — slept on the sofa in the blue room
till 11 p.m. at which hour Fahrenheit 37°. — then wrote the whole of the above of today till 12 — fine day —
George Naylor here today and put up the 5 clothes posts in the laundry court —
Sunday 22
8 25/..
12 3/4
Vc
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rainy morning till about 9 then fair but dull. Fahrenheit 39°. at 9 1/2 a.m. breakfast at 9 55/.. before upstairs and after
downstairs sat reading the newspaper till near 11 — from then to 2 20/.. looking books in my study and siding
dressed — off to Cliff hill at 2 35/.. — Mr. Wilkinson did all the duty — reading the last psalm as we entered —
preached 22 minutes from Romans iv.7 — 1/2 hour at Cliff hill — home at 5 1/4 — a little drizzling rain as I went
and as we returned — stood 20 minutes talking to A- [Ann] in our room — Mrs. Ann Walker seems to have a presentiment
and fear of our going — had rather knocked herself up yesterday by going into the cellar — but seemed to me well
as usual today — A- [Ann] determined we shall get off this time — went into the cellar — 1 madeira and 1 marsala — changed my
pelisse — dinner at 6 1/2 — coffee read the newspaper — A- [Ann] had letter from Mr. Buckle with wills — left her writing her journal
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| Date | Apr 1838 |
| Extent | 1 page |
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