#Mytholm

[hepdenerose]

Developments in Eaves Wood and Lumb Bank

Feeling wobbly at the start of September, I rallied late afternoon for an afternoon walk to Eaves Wood. I all but climbed the Cuckoo Steps in one go while Phil, footsore from working, trailed behind. We paused frequently on the ridge to take in views over Mytholm and Stubbing Holme. The distant haze turned verdant trees a misty blue and almost obliterated the mill chimney opposite. Along the top…

[guerrerense]

Double Delight por Andrew Edkins Por Flickr: Great Western pairing of 6990 "Witherslack Hall" and 4079 "Pendennis Castle" crossing Mytholmes Viaduct at the Keighley and Worth Valley railway.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Sat[urday] 6 Sept[embe]r 1834

7 1/4

11 50/..

No kiss F[ahrenheit] 58° at 8 40/.. a.m. and haze and sm[all] r[ai]n – br[eak]f[a]st at 10 – H[a]d Washington w[i]th our rent acc[oun]ts –

I rec[ieve]d £190 in bills + 37 sov[erei]gns + 1/4 leav[in]g £50 in his h[a]nds, clear of all the paym[en]ts –

dawd[lin]g ov[e]r 1 th[in]g or oth[e]r – wr[ote] out journ[a]l of 27th and 28th ult[imo] – Mr. Hird Lamplengh ca[me] at 1 3/4, and

took Lidg[a]te and all the land and the h[ou]se furnish[e]d for 10 y[ea]rs at £100 p[e]r ann[um] the 1st 1/2 y[ea]rs

rent to be allow[e]d for improvem[en]ts – he st[ai]d ab[ou]t 1/2 h[ou]r and behav[e]d handso[mel]y hop[in]g, if A- [Adney]

remain[e]d here, th[a]t, as they w[oul]d be near, they sh[oul]d be good neighb[ou]rs – all th[i]s is ver[y] well –

I h[a]d Mrs. Dewhirst 1/4 h[ou]r, Pearsons’ sist[e]r, ab[ou]t Mytholm – s[ai]d I c[oul]d say noth[in]g – n[o]t improb[able]

P- [Pearson] and I sh[oul]d agree ag[ai]n – it all depend[e]d up[on] wheth[e]r he w[oul]d gi[ve] the rent I sh[oul]d ask – if n[o]t,

the farm w[oul]d be op[e]n – n[o]t determ[ine]d b[u]t th[ou]ght I sh[oul]d let it by ticket, as I talk[e]d of lett[in]g

the Stump X Inn – yes! she h[a]d heard of th[a]t, so th[ou]ght it useless for so[me] fr[ie]nd of hers to apply –

A-  [Adney] and I off at 2 55/.. (walk[e]d) to Lidg[a]te – she busy upst[ai]rs – I in the cellar pack[in]g wine

fr[om] 4 1/2 to 7 1/4 – 17 bot[tle]s champagne. 18 d[itt]o raisin; 3 1/2 doz[en] port of 1825 + 3 doz[en] of the sa[me]

19 bot[tle]s fine old Madeira w[i]th the remain[in]g 4 bot[tle]s of port of 1825 and 1 bot[tle] of Noyau – we walk[e]d ho[me]

in 50 min[ute]s at 8 20/.. – din[ner] at 8 3/4 – A- [Adney] w[e]nt to bed bef[ore] coff[ee] – I w[i]th my a[un]t 35 min[ute]s

till 10 35/.. – sm[all] r[ai]n in the morn[in]g till aft[e]r 10 – th[e]n fair and finish till 3 3/4 – th[e]n heavy

r[ai]n and r[ai]n till n[ea]r 7 p.m. F[ahrenheit] 57° now at 10 55/.. p.m.

[griffmeistergeneral]

Through the Mytholmes (Railway Children) tunnel

[opelman]

Mytholmes by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: "Bahamas" passes over the viaduct at the approach to Mytholmes Tunnel. This was during a 30742 Charters event on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Locomotive: LMS Stanier Jubilee Class 4-6-0 45596 "Bahamas". Location: Mytholmes, near Haworth on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire.

[wolfy58]

1835 February Wednesday 18

8

11 1/2

no kiss very heavy shower at 7 – damp but fair at 8 F 44° at 8 50/.. a.m. out at 9 for 1/2 hour with Throp and his man getting up thorns in hedge between Pearson Ing and coalpit field 3 of them planted this afternoon in the coalpit field and one in the Lower brook Ing near the gate into my walk – and with Charles Howarth ordering about trestles for the drift-sinkers to pen[?] upon with their stuff to the Allencar side of the dry bridge – breakfast at 9 1/2 – then out again with Throp till came in at 11 1/4 – Adney had Mr. Adam to look over Hinscliffe’s lease of the Newhouse coal that the holder of it Mr. Chew was to have brought at 11 but as he was not come at 12 so Mr. Adam went away and I returned to Throp – called back again in about 1/2 hour to Mr. Adam and Mr. Samuel Freeman the latter come in answer to my note of yesterday – very civil – would do as I liked, but, were the case his own, he would drop it – Pickells so drunk when he went for the summons, David Mallinson would not grant it – a man of such character would not be attended to – said Pickells had come to me in the afternoon of the day (Monday) and I certainly did not perceives that he was drunk nor did Mr. Bradley perceive who had to give him orders about some walling – However, I was satisfied to take Mr. Freeman’s advice – In fact, I had nothing to do with that part of the wood of which I had sold the 3500 yards stone to Mr. Freeman and should be glad enough to wash my hands of the business – I saw I had been wrong to send the summons in the 1st instance – very ready to own this, and very glad to leave Mr. Freeman to do what he thought best – he offered to try to make the men come and make an apoligy to me – no! said let them do it to you, and leave you to settle it with me – all which Mr. Adam approved – Mr. Freeman begged I would not tell Pickells what he, Mr. Freeman, had said – I promised I would not – but smiled and said he shewed a white feather – Freeman said I did not know what it was to have people to deal with as he had – a word at a public house might do nobody knew what mischief – he had lost £5000 by the union (turn out of the delvers) and I did not know what a spirit was abroad in the country – Everybody was afraid of a man like Pickells – I said as for that I would make no mischief but Pickells was the only man who could keep trespassers off the estate – it was only the hunters who had hitherto beat us; and Messurs. Pickells and Adam knew there was no law against hunters – Mr. Adam said the law was certainly deficient in that case  - Freeman was surpriced but of course gave way – stayed about 1/2 hour till 2 – had wine – I said he might be assured that from this time I would have nothing further to do with that part of the wood containing the stone sold to him, till such time as he had given up all claim to any right in it – that whatever people said he might be sure I would give no further orders about it – the fact is, as I think to this that, be it as it may, the fellow Gill had cut down a part of the wood, however small, and taken away the stuff in spite of me, who can get nothing for it, and of Freeman who ought to pay me the value of the stuff however small that sum may be – But no matter – I shall learn in time – never sell stone again unless by the measured and set out plot containing so many yards or thereabouts; and when I put to let the upper Place quarry, if Freeman be the bidder I choose to take let him not have one square yard till he has given  up all right and title to yew trees wood – Let Samuel Washington immediately measure and stake off the portion sold to Samuel Freeman and let me know what I now have left to myself – off with Adney to Cliff hill at 3 1/4 – thence  from 4 5/.. to 4 35/.. Mrs. Carter there – Mrs. Ann Walker very civil – home at 5 20/.. then with Throp and his man 1/4 hour – and then had Jonathan Mallinson and his son – the latter will take the Mytholm farm but thought the rent rather too great – well then, said I, I will lessen it by reserving the buildings and Ing they stand in – and take Samuel Washington’s value for the rest or thereabouts for I had taken the total value added about 20/. odd to make up £65 per annum – they thought he had got up in his value – I said that made no difference – I cared little what he valued at, for I valued for myself and had made up my mind before giving him any order to value the farm – some mention made of Dewhirst – said he was not respectable enough for me as he was at present; and I would not let him the place (without land) if he would give me £100 a year for it  tho’ if he had married and become a respectable family man, he should have had the place and I would have done anything I could for him – his mother had not behaved well in putting in no ticket at the public letting and I would not take her as tenant – Had had Pickells about wanting throughs for stamps wall before going to Cliff hill with Adney and I explain manner about how I intended hereafter to work the coal – dinner at 6 3/4 – coffee – Left Adney with my father and came and wrote the above of today and had longish talk to Oddy about Eugenie till 9 3/4 –1/4 hour with my aunt till 10 10/.. – very fine day F 45° at 10 25/.. p.m.

Mr. Jubb came about 1 1/2 and rebound up my wrist – all the lump of escaped synovial fluid absorbed –

[airmanisr]

7714 Mytholmes Curve 11-03-22 by Colin Smith Via Flickr: The Worth Valley Spring Gala was blessed with some quite decent weather, though the sun did play ducks and drakes with the mercifully few clouds. It was quite a pleasant temperature as each day wore on, so the exhaust did somewhat disappear at times.

[gentlejack]

THOMAS sent: “Is that blood behind your ear?” From Thomas (time for Anne to meet Richard’s husband??  Yes) MEME / accepting ! @hwitrose​

       “ Mm? ” The question steals Anne's attention away from the rolling fields of Mytholm, one brow arched pointedly at her companion as she turns towards him. Every so often, she finds herself reminded WHY she prefers to take solitary walks, however fondly she may tolerate the presence of this particular friend: it is a great hardship indeed to gather one's thoughts around a certain gentleman's constant interruptions. She treats Thomas to an admonishing glance as she removes one heavy leather glove and touches her fingertips to the ache just above her left ear. To her annoyance, her hand returns bloodied. The crust, though largely healed, must have burst open at some unknown point during her exertions --- it is an unfortunate truth that her walking habits are not always conducive to the restoration of injured flesh.

        “ Oh, ” she says disapprovingly, and then: “ It's nothing. ” At once, she retrieves a crisply ironed handkerchief from her pocket and presses it tightly against the split-open soreness marring her scalp. She takes the precaution of darkening her expression whilst tending to the damage, lest the foolish boy be tempted into extending an offer of help. Well --- !  Anne holds little wish to elucidate the unpleasantries of coal business, nor to see herself pitied for any resulting harm to her person. Instead, she continues her brisk march, the white linen squeezed stubbornly against her treacherous wound, and selects a topic better tailored to her interests. “ How are things with your man, Thomas? ”

[annelisterofhalifax]

Picking locks and sauntering.

Thurs[day] 2 (April)

7

12.10

No kiss Ready in 50 min[ute]s, fine spring morn[in]g, a gentle show[e]r and F54° at 8. Look[in]g ov[e]r and sid[in]g

stand[in]g desk, writ[in]g desk, till br[eak]f[a]st at 9.20 to 10. T[he]n till 11.55 sat d[o]wnst[ai]rs  read[in]g

+  Phil[ip] on the vit[al] funct[io]ns, t[he]n 50 min[ute]s burn[in]g old papers out of draw[e]r of w[hi]ch Ch[arle]s H-[Howarth] h[a]d picked the  

lock in the green room t[ha]t Sharpe br[ou]ght

me, it n[o]t hav[in]g been op[ene]d of man[y] y[ear]s, n[o]t prob[abl]y s[in]ce my unc[le] Joseph left Shibd[e]n. His old trade

books and copies of trade letters and pattern book of cloths from about seventeen hundred and seventy two

and before and perhaps after Id not examine but burnt them all. From 12.50 to 1.50 siding in

my study, out w[i th A-[Ann] at 2 al[on]g the walk and by Low[e]r brea wood to Mytholm h[ou]se. So[me] ti[me] in

the gard[e]n. Thorp jun[io]r and his man digg[in]g t[he]re. Nat[han] Pickles and John P- [Pickles] t[he]re wall[in]g up ag[ain]st the

mill-end. Saunt[ere]d ho[me] the sa[me] way we w[e]nt and left A-[Ann] in the h[ou]se at 3 3/4, t[he]n talk[in]g to John Booth

and Ch[arle]s and Ja[me]s How[ar]th and John B-[Booth] ag[ai]n in the gard[e]n and a min[ute] or 2 w[i]th my fath[e]r put well ag[ai]n a

few min[ute]s w[i]th my a[un]t, ver[y] poorly today and ca[me] to my study at 5 till 6 1/4 mak[in]g out acc[oun]t w[i]th

Joseph Mann and w[i]th Pickells. Din[ner] at 6 1/2, 3/4 h[ou]r w[i]th my fath[e]r and Mar[ia]n t[he]n coff[ee] and ca[me] to my study

at 8 1/4 . Fr[om] t[he]n to 10 3/4, exc[ept] 1/4  h[ou]r w[i]th my a[un]t till 10.5 and h[a]d A-[Ann] w[i]th me 1/4  h[ou]r after 10, at the 2  

acc[oun]ts

just ab[ov]e nam[e]d. Fine glow[in]g soft warm day, a few dr[ops] of rain at 3 3/4  b[u]t held off till 6 – ab[ou]t 6 1/2  p.m

heavy rain and thund[e]r and light[enin]g and wet ev[enin]g F57° now at 10 3/4 p.m – rainy night.

+ - refers to book/text

Fri[day] 3

7.5

11.40

No kiss Ready in 50 min[ute]s. Rainy morn[in]g, at acc[oun]ts till br[eak]f[a]st at 9.40 in 1/2  h[ou]r. Fr[om] 9.10 to 12

+  r[ea]d fr[om] page 163 to 272 Phil[ip] on the Vit[a]l Funct[io]ns. A-[Ann] sat by me d[o]wnst[ai]rs, at h[e]r rent b[oo]ks. My a[un]t m[u]ch  

bet[ter] today, br[ou]ght

d[o]wn int[o] the draw[in]g room. 1/2  h[ou]r w[i]th h[e]r and my fath[e]r and Mar[ia]n t[he]n till 12 3/4 at w[hi]ch h[ou]r F58 1/2 ° Fr[om]

12 ¾ to n[ea]r

4 at Coll[er]y acc[oun]t, made out acc[oun]t of the tot[a]l of exp[ense] and the acc[oun]t w[i]th the 3 Manns Jos[e]ph John and Rob[er]t

V  for sink[in]g and driv[in]g. H[a]d Jos[e]ph M-[Mann] for 1/4  h[ou]r till 4.10, p[ai]d h[i]m for the last fortnight’s driv[in]g and ga[ve] h[i]m

b[a]ck h[i]s b[oo]k w[hi]ch I ha[ve] br[ou]ght d[o]wn today inclusive. He th[in]ks the drift will be ab[ou]t 300 y[ar]ds

will perh[aps] get thro[ugh] int[o] Walker pit tomor[row]. Mr Stocks n[o]r fath[e]r nor son, goes n[o]t int[o] the pits

hims[elf], h[a]s bottom stew[ar]ds. Fr[om] 4/1/4 to aft[e]r 5 3/4  look[in]g ov[e]r Pickell’s acc[oun]t etc. T[he]n A-[Ann] ca[me], she h[a]d

been d[o]wnst[ai]rs all the day at her rentbooks, and we sat talk[in]g 1/2  h[ou]r. T[he]n whi[le] she w[a]s w[i]th my a[un]t I at acc[oun]ts  

ag[ai]n.

+   Din[ner] at 6 1/2  coff[ee], fr[om] 8 to 9 3/4 r[ea]d fr[om] 272 to 329 Phil[ip] on the Vit[a] Funct[io]ns. T[he]n A-[Ann] h[a]d let[ter] fr[om]  

h[e]r sist[e]r, a civ[i]l part off Capt[ai]n

and Mrs S-[Sutherland] will co[me] in July and see ab[ou]t the divis[io]n. W[i]th my a[un]t fr[om] 9.55 to 10.10 ver[y] well today and in high  

sp[iri]ts. Rainy day F 51° now at 10.20 p.m.

+ - refers to a book/text  V- Visit

[skgway]

1832 Nov., Mon. 19

7 10/..

11 50/..

Thick, hazy, soft, but fair morning – Thorough November morning – Fahrenheit 45º at 7 1/4 a.m. Breakfast with my father at 8 1/2 – Staid talking and waiting for Marian till 9 40/.. Then staid talking to her till 10 1/2 – About her selling my father’s property here to pay off with – May perhaps make £6000 of it including Hampstead –

She does not think herself bound to leave what comes extraneously to me or the Inmans. The latter can have no claim beyond my mothers share of Skelfler, and tho I may have claim to what belonged to both parents she would not like it to go to the Welsh Listers, and would only leave it me for my life. I spoke very gently, saying all I said was merely said as matter of opinion when I said I thought I had some claim to what she had from my father and mother tho to nothing more. 

We were very amiable. She said she should never to come here for more than two nights and that only to see me. I observed that after her once leaving here she might see very little of me. She thought that probable and that she might see more of me abroad than in England she said, if she should ever have two thousand a year, and thought she should be the richer of the two –

Expecting Mr. Samuel Freeman at 10 1/2 did not come till 11, and staid till 12 when Mr. Parker came – Mentioned about Godly. Will employ Mitchel about it who is to come and speak to me tomorrow evening – Freeman can let me have the money if wanted – He is to value the stone in Joseph Hall’s land – Mentioned having a good offer for it –

He told me of the road from Brookfoot just above or below Samuel Sowden’s and to come out just above Mytholm, and join the Lower Brea branch road as proposed for the private road George R– [Robinson] and Pickels and I were measuring for on Saturday, and asked if I should object to it – No! I thought it would be a good thing, and he might count upon my throwing no obstacle in the way – It seems this road is likely to be done in another year or so – Said not a word but thought to myself that will be just doing the job I want, and help too to stop the road in front of Shibden hall –

The road too by Folly to Southowram is likely to be done – Out with Mr. Parker at 12 10/.. for an hour – Took him to the spot and explained all about footpaths and bridle roads and about the drift I want driving under the Lower brea branch road on account of the right of irrigation. To see Joseph Wilkinson, and then let Mr. Parker know the result and he will take measures accordingly – Allows that I have right to have the old bridle road just under upper brea reopened – I can commence an action against the Godley road commissioners and compel them to do it – The matter to be settled between us –

On leaving Mr. P– [Parker] turned up by the Stump Cross Inn to old Wilkinson’s – Sat some time with him – So civil and spoke [to] the old gentleman so fair, he seemed quite pleased. Came down with me to James Smith’s land to see where it would be best to try for water – Advised me about it – Will meet Holt to give his advice and seemed quite on my side about it – Then brought him all all along my walk to see it, but could not persuade him to come in – Never man seemed better pleased – We parted at our gate at 2 3/4 –

Then some time with John holing for hollies in the hall wood (within the railing) – And then in 1/2 hour at Lidgate at 3 40/.. – Reading 1/2 hour Southey’s book of the church (in 2 volumes 8vo octavo) till Miss W– [Walker] and Miss Parkhill returned from Huddersfield –

Then an hour with Miss W– [Walker] upstairs. She seemed glad to see me. Expected my staying tonight but owned "it was not liked", that is, by Miss Parkhill. I said Miss P[arkhill] was foolish but all Miss W[alker]’s friends would be glad to get rid of me. Said it would only make [me] more civil to Miss P[arkhill], and so it did on my going downstairs till she said she was sorry, and seemed so, that I did not stay.

Miss W[alker] had mentioned to her sister about going abroad with me and asked her advice, and said if it was against it she should not go. I objected saying she could not advise fairly. Miss W[alker] unhappy not knowing whether she has done right about Mr. A[insworth]. If she did not marry him, I needed not fear her marrying anyone else. 

‘Well’, said I, ‘if you do ever marry how can I respect him or you? You have for once in your life had a friend, but if I leave you it is all over. You have neither head nor heart to appreciate me (which she owned was true) and I shall escape you as it were a meteor, and all our intercourse will indeed have been like a dream.’ This seemed to strike her – Thought I shall not go quite so often during Miss P[arkhill]’s stay and not offer again in a hurry to stay all night. But I behaved most handsomely about it. 

Home in 1/2 hour at 5 50/.. Very thick and so dark I could scarce distinguish the causeway from the road – Dinner at 6 25/.. – Afterwards read from page 28 to 59 volume 1 Plutarch’s lives – Finished Theseus and read part of Rombus –

Had a little nap, and wrote all but the first 12 lines of today and went into the other room at 9 1/4 – and staid talking to my aunt till 10 50/.. – Very fine soft November day – Fahrenheit 46 1/2º at 11 p.m. –

Thick, hazy, soft, but fair morning – Thorough November morning 

[lumassen]

Matthias Densen & The Sandpiper

Lukas Thomassen & Skidbladnir

DenNor aesthetic moodboards for my AU where they both live on narrowboats and fall in love and it's very soft and cheesy.

Matthias is the village postman with a big heart who's smitten for Lukas, the quiet artist who's just moved to Mytholm with his boat and become Matthias's new neighbour.

ao3 link:

'Give me 3 months and I will capture your heart.'

[hepdenerose]

Into The Sun (Rawtonstall)

The last day of BST, we retraced an autumnal favourite. Setting off westward, two women with a dog stopped for us to pass at the snicket. I invited them to go first. “We’re going that way,” they replied, “is it a public footpath?” “It’s a street. We live on it!” We waded through carpets of curling leaves on the High Street and the main road towards Church Lane. Mytholm Cottage no longer for sale…

[guerrerense]

1054 + 52044 - Mytholmes Viaduct por Andrew Edkins Por Flickr: 1054 + 52044 pictured at Mytholmes Viaduct on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Thursday 2.. June 1836

9 40/..

11 55/..

no kiss A- very low I heard her crying but took no notice did not seem to awake till eight thought I we must be off kept her in bed talking gently she took two pills last and did not like her getting up merely to be starved or not knowing what to do – out from 10 ½ to breakfast at 10 55/.. Robert Mann + 3 and Frank and 2 carts carrying clay from carriage court to finish making up at the back of the farmyard – Samuel Booth helping John to set potatoes at the back of the farmyard – took Robert to the Lodge to shew him about laying the stuff cut down from the steep bank Wood + 4 began it yesterday afternoon – A- cut out night things for me, and I out at 11 ¾ – with Booth and his men at the road wall in front of the house – told him I should have 15 horse power to spare – to get me a good tenant – to get to know what I could let power for at Listerwick  – he agreed that it was worth £20 a year per horse at H-x [Halifax], it should be worth £15 here – H- thought £800 would build a good mill for 15 horse power – told him to consider about a baring at A-‘s Hipperholme quarry – then went [?] to tell Mrs. Aquilla Green I hoped the 2 new cottage tenants at Mytholm would not incommode anybody – they talk of sending their oldest little boy from home – I advised St. Bees in Cumberland – she thinks Mr. Norris will have upper brea etc. – I said I would give the worth for the Redbeck cottages and land – she to remember that and tell her husband and not let the property be given away – stood a long while talking – just peeped into the front Mytholm cottage the plasterer plastering it – met George coming for me at 2 ¼ – a minute or 2 at the wheel-race – home at 2 ½ – A- and I dressed – Mr. Musgrave came at 3 25/.. and staid ½ hour – administered the sacrament to my aunt A- myself Oddy Cookson, Rachel Sharp and George – A- and I then rechanged our dress and went out at 4 20/.. and came in at 5 ¼ told Booth to move and reset the sink in the mytholm front cottage the 1st thing in the morning and let me pay him separately and immediately for that bit of a job – then A- and I went to the meer-drift head in the walk, and then to the Conery along the sort of footpath made last week (the sod pared off and thrown close up against the hedge) along the Conery Ing hedge (between hedge and railing) – Matty not at home – came in at 4 20/.. there being a spitting of rain – wrote all the above of today – and wrote and sent this evening as follows to ‘Messrs. Hammersleys and co. Bankers London’ ‘Shibden hall Thursday 2 June 1836. Gentlemen – Being under the necessity of postponing my leaving home for the continent five or six weeks longer, I shall be much obliged to you to forward any letters you may have for me, as also, if you have received it, the small parcel  I ordered to be sent to your care by Messrs. Rogers of Sheffield – I shall also be much obliged if you will be so good as get my passport signed by the Saxon minster – I am gentlemen your obedient servant A. Lister’ had just written so far of today at 5 55/.. – had Mr. Husband a few minutes – he brought Mr. Harper’s order for £118.1.0 for Mark Hepworth for carting here from Northgate 1574 yards of soil at 1/6 per yard – and having forgot to give Booth a money-order Husband himself made out and brought Booth’s bill for the clow at the meer £17.10.7 – Mr. Harper had seen the bill and thought it very moderate – dinner at 6 ¼ – A- did her French from 8 35/.. to 9 55/.. looking over my clothes – assorting out things for the journey – then with my aunt 25 minutes till 10 30/.. fine day but dullish and an appearance of rain – a light at 1st then smartish shower from 5 ½ to 6 – I see we must get off from home as soon as we can – immediately after the rent day – A-‘s 1st rent day  11 July – can we get off on the 13th? thinking today, it would be well to steam it from Hull to Hamburg and thence post it (of course, our own carriage) to Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Töplitz, Carlsbad, to Vienna etc. home by Paris – on going to bed found my cousin was come gently –

[griffmeistergeneral]

Approaching Mytholmes (railway children) Tunnel

[wrotetheaboveoftoday]

1833 Tues. 26 March

6 35/.. 12 10/.. + + +L U U fine morning Fahrenheit 48º at 6 35/.. (ground covered with white ime) and 32º at 7 3/4 outside my window and regular snow - storm - had begun to snow a little at 7 1/2 - what a month of March! - spoke to John to get at Throps as many hollies as he thought good enough and 6 horse chesnuts, and 10 more yews - at my desk at 8 - and an hour making out clearly and arranging the bills of expenses of Mytholm mill to shew my father and ready for settling with George Robinson -

Breakfast at 9 5/.. in about an hour - books from Whitley’s - Ure's geology Scrope on Earthquakes and Digest of Bank Charter committee - looking into these till after 12 - then had Washington - Mr. Saltmarshe only pays 1 1/2 guineas a year and wants to give up the pew - very well - to be relet - all that W- [Washington] had to call upon want the pew rents lowering - very well - fiat - told W- about the coal agreement being off with Mr. R- [Rawson] merely said I was outwitted in saying we had agreed before the papers were actually signed - W- [Washington] thought Mr. R- [Rawson] had on the face of the deeds no sufficient reason to refuse signing

Then near an hour with my aunt till came upstairs at 1 35/.. then reading Ure's geology (could not resist) and read from page 196 to 313 end of Jesse's Gleanings in natural history and making notes and extracts from it till 5 1/2 - Had sent for George Robinson to come to settle our account, but he was gone to Manchester - John brought from Throp's this morning 10 more hollies and planted them in the hedge top of Trough of Bolland wood - ordered the 6 horse chesnuts and 10 more yews to come tomorrow - the latter to be at nurse in the garden - wrote all but the 3 first lines of today and ran out at 5 3/4 (my aunt quite better today) - an hour in my walk - two turns from end to end - but snowing large flakes or small or rain partly frozen (more or less) all the time - 1/4 hour in the hut during the heaviest of the snow - yet this fresh air did me good, and the exercise warmed my feet -

Home at 6 3/4 - changed my clothes - dinner at 7 - afterwards cut open and read attentively from page 88 to 105 Ure's geology Letter from Lady V.C - [Vere Cameron] Leghorn March 8 (went into the and Florence March 10 other room at 9 1/2) - 3 pp. [pages] and ends - Kind letter but tho received my last forwarded to florence finishes her letter in a hurry and takes no notice of my offer of sponsorship tho gives me leave to call her husband lochiel

The Camerons had been a week at Naples and gone from there (to same time!) to Leghorn by steam - instead of ten days  left N- [Naples] at 3 p.m. on Wednesday 6 and anchored off the harbor at Leghorn at 6 a.m. Friday the 8th instant - by the Francesco primo - very good vessel - going to Greece the middle of April for a 3 months tour if can get 50 subscribers at 85 guineas each - each to land at his own expense - 2 ladies going from Naples - did not supper at all from sickenings not economical of money but of time - should have vetturino'd it part of the way if they had gone by land -

3 days from Naples to Rome - then rest there one day for passport and business, and then 6 days from R- [Rome] to Florence per vetturino - N- [Naples]

'like an English watering place in point of society and dissipation - I saw a great deal of our little Paris Waller who is going out with Lord Ponsonby to Constantinople, I had the pleasure of talking of you' -

San Carlos closed - did not attempt Vesuvius 'and Donald had been up before'! saw Pompeii and Baiæ - 'this Leghorn is a nasty cold miserable place the wind whistle's round the house and we are going off to Pisa where the Ussero is said to be the best hotel in Italy, kept by 2 cidevant couriers' - they were not disappointed with it - beg me to note it down - think of leaving

'Florence the 18th which will bring us to Nice (by Lucca and Genoa) say the 30th - and I suppose at Paris by the 15th of April, do you recollect anything of consequence that happened on that day?'

no I forget all about it and not having my journal of that date can make nothing out - must look forward to see me in London in May - 'I think I shall be in and about it till the end of July, when if all goes well I shall hope to be well enough to remove regularly into the country' - finds Florence very cold - large comfortless rooms at 'Les quatre nations' recommended as the best hotel - Schneiders said to be fallen off - more doubts and difficulties than ever with her brother Lord B and his attorney Mr. Jones about the bond for her money in Lord Bs hands  'it is a very great worry to me' - Read the courier - came to my room at 10 40/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 46º - very winterly day - rain and snow - but the latter gone as soon as come - wrote the last 24 lines till 11 1/4 -