#may1823

[microwavechicken-mami]

If only I was the piece of art on the side walk. I'm sorry but I'm never getting over this. Tough love doesn't always work, at one point it's just straight hate and not wanting to care for someone anymore.

[awhilesince]

Tuesday, 10 June 1823

7 5/60

11 50/60

a few minutes in the stable –

wrote the last 8 lines of yesterday – wrote a few lines to Squibb enclosing a draft for £86.0.9, payable at sight, on Messieurs Jones Loyd and company which my uncle got drawn payable to himself or order, yesterday at Rawsons’ – specially indorsed by me ‘Pay to Messieurs George Squibb and son order A Lister’ –

Marian here to breakfast by a little after 9 – went down to breakfast at 9 40/60 – left my letter ‘postage paid’ to ‘Messieurs Squibb and son, Saville-Row, London’ for my uncle to put into the post, and at 10 20/60 set off in the gig with Marian – drove the black mare – called at Crownest, Cliffhill, and Lightcliffe § – all at home at all the 3 places –

and got back to Shibden at 12 40/60 – my father came in – wished good bye to him and Marian and came upstairs – wrote the above of today – and a note to Miss Pickford to say my aunt and I thought of going for a week or perhaps ten days tomorrow morning into Craven, and I should hope to see her on my return –

wrote also a note to Whitley to say I had never got no. [number] 11 Retrospective review due 1st September last, and to beg he would take the earliest opportunity of getting it for me –

From 1 1/2 to 6, looking over Whitaker’s history of Craven – getting a few things ready in case we go tomorrow etc etc – § Mrs William Priestley gave me a letter for ‘Mrs Peart, Settle’ to make what use of the delivery of it we pleased – no one could give us better information about everything worth seeing – no one would be more happy to do it, if we chose to call, – and made any stay in Settle –

George brought me a note from Miss Pickford to say she had written to me per post on Sunday to say Mrs Wilcock had been at church that day – sorry I am going from home etc In the evening dawdling over 1 thing or other – preparing for the journey –

Downstairs from 10 to 10 3/4 – then came up to bed – went down at 11 to look at the glasses and found Barometer 1 3/4 above changeable Fahrenheit 53° – Fine day till 12 40/60 – afterwards showery – a little thunder about 5 p.m. with heavy rain –

[E three dots O two dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] two oor three drops –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0022

[awhilesince]

Monday, 9 June 1823

7 35/60

12

a minute or 2 in the stable – ready to ride at 8 20/60, but the rain delayed me till 9 – then rode Hotspur up and down the hall-croft an hour –

sat down to breakfast immediately, and at 10 55/60 had changed my dress, and set off with my aunt in the gig – drove the black mare – we called and sat 10 minutes with Mrs Saltmarshe – Mr John Rawson there but went into another to speak to his mother whom consequently we did not see –

called and sat 1/4 hour or 20 minutes with Mrs Stansfield Rawson and her daughter Catherine and then drove to Whitewell Place in 35 minutes – sat 20 minutes with Mrs Veitch who told by all means to see Whalley abbey the property of Lord Curzon of Keddleston – a very nice Inn there kept by a Mrs Wiglesworth – good road from Whalley to Burnley –

got home at 1 3/4, having stopt a minute as we returned at Northgate to propose driving Marian to Crownest etc tomorrow –

I have a thousand fears about the horses – neither of them is good for anything – we will try about getting rid of one or both when we come back – In the stable some time – came upstairs at 2 1/2 – wrote the above of today –

From 2 1/2 to 5 looking over Whitaker’s history of Craven – Dined at 5 – at 6 3/4 set off to walk to Lightcliffe –

after waiting a little Mrs William Priestley came home (from Hipperholme) drank tea with her – Miss Grisdale downstairs after a week’s confinement with a cold, and spasms in her head – Miss Ellen Carter called (from Giles house) and staid almost an hour – I staid her out, which made me late, and Mrs William Priestley and I engaged in confidential conversation walked backwards and forwards on my road home till 9 50/60 they talk of an excursion as a blind to get rrid of Miss Grisdale Edward no better on the whole the fever still high pulse a hundred he is sstill violent –

got home at 10 1/4 – came upstairs at 10 40/60 – Looking over the library catalogue for Gray’s letters etc from Craven – not in the library –

Fine day – Barometer 1/2 degree above changeable Fahrenheit 53° at 10 40/60 p.m. – [E three dots O one dot, marking discharge from venereal complaint] two oor three very little drops –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0022

[awhilesince]

Monday, 26 May 1823

7 25/60

12 20/60

In the stable 3/4 hour – at breakfast at 9 1/2 – at 10 1/5 went out on Hotspur – 2 rode 2 or 3 times the moor and got home at 12 40/60 – saw Hotspur dressed – eat his corn, and had him and the black mare turned out for a couple of hours at 1 1/2 – sauntered about the field –

came in at 2 – Dressed etc etc Entered my accounts for the last 6 weeks in my book – Dined at 5 1/4 – In the stable 1/4 hour –

at 6 20/60, set off down the fields to walk to Lightcliffe – Drank tea with the William P–s [Priestleys] – Miss Grisdale there – Spent a pleasant Evening – I think it is likely they will leave the neighbourhood by and by –

got home at 9 35/60 – In passing thro’ the town this morning put into the post my letter to ‘Miss Maclean of Coll, Tobermory, North Britain’ – and the post brought me this morning a letter from M– [Mariana] (Lawton) – she has some thought or wish of going to Scarbro’ for a little while before the festival – a bad sick headache prevented her writing on Friday – but I ought to have had her letter yesterday –

Fine day – tho’ a drop or 2 of rain while I was on Skircoat moor, and it was sultry and threatening rain and thunder – however both kept off – Barometer 1/2 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 55° at 9 35/60 p.m. –

came up then to curl etc went down again in three quarters hour – staid down talking and did not come upstairs to bed till 11 2/4 – [E two dots O one dot, marking discharge from venereal complaint] –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0016

[awhilesince]

Sunday, 8 June 1823

7

1 10/60

1/2 hour in the stable George had taken Hotspur to Blamire at 6 o’clock to get a new shoe put on –

Read over and sealed

my letter to M– [Mariana] (Lawton) and sent John to the Post office with it at 8, to ride Percy for the sake of exercising the horse – I know how he will manage the journey, or how the mare will stand it - we are not very effective just now in horse-strength –

Letter from Messieurs Squibb and Son (Saville row London) containing the particulars of their account – Squibb’s Expense to and from Market W– [Weighton] to survey the Estimate £14. advertising in the London and country newspapers £32.2 printing ‘a great no. number of descriptive sheet particulars with conditions of sale, and copper plate plans annexed’ £6.15 advertising ‘for sale by private contact in the Courier, Times, Herald Chronicle, etc £5.10 paid to Mr George Robins £5.5 postage 9/7 ‘carriage and booking particulars sent to York, and other places 19/2 For their own trouble £21 altogether £86.0.9 very moderate less than I expected – the postage of my last letter not changed – ….. ‘we beg have to return our thanks for the very handsome manner in which you have Expressed your opinion of our services. Landed property is evidently rising in value, and we have every hope and Expectation that another 12 months will restore it to something like its original worth’ ….

Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – wrote the last 8 lines – the rain which came on as I went down to breakfast at 9 1/2 prevented our going to church Downstairs from 11 50/60 to 12 50/60, and my aunt and I read the morning service – and in the afternoon from 4 20/60 to 5 – and my aunt and I read the evening service and I read aloud (in 18 minutes) sermon 40 (on the 9th commandment) volume 2. my uncles collection – vide page 98. we are to ‘speak every man truth with his neighbour’ ‘In all private converse our Saviour’s advice is, ‘that our communication be yea, yea, nay, nay;” that is, to affirm or deny nothing contrary to the truth, but to declare things as they are, without falsifying or forswearing’ …. i.e. without palliation or prevarication or simulation or dissimulation – this text never struck me Exactly in this sense before – I took it as rather a recommendation of mildness and gentleness in discourse, and perhaps it is often quoted in this latter sense?

all the morning and afternoon I was upstairs after 12 50/60 looking over Whitaker’s history of Craven for references to what we ought to see in our premeditated little excursion – at five washed –

from 5 20/60 to 6 5/60 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Rochefoucauld’s maxims in French – In the evening skimmed over the whole of Edward Morris fables addressed to the ladies a small volume of my uncles –

From 9 5/60 to 9 20/60 walked on the flags – Barometer 3/4 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 54° at 9 20/60 p.m. Very showery all the day – the weather so unsettled we shall not go tomorrow

During supper wrote the last 11 lines of today – went down at 10 – Talking about paying Squibb – staid a little by the kitchen fire and came upstairs at 11 20/60 –

Taking money out of my writing case saw the little French song Marianne D– gave me, ‘Lorsque tu m’offrir la pitié’ etc got the air by inaudibly blowing the flute – getting it by heart for an hour – and dawdling thus did not begin to undress till 12 20/60 –

[E three dots O one dot, marking discharge from venereal complaint] – urine pretty clear today – Rainy night –

at the song a little again – and not in bed of 50 minutes – one or two little drops –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0021

[awhilesince]

Saturday, 7 June 1823

6 50/60

In the stable a few minutes From 8 to 8 3/4 rode Hotspur up and down the Hall-croft –

I have almost always kept a copy of the 1st letter I have written to a person therefore for near an hour Before Breakfast (down to breakfast at 9 3/4) and afterwards (came upstairs at 10 55/60) from 11 to near 12 copied what I wrote yesterday to Henrietta C– [Crompton] Tolerably satisfied with it – there are 2 sentences ending ill – speaking of Benvenuto Cellini (Toscoe’s life of) ‘when the business of a goldsmith was not what it now is’ – I was anxious not to write too well to Miss H– [Henrietta] C– [Crompton] but to this moment these 2 ill concluding sentences ring in my ears like discords – was not what it is now – more of pleasure than it possesses – How small an alteration will sometimes make the difference between good and bad style! How much the 1st sentence proves the remark of Dionysos Halicarnassos (vide Larcher i. 189. note 26. ‘que l’arrangement des mots donne plus de grace au discours que le choix même des Expressions’ –

After copying my letter to Henrietta C– [Crompton] copied that to Marianne D– [Dalton] and sent them both to the Post Office by George at 12 35/60 – to ‘Miss Dalton Croft-Rectory Darlington’ and to ‘Miss Henrietta Crompton Esholt-hall Bradford’ – Read over the copies of my letters – that to Marianne Dalton kindly Explanatory of the long gap in our correspondence – ‘Anger is that very spell that never moves a heart like mine’ – ‘Friendship does not live a on letters alone, but on every feeling that proceedeth from the heart’ – ‘Anger absolutely scares me’ – Ever her ‘invariably sincere and affectionate friend AL– [Anne Lister]’

wrote the above of today – all which took me till 1 3/4 – then read my letter I had this morning (before breakfast) from M– [Mariana] (Lawton) – this does shew feeling towards for she has been uneasy because my last letter and one or two letters from York were not sealed with her seal but with the pelican

‘However trifling and foolish the thing seem, it has truly given me much pain’ – …. ‘I really shall not be quite at rest till I hear from you, how the mistake occurred’ – she has no idea that Mr Charles L– [Lawton] will either be with her at Scarbro’ or York – ‘Think of the possibility of going with me or joining me at S– [Scarborough]’

in a letter from Eli to Louisa the following speaking of Mrs Milne Miss Lister certainly did her a great deal of harm feeding her vanity by telling her what a fascinating creature she is how irresistible etc etc and which I told Miss L [Lister] was anything but but right do not tell π [Mariana] this for it would only make her unhappy and do no good besides the chance of producing a quarrel but really I must say her conduct to H [Henrietta] was truly disgusting tho she swallowed eagerly all the nonsense. I shall make no comment except just to recall to your recollection all I have said and felt on the same subject and to assure you that my feelings are not less with three dashes alive than they were at that time I have replied to all this in about two closely written pages shewing that what Eli says should be taken with caution that it was all surmise on her part who could know nothing of what passed when H [Henrietta] and I were left to oourselves and certainly there was no foolery before people. I have thrown of the charge as well as I can mentioned speech to Henrietta C [Crompton] about my flirting with her and their never seeing me in Petergate say H [Henrietta] C [Crompton] thought it impertinent and that I don’t like this sort of thing and in fact if π [Mariana] has much penetration she sees I do not like the party much but have said Mrs M [Milne] is far the most ladylike of them and that I thought her the most agreeable companion then in York hint at Elis having told me of Hs [Henrietta’s] conduct in these words with Elis permission I could change my conduct and act consistently and perhaps have more beneficial influence with Mrs M [Milne] you are any of you aware –

Musing over M–‘s [Mariana’s] letter from about 2 1/4 to near 6, wrote her 3 pages and the ends and under the seal, all very small and close, particularly the last page and the ends –

In the evening did nothing but look a little at the large map (in sheets) of Yorkshire –

came upstairs at 9 10/60 at which hour wrote all but the 1st 15 lines of today – A little rain sent me in from riding this morning 1/4 hour sooner than I intended – fair till between 2 and 3 then a very rainy afternoon and evening Barometer 1 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 52 1/2° at 9 10/60 p.m. –

My uncle at the navigation committee meeting this morning when Mr James Edward Norris was elected their law-agent – Mr Carr of Wakefield proposed him, and Mr Briggs proposed Mr James Stansfield the unsuccessful candidate – my uncle as senior proprietor was chairman and voted for Mr N– [Norris] out of 16 votes given (only 17 members of the committee I understand and Mr Waterhouse staid away and would give no vote at all, very properly – would not vote against Mr N– [Norris] could not against his wife’s cousin Mr S– [Stansfield]), out of 16 votes given 9 were for Mr N– [Norris] 7 for Mr S– [Stansfield] Mr N– [Norris] being one of the committee was there and voted, it seems for himself!

writing all this took me till 9 55/60 – went downstairs at 11 and came up at again at 11 40/60 – [E three dots O one dot, marking discharge from venereal complaint] – one single little drop urine rather turbid this evening –

Hotspur lost 1 of his fore shoes this afternoon in the field –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0021

[awhilesince]

Friday, 6 June 1823

6 50/60 11 35/60 10 minutes in the stable – sent George with Percy and the mare to Blamire to be shod, and the mare removed for the journey – at 8 mounted Hotspur rode him up and down the calf croft 1 5/60 – then saw John dress him 1/4 and turn him out – at breakfast at 9 35/60 – Letter 3 pages and the ends and under the seal dated Monday 2nd June and finished on Thursday from Miss Mark (York) – Mrs D– [Duffin] was worse for 2 or 3 days just after I left them Mr D– [Duffin] wrote for his niece Maria (from Old Connaught no far from Dublin)

‘who set off immediately from steam-packet on Wednesday Evening' (i.e. Wednesday 28 May April) 'in 13 hours arrived at Liverpool, might have been in York on Thursday Evening, but as a consolation was with her, they viewed the town, slept at Manchester and on Friday' (30 May) 'she arrived here at 7 o’clock in the evening What Explanation she received the letter at old Connaught on Tuesday morning’ (i.e. Tuesday 27 April) –

But Mrs D– [Duffin] is now better again so much so that Mr D– [Duffin] and Mr Wynyard are gone together to Wigginthorpe, Mr Garforth’s, for a week – my information as to the G–s [Greenups] seems only to have struck Miss M– [Marsh] as altogether satisfactory – she says

….. ‘I thank you from my heart, I do think and I do most Earnestly hope all will again go on perhaps better than formerly – Mr Greenup came to York last Thursday' (29 May) 'Evening to settle I believe with some creditor or creditors here, but I fear he did not succeed, on Tuesday morning he came to me certainly in very depressed spirits …… with tears he told me that every undertaking for the last seven years always failed – that in short nothing prospered which they undertook – he cannot accuse either himself or any part of the family of Extravagance – it seems downright misfortune – God grant in future it may be otherwise, I feel sanguine’ ….. Mr Marsh ‘has heard from Eliza again, as she thinks a clear Explanation of Every thing, but it does not enlighten him the least – I shall send him what you say’ ….

Surely Mr M– [Marsh] will be able to weigh the facts, and probably some of the observation made at the top of page 27 may occur to him – All well at Langton – ‘Norcliffe gazetted as retiring – the duke dying' - Letter also from Miss Henrietta Crompton (Esholt-hall, Bradford) – this was more than I expected – beginning

‘I have not yet decided, my dear Miss Lister whether you are one of the most deceitful or agreeable of mortals – if you be the 1st, this letter will be a proper punishment, for, as a gentlewoman you must answer, and if you are not the 1st you must be the 2nd; for we always or at least I always find those agreeable that flatter me the most’ ….. ‘the last farewell billet, was highly prized by Mary, who says she had it off by heart I do assure you we were quite in the Sumps (a very Expressive word by the bye) and it was only from the hope of soon seeing you here (will your uncle allow it?) that we regained our spirits – and when you do come I will neither quarrel with your strait cut collar, nor black hat’ …..

so they ask me to Esholt this is more than I expected tis evident they like me I could pursue the acquaintance perhaps very far if I liked attach either H [Henrietta] or Mary more than they are aware if I chose but I will be careful π [Mariana] is right my manners do please the ladies and really too when I am not thinking of it – I certainly never thought of all this in York never attempted the thing never dreamt of charming so wisely without effort – Came upstairs at 11 – from then till 1 10/60 (Crossley having in the mean while been 40 minutes cutting and dressing my hair) wrote the above of today – then till 3 looking over my nos. [numbers] of the Retrospective review – no. number 11 wanting How is this? –

afterwards wrote 3 pages and the ends and under the seal (small and close), Dated them as tomorrow, to Miss Henrietta Crompton – this took me from three till very near six – In the evening from 7 3/4 to 9 20/60 came upstairs and wrote 3 pages and a couple of lines on one end, to Marianne D–[Dalton] dated as tomorrow – My father and Marian here from 8 to 9 – I did not see them –

Fine day – Barometer 3/4 degree above changeable F– [Fahrenhei]t 52° at 10 p.m. – Came upstairs at 11 –[ E three dots O no dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] urine clear –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0020

[awhilesince]

Thursday, 5 June 1823

7 11 1/2

a few minutes in the stable – at 8 25/60 mounted Hotspur rode him and down the calf-croft an hour – rode in my greatcoat the first time instead of my habit –

at breakfast at 9 3/4 – at 10 55/60 my aunt and I set off to call at Mill-house etc – Mrs William Henry Rawson not at home (at Kebroyde) but we sat an hour at Thorpe with Mrs John P– [Priestley] all which time it rained pretty heavily – the little girl, Elizabeth P– [Priestley], ætatis 5 the 11th November last – Mr Edward P– [Priestley] was better yesterday – a bad account of him today – he has been bled again and is to have a blister at the back of his head or neck – still violent – his mother has hitherto borne up the best of any of them but is very low today –

the black mare went very well – drove her back from Thorpe in 50 minutes and got home at 2 1/4 – It rained very nearly all the way – Came upstairs immediately dressed – wrote the last 9 lines of yesterday and so far of today, which took me till 3 35/60 –

From this to 5 40/60 planning another little Excursion for my aunt and myself – from H–x [Halifax] to Otley, Skipton, Settle, Clitheroe, Colne, Burnley, and thence home – 106 1/2 miles, supposing the distance between Clitheroe and Colne (Cary gives no direct road between them) to be 30 miles – add 20 miles for contingencies, and we shall do it very well in 6 days –

In the evening at 8 my father came – Just staid to see him, went for a moment into the stable, and at 8 10/60 down the old bank up Horton to Crossley’s – to leave him my false curls to do up – Sat 20 minutes or more with Marian at Northgate during a heavy shower, and got home at 9 20/60 –

Came up to bed at 10 55 /60 – very showery morning indeed very showery all the day Except for a couple of hours just before 6 – Barometer 3 1/2 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 51° at 9 20/60 p.m. –

[E three dots O no dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] – urine clear these last three days –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0020

[awhilesince]

Wednesday, 4 June 1823

6 50/60

11 1/2

– In the stable 10 minutes at light mounted Hotspur to ride him about a little in the Hanging-hay – George not going farther then to take the rail down at the drewbridge, I was obliged to scramble up into the long field – had scarce before it began to rain pretty smartly – yet rode about a little – Got off and lead the horse down the scrambling part – he slipt so it would have been impossible to have ridden remounted in the little field – came home got John to let me into the hanging-hay – rode round the field and once or twice along the bottom of it – in spite of the rain was on horseback 40 minutes – Hotspur as steady as possible – in the stable a little and came in at 9 – my clothes rather wet –

Down to breakfast at 9 35/60 – raining and very threatening – but as it cleared a little and we had fixed to go to Whitewell-place, waited till a heavy shower was over, set of at 11, and drove the black mare in 50 minutes George rode Percy – found Mrs V– [Veitch] at home sat with 1 1/4 hour it rained all the time pretty heavily in general – as soon as it was fair, returned in 55 minutes – and no rain since leaving Mrs V– [Veitch] (‘tis now 4) – there had been more at Elland than here –

Gave Hotspur some bread – dawdled about and came upstairs at 2 35/60 – from then till near 4 looking at the road book calculating distances – planning a 3 days’ tour for my aunt – to Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Wentworth house, etc – then wrote the above of today –

this morning’s post brought me (read them before I went) a 1/2 sheet note from Miss Pickford (3 pages) – not to stay at home in an Evening on her account – she will come again if I am out –

‘did I see you upon the moor where occasionally by day I breathe the fresh air, not withstanding the respect for to Etiquette, I should venture to walk up and speak to you, perchance observe your horse and comment thereon – the desire to see which and the rider perchance might make me so informal as to breathe mountain air (mountain air) when I might be most likely to have a sight of you – could I guess the likeliest time for such rencontre’ –

A very kind letter also from Mrs James Dalton (Croft Rectory) the ends written by Marianne who seems to be much better and pretty well –

‘let me assure you now, that the anger (I believe I must allow) which I have felt perhaps in a greater degree than I thought, has vanished, and ‘like the baseless fabric of a vision left not a trace behind’; I must on the contrary, beg you will forgive my having vexed you, for which I sincerely reproach myself, as those always do I imagine who give way to feelings of resentment – a proper penalty Queen ….. I can only add an assurance …. that I am once more as ever yours sincerely and affectionately’ –

Mrs James D– [Dalton] will not be at the festival – she will have her sister with her – the 3 girls will be with Mrs Norcliffe who, I suppose, will fill her house in Petergate – I should like to be of their party better I think than being at Miss Ms [Marsh’s] but if she does not ask me shall be satisfied what is is best – Marianne is quite come round again I shall write to her soon it seems my last letter must have pleased them all –

4 40/60 when I finished so far of today – wrote a note to Miss Pickford – till six dawdling over it – my note of no use – Miss Pickford called at 7 50/60 – took her into the stable to see Hotspur – at 8 1/2 walked back with her – down the old bank up Horton Street St. John’s and Wellhead lanes to Mrs Wilcock’s gate – returned by Savile Green –

called at the door to inquire after Mrs Stansfield Rawson – Catherine ran after me – sauntered up and down with her 10 minutes and got home at 9 1/2 –

came upstairs for near 3/4 hour, and down from 10 1/4 to 11 when I came up to bed – Barometer 5 1/2 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 51 1/2° at 9 35/60 p.m. Rainy day Till 4 (vide line 10 of today) afterwards fair and pretty fine –

I dare say knowing me is a godsend to Miss P [Pickford] she can be more companionable than anyone here but she is too masculine and if she runs after me too much I shall tire her manners are singular sometimes she seems a little swing about she is all openness to me about her sisters etc –

[E three dots O no dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint –]

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0019, SH:7/ML/E/7/0020

[awhilesince]

Tuesday, June 3 1823

7 25/60

11 1/2

25 minutes in the stable –

down to breakfast, after reading from page 190. to 195. volume 1 Anacharsis (French) at 9 35/60 – a chapter or 2 in Clio after breakfast, and at 11 took George in the gig and drove the black mare to Lightcliffe – very glad I went – sat an hour with Mrs William Priestley her friend Miss Grisdale in bed with a little cold – Mrs William Priestley very low about Mr Edward P– [Priestley] we talked the matter over – this seemed to relieve her – I bade her not restrain her feelings, but let tears have their way – promised to call again soon – Mr William Priestley met his brother at the White lion on Saturday morning – got him away to Kebroyde, on the plea of his mother’s being unwell, – had Dr. Paley in the chaise with them and he bled Mr Edward Priestley profusely (opened the temporal artery) immediately – still the poor fellow was so violent that night, he required seven strong men to hold him – the artery burst open in the night and bled again profusely – today’s account not arrived Mr William Priestley not returned; but yesterday and Sunday rather quieter –Mrs P– [Priestley], the mother, bears it quite as well or better than could be expected – On Thursday and Friday his friends had thought him labouring under the effects of intoxication – They thought so at Crownest on Friday Evening after he had been here, and were exceedingly distressed – he returned to Huddersfield that night – He had really agreed with Mr Briggs to give £10,500 for Horley Green – 75 dayswork of land – the late Mr Walker left his daughters between 6 and 7 hundreds a year each – or call it about 6 hundreds – Miss Grisdale has only one hundred a year makes it do by living on her friends that Mr William Priestley will not send her off it is a sort of charity to keep her and she stands on no ceremony with her –

the black mare went very well – drove her back in 25 minutes and got home at 12 50/60 –

Came upstairs at 1 30/60 having staid down talking to my uncle and aunt – scaled my teeth a little wrote all the above of today – and from 2 50/60 to 5 50/60 read from chapter 7. to 15. librum i. Herodotus and Larcher’s translation and notes –

After dinner my aunt and I 20 minutes in the bottom chamber watching the plasterer and Charles Howarth – lathering etc for underdrawing –

a few minutes in the stable walked to Northgate – got there a minute or 2 before 8 – staid 25 minutes to inquire after Marian who was poorly on Sunday not at church – indigestion – perhaps a slight degree of liver obstruction – my father walked back with along the new road past Benjamin’s – kept me standing a long while – did not get home till 9 1/4 –

Very showery morning – rain from 9 to 10 1/2 – rained as I returned from Lightcliffe – rained while I was there – Finish in the afternoon and fine Evening – Barometer 4 1/4 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 63 1/2° at 9 1/4 p.m. –

Came upstairs at 10 50/60 – wrote the last 6 lines – [E three dots O no dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] –

Talked seriously to my aunt tonight about our taking some little Excursions – to Cragg etc about home – then to Wakefield and Doncaster – came upstairs at 10 50/60 –

left margin: sent George to inquire after the Saltmarshes this afternoon – all well –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0019

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Monday, 2 June 1823

7 11

1/4

In the stable 1 1/4 – at 8 George rode Percy to Northowram for Blamire to redress his feet after the bleeding in the toe – the 1st time the horse has been used these 2 months at least – I am now satisfied his lameness is all in the gambrel on account of the Spavin – the firing has not entirely removed it, or has left too great stiffness about the joint – at 8 in spite of the rain had the mare and Hotspur a full hour while John rubbed him quite dry – George had come back at ten and a half said the horses ought not to have been turned out it was enough to give Hotspur his death of cold – I said no no and seemed quite composed about it but inwardly I was fidgety and therefore saw the colt rrubbed dry for fear of cold –

William Elen the plasterer came this morning to underdraw the bottom chamber – I talked to him a little before breakfast and did not come up to dress Till 8 1/2 –

down to breakfast at 9 35/60 – having written the copy of a letter to Mrs Milne half of which I afterwards left out – Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – wrote the 3rd page of the sheet of terms Miss Wilkinson sent me on Saturday – made no comment – merely observed I believed the ‘French drawing, dancing and music on the usual terms’ meant at 6 guineas each pair annum – wrote nothing particular (to ‘Mrs Milne Dr. Belcombe’s Petergate York’) – sent it to Post Office at 12 by George who again rode Percy – staid in the stable seeing Hotspur rubbed dry from 12 to 1 –

with the plasterer a few minutes came upstairs at 1 1/4 – wrote the above of today – From 1 40/60 to 3 40/60 reading White, volume 3 from page 176. to 235. and the 1st 10 pages From 3 3/4 to 5 40/60 read the last 5 chapters of book 1. Herodotus and Larcher’s translation and notes –

might have walked out in the evening but staid at home finishing the index of the last volume of my journal from 10 to 25 April and ruled the first 3 pages of the letter index to this volume –

Thoroughly rainy day from 8 a.m. to near 6 – then cleared up, and a pretty fine Evening – Barometer 3 1/4 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 56° at 9 1/4 p.m. – [E three dots]

felt a little inclined to masturbation just before dinner from reading the last chapter of Clio touched myself a little but used a syringe full of cold water and got over it since my return I have had two morning and night and one in the afternoon which I hope will keep me clean and that without trying anything else I shall be better by and by and that the complaint will wear itself out

came upstairs at 10 3/4 –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0019

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Sunday, 1 June 1823

7 3/4

11 50/60

In the stable 10 minutes –

Note from Miss Pickford (Savile-hill, H–x [Halifax]) – excuses herself for not having answered mine sooner – meant to have sent a servant over – obliged at last to put it into the Post Office Mrs W– [Wilcock] particularly wishes her not to be seen at either of the H–x [Halifax] churches or at Sowerby bridge lest any of their acquaintance should call therefore she is going to Southowram – says ‘I fear it may yet be some time ere I have the pleasure to see you, unless you ever chance to go to Southowram church’ etc etc Mrs Wilcock ‘better than she was last week and more composed’ – Perhaps she will not like Miss P–‘s [Pickford’s] going to Southowram church – if so, Miss P– [Pickford] had better have staid quietly at home – it would have been better to have done so, at all rates –

Down at breakfast at 9 35/60 – we all walked to the old church – Mr K– Knight (the vicar) preached tolerably 24 minutes from Hebrews ix.11,12.

Stood 3/4 hour watching Percy and Hotspur graze in the Hall croft – then dawdled 1/4 hour in the stable with the black mare (not turned out for a day or 2 to keep the other 2 more quiet) giving her grass, etc and came in at 2 20/60 –

Dressed etc dawdled over 1 thing or other – Reading White for near an hour and went downstairs at 4 1/4 – my aunt and I read the Evening service and I read aloud sermon 39, volume 2. my uncle’s collection –

at 5 50/60 a loud rap and who should come in but Miss Pickford – She had been at Southowram church in the morning – walked home to dinner and then walked back to the same in the afternoon and came here in returning – she staid about 10 minutes and I walked with her (without hat on) as far as 1/2 over the flat – Her going to Southowram church was not her own proposal but Mrs Wilcock’s – Miss P– [Pickford] will walk here again some Evening perhaps this week – she certainly likes me and pays me a sort of deference odd enough from one so much older than myself neat gros de Naples ssilk mourning and bonnet and she looked better more feminine than in her habit –

In the evening did nothing – Very fine day – Barometer 1 1/2 degree above changeable Fahrenheit 61° at 9 5/60 p.m. –

Came upstairs at 10 50/60 but singing some of my old songs and playing the flute a little kept me up 1/2 hour longer –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0018, SH:7/ML/E/7/0019

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Saturday, 31 May 1823

7 1/4

11 50/60

40 minutes in the stable –

wrote out the 1st page of my letter to Miss M– [Marsh] and down to breakfast at 9 35/60 – Came upstairs at 10 55/60 wrote out the 2nd and 3rd pages and the ends of my letter and sent it at 12 1/4 to Miss Marsh (Micklegate York), having 1st read aloud the whole to my aunt – after giving Miss M– [Marsh] an account of the proposals made by the G–s [Greenups] at the meeting of their creditors the 20th ultimo – that a great many had signed the certificate but many were dissatisfied ‘because this statement of the G–s [Greenups] (vide page 24) has not been corroborated by a proper public inspection of their accounts (I understand they have not been inspected at all, and because ‘if the G–s [Greenups] were made bankrupts at once, and all was given up and sold for the benefit of the creditors at large’, they say, ‘there would be a dividend for them all of 10/. in the pound`– after this, I observe

‘In fact, this large family-debt is surely useful in the present case; as it is what gave colour to the proposal made at the meeting, and thus enables the G–s [Greenups] to move quietly to Sowerby-bridge, to keep all there in statu quo, and carry on their concerns as if nothing had happened, save the lucky riddance of so large a potion of their debt – whatever maybe the total, if creditors to the amount of only £20,000 have signed the certificate, then the G– Greenups will have gained £12,500; and, with a help of this sort, they have surely a chance of doing better than before’….

what a rascally piece of business! rascally even in these family-creditors to suffer themselves to be made such tools of – They ought to insist on all being fairly given up, and, after coming in fairly with the rest, then set up the G–s [Greenups] again if they choose – as it is, the G–s [Greenups] will gain so much by the poor deluded people who sign the certificate, that they (the G–s [Greenups]) will be enabled to go on better than before, to pay these family-creditors the interest of their money and perhaps the whole of the principal by and by – thus the family creditors by saving themselves and enabling the G–s [Greenups] to go on with out advancing them another 6d pence, become one and all a prey upon the public, and receiving of the wages of iniquity!

But perhaps Miss M– [Marsh] cannot perceive this; nor has she nous enough to gather the public and my own opinion from the tenour of my pages – one poor man at Southowram who was doing well – had got beforehand in the world – is already ruined and obliged to be sold up – God grant that I may always eat my bread in honesty, and with ‘clean hands’!

wrote the above of today and from 1 to 5 50/60 reading White’s veterinary dictionary, but chiefly volume 3 on lameness, wishful to discover the nature of Percy’s lameness in his off hind fetlock joint –

George brought me from Heath’s this afternoon the terms of Mr Wilkinson’s school – Mr W–‘s [Wilkinson’s] ‘Terms for teaching Latin Greek, Geography (with the use of the globes) English grammar, writing and accounts, are 7 guineas a year and Entrance 2 guineas … Board in his own family 28 guineas a year for young gents. gentlemen under 10 years old, but for others above that age 33 guineas per annum and washing £1.12.0 Each young gentleman brings a pair of shirts, pillow-cases, and 6 towels, or pays 1/2 a guinea annually for the use of them – also a silver spoon or pays 1/2 guinea in lieu of one’ … ‘French drawing dancing and music taught on the usual Terms’ … a boarding house near where ‘a few young gentlemen are comfortably accomodated’ at ‘20 and 25 guineas a year according to the ages above mentioned – the items are the same’ –

Blamire came about 6 – brought me a pattern fore shoe, meant as he told me to be far handsomer and better than that from the barracks – meaning and doing are 2 different things – the shoe is well enough – I was to pay him a shilling for it, and did do so – Examined Percy’s off hind leg – to go to Blamire on Monday to have his toe where blid redressed –

From 8 to 8 25/60 in the stable with Hotspur –

Intended walking out but prevented by very heavy rain from 6 till about 7 1/2, and afterwards rainy – a fine growing Evening

Barometer 3 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 64 1/2° at 9 5/60 p.m. – wrote the last 11 lines during supper – Came upstairs at 11.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0018

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Friday, 30 May 1823

7

12

50 minutes in the stable – wrote all the last page (but the 3 first lines) of my journal of yesterday and went down to breakfast at 9 40/60 –

Left my letters to M– [Mariana] (Lawton hall) and to Mrs James Dalton (Croft. Rectory Darlington) written yesterday for William Green to take to the post, and, with the black mare in the gig and George riding Rose, my aunt and I set off to call at Cliffhill at 10 3/4 – sat with Miss Walker about 1/2 hour – then drove as far as the Lightcliffe turnpike and got home at 12 3/4 –

the mare made a piece of work (backing) at setting off, and at turning at the turnpike and afterwards opposite to Mr William [P–‘s] Priestley’s where I was turning her for practise – and she after that did pretty opposite in turning for practise opposite white-hall –

Dawdled about with my uncle and aunt in the stable with the black mare (not to be turned out for fear of making the others gallop about) and in the field with Percy and Hotspur –

Mr James Norris had called on my uncle – he is pretty near sure of getting the appointment of law agent to the navigation company – I am glad of it – Came upstairs at 1 55/60 – Dressed etc

From 2 1/2 to 5 3/4 wrote a longish letter to Miss M– Marsh a pretty account of the Greenups – I shall keep this letter as a copy, having made several alterations, and wrote one out fairly to go tomorrow –

Mr Edward Priestley (late of Cliff) called just before tea went out, and staid about or near an hour – Poor fellow! he was quite beside himself – quite mad – never heard a man talk more wildly – Had just bought Horley Green for £10500 and another estate for £5,000 – had so much money he did not know what to do with it – did not know how it came – but he had got it – got it honestly – was for buying Estates – would give my father £15,000 for his – had offered £150 per annum for General Bernard’s house near Huddersfield on lease for 11 years – 65 acres of land to it – going to London would order a carriage – then going to Scotland – he had cleared £1000 by his business last year – his uncle Walker had left him £10000 – that was his nest egg – for the last 4 or 5 years he had saved £500 a year – should have £6000 at his mother’s death something handsome at his aunt Anne’s death – he should marry his cousin – he had 3 ladies on the list but she should be first – her father had left her sister £1000 a year – a wildness of wild nonsense besides all this – we were all quite shocked, and for some time after he went could think or talk of nothing else – George evidently thought him tipsy – Has great success in business and the speedy prospect of his marrying Miss Walker seem to have been more of good fortune than he could bear – Poor fellow! How is thy reason darkened – thy prospects thus shadowed with despair! –

At 7 3/4 went into the stable – for 1/2 hour – then wrote from 4 to 10 April of the index to the last volume of my journal – But all quite shocked at what we had seen –

Very fine day – Barometer 3 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 61° at 9 p.m. During supper wrote the above of today and curled all but the six back curls – Came upstairs at 10 55/60 – Sat up reading White’s veterinary dictionary –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0018

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Thursday, 29 May 1823

7 11 1/2 1/2 hour in the stable wrote 1 page to Squibb to beg he would send the particulars of his account as soon as convenient – I had been Expecting them for the last 2 or 3 months – had been a great deal from home, or should have written sooner – was anxious to have the business closed as far as I was concerned – thought his charge (vide 27 January last) very was entirely satisfied with everything he had done, and should take every opportunity of mentioning him in the handsomest terms – the aspect of the times much improved with us, the agricultural interest reviving – what is thought of this in London? Added 1/2 page to my letter to Mrs James Dalton, and down to breakfast at 9 35/60 – At 10 1/4 off to H–x [Halifax] on Hotspur put into the post (in passing) my letter to ‘Messieurs Squibb and son, Saville-row, London’ – cantered along Bull-close lane, then walk as far as The Willow-field gates, and back to Pye-nest, to cool the horse – sat 35 minutes with Mrs Edwards – returned by Skircoat moor, just called and stopt a moment at Heath (did not dismount) to ask for the terms of the school, and got home at 12 50/60 – Mrs E– [Edwards] gave me the best information about the Greenups I have been able to collect – It would be more creditable to be gazetted as bankrupts than do as they have done – no giving up of their property – no public examination of their accounts – at the meeting of their creditors, they (the G–s [Greenups] merely proposed paying 7/. (or it might be 7/6 in the pound, 4/. in August next, and 3/6 within the 2 years from the time of the meeting), and keeping all their property, machinery etc in statu quo at Sowerby-bridge, and going on with the business – If the creditors would agree to these terms, the family creditors (Mr Watt, Miss Greenup, and Mrs Hargrove of near Leeds and Mrs Greenup under her marriage-settlement) to a large amount would withhold their claims, so as not to interfere with the payment of these 7/. or 7/6 in the pound – if the creditors not agree, the family would come in for their share, and the dividend would be so much less – i.e. 1/2 as much less, if (as was 1st reported) out of a debt of £50,000 - £25,000 be owing to Mr W– [Watt], Miss G– [Greenup] and Mrs H– [Hargrove] Mr James Norris, as attorney, has been indefatigable – has ridden about night and day – his brother Charles had not seen him in his office of 6 weeks, and has persuaded a very great many to subscribe to the above terms – some few who hold most (of course) be paid all, to quieten them – and thus some will get all – the rest only 7/. or 7/6 in the pound – and they (the G–s [Greenups]) will have the latter 3/. or 3/6 for 2 years in their hands to carry on business with – besides keeping the mills, and all as they stand – If the property had been sold, they ought to have paid 10/. in the pound – Mr George Greenup junior is said to be fond of company – his family increases, and Mrs Henry Priestley said on Tuesday his wife lived at Sturk bridge, just below Haugh-end – Mrs Cristopher Saltmarshe said yesterday a gentleman of 1st respectability at Liverpool had told Mr Cristopher Saltmarshe that his debt was small, but he was determined to have it all – he would never sign the agreement, because the G–s [Greenups] had behaved so ill X – Came upstairs – Dressed etc From 1 20/60 to 2 25/60 wrote the whole of the journal of yesterday and so far of today – From 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 wrote 3 pages and the ends to M– [Mariana] and finished my letter to Mrs James Dalton having written the latter 1/2 the 3rd page and the 2 ends – as to meeting Mr Charles L– [Lawton] in York at the festival and M–‘s [Mariana’s] sentence ‘If you meet, well and good; if not, so much the better’ – This amuses me – we shall meet quietly – on my part, as if we had never met before – and would we never have! I might have said, if one spark of care about it had remained – But so long as you are comfortable, I am satisfied – contented with the things that be, and little anxious save for that last tomorrow, when ‘the weary shall be at rest’ –

Told M–[Mariana] I had given up the thought of going to North Cave this year – ‘and one of the reasons is, because I cannot well afford it’…. it would cost at least ten pounds and my expenses in York were upwards of fifty – I shall go to the festival and be at Miss M–‘s [Marsh’s] the D–s [Duffins] will have 3 rooms full, that M– [Mariana] cannot be in Micklegate without she commissions

‘me to engage a room of Miss Hansom – and your mother would not hear of this – you will be the chief pearl of her party, and cannot be spared’ –

Nothing very particular in my letter to Mrs James D– [Dalton] mentioned Charles’s having given an indifferent account of Marianne’s health in a letter to Mrs Milne, and that my anxiety for better tidings made me think Isabella an age in writing –

‘I am no the only one whom years have changed in love of writing – Time was, when Isabel used to write to me twice a week; – now I do not hear from her once a month – yet I do not think her regard eight Times less than it used to be – I do not measure it by this, nor do I believe ‘that a friendship which cannot § sacrifice a couple of hours in a month to the gratification of the absent party, cannot exist in a great degree’ – § For cannot, read does not – But young and old judge differently – you and I are entering the latter class, and I trust our opinions will jog on in harmony – I shall certainly go and see, the 1st time I have an opportunity – Let us have our walks round the garden; – let us moralize on our way; and, if we say one word about not being able to make peace with all, let us hope that the children, as they grow older will learn to forgive; and to love again their mother’s friend – Had not Mrs Duffin’s illness detained me, I thought of spending a week with you – But I have another time in view, tho’, I am always so fearfully uncertain of the future, I dare not name it’ –

went down to dinner at 6 my father and Marian had been here an hour – they staid tea, and till a little after 8 – they are a forlorn looking pair and none of us scarce knows what to say to either of them Just after my dinner George came to tell me Hotspur had got a tread on his near fore heel from an overreach in galloping – the dirt was washed, and then, according to my fathers advice, the wound was stopt with salt, and bandaged – I hope it will be well in a few days – Very fine day – Barometer 2 1/8 degree above changeable Fahrenheit 58° at 9 10/60 p.m. – Came upstairs at 10 55/60 – x our farming man James Smith says, and he is likely to have heard from some of the creditors that the Greenups are to pay 4/. in the pound next August 2/. next February, and the remaining 1/6 next August twelvemonth – left margin: vide page 27. reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0017

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Wednesday, 28 May 1823

8

11 1/2

a few minutes in the stable went down to breakfast at 9 1/2 –

at 10 1/4 off on Hotspur to Northowram, to Blamire’s, to have the horse shod – rode forwards on the Bradford road as far as Took me an hour going and returning – then stood over Blamire 1/4 hour in which time he put on 4 new shoes, rode back, and got home at 1 40/60 – In imitation of the pattern shoe from the barracks (Professor Coleman’s patent), Hotspur has a very little bit of canking on the off side of his hind shoes, and they are capped – but I do not much like either the canking or capping, and will not have it so any more –

In the afternoon wrote 2 pages of a letter to Mrs James Dalton having first written the copy of a letter to Squibb –

In the evening at 6, a few minutes in the stable then walked down the old bank to H–x [Halifax] – paid for the last Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and the Retrospective review, and for some toothbrush at Crossley’s and sat an hour with Mrs Christopher Saltmarshe (her mother Mrs Rawson with her) and got home at 9 5/60 – Said her note was too late – my uncle had promised his vote to Mr James Norris – They did not care about Mr James Stansfeld – they wanted any one to oppose the Norris’s who had already too much power in the town – not all the Rawsons and all the Briggs’s could keep them down they had so much impudence, and whatever gave them more importance, would make bad worse –

Very fine day – Barometer 2 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 55°1/2 at 9 35/60 p.m. Came upstairs at 10 55/60 –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0016, SH:7/ML/E/7/0017