#Anne Lister Code Breaker

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Confirmation of their visit to the copper mine in Falun, Sweden.

Courtesy of Stora Enso ABs arkiv, Arkivcentrum Dalarna, i Falun.

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Before Gentleman Jack: Emma Donoghue on Anne Lister and Eliza Raine

Bestselling author Emma Donoghue introduces Anne Lister (now often known as Gentleman Jack) and Eliza Raine, the real women behind her latest novel, Learned By Heart.

Who was Eliza Raine, and what was her relationship with Anne?

I wish Anne Lister’s first lover was just as famous as her, but Eliza Raine (1791-1860), shamefully mistreated during her long life, has been ignored ever since she died in obscurity. This fascinating woman – orphan heiress of an English East India Company doctor and his Indian ‘country wife’ – deserves attention not just for her beauty, her importance to Lister and her vivid letters, but for her outsider perspective on Regency England. Banished to the so-called motherland to be ‘Englished’ at six, with a sister she never got on with, Eliza Raine must have witnessed society from a uniquely critical perspective, and so I found it was her untold story that ended up as the centre of Learned by Heart.

Is Gentleman Jack based on a true story?

Yes, the two seasons of Sally Wainwright’s BBC/HBO series Gentleman Jack (2019-22) are not only gripping, big-budget period drama, but they’re based on archival documents. Wainwright somehow managed to craft the dramatic arcs of each episode from the daily minutiae of Lister’s five-million-word secret diary. I can’t think of another example of TV adaptation actually contributing to an archive in a virtuous feedback loop: Wainwright not only used a screenwriting award to fund scans of the massive diary, but the fandom spawned by her show helped inspire hundreds to sign up as Code Breakers (aka Lister Sisters) and do the comma-by-comma work of transcribing it. A smaller group of the Code Breakers also made it possible for me to write Learned by Heart, by transcribing and making sense of about a hundred letters between, by or about Lister and Raine.

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Thursday 13 August 1840

[Anne misdated this entry as Thursday 11 August]

[this is the very last known journal entry Anne Lister ever made]

(Image courtesy of the West Yorkshire Archive service)

[up at] 6 1/4

[to bed at] 9 1/2

awakened last night between 1 and 2 cats at my cheese and squalling children squalling enough to distract the old gentleman himself   Ann awoke me before 6 anxious to be off – she ordered the horses – she out of sorts – terrible – did a good job so many women and people knew not whom to give to – gave nothing – the cottages so hid amid the trees and vines and 8 feet high maize hardly visible except when close upon them – off at 6 50/.. – the children especially and the men and women look pale and yellow and unhealthy in this moist hot bottom – at 7 35/.. Engour fine river nearish (left) ascend highish (left bank) above it and go upwards along its broad bouldery bedded islandy streamy course for ever thro’ lanes of alder and hazel every now and then in our eyes – bits of deep mud every now and then   at 8 1/4 at village (large) of Dvjari /Djvari/ i.e. orchards vine-covered, tees alders pyrus diospyros etc., the woods chiefly beech and next in quantity oak – at 8 20/.. close upon the Engour – then ascend again on high ground always in the village of Dvjari no houses to be seen – all hid – fine river running downwards amid lower green wooded rounded beautiful hills, and upwards amid higher such hills – beautiful valley   at 8 55/.. at the large beautiful square green of the village in the style of Zugdidi – with several picturesque goodish galleried sacles scattered around – alight at one of them (empty) at 9 to breakfast – the white krepost castle on wooded ridge of hill almost hid among the wood close over the river (left bank) – wrote so far till now 11 10/.. and Reaumur very nearly 21° – breakfast from 11 1/4 to 12 50/.. including a tolerably comfortable wash inside the sacle – 

off at 1 3/4 – at 2 50/.. out of our narrow lanes thro’ tall brackens in the bottom and I passed thro’ wood (beech and Spanish chesnut and alder and walnut) and up steepish not good ascent and then fine view over rich extensive wooded plain and the old tower of prince Āppăkīdzĭ at the village of Satchīnă close (left) – stop 5 minutes under enormous lime tree for the men to get water – off again from Satchina at 2 55/.. steepish bad descent down wood again from here – then up the hill and down and forded little stream and 2 or 3 or more cottages at 3 1/2 still the village of Satchina – and Indian corn 9 or 10 feet high – a village (Sapêlĭ) is a little district – at 3 35/.. ford good broadish stream, the Īnsēērăh – and at 3 42/.. ford the Islēēăh an equally good stream – beautiful little green comby valleys among the rounded wooded hills, and here and there houses and fields on the lower hills – at 3 47/.. ford the Islēēăh again – several more scattered cottages still the same village of Satchīnă – at 4 10/.. the village of Nărolōōgĕe (hid) at a little distance (left) – at 4 18/.. in the bottom and ford little stream and ascend again – at 4 40/.. put on mackintosh cloak rain not heavy but likely to continue – 

at 4 55/.. stop at wicker hedge against field of Indian corn said to be the village of Djkālĭ tho’ I see no house at all – the old castle of Djĕgālĭ (prince Mantchar Dadian) he lives at some other village castle deserted and empty? beautiful groups o valleys and rounded hills – Mingrelia very beautiful and fine race of men – e.g. our David and several others whom we have seen – all our 3 men have left us to seek somebody or something – Adam came back in 1/2 hour – Ann had had an egg beaten up, and I had the things off my horse and done up my mackintosh – David does not know the road – get a man to go with us to the village – he now says it is 6 (instead of 3) hours from here to [blank] and 6 days from here to Muri – terrible – an hour lost here – off to the village Djkali at 6 5/.. and arrived at 6 3/4 – 2 sacles – arrange ourselves in the Indian corn barn (a little wicker place perhaps 4 1/2 x 3 yards[)] – spread our burcas on straw and now 8 25/.. I have just [written] in it the last 19 lines – high hills north and within ridges of wooded hill rising every now and then into little wooded conical summits – the sides of the hills furrowed and little conical summits on the ridges of the sides – tea etc. now at 8 25/.. [in pencil:] 1 crooglie – lay down at 9 1/2

WYAS page:  SH:7/ML/E/24/0174

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Going to Italy with Anne Lister

During the last month or so I’ve been working with Anne Lister Italia on a little project called Going to Italy. It’s finally out and I’m super excited about it!

After much talking about going to Italy, Anne Lister actually visited the country in the Summer of 1827, with Maria Barlow and her daughter Jane Barlow.

From July 12th till August 19th we’re publishing extracts from Anne Lister’s 1827 travel journal, the one where she records her Italian tour. We’re following Anne by posting on Instagram daily abstracts of the days she spent in Italy, in the very days of her Italian experience, starting when she entered the country on July 12th until the day she left it, on August 19th.

Where do we publish the extracts? On Instagram @anne_lister_italia and on the Anne Lister Italia website under Anne e l’Italia > Going to Italy.

When do we publish? Everyday at 6:30 pm (Roma: UTC+1) till August 19th 2021 you’ll find a new post with quotes + Italian translation + pictures and other interesting stuff.

👇  An example of what’s waiting for you👇

Anne Lister Italia > Anne e l’Italia > Going to Italy

www.annelister.it is an Italian website all about Anne Lister. If you wanna know more head over there and find out what it offers. Disclaimer: it’s in Italian.

Per tutti i fan italiani. Anne Lister Italia è un sito interamente in italiano che ha lo scopo di far conoscere Anne anche nel nostro paese. Tutti gli estratti di Going to Italy sono tradotti in italiano e accompagnati da una descrizione dettagliata che descrive le giornate italiane di Anne.

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1823 Sep., Wed. 10

6 50/60

1 20/60

Had Miss Nayler before breakfast to try on the waist she made which did not fit me at all and had Miss Gill afterwards to make me a waist to wear under my pelisse. She will do better for me than the former I think –

About 11 set off with Mr. D– [Duffin] to Mr. Prices (Clementhorpe) – Sauntered with him about their garden (Mr. and Mrs. P– [Price] very civil) and got home at 12 1/4 –  Recommended Mrs. P– [Price] to read Horsley’s sermons, particularly, if as she said she might not read them all, that on Hades – She understood our saviour’s descent into hell as explained by bishop Pearson on the creed i.e. as the place of departed spirits – Yet she maintained that the souls of the visitors immediately after death went absolutely to heaven, taking the thief on the cross as a proof of this –

When I observed that our saviour did not ascend to heaven of 40 days, she maintained that he did not ascend in the body of 40 days but that has spirit was always in heaven, and he had been with the thief in the spirit – On my observing that we should not perhaps be absolutely in heaven till after the day of judgement, she replied, we and had not be there in the body till after that day, but we should be there in the spirit immediately after death – Mrs. P– [Price] talked like a reader of what are called “good books” and like a worthy good woman but all this is not incompatible, with flimsy logic –

Mrs. Wynyard called to offer Miss D[uffin] their pony. She did not ask for me – At 12 1/2 we all went over the bridge to look at some furniture on sale in Blake street. We left our cards for Miss Lawson, and parted with Mr. D– [Duffin] at the Simson’s door out of Bootham – Walked back with Miss D– [Duffin] home then having to call on C[harlotte] N[orcliffe] –

Miss D– [Duffin] returned with me to Petergate – Met Mr. D– [Duffin] he to call for us at the Belcombes’ – We sauntered about towards Clifton – just saw C[harlotte] N[orcliffe] and the Milnes at the auction room in Blake street and got home at 3 1/4 –

I came upstairs and added a letter to my letter Miss Maclean began 27 August – At 5 20/60 Mrs. Gilbert Crompton came to walk with us to Acomb – At 6 1/2, she, Mr. and Miss D– [Duffin], Miss M– [Marsh], and I set off to drink tea at the Percivals’ – Mrs. and 3 Miss Hales, Mr. and Mrs. Grieve and Miss Anne Marsh there besides ourselves – We all played commerce and spent a pleasant evening, walked back, and got home at 10 1/2 and immediately went up to bed –

I sat between Miss Duffin and Charlotte Percival. Talked and agreeableized to the former a good deal. Went into her room as soon as I had got on my dressing gown. She entirely unloosed after standing a little. We sat down on the bed and soon lolled together. I looking at her rather exposed bosom and playing the agreeable. She certainly shewing no objection. Staid with her till forty minutes past twelve and just before leaving her gave two or three warmish kisses, which she well knew how to give and take –

Very fine day –

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Sunday 26 January 1834

8.

11 3/4

Rainy morning Fahrenheit 54˚ at 9 1/4 when breakfast in 1/4 hour – reading James’s Sweden and Russia – 

At 12 read prayers to my aunt and her maid – had Mr Washington from 3 to 4 about Miss Walker’s business and my own – Mallinson has done the chimney all wrong – it must come down again – Mr Washington said he concluded I had given Mallinson fresh orders as it was so differently done from what I had ordered him (Washington) – except this interruption, sat reading James’s tour in Sweden, Russia etc. from 1 1/2 to 6 1/4 – 

Dinner at 6 20/.. in 35 minutes and then finished volume 2 James’s tour having now read through both the volumes with interest as giving partly the route I hope to take by and by – 

With my aunt from 8 20/.. for an hour and then with my father and Marian till 10 – then had Cordingley a little while – 

Rainy morning till between 11 and 12 – afterwards fine-ish but high wind – Fahrenheit 52˚ at 10 40/.. p.m.

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Saturday 15 March 1834

6 25/.. 12

N PL LP Vc Vc Vc L

fine morning Fahrenheit 51 1/2 at 7 35/.. - wrote and sent note to 'Mr. Samuel Freeman comp Brier Lodge' - Compliments and wished him to come about the stone in Joseph Hall's Land - breakfast at 9 5/.. - meaning to go to Mr. Parker's Office but parcel from and letter from Miss Walker Heworth Grange enclosing letter from Miss Atkinson about the two hundred in Mr Edwards hands Should she write to him and what to say? sent her copy of paragraph to Miss A [Atkinson] which shewn to him would be order enough for the payment and she would give a proper receipt when it was applied for the tone of her manner of writing affectionate and proper enough as if she really did mean to submit so said I was quite satisfied the onyx only off her finger at night and to wash hands Miss W- [Walker] quite satisfied to let Lidgate house and land together next Spring - wants me to go to her the end of the month and take her to see Duncombe Park on the 31st. - said I would do my best, but would say more about it in my next - 'Jusqu'aux autels (as far as is right, I would do anything in the world to give you pleasure'...I need not write beforehand unless quite convenient for to remember I was going to my own lodging the writing by parcel made her write at ease from fear of Mrs Bagnold -

my note to Dr. Belcombe returned because of the request that Mrs. H.S.B- [Henry Stephen Belcombe] would not press Miss W-'s [Walker's] going to her great party on the 31st. Miss W- [Walker] thinking perhaps she should not be invited - wrote and sent the same again to 'Dr. Belcombe' vide line 6 last page leaving out the above passage and wrote and sent at 11 25/.. by small parcel per mail 3 pp. [pages] returning the letter from - and the little new Testament sent merely to make up the parcel -

Off to H-x [Halifax] at 12 - down the o.b. [old bank] to Mr. Parker's Office - Mark Town's lease to be ready for signing at 6 p.m. on Monday - gave instructions also for William Empsall's lease - Memorandum of 1 year's rent allowed + £5 for lime on signing the lease to Town he to be bound to lay out this £27 in tillage - 11 DW. [dayswork] or thereabouts (11 DW [dayswork] - 6 perches) rent £22 per annum tenant paying all taxes - same terms to Empsall - 8 DW. [dayswork] £12 per annum reserved all above that measure for sunk fence or any other purpose-

then called on Miss and Miss Mary Briggs - admitted - not at home (no incivility) left my card and wrote Marian's name on it in pencil - then went to Wellhead - met Mrs. Waterhouse near there, and made my intention to pass for a call - then called and sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Veitch and then walked to Stony Royde (there at 1 40/..) - just sitting down to dinner and some Mrs. Talk there I did not Know so came away - Went into the Lodge, thinking to have Whiskum toll house on something like the same plan - returned by Bailey hall and John Bottomleys and all along the upper land to see about Mark Town's getting into his land with manure - saw George Naylor - told him I had let the land -

home at 3 1/2 with John Booth levelling heaps of H-x [Halifax] brought stuff under the roadwall and then planting out flowers from the Terrace Till after 7 - dinner at 7 20/.. - read last night's paper I called at the P.O. [Post Office] this morning to inquire why my paper had not come the last 2 nights but been sent the morning - and Mrs. Bagnold's son blamed the clerk, and said he should take better care in future - an hour with my aunt till 10 1/2 - read tonights paper till 11 1/4 - very fine day - Fahrenheit 53 1/2° at 11 20/.. p.m.

Letter tonight and my account from Hammersleys - They had paid Jupp and Hutton and ordered the payment of £5 to Mrs. Filer for Madame Galvani Laffitte had not received the plate -

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/17/0008

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When 12 year old Anne Lister said “my library is my greatest pleasure after a good ramble in the fields.”  I felt that

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Marian low and emotional over Anne’s impending departure and at the idea of Lister properties being sold.  Anne, perhaps uncharacteristically, resolves not to ‘annoy her unnecessarily.’

Sunday 22

7 1/2 

1 5/60

Gave Hotspur oatmeal and water — talked a long while to John (Booth) — at breakfast at 9 1/2 — came upstairs at 10 1/4 — from then to 2, finishing the traveling memoranda taken from my journals, and making minutes of the best editions (as given by Lempriere) of all the classics I may meet with and be able to buy — From 2 to 6 1/4, settling my accounts — did the summaries of the 2 last months — no error in the adding up of either the summaries or the accounts themselves, up to the end of this day — noted down the numbers etc. of all my bank of England bills — With what my uncle and aunt gave me vide yesterday and thirty pounds of Mariana’s and the rest of my own I have tonight just two hundred and thirty one pounds eighteen and five pence half penny exclusive of fifteen pounds that is five for Cordingley as much for tea for my uncle and as much for ditto for my father George brought up a parcel from Mariana — the web of Irish cloth directed to my aunt — a small square white dimity pincushion for me, but nothing else — no letter — Dinner at 6 20/60 — coffee immediately afterwards — My father and Marian drank tea here, and stayed till after 8 — Marian seemed to linger as if rather low at the thought of my going — Speaking of the Market Weighton estate  She always feels as if she should live to have it — cannot wish it to be sold, if things go on tolerably — May some time or other live in the East Riding tho’ not Skelfer — at some house in the country — does not like a populous country does not therefore like here — whatever mischief is done, consoles herself with the thought, it is not so at Market Weighton  ‘If they put up the estate to sell, they must put up me too’ — Her partiality is strong — I will never more say anything against keeping the estate to annoy her unnecessarily — my father gave me a 5 pounds bank of England for tea at Twining’s — Talking to my uncle and aunt about 1 thing or other (much about Marian) till 10 20/60 at which hour came up to bed.  Barometer being 3 degrees above changeable Fahrenheit 59 1/2° — Very fine day — E two dots beneath O two dots within —

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Tues[day] 3 Sept[ember] 1839 Mrs Lister and Miss Walker. County of York. England.

Visitor book for the silvermine at Sala, Sweden. Newly discovered entry by Anne Lister. Courtesy of Niklas Ulfvebrand, Sala Silvergruva AB

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Thursday 14 April 1825

6 35/60

11

went into the stable gave Hotspur oat cake – Sealed and sent (postage paid) my letter written yesterday to ‘miss Harvey  17 Albemarle street, (Piccadilly) London’ –

From 9 35/60 to 10 5/60 read the first 63 pp.[pages] of ‘Observation on the struture, œconony, and Diseases of the foot of the horse, and on the principles and practice of shoeing. By Edward Coleman, Professor of the veterinary college, principal veterinary surgeon to the British cavalry, and to his majesty’s most honourable board of ordnance, and honorary member of the board of agriculture volume 2. Homo, naturæ minister et interpres tantum facit et intelligit, quantum de naturæ ordine, re vel mente observaverit; nec amplius seit aut potest. Bacon. Nov. organ.  — Homini quippe, in naturam nullius rei potestatem esse, præterquam motus. ut scilicet corpora naturalia and admoveat aut amoveat. De Aug. scient. London Printed for the author; and sold at the veterinary college; also by Egerton, Parliament street; Debrett, Piccadilly; and J. Johnson, Saint Paul’s church yard  1802.  T. Gillet Salisbury square’ Printer – 4to [quarto] pp.[pages] 251.

181/307

went down to breakfast at 10 10/60 – so late, because my aunt very rheumatic, and not down till 10 – Came upstairs again at 11 10/60 wrote the above of today – from 11 3/4 to 6 1/4 wrote 3 pp.[pages] and 2 lines on one end, pretty close, to miss mcL-[MacLean]; three pp.[pages] the ends, and the 1st page crossed to M-[Mariana] and 3 pp.[pages] and one end to IN-[Isabella Norcliffe] 

Dinner at 6 1/2 – In the evening talKed to my uncle and aunt – the latter very rheumatic could scarcely move from her chair – screaming with pain every now and then – I have never seen her so bad – came up to bed at 9 35/60 – 25 minutes reading (aloud to myself) the first 18 pp.pages of volume 3 Anacharsis – Rainy day – E [2 dots inside] a great deal of discharge

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Tuesday 26 May 1840

[up at] 6 1/2

“ [did not go to sleep]

very fine morning Reaumur 17º and Fahrenheit 70º in the shade at 8 1/4 and Reaumur 21 1/2º and Fahrenheit 81 1/2º in glimmer of sun at 9 1/4 a.m. several things sent from chez le commandant pastet, bottle of white naptha bag of rice (best kind) containing 10 or 12 pounds at least – 18 hard boiled eggs, fowl, cake of bread, gateau de riz, and 2 bottles of Baku white wine provision for our journey! no room for the fowl – took it back – all this besides our daily fare at the house and sent to us!!! Had our Armenian with the brooch – not so pretty as I expected the Baku 2 Persian letters with les signes, vowel points in blue letters on the the white enamel ought to have been in gold letters – but expressed my satisfaction and paid the 40/. silver – then settled with George and had Hadji Hadji Baba(Hadji as pelerin and Hadji as named (one cannot say christened) hoped if we came again we should go to his house– (all this would be gratis save what we should contrive to give) asked him about the black dye used by all Persians for their beards – promised to explain chez le commandant where we were going to breakfast – were to have breakfasted and been off at 10 a.m. breakfast about 10 – Ann up at 1/4 before 5 and still busy when I left her about 11 and went chez le commandant – Mr. Phophonoff our Royal Navy captain of the brig there and 2 or 3 other gentlemen de notre connaissance pour prendre congé – Hadji Baba came almost immediately – and by and by Ann and the tailor, and she and he and Madame Tchekmareff busy all the morning till dinner (for breakfast was gone by) at 1 1/2and afterwards at cutting out and sewing up kaksivéika a sort of short loose Turkish doulietteafter one of Madame Tchekmareff’s – while Ann was luckily taken up with this, I had time to pursue my inquiries about the dye with Mr. Phophonoff as interpreter – the dye powder should be mixed with warm water to the consistence of a thick batter and laid on at the bath in a ‘chaleur neutre’ = Reaumur 22º – 2 powders (Madame Tchekmareff sent for specimens of them – to be had in Russia but dear – much dearer even at Astracan than here – should be kept in glass bottles – soon spoils if kept in paper) – the 1st powder should remain on 3 hours – the hair being well washed and cleaned before laying on the powder, and well washed with soap and cleaned after laying it on so as to get all the powder stuff out leaving only the colour – then immediately lay on the 2nd powder which requires to remain on 2 hours – 1st the Inai-Kchnebis (Henna, garance, madder) then the Rengué roudan– Yezd is the most famous place in Persia for these powders – the plant producing the Rengue roudan is large leafed – flower green – leaf 8 or 9 inches long and narrow in proportion – something like the tobacco leaf – a sort of tobacco – is received from Persia in the powder – If the powder not laid on in a bath, cover the head with green leaves or a green or coloured handkerchief – not white– white spoils the dye – the dye will last a month with a young man and whose beard is naturally black (the case with Persians in general) but only 15 days, a fortnight with an old man the young hairs of whose beard are white – the 1st powder henna turns the beard bright red – the 2nd upon this forms the jet-black – this 2nd the Rengué roudan the best quality is 1/. silver per pound which must be cheap, the powder being very light – the very pretty Turkish cloak that would do beautifully for England or Paris is as pronounced manteaux bennish, the cloak the sultan gives the ladies of his pachas when il en est content – i.e. a mark of favour to their husbands – black with gold breast-ornaments or light sort of fawn colour (like Madame Tchekmareffs) with black ditto ditto – to be had at Odessa – our dayly 2nd soup, cold, refreshing, made of quass with about 1 1/2 inch long pieces of onion top etc. in it, is called Ба7винъя 7 is a t batvinia – princess Volkonski relation of the princess Volkonski aunt to the prince Volkonski so much about the emperor is a good Russian writer in Russ – son ouvrage s’appelle La

Scandinave – Madame Latchineff’s few pages of correspondence on Poland published in the Bibliothèque of last year – light– and as if merely to do honour to her husband – she wrote something which she wished to have published in the Revue étrangère at Paris, but her request was refused – our princess Radziwill according to captain Tolstoi at Tiflis had no esprit – very inanimate and stupid; and Madame Tchekmareff says the same and that she was nicknamed la jeune vache, in Russ – contrived just before dinner to give the Armenian tailor 1/. silver and after dinner poked about and gave Mademoiselle 2/. and the woman who washed our few things 1/. and the cuisinier 2/. and gave George 2/. to give to the 2 footmen – we had a bottle of champagne at dinner (Runart or some such name Rheims at 4/. silver – 14/. assignats per bottle) to drink to our good journey and afterwards a bottle of Donskoi to please me who would have all Russians drink their own Donskoi – drinking the one immediately after the other shewed me the difference the Champagne has the peculiar refreshing, they call it amer (orange-peely?) arrière gout, and the Donskoi arrière gout is sweet – a cordial leave taking (shook hands with him and before with Hadji Baba) of our good colonel commandant and the rest and came away at 3 1/2 Madame Tchekmareff and Mr. Phophonoff with us – went for a few minutes to faire nos adieus à Madame sa femme, and peeped into the apartement des généraux, the large room there used as the Roman Catholic church and as the assembly room for balls – 2 nice rooms à côté occupied by general Fezy from which charming view of the sea – we should have been very comfortable there but did not see (if we took the 2 rooms one opening into the other) what rooms there would have been for the servants – we were exceedingly well where we were except for the mauvaise odeur d’en bas from under the stairs – our good friends then walked with us to the outside the gate where the carriage was waiting and after cordially shaking both by the hand more than once parted in gratitude and regret – our Indian and 2 or 3 more (Persians) had come to see us off – Madame Tchekmareff had asked me to write – at any rate to let her hear how we crossed the rivers and got to Tiflis – will do anything for us – gave at dinner to her and to Mr. Phophonoff my address at Shibden Hall on the back of one of Tiflis cards telling Madame Tchekmareff she had best direct to Madame Lister de Shibden Hall aux soins de Messieurs Hammersley and company London for they would know whether I was in England or not and would forward the letter – if it went to Shibden Hall it would wait my return – at the Phophonoffs’ Madame Tchekmareff said we should get at Erivan the stone such as the major en a donné au Colonel Broussiloff to make a press-paper of – forgot the name – esteemed the 3rd after the diamond in hardness – mille couleurs – blancheâtre – comme la neige – une lave –

off from the gate at 4– strong north west wind and much dust – from the high ground 3 or 4 versts from Baku see the volcanic hills ahead in the distance and at 6 1/2 at them, – the wearing out of the Shamacha hills? plain all the way from Baku fertile in corn (vide yesterday) and patched with corn tho’dry and nowhere tree or bush to be seen – will be harvest in ten days – the ground already begins to look burnt – the pretty pink onion flower, and a little dwarf white fragrant artemisia, and a short ripe grass, and occasionally short(5 or 6 inches high) wild rye or barley cover the ground – this road far better than the cross roads to the fire temple and salt lake – in 20 minutes from the 2nd station the driver pointed to a mountain right over little dry bed of lake? and river from which he said the mud was vomited last year – but an hour or more afterwards George pointed to a mountain a little to the left which he said was the one I had inquired for – here as before all the land volcanic and the mountains peaky and cony, and rounded, evidently volcanic – sent one of our Cossacks on before to have the horses ready en route so that we did not go down to the post station little old fort and thus we saved probably 2 or 3 versts and 1/2 hour

                                                   versts

4 to 6 55/” Baku to Ardat                 30

7 13/” to 9 1/4 Ardat to Dorentchi    23

                                                        53

Madame Tchekmareff gave us today little note her friend Madame Luders her husband general commanding in the Crimée – shall find her at Sympheropol? among the gentlemen to wish us a good journey was the Armenian Deputy one of the 4 forming the divan 1 from the Armenians, 1 from the Persians, 1 from the Indians, and 1 from the Russians? of which divan the commandant the head – not paid here or at Kuba or Derbend – the only place where not paid – in other places the members of the divan have 500/. assignats I suppose per annum – tea at 10 25/” very fine day – Ann and I sat up all night writing she just lain down and asleep – ‘tis now 3 3/4 and the horses ordered for 4 ½ –

Anne's marginal notes:

V

the black dye

Inai-kchabis and Rengué-roudan

Henna and – the famous Persian beard-dye

Batvinia soup.

+

Difference between Champagne and Donskoi.

Stone to be got at Erivan

WYAS pages: SH:7/ML/E/24/0114     SH:7/ML/E/24/0115

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NEWS ON BEHALF OF ANNE LISTER ITALIA 

💥We've found a new and interesting document about Anne Lister💥 

Anne used to have opinions about nearly everything and anyone she’d meet. But have you wondered what those people thought about her? Now we do know! Read about Edward O'Ferrall's letter we've found -and his prophecy!- on our website: https://www.annelister.it/le-nostre-ricerche/anne-lister-in-edward-oferralls-prophecy

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For anyone who’s interested, I have this now > @listertranscriptions There I’m gonna publish my transcriptions + other useful things for transcribers.

Just a few things... The experience of transcribing Anne’s journal is very rewarding, but also quite scary for me – yes, I’m very scared of getting things wrong – this fear of getting things wrong has kind of blocked me from actually engaging with other code breakers and has kept me from publishing my own transcriptions, sometimes they’re not perfect, you know? BUT, during the weekend I attended a lot of panels of the Anne Lister Research Summit, it was very inspiring, everyone is so understanding and amazing, and so I thought “why not?”, so I finally decided to actually publish my transcriptions (even if sometimes they are not perfect). bye –

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1823 Aug., Tues. 12

5 3/4

11 55/60

3/4 hour in the stable and about – For about a couple of hours before breakfast looking over the Itinerary of our craven excursion and volume i  Baines’s Yorkshire Directory – Went down to breakfast at 9 55/60 –

At 11 1/4, set off to Haughend – Called at the Post-office Note from Mrs. Henry Priestley (Haugh end) very civil – To ask me to take my sister with me to dine and spend the day –  Letter from Marianne Dalton (Langton) 3 pages – She and Bell are to return home on Saturday next –

“When we meet you must not if you please, revive the subject of the letter-writing, because you know, I cannot help thinking you might have been better about it” –

Called for a moment at the Stansfield Rawsons’ – Only saw Miss R– [Rawson] got to Haughend at 12 1/4 – After luncheon, we all walked to Mill house, the Astleys’ TTL [to take leave] call, and sat a little while with Mrs. W[illiam] H[enry] Rawson – Lady A– [Astley] must surely have taken a fancy to me – She told me she talked to me as if I was a neighbor of theirs –

It seems she has more influence with her son than daughter, certainly not much with the latter, who will occasionally tell her she, Miss A[stley], knows a thing better than she, Lady Astley. They do not manage one another most judiciously. The young lady cannot bear to be told of her faults and Sir John is too indulgent. Lady Astley thinks I should do her a great deal of good, but Miss A[stley] fancies she is not a favourite with me. But I was not to mention this. My manner might convince Lady A[stley] the girl was right, for I neither did, nor could quite contradict it. 

Mary asked me before dinner how I liked her sister. I hesitated. She said she had observed to Major P[riestley] she was sure I liked the gentlemen better than the ladies. I pretended I never was so long in making up my mind about anyone as Lady A[stley]. If I had not been told she was an elegant woman it might have been different, but she improved on acquaintance. She and her daughter did not manage well together, but I thought I liked her ladyship the best of the two. Perhaps she had more heart and better temper. It seemed as if Major P[riestley] thought otherwise, and Mary said Miss A[stley] might be led but not driven, and did not second my opinion as to heart and temper. 

I said I admired Mary’s style of beauty more than her sisters and that Mary spoke better than Lady A[stley]. The young lady was not ladylike enough. I admired Mr. Astley the most. In the evening Lady A[stley] asked me three times to go to Everley, begged I would go any time. It would be a nice opportunity for me to go with Major and Miss P [Priestley] and she, Lady A, hoped I would and she should be most happy to see me. 

Sir John said at parting, ‘we shall meet again at Winterslow’ but they asked Miss Will[iam] Hen[ry] Rawson to go and Sir John was joking about his having to go to Bath to buy linen or they would have no sheets. He joked too about my being to go. Lady A[stley], I observed, said little or nothing about Miss Will[iam] Hen[ry] R[awson]s going but turning to me said I assure we shall always have a pair of sheets for you –

Sir John and Lady A[stley] and I being by ourselves a little before dinner dressing time he asked what I thought of – Sir John asking what I thought of Mr. Henry Ingram’s poem “the Flower of the Wye.” This bad to the mention of the author, and my mentioning his ungentlemanly conduct to Mariana and my not speaking to him, in fact, always turning my back on him in consequence –

Lady A– [Astley] mentioning the Warneford’s again (Lieutenant Colonel of the Wiltshire Militia, of Warneford house, 31 miles from Everley which latter is 33 miles from Bath) said they had only 2 daughters; the oldest 31, the youngest 24 or 25, very large – Would have £20,000 each – Spoke highly of the oldest – She is determined not to marry but to live like her maiden aunt Caroline, single and in good style like hers. Would this Miss W[arneford] suit me? It struck me instantly and I would go to Everley if I had any chance of meeting her there. 

No letter from M– [Mariana] set down to dinner at 6 – Coffee at 8 – Played (and lost) a hit at backgammon with Miss A– [Astley] after dinner – She played a little on the piano to me before dinner – Poor girl! She has not much in her – Like the Miss Butlers – Likes dancing at Halifax quadrilles – They were at Dr. Gervaise Alexander’s yesterday – Sat with them at the old church on Sunday –

Got home in an hour at 9 50/60. Mused on the 3 times kindly pressing repeated invitations given me by lady A– [Astley] to Everley, to go in summer or winter or whenever I felt inclined –

Rainy morning – A little rain all the way as I went – About 1 it became a pretty fine day and continued so afterwards very fine evening – Barometer 1/3 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 62 1/2º at 11p.m. – Came upstairs at 10 55/60 –

Miss Pickford had drank tea here, and got quite into my uncle and aunts good books – She told my aunt I had first rate talents and they were cultivated to the highest pitch – She had never met with anyone so clever! Is this want of judgement, or superabundance of partiality? 

They say I flatter – I never mean to do it – Do they look at home? I do not flatter others as others flatter me – Sir John overwhelmed me today – Lady A– [Astley] did it more gently, more judiciously, more bearably, but did it just as much – Everybody flatters me –