#breadalbane maclean

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Monday 12 November 1832

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Pickles came about 9 ¼ which roused me up – to see him after breakfast at Lower place or he to call here again in the evening - Letter 3 pages from M- Lawton vid. line 27 p. 285 – inquires about Miss W-   smokes what is going on writes with implied affection true and great as that of former days   is unhappy and careless of living long and has made her will ......  the tears started to my eyes and all my own affection burst upon me again – breakfast at 10 40 with my aunt – George Robinson came almost immediately for near an hour – settled with him for stone leading for James Smiths’ road etc. – he proposed some means of getting rid of Lower brea lane footpath – to see about another day – breakfast at 11 40 – told my aunt of M-‘s letter – came to my room at 12 20 – fire in my room and from 12 25 to

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note 2 pages of ½ sheet from Miss Walker vid. line 12 p. 286  at 1 10 in consequence of which off in ¼ hour to Lidgate and there in 25 minutes - home again in ½ hour at 5 20 - at my desk in about 10 minutes - wrote the last ¼ of page 3 and the ends and under the seal and finished my letter to Breadalbane McL- began yesterday - thanks for her letter and the willows (sent off Monday 29th inst. from Coll house) ‘which I am very anxiously expecting, not only for your own sake, but because they are associated with many remembrances that I value most highly’ - should have written some days ago but waited in the hope of announcing the arrival of the cuttings - shall write by tonight’s post to Glasgow to inquire about them - bavardage amical - wonder how her people did without her so long (5 weeks away) ‘your life is one continued benefit to them, and a five weeks’ arrear of such services is hardly to be made up’ - sorry her father is so dead to the world, and that Sir Hector’s health is so failing - mention the death of old Lochiel on the 14th September - only known to lady S- on the 6th inst. and not known to Vere on the 24th ult. the date of her last letter to me (from Turin) - hope ‘if Lochiel is obliged to come over immediately surely V- will remain with her friends till he can return for her - I should quite dread her being hurried across the Alps at this season of the year’ - ‘you would be pleased at dear Vere’s having got her rank - surely it was a thing that ought to be - that ought to have been long since, but better late than never - lady Vere Cameron will sound very well; and, empty as a sound may be, yet still it has some value in a world of vanities, like this’ - civil congratulations on Mrs Maclean’s being again about to increase her family and sorrow at Mr Hunter’s having lost her younger daughter - the loss of my steward and my aunt’s suffering health have kept me so long here or I should have been on the continent again before this - but my aunt so very much recovered, no longer uneasy about her - she herself [spirits] me up to get off and I hope to leave here about the end of January; but all things here so uncertain never think much of plans very long beforehand. Kind regards to all I know ‘ and believe me always very truly yours A. Lister’ - had written the following 2 ¼ pages to M- just before being off to Lidgate - ‘Shibden Hall. Monday 12 November 1832. Mary! I have been late this morning, and have done nothing but see and speak to Marian, and breakfast, since reading your letter - it would be difficult to describe the effect it has upon me - it is many months since I have asked beneath the beam of happiness, and without courage to think of the past, or hope to calculate the future, I am attempting to answer your letter - your account of yourself unnerves me - I grieve over your leaving Lawton, and, tho’ I could and would see good in your going to Leamington, if you would let me, I am now uneasy at my thought, and little out of sorts than you can be - the only thing I rest upon, is the manner in which you mention coming here for a few days - it makes me fancy, may almost hope, my scheme is not quite impossible - you would have been agreeably surprised, and satisfied to hear what Marian said about it - say I am not well (God knows I am sick enough at heart) or, which is true, that I am in great perplexity, or that my aunt is poorly (tho’ she is very much better and probably in no danger) or say what you please, but lose no time in coming to me for at least a few days - I really do want to see you - I will take the carriage and meet you at Manchester - Do pray make an exertion and get off- at any rate, answer my letter by the second post after you receive it, and tell me if you cannot come off immediately - nothing like the spur of the moment - you will get my letter tomorrow afternoon - and, if your answer is off on Wednesday morning at night on that day I may hear whether I may be off for you on Thursday or Friday morning at seven, or not - Bring merely a few things and yourself - I will take care of you from and to Manchester - you will see from my manner of writing, that I am not likely to relax - my interest while it is yet unnecessary to your happiness - your pages of Saturday make me fancy, I may have been mistaken, and that, in the bitterness of disappointment and regret, I may have miscalculated what it was my interest and desire to estimate most correctly – [From] Here written after dinner -  It is needless to write more - I shall anxiously and impatiently wait your answer - I would give worlds to hear of your being in better health and spirits - I had a letter from Eugenie last night - I consider her engaged, and she is to wait my orders till January - I cannot enter upon the subject of my friend, as my aunt and sister laugh and call her, I am too much thinking of the interests of other days - Come if you can - you might almost ride over to Manchester - But cheer up, my dearest Mary - time was when I had power to charm you into pleasure-stirring thought, and almost into happiness - I am what I was - and yet your power is gone,  parted like [Aynt] never to return? God bless you! ‘The heart knoweth its own bitterness - ‘tis harder than you think to break the spell of twenty years - entirely and very especially yours. AL’ – sent off at 8 by John my letter to Miss Maclean of Coll Coll house, Aros N.B. and my letter to Mrs. Lawton, Lawton Hall, Lawton Cheshire and my letter to the ‘Reverend T. Ainsworth, at Miss Bentleys’ 1 crescent, Salford, Manchester’ - George Robinson then came and staid till 9 – said Ramsden, now the constable of H-x, bought the last ground sold adjoining my Northgate land at 11/6 a yard – and Stancliffe bought his ground fronting into Broad street the street given in at 12/. or 12/6 a yard but then it was cleared, or sunk down ready for building – had seen Bates of Washer Lane who said that I might build a good corn mill at Mytholm with dam and goit and wheel and machinery for £1500 and might have 7 to 7 ½ p.c. for my money tho’ people in general did not look for much for than money now – some man (Brook) of Brighouse in letting a mile had 10 p.c. on his money for the 1st ten years, and then 5p.c. rent afterwards – the embargo on Dutch vessel has already made a great difference – has stopt the German trade - went into the other room for ½ hour till 9 ½ - π- thought I might have gone from York to Langton    ‘is it Miss Walker of Crow nest with whom you seem so suddenly to have formed an alliance    you mentioned her twice as ‘my friend’ and as you were not wont to bestow this title lightly I am puzzled to understand not having ever heard you mention her name how Miss W- has so quickly succeeded in adding herself to the list so designated     you say    ‘I shall be glad to hear your friend was etc etc’  I am glad to hear anything that gives you pleasure   and so far shall be pleased to hear all possible good of Miss Walker    but as I do not remember ever having seen her    she must be satisfied with second hand interest for I cannot fancy her at all one of those who could herself awaken it    so far as her better health can contribute to your comfort I rejoice that it is likely to improve and hope by this time she has ssomewhat recovered the loss of her particular friend’          ‘you say ‘I always tell you how much better Mr Lawton is’ because you always ask me    in bodily heath he is certainly better than I have known him for years but in mind and temper he is infinitely worse   as he improves  I fall off and I have been weak enough

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to fret and discomfort myself about this Leamington plan until I have almost made myself ill - M- in very bad spirits about going to Leamington - ‘and if I could get you, I should come for consolation’ - should be glad to spend a few days with me but does not know how it can be managed - Watson more philosophical than π- thinks she shall get all her mistresses things off to a place of safety -  ‘Made my will the other day, and told Watson where to find it - I do not fancy, my dearest Fred, that my health or happiness will claim your attention 20 years longer, so don’t relax your interest while it is yet necessary to my happiness - I live in so much discomfort that it cannot be expected that I should covet living forever    concludes with God bless you Fred whatever I have said or may say   trust me   there is not much warmer affection bestowed upon you than that which flows from the heart of yours very entirely Mariana  poor π-  vide line 4 of today   the following is Miss W-‘s note               I have received a letter which you shall see but we must meet on different terms oh that I had taken you at your word last Monday     and as you said finished the matter on that day   I should then have spared you this additional bitterness     I did hope when my word was once given to you that I should have left at rest and satisfied   but in reflecting on all you have said and trying to turn it to my own advantage      I cannot satisfy my conscience and with such sufferings as I have endured since Wednesday I feel I could not make you happy     that I should only bring misery upon you     for misery I am sure it would be to you to see me in the state I have been in for several days     it was this ssort of wretchedness that was expressed in my note on Friday    it was these miserable feelings that prompted my request     (that is I supposed for me not to send to York for the ring) for your own sake fly whilst it is yet in your power     (I smile as I copy this sentence) and believe that I will never intrude myself in any way upon you (unless it is in your wish) whenever you revisit the neighbourhood     Nov[embe]r 12 eighteen hundred and 32    written on the outside of this half sheet but undercover read this alone        off I set     found her twenty minutes ago returned from Cliff hill and lying on the bed in tears      kissed and soothed her till in a few minutes she went down to dinner  I remained in her room a little while  read over Mr Ainsworth’s letter        pathetic appeal to her feelings       making sure that she must be engaged and hoping that her choice would do all he Mr A- had hoped to have done     begging her to take the scrapbook as a friend and to condescend to write in answer to say if he might send the book and a narrative of himself    and if this business should be the death of him he would only pray for blessing on her     but much bad tact and the whole ill done tho’ better than I expected     I went down before dinner was over      agreeableized and amused both Miss Parkhill and Miss W-    then pretending business letters for Miss W- to answer Miss P- left us and I talked the poor girl into admiration of my conduct and into thorough approbation of my writing and sending (I wrote there and shewed it to her)    the following to Mr Ainsworth         Lightcliffe Mon[day] 12 November eighteen hundred 32   sir I am commissioned by Miss Walker to acknowledge immediately the receipt if your letter of Saturday and to inform you that she has given me for the future at least for some time to come   the surveillance of all her letters and parcels I am sir your obedient and servant Anne Lister     before writing it I had asked if it was her heart that had changed towards Mr A-     no it was all her conscience  she owned she was not in a fit state to judge fairly     and tho’ she had felt great affection for him yet she did not know how it was now all seemed dead              and if she felt at liberty she did not know or think he was quite the man she should choose in spite of the two great things      his being a clergy man and liking to live at Cliff hill     well but what would you have done had I not have been here?         she said she should certainly have ‘exoneted’ [exonered] herself now would have gone to her aunt Ploughs in London and then brought down the Chapmans with her    she would not have been alone and would have kept out of the way and done the best she could    this said I is enough     in answer to her note said I was glad she had written it    she had done all she could    but two consents were now to be had  I did not think her at liberty to marry anyone without my consent    in which she agreed and that Wednesday had given me a power over her which I was determined to use in her service she would be better by and by and more able to judge for herself and then she might try again but now I should not let her    she might safely trust to my honour but I pledged myself to nothing   she brightened up and owned how much better she was    I even brought away with her full consent Mr A-‘s letter and the book of prayers he gave her with a long rigmarole written on one of the fly leave[s]   promising to get her another of the same from London and on asking for my dirty night things to bring back  she said no till I promised to send clean ones   and we parted very good friends  she agreeing with me that she had reason to be thankful for the great event of Wednesday      who could have anticipated such a result as the consequence of her note?    she likes me but my affections are not so fearfully and irretrievably hers as she thinks and I shall manage well enough tho' I really will do her all the good I can – writing the above till 11 – came to my room at 11 20 and then wrote note to Mr. Holroyde ‘W.T. Holroyde Esquire Solicitor Halifax’ in answer respecting the land at Northgate – not in any way anxious to sell, but would sell if lot A as marked in the plan his client would give my price – but before naming any terms I wished to know what sort of buildings it was proposed to erect – wrote to desire Booth to get me Gilpins’ practical hints on Landscape gardening and the form of family prayers published by Hatchard and son Piccadilly London 8 edition 1828. 12mo. pp. 159 and 2 bottles of Albin and Chapmans’ chemical writing ink – did my clothes for the wash very fine November day – F49° now at 11 40 -  

[skgway]

1825 June, Mon. 13

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Lay awake till after one last night, my left finger up. Tried hard if I could have any pleasure this way but no, and I will attempt it no more. Did not even incur a cross at all, after all I had to do. Heated till I was quite in a state of solution. Unpleasant dreams all the night of thieves being in the house. Breadalbane Maclean looking quite ill and altered etc. 

Awaked by Martha at 5, but lay dozing till 7 – Very hot last night – Gave Hotspur oatcake this morning and staid playing with him above 1/4 hour – Had breakfast brought into my own room at 8 55/60 (the little room downstairs so very hot with even a morsel of fire in it) – 

Went downstairs for a little while then at 9 40/60. Took George in the gig and drove to H–x [Halifax] – Called at the vicarage – Saw Mr. Knight – Asked him about a school for John Booth’s oldest daughter who is lame – Then called at the Saltmarshes’ – Saw them both – Then called at Wellhead, and sat near an hour with Mrs. Waterhouse – Then called and sat a little while with Mrs. William Rawson, and with Mrs. Catherine Rawson – 

Called at Blamire’s (the coach makers) had the gig examined – It wants the back springs screwing up – To send it to be done tomorrow – Got home at 1 10/60 – Staid talking to my uncle and aunt – Went upstairs at 1 3/4 – Changed my dress – Then at 2 (on account of the heat) lay down and dozed till 4 – 

At 4 10/60 went to the workmen – Staid with them till 6 1/4 when they gave up work, and got home at 6 40/60 – Dinner at 6 50/60 – In the evening wrote the last 6 1/2 lines – 

Very fine, hot, summery day – Barometer 4 1/2 degrees above changeable, Fahrenheit 66º at 9 40/60 p.m., at which hour came up to bed – E [two dots, treating venereal complaint] O [two dots, marking discharge] –

[awhilesince]

Monday, 13 September 1824

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Breakfast at 9 – Mrs Mackenzie came and sat with me 1/2 hour she is in doubt whether to stay here or not seemed to ask my advice and be inclined to stay if her father is pretty well I would not speak decidedly but was evidently in favour of her staying she has had much unhappiness married against her choice from convenience a man thirty years older than herself who made her unhappy tho she always tried to do her duty her daughter cleverer than she is and rather the upper hand it seems Mrs Mackenzies being so communicative struck me – Mrs Mackenzie gave me a ticket given to her by Mr Brande that will always admit me to the Jardin des Plantes – Miss Mackenzie, too, came in and sat with me a few minutes – 

on this account, it was 12 before I had read over my 3 letters finished last night, and had no time to make any extract from them – they must be in the general post office Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau before 2, or could not be taken in today, and then there being no English post tomorrow, must have waited till Wednesday my letter to my aunt (begun on Wednesday, 3 pages, the ends, and under the turn-down) giving an account of my journey, my being very comfortable here, of Madame de B–‘s (Boyve’s) being handsome – of our sitting in the Tuileries gardens, and of the Champs Elysées, and of the fête at St. Germain gave an account of the shawls worn and their prices – excerpt this – 

My letter to M– (Mariana) on the same subjects only giving a more regular account, rather journalwise, and adding short answers to M–‘s (Mariana’s) last letter – Merely said on the subject of Mrs Henry Stephen B–‘s (Belcombe’s) management of the going-to-York business, I did not understand it, but she and Steph had my best wishes – Entreated M– (Mariana) not to pother herself about Petergate money matters – Mrs B– (Belcombe) knew what she was, and would take care of the girls – I did not think Dr. B–‘s (Belcombe’s) practice could now be sold for much – he was not likely to be well enough to introduce anyone – but Steph’s name and kinship would serve him – affectionate to π (Mariana) kind about Miss Pattison but much more the former to Miss Maclean very much so to her tho anybody might see it perhaps she herself may muse over a line or two in the first page – Told both my aunt and M– (Mariana) and Miss Maclean of my having Madame Galvani, that she alone was worth coming to Paris for; and all my time – would be taken up in endeavoring to gain the French language – 

my letter to Miss Maclean begun at Shibden Wednesday 18 August, resumed and finished yesterday – foolscap sheet 3 pages, long ends, and under the turn-down – very small and short – Treated of my journey being comfortable here, the Tuileries Champs Elysées fête of St. Germain etc etc very briefly – all the rest bavardage amical – 

went out at 12 1/4 (took Cordingley with me) direct to the general post-office in the rue Jean Jacques Rousseau – put in my letter to my aunt (Shibden) 22 sols. and to ‘Mrs Lawton Lawton hall etc 22 sols. and to ‘Miss Maclean of Coll Tobermory North Britain (Ecosse)’ 28 sols because letters here are paid for according to their weight, and I had sealed this letter and wafered the 2 others – wafers always used here because lighter than sealing wax, and for the same reason the French choose thin writing paper – saw the man who took my letters, and those of the crowd standing round the wire grating of his bureau, weigh each letter in a pair of scales hanging close to him – 

from the Post Office walked thro’ the halle au bles, and the church of St. Eustache for Cordingley to see them – then along the rue de Grenelle direct thro’ the palais of the Louvre to the Pont des Arts – crossed the Pont neuf, and returned over the Pont royal thro’ the Tuileries gardens and got home at 2 –

the porter gave me a letter charged only 5 sols (brought by some private conveyance –sent thro’ our ambassador) from Miss Maclean (Tobermory) – Oh! that I had had it before I went out – 

on coming upstairs to Mrs Mackenzie to ask what they were going to do, found them going to the Louvre to try to see the exhibition there of the new (modern) pictures – done by living and I believe all French artists; for the King’s death was hourly expected, and all public places would be closed for 6 weeks – his majesty had taken leave of his family, and received extreme unction – the garde du corps to be changed – Monsieur the next King will go to St. Cloud, and there will be no fête there – what a stupid place, says everyone with one accord, will Paris be! Away we went to the Louvre – shut already, sans aucune exception, till further orders – Sauntered in the Tuileries gardens –

Got back at 4 – read my letter from Miss Maclean – very kind and affectionate – I know not any of her letters that has given me more pleasure – perhaps the receiving it here, might add to my delight – I shall keep and read it by way of stimulus for see the end of the crossing Breadalbane thought me ‘almost quite handsome at Esholt’ and Miss Maclean evidently likes and admires me  visited by an old admirer ‘you once said you thought I would have been happier in the married state no no you are mistaken unless with a mind and he art like your own the married state would have been misery to me  far happier as I am ‘ – see the bottom of page one – and the last end for the following  after desiring continuation of the extracts from my journal ‘you know not how I was tormented at home about you Miss Bs (Belcombe’s) manner of speaking half did this  she only poor soul jested but very little difference of manner in you would have made me dislike you at that time I believe it was mostly occasioned by a little tincture of jealousy at home’..... thought I to myself this lets me into much the Belcombes are no advantage to me I now really dislike Anne not tho on her own hearts account for she is good but for the disagreeableness of her manners I would not for worlds be thought a friend of her poor soul she too was jealous I guess the style in which she would mention me – Breadalbane by thinking me almost handsome at Esholt has perhaps got over her prejudices and and I may conciliate her perhaps entirely with a little care – she must have some idea of Miss Macls (Maclean’s) partiality for on the arrival of my letter she threw it into the room with ‘there be happy’ see the first page at the bottom of the second is the more than permission to write Sibbella  Mrs Grieves would have been most happy to see me –

Miss Maclean inclosed me a letter from her niece Miss Hobart – I should fancy her a nice good hearted fashionable girl the superior cleverness I have somehow expected would not strike one from her letter she is in first rate nobility society evidently – I am to burn the letter at the end of the envelope is the following ‘I certainly do spend a good deal on dress but if I had all to buy I think I could manage very well surely a single woman can live very comfortably on nine hundred a year which I under stand I have at my disposal uncle Sullivan told me before I went to Paris as worth eighteen thousand pounds and rather more’ – 

At the 4th page of Miss Hobart’s letter (dated ‘13th’ August) 

‘Now as to your dear picture, your friend whose name I forgot is perfectly welcome to it now, I will with pleasure lend it for a short time, but you may tell her she is much more welcome now than at the horrible time you mention, for if I survive you, I shall not then spare it.’ – 

Reading and musing over my letter till near 5, then came the Irish girl and another young person from Madame Romatier to try on my new gown – not only my stays, but my petticoats ill made (true enough) – French stays would cost 30 francs and upwards – such calico as my petticoats are made of, so strong and good, not to be got in Paris – the best I could get would be thinner and finer 5 francs an aune an aune wide tho’ this of mine was 1/3 in England this and 1/2 wide – it would take 3 or 4 aunes for a petticoat; and the making (at Madame R–‘s (Romatier’s)) would be 5 francs – 

Dinner at 6 – A Mr Moore who would speak nothing but desperately bad French all the while made his debut at table – to stay for how long, I know not – does not dance now in England – does not like the present style of dancing in England except at Almacks – rather a would-be-prig – nothing great, methinks, ab origine and at home – Madame de B– (Boyve) would teach me Ecarté, and after a game or 2, set me down to play with Mr Moore (not for money) and I played with him (the better of the 2 I think) for surely about an hour – 

In the evening had Monsieur Bellevue; a Swiss count, a handsome young man; Monsieur Denappe, and Monsieur St. Auban – after playing at finding out words and talking to 1 or other (have not sat next Madame de B– (Boyve) these 3 or 4 nights) 

came up to bed (leaving the party) at 11 35/60 making memoranda of my accounts – read and mused over Miss Maclean’s letter – all much kept me up so late – Very fine day – the sun out – very warm – Fahrenheit 69° at 12 3/4 – [E two dots O two dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/8/0042, SH:7/ML/E/8/0043

[wrotetheaboveoftoday]

1833 Fri. 22 March

7 25/.. 11 35/.. + L L soft morning Fahrenheit 46 1/4º at 7 25/.. and 39 1/2º at 8 1/4 outside my window - breakfast with my father at 8 3/4 in 35 minutes - till 10 1/4 settling my account with Cordingley - then with my aunt till 11 - then 1/2 hour writing out last 3 letters in business letter book volume 2 - from 11 35/.. to 12 3/4 (interrupted 10 minutes speaking to James Jowitt of High Sunderland) wrote 3 pp. [pages] and ends to Mrs. Norcliffe - chit chat - had she not been so good as ask me to write soon, should have waited a little longer to fix, or, at least, propose the day for being with her at Langton - but on this subject will write again - hope to be at Langton before the end of next month - anxious to hear how Mrs. Best - hear from M- [Mariana] she is out of danger - have thought of her and Mrs. N- [Norcliffe] perpetually

'I really feel for you, my dear Mrs. Norcliffe, very much, and shall not be quite comfortable without hearing of or from you, in the course of a few days - I need not say, that my anxiety, and gratitude, and regard, towards you, and yours, for all the never failing kindness I have received, are too deeply rooted to be easily torn up - From the moment I saw my being here must be prolonged, I determined, if possible, to see you again, and if you are not tired of me, I shall not limit my stay to a few days' -

Inquires after them all - mention M- [Mariana] having had Mrs. Chaloner for a fortnight and the Sympsons being at Leamington - surely IN- [Isabella Norcliffe] will be at home by the end of next month - if not, always so happy at Croft, it would be too selfish in me to wish to hurry her back - dare not read MacGregor's Canada for fear of longing to go there - 'tho' rather cured by various concerns at home, have not yet forgot my old propensity for wandering - having given up Italy for the present - the hot months there would not do - shall hope to profit by Norcliffe's experience - shall decide nothing till in Paris

- from 12 3/4 to 3 3/4 wrote 1 3/4 page to Breadalbane MacL- [MacLean] and then, wanting to find when I wrote and what I wrote last, unable to find it, took up my journal book and made out index from the beginning of this volume 12 January up to 25th ultimo inclusive the day before sending, and the very day of writing last letter to her and made out letter index from 13 January up to day inclusive - then 10 minutes by the upper kitchen fire to warm myself (winterly day - flying showers of small snow or light hail or rain) and out at 4 1/2 having left my letter to Breadalbane MacL- [MacLean] thinking, after seeing what I wrote so lately, it useless to put to the expense of postage just now for mere thanks of which she is assured especially having written to their agent to acknowledge the receipt of the plants -

Some time with John just finishing dressing up the hedge all along the top of trough of Bolland wood - then stood a long while with Pickels having cut more than 1/2 way along the far Bairstow my new road - (settled with my aunt and Marian today to call it Whiskam road) then took a turn or 2 to the end of my walk (a heavyish snow shower for some minutes while there that whitened all around) and came in at 6 3/4 - dinner at 7 5/.. - afterwards reading the article on minerals in Sir Richard Phillip's million of facts - a little nap and went into the other room at 9 3/4 - Letter from Hammersleys to say they had written to order the payment of £5 to Mrs. Tiler -

Very kind letter 3 pp. [pages] from Breadalbane Maclean (Coll house) telling me all about the girls and Mr. Robertsons brain fever and consequent necessity of being now under restraint - wonders if the Retreat near York would be advisable for him - shall offer to make inquiries - says she hears from Mrs. Cameron that V- [Vere] is to be confined in June - encloses letter from her Russian friend (vide 13. 54.) with information for my journey to Saint Petersburg and saying he had written me letters and sent them under cover to Lord Goderich - but for fear of some mistake in their being forwarded to me begged me to write and ask Lady Stuart to inquire about them for me - read over the courier - came upstairs at 10 35/.. - winterly snow-showery day - rain, and sleet, and small snow, and between 6 and 7 regular snow shower large flakes - Fahrenheit 45º now at 10 3/4 -

[misslisterkeepsajournal]

1828 Wednesday 21 May

9 1 20/60

Talked nearly the whole of the night not more than an hour or twos sleep she came closeish put her arm over me but I had my drawers etc. on and lay very still and at a distance thought too uuf [sic] her cough and would rather have been alone -

Breakfast at 10 1/2 - downstairs looking at maps - talking to the Th-s [Thackerays] about our tour - Captain Cawdor called - about an hour upstairs making ready to go with Miss Mc.L- [Maclean] to Redford - the T-s [Thackerays] very kindly making us promise to return to them tomorrow -

Off at 1 1/2 in Mr. Hunter's carriage (left behind and the horses also on some account or other) - went to 1 or 2 shops - pretty drive enough but took not much notice of it - reached Redford at 2 1/2 (5 miles southwest of Edinburgh) - sat talking the rest of the day - a damp little sunk place with a very nice garden felt as if struck with rheumatism the moment I entered and soon that is by dinner time felt a thoroughly bad cold come on could not live here glad I came not sooner nor for longer

Told my being sure of two thousand a year on my fathers death might be more told of Pis [Mariana's] coming to live with me if anything happened to delta [Charles Lawton] said we had made up our quarrel but did not explain it said what sort of terms with Mrs. B [Belcombe] it was about what Pi [Mariana] ought to have had under her mothers settlement said I had said she had been cajoled out of it and I could not retract my sister very good but not like me I had no influence with her - Miss Macl [Maclean] equally confidential about her brothers match etc. his wife had since their marriage spent three thousand a year his girls had their mothers fortune forty thousand the interest of this what her brother chiefly lived on now Breadalbane one of the pious too much so it seems to make those around her happy

Dinner at 5 1/2 - very nicely sent up - sat talking till 12 3/4 - very fine day - slept together as before -

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Reference: SH:7/ML/E/10/0162

[babysackville]

Saturday 30th October 1824

8 ½

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At 9 40/60 sat down and wrote out the translation for the Italian into French made yesterday – at about 10 ½ Mrs Barlow came and brought her work and sat with me all the morning till called away by some callers at 3 ½ - breakfasted at 11 – Madame Galvani came at 12 ½ - very unwell too much so to give Young de Boyve a lesson and therefore sat here all the while till 3 when it was time to tell her Greek pupil she would give him no lesson today but must go to bed – shewed her my translation and spent the rest of the time in conversation as far as her suffering from toothache &c &c could permit – Mrs Barlow is returned having been absent about three or four minutes. Flirting as usual nothing new said or done but Mrs Barlow wondered how she suffered me to say what I did. She could not listen to such things from a gentleman, but she felt towards me as to any other friend &c &c. I said a gentleman might laugh and joke in the same manner, yes said she, but no man would to the woman he was really in love with, he would respect her too much. I said she was right but said it was safest for me to go on this way, I could be more serious and suit her better. She was romantic and I would be so too, but then I should become more and more attached, she could not return it, and would be madness on my part. I can not help she wishes me to be more serious. – 

Mrs Barlow left me at 5 10/60 sat down to dine at 5 ¾ - after sitting down stairs – played 2 rounds at whist with Miss Harvey against Mme Carbonine and Mme de Boyve, lost the 1st of 7 [fish] and won the 2d of 8 [fish]- consequently won one [fish] i.e. five sols then sat next and chiefly talked to Mrs Barlow tho made the conversation general and all came away together at 11 ¼  - Sat 20 minutes with Mrs Barlow in her room and came to my own room at 11 35/60 – rainy morning till about 2 – afterwards fine – letter this morning from Miss MacLean (Tobermory) which left this Thursday the 21st inst. [instante mense] 2 ppages 1st page crossed and 1 page of envelope – Kind and affectation – it seems Mrs [Scrivey] is very unwell page 1 of the crossing my friend hinted at her wish to have my picture – Breadalbane thinks highly of me – Miss V- did nothing but praise me – Mme de Boyve gave me tonight some French verse she had written out for me, very kind ones – F62. at 1 20/60 pm 

Mrs Barlow told me just before leaving I should never be without some fancy. I said when I saw her next I should have got over this and might introduce some friend to her, but said I, you will suspect…. No said she, I will forget all this, but again she said if you tell me you are very happy, shall understand. I said I wished and thought she would, if she did, she would be right if not, I should think she had refused for a scruple what might have made her happy. 

She said she should not marry, it was too late. I certainly think she would like me to be more serious E.. O. –

Left margin: Sir Charles Stuart [de Rothesay] our Ambassador here recalled he would rather remain

(Diary reference: SH7MLE80067)

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5 and 6 November 1828

In walking along this afternoon met Miss Hudson of Hipperholme’s servant who said she was bringing me a parcel and letter – took the latter – 5 pages from Miss MacLean dated from Mr Long’s Harley Street 41 October 27 – Miss Hudson has been staying with him in his house, and he wants Miss MacLean to take her place – she is old enough to make her doing so quite correct, however, she seems to have nous enough to think otherwise and recollect that the world would think otherwise – Speaks of him as an ‘affectionate friend,’ and of his purity and innocence of mind and says I never had such a rival - swallows him whole I think. He said he would ask me to go and stay with him too, that Miss MacLean might have no excuse, and she longs for me to hasten to town to make his acquaintance.  I am not so easily taken with a man esteemed a quack, whatever may be his talents. I have my way to make in society, cannot identify myself with Mr Long.  She likes Miss Hudson’s unassuming manners – Very fine day -

Thurs[day] 6

7¼

12

Early breakfast on account of Mr Hassey’s going away soon – down at 8 – wrote 3 pages to Miss Maclean gently, diffusely, prettily, yet decidedly No! She must not go to Mr Long’s as a visitor or an inmate, the world would surely not approve. My whole letter on this subject except to say how I arrived yesterday, Mariana gone to Scarbro’ wish she might find her father still alive – date my letter Shibden – and send it off by one of Mrs Priestley’s errand girls at 10 25/60 to ‘Miss Maclean of Coll Honourable Lady Stuart’s Whitehall London’ –

 Mrs Priestley and I went out about 11¾ - to Cliffhill, sat ½ hour with Miss Walker – ate some of Miss Walker’s (of Crownest) bride-cake who was married yesterday week to a Captain Sutherland H P from the 92nd Highlanders – his mother and 3 sisters live at Inverness – bought his company 5 or 6 month’s ago and retired – said to be of the Countess of Sutherland’s (March 83 of Stafford) found who knows? Just as we were coming away, Mrs Briggs, and two of her daughters in law? came in – just shook hands with Mrs Briggs and off – then walked by Lidgate and Hipperholme and called and sat about ½ hour with Miss Hudson – looking very ill – said she had just had a letter from Miss Maclean enclosing one for me which she gave me – I did not say more about Mr Long then seemed necessary – hoped be a case in favor of Mr Long; if so it would do him much service – Yes! said Miss Hudson, her connections so good – ‘her letter is franked by the Duke of Wellington’ as if that was much – I just looked at the envelope, without making any remarks – but see Miss Hudson’s turning to the letter saw that written 3 pages and the ends and the 1st page crossed!

 Mrs Priestley had told me before, she had seen Miss Hudson and that she and Miss Maclean had been very intimate!  Miss Hudson said Miss Maclean had dined almost every day at Mr Long’s – but she had determined to stay at Lady Stuart’s – Poor Miss Hudson, she would probably observe some difference between my manner and Miss Maclean’s – mine perfectly civil but bearing no mark of intimacy with   Miss Hudson nor even much with Miss Maclean  it seems Miss MacLean is soon taken, I do not quite understand this new intimacy, nor much like it  On returning with Mrs Priestley along Bramley Lane observed upon Miss Hudson’s having been staying as a visitor with Mr Long – would not a friend or sister offer to do so, if I could help it – not quite the thing as far as appearances want – their age of 40 or 50 not sufficient in such a case – Of course, Miss Maclean could never for a moment have thought of taking Miss Hudson’s place however much pressure by Mr Long to do so – Mrs Priestley would not have liked the obligation, but I saw no other object – yet agreed I had best not use the thing aware perhaps it might strike others as it did me – on getting back to Lightcliffe at 1 25/60 went with Mrs Priestley to her school to look at it then on returning, read my letter from Miss Maclean while Mrs Priestley dressed for dinner – 1 hurried page on ½ a sheet enclosing a letter from Vere and one from Breadalbane no more money to be had from home, Breadalbane calls me ‘dear miss lister’.  Jane seems to have great sorrows of some sort, but all are well – Vere to go to Paris for the winter and they plan for her to be one and a half years abroad ‘which would entirely put an end to me on another subject d’ye see but I dare not breathe it here. Oh my pet I can make no comfortable confidences where most of you would expect I could’…….Tis evident the poor girl is attached I think it must still be to Aubrey bouverie – good account of Miss MacLean herself – Mr Long seems to have hinted something about May for Miss Maclean’s going to Paris – ‘you have ‘brought me into a little bit of a laughable scrape……I shall not tell you till we meet when all this little annoyance ‘will be over’ – Dinner about or soon after 2 – sat talking to Mr Priestley about the new road by Lower brea, and stopping the road in front of Shibden etc  He does not seem to think Mr Walker would oppose it, or does not know that he would – Supposing the Hipperholme bar to free the Godley lane bar and that the Lower brea road is not a mile about – Got home at 5 – Mr Robinson had gone away this morning but would have to return in about a fortnight – It seems the making the title good will be a very expensive and troublesome business – little as I had eaten at Lightcliffe (could scarce eat at all for my left jaw which I seemed to have slipt off the pivot in yawning this morning on first awakening) had no appetite for more – so countermmanded dinner  and had coffee and a cup of tea at 6 – afterwards sat talking and then wrote out Tuesday, yesterday and the first 30 lines of today – In walking With Mrs Priestley this morning offer about Miss (Ann) Walker of Crownest – if worse, question for Steph to take her into his house, ostensibly as a visitor or really as a patient. Mrs P fears she will end in idiotcy – Fine day –

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Saturday 2 April 1825

11 1/2

11 1/4

This morning – our diligence had consisted of the intérieur, and the coupé – there was no galerie – the place behind being the ‘magasin’ for the luggage – there were 5 gents and a lady (5 men and a woman all very respectable – looking) the the interieur, and 3 or 4 men outside with the conductor – Cordingley and myself in the coupé which we had to ourselves from Montreuil – we had 3 men before first one then another – the last, who sat in at Abbeville, told us of the postilian who had been killed that morning (about 8 yesterday morning Friday) at Nouvion the 1st poste on this side of Abbeville, in driving the malle-poste – His horse fell – he was entangled among the chains – the fore wheel went over his chest, cut him in two, and killed him instantly on the spot – the same sort of accident had occurred at this place about a month ago to the postilion who drove one of the diligences – but the wheel only went over both his thighs – but, I think, the man died – about a year ago another postilion driving the malle poste was killed at this same place also from his horse falling with him – yet the ground is level, and the road good – our companion (a large man for when there was room with difficulty) told us the malle-poste left Calais every night at 11, was 30 hours on the road, and got to Paris at 6 the next morning but one – all the mails arrive in Paris at 6 in the morning, and leave Paris at 6 in the evening – though my bed (3 in my room) looked clean, kept my candle burning for fear of bugs – lay awake some time musing – on my sojourn in Paris – my return home etc. – Fell asleep about 5 – awoke at 8 – then slumbered till 10 – got up at 10 10/60, cleaned my teeth, etc. got some linen ready for the wash, and got up – 

I had sent Cordingley a seidlitz powder but she came to dress me at a little after twelve –

Breakfast at 12 3/4 – wrote the following to Mrs Grieves – ‘Having heard from Miss Maclean that Mrs Grieves would probably be at home about this time, Miss Lister presents her compliments, and will be glad to have the pleasure of calling on Mrs Grieves at any hour today, which may be most convenient – Hotel de France. Saturday – half past one – 1 April 1825’ wrong dated from inadvertance 1 April – directed ‘à madame madame Grieves, chez M. Cornuel, rue de la Balance Haute ville – Boulogne’ – the message was quickly brought that the lady would call on me at 2 – ordered a sitting room down stairs with a fire in it – 

Had just got comfortably seated at my writing desk, and journal, when Mrs G [Grieves] appeared – very tall (the head taller than myself) and very thin – wearing a black merinos redingote (better made and looking more dashingly made than the one Mademoiselle Postulant had made, or even than that made by Madame Huchet) and a very neat, plain, black bonnet, and looking altogether elegant and thoroughly like a gentlewoman – I held out my h[a]nd, and we shook hands, soon got into conversation, and appeared mutually at ease – I told her there was a something in her countenance that reminded me of Miss Maclean – she had been told this before – she is just returned from town, when she went to consult Dr … Philip who has given her the blue pill very gently – and done her much good – her illness occasioned by want of case of mind – she is now obliged to lead a most selfish life and is taking great care of herself – she is not strong enough to walk much – there is nothing to see here, but the column, and sorry she cannot escort me there – she has at present a Mrs Maclean with her from Italy, who has brought 2 Italian ponies, and a little carriage which they go about in – she left some ladies in the carriage while calling here, yet stayed 3/4 hour – Miss McL- [Maclean] had been very ill – spit a good deal of blood – her niece Miss Hobart has been dangerously ill, but, is better – old Coll and Breadalbane still at Kensington with Sir [Hector] McL- [Maclean] asked why she did not go to Madame Boyve’s – they were told he had those rooms next the drawing room, and Madame de B- [Boyve] at first agreed to give them up the drawing room, but afterwards she said they were only to have to till 4 every afternoon, and this would not do for them, and they went to Captain Wright’s – dirty and uncomfortable, but induced to stay there because their children were at a school in the same street – I told her Madame de B- [Boyve] said they had gone there because Mrs G- [Grieves] was a person expecting a great deal for a very little – no! said Mrs G- [Grieves] I did not think the terms high – very reasonable – it was because it would not suit us not to have a drawing room – the evening was the time we wanted as much as any, and not to be annoyed with the music etc. in the next room to you every evening – she thinks of going to Paris next June – found no difficulty in keeping house, and shall do it again – likes Paris – will have masters there for her daughter, who is now pretty well and at school here with the 5 Misses Cruickshanks – 5 sisters – her sons with Mr Bury here, whose brother a silk mercer in London, married a Miss Staveley of Halifax – this Mr Bury thinks he has seen me – dined with me somewhere at H-x [Halifax] – ah! no! said I – impossible or I should have remembered it – besides I never dine anywhere at H-x [Halifax] to meet anyone – said I knew the family of Staveley merely by name –  

Miss McL [Maclean] had told I was much pleased with Madame de B- [Boyve] Mrs G- [Grieves] said she should wait to hear what I myself said of her – said she had gulled me completely, but I had now quite changed my opinion, and could not bear her – I did not mean to say anything against her person, but she had spoken very improperly of the lady there with whom I had last been staying, and I could not help resenting it – Mrs G- [Grieves] said she thought her selfish, and did not like the expression of her countenance, but she had seen her when she Madame de B- [Boyve] was displeased – the de B- [Boyve’s] had then only one lady in the house (it was probably the Miss Wright who married colonel de Bossy? or Bosset Madame de B- [Boyve’s] cousin) and when they heard of the G- [Grieves’] going to Captain Wrights, would have done anything to accommodate them, but it was then too late – asked if Mrs G [Grieves] had known a Mrs Heath here – no! Mrs H- [Heath] had taken some pains to become acquainted with her, but she declined – Mrs H- [Heath] has been here with a Mrs Outlaw, or some such name I think Mrs G- [Grieves] said, and had neglected her children very much – when I said she had been at Madame de B- [Boyve’s] Mrs G- [Grieves] said, she is very vulgar do you not think so – something, said I, was laid to her being lowland Scotch – her having Mrs colonel Heath on her cards said to be the custom in Scotland – oh! no! said Mrs G- [Grieves] not at all a scotch gentlewoman is like an English gentlewoman – a gentlewoman is a gentlewoman all the world over – she laughed and said after my saying she was a Miss Vallance descended from Wallace I suppose? – yes! said I – oh! said Mrs G- [Grieves], she went out to India, and picked up a husband there, but she is vulgar – I did not enter into particularly, but merely she had sometimes given a rather odd account of herself – said the society had been pleasant while I was at Madame de B- [Boyve] but had changed much after my leaving it – Mrs G- [Grieves] said though they dined at table at captain wright’s, they formed no acquaintances, did not even know the people when they passed them afterwards in the streets – 

On Mrs G- [Grieves’] going sat down to my journal, and from a little after 3 to 6 1/2 at which hour dinner, and afterwards for about an hour, wrote the whole of wednesday, thursday, yesterday and today, having had no interruption but that of deciding to go tomorrow instead of monday – the pack[e]t sails at 8 tomor[row], and it may 2 or 3 mo[re] days before another sails: it is uncertain – to be long delayed here would not do, to go to Calais after all would be very disagreeable – so, having promised to call on Mrs Grieves at 2 1/2 tomorrow, sat down and wrote the following, ‘my dear Mrs Grieves – I have this moment heard that the packet, instead of sailing on monday as I expected will sail at 8 tomorrow morning – I am sorry to be thus disappointed of the pleasure of seeing you again, but hope to be most fortunate at some future time – I have, at all rates - judging from looks and your determination to take more care of [yourself], the satisfaction of being able to write better things of you to Miss McL- [Maclean] than I had ventured to anticipate – in her last letter but one, our friend mentioned your having had your likeness painted for her, of which she wished me to take charge – this you have, doubtless, conveyed to England yourself; but should there be anything else you have to send, I shall be most happy to take the best care of it I can – I am, my dear Mrs Grieves, truly yours A Lister – Hotel de France – Saturday 2 April 1825 – (5 p.m.) a Madame Madame G- [Galvani] maison de M. [Cornuel], rue de la Balance, Haute ville, Boulogne’ he told Miss Mcl- [Maclean] maison de M. [Cornuel], Because she is not much known here, it is the best, the only good house in the street, and the name of M. [Cornuel] would be easily found – the message sent back was that Mrs G- [Grieves] was at dinner – but would write afterwards – about 7 1/2 she sent her oldest son, (John) a very fine gentlemanly boy of 15 to or 3 days ago – he came in and sat 20 mins with me – said his mother was ill as usual after dinner, and lying on the sopha, or would have written – she was very sorry I was going, but had noth[in]g to trouble me with – the boy was very companionable – reads Homer, Horace, Virgil, Cicero and Grotius at school thinks there cannot be a better master than Mr Bury – he means to be in the law – will go to Oxford in a year or 2 – going to Paris with his mother next June and July – some of the English here play cards on a Sunday like the French among the [Mr] … brother of Lord Farnlane preaches very good sermons on a Sunday, against gambling etc. etc. then goes and plays cards and gambles on this day himself – time just 8 35/60 I have just done the above and am going to take my dessert which has waited all this time – the day has been very fine apparently though I have never set foot out of doors – went up to bed at 9 1/4 – packing my sac de mint, etc. which kept me up so long –

My conscience and my heart smote me for the remarks I had made of Mrs B [Barlow]I felt as if I liked her better -

[mairi-mia1]

Clans with chiefs: List of tartans

Clans with chiefs

Agnew Anstruther Arbuthnott Arthur Bannerman Barclay Borthwick Boyd Boyle Brodie Broun Bruce Buchan Burnett Cameron Campbell Carmichael Carnegie Cathcart Charteris Chattan Chisholm Cochrane Colquhoun Colville Cranstoun Crichton Cumming (Comyn) Cunningham Darroch Davidson Dewar Drummond Dunbar Dundas Durie Elliot Elphinstone Erskine Farquharson Fergusson Forbes Forsyth Fraser Fraser of Lovat Gordon Graham Grant Gregor Grierson Gunn Guthrie Haig Haldane Hamilton Hannay Hay Henderson Home Hope Hunter Irvine Jardine Johnstone Keith Kennedy Kerr Kincaid Lamont Leask Lennox Leslie Lindsay Lockhart Lumsden Lyon MacAlister MacBean MacDonald Macdonald of Clanranald MacDonald of Keppoch Macdonald of Sleat MacDonell of Glengarry MacDougall Macdowall MacIntyre Mackay Mackenzie Mackinnon Mackintosh Maclachlan Maclaine of Lochbuie MacLaren MacLea (Livingstone) Maclean MacLennan MacLeod MacLeod of Lewis MacMillan Macnab Macnaghten MacNeacail MacNeil Macpherson MacTavish MacThomas Maitland Makgill Malcolm (MacCallum) Mar Marjoribanks Matheson Menzies Moffat Moncreiffe Montgomery Morrison Munro Murray Napier Nesbitt Nicolson Ogilvy Oliphant Primrose Ramsay Rattray Riddell Robertson Rollo Rose Ross Ruthven Sandilands Scott Scrymgeour Sempill Shaw Sinclair Skene Stirling Strange Stuart of Bute Sutherland Swinton Trotter Urquhart Wallace Wedderburn Wemyss Wood

Armigerous clans

Abercromby Abernethy Adair Adam Aikenhead Ainslie Aiton Allardice Anderson Armstrong Arnott Auchinleck Baillie Baird Balfour Bannatyne Baxter Bell Belshes Bethune Beveridge Binning Bissett Blackadder Blackstock Blair Blane Blyth Boswell Brisbane Buchanan Butter Byres Cairns Calder Caldwell Callender Campbell of Breadalbane Campbell of Cawdor Carruthers Cheyne Chalmers Clelland Clephane Cockburn Congilton Craig Crawford Crosbie Dalmahoy Dalrymple Dalzell Dennistoun Don Douglas Duncan Dunlop Edmonstone Fairlie Falconer Fenton Fleming Fletcher Forrester Fotheringham Fullarton Galbraith Galloway Gardyne Gartshore Gayre Ged Gibsone Gladstains Glas Glen Glendinning Gray Haliburton Halkerston Halket Hepburn Heron Herries Hogg Hopkirk Horsburgh Houston Hutton Inglis Innes Kelly Kinloch Kinnaird Kinnear Kinninmont Kirkcaldy Kirkpatrick Laing Lammie Langlands Learmonth Little Logan Logie Lundin Lyle MacAlpin(e) MacAulay Macbrayne MacDuff MacEwen MacFarlane Macfie MacGillivray MacInnes MacIver Mackie MacLellan Macquarrie Macqueen Macrae Masterton Maule Maxton Maxwell McCorquodale McCulloch McKerrell Meldrum Melville Mercer Middleton Moncur Monteith Monypenny Mouat Moubray Mow Muir Nairn Nevoy Newlands Newton Norvel Ochterlony Orrock Paisley Paterson Pennycook Pentland Peter Pitblado Pitcairn Pollock Polwarth Porterfield Preston Pringle Purves Rait Ralston Renton Roberton Rossie Russell Rutherford Schaw Seton Skirving Somerville Spalding Spens Spottiswood Stewart Stewart of Appin Stirling Strachan Straiton Sydserf Symmers Tailyour Tait Tennant Troup Turnbull Tweedie Udny Vans Walkinshaw Wardlaw Watson Wauchope Weir Whitefoord Whitelaw Wishart Young

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Friday 8 April 1825

7 1/4

1 50/60

Vc  Vc

Breakfast at 9 – the waiter having got me a nice hacKney chariot for 4 hours certain, and as much longer as I pleased, tooK Cordingley with me, and was off at 9 1/4 – got out at the College at 10 – Left Cordingley to wait for me, and, having driven first to the house, found the professor had come down immediately and was ready for me at the college – I met him in the stable on the left of the entrance – which opens on a pretty quadrangle laid out in grass, and enclosed with stables, and sheds on one side, the museum etc. –

we stood talKing in the stable a considerable time – It was lofty, the stalls about 6 feet wide, the common depth – the professor said, if he had now the building of these stables, they should be very different – the stalls should be... (vide line 3 et sequentes of this page) – it was not necessary to have a stable so lofty – § 8 feet high was enough – he would nt have then higher – the great art was in ventilation which had never been properly understood – they had just expended £1400 on ventilating their church on the plan of — : it did not answer – To economise heat, as it was called, the good air was properly let in at the bottom of the building; but then the apertures for the escape of the bad were only about a feet-and-a half or 2 feet above those to admit the good air, and therefore the plan could not answer, and ladies were still obliged to go out fainting; for the bad air always rises to the top, and ought to be let out there – the stable was for 5 or 6 horses (I thinK 5 but am not certain) – I observed 3 holes on a level with the ground (perhaps 6 inches by 4 inches) for the admission of fresh air, and ‘exactly over the nose of each horse’, as he stood at his hay-racK

(that sort of oval iron racK placed lengthwise upwards) was an aperture in the top of the ceiling (close to the edge of the wall) about 3 inches by 2 inches ‘the size of a bricK-end’ – for the escape of the foul air as emitted from the nostrils of the horse – They suited the buildings to this as well they could – sometimes they tooK off a ridge stone, and put a little contrivance at the top to Keep out rain, and let the air escape at the sides –

He had been employed to ventilate all our dragoon barracK-stables – had done those at yorK – not a good thing for the stalls to fall towards the bacK – § threw too much weight on the hind legs – all the horse-stalls leaned a little towards a grate in the centre of the stall, thro’ which the urine passed away by a channel underneath – the marc-stalls were, of course, obliged to have the grate at the foot of the stall, and the stall must lean sufficiently towards it – the stable was washed a light blueish gray or drab – the stalls the same, or yellowish stone colour – the horses never suffered to stand on litter during the day – the stalls paved with round gravel or moderate sized pebbles, as large as a large hen’s-egg –

then the professor said a great deal about the nature of colds and catarrhs and complaints of the lungs § – and on the necessity of the frog having pressure – when a horse came in very hot, the perspiration was an effort to cool – why shut all the doors, make the stable as close as possible, and sheet the horse, and do all to prevent this effort of nature – the best plan, to sponge a horse dry with cold water – §§ sponge him all over, and wipe him dry – he would be dry in a few minutes – It was not cold that gave a horse cold – if out all weathers, his coat would stare, and and he might be thin and starved – but he would be free from pulmonary complaints – it was heat, – exertion that determined too much blood to the heart and lungs that gave these complaints, – and he argued for sponging – said post-horses were taKen to ponds – the Russians plunged from hot baths into cold – If I myself was much heated sponging (wiping myself dry) and putting on dry linen would be best for me – he would not advocate for firing – it created a great deal of inflammation – he preferred the effect produced by bandaging – §§ 3 KnucKles-broad, four-feet-long bandages wrapped very tight round the part (while the leg was dry) then throwing cold water on the bandage, the cold produced by the evaporation of the water in drying contracted the muscles in a better way than firing without producing inflammation – grease never heard of now – a sure proof of a bad stable or bad grooming – § they generally used a mild solution of sulphate of zinc – §§ Poultices required so much care, they should always be used with caution – the effect should be to produce cold by evaporation, consequently tho’ did good while moist, they did harm when dry, and required constant attention in being changed sufficiently often – the best month to take a horse up is May §§ – when the horse has had the benefit of the spring grass, when he can have green meat in the stable, and when the temperature of the stable becomes nearly the same, as the tempreture out of doors – finds that warm stable do best, but then they should be properly ventilated § –

after standing perhaps 1/2 hour talKing in the stable, – went into the museum, small, maKing no shew compared with the French one, but excellently furnished with models of shoes, and all sorts of feet – If this room contained all the museum, there was perhaps a want of the others parts of the horse, – of the sKeleton at large – there seemed a good collection of the different interior parts ogans organs of the animal –

Here our attention turned entirely on the feet and on shoeing – the necessity of pressure to the frog – § Xenophon in his retreat of the ten thousand preferred a horse with a frog high from the ground – but this was accounted for, because the art of shoeing was then unKnown – his horses have a yard to run in paved with pebbles – §§ no nails should be near the heels, because they prevented the expansion of them on the frog having pressure and endeavoring to squeeze them out – the frog should never be touched in shoeing, unless unsound, and to cut the bits off and leave it clean – there ought to be room for a picKer between the heel of the shoe, and the crust of the horse’s heel – the sole ought always to be hollow – it was a general rule, it ought to be cut clean – that is always a guide, for it becomes clean (cleanhorn) sooner or later in proportion to its quality, and is a certain index §§ – the shoes ought to go to the end of the heel – when turned out, the forefeet (the hind feet should have no shoes) should be only tipped – ironed round the toe, and a bar from the middle of the toe to the outside quarter – the effect of this may be in time a little contraction of the inside quarter, then remove the bar to the inside – but the inside has always more weight to bear, and is more delicate –

Xenophon says choose horses with blacK hoofs – he is right – he was a philosopher – no stones, nor cut glass wears or hurts their horses hoofs so long as ity it is dry – it is moisture that wears away the horn – and therefore tips only do in dry weather § – from may to September – always bear this in mind, that it is moisture that wears the hood §§ – clay the best stopping – moisture is the thing to be produced by stopping – cowdung is only added to Keep up this moisture, but nothing does better than clay which is just as good without the cow dung – white a pupil of the Professors – a great deal of humbug in him § – so said they at Clarenton (the veterinary college near Paris) –

altogethr 1 1/2 hour with the professor – asKed if he had published written much – he said he talKed more than he wrote – probable enough – he talKed to me all the while as if he was lecturing – a middle sized (perhaps 5 feet 6 inches) stoutish, or, rather, portly man – neat in his person – but evidently a man who had risen by his merit – He had written on the foot of the horse and on shoeing – said I must have his booK, and on giving him my address (at webbe’s hotel) he promised to send it –

on leaving the college drove direct to sir Hector Maclean’s 1 Allan’s Terrace Kensington, to call on old Coll and Breadalbane McL-[MacLean]  Found they had gone the Saturday before – In returning drove round the bacK of Kensington gardens (by the gravel pits as the coachman called it), and so direct to mrs. Partington’s, 16 Orchard street (near Portland Place) to call on miss Hall, general whartons sister, and Mr. wharton’s of Skelton castle – she was at home – very glad to see me – sat with her an hour – she had lately heard from Eliza Belcombe talKed a great deal about the B-s[Belcombes] –

Severe upon miss marsh – her dictatorial manner she had learnt at the spinning school, and which made her disagreeable – old Wallis said her grand father (marsh) Kept a little public house – she under restraint before her sister’s marriage (mrs. greenup always pretty and vulgar) and mrs. Salmond had Kept her in order, but the Norcliffes brought her out – she had had a handsome vulgar niece with her whom she would be glad to get off – for the G-s[Greenups] had been banKrupt – § Miss M[arsh] had done all she could to marry Mr Duffin was right to have a nieice to live with him  § I said I had heard (π [Mariana] told me) Mr Henry Chaloner said the niece was handsome but as coarse in mind as body I thought Miss M[arsh] had brought her too forward  Mrs Greenup had behaved unlike a gentlewoman to me and I knew nothing about her we were not on speaking terms §  Mrs MacKs[MacKenzie’s] father was one § of the Yorkshire Dawsons sspent his fortune was master of the ceremonies at Bath after Nash left his wife there and ran off with Miss Fitz Herbert with whom he lived till her death the people at Bath pitied the poor wife she had some share in the profits of the rooms continued to her and Miss H[erbert] seemed to insinuate that they made a sort of subscription for her – Miss H[erbert] did not illnaturedly volunteer this about the MacK[enzie]s but the manner in which she spoke of Miss Marsh made me come away saying to myself she was grown a scandalizing old maid § – miss Hall said that manner Kept ladies, and ladies of patched up characters lived in Sloane street – had warned mrs. mcK-[MacKenzie] not to let miss mcK-[MacKenzie] walK about with the Miss Saundersons mrs. Saunderson not a gentle woman –

From Miss Hall’s drove to the Blue boar Holborn – tooK 2 inside places for Sunday morning – the man told me to be there at 6 3/4 – then drove to Hewitt’s, straw hat manufacturer, 96 curtain road, near worship street – on Mrs William Priestleys account a first cousin of hers  she wanted to know what sort of man he was  I pretended a recommendation for hats from a family of Smith of Halifax in Yorkshire the man caught at this made inquiries about the πs [Mariana’s]  mentioned the relationship and I promised to say I had seen him he seemed respectable  supplied the city straw hat sellers made chiefly black willow bonnets and English leghorn –

From curtain road drove to no.94 Pall mall, got out there at 3 50/60 – § gave Cordingley money to give mr. webbe to pay the man for the hacKney Chariot (from 9 1/4 to 4) and went in (the Apollo Saloon, 94 Pall mall) to hear the infant Lyra – a child apparently about 5 years old, play the harp – no notes – from ear – different airs with variations – a pretty little g child – fine blacK eyes – speaKing, interesting, pensive cast of countenance – the performance, certainly wonderful lasted about 1/2 hour – the room full – I was rather too late, but heard her 20 minutes –

returned home – spoke to Leuliette at the coach office, about the mistake made in Dover as I went – charging me 18 francs too much – spoke, too, about sending parcels to Paris or receiving them from there – he would take care it should be done safely – § each parcel however small would be charged 5/9 from London to P-[Paris] or P-[Paris] to London – and a largish parcel would only be the same – Duties, of course, not included –

§§ while I was out Professor Coleman had sent the booK, 1 volume 4to [quarto] London 1802. ‘Observation on the Structure, œconomy, and diseases of the foot of the horse’ and on shoeing – Read a little of it – 2 or 3 of the first pp.[pages] – Dinner at 6 – hair curled at eight – for about an hour before dinner and between 2 and 3 hours afterwards (till 10) writing out my accounts from march 30 up tonight – then till one copying the fir[s]t page of and half of the third and the ends of my letter to Mrs Barlow – Very fine day –  a very little discharge having no syringe unpacked merely washed with cold water

[annelister-wellwellwell]

Friday July 17, 1829

6 25/60

11 5/60

At my desk at 7 25/60 and till 10 wrote out all but the first 14 lines of 12th geological lecture (of 30th ultimo) and wrote out page 38 the classification méthodique written on the board at our 13th geological lecture, Thursday 2 July (2d instant), wrote out also 24th and 25th botanical and 28th and 29th chemical lectures of Tuesday 30th ultimo and Thursday 2d instant – Breakfast at 10 to 11 10/60 having skimmed over Galignani’s messenger and my letter from Miss MacLean 3 pp. and part of one end, dated July 13th Richmond hill – Enclosing a letter from Breadalbane to her from which it seems that her brother is determined to go to Manheim (in Germany to economize) in which case Sibbella says she must return to her father thus there will be an end of her coming here –

Well whatever is is best and I shall easily enough make up my mind to it –

Yet she seems to have some hope that her brother may be persuaded to put off going for a year – She says of herself, she is

‘Continuing to improve, but the bad weather (rain and wind) is much against her’ – ‘my strength’, she adds, ‘greatly increases, and I have not now the slightest expectorations, fever, or perspiration, and all my inward complaints appear completely subdued – So that, if the weather permitted, I might ‘walk a good deal – At least I think so; formerly the shortest walk brought on a return of violent pain’ –

Her uncle offers her more money but she will not take it.  She has drawn more of her fortune,  if she lives long what will she do –

Mr and Mrs and Miss Hunter going to Boulogne, thence to Brussels and thence up and down the Rhine – Has got Mariana’s watch safe, and will write and ask Mariana how to send it –

‘Instead of being alarmed at your expression concerning Vere – I am delighted she is as much attached to you, as you to her –

You understand Vere exactly. I am happy you allowed her to suppose you in ignorance of things concerning her’.

Miss MacLean’s letter unsealed came in an envelope with a few lines from Miss Hobart –

Kind and as if she now knew me well. When I called Lady Stuart there hardly saw Miss Hobart a moment alone, just said Sibbella said I knew Vere quite well, understood her perhaps better than any one else did. Oh then said she, I will not go to Rambouillet but talked this off and she would go next week but said I was particularly interested in the lectures next week.  The fact is I expect my cousin.  Does she really care about me? From one or two expressions I should say she does but then she seems as if she did not wish me to find it out.  Lady Stuart knows no more than a goose of geography, too far to go to Frankfort from Mayence  too far from here to Mayence. Will go to the Rhine by Brussels because she can sail from Rotterdam to London  but told her that from Brussels she would just come up on the Rhine when it ceased to be interesting –

Miss Savile better, Lady de Stuart de Rothesay very unwell today –

Miss Savile’s illness Lady Stuart told me, owing to a stoppage of her cousin the day of the breakfast and Lady Stuart de Rothesay nervous lump in her throat, harassed and as if fainting when we came away –

Miss Hobart could not go out – Lady Stuart would go with me to see Comte de Noé’s painted glass windows in the church of Sainte Elizabeth rue du Temple – But I ought to have 1st noted that at 11 1/4 dressed – The carriage the horses came late – Took my aunt, and off in a hurry – At the Jardin des plantes in 27 minutes at 12 23/60 – the lecture had of course been begun 7 or 8 minutes – On the animaux marsupiaux – Interesting – Over at 1 22/60 – In returning went to n° 337 rue Saint Honoré to inquire about steam-packets from Ostend to London – The man (Monsieur March) not at home – Then to Madame Estés for shoes – Then to the bank – the exchange 25/50 – Mr Phillips has not known it so high for long – got for £100 2550-16 francs – then set my aunt down at home and got to the Embassy at 2 3/4 – Sat a long while with Lady Stuart – Read her the parts of Breadalbane’s letter related to Hugh MacLean’s going abroad – she asked if Miss MacLean mentioned Mr Long – Somehow unaccountably, I had read my letter so slightly and remembered it so little, yet I said no – she was perhaps offended at my having no faith, and never mentioned him! – At 3 40/60 with Lady Stuart in Lord Stuart’s chariot to the church of Sainte Elizabeth – Lady Stuart and I very good friends – She hoped to see me at the cottage (her place in Richmond park) – Will be glad to go with me to the Jardin des plantes – Will go to the passage des panoramas – Wishes to see the diorama – In short, seems very well satisfied with me so far – My own carriage followed – Parted with Lady Stuart at the church of Sainte Elizabeth, and got home in 20 minutes at 5 20/60 – Monsieur and Madame Hagerman had each left their card for me – Saw him at Lady Stuart’s – he mentioned having called on me – a gentlemanly little man – counted over my money etc, etc – dressed – dinner at 6 25/60 – came to my room at 7 3/4 – Wrote this journal of today – Told my aunt Lady Stuart’s erisipelas in her ancles was not so well today, and that I begin to be afraid, and to doubt whether to press our making a journey together – Nous verrons –

In fact I begin to ask myself if it will not cost more than it is worth – Lady Stuart’s talking of going to Mayence and that it would not be worthwhile to go to Farankfort. Gave me rather a sickening – The carriage being late, was annoyed and said it was for George to look after these matters. I should have done it myself had I not depended on him. He answered that it was not his fault in a manner. I did not quite like tho it was not exactly impertinent, I pofered over this in my own mind and meant to speak to him about it afterwards but happened to hear Henry ho quite as bad to Lady S so determined to say nothing to George but merely give him less opportunity in future.  The more, thought I, he speaks to me the less I will speak to him. Hardly uttered at dinner.  The less one speaks to servants the better –

Cool, dull, pleasant morning – No sun – Began to rain while I was at the embassy, rained fast when we came away and when I got home and rainy evening afterwards – Coffee at 9 5/60, came to my room at 10 1/2 –

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Diary pages:   SH:7/ML/E/12/0057  and   SH:7/ML/E/12/0058

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Wednesday 15 August 1832

7 ¾

12 50

up at a quarter before seven   only little lumps then again in an hour and two about inch and a half long thick cylinders and then loose stuff and in a few minutes more of the latter   good proper yellow colour indeed the lumps always well enough for this   what can be the matter with my bowels? I am not griped at all  in that these pills do very well – fine morning F68 ½° at 8 a.m. – just sat down to breakfast at 9 ½ with my aunt (who got up earlier than usual for me to have tea soon with her) when Washington came – then Murgatroyde – paid the latter carpenter for Park farm – then breakfast and out at 10 ¾ - went to meet Washington at the brook where he had set out the new cutting – to be done leading and filling up old line and all at 20/. a rood – wearing 3/. and leading would come altogether to about 7/. or 7/6 a rood – to have stone from my own quarry – then went with W- to Dumb mill – set out the wall that is to take in the bit of waste – returned by George Naylors’ but did not see him – the bit of waste taken in there is a great improvement – then down Pump lane – the slaters taking off the slate of the house body part – Charles H- and his son James sawing laths for them out of a 21ft. plank – then (about 12 or before) in my walk – Pickles and his 2 sons – he and 1 of them the [other] finished and 2 of the 3 men trenching the arbutus walk – after their dinner they all were employed till night wearing and banking up the wearing – Thomas Pearson came at twice in the afternoon for an hour or 2 – then with Charles H- and his son looking at the guards they had palisaded and cutting down a dead holly or 2 at the bottom of the Calf croft – home at 6 ¾ - dinner at 7 – had had no time to think of myself – afterwards wrote the whole of today till 8 20 Had tea at 8 ½ - read over the courier - very kind letter of 3 pages and one end from Breadalbane Maclean (Coll house) - thinks the Mackenzies have left Woodhall but does not know whether Miss McK- is returned from abroad or not – went into the little room at 9 ½ came to my room at 10 ½ - very fine day – F72° now at 12 5 till which time looking over accounts etc.

[skgway]

1823 Aug., Sun. 24

6 1/4

11 40/60

In the stable 3/4 hour, then walked down the lane into the calf-croft to look at Hotspur (he will not stay in the hall-green – the fog tempts him) and stood by him some time – Did not come in till 7 1/2 –

Wrote the last 5 lines of the last page and so far of this which took me till 9 1/4 – Letter from Mrs. Norcliffe (Langton) very kind one, 3 pages and the ends – Mrs. Dalbiac in a bad state of health –  “some symptoms tending to consumption” in the opinion of Dr. Thompson of Scarbro’ –

“I hear that Dr. Baillie says he never remembers so unhealthy a season, and a disorder is prevalent in town, which he calls a sort of plague – It begins with a bowel complaint, and if not fatal often produces idiotism, or loss of limbs, and he has lost 9 out of 10 of his patients – Bleeding is fatal, and so far nothing has been of service but rhubarb magnesia and laudanum – You have the story as I am told it” –

… 

“a finale to Mr. Fox’s (George Fox Esquire of Bramham Park) dashing notoriety, he is gone to the continent, and all his horses and dogs sold at York” –

Norcliffe at Zurich – The prints to be found in Russia if they can be done neatly at £1.11.6 1 volume the set to be completed if not too expensive? 

Letter also (3 pages quite full ditto the ends) from Miss Henrietta M. Crompton (Esholt hall) – Chit-chat letter – Asks the derivation of “Cater cousin” … “the meaning – whether related or no relation at all?” Mr. Rookes Crompton in France “Paris” (as apparently quoted from his letter) 

“is filling fast, the deputy of Bourdeaux is writing 5 occupy his apartments and many famous are quickly returning as the Spanish war seems nearly terminated” –

Sir Thomas Frankland gave them (when they called from woodsend,

 “a dish of black strawberries and shewed us his medal from the Horticultural society for the best green Egyptian melon” –

The Misses Elizabeth and Margaret Crompton at Scarbro’ with their aunt Crompton – A letter from Breadalbane Maclean (received at Esholt last Wednesday) “very anxious about her sister….. she had consented to pass the winter at Sidmouth” – I fear she is not so well as when she last wrote to me – 

Went down to breakfast at 10 35/60 – We all went set off to go to church and got as far as Benjamin’s along the new road but the rain drove us back. My aunt and I read the morning service 10 3/4 to 11 3/4, and afterwards from 1 1/2 to near 4, read from page 13 to 36 volume 1 Rousseau’s confessions –

Then wrote the above of today – § speaking of Catalani, Miss Henrietta C– [Crompton], 

“We hear she is to be with Miss Norcliffe – Of course you will be of the party – How delightful enviable!” 

to be with Miss Norcliffe! Curious enough –

Went downstairs at 4 50/60 – My aunt and I read the evening service, and I read aloud sermon 50 volume ii my uncle’s collection – In the evening did nothing – Thoroughly rainy day – Barometer 1 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 54 1/2º at 9 p.m. –

Came upstairs at 10 3/4 – 25 minutes looking at 1 book or other – vide Encyclopædia volume 1 Articles Catharma and Accursed – Among the pews accursed was synonymous with crucified “this serves to explain the obscure passage in Romans ix. 3, when the apostle Paul wishes himself accursed after the manor of Xst [Christ] §, i.e. crucified, if happily he might, by such a death, save his countrymen The preposition “ἀπὸ is used in the same sense, 2 times i.3”

§ Hὐχόμην γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐγὼ ἀνάθεμα εἶναι ἀπὸ τȣ [τοῦ] χριςȣ [χριςοῦ] ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀδελφῶν μȣ [μου] τῶν συγγενῶν μȣ [μου] κατὰ σάρκα. Romans ix. 3. E [three dots, treating venereal complaint], O [one dot, signifying little discharge] –

[awhilesince]

Wednesday, 14 May 1823

8

1 50/60

Down to breakfast at 9 – Read aloud from page 415. to 495. volume 2. Hallam on the middle ages – 

At 1 went over the bridge to the Belcombes’ – sat with Mrs B– (Belcombe) (Lady Johnston with her) a little while tête à tête with Mrs Milne in her own room – then walked with her and Anne Belcombe to call on the Craythornes – (not at home) – we then went to the extremity of the new walk – I parted with them at the end of Castlegate, and got home at 3 55/60 – 

Miss Henrietta had called for me to walk at 3 – a Miss Birchem at the Craycrofts thirty clever a hundred thousand pounds thought I would go to the Cromptons in the evening – After dinner slept a little – Parsons dressed my hair – 

at 9 5/60 went to a small party at the Cromptons’ – the Craythornes and their visitors Mr and Mrs Trollop, and a Miss Birchem there – lady Louisa Gower and her 2 daughters (young unintroduced girls) – on their way to London – lady Crawford, the Moseleys, Mrs Willey, Miss Mary Salmond, Gilbert-Cromptons, the 2 Miss Kellys and 2 or 3 more – Colonel and Captain Kearney Mr Duncombe, another officer of the 2nd Dragoon Guards Dr. Belcombe, etc a pleasant party – no opportunity of judging of the conversation of Miss Birchem – she looked well enough sitting – rather good face and countenance – conversed a little with Mrs Trollop, a ladylike sensible person –

Henrietta is certainly attentive to me she asked if I had sent my letter to Miss Maclean I said no she had called it a fine composition and I should burn it she asked me to give it to her but was glad I had not sent it Miss Maclean might think I was rather offended at Breadalbane I said I certainly did not like the manner in which she had writt en of me and it was unfair but I should not notice  it at all  Henritta looked well enough yet having as I have thought before as light oldmaidish prim in her figure and a rather gauche flippancy of manner or a rather gauche conversation or that sort of thing one knows not what to make of – she asked me if I was changeable I answered no tho I was said to be so she said that was her case  she was ssorry she had shewn me the letter had she had as much judgement as Margaret she should not have done  she was out of sorts  had talked a good deal to to Mary Crompton –

Got home at 10 54/60 – Mr D (Duffin) has ssaid half past ten luckily he was gone to bed or most likely he would crossish as usual how I abominate all this but perhaps I have value received by the means of seeing society and I swallow it quietly and in silence in hope of better times – Came upstairs immediately – 

Having promised that Miss Margaret Crompton should have a note from me tomorrow wrote the following – (she some days ago promised to make me a pincushion, but pretending I did not care for it – did not ask about it – had forgotten it, she would not give it me) wrote very small and close, notewise on 1/4 sheet of paper, dated at the bottom ‘11 p.m. Wednesday 14 May, 1823.’ made the first verse as I was walking this morning over over the bridge and made the last while I seemed to be asleep after dinner – on Mrs Milnes ssaying the other day my poetical letter was well done – 

I have determined to write 2 lines of poetry every day of one sort or other from the time of my return home – I must form some plan for making as good use as I can of my time in future I must have more general reading – (historical) most the correct writing of French and Latin – I was musing tonight on the 8 lines I had just written to Miss Mary Crompton, and on my resolution of writing verses for the same of acquiring the habit of versification when the following impromptu doggerel occurred to me –

You promis’d to make

A pincushion-token:

A pin was at stake;

Your promise was broken!

‘Twas plain from that minute,

The cushion untrue

Had nothing within it

To pin faith on you.

First seek your idea, then turn it in verse;

‘tis sure to look well, if the language be terse:

And who can write prose, can write verses in time;

As verses are nothing but prose turn’d in rhyme,

And rhyme is a merely mechanical mingle

Of words that are born of one family-jingle.

Prescription for writing vv. verses

(?) species idearum grex i

verba composita

extrico harmoniæ aā grex xx

fiat dos. i sumendus pro re natâ.

Very windy day – the clouds threatening rain but merely 2 or 3 flying drops fell once or twice – E two dots O one dot [marking discharge from venereal complaint]  –

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0012, SH:7/ML/E/7/0013

[wrotetheaboveoftoday]

1828 Fri. 29 August (2/2)

Had before told M- [Mariana] we were going to take the hall-front wall down - could not begin till next Monday week - would take 10 days - could not be at L- [Lawton] therefore till about the 20th next month.

Major Priestley’s man brings my father a brace of moorgame - wrote the last 12 lines - From 3 to 5 3/4 wrote 3 pp. and the ends and under the seal, small and close, to Miss McL- [MacLean] quiz her about being now ‘[lill] all the rest of the world’ losing my esteem and by and by affection etc. etc and about the manner in which she fai[l]ed herself misrepresented by Breadalbane jokingly deny it all - shall not be able to be off from here to Lawton (on account, tell her, of the hall wall) before the 20th next month, and may then have to return here to sign papers - cannot be off from London before the 7th or 8th of October - Mrs. B- [Barlow] will, I think, wait a fortnight for me - she will be ready very early in October and propose all traveling together - no objection to Breadalbane’s marrying Mrs. McL- [MacLean]’s brother if money matters go right - should argue differently if Miss McL- [MacLean] were in the case

Still tongue whitish and rather giddy headed at times - found out that it is all owing to my having too much hair - but convenient on some accounts - shall not have it cut off just yet.

Given the terms of Mrs. Bray’s school, grande rue du Chaillot at Paris, so recommended by Mrs. Swann, Mrs. Bilton that was - about £100 a year - not less - would do it - ‘A Parisian finish does certainly give a girl a considerable éclat in good society in England Miss Barlow is I hear, the delight of her friends’ mention the archbishop’s giving her £20 - wrote the last 12 lines which took me till 6 - dressed - dinner at 6 1/2 - another good but long motion - Recollected the short bread (from ‘T Littlejohn confectioner 33 Leith Street Edinburgh’) sent it off (having only taken out in all 2 cakes - suppose there to be 4 left) to M- [Mariana] Lawton with Miss McL- [MacLean]’s love - sent off also my letter to M- [Mariana] ‘Lawton hall, Lawton Cheshire’ and my letter to ‘Miss MacLean of Coll, Coll house, Tobermory N. B.’ - letters sometimes lost by Aross - so directed this time Tobermory as formerly - did not get the letters and parcel off till after 8 by the kitchen clock - afterwards wrote out some receipts - came upstairs at 10 10/60 - very fine day still very hot but not quite so hot as the last day or 2 -

[misslisterkeepsajournal]

1826 Wednesday 22 March

8 20/60 2 3/4

Letter 3 pages and the ends, and the 1st page crossed, from Miss Maclean (15 Hill Street Edinburgh) Mrs. Drummond is dead - Miss Reed is General D-'s [Drummond's] niece, and keeps his house - is odd, and never keeps a servant more than 6 months - has left Macdonald in charge the house and establishment at Culdees castle during their absence - Miss Macleans accounting for her heart aches (but she too as well as I seems to have thought of ossication the surgeon says 'it is muscular') and low spirits forty thousand pounds of debt on their estate a large new house building (for her brother) and an increasing family the son of her fathers only sister a laird it seems eight thousand pounds worse than nothing family quarrels etc etc. enough to dispirit anyone yet Breadalbane always visiting -

Breakfast at 10 1/2 - Went out at 11 50/60 - James Sykes tracing out the walk along the hollow over the sough in the Lower brook Ing - at the end next the wood, he has done or rather was doing it all wrong - too high upon the slope of the sunk fence - had it all altered, and put quite along the bottom of the hollow, which the man soon allowed would be 'much handsomer' - Had just gone to Lower brea Jackman mending the cart road along the daisy-bank - his son and Joseph Smith and in the afternoon John Booth helping to fill scraplings at Shepherds and William Green and John Bottomly leading (got 16 loads), when seeing my father coming turned back - he said Mr. Jubb was here, come about Northgate house -

Got back about 1 - said we could not give him the refusal there were other applicants - we should take, of course, whichever we preferred, but if all were otherwise equal the one who would give most rent - not less than £100 a year would be taken - Mr. Jubb behaved very handsomely - Perhaps he will be the one - my father and Marian both here, and staid till after 2 - walked back with them - looked all over the house - heard Marian's plan (made out by Thomas Greenwood) for building 3 good shops there to let for £40 a year each - to cost £1000 -

Went to Mr. Wiglesworth's office - he said from what Mr. Carr had said, he thought he would make no allowance for ready money - Mr. Carr said it was an agreement - this annoyed me - I told Mr. W- [Wiglesworth] exactly what had passed, and said I was determined to stick to what I wrote yesterday, and, if Mr. Carr did not agree, I would have nothing more to do with the business - he could not compel me, and he might do as he would - Called again at Northgate - told them what had passed, and my determination -

Got home at 5 - Went to James Sykes, and Jackman, and did not come in till 6 - dressed - dinner at 6 20/60 - tea and coffee at 8 10/60 - talking to my aunt of one thing or other - went upstairs at 10 3/4 at which hour Barometer 1/3 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 41° - Fine day, but coldish, tho' I was heated - this evening with walking - Read for 1/2 hour from page 22 to 78 tome 1 La vie du Chevalier de Faublas - then came down here into the breakfast room at 11 and from then to 2 10/60 wrote out (from my memoranda made at the moment) all but the 1st 3 or 4 lines of the journal of Saturday, and the whole of the journals of Sunday Monday yesterday and today -

While at Mr. Wiglesworth's office got a note he had written me to say 'as to your purchase made from Mr. Kershaw, I think that if the receipt is taken upon an agreement stamp with an undertaker from him to convey the purchased premises to you or as you may appoint, it will be sufficient, but they should be so far united with your own as to be made undistinguishable or nearly so' -  

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/9/0074