#took 3 weeks before I had to send the ‘as per our lease agreement and Pennsylvania state law’ text

[farmhandjob]

FRIENDS AND COMRADES YOU CANNOT LET HOW HOT YOUR LANDLORD IS BLIND YOU TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE YOUR LANDLORD. I PRAY THEE TAKE MY SOLEMN ADVICE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Tuesday 21 May 1839

7

12 35/..

fine but dull morning F54 ½° inside and 49 ½° outside now at 8 25/.. am and went out – to Listerwick – back at 8 55/.. breakfast at 9 in about ½ hour then read over with A- the Landymere stone lease to John Hemingway – 1200 yards super. at 10d. per ft. on 6ft. thickness – to pay more in proportion if the thickness greater and less if less – term 4 years – to pay for 400 yards at 5/. per annum the 1st 3 years – rent days 1 January and 1 July – observed that SW. had written the no. of years of term, the price etc. all in figures – 4 yards – 10d. per foot etc. – never saw this done before – it was after 10 before I went to Joshua Keighley who brought his bills having heard that we were going tomorrow –to deliver the large oaks 1,2 and 3, if wanted, at Shibden hall at 3/3 per ft. cube – the trees to be pulled tomorrow – could be delivered on Friday – then had Mallinson David and it was after 12 before we had settled the Northgate hotel account – I paid him for the old materials sent here (tho’ I always understood I had no business to pay for them) £19.19.9 and gave him check no. 290 dated Saturday 25 May 1839 for £158.10.0 in full of all his demands on account of the Northgate hotel – I said Mr. Harper did not consider me bound to pay for the gates made for the Lodge, but advised me to pay for them – and therefore I would pay for them; but it was understood that if Mr. Harper said I was not bound to pay for the old materials I would not be answerable for paying for the gates – asked DM. if the gates could have the irons re-put on and be hung this week – mentioned as he said the fault was all in the blacksmith DM-s’ getting the irons put on and the gates hung himself but it ended in my giving no positive order on this point – and on talking the matter over with Booth (who was present after I had given DM. the check and went with him to the Lodge to see about the gates hanging) I thought of merely sending to DM. for the gates and getting Ward to hang them, and put the irons on here – sometime with A- and at luncheon with her – then went out about 1 ½ - had hardly been 5 minutes with John and Sam Booth and Robert Mann setting single railing along the back lodge road when Mr. Jubb came for ¼ hour – did not name the day of our going but asked for his bill, and a little bottle of calomel and of colocynth in powder and of James’s powders, and of effervescing salts and of creosote to be sent with the bill tomorrow or Thursday night – all to be paid on Saturday – then a little while with Robert Norton setting up A-‘s large school-armoire in the housekeepers’ room – A- rode off to Cliff hill about 2 (or after) and I had just written so far at 2 40/.. – then writing out sheet of letter paper A-‘s rental till four and a half A- returned from Cliff hill at 4 – she left me and went to the Lodge to see if Ann could mark me some black worsted stockings – no! cannot mark – A- called me down before 5 to Bentley who who took the 1st Landymere quarry – came to tell us he had come to a great ruttle – frightened – cheered him up – assured him he was safe – the agreement good for all sides – SW. had measured – advised B- to have a quarry plan of his own, and to pay SW. for doing it – the ruttle 100 yards flat – B- owned it was worth 2/. a yard – there would be wall stone – but sure it was not worth more than 2/. a yard of anyboyds’ money – had B- ½ hour in spite of my anxiety to get away – left to drink his beer and went to Booth sorting out old iron to go to Keighleys’ and weighing the old brewing copper = 63lbs. at 7d. (B- at H-x this afternoon and saw Roper who would give this) and 2 broken dinner bells (one broken on Saturday) = 40lbs. at 8d. – the new bell at 1/10 per lb. = about 40lbs. – 13in. diameter – sent off John Booth to H- with this old metal about after 6 – then from 6 ½ to 7 walked with A- to the meer and meer-head and back – dinner at 7 ¼ - coffee – read the newspaper till now 10 40/.. pm fine day – dusting and moving books from old study to tower study till now 11 3/4pm and F53° inside and 48°outside