Monday 26 August 1839

6 50/..

12 40/..

fine morning F61° and sun out at 7 ½ - breakfast at 8 20/.. to 9 – A- sketching the chateau from our room window – left her to finish (to colour) her sketch a little and I off to the library at 9 10/..

“catalogue général du la littérature Française content les ouvrages publies en France...... pendant l’année 1837 …. avec table systématique pour les ouvrages imprimes in 1837 et les Journaux de 1838. publié par la Librairie Brockhaus et Avenarius. 1ere année. 3fr. Paris, B- et A-, Libraire Française-allemande et Estrangère Rue Richelieu, no. 60

Leipzig, même maison

they refer to la Bibliographie de M. Beuchot et le Bulletin de M. Cherbuliez – and Bibliographie d’Allemagne paraissant Leipzig

the above lying on the table of professor Skraeder ancient history with Arabic books (published here) etc. etc.

Has his pedigrees and prefers [pasted] into books with whity brown paper leaves left about 1 ½ inch broad – books about the breadth and twice the length of our common 4to i.e. narrow folio size

Laerebogi de romerske Oldsager af S.B. Bugge rector ved cathedralskolen i Christiania. melfem Steentryk. Xtiania 1837. Trykt [Tryckt] i R. Hviids Enkes [Entes] Bogtrykkerie og paa hendes Forlag of G. Hansen:

Beitrage[Beiträge] zur genauern Kenntniss der ehstnischen Sprache . Neunzehntes heft. Peranu, beim herausgeber. Reval, bei Bornwasser. 1828.

§ Initia Homerica by Thomas Burgess a.m. London 1720. printed by Dove – sold by R. Priestley – given to Upsala [Uppsala] by ‘Thomas Burgess episcopus Salisburiensis donatus 1837”

August Monday 26 the Italian cabriolet? made at Augsburg – very curious – Xtianas’ Snuff grater and box looking like a broadish knife the box at one end and the blade a grater on which the tobacco leaves were grated  

Real musk in a little lead box like a bit of a small animal bag or pouch with short 1/4in. long like bristles on it –

Xtianas small fusils to kill fleas –

about 3ft. 6in. x 6ft. and about 2ft. 6in. broad –

Gustaf 2 died 1792 left chest and black leather covered box to be opened in 1842.   2 of his drawings in Indian ink dated the one a chateau 1763.  (26 September 1763)

and a bridge and two towers one at each end or thereabouts of the fridge dated “Gustaf fecit [d] 19 Setepmber 1763 Drotningholm [Drottningholm]

at the library till 11 ¼ - gave the men 32sk. banco a one rigs. dollar note – content he then shewed us the new library – not yet finished tho’ some books put there on the ground floor – there at 11 25/..

new library bookcases au premier 6 ½ x 2 ¼ red books (handbook which is about 6 ½ inches long height up to gallery = about 4 yards – pilasters between the cases = 3 red books wide i.e. about 6 ½ in. x 3 = 19 ½ to 20 in. –

Racking or shelf-grooves at every 2 inches -  about 2in. left in front of the cases for hanging doors if wanted lock-up doors with wire net at the old library 5 or 6 ft. high against the bottom shelves

there will be book cases to front the pilasters

Salle about 58 yards long and about 5 yards wide across from pilaster to pilaster – grand entrance in the middle 5 cases on each side the door and then 5 windows on each side beyond these 5 cases respectively greenish-white veined or waved marble (like my specimen of the holy

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sepulchre at home) window seats about 2ft. 6in. high from the floor –

whole breadth of window including frame = about 5ft. 6in.

whole height including framing = about 10ft. up to bottom of gallery –

glass 6 panes in height – panes about 17 or 18 in. x 10 + 4 panes in breadth i.e. 2 in each ½ opening with a spagnolette the whole breadth height of the window –

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August Monday 26

3 yards + taken up by the partition down the middle which parts the whole floor into two similar book-galleries, a ballustred gallery running all round at about 13ft. high from the floor – the man says there are 120,000 vols. – floor diamond flags size of those formerly in the hall at Shibden, of red and greenish porphyry (like the window seats) – 2 rooms at each end of the book rooms and between these 2 rooms (at each end of the building) a spiral staircase to the top of the building, and leading also to an immense salle (over the library, i.e. au 2nde)  round above? with portico behind the pillars underneath the gallery? to be galleried all alcove (is a sort of throne there or what to be?) at left end as one looks on the town this immense salle entered also in the middle by the great staircase as below – 2 flights of steps taking up a breadth of about 13 yards and a depth of about 16 yards in a projection towards the castle the opposite front looking exactly along a long straight road to Dannemora and old Upsala [Uppsala] and on to the town, and a little to the left on the cathedral as now renewed since its being burnt in 1702 –

(chateau (right) going up great stairs and looking towards the town)

at the new library till 12 5/..

at the cathedral at 12 ¼ - the monument memory of Linne – is in the a little side chapel (left) near the great west doors as one enters

‘Carolo a Linné | Botanicorum | principi|

amici et discipuli| MDVVXCVIII’

the a = von = de = noble (e.g. Thomas a Beckett)

above the inscription is a bronze head – side face – très ressemblant, by J.T. Sergell ‘A : MDCCXCIV’ beautiful brown whitish green veined granite ? from Elfdal  [Älvdalen?] north of Falun,

the marble of the window seats etc. at the new library comes from between Norköping [Norrköping] and Nyköping – i.e. from the forest of Kolmorden [Kolmården]

(the comma over the e in Linne is to double the e)

August Monday 26

Linnaeus’ granddaughter died here (Upsala [Uppsala]) last spring and left to Ridder Bielca who married her sister a fortune that would keep ten cavaliers 10 horsemen i.e. ten men and ten horses and the terrain (but that depends upon the goodness of the land) that would maintain one horseman = 8 – 10,000 dollars banco purchase money, the terrain containing forest fisheries etc. –

everything here counted by how much land will keep a man or horseman – the academy has as much (as the man said yesterday) as would keep a hundred men – and a terre to keep a man costs 4,000 to 5,000 dollars banco to buy it – In buying land one ought to have 6 to 8 p.c. for ones’ money –

fine tomb from Rome in 1793 of archbishop Carolus Frid.

Mennander nat. 1712 ob. 1786 formerly bishop of Åbo who translated the bible into Finnish – whole length of him sitting, leaning on ‘Biblia Fennica’ – good looking – 7 allegorical female figures.  and all on a tablet under the figure of Religion carrying a large cross and leaning on an urn –

chapel of Gustaf Wasa painted in fresco by

“John: Gust: Sandberg pinxit 1831-1838’

Eric xiv and Jean iii sons of Gustaf W- and Charles ix his young son

Left hand, on entering the chapel (behind the altar) the paintings are

over the pictures arms window

                                                                    1st Gustaf on horseback receiving the keys of Stockholm Riddarholm                             [Riddarholmen] castle some years ago burnt down

                                                                      2nd ------------- on horseback (young) in a battle against the Danes

ditto                                                               3rd------- at Lubeck asking assistance – a Danish nobleman claiming him

ditto                                                                4th ------- at the peasants cottage in Dalecarlia with flail a Dane seeking him entering the barn –

ditto                                                               5th ---------- Haranguing the peasants in Dalecarlia

ditto                                                               6th two bishops presenting him the 1st bible Eric 14 at his elbow

arms                                                               7th taking leave of the deputies, who was then a boy, dressed in red died soon after

 1 and 4   azure 3 gold crowns (the arms of Sweden) i.e. lakes

2 and 3 azure. lion rampant or on 3 white wavy bands (the arms of Götheborg [Gothenburg])

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August Monday 26 escutcheon of pretence arms of Gustaf Wasa

azure. a gold sheaf (gerb) – called in Swedish vasa –

supports 2 lions or crowned [proper]

In the sacristie or room where they keep the 2 gold crowns lately taken respectively from the heads of Jean iii and his queen Catherine and some valuable gold cups etc.   is the half length old wooden statue of the pagan god Thor – part of his left side gone and his right arm broken off from the elbow – gilded formerly – brought from old Upsala [Uppsala] – many more old things all burnt with the cathedral in 1702 – this room is a sort of safe closet – safe from fire – 3 boxes of valuables put here as we should send plate to the bank for safety –

Get at Stockholm, chez C.M. Carlson Roadbook of Sweden and Norway 1830.

i.e. “Vägvisare” Roadbook, bought a little one at Upsala [Uppsala] for 12 sk. banco

August Monday 26 came in at 3 ¾ - dinner at 3 55/.. to 4 20/.. – good – same as yesterday but herring-and-rice-and-potatoes-pudding with anchovy sauce instead of soup – off at 4 ¾ from Upsala [Uppsala]  alight at old Upsala [Uppsala] at 5 ¼ - off to the tumuli close by the Donnemora cull judges’ hill first – then the 3 tumuli of Odin, Thor and Frea – all the 4 [3?] very near together and the

cull, hill, collis.

3 conical mounds very conspicuous all the way from Upsala [Uppsala] – fine view from all especially from Frea because farthest from the church – quite close to Odin and impedes the view from him – Good country about here – more quite clear ground (clear of stones, boulder and rock) than we have seen elsewhere - .:. land valuable here – but no forest of two miles .:. wood dear – large extensive plain on all sides – merely a few bits (on the Eastern side) that one can just see encumbered with stone to remind one of being still in Sweden – the church small – not worth going into but expected (disappointed) some to see there some funeral urns found in 1 of the tumuli – fine view of Upsala [Uppsala] – its castle looks well from here – its 2 (there are only 2) round towers (North and North east corners) seen, and cone of the ugly pediment side seen – the 2 cathedral-towers are seen as one – and the peasants’ church tower and one other church tower are seen in one line – Beyond Freas’ tumulus a little range of hill and the foot of this and of the tumulus itself towards the village and Upsala [Uppsala] studded with little hillocks – on the other side the tumulus and range of hill is a little lake – A- is sketching the church – she did the castle nicely yhis morning – Old Upsala [Uppsala] pretty little picturesque gardeny village – a peep at the little River – a minute or 2 in the old church – nothing worth seeing in it – back at the house to drink our bottle of mead at 6 5/.. excellent – good as champagne – how to make it is a secret – heirloom secret – 24 Rigs sk. per bottle – a pink mead at 48sk. but she has none at present     off again at 6 25/.. –

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Monday 26 August

in 20 minutes a little rock and boulder and Sweden again – excellent road charming evening – beautiful sunset – Hogsta  [Högsta] should be Uggelsta single house – poor little place – could not sleep there – next stage.........Andersby – 2 1/8 miles – nice open country – sowing rye and reaping it – at Dannemora no! Österby near Dannemora, at 11 5/.. – we had to call the people up – very fine day – F62° now at midnight

1828 Apr., Mon. 28

7 5/60

11 1/4

James Holt came at 7 35/60 – In 20 minutes washed and dressed and went out with him across the field above the barn and Beyer’s field into the Cunnery Ing to the Cunnery Clough where he thinks we ought to sink for water, and bring it across the Cunnery Ing to the house. Wages very low now – It might be done for ￡20 or ￡30 – Would sink for 6 /. [shillings] a yard and drive a head for 3 /. [shillings] per ditto – 

Thinks the colliery is now a losing concern to the party, but they wish to keep it on to get the loose for I know not how much coal – ‘Yes!’ Said I, ‘but they must pay for it’ – This they do not mean to do – Then we must stop them by an injunction – Holt thinks that it may be time to do this in about 18 months – They have been getting a good deal of coal just lately, that there will be a heavy payment this next time – 

Came in about 8 1/2 – In one and a half hour copied what I wrote yesterday to Mrs. B[arlow] and added a few lines on one end. Affectionate but properly, so anybody might see it – Perhaps should not be very sorry if we could not have Dr. Tupper’s apartment – If we could, not to miss it – Very quiet about Madame de Rosny. Concluded with 

“still give me credit for ‘good and honourable intentions,’ be assured of my esteem and deep and affectionate regard for yourself, and be persuaded that no hold, which is really unmerited and improper, can last long upon yours. Very faithfully, A[nne] L[ister] –” 

Will write to my aunt in the course of a few days – Letter 3 pages and the ends from M– [Mariana] Lawton – She had been engaged every day for the last fortnight – C– [Charles] has had a very bad cold – Major and Mrs. Bailey went there on the 14th – Louisa B– [Belcombe] (Louise Rickets that was) much improved see we saw her in London –

They go to Paris for the winter in October and next spring “mean to make a tour, the tour” – Major B– [Bailey] (“not to my mind particularly gentlemanly either in appearance or manner”) like to have M– [Mariana] with them. She thinks of going with me, as we talked of at Lawton – 

This reminded me that I must not hamper myself with Mrs. B[arlow]. Somehow without reminding by herself or her letters I do not always think very much about poor 𝜋 [ Mariana]. I have learnt to live without her. She seems beyond my reach and I am therefore too apt to agreeblize with those who come in my way. But I decidedly like her best after all – 

M– [Mariana] gives no particular account of herself – Jehson (the medical man) not yet arrived – Sent off my letter to “Madame Madame Barlow Rue des Champs Elysées No. [number] 6, Paris” by John at 10 1/2 – Breakfast at 10 35/60 – Staid down talking to my father about coals, having to go to law with the parties, getting water etc. and came upstairs at 11 3/4, and wrote the above of today – 

Marian wrote this morning to Mr. Inman – She and my father determined yesterday to go to Market W– [Weighton] next Saturday – There are several shares in the Market W– [Weighton] canal to be sold, my father wishes to see what they go for, – Perhaps to buy them – 

From about 12 1/4 to 4 1/4 looking over some old papers that came from Northgate and looking over and tidying my clothes to see what sort of box to order etc. for packing – Went at 4 35/60 to the Cunnery plantation – Went to see Matty Foster, sat perhaps 1/4 hour there – Then looking about to see how one might make a farmstead there – Then into the hanging hay – 

Came in at 6 1/2 – Dinner at 6 35/60 – Afterwards talking to my father about roads, improvements about the place etc. etc. – Came to my room at 10 5/60 – Fine day – A few drops of rain about noon – 

1828 Weds. 3 September (1/2)

5 55/60 11 5/60 Out at 7 5/60 saw Mosey (who lives near Sowden’s, Sutcliffe wood) - he did that fencing off of single trees for Mr. Armitage, of Lightcliffe - those near the house (3 stoops, 3 railed and palisaded and painted brown - very neat) cost 10/. wood, and 10/. labor - those out of sight, rough, and unpainted, and without palisading 3/. - would do them my way, with a rough 1/2 length palisading for 4/. per tree.

Then went to see the new Northowram road - a stupendous piece of work - will be the greatest possible improvement in the road way to the whole neighborhood - hope we shall ultimately get rid of the road in front of Shibden by turning it off at Mitholm into this new Northowram road - stood a long while looking about me - ought to have Godley - Redbeck houses, Dove house and Caldwell hill, and Upper brea? Saw Mr. Wilkinson - the commissioners will do nothing at upper brea lane - say it is only a bridle-stay road - must speak to Mr. Waterhouse - walked forwards to the end of the new Northowram road and then across the fields to where they are making the shelf road to Bradford to join it -this is the road from whence Shibden will be seen - musing and looking at it - turned homewards at 9 25/60.

Came down Upper brea lane, and down James Smith’s brow - his fence against the wood bad - then by James S- [Smith]’s and Tilleyholm into into Lower brook Ing wood - crossed the brook there - loitering among the young trees - did not come in till 11 50/60 - not having ordered the garden door to be opened, got on to the garden wall, and down into the garden by 1 of the Laurel bushes

Saturday 23 August 1828

7

10 1/4

Off to Halifax down the old bank to Mr Parker’s office at 8 20/60 went to Taylor’s about tin boxes, then called on Mrs Veitch, not at home, and then took Mr P- [Parker] my aunt’s deed of gift for receipt of ten shillings and natural affection, and other good causes of her 1/4 share of the Hampsted property to be sent to London to be registered – gave directions for preparing a paper to be signed by my aunt releasing the estate from the £1200 to which it is subject under my grand father’s and aunt Martha’s will – returned up the old bank and got home at 9 3/4 – breakfast at 10 – stayed down talking to Marian till 12 1/4 – 

Her expectation is from Miss Duffin of three or four thousand pounds and her further chance from Miss Mosey of Beverly thinks she may get between the two as much as eight thousand pounds. Hopes to clear Skelfler has always had these prepossessions particularly of late. Mr Inman behaves as ill to his own family as to his wife. His brother Roger in partnership with him married a Lincolnshire farmers daughter. Marian told Mrs Roger in reply to Mr Inmans expecting that if we did not marry, his children would be provided for. That if she, Marian, died they would get nothing but if she was rich enough she would give the youngest her goddaughter a thousand pounds and Sarah five hundred and always take care that Mrs Inman was comfortable. Fears Mr Inman will spend all he can. Pitys Mrs Inman for this and if she can will make her an allowance of necessary if my father died. Had thought of living at Beverley with Mrs Brown and Miss Mosey, I said it would throw her into a different line from mine but if she got her eight thousand pounds it was well but Miss Mosey a year or two older than I and Marian might wait all her life – but it was a respectable place to be at and I was satisfied Marian thought I should not like it or she was getting accustomed to the people here and should like to live here but then she might not marry as I liked for instance, I should not like to marry Mr John Priestley no, of course I should not, and said I, there is a double awkwardness. It would be calculated that she should come in for the estate at my death so as she remained unmarried it was a different thing but if she married, the person should be told that they could have nothing to do with it but explained that my uncles motive was quite a conscientious one and had nothing to do with the unworthiness of anyone – should be glad if Marian did not marry for if she married to please me I should of course be sorry for her children who would be my nearest of kin not to inherit – if she did not marry it would be different – oh, said she, I could not promise not to marry that would be enough to make me wish it I don’t know what I shall do I should not think it right to marry as long as my father lived but afterwards I should wish to have a comfortable home and has no idea of ever marrying to please me. Should not like to live with my aunt and me or, as I understood, with me only. Had been used to be independent could not bear constraint should not like to be in Paris for long my society so different from hers I said if she would like to live here abouts why not say. Here there would be servants in the house and only one condition that of not having the Inmans no objection to Miss Button but to have as few Weighton people as possible, the fewer the better. Oh no, that was the thing she could not bear constraint else if she had four or five hundred a year and could have an open carriage would pay me rent and stay here as for that said I, it is all nothing I should not want rent I am only afraid of your marrying all in a hurry people might be glad to marry your apparent expectations and I should wish you to try whether you could not like a different rank in life. All I ask is this, try first you know nothing of the world as yet have no experience only see a little first promise me that if anything happens to my father you will stay quietly here and do nothing till you hear from in one way or other. You ought to come to Paris first and if you like not to be with my aunt and me you can have an apartment in the same house or near and be as independent as you choose. Perhaps you may like my friends better than you think. I want you not to be eaten up with ambition but a reasonable ambition is surely desirable ambition in any shape seemed not to her mind. Well said I, Marian, all I can say is there never surely were two people so nearly connected so, so totally unlike in every thing, we have not one idea in common surely it is a pity you know I never say more than this, however, I am better satisfied to have heard all you have told me than if you had kept it all as you intended to yourself. We need not perhaps say more on the subject we ‘have finished it off’ I hope you will get your eight thousand and that all will go well – Skelfler as we had observed before does not clear six hundred a year at which rates she will only have about two hundred and fifty per annum I said therefore that in this case she should live better with Miss Mosey than here. My father has paid off Mr Eden and got the money at four and a half percent of the trustees for Mr Clarke of Godmanham and Mr Jennings of York has the Skelfler paper – 

Came upstairs at 12 1/4 wrote the above of today which took me till 1 1/4 – at my letter drawer again – at 2 5/60 Mrs Henry Priestley and her nephew in law Mr Priestley Salisbury of Liverpool called and sat 1/2 hour – my father and sister at dinner did not come into the drawing room – 

From 2 35/60 to 6 1/2 looking over letters – dinner at 6 35/60 – from 8 to 9 1/2 again looking over letters – 

Read those from Mrs Milne (five of them) and my answers. What a correspondence. How she commits herself shocking, well I got off when and as I did. Does she keep and ever see my letters, what can she think why call me tuft hunter why say one syllable against me – 

Went down stairs for 35 minutes at 9 1/2 – came up again at 10 5/60 – Cordingley brought me up some silver and stayed talking 20 minutes – my father very poorly a little while before my return – looking very ill, and being very feeble – but now quite better again – all seems to go on pretty well – fine day -

Tuesday, 2 December 1828

5 3/4

11 5/60

Marian came last night about eleven and a half I pretended and only just after a minute or two said goodnight – drew the curtains round the bedfoot and washed this morning as usual – from 6 3/4 to 7 25/60 at Hoppus’s measurer – Marian got up and went into the kitchen chamber to dress soon after seven –

went out at 7 1/2 – Throp came almost immediately, and soon afterwards the 2 wallers – set the former to take up my father’s 6 Spanish nut trees at the bottom of the garden and the 2 latter to open and enlarge the sough that runs into the walk at the top of the upper brook Ing, and spoiled all the walk, and washed away all the ashes the other day – saw the nut trees all planted out on the upper brook Ing slope at the top along the walk, then set the garden to get up a large thorne (had had Nathan stubbing up part of the hedge between the Calf croft and upper brook Ing) and got home at 11 1/2 – breakfast at 11 3/4 – at 8 3/4 had set Mosey (his companion not come) to fell more firs in the Cunnery plantation – He gave me his drawing and explanation of cart-wheels – went out again at 12 1/4 – with Throp and the wallers till 1 1/2, then in the plantation with Mosey felling – felled 2 more sycamores in the clough – then again with the other men – till saw this thorn planted near the walk on the slope, at the top of upper brook Ing – had the little sledge, and 6 men (Throp and the 2 wallers Mosey James and John), to get it away – John back and forwards at Halifax 3 times today – brought a thousand oaks from William Keighley junior and went with Mr Robinson who left here this afternoon – James Smith not employed for me in the morning, but sledging a few stones for soughing in the afternoon – William Green brewing – 

came in at 5 1/2 – dressed – dinner at 6 5/60 – afterwards talking to Marian – I said I had been thinking much of Skelfler – would make her an offer I knew she would despise and refuse – but no matter I should feel satisfied to have made it once, and would make it no more to take all my father’s affairs all his property and allow her £400 a year for life – Marian said no! she would rather go to her grave – I told her she did not know what she was about – and all I had to say was, she had no assistance to expect from me – I should have my hands too full for that  – I did tell her, that I thought she would have nothing to live upon but the rents of my father’s 3 farms here and Hampstead, tho’ I did not exactly say I thought she would not have more than £140 or £150 per annum at the utmost – 

rather frosty this morning – fine day – highish wind towards night – wrote out Index from 9 to 15 October – Came upstairs at 10 1/2 –

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Spoilers for what happened after 1840

Just when I thought I couldn’t hate Sutherland even more I find this.

Elizabeth and Captain Sutherland took up residence at Shibden Hall with their children in 1844, after seemingly having Ann Walker removed and taken to an asylum in York.

https://museums.calderdale.gov.uk/famous-figures/ann-walker#:~:text=After%20Anne%20Lister%20died%2C%20Ann,1828%20and%20moved%20to%20Scotland.

Master-post: Anne Lister content on this blog.

During this past year I’ve been collection info, transcribing journal entries and answering questions about Anne Lister. I thought it was time to properly tag everything...

This is a “master-post” with everything that is currently on this blog about the real Anne Lister.

My tags are mostly organized by topic since a lot of the discussions we’ve had during this time are focused on meanings and interpretations rather than un-edited transcriptions of the journals. Journal entries will also have a chronological tagging system (by year).

Anne Lister & Ann Walker: • courtship (#AL and AW: courtship) • reunion (#AL and AW: reunion) • married life (#AL and AW: married life) • anniversary (#AL and AW: anniversary) • problems (#AL and AW: problems) • backgammon (#AL and AW: backgammon) • travelling (#AL and AW: travelling)

Anne Lister (specific topics): • appearance (#anne lister: appearance) • nature (#anne lister: nature) • family (#anne lister: family) • sexuality (#anne lister: sexuality) • sex life (#anne lister: sex life) • oral sex (#anne lister: oral sex) • STI (#anne lister: STI) • her father paying a female prostitute (#anne lister: her father paying a female prostitute) • Christmas 1834 (#anne lister: christmas 1834) • thermometer (#anne lister: thermometer) • tinderbox (#anne lister: tinderbox) • french (#anne lister: french) • “Fred” (#anne lister: fred) • “Gentleman Jack” (#anne lister: jack) • walker pit (#anne lister: walker pit) • tenants (#anne lister: tenants) • politics (#anne lister: politics) • rank (#anne lister: rank)

Anne’s journal: • code (#anne lister: code) • symbols (#anne lister: symbols) • plain hand (#anne lister: plain hand) • earliest journal (#anne lister: earliest journal)

Anne Lister (terminology): • “having a kiss” (#anne lister: having a kiss) • “queer” (#anne lister: queer) • “incurred a cross” (#anne lister: incurred a cross) • “going to Italy” (#anne lister: going to italy) • “grubbling” (#anne lister: grubbling) • “being near” (#anne lister: being near) • “monsieur” (#anne lister: monsieur) • “dinky” (#anne lister: dinky) • “a little play” (#anne lister: play)

Anne Lister &: • Eliza Raine (#anne lister: eliza raine) • Mariana Lawton (#AL and ML) • Miss Browne (#anne lister: miss browne) • Maria Barlow (#anne lister: maria barlow) • Princess Radziwil (#anne lister: princess radziwil) • Madame Galvani (#anne lister: madame galvani) • The Ladies of Llangollen (#anne lister: llangollen)

Ann Walker (specific topics): • appearance (#ann walker: appearance) • mental health (#ann walker: mental health) • eating disorder (#ann walker: eating disorder) • family (#ann walker: family) • birthday (#ann walker: birthday) • “Adney” (#ann walker: adney) • Ainsworth (#ann walker: ainsworth) • the tribe (#ann walker: the tribe) • Ann Walker’s diary (#ann walker: diary) • after Anne Lister’s death (#ann walker: after AL death)

people (general): • Anne Lister (#real people: anne lister) • Ann Walker (#real people: ann walker) • Marian Lister (#real people: marian lister) • Aunt Anne Lister (#real people: aunt anne lister) • Jeremy Lister (real people: jeremy lister) • Rebecca Lister (real people: rebecca lister) • Mariana Lawton (#real people: mariana lawton) • Dr. Stephen Belcombe (#real people: dr steph belcombe) • Aunt Ann Walker (#real people: aunt ann walker) • Cordingley (#anne lister: cordingley) • Sam Sowden (#real people: sam sowden) • George Pickles (#real people: george pickles) • John Booth (#real people: john booth) • George Playforth (#real people: george playforth)

places: • Shibden (#topic: shibden hall) • Crow Nest (#topic: crow nest) • Lidgate (#topic: lidgate) • Cliff Hill (#topic: cliff hill) • New House (#topic: new house)

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Monday 26 August 1839

[Quite a busy and pleasant day. Ann starts it with producing a quality sketch of Uppsala castle, before joining her wife for a book-browsing session at the university library, where Anne really gets stuck into exhaustive (and exhausting) descriptions of the architecture and shelving, with a view to implementing some of that back at Shibden (sigh). Another visit to the cathedral provides snippets of Swedish history, followed by a trip out to the Old Uppsala, the capital of pre-Christian Sweden. Unbelievably, Anne completely misses the grave of Anders Celsius in the church there, which could have inspired her to get herself a few more thermometers with a scale she hasn’t used yet. What an opportunity missed! But they get to enjoy some first-rate secret-recipe mead and another beautiful sunset.]

[up at] 6 50/”

[to bed at] 12 40/”

fine morning Fahrenheit 61º and sun out at 7 1/2 – breakfast at 8 20/”  to 9 – Ann sketching the chateau from our room window – left her to finish (to colour) her sketch a little and I off to the library at 9 10/”  sent for Ann at 9 40/” ‘Catalogue general de la litterature Française contenant les ouvrages publiés en France, ……. pendant l’ année 1837 …. avec table systématique pour les ouvrages imprimés en 1837 et les Journaux de 1838. publié par la Librairie Brockhaus et Avenarius. 1ere première année. 3 francs Paris, Brockhaus and Avenarius, Libraire Française- -allemande et etrangère. Rue Richelieu, no 60.  Leipzig, même maison. They refer to la Bibliographie de Monsieur Beuchot and le Bulletin de Monsieur Cherbuliez – and Bibliographie d’Allemagne, paraissant à Leipzig the above lying on the table of professor Skraeder ancient history with Arabic books (published here) etc. etc. Had his pedigrees and papers pasted into book with whity brown paper leaves left about 1 1/2 inches broad – books about the breadth and twice the length of one common quarto i.e. narrow folio size

Laerebog i de romerske oldsager af S. B. Bugge rector ved cathedralskolen I Christiania. med fem steentryk. Christiania 1837. Trykt I R. Hviids Enkes Bogtrykkerie og paa keder Forlag af G. Hansen.

Beitrage zur genauern Kenntniss der ehstnischen Sprache. Neunzehntes heft. Pernau, beim herausgeber. Reval, bei Bornwasser. 1828.

Initia Homerica by Th. Burgess a.m. London 1820. printed by Dove – sold by R. Priestley – given to Upsala  by ‘Thomas Burgess episcopus Salisburiensis donatus 1837’

the Italian cabinet? made at Augsburg – very curious – Christina’s snuffgrater and box looking like 

a broadish knife the box at one end and the blade a grater on which the tobacco leaves were grated Real musk in a little lead box like a bit of a small animal bag or pouch       with short 1/4 inch long like bristles on it – Christinas small fusils to kill fleas –  Gustaf 3 died 1792 left chest about 3 feet 6 inches x 6 feet and about 2 feet 6 inches broad – and black leather covered box           to be opened in 1842. 2 of his drawings in Indian ink           dated the one a chateau 1763. (26 September 1763)           and a bridge and two towers one at each end or thereabouts of the bridge           dated ‘Gustaf fecit d[ie] 19 September 1763 Drotningholm  at the library till 11 1/4 – gave the man 32 skillngs banco a one rigs dollar note – content he then shewed us the new library – not yet finished tho’ some books put there on the ground floor – there at 11 25/”  new library bookcases au premièr 6 1/2 x 2 1/4 red books, handbook which is about 6 1/2 inches long height up to gallery = about 4 yards – pilasters between the cases – 3 red books wide i.e. about 6 1/2 inches x 3 = 19 1/2 to 20 inches Racking or shelf-grooves at every 2 inches –  about 2 inches left in front of the cases for hanging doors if wanted lock-up doors with wire net at the old library 5 or 6 feet high against the bottom shelves there will be book cases to front the pilasters Salle about 58 yards long and about 5 yards wide across from pilaster to pilaster – grand entrance in the middle 5 cases on each side the door and then 5 windows on each side beyond these 5 cases respectively – greenish – white veined or waved marble (like my specimen of the holy sepulchre at home) window seats about 2 feet 6 inches high from the floor – whole breadth of window including frame = about 5 feet 6 inches whole heighth including framing = about 10 feet up to bottom of gallery – glass 6 panes in heighth - panes about 17 or 18 inches x 10 and 4 panes in breadth i.e. 2 in each 1/2 opening with a spagnolette the whole heighth of the window – 3 yards and taken up by the partition down the middle which parts the whole floor into two similar book-galleries, a ballustred gallery running all round at about 13 feet high from the floor – the man said there was says there are 120,000 volumes – floor diamond flags size of those formerly in the hall at Shibden, of red-greenish porphyry (like the windowseats) – 2 rooms at each end of the book rooms and between these 2 rooms (at each end of the building) a spiral staircase to the top of the building, and leading also to an immense salle (over the library, i.e. au seconde) to be galleried all round above? with portico behind the pillars underneath the gallery? – alcove (is a sort of throne to be there or what?) at left end as one looks on the town this immense salle entered also in the middle by the great staircase as below – 2 flights of steps taking up a breadth of about 13 yards and a depth of about 16 yards in a projection towards the castle the opposite front looking exactly along a long straight road to Dannemora and old Upsala and on to the town, and a little to the left on the cathedral as now renewed since its being burnt in 1702 – (chateau, right, going up great stairs and looking towards the town) at the new library till 12 5/”  at the cathedral at 12 1/4 – the monument to the memory of Linnaeus is in a little side chapel (left, near the great west doors as one enters ‘Carolo a Linne’ | Botanicorum | principi |             amici et Discipuli | MDCCXCVII.’ the a = von = de = noble (e.g. Thomas a Beckett) above the inscription is a bronze head – side face – très ressemblant, by J[ohan] T[obias] Sergell ‘A[nno]: MDCCXCIV’ beautiful brown whitish green veined granite? from Elfdal north of Falun the marble of the window seats etc. at the new library comes from between Norköping and Nyköping – i.e. from the forest of Kolmorden (the comma over the en in Linne is to double the e) 

Linnaeus’s grand daughter died here (Updala) last spring and left to Ridder Bielca who married her sister a fortune that would keep ten cavaliers 10 horsemen i.e. ten men and ten horses and the terrain (but that depends upon the goodness of the land) that would maintain one horseman = 8-10,000 dollars banco purchase money, the terrain containing forest, fisheries etc. everything here counted by how much land will keep a man or horseman – the academy has as much (as the man said yesterday) as would keep a hundred men – and a terre to keep a man costs 4,000 to 5,000 dollars banco to buy it –  In buying land one ought ot have 6 to 8 percent for one’s money –  fine tomb from Rome in 1793 of archbishop Carolus Fridrik Mennander nat[us] 1712 ob[iit] 1786 formerly bishop of Åbo who translated the bible into Finnish – whole length of him, sitting, leaning on ‘Biblia Fennica’ – good likeness – 7 allegorical female figures all on a tablet under the figure of Religion carrying a large cross and leaning on an urn –  

chappel of Gustaf Wasa painted in fresco by

‘John: Gust: Sandberg pinxit 1831-1838’

Eric xiv and Jean iii sons of Gustaf Wasa and Charles ix his youngest son }

Left hand, on entering the chapel (behind the alter) the paintings are

over the pictures

arms      .  1st     Gustaf on horseback receiving the keys of Stockholm Riddarholm castle some years ago burnt down 

window .  2nd ____ on horseback (young) in a battle against the Danes

ditto    .  3rd _____ at Lubeck asking assistance – a Danish nobleman claiming him

ditto    .  4th   ______ at the peasants cottage in Dalecarlia with flail, entering the barn – a Dane seeking him

ditto    .  5th   _______ Haranguing the peasants in Dalecarlia

ditto    .  6th  _______ two bishops presenting him the 1st bible Eric 14 at his elbow who was again a boy, dressed in red

arms      . 7th ________ taking leave of the deputies, died soon after

 1 and 4 azure. 3 fold crowns (the arms of Sweden)

 2 and 3 azure. lion rampant or on 3 white wavy bands i.e. lakes (the arms of Gotheborg)

escutcheon of pretence arms of Gustaf Wasa

azure. a gold sheaf (gerb) called in Swedish vasa – supporters 2 lions or crowned proper

In the sacristie or room where they keep the 2 gold crowns lately taken respectively from the heads of Jean iii and his queen Catherine and some valuable gold cups etc. is the half length old wooden statue of the pagan God Thor – part of his left side gone and his right arm broken off from the elbow – gilded formerly – brought from old Upsala – many more old things all burnt with the cathedral in 1702 – this room is a sort of safe closet – safe from fire – 3 boxes of valuables put here as we should send plate to the bank for safety –            

Get at Stockholm, chez C. M. Carlson Roadbook of Sweden and Norway. 1830.  i.e. ‘Vägvisare’ Roadbook, bought a little one at Upsala.            for 12 skillings banco. –  came in at 3 3/4 – dinner at 3 55/” to 4 20/” – good – same as yesterday but herring-and-rice-and-potatoes-pudding with anchovy sauce instead of soup – off at 4 3/4 from Upsala alight at old Upsala at 5 1/4 – off to the tumuli close by the Dummer Cull judges’ hill first – then the 3 tumuli of Odin, Thor and Frea – all the 

very near together, and the      | cull, hill, collis. |      3 conical mounds very conspicuous all the way from Upsala – fine view from all especially from Frea because farthest from the church – quite close to Odin and impedes the view from him – good country about here –  more quite clear ground (clear of stones, boulders and rock) than we have seen elsewhere – therefore land valuable here – but no forest of two miles therefore wood dear – large extensive plain on all sides – merely a few bits on the Eastern side, that one can just see encumbered with stone to remind one of being still in Sweden – the church small – not worth going into but expected (disappointed) some to see there some funeral urns found in 1 of the tumuli – fine view of Upsala – its castle looks well from here – its 2 (there are only 2) round towers (North and Northeast corners) seen, and none of the ugly pediment side seen – the  2 cathedral-towers are seen as one – and the peasants’ church tower and one other church tower one seen in one line –  Beyond Frea’s tumulus a little range of hill and the foot of this and of the tumulus itself towards the village and Upsala studed with little hillocks – on the other side the tumulus and range of hill is a little    lake – Ann is sketching the church – she did the castle very nicely this morning – Old Upsala pretty little picturesque gardeny village –  a peep at the little River – a minute or 2 in the old church – nothing worth seeing in it – back at the house to drink our bottle of mead at 6 5/”  excellent – good as champagne – how to make it is a secret – heirloom secret – 24 Rigs skillings per bottle – a pink mead at 48 skillings but she has none at present – off again at 6 25/”  in 20 minutes a little rock and boulder and Sweden again – excellent road charming evening – beautiful sunset – Hogsta should be Uggelsta single house – poor little place – could not sleep there – next stage . . . Andersby . . . 2 1/8 miles – nice open country – sowing rye and reaping it –  at Dannemora no! Ӧsterby near Dannemora, at 11 5/” –  we had to call the people up – very fine day – Fahrenheit 62º now at midnight –  

Anne’s marginal notes:

Catalogue of French books Paris and Leipzig

§

Initia Homerica

Christina’s cabinet

New library

order such at Shibden?

vide bottom of next page

new library

salle au seconde

Kolmorden and Elfdal marble vide bottom of last page

manner of estimating property

bishop Mennander who translated the bible into Finnish

WYAS Catalogue:  SH:7/ML/TR/13/0009    SH:7/ML/TR/13/0010    SH:7/ML/TR/13/0011     SH:7/ML/TR/13/0012

One of the frescoes by Johan Gustaf Sandberg in Uppsala Cathedral showing the exploits of King Gustav I Vasa (Gustav Vasa Speaking to the Dalecarlians at Mora):

The three tumuli (the Royal Mounds) at Old Uppsala:

The church at Old Uppsala, which Ann sketched:

Interior of Carolina Rediviva, now the main building of Uppsala University library; a work in progress when Anne and Ann visited it and Anne described it so thoroughly:

1828 Monday 5 May

6 5/60 11 3/4

At my ledger - Mr. Samuel Washington came at 8 - brought the coal plan - 1 acre - 1 perch (=£203.14.4 1/2) got since 17 September last - obliged to go beyond Huddersfield, will be here again about 3 p.m. - at my ledger again and making out exactly what to receive and pay at midsummer - about 10 boy brought the Northgate house lease the rough draft and a note from Mr. Adam (Mr. Parker's partner) with 1 written to him (Mr. A- [Adam]) begging me to fill up the lease for 9 years instead of 8, as Mr. S- [Scatcherd] meant to be a good tenant - wrote the word eight, and signed the lease, sending the following answer to Mr. A-'s [Adam's] note

'Sir - I have executed the lease, - and leave it to Mr. Briggs to settle the matter respecting Thomas Greenwood, as he may think fit - I am, sir, etc. etc. A Lister Shibden hall. Monday 5 May 1828.'

The matter respecting Thomas G- [Greenwood] is, that he should pay the 1/2 year's rent due at Whitsuntide for the land to Mr. Scatcherd! Mr. S- [Scatcherd] enters at candlemas, and wants to receive the preceeding 1/2 years rent! If I was out of the way to want Mr. S-'s [Scatcherd's] first 1/2 year's rent to be due this Whitsuntide, surely he is still more so now -

Breakfast at 10 1/2 to 10 40/60 then wrote the above of today - and wrote the copy of a letter to Mr. B- [Briggs] respecting the rents etc. of the farms I would have raised from next Whitsuntide 12 month - William Keighleys son James, the cardmaker, came between 12 and 1 - has bought building ground of Mr. Kershaw close up to Northgate house came to ask if the walls belonged to me - yes! certainly the low wall, I bought and paid for it - as for the other think not - not certain - my father would know - speaking of my buying the whole of that building ground, James K- [Keighley] thought I should have bought it - yes! said I, but Mr. K- [Kershaw] asked too much - and when he afterwards came down to what I said I might have given, it was too late - said I did not expect this sort of thing from a gentleman - Mr. Kershaw had told James Keighley that he understood I took offence at his lowering his price - but 'I had a way of my own' - I smiled - did not take offence, said I, but determined to have nothing to do with the ground - James Keighley sat talking above 1/2 hour - says he himself when he has once fixed his price, never flinches from it - means to build a decent house for himself to live in besides card-shop under the same roof - will lay out £500. this will do very well, now that building is so low -

Went out at 2 10/60 - cutting up all the poplars (suckers of strong 2 years growth) in the Lower brook-Ing wood till - then came home to Mr. Washington - went to the Cunnery - thinks building a farm-house and barn etc. may be done for £400, and then may let it with 30 dayworks for £70 per annum - allows 5 percent for the money laid out in building - Hardcastles well worth £45 a year, but not £50 now when farming produce is so low - South-holm not worth more than £100 per annum! Pump with 30 dayworks worth £70 a year - should value our meadow land below the house at double the land above the house - Charged cottages to the farmer 1/2 what they let for -

Got home at 7 20/60 - dinner at 7 1/2 - much heated with cutting up the poplars that were smothering the young oaks - lay on the sofa after dinner and slept till 10 - then wrote the last 7 lines, and went to my room at 10 25/60 - very fine day - shall keep and consider about the copy of letter to Mr. Briggs -

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/10/0156

17 & 18 November 1828

Monday 17 November 1828

5¾

11 25/60

From 6 40/60 to 8 read from page 30 – 42 of the Brief History of Christ Hospital and wrote the whole of the above today – Breakfast at 8 20/60 – off to Halifax at 8 50/60 down the old bank to Mr Briggs – said I had seen Holt, and what I had said to him – Mr Briggs thought I had better give away the coals - getting them would be expensive – must have an engine – did not think they would pay – giving them away would not, said it was my present mind to get them at all rates – Mr Briggs said he would see Holt, and go with him to plan the ground, Mr Briggs shewed me an oak-root round table made at Brighhouse priced £20 – one not so handsome sold to Mr Stead for £25 - About 20 minutes there – then sat 25 minutes with Mrs Veitch (poorly in a bad cold), then at 9 ¾ got to Savile hill –the breakfast things not removed Mrs and 2 Miss Wilcocks – Miss Pickford much better for the baths of St Gervais, to spend the winter at Roma – to write there poste restante – Mrs Wilcocks going to write to her today – begged a little of her paper and wrote ⅓ of the first page small and close, hoping my letter to Genoa was received, giving my address in Paris – observing she could be complacent in writing full letters, all crossed, as I had just seen, to Mrs Wilcocks - to write to me before expecting to hear of or from me again – uncertain as to my stay here, but would not exceed 10 days or a fortnight – asked what beauties she most admired and what thought of this place and that – should not at this moment say of what use her information might be to me – thought that by hook and by crook, I should see her before the twelvemonth’s end –

 ½ hour at Savile hill –then went to Throps – not at home – could learn nothing – my job was but a small one – would think about it – Throp most likely to be at home between 12 and 2 – returned along the canal – the new lodge to Stonyroyde, nearly roofed gable-end, labells windows, little building expensively hewed – got home up the old bank at 12 – Letter from Mariana Scarbro’on my desk – 3 hurried pages 2½ pm yesterday, ‘great change – cannot last much longer – ‘the struggles are dreadfully severe, and it is indeed a trying scene to us all’ – Mariana sat up on Friday night, but says she bore it well – ‘as to myself, have no fears on my account – I am honestly and in truth the best of the set’ would ‘like me to write something more than a mere statement that life was no more ….to appear in the York paper ……..’some little tribute to his merits would be gratifying to us all’ will write tomorrow (ie today) if any thing happens – if not on Tuesday (ie tomorrow) – offers to bring my father cod, sounds as she passes through – Had just begun to write when (at 12 20/60) Miss Hudson of Hipperholme called for ½ an hour – going to send off a parcel from Whitleys tomorrow by the van in 3 or 4 days to Miss MacLean if I had any letter to send Whitley would enclose it in time tomorrow afternoon – said I was much obliged etc etc but a very bad correspondent abomined letter-writing only said what I had to say – did not believe I could make up my mind to write – thought I, no, I wont send in her parcel, I do not understand all this, they shall have it to themselves  Miss Hudson Miss Maclean had asked many questions about the place – it was not very beautiful country and she had said so – I abused the house – said much wanted doing at it – it was a doghole of a place as I always told people – I certainly never said much in its favour  -

Came upstairs again at 12 50/60 – from 1 to 3, wrote 3 pages to Mariana including the following ‘as to the request that I should write something more than a common obituary notice, be it remembered Mary, that I am not an advocate  for long paragraphs of this kind in newspapers, and, above all, that it is Steph, not I who can do this best – when I am serious, you know my repugnance to speak or write strongly in praise or dispraise – all that I need add is, that, were my own father in the circumstances of yours, and I heard I persuaded myself to write any thing more than a mere ‘announcement of the death, it would probably be something like the following’ –

‘Died on ------- at his house in Scarborough, in the ----- year of his age, after a long and ‘severe illness, William Belcombe Esquire, ---- years a resident physician in this city ‘where his talent soon established him at the head of his profession, where by his mild ‘and gentlemany manners, and active and useful benevolence, he was soon and lastingly endeared to all who knew him well – He was eminently successful in his practice which ‘was very extensive  ‘to the last of his professional career, he devoted a considerable ‘portion of every day to his numerous poor and‘gratis patients; and it does not fall to the ‘lot of every one to be more sincerely lamented, or to leave behind him a good name ‘better deserved – But Mary, do you not think, it would be best for Steph to draw up a ‘proper memoir to be inserted in the Genteman’s Magazine?  To do this, no-one is better fitted than your brother – As a professional man, he might give a brief and comprehensive sketch which, in doing credit to his father, might reflect some credit upon himself – your father’s practice which laid the foundation-stone ‘of his reputation in York, was, at that time new in England?  His services in the navy, experience in the ‘West Indies, studies and intimacies with the man of letters on the continent, mild treatment of insanity cases,‘not to forget (if thought proper) descent from an old and respectable Lancashire family, and his marriage with‘whom, - might, if well handled by his son, do some dutiful honour, and some practical good – give‘my best regards to Steph, and tell him so – Then write the following to Mr Birmingham ‘Shibden hall Monday 17 November‘1828 – Sir – Being domiciliated in Paris, I wish to take over with me, on my return, a small box of plate viz ‘1 tea-pot, a couple of dozen folks, dozen spoons, cream jug and sugar, - basin, snuffers and tray, and a couple of ‘waiters – I know, some particular permit is required for this from the French chef de douanes – I shall be much obliged to‘you to take the earliest opportunity of giving me all necessary information on this subject, direct to Mrs Lister,‘Shibden hall, Halifax, Yorkshire – on my arrival at Dover, I will pay you any expense that may have been ‘incurred on my account – I am, Sir etc etc A Lister’ – all which took me till 5 – then skimming over again Cronhelms Book-keeping – dressed – dined at 6 25/60 – at 7 sent off to the post by John, my letter to Mariana ‘Doctor Belcombe’s Scarborough’ and to Mr John Birmingham, Commissioner, Old Ship Hotel, Dover, Post paid’  then Sat talking till after 9 – wrote the last 3 lines – went up to bed ay 10 5/60 – very fine day not so damp and thick as these last few days – rather inclined to be a little frosty – reading the rules in Hutton’s Book-keeping, till 10 ¾

Tuesday 18 November 1828

5 50/60

11 10/60

Read the 1st 45 lines Saturday 2  I went out at 7½ - went to Cowgate wood – took the wallers from walling and stayed there to right the set started against the wood in Pearson’s great brow – stayed with them and did not get home till 10¼ - sent John to make holes for planting in Pump Lane – find on my desk letter from Mariana Scarbro’, 11 hurried lines dated yesterday 17th instant ‘at 5 minutes before 1 today my precious father breathed his last without a groan, tho’ from 11 yesterday to the same hour at night his sufferings were very severe, after that he became calm and composed until 5 this morning, when difficulty of breathing returned and continued till within a few minutes of his death - Steph was with us - my mother at this minute bears ‘up tolerably, and we all do our best – I will write again in a day or 2 – God bless you – always yours Mariana’ –Will she get my letter of yesterday today? What will she think of what I wrote to announce Dr Belcombe’s death? It will seem cold, praiseless, spiritless, heartless – how different our feelings!  Her expression precious father –shocks me – dear father – or simply father - It smites me best to think of those I love when gone as if they were still here – I never yet could say my poor uncle and Mr Sunderland’s exclamation on first seeing him a corpse ‘poor thing!’ shocked me more than I could describe -  Letter also from Isabella Norcliffe, Langton, they had heard a bad account of Dr Belcombe’ think it will be a happy release but I dread the effect it will produce upon Mariana, whose nerves are little able to bear such a shock – I fear there is no chance of our meeting at Lawton, as of course she will not leave Scarbro’ just at present’ – they leave Langton for Bath on the 2nd of December -

1839 August Monday 26

Got up 6 50/..Went to bed 12 40/..

Fine morning F 61º and sun out at 7 ½ – breakfast at 8 20/..  to 9 – Adney sketching the chateau from our room window – left her to finish (to colour) her sketch a little and I off to the library at 9 10/..  sent for Adney at 9 40/..

‘Catalogue general de la litterature Française contenant les ouvrages publiés en France, ……. pendant l’ année 1837 …. avec table systématique pour les ouvrages imprimés en 1837 et les Journaux de 1838. publié par la Librairie Brockhaus et Avenarius. 1ere année. 3 fr. Paris, Brockhaus and Avenarius, Libraire Française- -allemande et etrangère. Rue Richelieu, no 60.  Leipzig, même maison.

They refer to la Bibliographie de Monsieur Beuchot and le Bulletin de Monsieur Cherbuliez – and Bibliographie d’Allemagne, paraissant à Leipzig

The above lying on the table of professor Skræder ancient history with Arabic books (published here) etc. etc. Had his pedigrees and papers pasted into book with whity brown paper leaves left about 1 ½ inches broad – books about the breadth and twice the length of one common 4to i.e. narrow folio size

Lærebog i de romerske oldsager af S. B. Bugge rector ved cathedralskolen i Christiania. med fem steentryk. Christiania 1837. Trykt i R. Hviids Enkes Bogtrykkerie og paa hendes Forlag af G. Hansen.

Beitrage zur genauern Kenntniss der ehstnischen Sprache. Neunzehntes heft. Pernau, beim herausgeber. Reval, bei Bornwasser. 1828.

Initia Homerica by Th. Burgess a.m. London 1820. printed by Dove – sold by R. Priestley – given to Upsala  by ‘Thomas Burgess episcopus Salisburiensis donatus 1837’

The Italian cabinet? made at Augsburg – very curious – Christina’s snuffgrater and box looking like

a broadish knife the box at one end and the blade a grater on which the tobacco leaves were grated

Real musk in a little lead box like a bit of a small animal bag or pouch with short ¼ inch long like bristles on it –

Christinas small fusils to kill fleas –  

Gustaf 3 died 1792 left chest about 3 feet 6 inches x 6 feet and about 2 feet 6 inches broad – and black leather covered box to be opened in 1842. 2 of his drawings in Indian ink dated the one a chateau 1763. (26 September 1763) and a bridge and two towers one at each end or thereabouts of the bridge dated ‘Gustaf fecit d[ie] 19 September 1763 Drotningholm  

At the library till 11 ¼ – gave the man 32 sk. banco a one rigs dol. note – content, he then shewed us the new library – not yet finished tho’ some books put there on the ground floor – there at 11 25/..  new library bookcases au premièr 6 ½ x 2 ¼ red books, handbook which is about 6 ½ inches long height up to gallery = about 4 yards – pilasters between the cases – 3 red books wide i.e. about 6 ½ inches x 3 = 19 ½ to 20 inches

Racking or shelf-grooves at every 2 inches –  about 2 inches left in front of the cases for hanging doors if wanted lock-up doors with wire net at the old library 5 or 6 feet high against the bottom shelves

There will be book cases to front the pilasters

Salle about 58 yards long and about 5 yards wide across from pilaster to pilaster – grand entrance in the middle 5 cases on each side the door and then 5 windows on each side beyond these 5 cases respectively – greenish – white veined or waved marble (like my specimen of the holy sepulchre at home) window seats about 2 feet 6 inches high from the floor –

whole breadth of window including frame = about 5 feet 6 inches

whole heighth including framing = about 10 feet up to bottom of gallery –

Glass 6 panes in heighth - panes about 17 or 18 inches x 10 and 4 panes in breadth i.e. 2 in each ½ opening with a spagnolette the whole heighth of the window – 3 yards and taken up by the partition down the middle which parts the whole floor into two similar book-galleries, a ballustred gallery running all round at about 13 feet high from the floor – the man said there was says there are 120,000 volumes – floor diamond flags size of those formerly in the hall at Shibden, of red-greenish porphyry (like the windowseats) – 2 rooms at each end of the book rooms and between these 2 rooms (at each end of the building) a spiral staircase to the top of the building, and leading also to an immense salle (over the library, i.e. au 2nde) to be galleried all round above? with portico behind the pillars underneath the gallery? – alcove (is a sort of throne to be there or what?) at left end as one looks on the town this immense salle entered also in the middle by the great staircase as below – 2 flights of steps taking up a breadth of about 13 yards and a depth of about 16 yards in a projection towards the castle the opposite front looking exactly along a long straight road to Dannemora and old Upsala and on to the town, and a little to the left on the cathedral as now renewed since its being burnt in 1702 – (chateau, right, going up great stairs and looking towards the town) at the new library till 12 5/..  

At the cathedral at 12 ¼ – the monument to the memory of Linne’ is in a little side chapel (left) near the great west doors as one enters

‘Carolo a Linne’ | Botanicorum | principi |

amici et Discipuli | MDCCXCVIII.’

the a = von = de = noble (e.g. Thomas a Beckett)

Above the inscription is a bronze head – side face – très ressemblant, by J.T. Sergell ‘anno: MDCCXCIV’ beautiful brown whitish green veined granite? from Elfdal north of Falun the marble of the window seats etc. at the new library comes from between Norköping and Nyköping – i.e. from the forest of Kolmorden

(the comma over the e in Linne is to double the e) 

Linne’s grand daughter died here (Upsala) last spring and left to Ridder Bielca who married her sister a fortune that would keep ten cavaliers 10 horsemen i.e. ten men and ten horses and the terrain (but that depends upon the goodness of the land) that would maintain one horseman = 8-10,000 dollars banco purchase money, the terrain containing forest, fisheries etc.

Everything here counted by how much land will keep a man or horseman – the academy has as much (as the man said yesterday) as would keep a hundred men – and a terre to keep a man costs 4,000 to 5,000 dollars banco to buy it –  In buying land one ought to have 6 to 8 p.c. for one’s money –  

Fine tomb from Rome in 1793 of archbishop Carolus Frid. Mennander nat. 1712 ob. 1786 formerly bishop of Åbo who translated the bible into Finnish – whole length of him, sitting, leaning on ‘Biblia Fennica’ – good likeness – 7 allegorical female figures all on a tablet under the figure of Religion carrying a large cross and leaning on an urn –  

chappel of Gustaf Wasa painted in fresco by ‘John: Gust: Sandberg pinxit 1831-1838’

Eric xiv and Jean iii sons of Gustaf Wasa and Charles ix his youngest son

Left hand, on entering the chapel (behind the alter) the paintings are

over the pictures

arms      .       1st     Gustaf on horseback receiving the keys of Stockholm Riddarholm castle

some years ago burnt down 

window .       2d ____ on horseback (young) in a battle against the Danes

ditto      .       3d _____ at Lubeck asking assistance – a Danish nobleman claiming him

ditto      .       4th   ______ at the peasants cottage in Dalecarlia with flail, entering the barn – a

Dane seeking him

ditto      .       5th   _______ Haranguing the peasants in Dalecarlia

ditto      .       6th  _______ two bishops presenting him the 1st bible Eric 14 at his elbow who

was again a boy, dressed in red

arms      .       7th ________ taking leave of the deputies, died soon after

1 and 4 azure. 3 fold crowns (the arms of Sweden) 2 and 3 azure. lion rampant or on 3 white wavy bands i.e. lakes (the arms of Gotheborg)

escutcheon of pretence arms of Gustaf Wasa azure. a gold sheaf (gerb) called in Swedish vasa – supporters 2 lions or crowned proper

In the sacristie or room where they keep the 2 gold crowns lately taken respectively from the heads of Jean iii and his queen Catherine and some valuable gold cups etc. is the half length old wooden statue of the pagan god Thor – part of his left side gone and his right arm broken off from the elbow – gilded formerly – brought from old Upsala – many more old things all burnt with the cathedral in 1702 – this room is a sort of safe closet – safe from fire – 3 boxes of valuables put here as we should send plate to the bank for safety –            

Get at Stockholm, chez C.M. Carlson 

Roadbook of Sweden and Norway. 1830. 

i.e. ‘Vägvisare’ Roadbook, bought a little one at Upsala.            

for 12 sk. banco. –  

Came in at 3 ¾ – dinner at 3 55/.. to 4 20/.. – good – same as yesterday but herring-and-rice-and-potatoes-pudding with anchovy sauce instead of soup – off at 4 ¾ from Upsala alight at old Upsala at 5 ¼ – off to the tumuli close by the Dommera Cull, judges’ hill first – then the 3 tumuli of Odin, Thor and Frea – all the very near together, and the (cull, hill, collis.) 3 conical mounds very conspicuous all the way from Upsala – fine view from all especially from Frea because farthest from the church – quite close to Odin and impedes the view from him –

Good country about here –  more quite clear ground (clear of stones, boulders and rock) than we have seen elsewhere – therefore land valuable here – but no forest of two miles therefore wood dear – large extensive plain on all sides – merely a few bits on the Eastern side, that one can just see encumbered with stone to remind one of being still in Sweden – the church small – not worth going into but expected (disappointed) some to see there some funeral urns found in 1 of the tumuli – fine view of Upsala – its castle looks well from here – its 2 (there are only 2) round towers (North and Northeast corners) seen, and none of the ugly pediment side seen – the  2 cathedral-towers are seen as one – and the peasants’ church tower and one other church tower are seen in one line –  

Beyond Frea’s tumulus a little range of hill and the foot of this and of the tumulus itself towards the village and Upsala studded with little hillocks – on the other side the tumulus and range of hill is a little lake – Adney is sketching the church – she did the castle very nicely this morning – Old Upsala pretty little picturesque gardeny village –  a peep at the little river – a minute or 2 in the old church – nothing worth seeing in it – back at the house to drink our bottle of mead at 6 5/..  excellent – good as champagne – how to make it is a secret – heirloom secret – 24 Rigs sk. per bottle – a pink mead at 48 sk. but she has none at present –

Off again at 6 25/..  in 20 minutes a little rock and boulder and Sweden again – excellent road charming evening – beautiful sunset – Hogsta should be Uggelsta single house – poor little place – could not sleep there – next stage … Andersby … 2 1/8 miles – nice open country – sowing rye and reaping it –  at Dannemora no! Ӧsterby near Dannemora, at 11 5/.. –  we had to call the people up – very fine day – F 62º now at midnight –  

In margin:                         Catalogue of French books Paris and Leipzig

 Initia Homerica

 Christina’s cabinet

 New library

 order such at Shibden?

 vide bottom of next page

 new library

 salle au seconde

 Kolmorden and Elfdal marble vide bottom of last page

 manner of estimating property

 bishop Mennander who translated the bible into Finnish

Sunday 26 August 1832

7 5

11

finish morning (rain recently) and F62° at 7 10 - breakfast with Marian - came to my room at 9 40 - from ten to eleven and twenty minutes wrote copies of letter to my landlord in Paris and to Hammersley and to Doctor Beclombe – went down to my aunt at 11 ½ - poorly

vid. p. 212.

again – amused her by talking of altering the house – better idea than what seemed to me the best on Thursday – to enter by the lower buttery and turn the upper kitchen into cook kitchen – my aunts’ present bedroom into back kitchen Hemingways’ room into butlers’ pantry – hall into dining room – upper butteries into servants hall or housekeepers’ room – present kitchen into drawing room – and make the kitchen court by walling up between present coach house and cow house and barn end and of the house – at 12 5 read the morning service sermon 7 Mr. Knight in exactly 50 minutes, as I generally do – then looking about – true the house is not worth much altering – should do little or pull it down at once – came upstairs at 2 ¼ - sometime asleep – then making out work-account with Pickles and writing the above of today till 4 – such perpetual showers have not been out – sometime in the library - till 5 ¾ wrote the following 2 2/3 pages to Dr B- ‘Shibden Hall Sunday 26 August 1832 – At last, my dear Steph, my patience is in the wane, and I really must ask for a little of your physicking - after the wonders you did for Grantham, no sick of bowels needs despair - I cannot tell what is the matter with mine; but for the last 4 or 5 years, they have been more or less tiresomely obstinate - Dr Tupper have me medicines and tonics in Paris, tho’ never for any good beyond the moment - I was better for the vegetable system (began at the end of 1828) till its goof effect seemed worn out last winter; and I have been omnivorous ever since April without being sensible of its making any difference whatever - the soft, relaxing air of Hastings did not quite agree with me, and I have never since had any sufficient or proper alvine evacuations - some 6 or 7 little rounds lumps per day (some days nothing at all) in size more like those of sheep than anything else, tho’ well enough as to colour and for the last 7 or 8 months, I have had a feeling of weight or stiffness, sometimes amounting to pain, at the bottom of my back, particularly on blending it inwards, as if the lumbar vertebrae might be this put in too close contact with something which ought not to be there - almost any kind of medicine (from my so seldom taking any) acts promptly and well; and, for a day or 2 afterwards, I feel relieved, but then all returns to its former state. I feel a regular inclination, every morning to the right; yet it always ends unsatisfactory - I am perpetually well in every other respect, and can in no way account for this intestinal obstinacy - I have had no sick headaches, as formerly, since it began, and one morning last October (not having taken medicine) found that I had parted with, to all appearance, a large garden-worm, but rather thinner, and flatter and paler - I eat, and sleep well, and am out all the day - perhaps I drink too much water or liquid of some sort, from being often thirsty during the day, and always so in an evening - on applying much to reading or writing I am soon either or powered with sleep, or, on keeping awake with difficulty, have a sensation of fulness [fullness] in my head and ringing in my ears. If you can make anything of all this, do pray tell me what I had best do - I have perhaps too little confidence in medical man in general, but faith enough in you to move mountains - I have nothing of news kind to tell you worth my trouble of writing, much more yours of reading - no cholera at Halifax as yet, but we are thinking of making preparations, as it is within 7 or 8 miles of us, tho’ little or nothing is said of it - Mariana tells me, they really are to be off for London on Wednesday, and talk of going to Brighton and Hastings, before their return. I suppose Mrs Milne and the Norcliffes are expected back about the end of this week, or beginning of next - I see there will be no getting off from here on this side of Xmas and I shall therefore hope to see you before I go. Do tell Harriet this, with my kindest regards to her, and to you all - my aunt begs her compliments - very faithfully  yours. AL’ – wrote out this copy just before and after dinner till six and fifty minutes – dinner at 6 10 – sent off at 7 my letter to ‘Dr. Belcombe, York’ – read ½ a dozen pages of the Reliquiae diluvianae to p. 74 then my aunt came and no more reading till skimmed over the courier – went into the little room at 9 ½ - came to my room at 10 – rainy day – F60° at 10 p.m.

1828 Dec., Sun. 28

6

11 1/2

At my desk at 7 1/2 – Wrote the few lines across the margin of page 220. Looking for an old Manchester Observer in which is a paragraph on the rights of women.

Take up (at 8) my letter written last Sunday to Miss McL– [MacLean] mentioning expecting M– [Mariana] for a couple of days and my promise to return with her for a fortnight or 3 weeks about the 31st. Then obliged to come back here for a few days, that it would be the end of January before I should be in London – Surely she would then be ready to return with me –

“I see that you are still, and that enough remains for Paris, and for me? Todo – For me! What can I do? Is it much, or little? ‘How little you still understand me’ – I lament over your thinking so, because perhaps every atom subtracted from your faith in my knowledge of you, may proportionally lessen my power to do you good – We know the efficiency of faith in working wonders – and I, perhaps, in spite of your scepticism, know you yourself better than you think – It is even possible, that I know you not less well than some whose penetration may seem to have more ‘in it of the intuitive and extraordinary’ – At all rates, may I not ask, did you know me well enough to guess, that I should muse over some parts of your last with deeper feelings of regret, then maybe trusted to my pen – There is more in the manner of doing a thing, than we are some times aware –

‘It is visible the fright some of your friends are in . . . . . . . Set your mind at ease, and you of your friends, you may depend on they need not dream even of a possibility of your being obliged to infringe on the liberties of’ – . . . . What was their feeling, Sibbella, when you wrote the above, and the much more connected with it? Perhaps I understand you sufficiently well to guess better than you imagine – At least, I am tempted to venture on asking you, if you understand me well enough for it once to have occurred to you, as your pen was writing on relentless, what would be the impression of pain or pleasure, that it would leave upon my mind –

If there was one single word in my last letter, with which you could, or did find fault, – If there was, at unawares, one single term of expression which might seem wanting in that high consideration which has never ceased to be associated with every sentiment I have ever felt towards you, – I can in no way account for it – Surely, surely Sibella, you do not quite understand me – 1st I mean not to pother you in any way – All I mean is, that I felt your manner of writing less gently considerate than usual, and that you will, in no case, find me less easy of persuasion, than in days of yore – I shall be delighted to see you, in the hope that I can then convince you better than now, that not only you need not ‘repent,’ but need not ‘feel a little vexed that I was so selfish as to accept your most kind invitation’ – ....

‘I would not on any account permit Cameron to come near me’ – I trust, you will soon see, that there is no necessity to carry caution so far as this – You will probably prefer McD– [MacDonald]; and I should therefore offer her to you, as I should offer you anything and everything in my power that I thought would please you best – In fact, Sibbella, my regard for you is a regard which makes me ever anxious for your comfort and happiness; – and to see you happy will probably make me as happy as I am capable of being under my present circumstances –

God grant that I may see you restored to health, in the possession of every blessing that a reasonable person can desire! I do not much like your account of the nervous attack you mention, but trust you will have no repetition of it –

There is one subject on the settling of which so satisfactory to yourself and others I heartily congratulate you – It is not that I do ‘not choose’ to enlarge upon it, but, simply, that I know of nothing to say, that will not be better said, when we meet – Surely we shall cross the water together; for surely, you will be ‘dismissed’ by the end of next month, tho’ the having ‘bile and cough still to send adrift’ makes me not sanguine” –

Then on page 3 little chit chat, answers to the different, other parts of her letter – Sorry for the bad accounts from Han Dieman’s land, etc. etc. Should like to be in the same house with her – Independent of the pleasure of her society “it would save me nearly 1/2 – I should not keep myself and Cameron under 2 guineas a day” –

“ . . . Have you been at Richmond Park? Poor Vere! May she have chosen well; and may she speedily be happy to her heart’s content! But checkered are the paths of life and love; and, after all, ‘tis but to all a vale of shadows in which we walk – Who would be immortal here? None, None, Sibbella, who have felt, and thought, and passed the age of thirty-five! How often those who seemed happiest have sighed in secret, and longed to flee away, and be at rest! But good night! I am beginning to prose – ‘Twere better far to nod’” –

Breakfast at 9 – Meant to have gone to Lightcliffe church, but it began to rain at a few minutes before 10, and no likelihood of fine weather so staid at home – My father went to church in spite of the rain – Staid talking to Marian about his queer temper throwing away of prospects, etc.

At 11 40/60 Marian and I read aloud the whole of the morning service in about 38 minutes – Then staid talking a while and came upstairs at 12 3/4 – Wrote 9 lines small and close at the bottom of page 3 of my letter to Miss McL– [MacLean], and 14 lines on the ends dated today – Her not hearing from me not owing to forgetfulness – Waited as she would – Of course conclude, to tell her something tolerably certain of my plans – Still unable to fix – Had scarcely written the first 3 pages when all was upset – M– [Mariana] prevented coming and I prevented going –

“Know nothing beyond the improbability of my being able to get off from here before the middle of next month, and that I shall avoid the necessity of returning if possible . . . . . . . . . If you understand me at all, you will be quite sure, that neither yourself nor your last letter has been long unthought of –

You have been daily with me in mind, and under graver circumstances of moody musing then you may have dreamed of – For every idle word that you have ever heard me utter, and for every written word that, faithless to my heart and to my intention, may have ever caused you any feeling of vexation, I entreat your forgiveness –

I, at least, ought not to be the one to add in any way to your annoyance or uneasiness; and we will try if it be not possible to make you forget all that it would be doing me a kindness to forget and to remember only what may give me a lasting claim to your good opinion and regard – I hope you will have no reason to repent trusting yourself across the water – But tho’, as you tell me, ‘the idlest of the idle,’ write me one cheering line or 2 as soon as you can, and believe me always your very affectionate friend AL– [Anne Lister]”

Till two and twenty minutes writing the last thirteen lines and what I wrote to Miss MacL[ean]. What will she answer? She does not quite expect all this perhaps. Has thought me huffy. I have treated her with too little romantic loverlike attention of late. Too much as if I had got all I wanted. Can I be more on P’s and Q’s when we next meet? I must try and then we shall doubtless do admirably. One does not like the not being able to get a thing, but otherwise I have had enough of particular intercourse with her –

Sent off by Jno [John] at 2 35/60 my letter to “Miss Maclean of Coll Mrs. W. Reid’s, 13 Nottingham Terrace or Road, London” – From 2 40/60 to 5 50/60 at my accounts – Dressed – Dinner at 6 20/60 –

My father read aloud sermon 6 volume 1 South – I knew little about it, being asleep sitting on the sofa almost all the time – Did not rouse up till 10 – Came upstairs to bed at 10 20/60 damp rainy day from 10 a.m. – Fahrenheit 52º in my room at 10 20/60 p.m. –

Read the following pamphlet lent me on Xmas [Christmas] day by the William Priestleys –

“Evangelical preaching, (commonly so denominated ∴ therefore) its character : errors : and tendency : in a letter to the right reverend the Cardinal bishop of Bath and wells: by the reverend Richard Warner, F.A.S. Honorary member of the Imperial Cæsar Society of natural history moscow; and of the Dutch society of sciences, Harlaem; and Rector of Great Chalfield, Wilts, and of Croscombe, Somerset. Ea si vera sunt, ingenuè ingenii mei tarditatem, qui mon assequor; certè sciens non reluctor veritati, et ex animo faveo libertati vere evangelicæ, et detestor quicquid adversatur evangelio. Eras. de lib. arbit. 3rd edition London : printed for C & J Rivington, St. Paul’s churchyard, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, 1828 price 2 /. [shillings]” London : printed by R. Gilbert, St. John’s square.” 8vo [octavo] 6 prefatory pp pages and 31 pp pages of the letter itself

[sideways in margin] Borrowe]d of Mrs. W[illiam] P– [Priestley] Thursday 25 December. Returned Monday 29 December. Reading this pamphlet (good) and writing out its title page as above took me till 10 50/60.

1828 Weds. 3 September (2/2)

Letters, Letters Letters...

Letter from M- [Mariana] (Lawton) - in the hope of seeing me, has given up the York festival - a good excuse - after all, it now seems, that Mr. John Lawton will not sign the resettlement of the estate giving M- [Mariana] a jointure of £500 without C- [Charles] will settling £400 on Mrs. John L- [Lawton] - He should have said this before, and not given ‘an unequivocal consent’, and let all this expense be unnecessarily incurred - of course, Mr. C. L- [Charles Lawton] and M- [Mariana] are much annoyed - she seems to have got a bad bowel complaint, and to be not therefore well, tho’ much better of her other complaints - the shortbread arrived and said to be very good thanks to Miss McL- [MacLean] gives Miss Pattison a bracelet value £15 - can let me have money if I want it

Breakfast at 12 10/60 - stayed talking a little to Marian - nothing to thank my father for but sending me to Mr. Knight  Lived like a cock farmer at Skelfler and therefore cannot bear it  My mother was unhappy with my father  Few so good and honorable people have made so many unhappy and so few happy as my father to which Marian cordially agreed   She has before said she would not marry a man of his temper  she should be wretched - came to my room at 1 10/60 - wrote the above of today

From 2 20/60 to 5 wrote 3pp. the ends and the 1st page nearly all crossed to Mrs. B- [Barlow] - mention that circumstances have occurred since writing last, that I fear will detain me longer than I expected - can she wait for me till the middle or perhaps the end of next month? and if I cannot go then suppose they and Miss McL- [MacLean] go without me - beg to hear, if but a line or 2, as soon as possible - will arrange with Miss McL- [MacLean] who has some visits to pay, according to what I hear from Mrs. B- [Barlow] - I should like to spend a day or 2 with the Marshes who will then be in residence at Salisbury and Winchester in my way from Salisbury - in which case, a bed at Mrs. S. Barlow’s would be a godsend - I should gladly accept it, and trust to Mrs. B- [Barlow] to say all that was proper for me till I could speak for myself

It will be best to go the shortest way back to Paris - too late for a détour - must leave what we wish to see till we can see it more leisurely, seasonably, and agreeably - should be sorry if I thought we had had our last tour together - should like to see Stonehenge now before Mrs. B- [Barlow] settles in the neighborhood but to leave the Isle of Wight and 1 or 2 other islands till some other time we must spend a quiet comfortable winter in Paris, and hope we shall all be the better for the taste we have had of open [native?] air - kind mention of Jane conclude with god bless you Maria absent or with I am alike and always your very faithful and affectionate friend AL

Wrote 1 page to Miss McL- [MacLean] quoting what I had written to Mrs. B- [Barlow] relative to the journey - Read over and sent off at 6, by John my letter to “Mrs. F Barlow, Mrs. Thistlethwaite’s, Lyndhurst, Hampshire” Had just written Mrs. B- [Barlow] the F foisted in afterwards - Dressed - dinner at 6 40/60 - afterwards wrote the last 14 lines - very fine while I was out very soon after coming in small rain came on and from about 1 p.m. rainy, or very showery afternoon and evening - came upstairs at 10 - Let the single trees be planted 8 yards distance - Five fine sycamores at this distance at upper brea -

Thursday 21 August 1828

6 1/2

11 20/60

Taking inventory of letters – looking over the Northgate papers – breakfast at 10 20/60 – 

Another motion having had a little one before dressing – 

Came upstairs at 11 1/4 – 9 or 10 lines of note to Mrs Henry P- [Priestly] ‘my dear Mary’ etc. etc. merely to say I got home on Friday evening could not just now fix any day for hoping to find her at home, but merely wrote to inquire after them all, and hoped to have a line or 2 to say how they all were as soon as she had time and inclination – ‘my kind remembrances to the Edwards’s’ just as I had done this (about 11 1/2) Mr William Priestley called for near 1/2 hour – would have stayed longer but my father and Marian just setting off to Halifax Mrs William P- [Priestley] may return from London next week – with the Walkers with their aunt – 

Set off myself to Halifax at 12 10/60 – forgot the abstract of the purchase feed of church land at Northgate so had to turn back and this delayed me 1/4 hour – down the old bank to Halifax, saw my father in the town – went with him to Whitley’s – go to Taylor’s to order tin box for papers – the man not at home – then put into the post office, my note to ‘Mrs Henry Priestley, Houghend Halifax’ then to Mr Parker’s – leave with him the reconveyance of Northgate (from the mortgages to my uncle Joseph in 1810 – the mortgage deed itself also wanted – My father must sign the deeds of sale of the church land to shew that he has accepted what my uncle Lister left him in lieu of the annually of £50 a year from my uncle Joseph changed on his property – my aunt therefore should sign away her right to the money she had on the estate in lieu of which my uncle left her the navigation etc. – the deed of gift of her share of the Hampsted property should be registered – Middlesex - 

From Mr Parker’s went to Throp’s the gardener’s removed to the other side the way- [bespoke] [holliers] – then went  to Stony Royde – sat with Mrs R- [Rawson] or walked in the garden with her 2 hours – asked from some little favourite tree or shrub from Stony Royde to be planted here in remembrance of Mrs R- [Rawson] she shewed me the fine large walnut tree she had sown in a walnut – of an excellent thin-skimmed sort – to sow 2 or 3 walnuts this year in a flower pot and give me them to plant out here – asked for the receipt of the ‘Yorkshire wonderful’ the famous emmenagogue – not at liberty to give it – bound by a promise – but would leave it to one of her daughters – a 1/2 [const] for me to have the receipt from this daughter – the thing so simple, if the people knew it, they would have no faith – 

Mr William Rawson (in his 80th year) not likely to live many days – worn away – weaker and weaker but no pain – then went and sat 1 1/2 hour with Mrs Catherine Rawson – her faculties seem not so clear as formerly – more prosy like an old woman – 

Then at 5 40/60 went to Mrs Veitch’s – she just gone out and Marian, who had dined with her, gone home – came up the old bank – must as I have done before (the other day when there) on planting the Bairstow – 

Got home at 6 20/60 – Dinner immediately – mention the planting Bairstow my father seems so have no objection – says to plant young oaks, 2 in a square yard – would not take much fencing (walling) off – from about 9 to 10 reading the last [no] gentlemans magazine – the death of the great sculptor the honourable Mrs –Damer – the chemical laboratory at Moscow the [richest] in Europe – fine day came to my room at 10 5/60 – wrote all but the 1st 4 1/2 lines of today which took me till 10 1/2 –

Monday, 1 December 1828

5 50/60

11 10/60

From 6 3/4 to 8 3/4 setting my pirouette Daybook and Cashbook and sealed and gave Cordingley for the post when John goes this morning to see if Mr Robinson be come my letter to ‘Miss Maclean of Coll ‘Honorable lady Stuart’,Whitehall, London’. – John took it at 9 – Looking into Hoppus’s measurer – Breeakfast at 91/4 with my father – staid down talking to him, and did not come upstairs till 10 3/4 – had been raining for 3/4 hour before or should have been gone out – then went downstiars again for Marian to mend my old pelisse a little – and staid while she turned up the hem of the white petticoat I had on – got measuring tape 2 roods or 42 feet long – fair at 11 3/4 and came upstairs – went almost immediately into the library for Hederic’s great lexicon and staid there reading 1 thing or other above an hour – then came to my own room and reading Turner’s Italian grammar till after 2 – 

went out at 2 1/4  – to the Cunnery plantation and stood there all the time and did not come in till 5 1/4 –Throp and the 2 wallers planting – finished tonight putting in 2100 oaks – James Smith off till after William Green leading away brash in the morning but preparing for brewing tomorrow this afternoon, and hardly got 2 loads away in the morning – John backwards and forwards at Halifax in the morning – clearing away this afternoon – James does little or nothing when I am not there – must break off tomorrow – John to go tomorrow morning for more trees to William Keighley – Throp’s not come yet – (Mosey and his man sawing up railing) – Mr Robinson had arrived just before I came in at 5 1/2 –

Dressed – dinner at 6 5/60 in the little breakfast room by myself – my father and sister and Mr R– (Robinson) in the drawing room – sat reading from page 332 to 392 Thompson’s Travels and adventures in South Africa – what I read was his account of the settlement of the English colony there, in Albany – his account interesting enough – But people should not emigrate for comfort’s sake – went into the drawing room at 8 20/60 and staid till they went to supper – spent a stupid hour – a restraint upon myself  and everybody else, then came up to my room – the title of the Skelfler freehold made good – the Copyhold a good holding title, but not a selling title – Strongly recommend its being made a selling title – the debt too heavy – spoke as if I thought it not likely to be lessened and however determined my sister might be at present not to sell, she might change her mind – better have the power to sell, cost what it would – there is a mistake in the admittance Weighton put for Skipton or vice versa, but if Mr Carr the steward rectifies this, still he must certify that Mr Buttle could not be tenant for life by courtesy and custom of the manor, as he put himself in to be – for if he was really tenant for life (Mr R– (Robinson) denies that he was or could be so) then the recovery suffered by Mrs Appleton on exchanging and selling to my father for £1900 and upwards was not good – she could not suffer a recovery in her father’s life time, and, in this case, the 1/2 of the copyhold (my mother and Mrs A– (Appleton) joint heiresses) in Mrs Inman’s –  but then a bill must be filed in Chancery shewing that my father paid this above valuable consideration and Mrs I– (Inman) would have to make my father’s title good – Marshall (who pays £184.10.0 per annum) if he does not pay better had better give up – He is the only one who cannot pay – Myers (who pays about £210 per annum) is a good tenant, and pays very punctually – estimate let at about £616 per annum – I see from Squibb’s particulars the outgoings paid by my father are £15.16.2 1/4   It was then let at 752.5.0 per annum and Wednesday 31 July that year (1822) my father gave me the reduced rents amounting to £653.15.0 per annum – and now Marian says it is about £616. per annum and Mr R– (Robinson) says times are such for farmers it is not cheap let tho’ not dear – does not seem to think it will bear an advance – this making out title and changing mortgage may be done says Mr R– (Robinson) – for not much more than £100 – supposed £200 – Mr R– (Robinson) as steward has £20 per annum – with repairs and 1 thing or another (to say nothing of title deed and mortgage expected) my father does not clear £50 per annum by this estimate – Yet I do not think Marian quite liked the manner in which I spoke of the debt being too great, and the little likelihood of lessening it – Mr R– (Robinson) said one thousand of the seven thousand now borrowed was fixed on the copyhold to be cleared off the 1st. opportunity – after all there are 218.2.37 acres roods perches at the will of the lord and tho’ the last admittance fines paid 28 years ago (dating from 1822) were only £22.1.6 (vide Squibb’s particulars) that is no reason why they should not be more in time to come – will they be less than (27 years rents an inheritance) £218? – 218.2.37 copyhold at the will of the lord – 178.3.37 copyhold fine certain at 5/6 1/2 – 322.2.16 (more or less) freehold – well for me, I have nothing to do with it – 

wrote all but the 1st. 8 lines of today which took me till 10 20/60 – Showery morning – raining a little at 2 1/4 p.m. but almost immediately fair, and fair the rest of the afternoon and evening – now that I am away, I hear my father talking below at a fine rate – and a laugh now and then and all are much better without me – Mr R– Robinson a very honest worthy man, no doubt – but a vulgar East Riding attorney; and I am little at my ease when downstairs with them – John Booth paid Throp’s bill this morning, and ordered 1000 more oaks of William Keighley Throp’s not being yet arrived from Beverley –

(SH:7/ML/E/11/0101)

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