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hi, a matchup for your event if that's alright !! gz grats on all ur followers hehe xoxo /p TvT <33 i hope it's fine i'm on anon T-T <3

i'd like both male & female, maybe ! my hobbies r gaming, stargazing, daydreaming, thinking, talking abt my passions, writing, reading... i like stars, philosophy, dawn, psychology, poems, cats, flowers... & i dislike hot weather, bitter foods, annoying ppl, injustices, + etc ! my love language is quality time/physical touch & my type is someone fun but pretty chill too! playful or at least lets me be playful, but feels like home and i can be myself w/ em! someone i can both have pun battles (or at peast be affectionate w/) and deep convos abt the world n whatnot ^^

im an infp n scorpio! passionate, deep, imaginative, curious, and i think a lot always—but i'm also rather energetic and funny! and when i speak, i speak loud unintentionally and im said to be sweet often ! wise, cheeky, pretty reserved, but also kind of chaotic ! a big thoughtful bundle of energy w a bit of anxiety >:O

a/n: YOU SEEM SUCH AN AMAZING PERSON OMG??? its absolutely fine if you choose to be on anon btw, idm!!

i pair you with… mona, kazuha and xiao !!

mona

stargazing? MONAMONAMONAAAA

mona loves talking about astrology and about the stars with you! shes absoloutely inlove with the fact you’re interested in this as well <33

she defs takes you to a cat cafe just to payback the love you’ve given her

mona takes you out on stargazing dates, she prepares your favorite food too! (dont worry, nothing bitter)

kazuha

this guy writes you the cutest poems about you ever

oh my gosh kazuha will hug you n all that!!

he tries his best to help you with your anxiety and calm you down

xiao

flowers? gotchu xiao often gives you them as an apology for not spending too much time with you

hes kind of akward with physical touch but once he trusts you more, mhm hes one clingy person

you never fail to see the small blush on xiao’s face whenever you say sweet things too him!

xiao lets you joke around and all that, he attempts to join you with the pun battles but miserably fails

he does laugh at your jokes alot tho! not really laugh- more of a chuckle? but he still laughs!

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skgway · 3 years

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1823 Aug., Wed. 20

11 1/2

Soon began on the erotics last night. Her warm, then [e]ncouraging. I said this was not like keeping our promise. She answered, ‘no’ and reached a towel to put under us to keep the bed clean on account of her cousin. I had retired too early for her. ‘Am I too soon for you?’ ‘Yes, rather,’ said she, and I resumed, determined she should have a sufficiently good kiss before I had had one. She said she had and we fell asleep.

Both awoke at five in the morning and talked till seven. Asked if this was not better than my sleeping in Micklegate. ‘Yes,’ but it was prudence # on her part. She had a feeling she could not describe. Would make any sacrifice rather than have our connection suspected. She seemed very affectionate and fond of me. Said I was her only comfort, she should be miserable without me.

Lou has got rather out of ∂ [Charles]’s good books she – Lou never got up to breakfast living with her uncle has given her very independent notions – He waited for her – Consulted her in everything – She told C– [Charles] one morning, she got up at the hour that suited her convenience – ∂ [Charles Lawton] has therefore been sadly out of his best humour this summer and π [Mariana] sadly fidgetted –

Told M– [Mariana] that she did not understand one 1/2 my letters, and misunderstood the other – That my aunt said (speaking of the regard between us), it was “much more on one side than the other”, – On my side then hers – Miss Pattison had blushed up to the sears, and told her at Manchester that ∂ [Charles Lawton] complained of her being cold and she wished she would try to be warmer when she returned. π [Mariana] said she and ∂ [Charles Lawton] very well knew the reason of that that she could not seem warm if she did not feel so.

π [Mariana] once sat next Miss Pattison’s uncle at dinner there and he said of her she looked like one who could love. I agreed, then reverting to ourselves, ‘this is adultery to all intents and purposes.’ ‘No, no,’ said she. ‘Oh yes, π [Mariana]. No casuistry can disguise it.’ ‘Not this then, but the other.’ ‘Well,’ said I, choosing to let the thing turn her own way. ‘I always considered your marriage legal prostitution. We were both wrong. You to do and I to consent to it. And when I think of blaming others, I always remember nothing can at all excuse us but our prior connection.’

I did not pursue the subject, nor did π [Mariana] seem to think much of it. The fear of discovery is strong. It rather increases I think. But her conscience seems seared, so long as concealment is secure. She said yesterday of Harriet, if she had never liked Milne I could have made more excuse for her. Thought I to myself, if none but those who were without sin threw the first stone.

Harriet, like the woman taken in adultery, might escape – Told her she needed not fear my conduct letting out our secret. I could deceive anyone. Then told her how completely I had duped Miss Pickford # and that the success of such deep deceit almost smote me, but I had done it all for her, π [Mariana]’s, sake. ‘Why should it smite you? ‘It is deceit that does no one any harm.’

I made no reply, but mused how sophistry might reign within the breast where none suspected it. How might not this argument best retched from one deceit to another. Mary, you have passion like the rest, but your caution cheats the world out of it. Scandal and your courage is weak, rather than your principal strong. Yet is it I who write this.

She’s true to me, yes, but she has not that magnanimity of truth that satisfies a haughty spirit like mine. She is too tamely, worldly, and worldliness is her strength and weakness her foible and her virtue. She loves me, I do believe her, as well as she is capable of loving. Yet her marriage was worldly, her whole conduct is worldly to the farthest verge that craven love can bear.

How often has it struck me that years ago when once talking to Lou about this marriage and the powerful circumstances that almost compelled it. ‘Well,’ said she, ‘you do not know π [Mariana]. She is worldly and the match was worldly altogether.’ This did indeed strike me at the time but it never struck me as it does at this moment – (Thursday 21 August 3 55/60 p.m. 1823) –

It now opens upon me as the key of all that all I have never yet been able to comprehend in her character. I have doubted her love, I have doubted her sincerity. How often with an almost bursting heart have I laid aside my papers and my musings because I dared not pursue inconsistencies I could not unravel. I could not deem the dial true, I would not deem it false. The time the manner of her marriage to sink January 1815 in oblivion. Oh how it broke the magic of my faith forever. How, spite of love, it burst the spell that bound my very reason suppliant at her feet. I loathed consent but loathed the easing more. I would have given the yes she sought, tho it had rent my heart into a hundred thousand shivers. It was enough to ask –

It was a coward love that dared not brave the storm; and, in desperate despair, my proud, indignant spirit watched it sculk away – How few the higher feelings we then could have in common! The chivalry of heart was gone – Hope’s brightest hues were brushed away – Yet still one melancholy point of union remained – She was unhappy. So was I –

Love scorned to leave the ruin desolate; and time she has shaded it so sweetly, my heart still lingers in its old abiding place, thoughtless of its broken bowers, save when some sudden guest blows thro’, and scrunching memory is disturbed – But oh! no more “the heart knoweth its own bitterness,” and it is enough – “Je sens mon coeur, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j’ai vus; j’ose croire n'être fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.” Rousseau's Confessions volume and page first.

She loves me. Tho it is neither exactly as I wished, nor as I too fondly persuaded myself. ‘Ere years had taught me to weigh human nature in the balance or unlock the loveliest of bosoms with the key of worldliness. Yes, she loves me. My own feelings shall descend to hers. They have done so in part. How I could have adored her had she been more of that angelic being my fancy formed her. No thought, no word, no look, had wandered then. Surely my every sentiment towards her had had less of earth in it than heaven –

How like “the visions of romantic youth”! I know she might have realized then – Je sens mon coeur – But no more – No more – I seem unable to return to the dry detail of a journal –

At seven an hour before getting up asked her to get out of bed and wash. We both did so. Then got into bed again and had a long quiet good kiss and then a comfortable nap. Got up at eight. I laughed and said we must really both of us get well as soon as we could. We owned she thought I was worse than she was, and said jokingly ‘do you forgive me for it?’ ‘Of course.’ I set her at ease on this point, but yet the characteristic difference between us always strikes me. I am sure I should even shew twice as much as she really feels –

Went downstairs at 8 1/2 – Breakfasted etc. etc. Sat next Mrs Milne. Had been very properly attentive to her. Asked π [Mariana] if she was satisfied etc. etc. Said I would act as she liked but I could not decidedly change my manners to Mrs. M[ilne] unless my real acquaintance with her conduct might be acknowledged. She has been foolish again in corresponding with her cousin, Mr. Dannett. This was the thing Eli [Eliza Belcombe] alluded to when I was last in York –

Took leave, and off from the B– [Belcombe]’s (Dr. B– [Belcombe] had had rather a restless night but was nevertheless no worse). As the minster clock struck 10 found the horses to the mail at the Tavern door, to start at 10 1/4 instead of 10 3/f as I supposed – Asked the coachman to wait a minute or 2, and hurried into Micklegate – Only just time to wish then good by, and say I should be passing thro’ again in a fortnight or 3 weeks to spend a fortnight with M– [Mariana] at Scarbro’ –

Did not see Mrs. Duffin this morning – Miss M– [Marsh] whispered last night, she had had a paralytic affectation about a fortnight ago, and had been almost gone – I perceived no difference in her as I saw her sitting round the table last night – She did not attempt to move, but this being unnecessary, did not strike me –

Got into the new mail, and drove off from the D– [Duffin]’s door at 10 1/2 – Only 1 gentleman besides myself – Beyond Tadcaster took up a nice decent elderly woman – I never uttered all the way – Wrapt in musing – Thought of π [Mariana] and the three steps business, then about my manners and appearance. Building castles about their improvement, elegance, engagingness, etc. etc. The good society I hope to get into, etc., etc.

Thought of consulting Mr. Simmons, the surgeon. George Streetman, Chester. π [Mariana] consulted him. He feared some uterary of or belonging to the womb. Determine yet might judge from the effect of Scarbro whether Steph was right in supposing it merely weakness. He had treated her judiciously. She ought to be examined, but would not submit –

At Leeds at 1 – Got out for 1/4 hour and off again (from the Rose & Crown) at 1 20/60 – Beautiful day till we got to the New Dolphin Clayton heights, and from there to the Pine-apple

H–x [Halifax], a smartish, sunshiny shower – Got out at the Pine apple at 3 40/60 – Fair and fine immediately –

Got home at 4 – Went into the stable for a moment – Caradoc had gone on well – Then went into the house, and sat talking to my uncle and aunt till 5 40/60 – Then dressed for dinner – My father and Marian called in the evening, and staid till after 8 – I was absolutely asleep almost all the time –

Came up to bed at 9, at which hour Barometer 1 1/2 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 60º – Put by my things – Read the 1st 13 pages volume 1 Rousseau Confessions –

A bowel complaint. Dawdling to stick the pot up the chimney to prevent smell. Could not manage it. All this hindered and kept me up. E [three dots, times treating venereal complaint] O [three dots, signifying much discharge] A great deal on my linen. Saw it when I washed thoroughly before dinner, first with water then alum lotion –

[in margin]

#Tuesday morning 26 August 1823 This is very well in its way, but she has more of it than love –

# Did not give the slightest hint of P[ickford]’s real character, nor does π [Mariana] at all suspect the truth. I merely said she was the most learned woman I knew and had therefore more penetration than the world in general – π [Mariana] thought she should feel under restraint before her –

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whatdoesshedotothem · 3 years

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Friday 13 February 1835: SH:7/ML/E/17/0162

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No kiss. rainy morning and F42° at 8 5 tho’ it had been fine before - Breakfast at 8 ¼ - then read from page 73 to 97 Philip on Indigestion - then moved my papers from the bureau drawers in the little dining room to the drawers (Marian let me have in exchange) in the Low kitchen chamber - then some while talking to Marian - then with A- and a minute or 2 with my aunt till 12 ¼ - then rain prevented my going out immediately after breakfast - Joseph Gill (whom Pickells went after yesterday) called to speak to me about 10 am but declined seeing him - had Throp’s son for a minute or 2 about whether the sycamores were right set out at the top of the bank - out at 12 25 - or rather Marian called me to consult me about her journey to Market Weghton. About Mrs Inman who it seems is now quite insane again and Sarah was miserable the last holidays at home but Mr Inman cannot live long and then all may be right told Marian she had best console Sarah as well as she could and let things quietly take their course. In talking and in one way or other all the morning frittered away - out at 1 ½ - the gardeners (Throp junior and 1 man) had planted the 5 more sycamores at the top of the bank - met Pickells the magistrates could not grant him a summons for the people on horseback who passed thro’ Whiskum bar on Wednesday without paying their penny a piece - it was a case at Common law - met Holt going to the drift - will come after dinner on Wednesday - sure I can stop the Spiggs colliery without hurting Walker pit - out with A- at 2 - down the old bank to Halifax - we went to Leylands to inquire about completing A-‘s set of Lodges’s portraits - then left A- at Whitely while I went to Mr Parker’s office - saw him on the subject of the hunters - desired him to consult with Mr Adams and do what was best against the people who passed thro’ the bar without paying - to write to each whom Pickells’ wife could swear to viz. Mr. Jeremiah Dyson, John Clark the huntsman, ---- Dawson of Halley Hill, John Peel the butcher and Mr. John Carr, Innkeeper, to say an action would be commenced against them if they did not pay the bar and the expense of Mr. Parker’s letter - then read sentence from Mrs. Sutherland’s last letter to A- respecting Pattersons’ s bond - he not prepared to pay it off - mentioned A-‘s intention to have a division of the property and pushing it forward and hope of completing it in 6 months - and meaning to employ some law man at a distance for fear of being thought to be favoured by Mr Parker - SW now busy about the valuation - Mr P- strongly for A-‘s getting the business done at home or there would be great expense and trouble in sending the deeds to a stranger - it might be done (the law part) for £150 - thought Pattersons’ bond had better stand over and be taken by whomsoever got the Baily hall estate - would divide the Halifax property - but not Golear - liked the plan of dividing partly according to contiguity to the entailed estates and partly by lot - thought the division would be for the welfare of both sides - 40 minutes with Mr P- then rejoined A- at Whitely’s - went to Miss Hebden’s about mechlin lace to know if some A-lately bought there was really mechlin - yes! bought by Miss Hebden in Paris for such - returned up the new bank home at 4 20 left A- in the house and from 4 ½ to 5 55 out with John Booth and Pickells setting out 4 more sycamores in John Oates’s field and 8 at the top of George R-‘s daisy bank - changed my dress - dinner at 6 20 - coffee - came upstairs at 8 5 and wrote all but the 1st 7 lines of today - Note from Mr Bradley to say he will be here at 10 am tomorrow - Marian’s young friend here so wished my father good night on our coming in from Halifax - got the first 18 fasciculi of Quain’s anatomy from Booths’ this morning - read the 1st fasciculus this evening then ½ hour with my aunt till 10 10 at which hour F46 ½° damp day - highish wind towards night and wind more or less all the day -

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then in 25 minutes wrote 2 pages to M- dated Saturday morning anxious about herself and poor Percy - taken with her - account of Easton and King’s Weston - her excursionizing admirable - A- much pleased with her (M-‘s) perspective will return the book with many thanks in 2 or 3 weeks - thanks to good Mrs Duff for the excellent short bread she put into my carriage on leaving Lawton - hope Martha has gone on well - ‘I write with considerable pain from a tight bandage and compress on my right wrist which I badly sprained about 10 days ago and was told I must not expect anything like a cure under a month - How are you yourself? I shall be very anxious for good tidings - Ever very affectionately and especially yours A.L.’ - had just written so far at 9 40 pm - 20 minutes with my aunt till 10 at which hour F45° - driving rain in the morning and haze and small rain from about 4 ½ for the rest of the afternoon and evening - pretty fair while A- and I were out.

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awhilesince · 3 years

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Tuesday, 19 February 1833

6 3/4

fineish tho’ dampish morning – Fahrenheit 47° at 6 3/4 (fine afterwards) and 36° at 8 a.m. outside my window – breakfast with my father at 8 – Charles H– (Howarth) wanted me, so out in 25 minutes at 8 25/.. – with Pickels – then in my walk –

home at 11 just as Washington came about the names of the fields for the plan – he thought the cart road and ashed foot way above John Bottomleys and along Far Bairstow would be done for a guinea a rood – i.e. Digging and forming (there would be 30 yards of stuff to shift) (per rood) 10/. Stoning 9 feet wide and 9 inches thick (would take one 2 horse cart load per square yard) 2/4. Carting 5/. Breaking stones (to be very well done equally well done at bottom as top) 3/6. footway to be left one foot high above the road and what was thus saved in digging would pay for the ashing – altogether = 20/10 – if walled on the low side, the walling must be a yard broad and would be 12/. per rood a yard high –

Mr Carter of Giles house sent over note to say he found his son had actually sold the the yew tree, and the carpenter demanded his bargain ‘I should not wish and I am sure you would not wish to do anything unhandsome to anyone’ – said I was surprised at the note and would write an answer – then with Charles and James Howarth fitting book cupboard doors in the library –

out at 2 with John getting up tangle and six good young oaks, and hyacinth roots in the way of the deep cutting in Trough of Bolland wood and planting out the latter behind the moss house, and the tangle on the walk slope above Calf Croft pit hill, and the oaks in the hedge row at the top of Trough of Bolland wood in Park farm wellfield till after 6 –

home at 6 1/4 – dinner at 6 1/2 – from 7 1/4 to 8 3/4 wrote and sent off one 1/2 sheet full and nearly one page of envelope to the ‘Honorable Lady Stuart, Whitehall’ under cover to ‘Captain Stuart M. P. Grenadier Guards, Whitehall, London’ in Lady S–‘s (Stuart’s) letter received yesterday but which I only just now opened and read – she still coughs a good deal – her principal object for writing was to tell me her nephew James Wortley had just called – was going the circuit, and should be in this neighbourhood before his return and and would pay his respects to me – very sensible of the services I had done him –Lady S– (Stuart) sure I should like him if I knew him – oh oh thought I there is no being off so I may as well take it with the best grace I can – wrote in substance as followed very good of her to write to me again – often thought of her but 1 thing or other perpetually put me off writing – had been a great deal from home lately – only just returned, and only just opened her letter of Friday last – herself my first concern – sorry to hear she still coughs a good deal – a great disappointment not to have seen her before this

‘but my aunt’s great desire to keep me a longer, and tiresome business of 1 sort or other have hitherto detained, and, I fear, will detain me some weeks longer, if not absolutely here, at least in Yorkshire – I am glad to hear Mr James Wortley is coming into our neighbourhood – he cannot do better; as I think his chances improve of coming in for borough on the 1st vacancy – I am quite sure, I should like him if I knew him; and I shall have great pleasure in making his acquaintance; but I regret exceedingly that it is at present so out of my power to shew him any useful attention – It would not be easy for him to overrate my good wishes; but he very very much overrates my services – I was annoyed and disappointed to find I could do so little for him; and our friends being so deceived surprised and disgusted me more than I like to acknowledge even to myself – Elections will become more and more mere popular squabbles – he who makes the greatest promises of innovation, will be the idol of the day – one thing will be tumbled down after another; and, in short, as to politics, I am just now in despair – when, indeed, did we ever see such a house of commons? Lord Stuart may well be miserable – to say nothing of Ireland, what must he think of Portugal’ –

Letter from Vere – would not surprise me if they staid over her confinement, or if we met in London in May –

‘my aunt has not been at all well of late; but she is very much better now …… Is Lady Stuart de Rothesay in London? She wrote me such a kind letter just before our election – I meant to have given her the 1st intelligence of Mr Wortley’s success – but it was all disappointment; and now I shall not write till my plans are more fixed – I hope the dear girls are well – I am always anxious to hear how you yourself are going on – Adieu, dearest Lady Stuart, and believe me very truly and affectionately yours A Lister’ –

then writing out journal of yesterday – went downstairs at 9 3/4 and came up again at 10 25/.. – then read the courier, and wrote out last 30 lines of journal of yesterday and the notes of today till 11 20/.. – fine day – fire in my room all the day – wild windy rainy night now at 11 3/4 p.m.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/16/0018, SH:7/ML/E/16/0019

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timehasbeenbusy · 4 years

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Paris

Monday 16 May 1831

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11 55/..

Fahrenheit 57º and fine morning at 6¾ - out at 8¼ - walked to the Muette gate of the Bois de B-Boulogne – read Le Temps back at 10¼ - dressed – breakfast – writing copy of note to Lady Stuart de Rothesay go go with the the isard skin and with a pair of tortoiseshell bracelets Monsieur Batiste Luys (rue neuve Mathurins nº 45) came to vérifier l’état du lieu that he gave me on my coming here – very civil little man. –

Wrote large sized half sheet note full to Vere, prêtty small and close – her letter of Friday did me a great deal of good – delighted at her being put upon the strengthening plan, some sign that her medical man thought all the diagnosted symptoms subdued ‘never mind being obiged to consider yours a little more ‘than usual – all your friends, too, will consider you a little more; and, after all, ‘there can be nothing displeasing in that – the anxiety we feel for a person is ‘often the means of commenting or confirming a sincere and lasting regard; and ‘the dearest blessings of our existence have often had your source in our ‘afflictions – you have, at least, added one to the circle of those you love; and,as

‘I fancy Mrs Knox a very nice person, I trust you will always have reason to look ‘back upon your illness at Barham Lodge with more pleasure than might have ‘seemed to you possible at the moment’ - thanks for all her information about ‘the Isle of Wight – when I last wrote way full of the thought of going back by ‘Havre, and leaving my aunt at Southampton to rest while I ran over the Isle of ‘Wight and went to the Lodge – now that plan laid aside and we go by Calais and London - can spend 2 or 3 days at the Lodge – delighted at the thought – Talk of Italy for next winter,but so uncertain dare not say much about it yet – have heard so much of the delightful air of Rome,long to go there even for breathings sake – mention dining in rue d’Angoulêine (nº 16) yesterday], ‘the happiest day I have spent since our journey ‘--------- my love to Lady Stuart ever very affectionately yours AL’

Wrote the following to Lady de Rothesay –‘my dear Lady Stuart I shall thank you very much to be so good as to take charge ‘of my note to Vere – I have slightly mentioned talking of Italy for next winter and of Rome in particular ‘Believe me my dear Lady Stuart very truly yours A Lister Monday 16 May’

Had just done letter and note at 4, and s[e]nt them off to ‘Miss Hobart’ encloseed with note to the ‘Lady Stuart de Rothesay’ at 4½ then the man from Berthelomots with more tortoise shell bracelets, and brought workbox for Marian people came to look at the apartment and my porter from rue St Victor nº 7 came for the key –

Then till dinner at 6 35/.. and afterwards from 8¾ to 9 20/.. wrote out except for the first 6 lines of page 112 the whole of pages 112, 113,114 and so far of this page – read Galignani as usual in the dining room and had Madame Hautecaum there and paid her her bill – coffee at 9 35/.. came to my room at 10/50.. at which hour Fahrenheit 60º and fine night and very fine day –

Tuesday 17 May 1831

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Fahrenheit 54½º at 6¼ and fine morning – fifty minutes lying in the bed how miserably foolish – from 8 10/.. to 10 50/.. (except ½ hour reading Le Temps and writing 2 or 3 lines to ‘Mrs Hamilton rue de Matiguon nº 10’ to ask if I may send the carriage for her at 2) Cataloguing my books – but did very few – I got on very slowly – determined to call instead of writing to Lady Stuart] de Rothesay] – breakfast at10 55/..

Note then arrived from Mrs Hamilton to say she was going to Madame Appony’s breakfast and would call before 2 – dressed – out at 1 10/.. to Laffittes now [Thire] Laffitte nº 36 – exchange 25/15 – got 2012-13 =1999 for £80 got 65/80 of Isabella Norcliffe’s debt, and desired the rest, 24/- to be placed on my account to the charge of her next dividend – home in about ½ hour in time for Mrs Hamilton who came at 1 50/.. for about ¼ hour

At 2½ out ag[ai]n – dr[ove] to L[ad]y St[uar]t’s ga[ve] h[e]r the Isard skin b[u]t said it would do itself no credit it by Lady Stuart’s leopard skin and I thought she had better give it me back again, in which case I should consider it as a cadeau of hers and value it – no! if I had no objection to its lying under Lord Stuart’s bureau (writing desk) she would keep it – then took out the two pair tortoise shell bracelets – I had waited said she in surprise – as if she evidently did not believe the evidence of her ears – I repeated what I had said –‘Well! I certainly never thought they were for me or perhaps for the smaller pair thinking the others too large for her when she tried them on before ‘What!’ I should have made a better fight’ - I said they had no real value and therefore

I should of course interpret my own way her thinking them worth accepting – she certainly seemed pleased at my attention I said I had thought of the bracelets ever since new years day and never had had more pleasure about getting anything – she afterwards shewed me her collection of bracelets saying she had never bought one one of them has a date on it ‘Oh’ said she ‘I was looking for them and shall have the paper and date and al’.l

She afterwards took a turn with me round the garden in fact tho it would be difficult to say positively she likes me I some how fancy she does – Lady Mexborough had written in my album some lines from Lord Byron – beautifully written out – praised the hand – Lady Stuart said Lady Mexborough did write very well – far the better of the family – ah! said I to Lady Stuart ‘but after all I really like your hand better than any one I ever saw’, I hoped she would write me at least a line or 2 – said I had kept one of her notes as a model of writing – Little Lou had done me a very nice little drawing, Charles and Lady Sarah Stuart to write me something. Lord Granville called for about 10 minutes a ¼ hour while I was there – took a box.

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veryfineday · 4 years

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Friday 28 May 1830

11 1/2

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off at 6 25/.. rain[e]d all the way, b[u]t my plaid cloaK on and did not get wet - a few minutes at my apartment and at the amphitheatre at 7 23/.. - Lecture 4 de mirbel from 7 35/.. to 8 50/.. - breakfast at home over at 9 35/.. - wrote 2 pp. of 1/2 sheet to miss mcL-MacLean and off to de Blainville’s 6th lecture at 10 20/.. - given today in the salle des mineraux where Brongniart monsieur G. St. Hilaire lecture, and on monsieur Brongniart’s days the hour changed from 10 1/2 to 11 - so that Mondays and Wednesdays it will be one sit from 9 Brongniart to 1 1/2 Saint H-[Hilaire] De Blainville Leçon 6 from 10 35/.. to 12 10/.. - G. St. Hilaire Leçon 3 from 12 1/2 to 1 1/4 -

hurried home - just got in before it began to rain pretty smartly - at my desk at 1 3/4 - wrote 1/2 sheet full to Lady Stuart - thanK you very very much for 2 last letters - she the only one upon whose account of miss mcL-[MacLean] I can depend - Vere, poor dear girl, cannot judge, and such is miss mcL-[MacLean]’s infatuation it is impossible to place any confidence in what she says of her health - I have long ceased to name the subject to her save in the most cautious manner Knowing how tremblingly alive she is to the least word that hints at her delusion - I see how it is - I dread this weaKness, and fear she will never be well enough to leave London - Lady S-[Stuart] read the greatest Kindness to us all in preventing her setting off - it would indeed have been madness perhaps Lady S-Stuart the only who deeply I grieve over the whole thong - I dwell upon all the circumstances till I am quite miserable - have said as much as I thought prudent to Vere - astonished at its having so little apparent effect - but now rejoice - it will save her much uneasiness -

mention having heard from Lady Gordon - perhaps we may one day set up another journey together but I have said nothing about it for the present as she seems determined to spend the summer at home and my plans are too uncertain to be named - I should liKe to go to the Pyrennes, and we talKed of it the other day at the Embassy - but I never thinK of travelling without being in despair at prince Leopold’s abdication ‘C’est un vrai malheur - not that I thought of going to Athens by the next Steamer - but I shall do nothing without telling ‘you for you I Know are always interested for me - so do not believe me gone or going anywhere ‘till you hear from my myself’ conclude with adieu I hope to have better and better accounts of you ever very af[f]ectionately yours A Lister -

wrote a full 1/2 sheet quicKly said I wrote in a hurry, true, to miss Hobart - style less grave - more familiar - more easy - less remote from flippant than usual - sent my love in return to your Chares - said I could call him nothing else - and this was long when one was in a hurry - how did she liKe Y.C.? mentioned having paid her bill at Batton’s yesterday and said I had enclosed it - however I afterwards found that I had in my hurry omitted to put it in -

wrote 2 1/2 pp. of 1/2 sheet very Kind to miss mcL-[MacLean] enclosed madame Galvani’s letter to miss H-[Hobart] and the letter to ‘miss Caton’ and ditto to ‘miss Glynn’ and my letter to ‘miss Hobart’ in an envelope, and my letter to ‘miss maclean’ in an envelope and after having read them all over put them with my letter to Lady S-[Stuart] in large envelope directed to the ‘Honourable Lady Stuart Whitehall’ and sent it off by george (who came at 4) at 4 40/.. tho the chief packet for Miss H[obart] directed it to lady S[tuart] thinking after a minute or twos consideration this would be the best

asKed miss H-[Hobart] to finish the direction of madame G-’s [Galvani’s] letters ‘miss Caton chez the marquis de wellesley and miss Glynn BerKeley Square - et voilà tout ce que je sais’ - wrote the last 28 lines which tooK me till 5 20/.. -

off at 5 3/4 - tooK fiacre from the Place Maubert - from there home in 20 minutes at 6 20/.. - dressed - dinner at 7 - read the paper - had the porter up - he had seen monsieur de Favière’s attorney who wants me to pay the 88/.[francs] contrbution directes, and deduct it out of the rent as I seem determined not to pay these contributions - told the porter to say I declined paying in advance or any way or having anything to do with the thing, and left it to him to explain now it is once as certified I have no bussiness to pay - said I was very well satisfied with what he had done and gave him 10/.francs for which he seemed really very much obliged -

came to my room at 8 55/.. - looKing over my money ect. - on coming home to dinner found my album come - no letter - Lady S-[Stuart] miss mcL-[MacLean] and miss Hobart and Lady Gordon have written in it - the 1st affectionate - the 2nd melancholy, the 3 very prettily selected the 4th made me laugh - poor miss mcL-[MacLean] it seems as if she thought she should not live long - they have sent the album because thay thinK she will never bring it? my heart ached to see it -

my aunt poorly today - sicKish all the day, and inclined to have spasms at dinner - Coffee at 9 1/2 - came bacK to my room at 10 25/.. at which hour F55 1/2 - fair but streets wet - several showers during the day - rained the whole way from home to the rue Saint V-[Victor] this morning, and then must have been a good deal of wet this evening - 1/2 hour reading Thomas’s practice of physic - articles Lepra and dropsy -

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14 Beautiful Love Letter Excerpts From Famous Folks Throughout History

It’s always nice to let your special someone know just how much you truly care about them. Obviously, how you say it varies from couple to couple, but there’s nothing quite like sending off a sweet message and knowing just how big a smile it will put on their face.

In today’s technology-dominated society, that’s come tomean typing out a text with carefully plotted emojis or perhaps going “old school” with a flowing email of affection.

While those are nice, there’s reallyno denying that theylack acertain charmthat so many romantic exchanges in the pasthad. That’s never more clear than in the beautiful words famous folks throughout history have strung together to let their loved ones knowexactly how they felt.

Of course we expect this sort of flowery language from renowned writers (some of which are includedbelow), butyou might be surprised by just how sweet some of the others were when it came to expressing what was in their heart.

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1. Ernest Hemingway To Marlene Dietrich

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“I can’t say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home. Nor too many things. But we were always cheerful and jokers together.”

The author and actresstraded lettersfor nearly three decades without ever getting their timing right for an actual romantic relationship.

2. Napoleon Bonaparte To Josphine de Beauharnais

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“Since I left you, I have been constantly depressed. My happiness is to be near you. Incessantly I live over in my memory your caresses, your tears, your affectionate solicitude. The charms of the incomparable Josphine kindle continually a burning and a glowing flame in my heart.”

Despite his affectionate words, the pair eventually split up when Napoleon sought a new wife to give him a male heir.

3. Richard Burton To Elizabeth Taylor

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“My blind eyes are desperately waiting for the sight of you. You dont realise of course, E.B., how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been, and how strangely you have acquired an added and special and dangerous loveliness.”

It clearly wasn’t just the headline writers who had a way with wordsthroughout this iconic couple’s bumpy relationship.

4. King Henry VIII To Anne Boleyn

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“I beg to know expressly your intention touching the love between us. Necessity compels me to obtain this answer, having been more than a year wounded by the dart of love, and not yet sure whether I shall fail or find a place in your affection.”

The king, who is notorious for walking down the aisle six times in his attempts to have a male heir, wrote this particularly moving note to his second wife while still married to his first.

5. Ludwig van Beethoven To “Immortal Beloved”

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“We shall probably soon meet, even today I cannot communicate my remarks to you, which during these days I made about my life were our hearts close together, I should probably not make any such remarks. My bosom is full, to tell you much there are moments when I find that speech is nothing at all. Brighten up remain my true and only treasure, my all, as I to you. The rest the gods must send, what must be for us and shall.”

Unfortunately, the composer’s “beloved” remains a mystery to this day.

6. Frida Kahlo To Diego Rivera

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“Diego, my love,

“Remember that once you finish the fresco we will be together forever once and for all, without arguments or anything, only to love one another.

“Behave yourself and do everything that Emmy Lou tells you.

“I adore you more than ever. Your girl, Frida

“(Write me)”

Frida sent this sweet letter to Diego while he was away painting a mural at City College in San Diego.

7. John Keats To Fanny Brawne

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“My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again my Life seems to stop there I see no further. You have absorbd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.”

The English poet was particularly inspired to write after falling for Fanny at first sight, butthey sadly never married due to her mother’s disapproval.

8. Abigail Adams To John Adams

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“Should I draw you the picture of my Heart, it would be what I hope you would Love; tho it contained nothing new; the early possession you obtained there; and the absolute power you have ever maintained over it; leaves not the smallest space unoccupied.

“I look back to the early days of our acquaintance; and Friendship, as to the days of Love and Innocence; and with an indescribable pleasure I have seen near a score of years roll over our Heads, with an affection heightened and improved by time nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the Image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my Heart.”

Abigail sent this to her “dearest friend” before heading across the ocean for a trip to Holland during John’s presidency.

9. Johnny Cash To June Carter Cash

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“We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other one wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.

“But once in a while, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. Youre the object of my desire, the #1 earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.”

These kind words were shared on June’s birthday in 1994, clearly proving the classic country pair’s love was the real deal.

10. Voltaire To Olympe Dunover

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“I am a prisoner here in the name of the King; they can take my life, but not the love that I feel for you. Yes, my adorable mistress, to-night I shall see you, and if I had to put my head on the block to do it.

“No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives. Adieu, there is nothing that I will not brave for your sake; you deserve much more than that. Adieu, my dear heart!”

TheCandide authorwrote this note for Olympe, who unfortunately doesn’t seem to have a portrait available,from behind the prison walls that her mother was able to cast him into out of disapproval. He eventually escaped.

11. Elizabeth Barrett Browning To Robert Browning

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“You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.”

It seems writing 44 sonnets for her husband wasn’t enough for Elizabeth, who also shared her affection in this moving letter.

12. Tsarina Alexandra To Tsar Nicholas II

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“Off you go again alone and it’s with a very heavy heart I part from you. No more kisses and tender caresses for ever so long I want to bury myself in you, hold you tight in my arms, make you feel the intense love of mine.

“You are my very life Sweetheart, and every separation gives such endless heartache… Goodbye my Angel, Husband of my heart I envy my flowers that will accompany you. I press you tightly to my breast, kiss every sweet place with tender love…”

There are several letters from the last empress of Russia, gushing with affection for her royal husband before their family suffered from the revolution.

13. Mark Twain To Olivia Langdon Clemens

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“Livy Darling, I am grateful grateful-er than ever before that you were born, & that your love is mine & our two lives woven & welded together!”

The humorous author kept his sentiments short, but still so sweet, in this note to his wife in 1888.

14. Winston Churchill To Clementine Churchill

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“My darling Clemmie,

“In your letter from Madras you wrote some words very dear to me, about my having enriched your life. I cannot tell you what pleasure this gave me, because I always feel so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love. What it has been to me to live all these years in your heart and companionship no phrases can convey.”

We don’t usually think of the legendary U.K. prime minister as the romantic type, but it’s really no surprise he hadthe same mastery when it came to words of love as he did with his stately speeches.

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Thursday, 11 February 1830

9 3/4

1 1/4

Dr Tupper called as he often does on my aunt at this time of morning – went in to thank him for his book – at 10 3/4 – He had just been telling my aunt that it was in the papers this morning that Lord Graves had cut his throat – my aunt shocked – said I had never mentioned the thing to her at all – should have been if it could have been hushed up – there were private circumstances which aggravated the case – Poor Lord G– (Graves)! at the time he was so ably but quietly advocating the duke’s cause to me at Aix la Chapelle and Brussels, the duke was heaping on him the deadliest injury! – But as Dr T– (Tupper) observed this will only make him more unpopular than ever – said it was odd I had not heard from Mrs Barlow – It seems she wrote to Mr Delisle from Nice – hoped to see Dr T– (Tupper) – some evening soon, saying he knew Captain and Mrs Droz – must ask them all –

breakfast over at 11 20/60 – wrote the above of today – read over my letter written last night to IN (Isabella Norcliffe) – chit chat – mentioned having received at Laffittes 287/. for her stays earrings and Mrs James Dalton’s veil – speak handsomely of the Poore’s – think him

“very gentlemanly and does not give me at all the idea of being guilty of intentional rudeness to anyone – there must have been some mistake about his not speaking to you in Bath – I certainly did happen to meet them at our ambassador’s; but as it happened to be at the ball, and not at one of the more private soirées, to all of which however, Lady S– (Stuart) de R– (Rothesay) had been good enough to invite me, I cannot fancy there was to be attributed to the men local of our meeting any such influence as you imagine – I think Lady P– (Poore) a very nice person –

she had been remarkably civil to me even tho I have not yet told her she was inquired about in a letter I had the other day from a person whose remembrance tho slight she would probably not dislike I mean Miss Hobart Miss MacLeans niece Lord Buckinghamshires ssister there is all the finery that I have written conclude with love to all

“and tell them I am determined that, by hook or by crook, I will not be forgotten” – …. good night my dearest Sibbella – Ever very faithfully and affectionately yours AL– Anne Lister”

speak of Mrs James Dalton 3 times and always in the letter as aunt Maria – at 12 5/60 off to Captain Hall’s – the honourable Captain de Rous there RN– (Royal Navy) and his friend Captain commander R.N. (Royal Navy), Langford – the former had been buying, Quai Voltaire he said between the Pont des Arts, and neuf, some little etchings which he believed to be Rembrandt’s – has 6 of them – had given 2 francs for one of them – they were worth 10/. a piece – he is collector – quite understands Rembrandt’s etchings – a thickish 8vo (octavo) published describing them all – both the 2 RN–s (Royal Navys) gentlemanly – they went away about 1 1/2 – I unluckily asked Captain H– (Hall) to sketch me as he had done Captain L– (Langford) sat 3 times without intermission from 1 40/60 to 2 1/2 for 3 miserable attempts no more like me than like Captain H– (Hall) himself – of course, I said all I could for them – that there was the character of myself etc. etc. tired of death of so wasting my time, but said it with good grace; for after the 1st attempt, he said he got quite into the thing and wished me to sit again –

home at 2 3/4 – wrote the last 8 lines – said I thought I should not go to the ball in fact I have no one to go with would not ask the Halls to go with them they would rather be entoures by Lady Hislop etc. than me and I should never think of the Halls but in dire necessity – I care not for the ball but shall be glad to have a companion by and by – 1/4 hour nap in my chair till 4 – my day, how wasted! Dressing – dawdling over 1 thing or other – Forest to have come at 4 3/4 – not come at 5, so sent for the coiffeur that live’s Monsieur Senés house place neuve de la Madeleine no 2 –

got to the Pringles (Hotel du Mont Blanc rue de la paix no 25) at 6 – a Mrs Alexander and Miss Hill there – by and by came the 2 Misses Pringle, then the bride and bridegroom Mr and Mrs P– Pringle – sat down and dinner (12) at 6 50/60 – 3 silver covered dishes each – only one soup I think, and at the bottom – this removed and soles top and a large “truite saumonée” salmon trout at the bottom – these were removed and nothing replaced them – the side dishes which had waited all this time were of course quite cold – there were petits patés, and lamb cotelettes, and a large standing pie like, looking paté called a volauvent, and a piled up in steps dish like a hash of calve’s head the large pieces of tongue forming a prominent part, and a mould of something like savoury jelly or brawn, and I did not see the other thing – Bordeaux, Sauterne, and champagne white and red – waited a long time after the fish was removed – the host and hostess not asking anybody to have anything and the servants not handing things round – at these was a partial attempt at the latter and Mr P– (Pringle) invited all to have volauvent the dish that was misplaced and brought to him to serve – waited for the 2nd course – Dindon aux Truffes top, a large dish full (6 or 8, woodcocks bottom – 2 jellies (reddish) and yellow à l’ordinaire) each side middle and all 4 corners vegetables – stewed celery, Brussels sprouts, Epinards, and something else – pommes de terre à la maître d’hotel for they were handing round and Mr P– (Pringle) ate them with his woodcock – at Dessert the 2 jellies removed – a cream top and ice bottom (but somehow before the ice came Mr P– (Pringle) had a Charlotte Russe of which I ate – not good –) – and apples and sweet biscuits and gateaux etc. for dessert – an expensive, cold, not good dinner – but everbody talked and played the agreeable and all went off well – Mrs P– (Pringle) tho’ sat inanimate – seeming to make no play neither as to conversation nor anything else – a fine woman with lately a heat in her face that appears to spoil beauty – she seems quiet, and amiable, but not to have much in her – it was about 9 when we left table – Mr and Mrs and the 2 Misses P– (Pringle), Captain and Mrs and Miss Hall, Mrs Alexander, Miss Hill and Lord St. Clare or Sinclair, and Mr Ogelvie Sir something Ogelvie’s son obliged to come home on leave of absence from India on account of his health and myself = 12 – a soirée after dinner – ladies to the amount of 24 or 25 and a few gentlemen altogether about 30 – filled the salon sufficiently – the P–s (Pringles) going tomorrow morning at 11 –expressed all civil regrets – talked to a Mrs Gowan, and Lord Sinclair, and the Halls, and much to Mr P– (Pringle) and his sister – their mother 2nd cousin to Lady Hardwick, and young Mrs P– (Pringle) cousin of some sort to Lady S– (Stuart) de R– (Rothesay) Mr P–‘s (Pringle’s) father that I used to know at Mr Duffin’s died in 1827 – his place 5 miles from Selkirk, 4 miles from Abbotsford and Sir Walter Scott – Mr P– (Pringle) hoped to see me there – would shew me all the lions – the Misses P– (Pringle) and their mother have bought a house 46 Charlotte square Edinborough and hope to see me – beg me to consider it a home they fancied me quite an old acquaintance – talked a little to Mrs P– Pringle at the end of the evening – seemingly a very quiet, good person – all the party came away about the same time – home at 11 –

note of invitation to dine at the embassy tomorrow – the servant who brought the note wanted an immediate answer, but impossible as I was gone out to dinner – wrote and sent George immediately with the following

“Miss Lister se fera l’honneur de diner chez l’ambassadeur d’angleterre et Lady Stuart de Rothesay vendredi prochain 12 Fevrier à six heures et demie”

directed “the Lady Stuart de Rothesay” –

sat talking to my aunt 1/2 hour and came to my room at 11 40/60 – spoke to Cameron about its being indispensable for me to have someone to dress my hair – should be glad if she could manage it and suit me – if not it would be no fault on her part as I was quite sure she always did the best she could –, and I was with Mrs Lawton and Mrs Belcombe and her family do the best I could to get her a place – the man thus waiting said she would require perhaps 15 less at 3/. each and 25 or 30 sols for a person of whose to make a block for practising on – she must consider whether she would be at this expense – of course, I could not pay for her learning her business, but would raise her wages if she could dress my hair, and suit me better –

thinking much of being asked to dine at the embassy thankful to god for all his blessings and praying that I might never on any occasion forget my gratitude to the author of all good my first impression was to kneel down and be thankful oh that I may always think first to thank god for all his blessings –

while dressing this afternoon came note from Mr Lindley enclosing letter 2 3/4 pages from Miss MacLean to introduce this Mr Lindley (Augustus Frederick)

“a very particular friend of my aunt Machan’s who has requested me to introduce Mr Lindley to you – he is grandson of the Lady Elizabeth Murray who was daughter to the duke of Athole, so that he is cousin to the present duke – my aunt mentions that he is intimately acquainted with president Polignac – and perhaps you can tell him the best mode of introduction to Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay but as my aunt also says he is going to Paris expressively to visit the Royal family – I should think his introduction sufficient – he will tell you how I look – I have not the pleasure of his acquaintance yesterday being the 1st day I ever saw him”

…..!!! I immediately wrote a note back by his servant to say I was sorry I was not at home yesterday but should be at home any time between 12 and 2 today and should be glad to see him – he said in his note he should be glad to call any Time I would appoint – his note dated “Hotel de Lille et d’Albion“ – after undressing sat musing a little – Dr T– (Tupper) said this morning Fahrenheit had been at 31° Fahrenheit out my window at 36 at 10 a.m. and about 31° I think on coming to my room tonight –

left margin: Miss MacL–‘s (Maclean’s) letter Saturday the 3rd instant ”Mrs Lawton sat for some time with me on Monday – I never saw her looking so well, so fat, and rosy – and the picture of happiness so cheerful – she talks of paying you a visit soon” !!!

(SH:7/ML/E/12/0162) (SH:7/ML/E/12/0163)

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Thursday 17 January 1833

8 20/..

11 35/..

N Vc U U LL L N Vc

sent off my note written last night but dated today to messers ParKer and adam solicitors Halifax

fine soft morning – Fahrenheit 50º (no fire) at 9 a.m. – Richard Ingham’s son came before I was up to see if I would take 40/.shillings a year for the pew – no! had said 50/.[shillings] and they must pay that or give it up – did not see him – sent Cordingley to settle it – they will Keep the pew – Breakfast at 9 20/.. with marian – some time with Charles H- [Howarth] doing my closet – just saw my aunt –

out at 10 1/2 – down my walK (some time talKing to John) to Lidgate at 11 1/2 – mr. Sunderland there – saw him alone – thinKs miss w-’s [Walker’s] bodily health better but there is some little excitement of mind – she had a wretched night last night and looKed miserably – said she talKed of going to YorK – lone tête à tête with her in her room – despairing as usual and I tried to cheer her as well as I could talked of going to York next week even on Monday – walKed an hour with the misses WalKer and Rawson along the Crownest approach road to the Huddersfield gate and bacK – 10 minutes with miss w- Walker in her room and then at 2 tooK my leave as they went in to dinner –

returned by the godley road – saw PicKels – | he had set out the Bairstow road – went with him to view it again – to lay down strong rag wheel-stones on each side would cost 8/.[shillings] a rood – bouldering between the wheelstone 2/6 a rood and forming the road 9 feet wide 2/6 a rood = 13/.[shillings] a rood, but then it would not want repairing for 6 or 8 years whatever stone carts went along it – Womersley had seen PicKles and said he could willingly pay 3d.[pence] a time for his cart to go along the road – the road would be much used – said I only hesitated whether to make it 5 yards wide at once (wide enough for 2 carts to pass) – 5 yards wide forming and bouldering 6 inch thicK would cost 24/.[shillings] a rood – a causeway (stones 3d.[pence] a yard) would be laid down and drained underneath at 2/6 a rood, and the low side of the road might be walled taKing the wall just below at 5/.[shillings] a rood = 31/6 a rood – |

saw Dodgson at the top of the hill – he wants the mistal altering and the house painting and maKing comfortable – down the Southowram bacK to mr. ParKers – gone to ashgrove – saw mr. Adam who did just as well as mr. P- [Parker] explained about coal lease – to have a clause to empower me to go into the upper bed worKs – mentioned Keighley’s window overlooKing my Northgate ground – to have an agreement drawn up and he to pay some small annual acKnowledgement for the window allowing my right to blocK the light when I close – thought I had better asK mrs. Ferguson to name a new trustee as I wished to give up the trust – if we joined in applying to Chancery there would be no difficulty in appointing a new trustee – Desired matthew Booth’s deeds to be examined to see if he could make good title to the cottage – the title deeds to me would cost £7 or £8 –

returned by the old bank home and then along my walK to Calf croft pit hill where John Booth and John PicKles had been (in the afternoon) planting large hazel and 2 thorns – and one thorn in the now Clump near the middle gate into my walK – home at 5 1/4 – with my aunt 1/4 hour – then with James H- [Howarth] at my closet – dinner at 6 1/2 – marian with me some time – my father cannot pay me till midsummer the £150 for my share of the Hampstead property –

then not choosing to tie myself down by the mention of any particular plan wrote another letter to Lady S [Stuart] my letter written last night to Lady S- [Stuart] would not do on account of the plan mentioned of leaving here the end of next month or beginning of march and going for a fortnight or 3 weeKs to the Lodge – so wrote a full 1/2 sheet and 1 page and ends of 1/2 sheet envelop and enclosed and sent off the whole at 9 1/4 to the ‘Honourable Lady Stuart Whitehall’ under cover to ‘messers Hammersleys and co. BanKers Pall mall London’ to whom I wrote on the 1//2 sheet covering Lady S-’s [Stuart’s] letter begging them to pay Boyd and son of 78 WelbecK street Cavendish square £2.2. on demand (for the coffee pot) and to put my enclosed letter into the 2 penny post –

thanKed Lady S- [Stuart] for her 2 last letters – had not had resolution to write before since the election never ‘so astonished and disappointed in my life; I have not yet got over it, cannot thinK of it with common patience’ ...... they say, that in the event of a vacancy, mr. James Wortley will come in – hope it but dare not depend much now – ‘It is quite clear that if we could not bring in mr. James w- [Wortley] whom everybody professes to liKe, we should have no chance at all with anybody else’ – a comfort to see her letter franKed by captain Stuart – congratulate both her and himself on his election – sending to Hammersleys so will desire them to put my letter into the 2 penny post – may I some times direct to Lady S- [Stuart] under cover to captain S- [Stuart] have really forgotten how to direct to Lord Goderich – Hammersleys will pay Boyd on demand – the coffee pot arrived on the last day of last year and answers beautifully –

had delayed writing to tell my plans – when I wrote to V- [Vere] 3 weeKs ago, counted upon being in London before end of this month and spending Easter at Rome – ‘but my aunt has been unwell again these last few days, and is so desirous for me not to go so far just now, that I have promised her to give up the thought for the present, and to stay here a little longer – In fact, so long as her health is as it is, I feel quite unable to fix on anything – Surely I shall get off by and by, and shall see you, at any rate, at the Lodge – I only fear your account of your yourself is not near so good as I wished – you Know how anxious and interested I always feel about you, and how it will delight me to hear you are stronger and better –’ V- [Vere] does not write to me 1/2 so often as she promised – we must make every excuse we can - ..... ‘I shall always regret not having met them in Rome, tho’ I could not possibly have left my aunt ....... I have such confidence in the little Freeman, I trust he will not let your cold and cough last long – I hope you are very good, and careful of yourself, and not doing anything that Vere or I would not let you do if either of us was by – How is poor Wyatt? I hope you would receive yesterday a leash of blocK game that I sent you on Tuesday morning, immediately after your arrival from Scotland – Adieu, dearest Lady Stuart, and believe me always affectionately and very truly yours A Lister – I meant to have written to Lady Stuart de Rothesay some time since, but the election put me too much out of sorts’ –

from 9 1/4 to 9 3/4 writing journal – then in went into the little room – read the courier – Letter from Eugénie (10 YorK Place, Brighton) very civilly wondering she had not heard from me, and asKing my intention – on coming home had found civil note from mr. ParKer asKing me to call before 2 – but as I had not got it in time, of course, it was useless –

In going to Lidgate, saw John Pearson at my quarry – asKed him about the 34 Loads of stone he had had for the Cowgate road – said I gave him the stone but never meant to pay for the getting – Oh! he could not pay for getting – had been at a deal of expense leading and laying on – ‘very well’, said I, ‘I will say no more about it, but pay myself, and order another way’ – and walKed off – he would see from my manner I was not pleased – it was but an 8/6 concern – he has his farm 40 D.W.[Day’s Work] at £48 a year of which his sister mrs. Dewhirst pays him £20 for the house room and sKim pits her son has! I shall notice him to quit and see if he cannot pay more and besides it strikes me to build a new public house on one of his brows and take about 10 D.W.[Day’s Work] to put to the new Stag’s head –

miss Waterhouse junior of Wellhead called this morning and was sorry I was out – fine day – Fahrenheit 47º at 10 35/.. p.m. came to my room at 10 1/2 –

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