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[awhilesince]

Thursday, 19 June 1823

8 3/4

1 1/4

.. Down to breakfast at 10 55/60 – Off from Settle at 11 10/60 – Got out at the George Inn (– Pilling) Gisburn at 1 40/60 – Beautiful drive from Settle to Gisburne 11 miles –

t 5 miles from Settle (turned off to the right at long Preston) on our right very prettily situated on the rising ground above the Ribble, Halton-house (Halton West) Mr Yorke’s – let to a Mr Batty from Huddersfield – about 2 miles from Gisburne, the woods about the Park beautiful – a common white gate about a mile from the village opens into a back way leading to the house –

Gisburne a very neat-looking little market town – the church rather anticipant looking on the outside, but nothing particular within – only one monument, and that put up by one of the Listers to one of the Ashtons (styled his benefaction) in 1709 – Going to be a funeral – the church doors therefore open –

Got the clerk’s son, a boy of 13 or 14, for a guide, and walked to the hall – the Gothic approach lodges, close to the village, very handsome – the approach rather too short (perhaps 1/4 mile), but chiefly wooded on both sides, and pretty enough – the hall door open – went in – then walked round to the back part of the house – went into the kitchen, and got a woman servant to show us over the below stairs rooms – the house shewn when the family was not there – Only mylord at home – riding out in the grounds – very infirm – saw a wheel-chair like my late aunt Lister’s that he is wheeled about in – Mr Lister at York with his Craven legion – Miss Lister daily expected from London – the battle of Marston moor, a good painting by Abraham Cooper – Oliver Cromwell, General Lambert, and Captain Lister, all likenesses – Cromwell, 1/2 length by Sir Peter Lely, very good – Dr. Whitaker (in his Craven) mentions this as perhaps the best likeness ever taken of him – the house wants painting and new-furnishing – asked about the upstairs rooms – the woman said the furniture was old and worn out – they were not shewn – the place altogether indicates that its present possessor does not lay out much money upon it – a great deal wants doing – several pictures in oils by Mr Lister, and a new style in oils or resembling them that he has lately learnt in Bath – heads, landscapes – A large view of Gordale, in oils, just finished, taken by Mr Lister the best likeness of the place I remember to have seen –

walked across the park and thro’ the fields to Westby, 1/2 a mile or more, once a village and the original nest, as it were, of our family and Lord Ribblesdale’s – but the village has been taken away – and nothing remains but 2 modern looking cottages – a barn bearing no trace of antiquity, modern dog-kennels, and a large well-walled kitchen garden now in use for the hall – the wild cattle very gentle – milked night and morning, and as quiet as the rest – Midhope, great and little, 2 farm- houses, not so old looking as Westby – a mile beyond Westby – on the moor – nearer to Pendil hill – then the Midhopes must be modern indeed – perhaps recently rebuilt as farm houses – Set out to walk at 1 50/60 – got back at 4 5/60 –

Off from Gisburne at 4 17/60 – Gisburne 11 miles from Skipton, 9 from Colne, and 7 1/2 from Clitheroe – Turned down from the road to the right, and got to Salley abbey and village (4 miles) at 5 10/60 – went a few yards out of one onto the bridge over the Ribble for a distant view of Bolton hall (Colonel Bolton from Liverpool who fought a  duel with ––) mentioned by Dr. Whitaker as the oldest house bishop Pococke ever saw – It was a white-looking gable-ended house, too far out of our way, and possibly not a very direct road – merely a few bits of old walls remaining of Salley Abbey – the neighbouring cottages have widely been built out of its spoils, – but are very shabby – the surrounding beautiful – the monks knew how to choose situations –

From Salley to Clitheroe beautiful drive – the first view of Clitheroe castle very imposing – this castle-capped mound and town beneath it, reminded at 6 35/60 – most beautiful drive from Gisburne to Clitheroe –

went to the castle immediately after ordering dinner and beds – Except a little of the old wall about midway the mound, the shell of a square Tower at the very top of it, and its surrounding wall at 5 or 6 yards distance is all that remains – From this wall immediately surrounding the Tower a very fine view – Pendil-hill very fine – the valley on all sides very rich – the altogether reminded us of Denbigh and the vale of Clwyd – we called Clitheroe (for it is only a miniature likeness) little Denbigh – From Clitheroe to the top of that part of Pendil over which the road goes to Huntroyde Mr Starkie’s, 2 miles – to the farthest and highest point, I should guess to be about 4 miles, going right across from the Town –

Sat down to dinner at 8 – Roast leg of lamb, mashed potatoes – goos[e]berry tarts and cream – all pretty good –

after dinner wrote out pages 34, 35, of this volume of my journal and went upstairs to bed at 12 1/4 – [E two dots O two dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] – several drops of dischar ge very slightly tinged so that I fancied my cousin coming –

Very fine day – but the road from Settle to Long Preston so dusty, we were quite covered – after leaving Long Preston, the road was more like a by-road (tho’ good) and it was much less dusty (since any dust at all) and much pleasanter –

left margin:

Gisburne.

Westby.

Midhope.

Bolton hall.

Salley-abbey.

Clitheroe.

Clitheroe castle belongs to the old duchess of Bucleugh [Buccleuch]. the castellated house near the castle inhabited by her steward Mr Kerr.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0029

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[janwebster10]

A Day In The Life of Miss Lister

Wednedsday 8 July 1818 5 20/60 11 10/60 A little small rain coming delayed me some minutes and made me almost give up the idea of walking to Mill house to breakfast finding however that cleared and that the barometer was in a rising state, 1 degree above changeable, set off at 25 minutes past 6, by our clock (1/4 too soon) and got to Mill House just before the things were sent out, in an hour and 10 minutes.

In the course of the morning a Mr Langsden of Langsden near Bakewell in Derbyshire merchant came into luncheon - a man they said of good family though they were not perhaps very rich – himself much more like a merchant than a gentleman but having travelled a great deal (on business) made himself tolerably amusing - He mentioned as the most disgusting scene he had ever seen in his life, a Roman Catholic funeral of a lady of consequence at Mahon (Port Mahon, in Minorca).

The corpse lay in state in the church with tapers burning round it, 3 days, at the end of which, after the reading of the funeral service, the man, whose business it was so to do, went to one side of the church and took up a flag, which opened into a large pit where were thrown promiscuously a great number of bodies, not in coffins nor even in wrappers, and which was so full that there did not seem room for anything more – on this the man got a long pole and worked the bodies about, till the yielding corruption left space for another body. when the fellow dragged the lady by the heels from the bier, plunged her among the rest, gave her a squeeze down with his pole, replaced the flag, and put a little mortar round the edges to confine the stench, which as might easily be supposed, was almost insufferable. “If” said Mr Langsden “the lady, while lying in state, had been touched by a heretic, the body must have been purified several times, and the heretic might have been danger of his life”

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[janwebster]

Shibden

Wednesday 13 May 1818 6 1/4 11 20/60 Before Breakfast did question 20 page 142 volume 1 Hutton in a few minutes, but, not looking at the key and getting involved in fractions, I had not quite time enough to see what answer I should get to question 22.

(Slept very ill last night did nothing but dream of Miss Brown, of being at their house hearing her play on the piano, and witnessing the vulgarity of her mother, etc etc- I wish I could get this girl out of my head- However there is one comfort let me think or scheme what I may, I shall never allow myself to do anything beyond the folly of talking to, and perhaps walking a little way with her now and then when I happen to meet her-)

Read from page 541 to 552 volume 2 Les leçons de l’histoire- For an hour studying and writing out on a scrap of paper some of the most material rules in chapter 7 Principia Hebraica- Wrote out about 2/3 Middleton’s 5th Epistles Cicero to Brutus- and read from verse 1059 to 1123 ajax flagellifer- in the afternoon read (chiefly aloud) from page 431 to 480 volume 1 Gibbon-

A note from Mrs. Edwards, Pye-nest, begging me to ask my uncle to put his name to an accompanying paper recommending the Reverend Mr. Charles Franks, son of the incumbent of Sowerby bridge chapel, (the young man is there said to be in his 26th year) to the trustees of the free grammar school at Leeds as in every respect most deserving their election to fill the present vacancy of master- my uncle of course added his name to the many and respectable others preceding-

Not having felt very well all the afternoon determined to walk out after tea- called at Horley green and sat with Miss and Miss Sarah Ralph from a little after 7 to near 10- Miss Caldwell came on the topics- Miss Ralph asked me many home questions as to the cessation of our correspondence and I honestly told the whole matter- and gave a faithful history of my feelings towards Miss Caldwell from the 1st moment of my seeing her at Horley Green to our last meeting in Cheshire -

Concluding by saying that, for my own part, I really liked her better now than I ever did before- In speaking of the civility shewn to me at Mariana’s and Anne’s expense, I mentioned the speech made to me by Mr Charles Lawton on the occasion “If you go there, you shall not return here”- Miss Ralph behaved very well when I named the untidyness nay dirtyness of the family etc. etc. seemed sorry, and vindicated her friend’s intentions, which vindication I believe to be perfectly just and deserved- In fact, I really think Miss Caldwell amiable and sensible and to possess a thousand good qualities for which her friend gives her credit-

Rainy day- fine evening- Barometer 1° below Rain. Fahrenheit 48° at 11 p.m.-

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[janwebster5]

Shibden

Sunday 10 May 1818

Before breakfast mending my drawers etc  and did example 2 page 140 volume 1 Hutton -

We all went to morning church and stayed the sacrament - Mr West of Southowram church preached 1/2 hour and 2 minutes from Acts chapter 2 verse 38 -

During dinner time did questions 3 and 4, page 140 volume 1 Hutton -

In the afternoon assisted my aunt in reading prayers and wrote about a page and a half to Mariana -

Had tea at 1/2 past 5, and my aunt and I walked to the lecture at the old church, a considerable congregation and the service remarkably well done - Mr Wilmott read prayers, Mr Knight gave us an excellent discourse (29 minutes long) from Romans chapter 8 verse 9 appropriate to the season on the influence of the holy spirit - service began at 1/2 past 6 and ended a little before 8 -

Sat in the gallery - in the Midgley - Mrs Brown and her daughters and her visitors the Misses Kelly from Glasgow were there - my aunt and I waited for them as they went out for her to get a peep at Miss Brown who looked very interesting, fair as a lily with the loveliest rose upon her cheek - I looked towards their seat all prayer time -

Fine day - delightful evening  Barometer 1 1/2 degrees below changeable Fahrenheit 51 1/2 degrees at 9 p.m.

After supper read aloud sermons 13 and 14 Bishop Hoadley -

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[janwebster9]

A Day In The Life Of Miss Lister

Shibden

Tuesday 30 June 1818

Finished my mornings work a few minutes before 2 - made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold and the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back - set off (down the old bank) a little before 4, stayed at the library about 1/2 hour, looking out a couple of books with proper prints for the children to copy at Pye nest -returned up the new bank, went to the top of Bairstow, and walked up and down that little lane (towards the west) very nearly an hour - What led me there was to have a view of Mr Brown’s house and to see if I should be able to distinguish Miss Brown walking in the garden – I could do it very well with a telescope and I thought of getting one - Found the wind so bracing and the situation so suited to reflection and so happy in point of prospect that I almost made up my mind to walk there often - Mused up the practicability of aiding my classical studies under the tuition of Dr Carey - I should like to be at least 6 months with him - I 1st thought of this sometime ago – soon after I began to study his elements of Latin prosody – to mark the quantity of so many lines, as I state it in my journal - (vid. 22nd September last) In the evening read the 27 chapter of Gibbon. i.e. the first 68 pages of volume 3 - Fine day – the sun made it warm walking to Halifax this afternoon in spite of a strong wind - Barometer 1 1/2 degrees below fair – Fahrenheit 63 1/2 at 9 p.m. -

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[janwebster7]

Shibden

Wednesday 27 May 1818 9 1/4 12 1/4 Dozing and dreaming of Miss Brown-

A letter from Miss Marsh (Micklegate York) to say Mrs. Thompson of Sheriff Hutton wanted a governess, and inquiring my opinion of Miss Bramley -

Had just read a few lines from verse 360 to 378 Electra when Miss and Miss Sarah Ralph called - Miss Sarah undid the bombazine waist Miss Stead made me and pinned it how it should be altered. Shewed the young ladies into my room and walked back with them as far as Horley Green -

Stood talking at the gate about Miss Caldwell and did not get back till 1/4 after 2 by the church after which I had to get ready to dine at Mr. Tom Rawson’s at 3 -

Went (walked) down the old bank and got there 3 or 4 minutes before the church clock - Mrs. Catherine Rawson and Mrs. Tom Rawson’s cousin Mr Holdsworth (curate of the old church pro tempore) dined there besides myself -

In the evening played and won a rubber of 2 points with Mr. Tom Rawson against his aunt and Mr Holdsworth (sixpenny points) -

After supper Mrs. Catherine and I joined at one hookah while Mr. Tom Rawson smoked another, remarkably fine tobacco brought by Mr Stansfeld Rawson from Turkey last year-

Spent a pleasant day, and got home at 11 - Did not look at the thermometer but today has been cooler than yesterday-

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[janwebster6]

Shibden

Tuesday 26 May 1818 5 1/2 Read from verse 318 to 361 Electra and from page 95 to 97 1/2 Adams’s translation.

Breakfasted at 7 and at 8 set off to walk to Haugh end, and got there at 1/4 past 9 - Mr. and Mrs. Henry Priestley being engaged to call at Willow field on Mrs. John Dyson, and Miss Mary Salisbury to walk to Halifax with her uncles Butler and George Priestley -

Miss Wilkinson and I walked to Woodlane, thence to some distance beyond the end of Sowerby, where we turned down a lane that brought us to Field house, and thence returned home by the new school near Sowerby- a distance of altogether at least 4 miles-

Miss W- [Wilkinson] seems sensible - but is in delicate health, and very nervous- she mentioned having a singular antipathy to walking down a steep hill which she said gave her the same sensation as that of descending in a swing from a great height- this antipathy was 1st discovered by her mother when she was only 3 years old, in walking down the gentle slopes in the park in London- and she has never been able to get the better of it- it is only walking down hill that she minds- she has no fear in a carriage -

She and Mrs Henry Priestley walked with me on my way home as far as Bolton brow - made 3 attempts after tea to sing Moore’s melody, The Legacy- but having such a cold and was so hoarse, I could not succeed- Got back to Shibden a few minutes before 9. Barometer at Fair- Fahrenheit 53° at 9 p.m.-

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[janwebster4]

Shibden

Sunday 10 May 1818

Before breakfast mending my drawers etc  Did example 2 page 140 volume 1 Hutton.

We all went to morning church and stayed the sacrament - Mr West of Southowram church preached 1/2 hour and 2 minutes from Acts chapter 2 verse 38 -

During dinner time did questions 3, and 4, page 140 volume 1 Hutton -

In the afternoon assisted my aunt in reading prayers and wrote about a page and a 1/2 to Mariana -

Had tea at 1/2 past 5, and my aunt and I walked to the lecture at the old church, a considerable congregation and the service well done - Mr Wilmott read prayers, Mr Knight gave us an excellent discourse (29 minutes long) from Romans chapter 8 verse 9 appropriate to the season on the influlence of the holy spirit. Service began at 1/2 past 6 and ended a little before 8 - 

Sat in the gallery - in the Midgley - Mrs Brown and her daughters and her visitors the Misses Kelly from Glasgow were there - My aunt and I waited for them as they went out for her to get a peep at Miss Brown who looked very interesting - fair as a lily with the loveliest rose upon her cheek - I looked towards their seat all prayers time -

Fine day - delightful evening.  Barometer 1 1/2 degrees below Changeable Fahrenheit 51 1/2 degrees at 9 p.m.

After supper read aloud sermons 13 and 14 Bishop Hoadley -

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[iredreamer]

Anne Lister 1806-1818 journal full transcription available

Hello everyone, I come with wonderful news! Full transcriptions from 1806 to January 1818 of the Anne Lister’s journals are finally online on the West Yorkshire Archive catalogue. It’s amazing to see how the Anne Lister Transcription Project is making progress and I’m so honored to be a part of it.

What has been transcribed till now? Transcript for the following volumes are available online: 

SH:7/ML/E/26/1 – 1806-1814

SH:7/ML/E/26/2 – Aug-Nov 1816

SH:7/ML/E/26/3 – Nov 1816-Mar 1817

SH:7/ML/E/1 – 21 Mar 1817-25 Jan 1818

[note: clicking the links will redirect you to the “volume level entry” in the online catalogue. There you can find all the info on that volume, everything you need to know about how to give credit and the link to a .pdf which is the transcript of that specific volume.]

How to access the transcript? I’m gonna directly quote from the WYAS website: “A full pdf version for these volumes can be found on the volume level entry in our online catalogue (...) Keyword searchable versions of the transcripts are included in each page entry within our online catalogue.”

In each page entry you will find the transcript for that specific diary page in the description box, like this:

You can easily search for words doing cmd+f (I think is ctrl+f in windows) and writing the word you are interested in.

A thing that is worth mentioning is that the .pdf files follow transcription editing rules. This means that they can be quite difficult to read (and search) because there is a heavily use of square brackets since Anne Lister abbreviated almost every word. Just quickly skimming through one of the pdfs will give you an idea of what I’m saying > SH-7-ML-E-1_Anne-Lister-Diary-Transcription.pdf

If you’re interest in following the progress of the Transcription Project you can visit the page dedicated to it: Anne Lister - Diary Transcription Project. There you can find all you need to know about how everything is progressing, who’s participating + info & links if you wanna join the project yourself.

Well, have a wonderful read and let me know what are the most interesting and curious things you find about Anne!

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[magnesiaandlemonjuice]

Sunday 31 December 1826

7 10/60

11 3/4

In my room at 8 10/60 - my bowels quite right now, and have been ever since I had the sense to loosen my stays - the fact is I am fatter than I was I began to perceive - my life is too easy - I must have more exercise, and less bed - I am always afraid of getting fat - I know it is so difficult to do so without laying the foundation for ‘divers diseases and death’ - It is by superabundence [sic] of nourishment that we compel ourselves to become fat - nature makes use of it by converting it into fat, till we clog her up that she can do so no longer, and then it must gradually derange the machine in one way or other, till at last the parts can play no longer, and we die of over feeding - from 8 20/60 to 8 3/4 wrote the latter 1/2 page 2 my letter to Mrs Lynn, and about page 3 and thus finished my letter - a kind letter beginning

‘my dear Mrs Lynn (dated last night ‘Saturday evening 30 December’) I was going to begin with, It seems odd that I should trouble you by writing….. but my eye glances on your concluding sentence, ‘I shall always have pleasure to hear from you’; and it is enough - It is not my xxxx intention to weary you, or to intrude upon your thoughts in any way that can be irksome - we are very sincerely anxious for your daughter’s recovery, - very sincerely anxious to have good accounts of you both, - and, beyond this have only to add, that, be the will of providence what it may, we trust you will neither be found unprepared, nor unresigned, and that you will not fail to remember that, if there be any comfort, - any consolation which you can possibly derive from us, it will be gladly offered with all the cordiality of real interest in your welfare’

rejoice that she has stayed where she is - mention the loss of our tab silver spoons - the peace of Europe seems to rest on a better foundation than ever

‘there may be a few complaints of Mr Canning’s ‘worse than haughty speech’; but England and Mr Canning, too, are hailed by the vast majority as the sheet anchor of all that is great and liberal; and Charles the 10th does not, in his heart, respect, or trust us less, because we wrap up the mantle of our importance round us - my aunt still continues ‘well of herself’, but suffers more in her limbs, than she did 10 days ago - of course, we attribute this to the weather - we have had a great deal of rain, tho’ it has chiefly fallen in the night - we have as yet no appearance of winter, but the leafless trees - a few mornings rather frosty, but the air, in general, soft and mild, on bad days being damp, and hazy with small rain - Fahrenheit was at 47o at 8 this morning north aspect’ (I had forgotten I had dated yesterday Fahrenheit only 46o yesterday) - ‘I hope you have good accounts from Mrs Sherand - my aunt joins me in best regards to Mrs and Miss Lynn - Sincerely anxious for her recovery, and for their own enjoyment of better health and happiness, I am, my dear Mrs Lynn, very truly yours A Lister’

to Steph, after copying Mariana’s account of herself (burning heat in her stomach succeeded by sickness which keeps her ‘awake for hours together’ in the night - tongue swelled and as if scalded - appetite good ‘in imagination’ but the moment she beginsto eat, she is satisfied) add,

‘Steph! I need not say, that this account, preceded by none any better, makes me uneasy; nor shall I be otherwise, till I have heard from you - I do not ask for a long letter - it is quite unnecessary - You have better things to do - but you must really find time to tell me, I trust, that you and yours are going on well, and what you think of Mariana - she came to spend a few weeks with us here principally, as you know, to learn the better to forget much that had recently happened at Leamington I fear, the success was not abundant - the following passage in her last letter strikes me exceedingly, tho’ I did not notice it to her in any way - I had complained of a sentence respecting myself, which seemed xxxx unlike her usual manner - she says in excuse, “a feverish impulse now and then got the better of me ….. my heart has been at times so heavily sorrowful, that, had I not had pen, ink and paper to carry off a little of its burthen, the load would verily, I believe, have been too much to bear - I always felt relieved after writing to you” - One subject is, however, as far as possible prohibited - I have begged, and entreated, that, on this subject, I may neither be informed, nor consulted - I neither can, nor will interfere again to reason, or advise - I only ask to be left in ignorance, satisfied that, come what may, Mariana will find all she ought to find, and all she wants, in you - I am certainly anxious that things should bear a smooth surface to the world - God grant thy may! But keep a watchful eye upon your sister’s health - Do not let the burthen bear it down; - do not let it sink too low, to rise again - I told her, I should send you a copy of the account she gave of herself, and beg you to prescribe; yet tho’ I begged her to always apply to you in every case, I studiously avoided giving her reason to imagine, I should say a syllable to you respecting the state of her mind - So long as her health does not materially suffer, I am contented - but on this point, I am painff painfully anxious at present - …… You will be kindly interested to hear a much better account of my aunt, than, 2 or 3 months ago, I should have expected it possible to give - the climate has certainly had a good effect upon her - we have not called in any physician - She will not hear of it - says her bowels are well - nothing beyond this can be accomplished; and she will have no medical man, till fruit can no longer do instead of medicine - we have grapes, figs nearly as good as fresh in small boxes, pomegranates, excellent apples and pears, and oranges, and all kinds of nuts one ever heard of - dates capital - pressed fruits good beyond compare - in short, all sorts of confections as good and beautiful as art can make them - … Paris not so full as usual - La commerce ne vas pas bien - reports of robberies frighten some of the country families from coming - mention our loss of Table spoons I began to think we shall not move farther south - the journey would not suit my aunt - Paris the best town on the continent for a fixed residence - excellent markets - to the full as good butcher’s meat as anywhere in England, at 7d [pence] a lb [pound], except for that particular part under the ribs of a surloin [sic] of beef, which is always taken out here, unless by particular order, and sold at double that price we have - English medicines of all kinds, and English everything, down to windsor soap, and Warren’s blacking - Depend upon it, we shall have no war - Charles and his ministers have too much sense to send our people and their money home again - Paris is scarce like itself even since I first knew it, 7 1/2 years ago - ……. the chamber of commerce petitioned Monsieur de Villèle to petition the king to hold fast the blessings of peace; and the king, who I verily believe is sincere, says he has peace as much at heart as any one can have - we never were quieter - It seems there are apostolicals, congregationists, ultramontanists, or call them what you will, perhaps too many of them, about court; and the chamber of deputies, after meeting 3 days in

numbers too small to do business, is probably a little like a bean-garden now and then - But what of all this? we shall have no war - there maybe a few complaints of Mr Cannings “worse than haughty speech”; but England and Mr Canning, too, are hailed by the vast majority as the short anchor of all that is great and liberal; and Charles the 10th does not, in his heart, respect, or trust us less, because we wrap the mantle of our importance round us - Of course, you have heard in England of Memoires le Comte de Montlosier’s 2 volumes against the Jesuit - and - congregationist influence - they are well, and thoroughly written - too convincing not to be proscribed - But who is in fault? However, I do not trouble my head much about politics - As a stranger and sojourner in the land, it is enough to wish it well; and this I do with all my heart' -

mention the weather the comfort of the Tuileries gardens where one can read (ditto in the Luxembourg and palais royal gardens) the papers at 1 sol each -

'my aunt bids me give her best remembrances - As to walking, she is much as when we left Parkgate - Her extremities swell a little towards night, and are more swelled when she gets up - She says, her face, too, and eyes are swelled, on getting up in a morning - The cutaneous complaint on the top of her head, is more spreading and disagreeable, and shews itself in more frequent patches over the body - Her nerves are weak, but her spirits good - Doctor Lefevre, an English physician with a French name, says, he has known several such cases, and, from what he hears of my aunt, she may live this dozen years, and that Paris is the very place for her - Her appetite is certainly very good; and she eats as much has I should fancy good for her - Yet I cannot help fearing, it is not unlikely she should be dropsical by and by' -

will write to the Duffins when I have heard from Steph, ‘that I may take that opportunity of thanking you for your letter’ - From 8 3/4 to 10 1/2. wrote the whole of the above of today - Folded and directed my letters added to Steph (under the seal),

‘wafer the answer, if you please; and do not make a point of choosing your thickest paper’ -

Breakfast at 10 40/60 - took my aunt my letter to Mrs Lynn to read, and sent of this ‘A madame madame Lynn, Rue Royale Numero 17, Tours’ and my letter to ‘H S Belcombe Esquire MD Minster Yard, York, Angleterre’ at 11 1/4 - while at breakfast this morning musing over writing to Miss Yorke! Perhaps I shall write - At this moment I almost think I shall - at 11 20/60 begin to finish dressing - which took me till very near 12 - then wrote out a little of my literary index - from 12 20/60 to 1 20/60, read aloud the morning service and sermon 8 bishop Sandford - then talked 1/2 hour to my aunt, and went out at 2 - walked to the barriere de l’Etoile - thro’ it and along the outer boulevard to the 3me [troisième], of 12 pièces, in the 1st large house in the row, the next house (of this row) to the barriere - 2000/. a year - musing about it - rather too far - In returning went up the rue des Champs Elysées and rue de la Madeleine looking to see what apartments there might be to let - a few affiches, but nothing tempting - turned down the rue de Surèsne [Surène] to the Place de la Madeleine - walked leisurely along all the new buildings, then thinking I would try the nearest house 1st went in at a handsome porte cochère - the apartment au premier rather too small - one lodging room too little - another just the same au 3me [troisième] - could have one room more - saw the proprietaire - a gentlemanly sort of man, living au 3me [troisième] and keeping his livery servant and cabriolet - 1600/. a year - with the additional room 2000/. - asked if he had any objection to furnish for us - no! - went into his salon while he considered about it - his wife a nice looking, young person - he has a house in the country where he always goes in May, and could spare us furniture very well - he calculated - could not say quite exactly - would have me make a proposition - said I was about an apartment a premier, large as his with the additional room well furnished - they only asked 400/. a month - I had offered 350/. - perhaps they would take it - thought they would but not quite certain - suppose I said 250/. a month for his apartment - furnished with every thing but plate linen and porcelain - 2 caves and remise - and one or 2 servants rooms upstairs - He said he had refused several locataires because he wished to have quiet people as he had daughters - the house all let but the premier I had seen, and the 3me [troisième] - let to his friends - not an English person in the house - I would take it for a year certain - afterwards from 6 months to 6 months - Should probably stay in Paris as long as my aunt lived - here on account of her health - she could not bear the climate of country house in England - ætatis [aged] 62 - saw the cellars, coach house every thing - really very comfortable - west aspect towards the Eglise de la Madeleine - capital air, and plenty of free space - Monsieur seems anxious to do all he can to agree - Said I would consult my friends - promised to give him an answer at 12 on Tuesday - at this moment (5 25/60 p.m.) I cannot see how we can do better - good situation - just across the boulevard - very nearly opposite the rue neuve de Luxembourg where there is a stand of fiacres every thing convenient - got home at 4 3/4 - wrote the last 25 1/2 lines, and had just done them at 5 1/2 - If we had taken the apartment at 2000/. per annum he would have paid all taxes, and asked 100/. a year extra for éclairàge and the porter - (4/. a month for éclairàge) - making some little calculations - If we can get the apartment for 3000/. per annum, xxxx including porter, éclairage et every thing, i.e. would be 3000/. ÷ 52 = 57 francs 69 12/52 cents per week - George came at 5 50/60 to say dinner was ready - Dinner at 6 precisely - Came to the drawing room at 8, - having told my aunt all about the apartment - she is exceedingly pleased at the idea of our having to pay so much less rent and likes account of the apartment - made out the washing bills - wrote the last 4 lines all which took me till 9 - George has just brought me in the card of

‘Monsieur and Madame Charles Droz’ and ‘Mademoiselle Julie Droz’ - came to my room at 10 5/60 - very fine day -

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[sideways] we must have carpets?

very fine, rather frosty Fahrenheit 47 at 8 10/60 a.m. 50 1/2 - 12 at noon 48 - 10 5/60 p.m.

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[timehasbeenbusy]

France with Lady Stuart and Vere Hobart (continued)

1829

October 21 (continued)

unlike yours and something between both would suit you best  ‘yes it would’  come said I  never mind  I do not blame you it was my fault      she was much attendrie said she should now be more sorry at my going than  she would have been yesterday  

and we came upstairs and parted in my room (Cameron there) at twelve and a half   explained how I should like to have her about me   how I should coax her and be dotingly fond of her as if she was my child etc but yet find she would rather have the coaxing modified     

poor girl the fact is she feels in spite of herself within herself what she does not quite understand and now that she fancies all explained away she has an excuse to herself for liking me and she is lulled into being satisfied ~ 

she likes me    tis well for her we shall be separated or this parental affection might take her by surprise      but now I am out of my scrape I will take care     be affectionate for she now likes it too well to be satisfied without it   but I will do nothing to alarm her     

tomorrow I shall probably begin to call her Vere and henceforth nous voila the best friends in the world   what but her own feelings alarmed her?  perhaps she herself knows not quite how well she likes me   strange enough we shall be better friends than ever or than if I had alarmed her at all   for now there will be more tenderness and different interest from what there could have been had I got into no scrape at all   in fact she cannot bear my coldness tho’ she scarce knows why – 

Had Cameron –then stood musing till 1 – then wrote all but the 1st 8 lines of the last page and all of this which took me till 1 40/60     

I see she has already written the crypt I gave her in her journal and she will use it more and by  ~

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[awhilesince]

Wednesday, 18 June 1823

6 1/2

12 50/60

Off from Ingleton to Chapel in the dale, 4 1/2 miles, at 8 – drove my aunt (the black mare) – George and the guide walked by the side the whole way –

An old woman shewed us Hurtle-pot – 6d [pence] admittance for my aunt and me – the place is enclosed with a highish wall. and locked up – descended 2 or 3 steps to the door – a great hole, almost like a jelly bag – a subterraneous passage on the right (looking down from the Entrance) thro’ which the water of the Greta enters the great hole or Hurtle pot – 15 or 16 yards deep in the passage – appeared a yard or 2 deep in the pot – a few very meagre trout occasionally caught in this place – ‘Tis not very bad getting down to the water’s edge in the pot – Jingle pot is only a little distant on the other side of the farm house (John Metcalf’s to whom Weathercote belongs) not enclosed – a long, deep, widish fissure thro which the Greta runs –

a shilling each admittance to Weathercote-cave – walled round and locked up – the owner a respectable looking farmer, shewed us it – descended a flight of steps nearly to the bottom – I scrambled down to the very bottom, and went behind the water which falls 75 feet – falls from just above Mahomet’s stone (as seen from above) not from below this stone as represented in Westall’s drawing – this waterfall beautiful – the spray by the reflection of the sun formed a fine iris – I, by going quite to the bottom, saw a double iris – but people generally go too late, after 12 p.m., and therefore see nothing of this effect which adds greatly to the beauty of the scene – near the fall on the left (looking towards it) quite at the bottom is a recess in the cavern in which I could hardly stand upright – Westall has drawn this too high – hence also issues water into the cave when there is a great deal of water – at these times there is also 2 more water vents, one on the right another on the left – Into the recess in the cavern one can go (creep) a hundred yards but there is too much water now – 2 years ago after a thunderstorm the water filled the whole of this Weathercote cave, and ran over at the top – holes made in it in the wall to let it pass – the Greta runs a mile underground before it comes to Weathercote, and then another mile underground before it gets into its channel on the surface – In favourable years as many as 200 people go to see Weathercote –

Left George to drive my aunt back to Ingleton, took John Metcalf as an additional guide, and at 10 40/60 proceeded forwards determined from what Metcalf said to go both to Gate Kirk and Greenside cave – ca[me] to Hars cave, a pretty little jumble among the rocks where the subterraneous Greta appears a little for a few yards, and then falls down to a lower and hidden course –

came to Gate-Kirk cave at 11 – our candle in the lantern had nearly burnt out – with some difficulty we lighted our 3 candles and crept thro’ the cave – 3 or 4 passages, perhaps 30 or 40 yards long, communicating with each other – could only stand upright in 2 or 3 places full of stalactites – crept thro’ all the rest of the way – the rocks sometimes very slippery and in the main passage obliged to crawl close to the water’s edge – the water perhaps a yard deep – there might be some deeper holes in the passage – Westall has made a pretty drawing of the entrance to this passage – 1/2 h[ou]r in Gate Kirk cave – a little farther on a little girl led the way thro’ a small narrow cavern called Boggard-hole, which neither of my guides remembered that we could creep thro’ – Metcalf said money had been formerly hid there – several fourpenny pieces had been found there – Gate Kirk cave a mile from Weathercote –

went forwards from GateKirk and at 12 1/2 got to lower Forsgill, a beautiful fifteen yards fall of the Greta down a scar something like Dowgill scar near Horton – a little higher up is what they call the upper Fors a pretty fall of 7 1/2 yards – just half the other but very pretty – at Greenside cave the spring head of the Greta, at 1 – what a pity we had nor match, nor tinder box – Metcalf fancied it full of water we might probably have gone a long way if we had had lights he said it was one or two hundred yards long – could stand upright very well – for the few yards we durst venture, no water in the cave, and no dropping from above – Going by these Forsgills was a roundabout, and we all agreed we had walked four long miles from GateKirk – all across the heather made it very fatiguing – saw the 2 covies of grouse, 15 or 16 in each – put up several pairs of old birds –

In mounting across the hill (the pastures and fell below Whernside) saw the little village of Winterskill below on the Greta where very fine trout are caught, weighing 2 lbs. – Gave Metcalf 1/2 crown for his Trouble (he had shewed us Westall’s drawings and recommended Hutton’s (the reverend Mr.) tour in these parts) and we parted at Greenside – these Forsgills are worth seeing – the best way would be to drive from Ingleton to Winterskill (along the Richmond road the road we travelled from Horton on Monday) and thence proceed nearly straight up to the falls, to Greenside cave, and then direct to the top of Whernside –

this was the route my guide James Greenwood and I took after Metcalf left us, and we were at the highest summit in about 20 minutes at 1 1/2 – we missed Chapel in the dale on Monday because the Chapel steeple is so like a large chimney, we mistook it for one, thought the building a house, and instead of turning down about the 22 milestone from Lancaster (about 2 1/2 miles from the house near Ribble head) we drove forward to near Ingleton – walked along the summit of Whernside –

fine view of Ingleborough, and of the road we came from Horton along deepdale, of Saleside etc etc on one side, and on the other of the rich valley (then said the guide there is not a richer valley in England) and town of Dent – the hills beyond Sedbury – Skiddaw – the sands beyond Lancaster etc –

crossed down the other side of Whernside to a cottage near Yordas cave § – got a great thing like a rake (without teeth) to stick candles in, – lighted our 7 candles at the lime-kilns close to the cave, and went in, 1/. each admittance (guides never paid for) at 2 1/2 – reconnoitered the whole cavern in about 1/4 hour – the bottom rather soft, sandy and towards the far end gravelly – here the stream passed thro’, and went along a narrow deepish channel we could not pursue – a drip from the top – fine, spacious, lofty vault – thickly encrusted with fine stalactites – a remarkably fine cavern to those who have never seen the caves in Derbyshire, Castleton etc – I began to feel the cavern rather cold, and gladly escaped to realms of day –

after walking about 1 1/2 mile on the road, turned to the left along the fields, (having just before noticed the springhead of the little river Skell close to the road on our left, and sunk considerably below us) and went across the Thornton-fors a beautiful fall of the Skell of 15 yards or perhaps more altogether; for there is a great tho’ divided fall before it comes to the main one – at this fors at 3 40/60 –

from here to Ingleton along the fields, the walk is most picturesque – the Skell runs along a deep glen wooded down to the bottom on each side, murmurs over its stony bed, and joins the Greta at Ingleton – as we walked along the high ground the finest view of Inglebro’ and his noble rocky abutments, rising in 3 huge steps of white ruggedness – Ingleton picturesquely situated – yet the stone walls along the sides of Inglebro’ rather spoil the majesty of his appearance – they bespeak the avarice and power of man to share and divide even nature’s deserts –

Rambled along Helks wood – peeping here and there at the Skell, here and there at Inglebro’ – gathered the most beautiful white dog rose I ever saw – and wild lilies of the valley – they grow in the beds 10 or 12 yards square – and there are many curious plants in this wood – belonged to a reverend Mr Foxcroft who had a nice place near (at the village of Thornton) – he died lately – left his widow the place for her life, then to his heirs – he was 1st cousin to Mrs Watkinson late of Ovenden, now of Crownest, a poor place, about 3 miles beyond Settle on the Ingleton road –

Got home at 4 1/2 – Dined at Ingleton – Roast shoulder of Excellent mutton – very good dinner Thirsty after so much walking (I had walked full 15 miles 4 or 5 of them over heather) the cold water chilled me – a large basin of hot boiled milk set me right again, and we were off at 7 20/60, and got to our old quarters, the Golden Lion Inn Settle, at 9 1/2 –

wrote out Sunday and part of Monday and went upstairs to bed at 12 – Very fine day – [E two dots O one dot, marking discharge from venereal complaint] –

after returning from Weathercote this morning my aunt had Percy in the gig, and made an attempt to meet me at Yordas cave, but the road was very hilly she was afraid of being too late, and turned back when she had got within a mile of the place –

§ this cave now belongs to Mr Peart the banker of Settle, he having lately purchased the property in which it is situated –

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Ingleton-caves, Weathercote, etc

Forsgill.

(fall of the Greta).

Whernside.

Yordas Yowdass cave.

Ingleton.

Helks-wood.

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[winteringinrome]

Continuing my series of showing the real entries from Anne Lister’s journals that inspired the chapters of my Past Scrapes story and we’re onto Paris and Mrs. Barlow. It was fairly easy to come up with a theme for this chapter…

Past Scrapes – Chapter 3:

“What she liked most,” Anne pauses delicately and licks her lips, “was for me to kiss her between her legs.”

A flash of heat jolts through Ann, she stares at Anne wide-eyed.

“Between her legs?” Her voice comes out hoarse.

“Yes.” Anne leans forward, her eyes not leaving Ann’s face. “I would sit before her and put up her skirts and put my mouth to her queer.”

Ann feels almost faint with the idea. She has never heard of such an act. The thought of it makes her breath come out quick and shallow in the stillness of the room and she cannot seem to slow it.

“Mrs. Barlow was very fond of that,” Anne continues. “She used to beg me to come to her at all hours of the day. I would be there in broad daylight, in the middle of the afternoon, terrified that Cordingley would walk in to find my head buried in her petticoats.”

And all at once it is as though Ann’s mind has lost the ability to finish a full thought, it keeps looping feverishly back to Anne with her head buried... her mouth buried...

“Just kissing?” she asks faintly.

Anne’s teeth flash in the dim light.

“No,” she says, “it is not just kissing.

Aaand that is 100% was Anne was up to in Paris.

7 Jan 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0113: I soon found she was becoming gradually excited and had soon my right middle finger up her and grubbled her well. Then, during a little cessation, she said I knew anatomy well or could not know how to create such great excitement…and I may say and do as I like, tho’, on offering to kiss her queer just before she left me, she prevented me. ‘May I not?’ said I. She answered, ‘No, not now.’

18 Jan 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0117: Just before getting up finally she let me put my head under the clothes, kiss the top of her queer and look at her.

20 Jan 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0118: I began grubbling and did it pretty well for her. Put my head under the clothes and kissed the top of her queer, she putting herself in whatever position I liked. She got up twenty minutes before me, during which time I lay and incurred a cross.

21 Jan 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0118: She let me, just before we got up (both jumped out of bed at the same moment), throw down the clothes and look at her in the full light. I told her I had no idea she was so pretty there, it was the prettiest part about her. It really is very pretty, quite black and round and fat and very nicely formed. I have told her since that the prettiest part of her is quite hid.

24 Feb 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0130: Got to grubbling again - what led me to it was her telling me not to give her any more kisses, she had not strength for them, however she bore it well, saying afterwards how astonished she was to have given me the kiss so soon again. I had put my face to her and saw her all the time and she had a very good one... I put my face to her and twice got queer into my mouth and just sucked the tip of it.

25 Feb 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0130: This morning just before getting up, put my face to her, took a little bit in my mouth, sucked and licked it and let a little slaver fall into her.

26 Feb 1825 - SH:7/ML/E/8/0130: I began to handle her and look at her. Licked a little bit of her queer, opened her with my finger and slavered into her, then grubbled looking all the while and gave her a good excitement. Before all this she herself had awakened me, lain on me and tried to see how I could get myself near her. I played sometime with only my shift parting me from her lying just as I should do for a kiss – afterwards washed and half dressed went to her and, finding her inclined, looked at her while grubbling and gave her one or two more excitements.

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[janwebster]

Shibden

Monday 11 1818 4 40/60 10 55/60 Began on Saturday night to sleep upon a mattress only (i.e. to have no bed) that I might awake earlier and be the less inclined to doze afterwards -

Last night slept with my door wide open to try if this would do any good, and got up so soon (20 minutes before 5) even though I did not get to sleep last night till after 12- I could not get Miss Brown out of my head, and even this morning she has been darted across my mind a thousand times-

Before Breakfast did from question 5 to 12 page 141 volume 1 Hutton- read from page 518 to 530 volume 1 Les leçons de l’histoire - From 11 till 12 1/4 looking over the Principia Hebraica - Chapter 7- marked the quantity of 4 lines (vide Friday 8 May) -

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Priestly and Miss Birch (Harriet) called at 1/2 past 1 and stayed till 2 - From 2 till 3/4 past, read from verse 915 to 964 ajax flagellifer- In the afternoon read from page 349 to 391 volume 1 Gibbon -

Had tea early, and my uncle and I set off at 6, by our clock, to walk to Whitehall to attend Mr. Longstaff from Edinburgh who, thro’ the means of Mr. Hudson who got my uncle to subscribe £1 -1 - 0, commenced this evening a course of astronomy lectures. His lecture tonight (over a little after 8) was merely introductory and to my mind nothing very brilliant of its kind- he speaks broadish, pronounces ill, and very frequently sins against good grammar -

A fine spring like day, tho’ occasionally rather cloudy with a few drops of rain just before we got to Whitehall and afterwards -

Barometer 2° above Rain Fahrenheit 53° at 9 p.m. -

Flute 25/60 hour during supper-

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[whatdoesshedotothem]

Wednesday 28 January 1835: SH:7/ML/E/17/0155

8 20

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No kiss. fine morning tho’ rather hazy and dull - F43 ½° at 9 ½ am - Looked over from p. 25 to 69 end of De La Beche’s geological notes – breakfast at 9 ¾ - to 10 ¾ - then out with Charles H- doing top cornice for north passage – then with Pickels at the dry-bridge - Holt at the drift – came in with him at 11 50 and he staid till 1 ¾ - the deed made by Stansfield and Thompson ready for signing Mrs Machin’s coal 14DW to Mr Rawson for £200 - but 7 people concerned mother and children and......  the sadler at Northgate bridge having married the oldest daughter and not being consulted would not let his wife sign and promised to bring all the rest over to sell to Holt – valued at £40 per DW but Holt thinks he can get them to agree for £300 down – said I should be glad if he could – but he must give £350 rather than miss the bargain – in short he must buy the coal – then speaking of Spiggs he had told William what I had said about the deed from Wilkinson and said he (Holt) should be here this morning and expected William K- to come here and meet him and bring the deed  - said I should now 1st see about settling this matter about the deed - and that I did not care about agreeing with the Spiggs company for that I understood the K-s were indemnified by the 2 Clarkes (Tommy and his brother) of whom they bought their share - asked what Holt valued the Spiggs colliery at as it stood - £1000 - very well, said I - we shall see - if I open this Shibden colliery it will be my interest to stop Spiggs altogether - why! yes! said H- it would - his cousins Holt had agreed to sell their ½ share to Stocks; but when I bought Staups, Stocks would have nothing more to do with Spiggs - he would have loosed Northowram coal (Swain’s coal) Spiggs thro’ by Staups - Stocks has only ½ of Swaine’s coal and the two Clarkes have the other ½ - and Stocks will not care much about loosing it till he has it all - Wilson quite fast - cannot stand many months longer - I could loose Stocks (Swaine’s coal) and 2 few acres of upper brea top land by my water wheel at Tilly holm still if I liked - but I loose neither him nor anybody else unless I like - said I had made up my mind to loose my coal and set up the water wheel at Tilly holme style and wished to begin of this job - the sooner the better - the 1st thing to do is to begin at Mytholm dam stones, and drive up a drift to Tilly holm still - this at a rough guess, might be from 600 to 700 yards - say at 4/. a yard if advertised might be done for less - might be done in about 8 months - then would have a walled and arched culvert (3x2ft) from Tilly holm still to the end of my library into the brook - say (said I) about 600 yards all labour done at 5/. per yard and stones (field wall stones for sides and parpoints for arching) and carting = 7/. per yard - .:. culvert total cost of per yard = 12/. then put down the water wheel - wheel to be 6ft. broad - put the wheel and engine pit just above the gall (that runs thro’ wellroyde land etc) so that there would only be 14 or 15 yards to pump -suppose the wheel and engine pit cost from £300 to £400.  the 2 coal-heads or drifts (large enough for hurrying gates - going corves along one and returning corves along the other) will pay for themselves by the coal got out of them - that is, will pay for driving but there will be rails to find - those Hinscliffe has just got me from Farrer are to be £8 per ton, 4ft. long rails, of which one ton will reach 80 yards - told Holt my plan of sinking another pit 50 or 60 yards on this side of Walker pit - not necessary to sink another pit - Even if I stopt Spiggs colliery and kept it stopt (for which I should have to raise the water 3 yards) so that Walker pit should be 3 yards deep in water this would not signify - I could chamber the pit just above the water, or fill it up to that height, if I liked, and cut a gallery or drift from Walker pit thro’ the coal to communicate with the drifts (leaving between the pit and drift a yards’ breadth of coal as a landing or fence to keep the water from the drift) - Holt quite sure I cannot stop Spiggs without letting the water 3 yards deep into Walker pit bottom - the dead water stands - that is the water rises as it is, as high up on the coal as the wall at the head of the clough in Trough of Bolland wood - I smiled and said I thought Hinscliffe would have no objection to my stopping Spiggs colliery - which Holt seemed to agree in - I think Hinscliffe is afraid of his trespass being discovered when Walker pit is bottomed - we shall have the phey about 180 yards along the face of the coal in the old works at 3/. a yard for this gate will be good and then about 50 yards forward thro’ coal and then Holt thinks we shall come at the trespass - but the coal will pay when we get to it -

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Holt staid till 1 ¾ - then had Washington upstairs in the blue room, Dr Kenny being below at the same time – told W- to look after the tumbled down wall at Staups – A- agreed to excuse him £40 of the £140 he was to pay her for the Lidgate hay, so that there is only a hundred to deduct from the £500 to be paid for his field adjoining Hardcatsle’s -  Glad to avoid Dr K-  so kept out of the way (in my study) – A- and I off at 2 ¾ along the walk and the Leeds and Whitehall road to her fields in Bramley Lane where Robert Scholefield is walling – sometime there and while A- went in to Mrs Draper’s I stood talking to Flather – would not tell me exactly what he sold his farm for to Joshua Keighley but said he had altogether made what I bade him, or rather, the sum I named to him i.e. £800 for he had cut down the wood .:.  wood = £200 for William K- told me his brother gave £600 – Flather would not tell me what he sold the farm for fear Joshua K- should be vexed at him for perhaps I was about making a bargain with JK- no! said I, I am not - In returning A- and I went into the Cliff Hill land to set out holes to be made for thorns to mark the pump and well trough - home all along by the old Wakefield road at 5 10 - some while with my father and Marian Letter left by someone from Mr. W. Brown surveyor of taxes asking if I had not a gamekeeper (Joseph Pickells) and a pointer dog - Dinner at 6 ½ - coffee – with my father and Marian ½ hour till 8 – I then had Eliza Howarth, my sister gauche housemaid aetatis 17 into the little dining room for a little good advice for near ½ hour – mercy upon us, what a girl for housemaid here! then talked to A- and wrote the journal of today – ¼ hour with my aunt till 10 ¼ - she had Mr Jubb ½ hour this evening between 6 and 7 - fine day F43 ½° at 10 20 pm.

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[the-deeds-to-shibden]

Saturday 27 July 1839

Continuing on the way to the Norwegian border, Anne and Ann admire lake Vänern and breakfast on strawberries and cream. Ann loses her pencil, while Anne gets fed up with how slowly they are travelling and takes the reins herself!

[up at] 3 ¼

[to bed at] 12

Slept well – off at 4 7/” – very foggy – found our cloaks on, not too much – pretty drive leaving the canal far left, but could see the white sails – At the river at 5 1/2 – broad, wooded and very pretty – at 5 3/4 cross wooden bridge over beautiful (rapidy under the bridge) arm of the lake, and drive thro’ fir-wood – at Wennersborg at 6 11/” – no horses – must wait 1 1/2 hour – Ann and I strolled about the town for 1 1/4 hour – long wood bridge (a couple of draw parts) over the neck of the lake – several new buildings in progress – wood on stone footings – the lake really looks like a sea – from 7 25/” to 8 25/” breakfast at a ‘Restauration’ strawberries and cream and bread and butter – good –Wennersborg a nice town – burnt down all but the church in 1834 – but marvellously built up again – Ann lost her pencil – off again at 8 55/” – picturesque drive to Almo – 1/2 hour to wait there – same sort of drive to Raknĕbo but no waiting there – off directly – and prettier than the last stage – I drove (1st time) the last and this stage (tired of the slowness last stage) till about 11 when Ann feeling faint we had a little of Mrs. Tod’s Rice panăcacka – I drove thro’ Uddevalla good town situated on very pretty fiord – at a farm house some little way from Herrestad (single house) engaged horses which were to to follow us immediately so that we were off again in 8 minutes at 1 27/” with our, as John1 called him, our gentleman driver – he drove very well – the most hilly stage we have had – I slept several times but awake enough to see that from Herrestad to Quistrum is the most picturesque stage we have come – long and steep ascents and descents – another fiord – Quistrum at 3 24/” 3 or 4 scattered wood-built houses – alighted at 3 35/” and went into the garden of the post-station apparently the best house in the place – good 3 arch-stone bridge at the far end of the town – higher mountains valley narrow very picturesque our road improves in mountain hight and narrowings of valley and fiord as we go along – Alighted 1 4/” hour at Quistrum waiting for horses – terrible – after being in the garden sat in the carriage writing inking over2 Friday (yesterday) – a drop or 2 of rain before starting and afterward a good deal of rain – stop in a shower at 7 25/” at a little distance from the stage house to change horses and this man drove us thro’ the post station of Svarteberg a farm house to near Rabalshede, also a farm house, and we changed horses in the road – the owner of the horses being in his field our driver called him and drove us to Hede where we stopt at 9 3/4  the rain having continued the whole way – single house – the landlord in bed – supper till 11 10/” bread and butter and milk and pancakes – Fahrenheit 64 1/2 at 11 40/” p.m. very rainy from about 4 3/4 p.m. for the rest of the day – rainy night –

 Marginal notes:

so far written over Sunday 28 July at Hogdal

Quistrum

Hede

 Notes:

1 The guide they engaged in Gothenburg.

2 Anne tended to write her travel notes first in pencil, and later go over them in ink.

Pages in WYAS Catalogue:  SH:7/ML/TR/12/0009    SH:7/ML/TR/12/0010

The three-arch bridge in Kvistrum, also the location of a battle in 1788:

The town of Uddevalla, through which Anne drove:

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