1816
August
Wed 14
Macclesfield – Buxton – teazing Anne
Th 15
Buxton – Crescent – stables – walks – Castleton – Speedwell mine – Ebbing & Flowing well – excusing myself to Ann for my partiality to the ladies
Fri 16
Dull day at Buxton – Remarks on the place – contradicted all I said to Anne last night
Sat 17
Left Buxton – the bath charity – conduct to Miss Anne
Sun 18
Sarah & the laundry maid very ill – Talkation –
Mon 19
C- afraid of being thought mad – Mr Stamford Caldw dined with us – Remarks on his manners and conversation – Anne let me look at her — a lock of tweres hair
Tues 20
Wrote M- a circular for her friends – M- fainted – Left Lawton – went to Field House
Wed 21
All but connected with Anne – Mrs Steph’s opinion of C- – Steph jin. Party –
Th 22
Conduct to Anne – Steph shewing me C-‘s incoherent note of Mon 29 July – Left Field house –
Fri 23
Newcastle, Congleton, Wilmslow, Cheadle, Manchester, Rochdale, Halifax – My aunt L’s scandal abut C- – Got to Shibden at 8 in the evening –
Sat 24
Mrs Veitch left us – Wrote to M-
Sun 25
Wrote to Mrs Steph – Began Horsley’s Sermons –
Mon 26
Wrote to my mother – Fruitless walk to call on Miss M- Remarks on Mrs G’s mo. their[?] Com. Civility – Begun the Itineraise de Genève Lausanne de
Wed 28
Wrote to Miss M- A letter from M-
Fri 30
Wrote I. N. Berne in Swisse
Sat 31
Wrote to M-
September
Mon 2
Wrote to R.C. (Vid 1 Sept.) – Letter from Miss M- telling me what Mrs G had said of me – Account of the Halifax parish registers – Begun the Gr. test.
Thurs 3
Paid Mr W for consulting the registers P[?] explained –
Weds 4
Begun arranging my journal – Remarks upon it – Mr & Miss Hudson called – Began with German grammar
Fri 6
Miss S Ralph called –
Sat 7
Letter from M- – Mrs & Miss C Greenwood called –
Sun 8
Curiously mounted walnut for I.N.
Mon 9
Wrote to M-. Letter from my mother
Tues 10
Called on Mrs Wetherherd
Th 12
Wrote to Miss M- joint letter from Mrs H.S.B. & Anne – Mrs Veitch came – Her nephew Mr H. Ridsdale drank tea with us –
Fri 13
My aunt L-‘s story about C-
Sat 14
Mr Morris’s trial – Mr Wilbraham in a scrape –
Mon 16
Wrote to M-
Wed 18
Drank tea at Northgate –
Fri 20
Miss A Walker & Miss Atkinson & my uncle & aunt Lister called –
Sat 21
Letter from M- C-takes Anne to Manchester to see Miss O’Neil –
Mon 23
Wrote to M- answer to a point of etiquette
Tues 24
Called on the Ralphs, Greenwoods, Mrs Tom Rawson, Mrs Veitch & at Northgate. Joe Milnes began cutting his wheat –
Thurs 26
Called at Crow Nest, Cliffhill, Lightcliffe, & Mr Hudson’s. –
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