4½11 10/60Q Two kisses last night, neither of them good to her and I cared not for them but thought it best to try the last night. All her nervousness gone up and quite brisk. Delighted to go to Paris. Tell her and fold the rest she ought to be off on the first September. […]
Category: Anne Lister’s diary August 1828
Uncut, unedited transcriptions of Anne Lister’s diary / journal entries from August 1828.
Saturday 2 August 1828
2¼12 Hurried up to the vessel and on board at 2½ & off in 5 minutes. Misty & rather too early for the Loch (Fine), the herring fishing boats returning home. At the Kyles of Bute at 6¼. Very fine. Pass the bay of Rothesay at 7¾. The white town looks neat & large but […]
Sunday 3 August 1828
710¾ Bowels loose, two or three little motions and my cousin came. Hurried & all ready to be off at 7½ per mail but no outside place & only 1 vacant inside so would not go. Went out at 8. Past the Tron church & along [London] Street to the green. A preaching under Nelson’s […]
Monday 4 August 1828
4 50/6012 In spite of sprinkling my bed with vinegar bit last night. On the box of the Independent coach at 5 55/60. Stop 5 minutes at the great coach office higher up the street (Argyll Street) opposite the tower. Stop at 7½ at the Hamilton Arms, Hamilton, for 5 minutes but do not change […]
Tuesday 5 August 1828
811 Bit last night by bugs, yet slept well. Goodish motion after none yesterday. Obliged to mend my black petticoat a little. Downstairs to breakfast at 10. Breakfast in about ½ hour till 10¾. From about 10¾ to 1¾ wrote out the journal of yesterday. From 1¾ to 2 35/60 wrote out itinerary of yesterday […]
Wednesday 6 August 1828
2 5010¾ Might probably have been asleep an hour when called & got up. My eyes so bad kept my night cap on over them under my hat. Went down to the coach office. Explained the hardship of being detained & having to go back for my box & thought they ought to charge nothing […]
Thursday 7 August 1828
5 40/601 The mail not starting from our house this morning, off to The Bush at 6½. Paid my fare. (By the way [imposed] on. In consequence of opposition, the fare reduced from 20/. to 16/., as confessed by the landlord at Selkirk. But, said he, passengers forwarded from Liverpool still pay 20/. & if […]