9 10/60 12 40/60 She mended my gown. Sat talking. Recommended her to take alum water as a wash [1]. Breakfast at 11¾ to 1 10/60. Rainy morning. Sat talking. She tried the wash. Dissolved all she had given me in Edinburgh for my knee to be worn within my stocking in a little bag. […]
Category: Anne Lister’s diary June 1828
Uncut, unedited transcriptions of Anne Lister’s diary / journal entries from June 1828, when Anne toured Scotland with Sibella MacLean.
Sunday 22 June 1828
x6½3 On coming to my room to bed last night, being a little excited, incurred a cross [1]. Did not see Miss McL-. Off as fast as I could at 7½ to Aberfeldy to see the falls. Drove there myself. Alighted at the turnpike on this side the village at 8 25/60. The guide living […]
Monday 23 June 1828
9½12 10/60 See last night for the three kisses. The first since yesterday week. Breakfast at 11. Went out at 1. Sauntered about. In fact not knowing what we had to see – the woman at the lodge knew nothing – came back, saw our landlord. He said we ought to see Glen Tilt so […]
Tuesday 24 June 1828
8 25/60 2¼ See last night. One motion before and one after breakfast. Good and healthy not at all as if I had taken magnesia or anything else. From 9¾ to 11½ (when breakfast) & from 1 10/60 to 4¼ wrote out (all but the 1st 13 lines of Sunday) the journals of Sunday, yesterday […]
Wednesday 25 June 1828
9¼12¼ See last night. My left eye bit & swelled up. The 1st time this has occurred to me in Scotland, tho’ I was bit by something, tho’ not so decidedly, & could not sleep well the last night (Saturday 21st inst.) at Kenmore. Breakfast at 11 to 12½. Out at 12¾. The waiter went […]
Thursday 26 June 1828
9½ 2 Slept well & not disturbed in spite of finding the bug last night. There was no going to her last night. She is worse in the whites. Begins to be rather more heated about the parts, and tho’ not bad I am rather afraid of her. Breakfast at 11. At 12 35/60 Miss […]
Friday 27 June 1828
8½ 1 40/60 Had a motion in quarter hour then went to Miss MacL to say we would stay here today. Got into bed to her and staid till eleven not daring to go near her but with my right middle finger up and handling her well. She said she thought we should have quarrelled […]
Saturday 28 June 1828
7 2½ Read over my letters written last night. Called her at eight above quarter, dawdling and talking. Downstairs at 9 20/60. Had up the housekeeper, Mrs Brown & then the landlord, Mr Merchant about the washing bill. Never saw such exorbitant charge before. 5d for a shift & other things in proportion. They said […]
Sunday 29 June 1828
7 55/60 1 See last night. Called at 5. Meant to have been off at 6, before breakfast, but fell asleep again & slept till Miss McL- came in & called me at 7 55/60. Breakfast at 9 10/60 to 10½. The Scotch church begins at 11¼. There (very crowded & hot, good gothic tower, […]
Monday 30 June 1828
5½ 1 Vide last night just asked her how she did and off at 6 35/60 to embark on the lake (vid. Scottish Tourist, 120/415 et seq.). Only one boat for pleasure & one for fishing allowed by the fishmonger (Reid? of Edinburgh) who rents the lake at £300 per annum of Sir James? Montgomery. […]