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Tuesday, 5 May 1840

[summary: social calls; talks about climbing Mount Ararat & travel routes; Ann Walker makes some jelly “with our little boiler, first time, very good but rather too stiff”; Anne reads The Times and makes some interesting findings; geeking out over a book fair]

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Tuesday, 5 May 1840 8.05 1.20

Have slept in my stays and chemise and drawers etc. night shift over for cannot wash or do anything – obliged to wear one same chemise all the time of my cousin and have the same mess as on leaving Moscow and at [Ekiterinograd?] I think it was etc. A- [Ann Walker] might be glued to me for I can neither at any time stir nor be without – it is a miracle if I can escape even for a few minutes walk without her and then she is in the dumps –

Fine morning, Réaumur 12 1/4° now at 8.55 a.m. breakfast over at 10.25 – then stood till 11.30 rubbing out [pencil] writing in my last little rough book – several of the first pp. [pages] rubbed out 2d. time – [dawdling] over 1 thing or other till 12 o’clock –

Out with A- [Ann Walker] about 12.30 – called and left our card chez les Braïko – then admitted and sat about 1/4 hour with Mme and Melle Kotzebue – then sat perhaps near 1/2 hour with Mme and Melle Golovin – then A- [Ann Walker] tired and came home with her at least to the door – she has monsieur – told Melle K- [Kotzebue] that if I could arrange to attempt Ararat I would write to her – but if I did not write she must take it that I had given up the thought – at Mme Orloff's at 1.30 – the General there, both very civil – he begged me to send him a 200/. bill to see if he could not get it changed for me at a cheaper rate than Mr Besoc's [cuisinier?] – will send the Cossack to speak to General Kotzebue about the route across the country from Baku to Nachitshevan [Nakhichevan] a plain and not safe without a considerable Tartar escort for there are no Cossacks there – the post was attacked 5 days or 5 weeks ago by 10 brigands – the people not against the Russians but are brigands when a good opportunity offers – O- [Orloff] himself would return to Elizabethpol which would be quite as cheap as the other way and would not take more time – I must certainly have a good Tartar escort – before I came away Mme [Griboiedoff?] and Princess Dadian and Princess Orbelianoff came in – they had been calling chez moi – sorry I was not at home – left them chez les Orloffs and went to Mme [Chevostoff?] and sat with her 1/2 hour or more –

Walked back in 1/4 hour and came in at 3.25 bringing 2 London Times Newspapers of Saturday 14 and Monday 16 March 1840 – How quickly arrived here!

Dinner at 4.10 boiled eggs, barley cake and butter and isinglass jelly that A– [Ann Walker] made with our little boiler last night 1st. time very good but rather too stiff –

Before and after dinner reading The Times of Saturday 14th March – vid. [vide] p. [page] 7 column 5: "A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thought of the moment those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return" Lord Bacon.

• p.5 column 6: the death at Rome of the Honorable Miss Frances Mackenzie 24th February 1840. • p.5 column 6: some interesting subterranean Cyclopean constructions lately discovered 5 miles from Valetta (Malta) bones of animals – fragments of pottery, and some rudely formed figures – Galignani's Messenger –

Have just written so far now at 7 p.m. – then put (sealed) under cover a 200/. note to "à Monsieur Monsieur le Général d' Orloff de la part de Miss Lister" [to Monsieur General Orloff from Miss Lister] and sent it by George about 7 and desired him to go to Mr Dementieff Inspecteur des postes (as recommended by General Kotzebue) for permission for one of his clerks to write out the seal officially marche route with sums to be paid for 5 horses respectively at coach station – I would give the man 3 S.R. [Silver Rubles] for his trouble –

Tea about 8.30 – before the afternoon, read the 2 newspapers London Times of 14 and 16 March last – It seems that the Armenian Patriarch, Abp. [Archbishop] of Etchmiadzin [Vagharshapat] head of all the Armenian churches in India arrived (by a Tartar brig, Captain P. Rough from Singapore) 27 October last at the Dutch settlement of Batavia – 1st time a prelate of the Armenian church had been near that colony; the Armenians consider his visit a great favour – vid. [vide] p. [page] 5 column 3 and same p. [page] and column vid. [vide] – Leipsic [obsolete form of Leipzig] book-trade. 300 foreign book sellers there at the Easter fair – (2 fairs a year) – wherever a book is printed (in Germany) it must be sold at Leipsic – every book seller of any eminence throughout the Confederation has an agent there – the no. [number] of booksellers and music sellers at L- [Leipsic] = 119 – n° of sheets annually printed = about 40,000,000 and weight of bales of books brought there every year = about 30,000 cwt. [centum weight] –

Had just written the last 14 lines and written out accounts of yesterday now at 11.05 – very fine day – then till 1 o’clock writing to M- [Mariana Lawton] 2 1/2 pp. [pages] except a few lines written yesterday morning of p. [page] 1.

[marginal notes] Vc; Vc; Vc; Vc; Vc; Vc; Leipsic fair

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[diary page(s) > SH:7/ML/E/24/0096 & SH:7/ML/E/24/0097]

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Notes: It’s amazing how accurate Anne’s way of recording references is. It is very easy to search for articles she quotes. I personally love the fact that she wrote down the Bacon’s quote, it just makes sense.

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whatdoesshedotothem · 2 years

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dull morning F58° at 8 am felt cold – put on knee-caps again (had I not worn them yesterday or Thursday) and worsted stockings – all ready to be off and breakfast and off to Waterloo at 9 ½ - Calêche took Oddy and George – had not room for Lion – the forest of Soignies in process of down cutting – sold by the ex-king a little before the revolution to the Bank of Brussels (said our Waterloo guide) and now selling off by the Bank, to be turned into agricultural land – jolting pavé all the way made A-‘s back of neck bad – alight at the village of Waterloo at 11 10 opposite the little garden where the M. of Angleseys’ leg was buried – just go in and see the outside the building for which had afterwards to pay 0/50 – then our woman guide took us to the church and fetched the old man to let us in for which paid him 1/. the entrance end crowded with monuments to the English etc. etc. killed 16, 17 and 18 June 1815. one monument to the memory of 24 officers and 375 non commissioned ditto and privates of the 70th Highlanders – the M. d’ Anglesey here 2 years ago, and dined in the room where his leg was cut off, and sent the people a portrait of himself – from the church to the little churchyard the English officers buried in the middle in the avenue of limes – at entrance end of it, Sir Alexander Gordon buried aid de camp to the duke of Wellington who never comes without going to his grave – Sir Alexander was in the act of speaking to or had just been speaking to the duke when the cannon ball took him off – M. [Mise], banker of Brussels, has a chateau at Waterloo, and is the principal proprietor – In returning went into a café, en haut, for which gave ½ fr. asked for sols for a franc the full change for which the woman was reluctant to give me till she heard what she was to have for herself – then got into the carriage at 12 again opposite La poste a neat looking Inn where the duke of Wellington had slept, and drove off to the village of St. Jean and alighted (did not go in) at an auberge at 12 ¼ - there our man guide joined us, and there commenced our little tour – the man was one of 3 servants at the farm of St. Jean (aetatis 17 at the time – the master se sauvait) – where so many of the wounded were – the house and farm buildings and court yard full – passed this for some distance and then direct to the montagne de Lion, the great tumulus erected 7 years afterwards on the spot where the prince of Orange was wounded (in the shoulder) – the whole height 200ft. from surface of ground to top of bronze lion weighing 1048lbs. cast by Cokerill of Liège – the apex of the tumulus 100ft. diameter – conspicuous from far – ascended to the top by steps cut out in side of the embanked earth and faced with wood – 5 minutes ascending and 35 minutes at the top – enjoying the fine prospect (charming day – nor hot nor cold, nor wind, nor dust) and conning over our plan of the battle bought at St. Jean village of where we left the carriage – got a thorough understanding of the different positions and then at 1 35 down again and off to Hougoumont thus written by the duke of W- in his despatch from La belle Alliance, instead of château de Goumont, an easy mistake now perpetuated by the celebrity of the written and the writing – an English officer who had fought in the battle (of no great appearance) was on the mountain with a party of ladies and gentlemen while we were there – but from what I overheard our guide seemed the better of the 2 – the proprietor of the quondam chateau de Goumont, M. de Goumont, is now living in the neighbourhood of Brussels? did the man say – government bought the place of him and leave it as was after the battle as a monument of the battle – good taste – the then outbuildings form the present farm-house – the chateau (the chapel and well house remain) was burnt down and all the wounded as many or [more]

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French than English perished in the flames – the French under Jerome Buonaparte and General Foy finding they could not take this key of our position, set it on fire – the wood then close in front of the garden that made it so strong, is now cut down and turned into common ground – the place was at the time exceedingly strong undercover of this wood – the French had no idea of the strength of this position – the duke of Wellington arrived from Brussels in the morning of the 17th and took up this position – the French did not arrive till evening – it rained the whole of the 16th and 17th Friday and Saturday night and day so that on the 18th many of the men fought up to their knees in water or mud – vide the account of the battle given by Sir Walter Scott in Pauls’ letters to his kinfolk – A- had been very poorly in the back of her neck and sickish perhaps from the rough pavé in coming but on leaving Hougoumont at 2 5 thought she could make the round by La belle Alliance (double distance) and off we set across the fields – merely looked at the house in passing slowly by – as we stood opposite it was the room on the left of the door where the duke of Wellington and Blucher met in the evening of the 18th ‘se mutuellement saluant vainques’ according to the inscription over the door – La grange (the barn) adjoining this room was built after the battle – Napoleon who had rested there quite s’y reposait à midi, proceed with his imperial guard about 2/3 of the way to the 2 monuments (going from La belle alliance to St. Jean the left to Sir Alexander Gordon the right to Alten and his Hanoverians – close on each side the road to Nivelles) and seeing the battle lost wished to fall there with his guard, but Soult said ‘Sire les Anglais sont assez heureux’ and Napoleon turning his head round 3 times (said our guide) criait, sauve qui peut, and himself made the best of his way to Nivelles ........ and Paris – Did Soult thus add to his masters’ happiness or to his reputation? Marius sitting on the ruins of Carthage, and Napoleon at St. Helena!!! Our walk from Hougoumont to the carriage at the hameau (village) of St. Jean took us 1 5 hour till 3 10 – sat 10 minutes in the carriage till the horses were put to and off back again at 3 20 and alighted at Bellevue at 5 10 – the servants dined and so did we very comfortably – our dinner on the table in about ¼ hour – sat over it quietly – paid all – capital Inn – our apartment (n°99) really very spacious comfortable but somehow nor A- nor I had felt well at B- and were not sorry to be off – Off at 6 55 – of the 2 routes equally good, equally beautiful, and of the same length (taking the whole distance from B- to Louvain) said Mr. de Profts’ proxy , I chose the one I believe I went with Lady S- and Lady VC. in 1829, viz. by Tervuren (the other its by Cortenberg [Kortenberg]) and a beautiful drive it is of 2 postes tho’ the road is for the greater part like a green-sided fosse 8 or 9 ft. below the surface of the beech forest thro’ which it passes – at 7 ½ descend to goof white-washed village and steep ascent out of it, and at the top the road se bifurqué – the 2 roads meet – we keep straight or rather inclining left – the other road, right, and enter a fine beautiful perspective as of a long green aisle beech avenue which continues ½ hour (our 4 horses allant bon train) till 8 when in ten minutes we change horses at goodish little town of Tervuren – from there the postboy charitably drove us generally on the parterre – the 2 leaders fresh and spirited and A- nervous – passed 2 good handsome chateaux? country houses just out of the town – the avenue to Louvain chiefly of poplars – but the light had failed us long before our alighting at comfortable hotel de Suède at 9 ¾ - 2 very good bedrooms and servants rooms for 8fr. – the servants supped – A- and I would take nothing – had the beds warmed – Oddy curled A-‘s hair as she lay on the sofa, and she was in bed (after taking the juice of an orange warmed with hot water) before 11 – I sat writing out all but the 1st 6 or 7 lines of today till 12 5 according to my watch as I have gone by it today but the women of the house here said it was only 9 when we arrived instead of 9 ¾ - was she not wrong? she was expecting the last railway train from Brussels – 4 trains a day arrive here, - the last at 9 ½ pm. – very fine day – F58 ½° now at 12 10 tonight according to time as I have noted it during the day

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awhilesince · 4 years

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Monday, 24 November 1828

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set off with our united best regards to Mr Mrs William Priestley, the woodcock that my father received with 2 pheasants posted from Mr Robinson (John to take it for his daughter Martha to take) and wrote a few lines on a scrap of an old letter back — thanks for the parcel of books posted and hope to see her in the course of a few days and will return the books lent — “Have you succeeded?” meaning have they got a free presentation to Christ‘s hospital — then tied up Cronhelm and ordered 3/4 ream wool and 4 dozen black edged and highly glazed like that ordered for Marianna for the Belcombes — my father and Marian going in the gig to Siland, will leave the book at Whitley‘s — all this and 1 thing or other reading over what I wrote yesterday in Extract volume E and seeing that it was right etc took me from 7 to near 8 — read to the end of the account of Christ‘s hospital, having got before to p. 66. ’Tis a very nice little book entitled (lent by Mr Priestley ordered days ago)

“a brief history of Christ’s Hospital, with a List of the Governors 4th edition London printed for Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange and Hurst, Chance, and Company St. Paul’s Churchyard” Printer “W. I. Catline, Jamaica Row, Bermondsey.” 1 volume octavo pages 91.

Breakfast at 8 20/60 just before set Throp to take up the great thorn under the [sic] on the pit hill at the bottom of the Allen Car — went out at 8 3/4 met William Keighley junior just come — went with him to fell in the Cunnery Plantation — with him and to the walling along common wood to be taken at 3 pence a rood — got back to William Keighley at 12 1/4 — (John did not come to Throp till after 11 had to stay to get the gig ready for my father and sister —(William Keighley only 1/2 hour at his dinner at 1 1/4) Mr Samuel Warkington came at 2 and brought me a plan of the Dr D— coal — went to Wellroyde about a pick-ax then with William Keighley felling the great sycamore in Lower brook Ing wood about 10 feet wood at 1/6 and valued at 16/.) and a small sycamore 1/6 in Pumplane wood and a sycamore higher up in Pump Lane 6 1/2 feet wood valued at 9/.), then back to the Cunnery plantation — agree to take a thousand and one hundred oaks of William Keighley at 40/. and 42/. bought of Lea nurseryman in Warley on the low side the Burnley road — about 4 all hundreds and William Green and the sledge and 2 horses to get away thorn to near the well in the Allen car - got it well then — propped the low side with stones putting all the long main roots as before up the hill — no great root down the hill — had it set so as to be safe at 5 20/60 and got home (too dark to work longer) at 5 1/2 —

Dressed — William Keighley brought the oaks — Dinner at 6 20/60 — asleep afterwards — came upstairs at 9 5/60 —settled with Cordingley for last week and wrote the whole of this page — Mosey here sawing up but not has companion — he thought some accident must have happened Mrs Veitch very poorly — water on the chest — Marian thinks she will not get better — they have found a wife for our vicar Miss Horsfall of Spring Grove Huddersfield — sister to Mrs Norris which latter Drinks —

very fine day - Fahrenheit in my room 60° now at 9 50/60 —

the sycamore cut down in the Cunnery planatation including the other 3 (vide above) valued at £ 5.2.0 ready money deducting on this account 5 per cent or about 5/. William K— Keighley thinks that there will be about 150 feet of wood in the sycamore left standing in the planatation which one should reckon at 1/4 per cent feet — not large enough to arrange 1/6 per cent — so that we have left about ten-pounds worth — Mosey told me this morning, the railing done all the posts at 3 yards distance should be worth 3 dime a rood more = 1/3 per rood, and sawing up worth 1/. per rood — William Green stops at 9 for 20 minutes and then came up again —

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