No diary entry today [up at] 7 [to bed at] 11 1/4 no kiss ground covered with snow – fine frosty morning Fahrenheit 39° at 7 50/.. – out a few minutes – sent George for Charles Howarth – saw the gardeners coming – Pickles not come – came in at 8 10/.. – very hard frost – breakfast at 8 1/2 in 1/2 hour – just before and after till 10 20/.. read very attentively from page 40 to 5 Philip on Indigestion – sent by George before breakfast paper to Whitley to order Sir Henry Parnell on Road making for Adney and Quain’s anatomical (lithographed) plates with text,…

No diary entry today [up at] 8 5/.. [to bed at] 11 5/.. no kiss rainy stormy windy night and morning till about 9 then high wind but fair and fine over head – breakfast at 9 5/.. in 35 minutes – then came upstairs – between 10 and 11 showers of hail and rain and small snow – prayers in 32 at 12, – and sat with my aunt 1/4 hour afterwards – before and after breakfast and after prayers read from page 20 to 36 Turner’s Chemistry and for the 2nd time the 1st 12 pages of Philip on Indigestion and read 2 or 3 articles in Hooper’s…

No diary entry today [up at] 7 20/.. [to bed at] 12 no kiss rainy windy night and morning and Fahrenheit 43 1/2 now at 8 1/4 a.m. – the round table from Joseph Hepworth came last night – getting into the blue room and siding till breakfast at 9 in 35 minutes – then dusting books in the library – Had Washington – his valuation of fixtures etc. to be taken of Henry Pearson of the Stump Cross Inn = £56.17.0 – objected to nothing but 14/. worth of set-stones in or about the garden put down as a fence – the brewing pan (iron) etc. £15 odd and…

No diary entry today [up at] 7 [to bed at] 11 1/4  no kiss the ground covered with snow, but not deep, and Fahrenheit 40° at 8 a.m. and fine morning overhead – out 3/4 hour with Throp shewing him where thorns are to be planted – then fetched Charles Howarth to his work – a few minutes with my father and Marian – breakfast at 8 50/.. to 9 1/4 – off with Adney at 9 1/2 walked with her to the style into the Crownest fields – then on returning stopt in Lower brea wood till near 12 when we got a cart of 11 (smaller) sycamores off…

No entry today. [up at] 7 3/4  [to bed at] 11 35/.. no kiss fine morning, high wind – Fahrenheit 45 3/4° at 8 1/4 a.m. then out for a minute or 2 with Charles and James Howarth boring sleepers for the drift – should have gone to the garden planting sycamores at the top of the remain of the old Conery Lane but rain drove me in – came to my study – read 14 pages – breakfast at 9 5/.. in an hour – then being rainy windy morning sat reading (in the blue room by Adney drawing etc.) from 10 10/.. to 2 20/.. (including the 14…

No entry today. [up at] 7 35/.. [to bed at] 11 no kiss fine morning Fahrenheit 47 1/2° at 8 40/.. at which hour went out till breakfast at near 10 – with Pickells and about   Pickells and his brother and lad and George Pickells with Pickells’s cart (one horse) carting down the stone from the wall along the great sycamore – A- [Adney] rewrote her letter to her sister to express herself differently about Patterson and when she had done  it struck me Mrs. S-‘s [Sutherland’s] not A-‘s [Adney’s] calculation was right about the interest the S-’s [Sutherlands] had to pay her  so blotted out five whole lines…

No entry today. [up at] 8 20/.. [to bed at] 12 no kiss rainy but fair at 9 windy (high wind last night and now) morning and Fahrenheit 47 1/2° at 9 35/.. – breakfast – Had Washington – Left me the plan and measurement of Yewtrees wood Quarry – 1448 yards of whole stone got exclusive of skirt posts and ruttle – Henry Pearson would not give possession of the Stump Cross Inn land yesterday – told Samuel Washington to go again about it today; and if he could not get possession, to tell Mr. Parker to try – Samuel Washington got possession of the Mytholm farm land, and…

No entry today. [up at] 7 55/.. [to bed at] 12 20/.. no kiss rainy morning – yet having [sent] to Throp last night for his son and another man, they came at 8 10/.. – hurried and downstairs at 8 35/.. – out with young Throp and his man – set them at work in Lower brea wood to get up large young sycamores – breakfast at 9 1/2 in 1/2 hour – then Marian’s young friend being gone, Adney and I went to my father for 1/2 hour and Marian returned from Halifax in the mean while – then out at the drybridge with Pickells and his lad…

No diary entry today [up at] 9 10/.. [to bed at] 11 1/4 no kiss fine morning Fahrenheit 45 1/2° at 10 1/4 at which hour breakfast – Read the 1st 18 pages of Philip on Indigestion – much pleased with the manner of the work – prayers at 12 1/4 in 35 minutes – Adney read more than half – my cold so bad today, as well as yesterday and Friday could scarce read at all – after prayers till 2 wrote all but the 1st six lines of yesterday – Matthew brought note from the Philosophical society to announce the next monthly meeting – at church in 1/2…

No diary entry today [up at] 9 10/.. [to bed at] 12 no kiss fine morning Fahrenheit 43º at 10 – breakfast – Adney had Mr. Lampleugh Hird for 10 minutes about 10 1/2 about her not signing the lease, she objecting to bind herself to pay his and her own prospective property tax on the place (a general property tax being chiefly thought of and wished for by the whigs?) – he at last proposed her letting the lease stand as it is for the ten years, and to say nothing about the other 7 years for which Mr. Lampleugh Hird has an option, under the lease, of having…