No diary entry today [up at] 7 40/..[to bed at] 11 25/.. no kiss fine frosty morning – Fahrenheit 38° at 10 40/.. – ready in 3/4 hour – out a little while – a little while with Marian – breakfast at 9 in 1/2 hour – then had Mr. Jubb to bandage and put compression on my right wrist sprained a week or 10 days ago – a considerable ganglion produced by the escape of the synovial fluid – will be a month before it is well – then went with him to see my aunt’s leg dressed – her pulse good – she may continue a considerable time…

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…