Diary Comparison

Thursday 20th November 1834

Ann Walker’s Entry

Anne Lister’s Entry

Moses Barker & Henry Gledhill whom I had sent for said they had neither of them given leave or encouragement to the hunt in any way to come – Moses Barker said he had laid out a great deal of money on the property & built, all the walls – Heblet Junior came to complain of the hunt – said he himself set his back against his own gate & declared he would try his strength with the first man who attempted to come thro’ – he had a long talk with Mr. Jeremiah Dyson who asked whose property it was – Heblet replied “you are cousins & how can you for shame come here; Heblet enquired if Mr. Jeremiah Dyson had heard from the Captain lately or how he was – he said no & he never wished to hear from thim again – used shocking Language – & swore at Heblet’s father – Outram came with cloaks – bought brown & white marked with brown – 20/- & 22/ per yard – said he was making something new which he thought would be serviceable for carriage linings – that the grey wool of which my cloak was made could not be bought now for love or money – he had a long conversation with dearest about introducing his things in Town – she told him he offered them there too low – rain came on & did not get out of doors at all –

Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale WYC:1525/7/1/5/1/32

[up at] 8 20/..

[to bed at] 11 1/2 

no kiss very fine morning Fahrenheit 49° at 9 40/.. at which hour downstairs and Moses Barker and John Jagger just come – Barker a civil good sort of man and talks like a good farmer – pays £46 per annum for 20 dayworks and Gledhill pays £26! for 27 dayworks equally good land if well farmed – but bad buildings – wants £100 laying out – but it might be inferred that Gledhill is a shiftless fellow at too low a rent – the hunters had always done damage very glad to get rid of them – Mr. George Pollard struck Barker’s wife a heavy cut with his whip last year because she held his horse not wishing to let him pass thro’ their side bar without paying – which however he succeeded in doing – Barker went after him – Pollard said he was in a passion and must be excused but told Barker to call on him which he never did – Pickels came also to tell of hunters in Holcans wood yesterday and his friend Mr. Atkinson came with him – I had him in the drawing room and left Adney to hear Pickels’s story – said I had no objection to his Atkinson’s shooting with Pickels – Atkinson is a Wortley man – there was a snug meeting of Wortley men last night to consider what should be done – then came a man from Scotland to get subscriptions for some works published in Edinburgh I declined having anything to do with them – then came Henry Gledhill – civil – did not encourage hunters – should be glad to get rid of them – then came Heblet (whom I scarcely saw having Adney the while) with loud complaint against the hunters for damage done yesterday – complained more particularly of Mr. Jeremiah Dyson, and the huntsman – Eastwood with them a busy encourager of the hunt – after 11 or near 12 before Adney and I could sit down to breakfast and then had not done when came Mr. Benjamin Outram of Greatland near Halifax (cousin to Isaac Thwaite of Southowram) to shew us his lama-hair shawl and cloak-pieces – seems an ingenious man – had him into our little dining room to take wine – said a lens was his pattern-card – a green, just-bursting-into-leaf bush, or an ivyed wall beautiful thro’ a lens – an analysis of the light, into points – the lens had not been enough attended to – this and many of Sir Isaac Newton’s discoveries not sufficiently followed up – bought £7.10.0 worth – 4 yards at 22/. for 21/. per yard 3 1/2 at 20/. on which no 5 percent allowed – it seems he has just opened a connection with Somerset house ‘Messrs Halling Pearce and Stone, Cockspur street London’ – told him his prices should have been set higher for the London market – has 2000 yards ready – about 1400 for gentlemen and 600 ditto for ladies – gentlemens black pelon (i.e. ‘Spanish for long hair’ or shag) at 24/. per yard would make a good comfortable travelling cloak – wished for an introduction to Stultz the tailor – advised his calling on him and stating fairly his article and prices, and if Stultz did not take going to the next tailor of eminence – Outram said he would call occasionally and tell us what he had new – staid till 1 20/.. he would shake hands with me   I did it but did not like it tho’ I did not shew my dislike – sat with Adney at her luncheon – then with Mrs. Lee and her assistant and Charles and James Howarth doing up the bed in our room tent room and with the 2 painters till near 1/2 after 3 – then wrote the whole of today till 4 – then again with the workpeople and with my father and Marian till 5 – then read 1/2 hour from page 458 to 468 Bakewell’s geology when William Keighley came (his father William died a short while ago) about Spigs colliery – my letter not received till yesterday – said they had no intention of buying any coal without 1st agreeing with me about the loose – should not have any coal of Mr. Dean – it was valued too high – besides, could not get it without agreeing with Stocks – he had bought all the coal in the waste, and therefore claimed a road they should have to cross – said I was sorry William Keighley had anything to do with Spigs colliery if he had bought his share under an idea of having a right to my loose – he said no! they knew they had no right – I explained about Mr. Clarke’s coming in the queer way he did – annoyed – said they had no right to shew at all even for Spigs land – but as William Keighley had come about it fairly I did not wish to be too hard – He said Holt my agent had said I had said I would take £5 an acre for the loose – I answered that I had not bound myself as to what I would take but I had valued the loose at £10 per acre and Holt had only the other day advised me to take £5 saying times were hard etc. but that he behaved very well and wished me to employ somebody else in this particular case on account of his relationship to the 2 young Holts (his cousins) – said I would consider about it – would speak to some collier about it (not saying whom) and let William Keighley know – I should want a regular agreement with power to send an agent to measure for me – to which William Keighley made no objection – said I might send any time – It seems Wilson has got down to the soft bed but something the matter with the engine that it will not work just at present – his estate doubly mortgaged – Mr. Christopher Ward has the 2nd mortgage – Wilson can loose Stocks but Stocks will not pay him much for the loose – mentioned the subject of James Keighley’s window overlooking the Northgate property – James Keighley very ill – Joshua Keighley has bought Johnny Flather’s little farm for something more than £700 – said I had offered him something more than that – but he had asked me £1200 – Johnny Flather had at 1st told Joshua Keighley that Mr. James Norris had bid him £1000 but Mr. James Norris denied it – I said Joshua Keighley had bought it dear enough – yes! said William Keighley – there was not much to be got out if it, and his brother did not care about selling it – as if I might have it if I chose – to which I merely said I did not care about it – dinner after all this talk at 6 1/4 – Adney read aloud a chapter or 2 of volume i Last days of Pompeii, and told me the story of the rest to the end of the volume – then read me about a chapter of volume ii – while she read to herself I read the 1st 63 pages volume i Italy etc. by the author of Vathek (i.e. Mr. Beckford) – had Marian a little while – 20 minutes with my aunt till 10 5/.. then wrote the above of this page till 10 25/.. – soft, small rainy, or damp, hazy day – Fahrenheit 45° now at 10 25/.. p.m. Mrs. Lee and her assistant and Charles and James Howarth finished doing up our bed –

Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale SH:7/ML/E/17/0111

** The next day button will show a 404 error until the corresponding comparison date post is published to the website (on the exact date of the journal entries)

In Search Of Ann Walker

Researching Ann Walker in the archives and online - Ensuring her legacy is continued.

%d bloggers like this: