Dull and warm all day. Drove Rosa, Kitty Rogers and Miss Sottick to Banbury.
M. Carnot, president of the French Republic, was assassinated at Lyons Sunday night last.
Received letter from Emma Woolcock. She and he have been appointed to one of the Almshouses of the Clothworkers’ Company of which he has been a Freeman for 53 years. She asks me to send her some eggs and some roots.
A real summer day. Spoke with F. Inns about work being done at Heliwell Spring in the Church Close under orders of Rural Sanitary Authority. He asked my permission to put a drain to improve the footpath which I gave.
Visited Mary Sabin, Miss Sabin, Mrs C Barnes and Mrs Shelswell. Sophie and Maud Smith came to tea. I walked as far as Galley Hill with them on their return. Kitty and Miss Sottick with me.
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