Very mild. A good deal of sunshine. Bessie left by 3.50 pm train from Hook Norton. I drove her and Bell. The roads were extremely heavy with mud and I feared we should miss the train in consequence. But we just caught it. Sent Laura Burton’s B S Book and our Sibford Penny Bank Book to Mr Bliss to transfer 8/- and enclosed 2d in stamps for their return.
Harry wrote to his mother and told that she must not be surprised to hear of his being married very shortly. I told him in a letter I wrote this afternoon that I hoped he would not think of taking such a step till he had paid his debts and could afford to keep a wife.
I visited Anna Young and Jane Messenger and took them some mutton. It has been showery and windy all day, with a few bits of sunshine occasionally.
xxiv Sunday after Trinity. Fine and mild. HC 14: 9/6.
Rev W E Paige, late of Masterton New Zealand preached this afternoon for SPG. 15s 6d. He came here to tea after service. I drove to Swalcliffe and left Mr Paige there to preach. Then I went on to Tadmarton and preached there for SPG. The church looked very nice. The service was bright and hearty and the singing is greatly improved. This is the first time I have preached in the church since its restoration. I afterwards took supper with Mr and Mrs Riddle.
Fine. I’m afflicted with a troublesome cough. Visited Miss Sabin, Mr and Mrs Elley, Miss Dix. Went to tea – dinner with Dr Routh. Miss Grace was there with her attendant Miss Haywood, Mr Mealey and a gentleman from California, both of whom are patients. Mary Thame as housekeeper and the doctor himself.
A lovely day. My cough was so troublesome that I lay in bed till tea time, and did not go out at all.
Heavy rain nearly all day. Heard from and wrote to William Green about the Colepepers. Miss Hayward called about some oats at 15/- a quarter which the doctor (Routh) can get from a Mr Phillips of Oakham? a patient of his. I said I might do with two quarters. Routh called this evening to see Bell’s eye, which appears bloodshot since last Friday. He says it will be alright in a day or two. It was caused, he said, by cold wind. I wrote to Julia Sotteck, Koenigsberg.
“Miss Hayward” is presumably the same person as “Miss Haywood” two days ago. The handwriting is very clear for both.
Very cold wind, visited school. Returned Drawing Form to Inspector, at Newbury. Visited Thomas Keen, Job Harris, Mrs Lovell, Widow Robinson, John Webb, Mrs Alcock, Arthur Haynes, William Hawtin. Received letter from Kitty Rogers saying that Percy Mountain was lying very ill with typhoid fever at the Grosvenor Hotel and that his wife was also there ill having recently undergone an operation. I wrote to her in reply.
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