Diary of Rev Edward Stevens

Bright, but east wind and intensely cold. Thermometer in my bedroom where there was a fire 33° only. I did not go out. Harry and his wife were to go down to Windermere today.

Bright but very cold E wind like a Blizzard. About 70 persons present in church this morning and 90 this afternoon, Rose and I called on Miss Sarah Dicks on our way home from church this afternoon. I got through my duties fairly well, but it was extremely cold at my end of the church.

I renewed my cold yesterday and to get rid of it lay in bed till tea time.

Lewis Poulton called at my request. I paid him his account for last year. He took £1.9s instead of £1.11.1 and I retained the hurdles. I spoke to him about the proposed lectures on gardening, and he said he would summon the Flower Show Committee. I gave him the papers.

Rosa heard from Bell this morning and from Louie on Saturday. They have brought Percy from the Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria, where he has been ill for four or five months at a cost of something like £25 a week. He is now with his mother at Hawtree. Bell left there on Thursday last and is now staying with Mrs Lindsay Page at Chislehurst. She is to go to Mrs Morgan’s at White House Honour-Oak park on Tuesday.

Poulton told me that the Parish Council had applied to the Charity Commissioners for permission to appoint 9 additional Trustees of the Sibford Charities.

I received School Grant Annual Fee, amounting to £90.3.6 from Education Department and sent it on to London and County Bank, Banbury.