Good grubble last night, she snored I count days and hours to getting rid of her – half hour asleep on the pot this morning then dressed and
Ready at 8 1/2 and then Fahrenheit 52˚ and rainy morning - breakfast at 8 3/4 – fine for 1/2 hour – then rain again at 10, and fair again and out with Miss Walker and Eugénie and our guide Mr George? Howe at 10 3/4 – having put on old moiré dress and made myself fit for rain and dirty streets –
Walked round the 3 fine docks, Humber dock, junction (or middle) ditto, and old dock lined with warehouses stored with hides, wooll, cotton goods for Hamburg, bones for home tillage etc. etc. then to the citadel – the 53rd there – walked through the barrack yard, a fine open space – the broad foss full of water this and the circumvallation very neat and well kept –
Then into the shop of Sancr cabinet maker and upholsterer water works street, some neat light chairs at 14/. – inquired for French bed – then saw the carriages of the great coach maker in Carr Lane – then to the Botanic garden – a little way out of the town on the Anlaby road – there at 12 40/.. – 5 acres – established 20 years ago, yet nothing very rare or worth in the gardens – 3 nice green houses neatly kept – supported, though not very well, by annual subscriptions and selling plants – low, wet, clayey, bad ground for a garden – cut beech hedges bottom filled up with privet might be worth imitation? about 1/2 hour there –
Returned by Albion Street – saw the new assembly rooms and museum there in 1 not quite finished handsome brick building – the museum a gallery lighted by 14 windows in the top, covered, 12 foot square height, and 18 foot to the windows or top of the covering – a good many, perhaps arranged nearly as well as their motley nature admits – opposite 1 end of this building (the ball-room a squary very lofty in proportion quite plain room with raised orchestra at the end) is the new public dissecting room in the Egyptian style – I suppose the medical museum is kept there – rang 3 times but nobody came – the people much against it – will perhaps pull it down – a woman buried the other day at seven was taken up at 12 at night – a man saw 2 men steal the body – to be tried at York –
Sauntered homewards looking into shop windows in Whitefriargate Silver Street etc. went into Trinity church large handsome old gothic – handsome painted glass east window about 1/2 just done and put up, to cost a £1000 – done by ‘Thomas Ward Esquire artist, 57 Frith Street, Soho Square, London – this address got for me by the woman who shewed the church from the church warden W.B Day who, she said, wished to know everything and begged to have my address in return which I wrote down ‘Miss Lister, Paris’ – the gothic arch part of the window done in divers small designs – below 3 rows of large figures 7 in each row – our saviour and 6 apostles in the 1st – virgin and child and other 6 apostles in the 2nd and the 7 cardinal virtues Faith, hope, charity, justice, Prudence, Temperance and fortitude – creditable to the artist – if all this = £1000 perhaps a Saint James the elder might be done for £100? A small library of old books fathers and classics belonging to the church is kept under the vicar’s lock and key –
Then to the Trinity house at 2 3/4 – a good while there – seeing several North American (Esquimaux) and other curiosities in a few tolerable rooms floors lightly strewed with rushes (queen Elizabeth’s carpet) fresh every 3 months – 30 rooms in the house for old sailors and their widows? Trinity hospital at a little distance, an old looking building said our guide –
Then looked into the public library in the Parliament Street – the largest and best about 15000 volumes – got Miss Bedingfeld’s address South Humber bank Bellevue terrace – Looked into the cabinet makers shop of T & G Carlill, 15 Whitefriargate – best, said our guide, in Hull, or as good as any – nothing worth seeing – but would make common with castors French bedstead painted rose wood colour and varnished 6 foot 3 inches within and 3 foot 3 inches broad for 2.10.0 Hair mattress 2.0.0 paillasse 28/. 1 square pillow and bolster best feathers 1.11.6 = £8.9.6 i.e. 9/6 more than I am to pay Hubrie in York for the same – would make a rather different sort of French bedstead (castors) but made up (boxed up) close to the ground, very neat, for £6 in mahogany and £3 in imitation rosewood –
Then walked to South Humber bank, Bellevue terrace – nice neat small houses overlooking the river – home at 4 3/4 dismissed our guide, and poked about in shops near home till 5 20/.. – dinner at 5 1/2 – hare soup, small smelts roast loin of small but not very tender mutton – tarts, custards and jellies, and soda water 2 bottles for me and 1 with juice of 1/2 lemon and sugar for Miss Walker - comfortable – wrote out the above of today till 8 1/4 p.m. – meant to have gone to the theatre tonight, but too idle –
My cousin came gently about noon or before this morning took no notice till night and then put on one white worsted stocking to be soft and keep all safe –
Went to the steam packet office – the Transit, 160 horse power, and monarch 140 ditto ditto will start probably Friday 22 February and run every Friday from here to Hamburg in from 56 to 60 hours – after cabin 4 guineas (instead of 5 and fore cabin 2 1/2 guineas instead of 3 1/2 to encourage passengers – carriages 1 1/2 guineas per wheel horses 5 guineas each ∴ (therefore) self 4.4.0 two servants 5/5/0 carriage 6.6.0 = £15.15.0 + expenses from Shibden to the time of embarking suppose = £26.0.0 to take me back to Hamburg – not ruinous –
Saw several fine whalers in dock this morning of 500 tons burden - distinguished by knees faced with iron round the lower part of the stern to cut through the ice –came home late this year – the last in November with 36 whales – go out in February – the sugar refinery and soap mill not shewn –
Hull not so good a town as I had fancied, nor shops so good – tea at 9 1/2 – talk – looking over plan of Hull in Baine’s Directory – went to my room at 11 35/.. –
Rainy morning vide line 2 of today, but fine day high wind along the water from about 10 1/2 for the rest of the morning afternoon and evening – Fahrenheit 48˚ at 12 tonight –
