…Dame Akehurst, a-washing for me all day, dined with me on a piece of beef boiled and potatoes. At home all day and pretty busy. A very cold frosty day…
Paid Dame Akehurst 18d for 2 days’ washing. In the evening busy a-writing and read part of Butler’s Posthumous Works. How glad should I be to get off that melancholy gloom which continually hangs on my mind.