| Description | Particular details include Charlotte's return of a petition against the 'Deceased Wife's sister's Bill' on 7 January, and the departure of Mary Ann Adams from the household's domestic staff, 'an excellent servant' on 21 October. There are also details of Charlotte's domestic responsibilities - she runs a 'butter account', 28 April, gives out stores in the parish, 9 October, 'weighs powders', continues teaching her children, helps at night school classes, and maintains a 'newspaper extract book', 23 May. She even notes matters of family discipline - 'Cecil had to be flogged for bullying H', 7 September.
Throughout the diary Charlotte continues to record with frankness her medical ailments. These include a 'slight congestion in the lung', 25 May, and severe piles. Remedies for the latter include bread poultices and laudanum injections, January. Having experienced sustained internal pain for some time she is operated on at home on 24 March. Daily visits from the doctor identify 'castor oil the chief case of [her] misery'. Her convalescence means that she is unable to travel for over a week.
The Bagots holiday in Hastings and Tunbridge in April, and at Bournemouth in August. Holiday activities include reading on the cliffs, visiting a flower show with a band at the Cranborne gardens, on 27 August, and a visit to Boxcome - mention is made of the 'very beautiful church' on 9 August. The children are also photographed, and taken onto the sands to fly their kite on 14 September.
Reading matter includes 'Liddon on St Paul', reads from 'The Catholic Review', 'Life of Schwartz', 'Love of the Atonement', G. Elliot [?Eliot], 'Some Elements of Religion', 'Priestly Life in Seventeenth Century France',
'speeches on the bill', 11 July, Pusey, 'Newman on Miracles' |