https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectualhistory/files/original/ef6f8eee8e1e820a5e2439d4b494179d.pdf 7770ee5b774c46c8ea7c48e2c50f0408 PDF Text Text ·2208 EXTRACTSFROMAlf ANONY¥0USDIARY OF A TOUR OF FRANCEAND SWITZERLAND MADEIN 1802, BY.A LADY BELIEVED TO BE HARRIETECKERSALL who became the wife of T.R.Malthus on 12th April, 1804. MOTE The tour lasted from Sunday 2nd May, when the party crossed from Dover to Calais, until Wednesday 13th October, when they reached London in time for dinner. The journal consists of 54 closely written pages, roughly 4½11 X 7½", in a note-book which has also been used for sketches (both pencil and pen-and-ink), some acc.ounts, and some "Fragments sur Paris" carefully copied. out in French and dated 1797. There is also a scribble which seems to indicate that a very young child got hold of the book at some time. These~ of the diarist is shown by her shopping-lists - a silk gown, bonnet, chemisette, sewing cotton, and ribbon - as well as by two passages in the journal: the more amusing is when they are crossing the Col de Balme, in an immense cavalcade of mules, and 11.Myself and another of the Ladies" were obliged to ride astride: "The seat was very comfortable upon an ascent but on any at all steep descent we thought we should. fall over the Mules head. 11 Sunday 2. May - 1802. Embar~•d at Dover Quay at 9 A.M., wind. blowing with a kgk 2 hours high swell, had a very short but sickly passage of 1t:f ... The difference Englishman since of costume may not be so apparent the Revolution is the most peculiar, their as before, short the dress Woolen Petticoats great pa~t of ye leg - linen sides of the face, or flapping trast to ye little mobs and. long gowns of our ~cou female very fresh peasantry de Spectacle, - After within jackets about a dinner the enceinte to an of the Women so as to exhibit and. immense caps hiding in the wind, of ragouts INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE form a great crossed - next of the Hotel;~ half con- outJ to the Salle the Theatre INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY the was �22.03 ---- -·--- 2 croude , - the scenery English provincial remarkablle destroyed, Montreuil after - the Roads exceedingly bitterly better Breakfast same manner at the next Poste, signed Inn, at this and very agreeable middle was the first thing complaining - the ManufaC$ures c·omplained in the - but very old Town, found. great the Peace lately satisf'aa.-tion &· Lord. •.• of the streets that ~own-, was not so evident Landlady; Town, seem' d. to occasion 7... The narrowness Friday a very large spoken of with gt Pleasure Cornwallis they but the distress Amiens in the Evening an excellent a miserable of bread by the :Revolution, is now nearly by an immense croud of B.eggars all Town have been lost entered at an - in which there good to Abbeville of the want of work&: the dearness of this than but an old Convent of Religieuses where we were surrounded Ville the acting Theatre .•• Wednesday 5th - left nothing very shabby, struck with the gutters us on entering in the the grande de Paris ••• Sunday 8th [9th May] walk'd where they were celebrating of the true Eveng Frasoati cross up the Mon. Martre, mass, we were told but saw nothing more than to the Eglise, there orisons was an exhibition going forwards. ... Monday 10th - in the Eveng at the Theatre Francais, building interested than the Louvois ... were greatly ~ a much.hansomer by the Mithridate of Racine ... Tuesday 11th - went for the 1st time to the Louvre - the magnificent Repository of the rich spoils of Italy ... found my expectations fully answered in the Appollo of Belvidere ... INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE the Multiplicity of paintings INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY �22i0 3 quite bewilder you on the 1st visit Annibal-Caracchio of Le Christ was the only one that - the beautiful mort, day I carried su.r les it in the Eveng saw l'Abb~ did not please same peice the Jardin curious 14th) [;J 15th. After heard there in which he developed the Dea£ 13th) ... heard - {in the grande at the Th~atre Francais; representation of the - Were at the S;ance In the Morning, des Plantes manufacture Saturday 14uets us so much as the English - (Thursday :B.ody... (Friday at the Louvre de l'Epee of genoux de la Vierge away in my remembrance Wednesday 12th - Spent the Morning again galerie) picture ~ of the Legislative a lecture were very much gratified on Chemistry by viewing at the of the gobelins ... breakfast, went to the Institut des Sourds et from. the Abbe ' Seoard, a most interesting lecture in a,n intelligible manner his Method of instructing a:hDumb... The party remained in Paris until June 7th: they drove to by way of the waterworks of Marly, and.. returned by St. Cloud; they went to Chantilly~ i~n~ixn~; they paid.three more visits to the Louvre, twice to see the works of David, and once to see the French and Flemish schools of painting, where they "took particular noti~e of some beautiful landscapes of Vernets. 11 They saw many plays, about which Harriet writes a great deal, and heard one concer~, about which she says nothing at all. They admired st. Sulpice, "a very beautiful building in the Modern stile of Architecture," but thought High Mass at Notre Dame 11not at all magnificent o:e striking." They spent da~at Versailles, where they much preferred the Trianon to the large formal gardens, and another watching a "grande Parade," 11l4orning of which the diarist writes, 1DI &·Eveng. equally unfortunate ( Saw B.uonaparte at a distance)." At the public: gardens of :itka: Ti voli she ,r saw "Vlalz's" probably for the first time, and wrote, "these last appeared to us ridiculously awkward." What has been quoted is enough, I think, to show that in his future wife Mal thus had found someone whose happy curiosity a.b.out life in general very much resembled his own. There is a possible reference 11M. to to him in the entry for Thursday 27th :May: the rue des petite st. Germain's a INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE c1flNTELLECTUAL HISTORY �2211 4 11Depot des Augustins, 11 and she has interpolated in brackets, 11Nous n 1 avon rien Monuments." For 24th May she has written fa.it, 11 and there are merely dashes for the 2nd June; her final entry about 11(0mitted) this stay in Paris is a note added later: Bibliot~que Nationale, immense suite of apparts, large globes, antique medals, heard a lecture." I quote two more entries about Paris as being of general historical interest. Sun. 30th(!taiJ ••• Proceeded Temple de Mars formerly drapeaux taken to l 1 Hopital a church, now hung round with from the Ennemy, there but not of-this last war; those des Invalides that are to see the innumerabie only two of the English have been taken are kept at 8 the 1 r Consul's. Wednesday 19th ~ay]. Went by five in the afternoon the legislative body - business several were read by Members of the tribunate proj:ts but indistinctly; d 1 un. ligion Bnonaparte of y e at 9 o clock d'honneur in a clear&: a manner that did not begin the grand projtt was laid before eloquent we did not lose till the speech; to a seance of ½ past 6 [;) • which we heard pour la formation legislators delivered a word. - notwithstanding by Lucien in so distinct the Echo H-all. The party left RKrxs for their Swiss tour on-June 7th, and. returned to Paris on September 25th, when they stayed for ten days at the Hotel Richelieu, where "Mr. Fox had appa.rtments" at the same time. They went to more theatres and to the Louvre a:gar::bl, but this was K£t2 obviously all written up rather cursorilly after they were home again. The account of Switzerland .. consists mainly of. descriptions of scenery: those who enjoy MalthusB diaries will be amused to find that his future wife share~ his fondness for strawberries; it is also interesting to read how calmly they seem to have lef.t Berne at noon on 17th September, when the gates "were allowed to remain open for an hour," and General D'Erlach's army of peasants captured the town on the following_ day. There is an echo of Jane Austen as well as of Ma.lthus in the sentence, "At lUenne found a very good Inn and a very ridiculous La.ndlord": one longs to have travelled with such a party. INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY �2212 5 Pleasant though the diary is, I think there are only three passages of real interest to Malthusians: the first one which I quote concerns a Rousseau pilgrimage, the second refers to a "Mr. Rioardon, 11 and the third describes the conversation with the coachman which Malthus himself reports in Chapter V of Book II of the Second Essay on Population, pagel/1 in the first volume of the Everyman edition. (195'9) Vevey is a much more agreeable country about or Clarens strong,&: 110.-' are the another) n'y were now all vivoient we understood chaumi~re, they might perhaps the Castle but they Sunday 15th the rich finding €ugus,ij woods that hill Julie ensemble" never 'et\ ont jamais on the top of a little la ou ils - it liv - 11 je crois with vineyards&~ et J,aque.s Rousseau d there Rousseau said quand ils go &:visit the Seigneur desorib was there 1 d [;] &: spent the day in hang over the Lake - we had no better but it in finding the bosquets success de Clarens they told. us with Rousseau's had. now rolled. Monday 5th compleat a stone [J.ul~ /coming down the hill through view of Mont BQano: unobscured above the other mounta·ins distance, the horses while notwithstanding rested over the Orbe to which Mr. Ricardon of - we mounted to the top of the Rocks where we could not discover plateau etoient - no, no, it was in that the lake to Meillerie than bien he show'd us a ruin'd covered now and then 1 destroy'd 11 it was the castle cross'd. St Preux station [?) is an old near it but the bosquets told.us "qu'il of Julia of Chatilen small windows of which command a delightful some trees our batelier etoit - went to see the.Chateau the sm~~msd suppos'ilhabitation - there describes cottage not so beautiful gloomy castle, prospec~ (said it town than Lausanne but the into [;J the name on it the lake probably. Signerol this by clouds rising its in infinitely time we had a considerably greater - Mr. M. and I walked down to the bridge had conducted us when we passed I j I I I I I Ii I I I INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE c1flNTELLECTUAL HISTORY �---------- . ---- 6 through Signerol to conduct 3 weeks ago - we met him on our return, us by a very curious to the Inn to desire in the Carriage old Castle the view from it fine Rocks that the highest trust he was gone we e:xaminecithe on: a small the River (;J it remains he has just bought[;] commands a view of the - though 4th J:uly, of Beauty Mr. Ro had not deoeiv'd a "delightful glen" somewhere near the Lao: de J-o~/• INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE to one must not in general our walk well worth the fatigue. [Sunday, us of an Orbe &:you look up immediately of the if«ltxE Jura much to the Swiss idea's we'found eminence that is very beautiful inolose hills Orbe, he ran himseM up our companions would go on to orbe without - while situated foot wa~o he of~ered INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY us - �.2215 6 through Sienerol 3 weeks ago - we met him on our return, he offered to conduct us by a very curious foot wa~o Orbe, he ran himself up to the Inn to desire our companions would go on to orbe without us· in the Carriage - while he was gone we examined the remains of P.n old Castle situnted on a small eminence that he has just bought[,] the view from it is vory beautiful(,] it commands a view of the fine Rooke that inolose the Rivor Orbe & you look up immediately to the highest hills of the ««ta& Jura - though one must not in general trust much to the Swiss idea's of Beauty Mr. B. had not deoeiv'd we found our walk well worth the fatigue. us-· 4th July, a "delightful glen'• somewhere near the Lao de JouxJ. We found in our wa7 quantities of the finest wood etrawberies & at the source bought an immense provision of them of some young girls - while we sat on the graee to eat them, were much [Sunday, entertain 1 d with the Philoeopio diecource or the driver of our char on th~ over-population of his country, he complain'd much of the extreme early marriages, whioh he said was the 'vice du pays,• & a custom that had originated in a prosperous time & whon a good deal of money could be earn'd by polishing stones & that now when the case was altered & the means of subsistence less, they still continued, "de ae msrier eu sortir de l'E0ole1 they had large families of children who owing to the extreme healthiness of the air never died but from sctue.l want - ha concluded with observing "qu'on ne devoit se merier qu•a quarante ans, et encore e.lor' s qu'e. des viellea :fillos"les jeune~ filles who were sitting near us were much diverted but did not look as if they would te.ke his advice. The Author of a late Essay on Population with whom he held the conversation was greatly interested to hear ma!l1' of hie own ideas in the mouth of a Swiss peasant - Some of our party wishing for milk to drink after their INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY �2216 7 strawberries, rather shamefully it must ba own'd, seiz'd upon e • ono of y Cows by force & milked her - no bribe beine able to corrupt the fidelity of the to him he e~ld not belong he endeavour'd to drive was done & the cow milk'd, money for it while his but his no concern & he his Boy who kept could not sell in the the7 they robbed example seizure them, could hardly the mischief make him take hie no effect of the Cow ohared INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE did nny would do him no good - him praised produced they any of the milk - cows aw&y - even after - the milk was not his A it The theives conduct little honesty [t] & commended those her milk. INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY who had � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Eckersall Family Description An account of the resource On 12th April 1804, Thomas Robert Malthus, then 38, married Harriet Eckersall, who was 28, at the little church of Claverton, near Bath. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document ·2208 EXTRACTSFROMAlf ANONY¥0USDIARY OF A TOUR OF FRANCEAND SWITZERLAND MADEIN 1802, BY.A LADY BELIEVED TO BE HARRIETECKERSALL who became the wife of T.R.Malthus on 12th April, 1804. MOTE The tour lasted from Sunday 2nd May, when the party crossed from Dover to Calais, until Wednesday 13th October, when they reached London in time for dinner. The journal consists of 54 closely written pages, roughly 4½11 X 7½", in a note-book which has also been used for sketches (both pencil and pen-and-ink), some acc.ounts, and some "Fragments sur Paris" carefully copied. out in French and dated 1797. There is also a scribble which seems to indicate that a very young child got hold of the book at some time. These~ of the diarist is shown by her shopping-lists - a silk gown, bonnet, chemisette, sewing cotton, and ribbon - as well as by two passages in the journal: the more amusing is when they are crossing the Col de Balme, in an immense cavalcade of mules, and 11.Myself and another of the Ladies" were obliged to ride astride: "The seat was very comfortable upon an ascent but on any at all steep descent we thought we should. fall over the Mules head. 11 Sunday 2. May - 1802. Embar~•d at Dover Quay at 9 A.M., wind. blowing with a kgk 2 hours high swell, had a very short but sickly passage of 1t:f ... The difference Englishman since of costume may not be so apparent the Revolution is the most peculiar, their as before, short the dress Woolen Petticoats great pa~t of ye leg - linen sides of the face, or flapping trast to ye little mobs and. long gowns of our ~cou female very fresh peasantry de Spectacle, - After within jackets about a dinner the enceinte to an of the Women so as to exhibit and. immense caps hiding in the wind, of ragouts INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE form a great crossed - next of the Hotel;~ half con- outJ to the Salle the Theatre INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY the was 22.03 ---- -·--- 2 croude , - the scenery English provincial remarkablle destroyed, Montreuil after - the Roads exceedingly bitterly better Breakfast same manner at the next Poste, signed Inn, at this and very agreeable middle was the first thing complaining - the ManufaC$ures c·omplained in the - but very old Town, found. great the Peace lately satisf'aa.-tion &· Lord. •.• of the streets that ~own-, was not so evident Landlady; Town, seem' d. to occasion 7... The narrowness Friday a very large spoken of with gt Pleasure Cornwallis they but the distress Amiens in the Evening an excellent a miserable of bread by the :Revolution, is now nearly by an immense croud of B.eggars all Town have been lost entered at an - in which there good to Abbeville of the want of work&: the dearness of this than but an old Convent of Religieuses where we were surrounded Ville the acting Theatre .•• Wednesday 5th - left nothing very shabby, struck with the gutters us on entering in the the grande de Paris ••• Sunday 8th [9th May] walk'd where they were celebrating of the true Eveng Frasoati cross up the Mon. Martre, mass, we were told but saw nothing more than to the Eglise, there orisons was an exhibition going forwards. ... Monday 10th - in the Eveng at the Theatre Francais, building interested than the Louvois ... were greatly ~ a much.hansomer by the Mithridate of Racine ... Tuesday 11th - went for the 1st time to the Louvre - the magnificent Repository of the rich spoils of Italy ... found my expectations fully answered in the Appollo of Belvidere ... INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE the Multiplicity of paintings INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 22i0 3 quite bewilder you on the 1st visit Annibal-Caracchio of Le Christ was the only one that - the beautiful mort, day I carried su.r les it in the Eveng saw l'Abb~ did not please same peice the Jardin curious 14th) [;J 15th. After heard there in which he developed the Dea£ 13th) ... heard - {in the grande at the Th~atre Francais; representation of the - Were at the S;ance In the Morning, des Plantes manufacture Saturday 14uets us so much as the English - (Thursday :B.ody... (Friday at the Louvre de l'Epee of genoux de la Vierge away in my remembrance Wednesday 12th - Spent the Morning again galerie) picture ~ of the Legislative a lecture were very much gratified on Chemistry by viewing at the of the gobelins ... breakfast, went to the Institut des Sourds et from. the Abbe ' Seoard, a most interesting lecture in a,n intelligible manner his Method of instructing a:hDumb... The party remained in Paris until June 7th: they drove to by way of the waterworks of Marly, and.. returned by St. Cloud; they went to Chantilly~ i~n~ixn~; they paid.three more visits to the Louvre, twice to see the works of David, and once to see the French and Flemish schools of painting, where they "took particular noti~e of some beautiful landscapes of Vernets. 11 They saw many plays, about which Harriet writes a great deal, and heard one concer~, about which she says nothing at all. They admired st. Sulpice, "a very beautiful building in the Modern stile of Architecture," but thought High Mass at Notre Dame 11not at all magnificent o:e striking." They spent da~at Versailles, where they much preferred the Trianon to the large formal gardens, and another watching a "grande Parade," 11l4orning of which the diarist writes, 1DI &·Eveng. equally unfortunate ( Saw B.uonaparte at a distance)." At the public: gardens of :itka: Ti voli she ,r saw "Vlalz's" probably for the first time, and wrote, "these last appeared to us ridiculously awkward." What has been quoted is enough, I think, to show that in his future wife Mal thus had found someone whose happy curiosity a.b.out life in general very much resembled his own. There is a possible reference 11M. to to him in the entry for Thursday 27th :May: the rue des petite st. Germain's a INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE c1flNTELLECTUAL HISTORY 2211 4 11Depot des Augustins, 11 and she has interpolated in brackets, 11Nous n 1 avon rien Monuments." For 24th May she has written fa.it, 11 and there are merely dashes for the 2nd June; her final entry about 11(0mitted) this stay in Paris is a note added later: Bibliot~que Nationale, immense suite of apparts, large globes, antique medals, heard a lecture." I quote two more entries about Paris as being of general historical interest. Sun. 30th(!taiJ ••• Proceeded Temple de Mars formerly drapeaux taken to l 1 Hopital a church, now hung round with from the Ennemy, there but not of-this last war; those des Invalides that are to see the innumerabie only two of the English have been taken are kept at 8 the 1 r Consul's. Wednesday 19th ~ay]. Went by five in the afternoon the legislative body - business several were read by Members of the tribunate proj:ts but indistinctly; d 1 un. ligion Bnonaparte of y e at 9 o clock d'honneur in a clear&: a manner that did not begin the grand projtt was laid before eloquent we did not lose till the speech; to a seance of ½ past 6 [;) • which we heard pour la formation legislators delivered a word. - notwithstanding by Lucien in so distinct the Echo H-all. The party left RKrxs for their Swiss tour on-June 7th, and. returned to Paris on September 25th, when they stayed for ten days at the Hotel Richelieu, where "Mr. Fox had appa.rtments" at the same time. They went to more theatres and to the Louvre a:gar::bl, but this was K£t2 obviously all written up rather cursorilly after they were home again. The account of Switzerland .. consists mainly of. descriptions of scenery: those who enjoy MalthusB diaries will be amused to find that his future wife share~ his fondness for strawberries; it is also interesting to read how calmly they seem to have lef.t Berne at noon on 17th September, when the gates "were allowed to remain open for an hour," and General D'Erlach's army of peasants captured the town on the following_ day. There is an echo of Jane Austen as well as of Ma.lthus in the sentence, "At lUenne found a very good Inn and a very ridiculous La.ndlord": one longs to have travelled with such a party. INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 2212 5 Pleasant though the diary is, I think there are only three passages of real interest to Malthusians: the first one which I quote concerns a Rousseau pilgrimage, the second refers to a "Mr. Rioardon, 11 and the third describes the conversation with the coachman which Malthus himself reports in Chapter V of Book II of the Second Essay on Population, pagel/1 in the first volume of the Everyman edition. (195'9) Vevey is a much more agreeable country about or Clarens strong,&: 110.-' are the another) n'y were now all vivoient we understood chaumi~re, they might perhaps the Castle but they Sunday 15th the rich finding €ugus,ij woods that hill Julie ensemble" never 'et\ ont jamais on the top of a little la ou ils - it liv - 11 je crois with vineyards&~ et J,aque.s Rousseau d there Rousseau said quand ils go &:visit the Seigneur desorib was there 1 d [;] &: spent the day in hang over the Lake - we had no better but it in finding the bosquets success de Clarens they told. us with Rousseau's had. now rolled. Monday 5th compleat a stone [J.ul~ /coming down the hill through view of Mont BQano: unobscured above the other mounta·ins distance, the horses while notwithstanding rested over the Orbe to which Mr. Ricardon of - we mounted to the top of the Rocks where we could not discover plateau etoient - no, no, it was in that the lake to Meillerie than bien he show'd us a ruin'd covered now and then 1 destroy'd 11 it was the castle cross'd. St Preux station [?) is an old near it but the bosquets told.us "qu'il of Julia of Chatilen small windows of which command a delightful some trees our batelier etoit - went to see the.Chateau the sm~~msd suppos'ilhabitation - there describes cottage not so beautiful gloomy castle, prospec~ (said it town than Lausanne but the into [;J the name on it the lake probably. Signerol this by clouds rising its in infinitely time we had a considerably greater - Mr. M. and I walked down to the bridge had conducted us when we passed I j I I I I I Ii I I I INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE c1flNTELLECTUAL HISTORY ---------- . ---- 6 through Signerol to conduct 3 weeks ago - we met him on our return, us by a very curious to the Inn to desire in the Carriage old Castle the view from it fine Rocks that the highest trust he was gone we e:xaminecithe on: a small the River (;J it remains he has just bought[;] commands a view of the - though 4th J:uly, of Beauty Mr. Ro had not deoeiv'd a "delightful glen" somewhere near the Lao: de J-o~/• INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE to one must not in general our walk well worth the fatigue. [Sunday, us of an Orbe &:you look up immediately of the if«ltxE Jura much to the Swiss idea's we'found eminence that is very beautiful inolose hills Orbe, he ran himseM up our companions would go on to orbe without - while situated foot wa~o he of~ered INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY us - .2215 6 through Sienerol 3 weeks ago - we met him on our return, he offered to conduct us by a very curious foot wa~o Orbe, he ran himself up to the Inn to desire our companions would go on to orbe without us· in the Carriage - while he was gone we examined the remains of P.n old Castle situnted on a small eminence that he has just bought[,] the view from it is vory beautiful(,] it commands a view of the fine Rooke that inolose the Rivor Orbe & you look up immediately to the highest hills of the ««ta& Jura - though one must not in general trust much to the Swiss idea's of Beauty Mr. B. had not deoeiv'd we found our walk well worth the fatigue. us-· 4th July, a "delightful glen'• somewhere near the Lao de JouxJ. We found in our wa7 quantities of the finest wood etrawberies & at the source bought an immense provision of them of some young girls - while we sat on the graee to eat them, were much [Sunday, entertain 1 d with the Philoeopio diecource or the driver of our char on th~ over-population of his country, he complain'd much of the extreme early marriages, whioh he said was the 'vice du pays,• & a custom that had originated in a prosperous time & whon a good deal of money could be earn'd by polishing stones & that now when the case was altered & the means of subsistence less, they still continued, "de ae msrier eu sortir de l'E0ole1 they had large families of children who owing to the extreme healthiness of the air never died but from sctue.l want - ha concluded with observing "qu'on ne devoit se merier qu•a quarante ans, et encore e.lor' s qu'e. des viellea :fillos"les jeune~ filles who were sitting near us were much diverted but did not look as if they would te.ke his advice. The Author of a late Essay on Population with whom he held the conversation was greatly interested to hear ma!l1' of hie own ideas in the mouth of a Swiss peasant - Some of our party wishing for milk to drink after their INTELLECTUAL HI STORY ARCHIVE INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 2216 7 strawberries, rather shamefully it must ba own'd, seiz'd upon e • ono of y Cows by force & milked her - no bribe beine able to corrupt the fidelity of the to him he e~ld not belong he endeavour'd to drive was done & the cow milk'd, money for it while his but his no concern & he his Boy who kept could not sell in the the7 they robbed example seizure them, could hardly the mischief make him take hie no effect of the Cow ohared INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE did nny would do him no good - him praised produced they any of the milk - cows aw&y - even after - the milk was not his A it The theives conduct little honesty [t] & commended those her milk. INSTITUTE of INTELLECTUAL HISTORY who had  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Extracts from diary of Lady Harriet Eckersall Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Patricia James Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context IHA/James/476