May 26th.—I went to take leave of my nephew, who entered at Dr. Gretton's School. *****
June 23rd.—Paid my rent, and gave notice of quitting my apartments at Michaelmas.
June 25th.—Began to pack up what I must take to Bath with me, for there I am to go!
June 29th.—I dined with Mrs. H. and went with her to the Terrace, where I took leave of my friends at the Lodge. Everything was arranged for my hooks and furniture to remain at my lodging, to which my brother was to keep the keys. But on receiving information they would be seized along with my landlord's goods by bailiffs, I prepared the same night for their removal, and all was safely lodged in a garret at Mrs. H.'s by July 2 at night.
July 3rd.—I left Slough by the nine o'clock Newbury coach, and remained with the Miss Whites [at Newbury] till next morning.
July 4th.—At six in the evening I was received at Bath by my brother Alex, and his old housekeeper in a house Mrs. H. had taken for the next winter in Little Stanhope Street. The house had been uninhabited, and the furniture moved into it from the house on Sion Hill by strangers, labourers; the things met me helter-skelter in the passage, some belonging to the drawing-room amongst curry-combs and bridles and other stable utensils. My first care was to make an inventory of the whole, before I let a stranger come into the house, but by the 10th of July I hired a maid of all work to assist me to bring the house into habitable order, and by July 29th I was ready for resuming the work of recalculating sweeps, or despatching some copying, &c., which was sent me by the coach from Slough, and from the printer in London, my brother being with his family at Tunbridge Wells.
