Sunday, 31st
Stayed at home all day continuing to be very poorly. Mr Buchanan brought me the news of the ship Malabar having arrived from N.S.Wales. Mr I Hope and the two Mr Matchets called on me.

1821
Monday, January 1st
Still confined to my room Mr and Mrs Hargreaves paying every attention to me. My old nurse and her husband Came over from Bury to see me Mrs Hargreaves gave them a bed and every Comfort that they required after so long a walk for two old people in the eighty one years they hardly knew how to express their joy at being able to see me before they died. A more venerable and better looking old man I never saw and a more healthy old woman at her age indeed they looked likely to live twenty or thirty years more.

Tuesday, 2nd
They set off home again Mrs Hargreaves packing them up some mince pies and a little wine and water and I giving them a few shillings to assist them by the way they left me appreciably with a very heavy heart. Had Company to tea Mr and Mrs Briddon and son Mr and Mrs Hope the two Mr Matchets Mr and Mrs Marsden Mr and Mrs Holt the two Miss Hills and Miss Caxon.

Wednesday, 3rd
Still continuing to be very ill.

10th
It was so dark they was obliged to light the candles at 12 o’clock in the day.

12th
Getting a little better. Received a letter from my daughters saying they was very well and wondering at my silence. Mr and Mrs John Hope after visiting me 13th came down stairs and stopped