Morning at the Office. Weather changed again and become cold. I found the glass in my room about 42. degrees of Fahrenheit. I have not as yet succeeded in placing it out. I continued my method of translating. This Preface seems to me on nearer inspection not so satisfactory as it did at first.1 There is much irrelevant and much illdigested matter, but the substance differently arranged would comprehend all that we wish to have upon the limits of the Sciences of Natural and Civil Law. I have obtained clear ideas of them by reading it, which I cannot say I had before. Called to see Mr. Tarbell and talked with him upon this business of Henderson’s which by it’s ill success disgusts me. He said he would obtain instructions. Wrote a short letter to my Father in answer to his of the other evening which I put into the Post Office on my return home.2 Authorized Degrand to purchase two shares of the Atlas Insurance Company if he could get them for ninety eight. I do not expect to get them.

After dinner I read my usual portion of Aeschines and began his review of the Life of Demosthenes. This constitutes the essential of the Oration. I read also Potter’s Translation of the Supplicants of Aeschylus which I do not admire so much. The only remarkable thing in it being the principles of public liberty which were then held as exhibited in the mouth of the King of the Greeks. Nothing new has been discovered since. I then went down to hear Dr. Walter Channing deliver a Lecture upon the Education of the Ancients, before the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.3 It was pretty but not well adapted, and it was not long. From thence, to the house of Edward Brooks, to the regular weekly meeting of the family, where we had a tolerably pleasant hour and returned home before the Clock had struck ten.