Morning quite cold and the wind became Easterly and comfortless. We pay for our fine days in April. Went to the Office as usual, and passed the larger part of the morning in my translation of Aeschines. This has grown tedious. Yet I feel as if once undertaken, it should not be abandoned, and as yet I have not even reached the place I arrived before at. Nothing particularly worth mentioning occurred. Called to see Mr. Brooks and to explain to him the reasons which had induced me to take my course in regard to my residence at Quincy. He appeared to acquiesce in the correctness of it though there is a something about it I relish very little. Undoubtedly his view can have little reference to mine and he perhaps feels little disposed to interest himself in a more distant when he has so many nearer connexions. So that I must act independently, trusting as I have nearly always done to my own judgment.

After dinner, I again went to Quincy, to open the House and give all the necessary directions in order to make one of my Servants comfortable, who has gone out there to clean and arrange previous to the arrival of the family. This is a troublesome matter, for which I shall get no great thanks, but still it is too bad to allow my Mother to come to a place in the condition in which that now is. I found all the Stores and all the Linen and Silver, and gave it to the Woman’s charge. This kept me until quite late. I then returned and after tea, Edmund Quincy dropped in and amused us the rest of the Evening.