Morning warm and pleasant. I did not feel very well myself as my Nerves had been disarranged by seeing the family yesterday and being obliged to attend to the disposition of the Servants. Received from Mr. Brooks his Check for the Quarter as usual, and deposited the Money at the Bank, with some also to the credit of my father. I then went and completed the transaction with regard to the Stock in the State Bank, and conversed wih Mr. Degrand upon it. The project seems to be to put that Institution upon a new footing, by reducing the Capital, and changing the head of it who has become unpopular.1 Judge Hall came up and paid me a short visit this morning, inquiring about my father’s arrival,2 and the remainder of my time excepting a few minutes to see Mr. Brooks, reading Mitford. My head ached a little. Afternoon not spent to the best advantage as the time was cut up in getting the women off for Quincy, and in a sleepy turn that came over me.

Felt a little puzzled about the most advisable course to be pursued. My Mother is provoked, my Father grieved and my brother’s Wife hurt by my decision. Yet it is undoubtedly a wise one. I see that it is at every step. Yet I feel sorry to cause so much uneasiness. The family is large and expensive, and I have no desire whatever to make it more so. I think my Father does not feel quite so well as he did. The care seems a little too much for him. Poor man, he is destined to have a load upon his shoulders full as heavy as he can carry.3 Read Burke’s Speeches upon America.4 In the evening, Eustace, and afterwards, Logic.