The heat had not relaxed in it’s intensity this morning. I have rarely felt the Sun more powerful than it was today upon our going to the Creek to bathe after breakfast. The water was nevertheless very refreshing. We returned but I did not get dressed in time for Church. I was not very sorry for it. Read the History of Horace Walpole and a part of the Quarterly Review, which were on the whole quite amusing. My Wife was better today but still not recovered from yesterday. The family seemed all of them a little upset by the weather.

Miss L. C. Smith dined with us and in the afternoon, I attended divine service and heard Mr. Capen of South Boston who was very prosy and very disagreeable.1 I felt sleepy and could not resist the influence. The Evening felt cooler to me, and I read a part of the Quarterly Review with much satisfaction. The other members of it2 went to ride with the exception of my Mother and Wife.