The day was warm but an Easterly wind arose about the middle of the day to make it much more tolerable than any of the preceding ones have been. I rode into town as usual and was occupied, first in making up my list of demands against New’s Estate, finishing the appraisement, returning the Inventory and making application for the sale of his real Estate. This took a large portion of time, but as the period within which I was limited expires next week, it is matter of much satisfaction that the whole affair is arranged.

I then went up to the house to give my Cook her directions as to going out of town. It was still very warm to walk so that all this exertion fatigued me. Warm weather is agreeable enough when a person has nothing to do but to sit at home, when much walking is necessary, it might as well be dispensed with. Returned to Quincy to dine. My father was so exhausted by the heat of last night that he 284could not prosecute the Catalogue, so that I was compelled to go on with the alphabetical arrangement, and this moved very slowly. Evening, a little more of the Quarterly Review and Supper. How time flies.