Morning fine. Rode to town as usual and went to the Office. After remaining there some time to write up my Journal which has of late suffered a little from irregularity, I went to the Athenaeum and changed my Walpole for the first volume of Dr. Parr’s Works which 294contains his memoirs by a certain Dr. Johnson,1 the legitimate Writer against the intruder Mr. Field whom I have already read. From this place I went down to my father’s Estate in Tremont Street and put up a Notification that my Tenement was to let by way of jogging Hollis’ Memory.2 I propose to make a Revolution in all that business and that as soon as may be. My houses suffer and my father’s income suffers, this is too much at once. Returned home and read a little of Hutchinson before my return to Medford.

Mr. and Mrs. Everett dined with us and we had quite a pleasant afternoon. Mr. E. was more communicative and I more easy than at any time in my recollection. The evening was beautiful and we enjoyed it, but I felt so fatigued that I was glad to go to bed early. I again felt the uneasy symptoms I complained of several days since.