Morning mild and clear but it clouded up before midday. I awoke with a most excruciating head ach and had been up only a few minutes before it was followed by nausea and vomiting. I have not felt so sick 378for a long time. My father started for Washington at about nine,1 and I felt melancholy at having him go. For this transfer from one place to another, is getting to be a serious thing at his time of life. But so it must be.

I went to the Office as usual and was very busy in several occupations of money concerns that troubled me, being left by my father to be immediately done. The sale of New’s Estate also took place today and I attended it and had it sold to Mr. Grosvenor the highest bidder again for $305.00.2 This over, I found myself so unwell I thought it advisable to go home and barely reached it in time. I was so unwell I found myself able to do little or nothing but lie down and be as quiet as possible. I read a little of Mr. Drake and was not so well pleased as I went on seeing how evidently he is a Bookmaker.3 Finished with two numbers of the Tatler and retired early.