Morning clear and very windy. I went to the Office as usual and was busy in my common way without any definite result. I dispatched however all business immediately necessary by writing a letter to Miss L. C. Smith, notifying her of the arrangement of the Legacy,1 and I called upon Mr. Quincy where I obtained the Letters to the other heirs which I sealed and forwarded. Mr. Grosvenor called upon me to finish the Deed of the Estate of R. New to him which I did, and the drawing up of this and it’s execution consumed a tolerable portion of time. Mr. A. H. Everett called for a moment to ask about the paper he wished to see but he only received my father’s answer.2 My time was in this manner so much consumed that I had no opportunity for my walk, and my afternoon passed as usual in reading Cicero. I accomplished the portion which relates to Wit and was glad to find from my translation that more professed scholars understood it as little as I. It is a perishable material. Evening read with Abby, my portion of Corinne as usual, and having no book to read, I recurred to Shakspeare and read aloud the first Act of Hamlet. Continued my Catalogue and read two numbers of the Tatler.