Morning cloudy and cold. Snow though not in large quantities had fallen during the night. I went to the Office and what with my Journal, my Accounts and the Newspapers I did not leave to myself a great deal of room for what I proposed doing which was to make my affidavit of the sale of the real Estate of Robert New. Being unwilling to have this hang on my mind any longer however, I worked away until I got it completed just ten minutes before the Court adjourned. It was no matter, I got it finished and filed today which puts an end to that business.

After dinner, with a single interruption of a few minutes by an applicant for one of the Tenements, I passed my time in reading Cicero’s Brutus in which I made some progress. He gives here some Account of all the persons whom he introduces into his dialogue de Oratore, and this has been much the most interesting portion of it. Mr. Frothingham called but for an instant.

Evening, reading Corinne with my Wife the termination of which we are approaching. I afterwards closed the Recollections of Egypt, a woman’s book, though not altogether without interest. Continued my Catalogue and read two numbers of the Tatler.