This was the coldest morning, we have yet experienced this year, and is no very pleasant presage of what we are about to suffer during this winter. I went to the Office this morning and held myself more to occupation than I have done heretofore. I finished the book called Acts relating to the Colonies, in which is condensed very ably all that can be given upon that side. I am not surprised that Englishmen should have held on so tenaciously as they did for to them it must have been convincing reasoning. My Uncle Judge Adams called for half an hour to see me and talk a little. Nothing else remarkable took place. I went to the Athenaeum to get out one or two books and called to see Mr. Brooks but felt half frozen.

Afternoon, reading Brutus which I almost completed. The style of the latter part is interesting, more particularly as it gives us an insight into his method of pursuing the study of Oratory. It was highly laborious and moreover, it was in one particular1 essentially different from any thing that is pursued in our day. We have no Masters of Rhetoric and Philosophy with whom to argue. Do we gain or lose by it? Evening, Corinne and a little of a new book called Nollekens and 387his times,2 but Mr. Chapman came in and passed the Evening. Catalogue and Tatler.