Morning bright and clear. Mr. Ayer brought me this morning his Account which was not a little startling as it amounted to nearly double of my estimate.1 I was a little shocked at this excess as by some strange chance the thing has happened in almost every other bill as well as this. At the Office where I was busy in reading and accounts as usual. I have been on the whole more troubled about Accounts this year than I ever was before. I accomplished however some portion of Enfield’s History of the School of Aristotle.

Returned home and spent the remainder of the day in reading the Orator. Miss Julia Gorham dined here. The difficulty of the Orator is hardly paid by it’s value for the whole doctrine of number is to us of little consequence. I finished it superficially and began a review.

Evening, about to read Evelina but was soon interrupted by Edmund Quincy who spent the Evening. After which I accomplished a little of my Catalogue and read the Tatler.