Morning delightful. The Snow is now rapidly making it’s disappearance and we hope soon to see again the face of the Earth. My Wife, Miss Adams and I attended Divine Service in the Morning and I went alone in the afternoon. Sermon by Mr. Frothingham. One upon the Season by Mr. Frothingham, part of which was very good, part not to my taste. Another upon substitution1 which did not attract me.

Mr. Angier dined with us and I sat in my study, reading the Correspondence attentively which I have not done before. The whole betrays a tone and spirit in our public men which augurs ill to our Institutions. It is disgraceful to every body that meddles with it. I 431passed a portion of the Evening in writing upon the same subject to my Father, but I do not know that I shall send it. I did not feel perfectly well today and indeed for some days past I have experienced a disagreeable sense of fulness. After this, Greek Grammar and the Tatler.