The early part of the morning was so cloudy that I decided upon remaining at home. But it appearing a little finer at ten o’clock, I concluded to start with my Wife for Boston. She wished to go and see Mrs. Sidney Brooks who has come from New York to remain a day or 311two. I did not employ my own time to much advantage, it must be confessed. Read a Newspaper or two, performed a Commission or two, and talked a little with W. E. Payne who has just returned from Charleston,1 about Nullification, at the Athenaeum. This sentence is not properly constructed. This brought the hour for returning, and accordingly we reached home to dinner.

Afternoon, I passed partly in the Garden and partly reading Seneca, but I did not turn my time to so much advantage as I ought to have done. A quiet evening at home.