I enjoyed the brightness of the day by taking a long walk. I went also to the Office and was occupied some time there in reading and my common avocations. Collected some Dividends and studied upon my Accounts. My pecuniary affairs have been uncommonly prosperous during the last year, which is among the many things I have to be grateful for.

Called at the Athenaeum and looked at the political papers. The other parties than the National Republican are quite in exultation, and the bitterness of this in defeat is exhaled in the most rancorous and malignant fury against my father.

Afternoon, I read Bacon’s Novum Organum and Virgil’s affecting story of Dido. I do not greatly admire his hero in this business. His coldheartedness is a vice past defence. Evening, the Fair Maid of Perth. I copied the letter to my father upon political matters and sent it.