I returned to town this morning and found Wilson with the Carriage there. He had come in before I left town but gone to another Stable so that he missed me and waited for orders until this morning. At Office I found Mr. T. K. Davis and Mr. Walsh and we sat conversing for some time so that I had only leisure to do my writing labor.

We hear of Mr. Durant this morning, that he was picked up in the bay near seven last evening. He was in the water a considerable time but not injured. I am glad of it and yet such wantonness deserves little sympathy.1

Returned to Medford. Afternoon pretty quiet. I read the beginning of Lord Nugents Life of John Hampden.2 Also finished the second book of the Lamentations of Ovid. His defence is a pretty ingenious one and leaves it to be supposed that the other incident to which he barely alludes was the true moving cause of his banishment. Miss Gray and her brother Francis were here to tea. He sails for Russia in a day or two. German.