Wallenstein which contains many passages of charming poetry and several dialogues of most admirable spirit. I think much of Schiller. Went to the Office where Mr. Walsh engrossed far more of my time than I wished. He talks sensibly enough but he does not know how to fix a limit to his visits. I succeeded in writing my Diary but nothing more. Walk, and Home to read Ovid.

The public is now certain there will be no collision, and they are 84going on with just as much confidence as if the indemnity had been actually paid by France. So it is with the world. Affected by every breath that stirs and running in crowds like sheep in a panic exactly according to the superficial view of things. The next Packet will probably put them into the other extreme.

Afternoon, I completed the remainder of the Papers in the two Chests. I have assorted them with the exception of the general Correspondence which remains in Alphabetical files, and the whole of course liable to alteration from the remainder of the Papers at Quincy. Read de Grimm and in the evening the article Bacon in the Biographia Brittanica after which Wallenstein.