Fine day although still cold for the month. I felt a little better but not free from sore throat and general cold. Indeed I do not know when I have felt more disagreeably. Office where I employed my time pretty usefully. I wrote for an hour upon my work. Short walk. Read the debates in Congress upon the various questions relative to a war. The members have become crowded up in the last minute and talk fast but not with much method. Read Ovid whose lines pleased me much today. The Consolatio has many touching passages which are quite equal to the Author, and identify him.

Afternoon, Attended a funeral of Mrs. Dalton, a relation of my Wife’s Mother. She was an aged woman being nearly 79 years. There were a considerable number of relations and friends and the children appeared much affected. But there was nothing to a mere stranger like myself for I had never seen the person, which reminded me of 90more than the lapse of the longest term of human life when death is no evil.

Home, Feeling not quite well. Luxuriated with Baron Grimm. Evening at Mr. Frothingham’s. Nobody there but Wife and Mr. B. who dined out. Pleasant little Supper and home.