A very heavy rain storm with wind in the morning but it did not continue long. We have been somewhat flooded this year. I went to the Office after finishing Tasso. Time occupied in Accounts, bringing up Arrears and afterwards in Commissions for the House to which I went. The process is slow of cleaning and until that is done a house looks cheerless enough. I felt a little dispirited at the idea of returning to the confined quarters we have, but I think this will wear off when my arrangements are more perfectly made. Home. Nothing remarkable. Mrs. Everett continues slightly better. Afternoon, Thiers who proceeds more coolly and methodically in his Account of the surges of the Revolution than any other person, and for the first time I form an accurate idea of the motion of things. Evening at home. Grimm.