On this day, it had been agreed that my Wife and her two younger children should go to Medford to make her father a short visit while I should carry out Louisa to stay with the family at Quincy. Thus my home is again disturbed after two months of almost uninterrupted enjoyment. I have lived far more to my taste since my removal to my own house than I ever did but my Wife does not enjoy this mode of life as much as I do. She depends more upon Society and more especially that of her sister. Sacrifices of personal feeling are necessary in this world and I therefore must learn to make them without grumbling.

The clouds looked so lowering in the morning that I was in great doubt about going. I passed a couple of hours at the Office in business occupation, then to the House where I was doubtful but at last con-178cluded to go. Having sent my horse away at eleven o’clock when it rained I was obliged to go and get it. We arrived safe and dry but the afternoon and evening gave us a succession of very heavy thunder showers. I passed the time in conversation. Nothing material.