Remained quietly at home at Quincy today and busied myself in writing out more fully the argument of the third number of the Appeal. I have amplified it by assuming some of the ideas of my father though without going far into their detail. The thing in the first instance was patched and it never has looked to me naturally since. I worked the body over so as to make it more uniform but the places where the piece is joined are still visible to my eye.

Assorted papers for some time. Afternoon reading Theodor which is very amusing. In the evening as my Wife and I owed Mr. Beale and his daughters a visit we walked over with my father to his house, and finding him not there we went on to Mr. T. Greenleaf’s, where he and his eldest daughter were. Visit short and uninteresting. Returned early.