Pleasant. I went into town. Time very much taken up. First to the Athenaeum, then to Office, engaged in Diary. Carried two more numbers of the Appeal making four. Corrected some more of them. My Wife and Mary came in in the Carriage. I went up to see Sharpe about my Cabinet which he is making. It is in course and will, I think answer. Called in also to see the Tenants, who were none of them able to pay. Also to see Mr. Brooks, so that the whole of my time was hurried, and I did not get away until quite late. This is a pleasant way of getting rid of the enemy but it involves a great deal taken up in transitu. Home. After dinner reading. Theodor. But the ladies had been delayed so long in town that we did not dine till past four so that the afternoon was short enough. Evening at home.