We have for a few days pleasant weather although the East winds prevent our enjoying it much. I went to the Office and completed my quarterly statement, which however I do not propose at present to send on. My father is so completely immersed in politics as to have no eye for any thing else, much less mere matters of money.

Called at the Advocate Office but could not find Mr. Hallett. Mr. Paine spoke to me of printing the third number of my Address to Slade. I knew nothing about it. Athenaeum. Home to read Livy. But I had two or three gentlemen to dine—Governor Everett, Mr. Brooks 363and Mr. Frothingham. Tolerably pleasant. The rest of the afternoon passed in reading Sismondi.

Evening at home. Read to my Wife from Japhet in search of his father. One of the curious series which Capt. Marryatt publishes in his periodical, the Metropolitan. I have been over it in detached parts before. Continued Swifts Journal to Stella—But felt a little drowsy and retired early.