A perfect summer day. I went to the Office, time taken up very much in Accounts. A part of the remainder of Mr. Johnson’s funds was paid in to me and I procured an advance upon half of the remainder from the Merchants’ Bank. With this I purchased in conjunction with Mr. Brooks the Mortgage upon a great establishment lately built at the corner of Tremont and Beacon Street which takes up most of the funds in question. Signed an engagement to furnish the balance on the 18th or before. This with my Diary and the entries necessary took up all my time. Home Livy. No walk because it is too warm.

Mrs. T. B. Adams dined with us. She is a mater dolorosa, not so pleasant as many might be. She left us for Quincy to set up again. Afternoon, Sismondi and Ariosto with a little German. Evening, a thunder storm. Mr. and Mrs. Frothingham dropped in for an hour. Afterwards, Swift, finished the four years of Queen Anne.