The weather continues very fine. I went to the Office and occupied myself as usual. Visits from Mr. W. Spear who brought me a message from my Mason saying that I was disappointed of my bricks and must pay more for them. So it is in building. I do not know how to account for the revulsion in my feelings but I am now sick of my scheme.

Mr. Walsh came in and we talked. I then went down to the Athenaeum to look up an old volume of Newspapers and trace my grandfather’s first communications to the press. Home. Livy. Afternoon, Swift and these numbers. I found three pieces signed U, very much in his style of writing, but bearing not very directly upon any given object. They are dated in 1763, and allude very calmly to politics.1

As I was going on Mr. T. K. Davis came in and passed the evening. Mr. Brooks also passed a couple of hours. Mr. Davis talked of the possibility of starting a Press. I have often thought of it myself and am not 145sure that at this moment there is not a possibility of an opening of the kind. I should exceedingly like the occupation it would give me and we talked of it until a late hour tonight quite con-amore.