The weather has become mild, clear and exceedingly pleasant for winter. I went to Market and from thence down to the Office. Read at the Insurance office Mr. Webster’s late Speech upon the currency,1 which I do not regard as very strong. Occupied in Accounts and Diary. From Office to Athenaeum where I made some examination of Authorities for an article on the currency and then home.

Livy. Afternoon entirely given up to arranging and pasting into a volume my various Newspaper articles during the year 1836.2 When I reflect upon the quantity I have written and for what purpose I do not think better of my exertions. I could not finish quite all I have prepared. Evening, reading von Tietz whose account of Constantinople is amusing, and afterwards prepared an article on the currency for the Advocate.