Day cloudy with rain and snow. I went to the Office where I was taken up with accounts and methodizing my papers which need it excessively. I have occasionally thought of making a thorough reform, but my courage fails when I think of the mass of papers to be undertaken. I used to be a very strictly methodical man and believe I must become so again.

Wrote to W. B. Lewis,1 Second Auditor of the Treasury about T. B. Adams affairs and a note to Mr. Mead.2 Home. Sophocles. My Wife begins to encourage me by her appearance. In the afternoon coins. Evening, T. K. Davis took tea and spent an hour. After which I sat with my Wife, and the rest of the evening, continued the examination of Nedham.