Cool day with an easterly breeze and fog clouds. I remained at home with the exception of a call at the old house to select more books, and was steadily occupied in copying the little Fragment of a Diary. In these little paper books it appears to have been my Grandfather’s practice to insert almost any thing in his way at the time. Hence copies of several Newspaper articles for the time, also of a letter to Mrs. McCauley about his dissertation on the canon and feudal law,1 good material.

Afternoon, Pliny and Grahame. J. H. Adams dined with us and I spent half an hour in digging my ground, a piece of pretty hard labour. Evening at home but I did very little. My plan is to retire early for the sake of early rising. Mr. Beale and youngest daughter here in the evening.