Very warm indeed, perhaps the hottest day yet of this hot season. I rode to Boston however taking Kirk in with me for the sake of riding the horse back and allowing me to drive a new one for trial. My time much taken up in Accounts and with interruptions. Saw Mr. Angier, Mr. A. H. Everett and Mr. Brooks, and two or three others. Nothing very new.

At one I started to return with the new horse, but owing to a misunderstanding I was allowed to take him without a pulley bridle to which he had been used. The consequence came near being fatal to me, for my hold was entirely unequal to restraining him for any length of time, so after two effectual attempts, I gave way on the third and he ran away with me. Luckily his former master had been in the habit of stopping to water him at a pump by Glover’s store, and to this he directed his course so I by a last effort brought him up there. But my strength was so entirely gone that I had to hire a young man to accompany me the rest of the way and by doubling the reins back, he obtained the necessary control of the horse to make him go gently. Thus was I saved from an imminent peril, for which I felt duly grateful to that being who in all cases tries us for our good. The horse was also saved from injury as a further run on this hot day would have ruined him.

I was so fatigued as not much to enjoy my Afternoon. But I read Pliny, and Grahame. E. C. Adams spent the day here and Mrs. Stebbins took tea in the evening. We had a thunder shower but not a se-74vere one. I retired to bed in a tone of mind which I hope may benefit me.