Weather fair. I went to town this morning and passed my time in the variety of avocations usual with me. These Accounts are very tedious things but it is better to be rid of them punctually or they grow to be most annoying. Home at one, bringing out with me Miss Smith, who is to spend the summer with my Mother.

Afternoon passed in reading Pliny whose ninth book I finished. This finishes the miscellaneous letters. They are thrown together without any order or attempt to settle the dates, which might be partially done. On the whole they give a pretty good view of Pliny’s character. His main spring seems to have been his vanity, but it impelled him into actions not often the result of this cause. He was fond of the praise for 80doing noble things. Yet we must remember we have his own Account only. Evening down to see my Mother. Nothing of interest.