Fine, clear, windy day. Morning passed in study. Afternoon and evening at the Mansion.

Continued Locke, b. 2, p. 126–3 185. Upon Maxims, identical propositions &ca. Very clear yet after all he admits a kind of intuition which hardly consists with the origin from sensation and reflection, which he ascribes to all our ideas. Lucretius 6th book, 100–326. He proceeds to account for thunder and other extraordinary natural appearances, which he does pretty ingeniously.

Dined at the Mansion, Mr. Page, the artist who is taking my father being there.1 Idled away an hour or two in desultory examination of the books in my grandfather’s library and on my return found A. H. Everett and William Foster who were taking tea at my father’s prior to the former’s delivering a Lecture before the Lyceum. I remained at the Mansion having heard it.