A very fine day. Devoted to arrangements for the winter and planting. Evening visit.

I have no special account to give of my day’s work. My reading was somewhat desultory and divided by conversation upon various topics with my father. Dipped into the new publication of letters and papers of General La Fayette.1 There is much interesting matter here for we have the testimony in it of a witness and an actor by his situation very far removed from the immediate passions acting upon others engaged in the contest.

La Fayette was not in my eyes a very great man. His powers of mind do not range upon that level which all classes incontestably admit to be above them. But he had the elements of goodness in a large proportion with enough of human weakness to keep sympathy excited.

Transplanted this afternoon two Maple trees of my fathers to the foot of my new inclosure. Mr. Lunt called and in the evening my Wife and I went to see him and Mrs. Lunt.