Day fine. Office with Accounts and visitors. Dine at I. P. Davis’. Evening at home.

I was taken up almost all of my time by W. Spear who came with his long Account to settle and with Mr. B. V. French of Braintree who was here about a piece of fence he wants made on the Mount Wollaston farm. There was some vexation in both. These improvements at Quincy are not without their heavy charge. Mr. French’s business is an expense purely to gratify his own vanity and pique against the Tenant.

Home. Then with my father to dine with I. P. Davis. Judge Davis with T. K. Davis and Mr. Bancroft came in after dinner. Pleasant talk and a comfortable dinner. Judge Davis is a man of extensive information and strong natural sense.