Clear and cool. Office. Afternoon at home reading and in the evening to Mrs. Gorham’s.

Morning devoted to the Office as usual. My father dined out at Mr. Bancroft’s, who did not invite me because I have not visited him. I do not like the man’s character but I suppose I ought to visit him.

Read Aaron Burr. His Wife an English woman apparently of some intellectual power. He seems to have had the art of gaining female affection perhaps because he made it a study.

Evening, a party at Mr. B. Gorham’s to the Wife of Mr. G. Gardner. Mostly Lowells and that connexion.1 Rather dull. Home early and fa-145tigued from a long walk taken in the course of the day to see my investment in lands at the South Cove.