Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home.

My practice is to go down and read the Newspapers at the National Insurance Office where I commonly meet with a few gentlemen of commercial information and talk with them. To day I found there Mr. Henry Lee and had quite a free and long conversation with him upon the present state of the currency and the prospects of the Country in relation to it. I think he is the most intelligent gentleman that I meet with in mercantile circles where they are apt to be swayed by rather narrow notions. This made me late at the Office and but a very short time there.

Electra, and coins after dinner. An evening at home divided between my children with whom I play an hour after tea, my Wife who has her French lesson, and Miss Harriet Martineau.