Cloudy but turned excessively cold by night and clear. Division as usual. Dr. and Mrs. Frothingham and Thomas in evening.

I continued my work this morning and began to see light in my accounts by virtue of the annual Dividend of the Middlesex Canal. With this I propose to pay off my Mortgage on account of the South Cove 178land for my father and thus put that affair in train of settlement. I have for some years past been able to lay that Dividend up out of his Income, which is I suspect the only increase that happens to his fortune. And this he is hardly conscious of. This particular direction of his funds is perhaps better calculated for him than any other as it may be an accumulating fund, without anxiety.

Electra which I read now satisfactorily. Coins down to Gratian which is very near the end. Evening Dr. and Mrs. Frothingham and Thomas, notwithstanding the severe cold. Pleasant evening and conversation.