Cool day. Distribution as usual. Evening at Dr. Frothingham’s.

I have only to repeat that I worked upon Burr today, attending however the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Middlesex Canal. No report this year, the agent being sick, so adjourned for one month, after renewing the direction, and raising a committee to make a protest against the water project of the City from Long Pond.1 I am afraid the managers are losing their interest in this property, yet to me it has been very productive.

Electra. Steady at the Private Journal of Burr which wants positive interest and yet is amusing. How to reconcile these.

Have I mentioned having a curious visit from Russell Freeman entirely laudatory of the letters to Biddle, the papers of the Conservative, and requesting a copy of my Pamphlets. What does that mean? He is as usual upon the world, has thrown off the Administration only because they do not want him. Evening at Dr. Frothingham’s. A very pleasant supper.