Mild day. Office. Time as usual. Evening to Mr. Shaw’s.

Called for Mr. Brooks and we went to see a collection of plants from France, some of which I desire to buy for Quincy. Then Office where I did not much. Looking over Accounts and into probabilities. I undertake rather more than I ought.

Trachinians. Afternoon, Chinese. I am much interested in them and think I will make them the subject of a Lecture if I should ever again be expected to deliver one.

Evening at Mr. Robert G. Shaw’s at a Levee made by him of members of the Legislature and others. I found there many gentlemen who greeted me with great cheerfulness and one or two spoke to me of my papers. So that I have not entirely thrown away my labours. My headway is not rapid but it is gradual and safe. Abbott Lawrence puffed 209which seemed to me hollow. T. W. Ward less fulsome but I think more sincere. Home early. On with Burr.