Very fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home.

At the Office whither I transferred my Review with the design of writing it out and improving upon it. But I am yet so taken up with business matters as to be unable to attend to it. My father is to deliver an Address before the Historical Society at New York on the 30th inst. so that he will be here a day or two after.1 I must therefore get ready for him.

Walk round to see the florists and purchase one or two more plants of them. Continue the Trachinians. After dinner, the pursuit of knowledge. It revives in me my ambition which prosperity will sometimes deaden. I have seen plenty of instances of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties made by poverty and low birth but I wish to see more of those carried on under discouragements of a higher kind. Evening at home. Continued Sparks’ dull book.