Rain again. Distribution as usual. Evening at home.

Stormy days are favorable for me. I worked over the bad part of the last Sheet so as to please me much better, but did not after all quite get up to the place where I had left off. At this rate I do not know when I shall finish. The rain is very provoking. It puts back all my work prodigiously.

The Great Western has at last arrived and quieted the panic that has been raised about War. The accounts are not at all decisive however of the course which the British Government may pursue.

Ajax about one hundred and twenty lines. Afternoon the remainder of Spanheim’s Second Dissertation, and part of a pamphlet treatise upon the system of coining in Great Britain. This is a subject which I must look into rather more fully than I have yet done. Evening, Tucker’s Jefferson.