Beautiful day. Morning to Quincy. Afternoon at home. Pamphlets. Evening, Dr. Gorham.

I expected Kirk with my horse early this morning so that I could make a long day of it but by a curious error, he did not notify me until I had given him up. I improved the time however to do some business, and more particularly to make use of a balance accumulated upon hand to pay off another Mortgage of the number upon the South Cove lots. This is the last but one. The money to be sure is not mine but my fathers and in doing this I only save myself the interest until July which is however of importance. If the time shall come when I can convert my Market Bank Stock without loss I may then free myself 220from this load and patiently bide the time when the land will realize something in compensation. Perhaps my children may benefit from it.

At eleven o’clock, Kirk came in and we went to Quincy. Found every thing only half done and looking very discouraging. I feel worried whenever I go out and see how my place looks compared with other places. Worked for the short time left in setting plants and then home which I barely reached by dinner time.

Afternoon finished one of the Pamphlets upon coinage, and looked over a publication made in Philadelphia last year and containing many important statistics for the year of the suspension. Evening, Dr. J. W. Gorham spent an hour. Finished the 1st vol. of Tucker.