Fine day. At home. Afternoon to visit Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Gray. Evening at the Mansion.

My morning was consumed in a sort of studious idleness. Finished reading the first volume of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution. Also the second volume of Texier, whose book is a very excellent developement of the Roman polity. I think I have really acquired much information from it. But am I right? or is not my mind a sort of sieve through which all runs but the coarser and less valuable materials of knowledge? Continued Meissner’s Alcibiades.

After dinner, finish the fourth book of Annals of Tacitus before going over to see Mr. and Mrs. Gray at Dorchester where we took tea. A pretty antique place which belongs to John Welles. Home and brief visit below.