Cloudy morning with light showers but it afterwards cleared. To town. Afternoon at home.

Rode to town where my time was very much taken up with visits to tenants and business in general. I was not very successful in my applications, but succeeded in letting my house, and also a part of my Office rather as a favor than otherwise. This relieves my mind a little although I have been at great expense for the first in repairing it. Nothing particularly new.

Home in a cloud of dust. My father dined with me, so that I read only ten sections of Tacitus. Evening at the Mansion. Depression of spirits today.