Cold east wind. At home all day. Evening at my father’s.

I continued my work upon the letter without doing quite as much as I have upon any preceding morning. This single letter will have cost me nearly five days. It is however much the longest.

Read an hour in Menzel and was interrupted some time by visits from Mrs. Edmund Quincy, Mrs. Greene and Miss Quincy.

After dinner, finished the thirteenth book of Annals of Tacitus. This will aid me in my medallic studies. And had time for Grimm who has been somewhat neglected this summer. How little of what man wishes to do does he find himself able to accomplish.