Warm morning but change. At home. Bath. Evening at Mrs. T. B. Adams’.

I was pretty steadily occupied in writing upon my Lecture until noon. It goes on quite swimmingly but I doubt whether it will be very fit to deliver. The subject will not admit of that kind of ornament which takes every where but most especially in New York.

Just as I was relaxing by reading Menzel, my boys came in to beg me to go down to the bath with them at Mount Wollaston. I consented and we took a refreshing bath in the face of an East wind which changed the temperature of the air very quickly, and before night brought up a heavy fog from the Sea.

Read Tacitus history b. 2. s 60–80. and Grimm. Evening an hour at 291my father’s and another hour at Mrs. T. B. Adams’ where were the younger ladies of our family, to see Mrs. Angier. Miss Miller and her brother were there.