Warm and cloudy. At home. Occupied as usual. Evening at the Mansion.

I continued my occupations all the morning and finished a very considerable part of my Lecture. It pleases me well while I write it, but my feeling is never one of much confidence. So much is there in repu-292tation that my late efforts have been attended with twice the success that I had from earlier and much more laboured ones. Read some of Menzel too.

Afternoon, Tacitus, finishing the second book of the history. I like it better than the Annals. A little work and evening, an hour’s visit to my father’s. Nothing new.