Clear and mild. Distribution as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’.

After coins I went to the Office. Mr. Warren the antiquary called to offer me some coins which he had lately purchased and I was irresistibly tempted to buy up some of them. I find upon looking over my accounts too much goes into coins. Diary.

Walk round the common. Home where I went on with Oedipus. Afternoon reading Sharon Turner’s History of Henry, Edward and Elizabeth. He adopts a rather new method of writing which gives a better general view but his notes though containing a vast deal of information are like all notes serious deductions from the effect of a narrative.

Evening, we went to Edward Brooks’ to spend an hour. Nothing materially new. We have not heard from Washington for some time.