Mild weather. Division as usual. Evening at home. H. G. Gorham.

This is my usual day for going to Market and omitting coins. Office as usual where there was nothing new. Finished my Quarterly Account for the year 1839 to send to my father and received a check from Mr. T. B. Johnson which concludes his business. I am glad nowadays to reduce my liabilities as much as possible.

The late failure of C. R. Lowell makes some noise and furnishes another lesson of the danger of unlimited trust of sons in money affairs.1

Home to read Antigone. Afternoon, Sharon Turner. Evening, a visit from H. G. Gorham. Nothing new. Read the Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles in The Library of Entertaining Knowledge.2