Cool and cloudy. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Crowninshield’s.

After coins I went to the Office where I did not find any thing very material to do. My actual occupation in business lasts about half the quarter. Read today in Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine a Lecture by Professor Vethake upon the distinctive provinces of the philosopher and the statesman, containing very good sense.1

Intended to have taken a walk but delayed it too long and so returned home and read Antigone. After dinner, MS and Sharon Turner. One Chapter a day which is taking it very easy. My copying does not go on at a much faster rate. On the whole I lead a very lazy life.

Evening I accompanied my Wife to a ball given by Mrs. Crowninshield to her newly married son Edward. There were present much of fashionable society here, and the entertainment was lavish as usual. I enjoyed myself tolerably well. Home late.