Cloudy and cool. Distribution as usual. Evening to Mrs. Henshaw’s.

There is not much deserving of particular notice in the record of my day. The Office hours are a little wasted and the remainder of my time taken up in the ordinary routine. Received a letter from my mother which is tolerably cheerful.1

Home where I read Antigone. This play surpasses all the rest of the set in pathos. And the moral seems a high one that the laws of God are to be adhered to in opposition to the threats of man or his prohibition. There is nothing superior to this in modern philosophy or religion. The character of Antigone is a model throughout all the plays.

Afternoon, Sharon Turner and copying manuscripts. Evening, we went to Mrs. Henshaw’s to a small party given by her daughter to her young friends. Home late. I am getting tired.