Morning sultry. I did rejoice at the recurrence of this day, as somehow or other I was excessively tired from the labour of last week. This rambling life is a little too disagreeable, yet my Wife is not pleased in being alone, particularly when all the rest of the family are out of town.

Attended divine service and heard Mr. E. B. Hall in the morning and Mr. Stetson in the afternoon. The former succeeded very well. His manner is good, his delivery uncommonly proper in the Pulpit. He manifested today the evident superiority this gives to a man in other respects not remarkable. The latter gentleman exhibited precisely the reverse of the proposition.

The day was very warm. In the afternoon I read some of Dr. Parr’s Life and felt more interest in it, though on the whole I am yet disappointed. It is not well arranged. Heard my wife’s lesson of French which also took up time. We had a thunder shower in the evening. Mr. Jonathan Brooks and Dr. Swan paid a visit in the evening, and the former amused us as usual with his Yankee shrewdness.