Morning fine. Office, letter from my father. Conversation with George. Went to the Gallery of Paintings,1 with him. Met my old 240classmate William Dwight and was much pleased to see him. He has altered very little indeed. Having promised to go out of town with Mr. Brooks, I was obliged to leave him, although the scene and the meeting had raised my spirits considerably. The day was warm and I had a pleasant ride to Medford. I had determined not to go until tomorrow, and had it not been for the urgency manifested by Mr. B., should have kept my resolution. I found Mrs. Chardon Brooks there for her health. Mrs. Everett returned to her own house and Dr. Thayer, the Minister of Lancaster in this State,2 with his wife, on a visit to spend Sunday. The day passed quietly and none has been attended with more pleasure, of late.

The weather was beautiful and the country looked irrigated and refreshed. I walked to Meeting with Chardon in the morning and we heard Dr. Thayer. He is a good man but not much of a preacher. I went again in the afternoon in the Carriage. Mrs. Thayer is a good woman and no more. Our females in this part of the Country seldom preserve any interest until late in life. It goes with the externals and mind is then discovered to have been wanting. Mr. W. Ward and a son of Dr. Thayer’s called in the evening. The former is very political, if I can so use the term, and I conversed much with him. I do not like young Thayer and so had little to say to him. Evening with Abby and on the whole had about as happy a day as I have ever had since my engagement, I might say, during my recollection.

Returned to town with Mr. Brooks, taking leave of Dr. Thayer and wife. Office, found a letter from my Mother in tolerably good spirits, conversed with George some time and then went with Davis to the gallery of paintings, calling upon Dwight on the road. He was not at home but we met him at the gallery. Lounged away an hour there, and the result was that I did but little during the day. Afternoon, Executive Record, and papers of Novanglus. Went to the Office to get a companion for a walk and instead fell into conversation with Davis which did not cease until ten o’clock in the evening when I returned home.