The day appeared as warm as any of the preceding, being entitled to the rank of our hottest weather. I rode into town and passed the morning at my Office and the house. I went to the latter in order to give final directions about shutting up the House. This proceeding is not by any means an agreeable one to me. I had hoped to have got rid of remaining in the Country but it seems that I must now stay longer than I had ever anticipated.

Occupied in drawing up the estimates of New’s debts in order to present it to the Judge on Monday, and in my Journal. The day made me feel languid and illdisposed to action. Returned to Quincy to dine in the heat of the day. The ride was warm and uncomfortable. My Wife was extremely sick all day and the heat of the weather increased her suffering.

The house at Quincy is but poorly qualified either to be cool in Summer or warm in Winter. I sat and continued the Catalogue in my 283Mother’s room which by some chance was the very hottest in the House. We made some progress notwithstanding, and will soon finish as I hope. The work has now become a little tedious to me. My father is indifferent although he keeps up on the whole better than I expected. Evening, the family went to ride, and little was done of any kind.

The heat had not relaxed in it’s intensity this morning. I have rarely felt the Sun more powerful than it was today upon our going to the Creek to bathe after breakfast. The water was nevertheless very refreshing. We returned but I did not get dressed in time for Church. I was not very sorry for it. Read the History of Horace Walpole and a part of the Quarterly Review, which were on the whole quite amusing. My Wife was better today but still not recovered from yesterday. The family seemed all of them a little upset by the weather.

Miss L. C. Smith dined with us and in the afternoon, I attended divine service and heard Mr. Capen of South Boston who was very prosy and very disagreeable.1 I felt sleepy and could not resist the influence. The Evening felt cooler to me, and I read a part of the Quarterly Review with much satisfaction. The other members of it2 went to ride with the exception of my Mother and Wife.

The day was warm but an Easterly wind arose about the middle of the day to make it much more tolerable than any of the preceding ones have been. I rode into town as usual and was occupied, first in making up my list of demands against New’s Estate, finishing the appraisement, returning the Inventory and making application for the sale of his real Estate. This took a large portion of time, but as the period within which I was limited expires next week, it is matter of much satisfaction that the whole affair is arranged.

I then went up to the house to give my Cook her directions as to going out of town. It was still very warm to walk so that all this exertion fatigued me. Warm weather is agreeable enough when a person has nothing to do but to sit at home, when much walking is necessary, it might as well be dispensed with. Returned to Quincy to dine. My father was so exhausted by the heat of last night that he 284could not prosecute the Catalogue, so that I was compelled to go on with the alphabetical arrangement, and this moved very slowly. Evening, a little more of the Quarterly Review and Supper. How time flies.