Morning cloudy with snow and the day throughout very dark. I went to the Office and was occupied as usual in Accounts. Called upon Foster my stabler and Bayley the Auctioneer for their various accounts and entered them up. These things with a visit from Mr. Walsh took up much time. I also went to Market and to the shop of Mr. Jones & Co. for my Wife. Thus I found myself called upon to return home as usual.

Read Livy. And in the afternoon continued Grahame with whose fourth volume I am less and less satisfied. He not only slights exceedingly all notice of my poor grandfather but his researches do not appear to have been nearly so complete as in the early work. He quotes only from four or five of the best known authors. Evening at home. Nothing remarkable.

Pleasant day though cold. I expected to have had a very quiet time and instead of it had a most bustling one. At the Office I had not been long when Colburn and Dutton came in from Quincy, their object to raise money upon the Account for stone which they are furnishing for me. I told them I was utterly unprepared for this and knew not how to assist them upon which they made some excuses and pleaded poverty, and I was compelled to do what I could and pay in part. Mr. W. Spear very fortunately for me came in and in paying me on a settlement for wood allowed me something over what I was thus called upon for. After he was gone I felt so unwell I thought I would take a walk, and got Mr. Walsh to accompany me as far as the South bridge.

When I returned to the Office I found Mr. Robbins waiting impatiently for money. It was so late that I did not talk with him but as he said he had made an arrangement with Mr. Ayer I thought he gave up his former point and therefore procured for him a check from Mr. Brooks for the money.

Making up accounts kept me at the Office until a very late hour. I lost my Livy. Afternoon reading Grahame, but I was much distressed with a severe tightness across my chest and at the same time a pain in my head very analogous to my old head achs. I therefore went to bed earlier than usual.