Dark and damp. Distribution as ordinary. Evening at home.

The accounts from Maine are at last pacific, but the apprehensions now are respecting all the intelligence to arrive from Great Britain. Stocks are falling, there is much want of confidence in the money market and evidence of serious derangement in the Banking system of the Southwest. Well, the game is not yet out.

Time at Office rather wasted. Walk and purchase plants for Quincy. The Trachinians. After dinner, the Chinese, and in the evening, French and Burr. Nothing can be more quiet than the present state of 210our life. When I finish this interminable review my Winter’s work is done, and Heighho for Spring labours.

A beautiful day. Time divided as usual. Evening spent at home.

I do not well know what I did with my time but presume it was usefully employed. Nothing of much interest occurred today and I have no particular record to make. At home studying the Trachinians. After dinner the Chinese, and evening Nicholas Nickleby and Burr.

Clear and cool. Exercises as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’.

I devoted the morning hour as usual to my little girl who read two Chapters in Genesis, committed to memory a hymn of Watts and read one of Mrs. Barbauld’s Hymns for children in prose.1

Attended divine service and heard Dr. Frothingham preach a Sermon concerning Easter. Revelation 1. 10.18. “I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a great voice saying I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore. Amen.” The anniversary of the Resurrection is among the most interesting of the church festivals. It recals the history of those three days during which all of the hopes of mankind drawn from a positive revelation of a future state were and are founded. After dinner a dull discourse upon the evidences from Mr. Green. John 20. 29. “Jesus saith unto him Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.”

Read in the English preacher a sermon by Mr. Fothergill from Genesis 20. 11. “And Abraham said, because I thought surely the fear of God is not in that place: and they will slay me for my Wife’s sake.” A discourse upon the foundation of society which he maintains to be religious feeling. No doubt, moral restraint is the greatest help to the civil authority.

Evening to Edward Brooks’ as usual. The town much surprised to hear of the resignation of Nicholas Biddle and withdrawal from the Bank of the United States.2 This is very extraordinary and needs explanation.