Mild day. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. The regular course of things. I tried to do a little at my accounts but 373was prevented. But I did Something towards bringing up my Diary. Then home. Finished Oedipus Coloneus which I find Potter agrees in opinion with Schaeffer about. It certainly is a beautiful play and I am very glad that I have been over it again pretty thoroughly. Afternoon, Sharon Turner’s Account of the rise of the reformation, and resuming the old MS work which I find rather fatiguing. Evening, a small party at Mrs. Frothingham’s. About forty or fifty, some singing by Mrs. Habicht. Nothing new.

Mild. Office. After dinner Proprietors of South Cove. Evening Mr. J. C. Gray’s.

After coins, went to the Office. Time devoted to making up Diary which I am at last getting through with. Nothing new. Home after walk. Began Antigone and read with great facility a hundred and forty lines.

Afternoon attended a meeting at the Market Bank of the principal Stockholders of the South Cove Company preparatory to the Annual Meeting to be held tomorrow. Mr. B. R. Nichols who seemed the principal manager reported a plan for the ultimate division of the whole filled up property and satisfaction of all the shares. The details were not digested but I was inclined to favour the scheme if I could be sure that there were not individual interests at work against the general interest. There were a few particulars to which I objected, but the movement seemed to be the other way and I was much in the minority.

Home. Evening to Mrs. J. C. Gray’s to a very small party of her family. It was pleasant enough.

Cloudy and east wind. Office. Proprietors of South Cove. Evening at home.

After coins, to the Office. Bringing up Diary bravely. Nothing however that is new. The political world at Washington is dull, the commercial world is dull and we are all dull. Home to read Antigone but got caught in the parlour with company so that I barely finished the most difficult chorus in Sophocles, the song of rejoicing over the discomfiture of the Argian host led on by Polynices.

After dinner, to the United States Hotel to the Proprietors meeting of the South Cove. Mr. Nichols’ plan was adopted, nem. con.1 and the 374board of Directors elected to match. I was much provoked at the leaving off of Mr. Nathl. Curtis, whose good judgment I would trust more than almost any body’s whom I know. At any rate the present plan will give us separate property and the control of all our rights.

Home. Evening, read to my Wife my new Article upon the New York Review with which she seemed satisfied. I am nevertheless writing over a part.