Morning at the Office. Finished Blackstone’s Commentaries which I have read carefully
over and it has taken me five months. I do not
{ 242 } feel as if I was master of it all either, though this is the third reading I have
given to it. Conversation with George. Report concerning Russell Jarvis sent me by
John. Reflections upon Mr. Stetson’s testimony.
1 Afternoon passed in reading and in copying Executive Record. The weather damp and
rainy with thunder so that I did not walk. Evening finished Cicero’s Oration for Quintius.