I have not yet got over the consequences of our frolick on Saturday evening. Three
whole evenings I have by this means entirely lost, for I cannot yet write with any
comfort. How inseparably in all cases of intemperance, is the punishment allied to
the fault!
Stedman went this day for Portsmouth, will return here to-morrow, and take his final
leave on Wednesday. He is going to open an office at Cambridge, where I heartily wish
him success.
In the afternoon I went with Townsend and Thomson and Little, up to Sohier's, and
had the usual fare. We return'd leisurely in the evening. I was too much fatigued
to write much; having withal a little of the head ache. Putnam arrived in town
{ 298 } this afternoon; and I suppose will enter Mr. Bradbury's office immediately.
I shall find I believe very much the want of Mr. Parsons's presence, when he goes
off. His attendance upon the genl. Court, will engross his time very much. Next week
he will go to Boston, and will be gone I suppose nearly two months. There are a thousand
questions which I shall want to propose to him from time to time; but which I shall
be reduced to find out by my own industry, and what assistance Townsend and Amory
can give me.