Cold easterly wind. To town. Afternoon and evening at home. I went to town this morning accompanied by my father. Called at 280the Athenaeum to procure a book or two upon credit, a subject which I must begin to look up. Storch, Political Economy,1 I found instructive. The subject will bear working, I think. There were persons at the Office to see my father much of the time so that I had little opportunity for business.

Home as usual. It had been cold all the morning but set in to rain after dinner. I read twenty sections in the fourteenth book of Tacitus, and some of Grimm. In the evening I was at home, and read aloud to my Wife the first act of King Lear.