3. VI:30. Wrote a short Letter to Mr Maury, and began the
preparation of my quarterly account. All the remnant of the morning was
occupied with the effort to redeem the arrears of the Journal, which I
so far effected as to begin upon the relation of yesterday; which I was
however not able to finish it. Walk to Hanwell and Ealing— Evening
passed in reading the newspapers, which came in just as we were sitting
down to dinner. Read also two or three Scenes of the Amphitryo of
Plautus with George— Received a line from Mr J. A.
Smith— A note from Mr Chester, with a ticket, for
the Admission of the Carriage to-morrow at the gate, upon Constitution
Hill—and a Letter from Mrs Eliza Giles— She now says
she has discovered it was not her
Son, who fought against his Country in the Linnet upon
Lake Champlain, but another person of the same name— She apologizes for her request
to me in a former Letter to assist her in obtaining her Sons wages, on
that statement, and complains, that her
daughter has been confined all winter, and that her younger Son, whom she wished me to educate and
patronize has had a stroke of the palsy— She appears really to deserve
compassion.
