Stayed with my brother all day and dined with him off a hind quarter of lamb roasted, a plain bread pudding and green salad… I came home about 1:15 and I think never more tired in my life and also quite ill with a sore throat… This day is that on which I enter into the 31st year of my age. Oh, may I, as I increase in years, also increase in goodness! Then and then only is it that I shall know pleasure in this life and also may hope [is] end my days with peace and tranquillity of mind as becomes a Christian.