After breakfast my brother and Thomas Durrant and myself walked down to Halland to see the gardens… My brother, Thomas Durrant and Mr Long dined with me today… My brother went away soon after dinner.
Oh, how I blush to mention what I would for ever wish to conceal; that is, from going about from house to house today with my brother I got really very drunk. Oh, that hateful and to me truly odious name–that I can ever be so foolish! Sure I am the most irresoluteless creature breathing, a thing I am sure I sincerely detest and yet have been so foolish as to be guilty of it… [58 words omitted].