Paid Mr Joseph Burgess the 2/8 received for him yesterday… I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. At home all day, but not at all busy. Sam Jenner, coming in to my house in the evening, and it being very wet weather, he stayed all night. The frost began to thaw today after having continued very severe for 5 weeks.
Oh, how melancholy a time is it! My situation is really very melancholy, more so than can be imagined by any except myself.