…In the afternoon two of Mr Carman’s daughters drank tea with me. At home all day and but very little to do. In the evening wrote my London letters.
This is the day on which I enter into the 35th year of my age and may I (through the assistance of divine grace), as I grow in years every day increase in virtue and piety. Then and not otherwise shall I live the life designed for me to lead on earth in order to my happiness in heaven to all eternity.