…I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of some beef bones stewed and the broth. At home all day and really very little to do. A very cold day; about sunsetting it began freezing very hard. In the afternoon and evening posted part of my day book and wrote out Mrs Atkins’s bill.
Joseph Fuller and Thomas Durrant sat with me some time in the evening. My confinement is so great that I am fearful it will impair my health, which by the goodness of the Supreme Being I have for a great while enjoyed in a perfect state.