Sam Jenner stayed and dined with me on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a plain suet pudding. Paid John Nutley in cash, goods and a book debt 0.13.5½ in full as follows:
| ½ bushel flour Durrant 28th ult. | 0.2.10 |
| 1 pack do. the same day Roase | 0.1.5 |
| The 28th ult. 1 gallon flour, Babcock | 0.0.8½ |
| The 7th inst. ½ bushel Babcock | 0.3.0 |
| 8th ½ bushel flour Durrant | 0.3.0 |
| To pay for Dame Vallow | 0.2.6 |
At home all day and not very busy. My brother Moses came over in the afternoon, and he and Mr Coates’s servant drank tea with me. In the evening wrote my London letters.
Oh my melancholy and disconsolate mind! The happiness I once enjoyed in my dear wife’s time is now, alas! no more.