In the forenoon my brother came over and stayed and dined with me… In the afternoon Mrs Atkins, Mrs Hicks and Mrs Fanny Hicks drank tea with me… Dame Prall a-washing for me half the day.
In the evening wrote my London letters. But very little to do all day, and I think trade and money never was so dull before. Oh, what can I do? My hands are as it were tied, having no person whom I can trust with my business when I am from home. And by my being so much confined at home, undoubtedly my affairs abroad must be neglected.