Rec’d of Mr Thomas Carman in cash 5.14.0 in full for the same sum assessed on him by a poor rate made April 17th. My friend Tipper breakfasted with Thomas Durrant and went home in the forenoon. I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. In the afternoon my brother came over to take up cloths for Will Piper and gave me in cash £20 for [two bills]…
At home all day and pretty busy. In the evening wrote my London letters. An excessive hot day. Oh, how dismal and melancholy my situation, no pleasing friend, no sincere and virtuous companion; oh, the loss, the insurmountable loss of my beloved wife.