…I dined on a hot beef pie and the remains of yesterday’s dinner. Sent Mr Richard Stone, surgeon and apothecary at Blackboys, by his servant Christopher Vine in cash 18.18.6, and 1/6 I kept back for exchange makes £19, which is in full for [a] bill received from him today…
At home all day and pretty busy. In the evening Joseph Fuller Jr sat with me some time. How unpleasant and truly melancholy is my present situation from what that was in my dear Peggy’s time!