May

May 1. Tu.Secret Hist., 12 pages: Paine, 22 pages: Ludlow, 10 pages. Sup at miss Godwin's, talk politics.

2 W.Ludlow, 58 pages: Hume, 40 pages. Webb calls, talk of history: call on Hollis, nah: & Walker, goldsmith. Meet Tooke & Paine.

3. Th.Hume, 122 pages. J Hollis calls. Dine at B. Hollis's, tea with him at M^rs Jebbs. M^rs Cooper sups.

4. F.Revise, 8 pages. Hume 114 pages: Fugitive, 2 acts. Sup at Holcroft's.

5. Sa.Revise, 8 pages. Finish the Fugitive. Dyson au soir. Call on Dorset, nah, Bulmer & Walker. Venice Preserved, 3 acts.

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May 6. Su.Call on Dorset, & Spilsbury & Dyson. Revise, 73 pages. Sup at Nicholson's, talk of literary societies, taxation, promises & coercion. Read Geddes on slavery. Disney calls{.} Paine, 32 p.

7. M.Revise. Barlow, 58: Finish Venice Preserved. Holcroft at tea.

8. Tu.Revise. Call on Dorset: Meet Fenwick. Gulliver, 7 pages. Revise the Father of a Family.

9. W.Revise. Hume, 91 pages. Holcroft at tea, Abr. Dyson, self love. Gulliver, 15 pages.

10. Th.Write 5 pages. Burke on Natural Society.

11. F.Revise. Hume, 24 pages.

12. Sa.Revise. Call on John Robinson. Paley, 53 pages.

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May 13. Su.Revise: write 1 1/2 pages on suicide. Dine at Holcroft's, with Dyson, talk of gravitation. Sup at Nicholson's, w. H. talk of immortality, abstraction, causation, majorities & promises. Paley, 28 pages.

14. M.Arrange. Paley, 21 pages: Hume, 38 pages: Discours sur l'Homme, 2 parties. Dine at B. Hollis's: call on Nicholson.

15. Tu.Write 2 1/2 pages, on Equality. Discours, 2 parties: Paley, 37 pages: Hume, 20 p^s. Call on miss Cooper: sup at Nicholson's with Holcroft, talk of necessity & divisn of lab Dorset calls]religⁿ.]

16. W.Call on Robinson, Spilsbury, Webb nah, & J Hollis nah. Wakefield's Memoirs, 170 pages. //Send copy. Sup at miss Godwin's.

17. Th.Exhibition^e: Hanover Square, Yaniewicz & Haydn^e. M^rs Cooper dines: sup at Holcrofts. Wakefield, 30 pages.

18. F.Write 1/2 a page. Discours, 2 parties (5^th missing.)Loi Naturelle, 2 parties: Hume, 20 pages: Parr's Sequel, 168 pages. J. C. goes to Spilsbury^e. Paine's Letter to the Const. Society

19. Sa.Parr, 56 pages. Write 6 pages, on Revolutions. Loi Naturelle, 1 partie: Davis calls. News of J. S. Jordan confirmed.

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May 20. Su.Write 5 pages. Finish Loi Naturelle: read Poeme sur Lisbonne. Dine at Holcroft's: sup with him at Nicholson's, talk of necessity, & Barrow's Math^l Lectures.

21. M.Write 6 pages. J Hollis calls. Proclamation against seditious writings^e: Libel Bill, second reading in the lords 57 to 32^e.

22. Tu.Write 4 pages. Orphan, acts 1 & 2. First proofs.

23. W.Revise. Steel on Punctuation. Finish the Orphan. Dyson calls

24. Th.Write 7 1/2 pages, on Private Judgment. Paley, 49 pages. Call on M^rs Webb, nah.

25. F.Write 8 pages. Paley, 51 pages: Hume, 28 pages. Holcroft at tea.

26. Sa.Write 6 pages. B. Hollis at tea. Holcroft at supper. Fair Penitent, act 1.

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May 27. Su.Write about duty, 1 page. Dyson & White call, talk of force. Call on Nicholson, talk of virtue, duty & associations. Fair Penitent, act 2.

28. M.Write 3 pages, revise. Finish the Fair Penitent. Holcroft dines with Merry & Pain{e}

29. Tu. Write or transcribe 6 pages, on the social contract. Jane Shore: Hume, 22 pages.

30. W.Write 2 1/2 pages. Douglas, 1 act. Dine at Holcroft's: sup at Nicholson's, talk of government, contract, associations & instinct. Call at Fenwick's.

31. Th.Revise Book II, Part I: Write 4 pages. Miss Cooper calls: Holcroft sups.