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Su. July 1.Read Burke on Oeconomy, 30 pages: Eloise, 17 pages. Dine at Holcroft's: call with him on Stuart: sup at Nicholson's, talk of ideal unity.

2. M.Write 4 pages, on ideal unity. Holcroft at tea: sup chez lui. Eloise, 22 pag^s

3. Tu.Write 1 page: revise. Eloise, 17 pages. Tea at Holcroft's, with Barlow, Stuart & Nicholson.

4. W.Write 1 page on self love: Eloise, 59 pages. Miss Cooper dines: Holcroft at tea

5. Th.Visit D^r Priestley, talk of the importance of politics, & moral causation. Barrow's Ma. Lectures, 22 pages on space: Eloise, 38 pages. Call on D^r Lister, nah.

6. F.Write or transcribe 3 pages, on self love. Eloise, 72 pages. Dine at Holcroft's, With Yaniewicz, Clementi, Crosdil, Shield, Damen, maj. Waller, Otley & Bicknel: Quartets^e.

7. Sa.Notes. Finish Burke on Oeconomy: Eloise; 46 pages: Horne Tooke's trial^e. Call on Fenwick, with Holcroft. See Nicholson.

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July 8. Su.Burke's Speech at Bristol, 12 pages: Eloise, 64 pages; Preface to d^o. Dine at Holcroft's; M^r Pitt, talk of poetry & religion.

9. M.Call on Robinson, nah. Speech at Bristol, 13 pages: Junius, 270 pages: Eloise, 105 pages.

10. Tu.Write 1 page: revise. Mackintosh calls, talk of Hartley & self love. Junius, 18 pages. News from Edinburgh^e.

11. W.Revise on necessity. C's theatrical lessons^e. Junius, 46 pages: Burke on the Sublime, 26 pages.

12. Th.Revise on necessity: write 1 page. Theatrical lessons^e: sickness^e. Junius, 30 pages. Sup at Nicholson's, talk of causation.

13. F.Hume on the understanding, 42 pages: Junius, 16 pages. Theatricals^e.

14. Sa.Write 1 page on necessity. Hume, 14 pages. Theatricals^e.

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July 15. Su.Write 1 page. D^r Lister calls, talk ideas & D^r Priestley. Hume's Dialogues, 35 pages. M^rs & miss Cooper dine: abortive rehearsal^e.

16. Th.Hume, 26 pages: Dine at Holcroft's: Theatricals^e .

17. Tu.Write 2 pages, on associations.

18. W.Write 1 1/2 pages, on d^o. Hume, 23 pages.

19. Th.Indigestion^e. Hume, 13 pages: Junius, 74 pages. Revise.

20. F.Eloise, 9 pages. Stuart calls. Dine at Holcroft's.

21. Sa.Finish Hume's Dialogues, 17 pages: Eloise, 64 pages: Junius, 8 pages.

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July 22. Su.Write 2 pages. Eloise 16 pages. Dine at Holcroft's. C. for Edinburgh^e. Hume's Hist. of Religion, 10 pages.

23. M.Revise. Eloise, 4 pages: Love's Labour Lost, 4 acts: Spence's Magliabechi. Call on Webb, nit, & miss Godwin. Dyson calls. Miss Godwin sups.

24. Tu.Tasso, 8 stanzas. Finish Hist. of Religion, & Love's Labour Lost: Eloise, 46 pages: Hume on the understanding, 16 pages.

25. W.Write 3 1/2 pages. Hume, 35 pages: Systêm{e}, 12 pages: Measure for Measure, acts 1 & 2. See the Enchanted Wood^e. C. arrives at Edinb^he.

26. Th.Write 3 pages. Transcribe & correct 2 1/2. Systême, 22 pages: Eloise, 39 pages. Finish Measure for Measure: Midsummer Night, 2 1/2 acts.

27. F.Transcribe & correct 1 1/2 pages. Dyson calls, talk of prosperity & God, dines. Systême, 14 pages: finish Midsummer Night: Merchant of Venice, 1 1/2 acts. Sup at Nicholson's, talk of France, matter & Hartley. Rehearses Douglas^e

28. Sa.Write 2 pages, on prosperity. Finish Merchant of Venice: Much Ado, 3 acts. Miss Godwin at tea.

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July 29. Su.Write 2 pages. Stuart calls, talk of sincerity. Much Ado, act 4: Dine at Holcroft's, talk of Achilles.

30. M.Hear from & write to Cooper: Holcroft// to M^rs Siddons^e. Read Rowe's Life of Shakespear, Pope's & Johnson's Prefaces, Malone's Chronology, &c.

31. Tu.Write 2 pages. Chronology: Finish Much Ado: Two Gentlemen of Verona: Henry 4, act. 1. 