October

Oct. 1. M.Mably, 61 pages: Odes of Importance. Abr. Dyson at tea.

2. Tu.Write 3 pages: head-ach^e. Mably, 7 pages: La Politique Naturelle, abrégé, ça & la, 12 pages. Holcroft at tea: call at Nicholson's, nah{:} sup at miss Godwin's.

3. W.Write 3 pages. Mably, 38 pages: De la Manière d'E. l'Hist., 26 pages: Hume's Essays, Pt I, Essays 2, 3, 4: finish Hobhouse, 38 pages. Dyson at tea, talk of property & coercion.

4. Th.Hume, Pt I, Essay 5: d^o on commerce, &c. 28 pages: Mably, 13 pages: Charlemagne, M., 50 pages. Holcroft & Fenwick at tea: Jardine, d^o. Weather, east wind.

5. F.Mably, 73 pages. Meet Mackintosh. Sup at Nicholson's, talk of punishment, education, cooperation & cohabitation.

6. Sa.Hume, 14 pages: finish Mably on Legislation, 100 pages: d^o on History, 54 pages.

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Sep Oct. 7. Su.Write 3 1/2 pages. Esprit des Lois, 58 pages: Eloge de Montesquieu, 50 pages.

8. M.Revise. Esprit des Lois, 23 pages: Mably on History, 130 pages.

9. Tu.Revise. Mably on History, 100 pages. Holcroft & Jardine at tea.

10. W.Revise. Montesquieu, 47 pages.

11. Th.Revise. Anecdotes of Chatham, Vol. 1, minus speeches.

12. F.Write 2 pages. Montesquieu, 46 pages{.} Holcroft at tea.

13. Sa.Write 2 pages. Plutarch's Cimon, 32 pages: Finish Mably on History, 32 pages: Sur les Grecs, 96 pages.

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Oct. 14. Su.Write 2 pages. Sur les Grecs, 60 pages. Dine at Holcroft's with Crosdil: adv. Merget, Danton jun. & Pinard:

15. M.Sur les Grecs, 98 pages: Plutarch, Themistocles, 26 pages. Search for Cicero's general. Holcroft at tea.

16. Tu.Finish Sur les Grecs, 18 pages: Logan, 121 pages: Paine on the Proclamation, 17 pages. Holcroft calls: Dyson at tea, talk of ancient virtue, & respect for other men's j^t.

17. W.Write 1 page. Annual Register, 20 pages. Holcroft at tea. Pa Finish Paine, 57 pages.

18. Th.Write 7 pages. Barlow to the Convention, 47 pages.

19. F.Write 13 pages. Finish Barlow, 23 pages. Wolcot's More Money. Write to M^r Jones.

20. Sa.Write 1 page. Finish Themistocles, 26 pages: Aristides, 41 pages: Rollin, 20 pages. Rain, head ach^e. See Romney's Paine, Fuseli's Devil, & Trumbul's Gibraltar, at Sharpe's^e.

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Oct. 21. Su.Write 3 pages. Barlow's Advice, 20 pages. Dine at Holcroft's, with major Waller, Merget & Recordat; history of Danton: sup at Nicholson's, talk of constitutions.

22. M.Write 5 pages. Barlow, 26 pages: Rollin, 20 pages. Stuart calls. Holcroft & J Godwin at tea.

23. Tu.Write 3 1/2 pages. Tea major Jardine's, with Holcroft & Dirom, talk of history, the histories of liberty & slavery. Sup at Holcrofts, with Dyson, talk of promises. Call on M^ch, nah.

24. W.Write 1 page. Call on Noel, with Holcroft. Rollin, 58 pages. Holcroft at tea. sup at miss Godwin's.

25. Th.Introduction to Smith's Thucydides, 39 pages: Rollin, 28 pages. Letter to the Convention. Call on Otton.

26. F.Rollin, 40 pages. Somers Town. Revise. Jardine at tea, talk of reason & passion.

27. Sa.Barlow, 54 pages: Flowers of the Jacobins, 42 pages. Call on Holcroft & Davis.

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Oct. 28. Su.Finish Barlow, 56 pages. Write 9 pages. Finish Flowers, 30 pages: Rollin, 26 pages. Sup at Holcroft's.

29. M.Write 2 pages. Call on Robinson, Davis, Holcroft, & M^rs Inchbald on massacres. Order a sheet a day. Price on the Am. Revolⁿ, 85 pages: Rollin, 20 pages.

30. Tu.Write 2 pages. Beccaria, 78 pages. Rollin, 24 pages. Holcroft at tea.

31. W.Write 6 pages, Book VII. Rollin, 8 pages. Holcroft at tea, sup at Holcroft's.