
Wet, warmish, cloudy half dark to day—feeling fairly—bowel action & water-works action middling fair (sluggish & delayed)—peaches have come, good, & I eat them cut up & sugar'd—still stick to the mutton-rice broth—have been looking over the proofs of Horace's dinner book— (it is a cataclysm of praise &c:)—of course you will get one soon as printed—well some three or four weeks of hot weather yet, with perhaps of intervals even in that—
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