29 March
We found that the list of Navy Officers published did not include John, and went to the City to have it rectified, or to find out why John was left out.—John says they have not come down to him yet, and he is acting Lieutenant, and receiving 15 hundred dollars, is in active service.—
I had a very pleasant visit, the boys were affectionate and attentive, and I had a good shopping, the children are pleased with what I got.—Mrs Wilkins was suffering from her eyes and Eliza was not feeling well.—
Papa does his business very loosely and is now engaged in a law suit with Simons about a canal. All the people who can testify in his favor are dead, with but one or two exceptions, and he has no papers to show. William has the case, and Nelson Mitchel has been since engaged in it.—Mrs Wayne has a Northern woman to visit her just now, rather a second rate sort of a person.—Mrs Mitchel.
Things are just the same in regard to the Fort, Anderson is now to be starved out.—All this time he has been allowed to furnish himself from the Market with fresh Provisions,—which is carrying out Scripture “feeding our enemy, and doing good to those who do evil to us.”
Charlotte has Mrs Bulow & Mrs Gummage on a visit to her. C. did not altogether like them as visitors but she asked them last Spring & felt herself obliged to confirm it this April. They are much talked about and therefore not desirable friends, Mrs B. a pretty, clever, coarse woman, with a little dog & a riding horse, Mrs G. a middle aged[,] uneducated[,] coarse, woman, with a little grandaughter , very delicate and worm afflicted, in her looks.—
We have stopped the early teas.
Mrs Wayne & Mr Mitchel came to see us by invitation & take tea, they evidently expected a party and were dressed, we had no one and with the aid of Music, passed the time.