I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that nothing must be suffered to interfere with them. I intend to make such arrangements in town as will secure me a couple of hours daily (with very few exceptions) for my studies.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.