This year, was I expected, to have been a quiet year with me. and I hoped and expected that I should be able to employ much of my time on my projected history of North America. But I soon found myself differently occupied. I had the affairs of several persons in my hands at the commencement of the year but as I was, as I thought, resolved not to enter into any more private concerns of other people which were likely to occupy much of my time, I took what pains I could to finish with those I had already undertaken and then intended to proceed steadily with to the conclusion of my own memoirs, and then with the History of North America. I did neither the one nor the other.