1780 February 29 (Tuesday). I have spent time in reading Lord Chesterfield and cant but take notice again that a Father with so much Learning and Sensibility has so little to say to a Son in whom his Soul is so bound up, about Religion and the Eternal Condition of his immortal part. As much pleasure of mind as I feel for my son Elias’s Education and Settlement in the World or Serviceableness in his Generation, yet I have (I think) quite other Solicitude about his most inestimable Interest, that of his Soul, and his Condition in another, an unchangeable State in another world. And O that God would grant him, and each of my dear Children His renewing and sanctifying Spirit! Breck removes to lodge here, Suse and the Children also. Miss Polly Howard makes us a visit and tarrys with us. We have now a pritty round Family, of the whole.