November 17, 1938 Thursday

S.U. Today my cold was pretty bad so I enjoyed a “vacation in bed,” and really had quite an enjoyable time. Pa returned from a meeting of tax collectors in Manchester tonight. I continued to read “Pickwick Papers.” Somehow, they seem to be like the Spectator Papers. I like that style of writing—mildly humorous, easy, and meditative. Seems as though they would have something like them in periodicals of today.