Beginning and end of this month have some curt dismissals of the trivia of everyday socializing. The middle features an index, or list of topics as he makes the transition from Volume K to the new Volume L.
More substantially, we have accounts of two sermons by Channing, who discusses religion and morality in some detail. His view was that one cannot be useful without the other.
Finally, a bit more social contact with Josiah Quincy, who was to write [spoiler alert] one of Gallison’s obituaries at the end of 1820.