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Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886, son of JQA and LCA, designated as CFA in The Adams Papers):

Books, Reading, and Education

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Note: habitual activities such as daily walks, weekly church attendance, the identification of Bible texts used in sermons, visits to the Boston Athenaeum, writing journal entries, and account keeping are not indexed.

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course of studies projected12

DCA03
45*
97*
100-101*
113*
316*
327-328*
345*
356*
DCA04
20*
89*
307*
342*

delights in his study6

DCA03
52*
71*
215*
319*
324*
361*

Boston Athenaeum as resource5

DCA03
120*
173-174*
246*
xx*
DCA04
436-442*

commitment to studies5

DCA03
56*
313*
319*
xxxv-xxxvi*
DCA04
393*

readings suggested by JQA4

scholarly pursuits4

DCA05
80*
94*
101*
164*

borrows from Harvard Library3

DCA07
398*
DCA08
67*
354*

bookplate illus.2

DCA01
240 (illus. following)
xii

on Byron's death2

DCA01

reading plan, 18242

DCA01

shifts interests from politics to literature2

DCA07
221*
232*

study routine2

DCA07
xx*
DCA08
237-238*

titlepage of copy of Butler's Hudibras, illus.2

DCA01
240 (illus. following)
xii

books from binder 1

DCA05
327*

builds Stone Library1

DCA06
170*

delights of books 1

DCA06
321*

“How many new subjects there are for the human mind.... And yet men die for want of occupation”1

DCA05
104*

identifies himself with Disraeli's Vivian Grey1

DCA02
77

identifies himself with Mrs. Opie's Henry Aubrey1

DCA01
160

MS collections of the MHS1

DCA06
342-343*

reading tastes1

DCA01

study and reading plan, 18271

DCA02
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