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

Opinions and Beliefs

Social

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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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country and city life12

DCA07
123*
124*
140*
267*
351*
DCA08
62*
67*
104-105*
129*
184*
204*
322*

women8

DCA01
22
127
144-145
151
292
317
xix
DCA02
398

aristocracy and social class-consciousness7

DCA01
10
162
190-191
312
xix-xxi
xxii
DCA02
142

society in Boston7

DCA07
58*
215*
346*
DCA08
6*
162-163*
170*
200*

Mammon as New England's god6

DCA05
186-187*
234*
263*
DCA06
83*
87*
315-316*

money and wealth6

DCA03
412-413*
xxx*
DCA04
30*
145*
338*
374*

balls and parties4

DCA07
348*
DCA08
154*
194*
289*

parties4

DCA05
16*
34-36*
52*
56*

a Puritan legacy to New England3

DCA05
234*
263*
DCA06
25*

Boston's men of station3

DCA05
6*
295*
DCA06
26*

entertaining3

DCA07
140*
195*
286*

marriage3

DCA02
115
262
378-379

New England's suicides3

DCA05
227*
234*
DCA06
49*

society in Washington3

DCA08
32*
34*
48-49*

card-playing2

DCA07
11*
16*

family dinners2

DCA07
136*
286*

French and English Canadians2

DCA07
36*
46*

learning2

DCA04
254*
316*

parents and children2

DCA06
114*
118*

public dinners2

DCA08
82*
247*

accepting invitations1

DCA07
176*

American self-complacency1

DCA08
207-208*

bored by Quincy gatherings1

DCA06
209*

Boston society1

DCA01
291

Canadian temperament1

DCA07
33*

changes in values and the effect1

DCA05
365*

class distinctions1

DCA08
104-105*

crowds1

DCA03
321*

dinner conversation on money and politics1

DCA07
137*

effect of commercial interests on a town1

DCA07
45*

effect of system upon domestics1

DCA04
98-99*

effects upon men when ability is added to ambition1

DCA08
49*

“emptiness of human amusement in formal circles”1

DCA07
355*

English-speaking Germans1

DCA03
417*

English women1

DCA05
282*

entertaining boring guests1

DCA05
326-327*

equality of laborers and thinkers1

DCA07
320*

foreigners' views of America1

DCA03
115-116*

infants1

DCA02
197

“In this Country simplicity and richness are the only things persons of the better class ... can resort to”1

DCA05
93*

lawyers' manners1

DCA01
207

marriage ceremonies1

DCA07
143*

marriage of persons of different station1

DCA06
236*

men's club1

DCA07
383*

New York and New Yorkers1

DCA08
227*

old age in America1

DCA06
370*

old names and present leaders1

DCA06
354*

ownership of property1

DCA06
115*

penology1

DCA03
295-296*

“Poverty in the old countries is as great a misfortune as great health appears to be in this”1

DCA06
356*

“progressive improvement of the world”1

DCA04
133*

republicanism1

DCA04
333*

sex1

DCA01
435

simplicity of manners and cultivation of display1

DCA06
350*

status conferred by wealth1

DCA05
99*

taste and established wealth1

DCA05
110*

the noise of children1

DCA06
180*

the powers of women and of men1

DCA06
34*

town people and country people1

DCA05
396*

want of cultivation1

DCA07
282*

Entry Overview:

Agent, Personal Assistant, and Deputy for JQA

Books, Reading, and Education

Character, Apperance, Habits, Domestic Life

Courtship and Marriage

Finances and Property

Health and Illnesses

Legal Studies and Career

Opinions and Beliefs

Public Life

Religion

Residences

Social Life

Travels

Writings and Editorial Work

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