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[1825-02-12]
Morning spent at home, want of ...

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[1825-02-14]
Morning at home, low spirits, ...

13. VIII:50.

Docno: DCA01d437

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-02-13
Morning at Church, Mr. Little’s1 with Johnson, dinner party, {p. 451} family, Mr. Owen2 and Crowninshields, evening company, Mrs. Cutts3 and others.
 
1. Robert Little, minister of the Unitarian church in Washington (JQA, Memoirs , 7:324).
 
2. Robert Owen (1771–1858), the British social reformer who had made his cotton mills at New Lanark, Scotland, a model community, had come to America to found the New Harmony colony in Indiana ( DNB ).
 
3. Presumably Mrs. Richard Cutts, wife of the assistant comptroller of the Treasurer, 1817–1829, and an intimate friend of LCA (Bemis, JQA , 2:537).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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