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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 1


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Docno: DCA01d491

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-08
Arise, extensive fire in Boston last evening,1 at home all day, reading the Liaisons Dangereuses,2 state of feeling, argument with my Uncle.
 
1. The fire, which started in a store on Doane Street, spread quickly and destroyed 53 buildings, causing damage estimated at half a million dollars (Columbian Centinel, 9 April 1825).
 
2. By Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, first published in Paris in 1796.
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