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16. VIII. -

[1826-10-16]
Morning at home, Bath, ...

18. VIII. -

[1826-10-18]
Baltimore, Morning, Mr. Reynolds, ...

[17 October.] 1

Docno: DCA02d469

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-17
On Tuesday the 17th of October I drove to Baltimore and as if the very presence of the family was injurious to me, my old complaint returned. I was consequently very dull and neither the Theatre,2 horse race nor the company of many friends could revive me.
 
1. From D/CFA/5.
 
2. CFA saw Cherry and Fair Star and Simpson and Co., a comedy by John Poole at the Holliday Street Theater (D/CFA/1; Francis F. Beirne, The Amiable Baltimoreans, N.Y., 1951, p. 177).
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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