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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
Wednesday 7th.1
Docno: DCA02d582
Date: 1827-02-07
Evening at Mrs. Clay’s. I was engrossed almost all the evening by Miss Brooks. This young lady’s character is so singular that I am much struck with it. Talked much of that affair of her brother Sidney and Miss Marshall.2
1. From D/CFA/5. CFA spent the morning at home, reading Voltaire and working on the Executive Record (D/ CFA/1).
2. The engagement between Emily Marshall, the celebrated Boston beauty, and Sidney Brooks (1799–1878) was broken; she later married William Foster Otis (Crawford, Mass. Families
, 2:247, 249).
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.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/