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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2

Saturday. April 21st. -

[1827-04-21]
Morning duties regularly performed. ...

Monday. April 23d. -

[1827-04-23]
I took a bath but decided to ...

Sunday. April 22d.

Docno: DCA02d631

Author: CFA
Date: 1827-04-22
I took a bath, but the water was too cold. I felt chilled during the remainder of the morning. My morning duties were performed, after which I wasted the day, employing it only in writing two letters, one {p. 123} to George and the other to Richardson.1 My spirits sunk from want of occupation and it was one of my horrible days. In the evening, Reynolds, the expedition man,2 called to see me and drew me out of myself for an hour.
 
1. Both missing.
 
2. Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799–1858), who was lecturing in Washington and was memorializing Congress to support an exploring expedition in the South Seas (JQA, Memoirs , 7:168).
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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