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Wednesday. August 8th. 1827. -

[1827-08-08]
I found Thomas B. Adams Jr. here ...

Friday August 10th. 1827. -

[1827-08-10]
Day spent in desultory reading, ...

Thursday. August 9th.

Docno: DCA02d729

Author: CFA
Date: 1827-08-09
Took a salt water bath and stopped at George’s. Wrote a note to Abby1 and rode to Quincy in the Stage, Mrs. Royall in Company.2 This lady being my aversion, I took care to remain Incognito until after I had got out of her reach. And after that I cared not for her anger which was great.
 
1. Missing.
 
2. Anne (Newport) Royall (1769–1854), the author of several books of travel and of a novel, The Tennessean, 1827, which has been called “one of the worst ever written in America” ( DAB ). Mrs. Royall’s account of her encounter with Adams has been quoted in the Editorial Introduction to these volumes.
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/