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Wednesday. August 29th. -

[1827-08-29]
Seldom has head ache afflicted me ...

Friday. August 31st. 1827. -

[1827-08-31]
Feeling so much better today I ...

Thursday. August 30th. 1827.

Docno: DCA02d750

Author: CFA
Date: 1827-08-30
I felt somewhat better this morning, but still unwell. My day was passed very quietly at home, reading a collection of military and Naval letters relating to the last War,1 and a new Novel called High Life.2 A Miss Sparhawk was here upon a visit to Elizabeth.
 
1. JQA’s copy of Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14, & 15, ed. John Brannan, Washington, 1823, is in the Stone Library.
 
2. Anon., 3 vols., London, 1827.
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