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Saturday. 8th. -

[1827-09-08]
Morning at the Office, but as I ...

Monday 10th. -

[1827-09-10]
Found myself much relieved. ...

Sunday. 9th.

Docno: DCA02d760

Author: CFA
Date: 1827-09-09
I amused myself in the morning with a perusal of my father’s article on the Colonial trade written for the last Number of the {p. 159} Quarterly Review.1 It is able and controversial, not without some of his usual pungency. In the afternoon went to Meeting and in the evening found myself seized with a violent attack threatening Cholera Morbus in consequence of which I was up with an Emetic.
 
1. The American Quarterly Review (1:267–306 [Sept.] 1827) carried a review giving long extracts from Documents from the State Department Relative to Colonial Trade (Senate Document No. 1, 19 Cong., 2 sess.), consisting largely of letters written by JQA as Secretary of State.
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