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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2

Saturday. 15th. -

[1827-09-15]
Morning at the Office, thence to ...

Monday 17th. -

[1827-09-17]
Rode to Boston in Mr. Brooks’ open ...

Sunday. 16th.

Docno: DCA02d767

Author: CFA
Date: 1827-09-16
This day passed with but little incident of a nature worthy to be recorded. I was almost all day in conversation with Abby upon indifferent subjects and was pleased as I always am. She went to Meeting in the afternoon, during which time I read some of Miss Wakefield’s Botany.1 Mr. Thomson paid a visit and drank tea this evening, introducing a Mr. Stewart, another Englishman.
 
1. Priscilla Wakefield, An Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters, London, 1796.
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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