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13. VI.
Docno: DCA01d127
Date: 1824-03-13
1. See entry for 11 May, note, below.
2. Since 1756 the two upper classes at Harvard had given public exhibitions twice a year, in the spring and fall, of debates, dialogues, and orations, mostly in English. CFA received no part in the April 1824 performance (Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard
, p. 90; Overseers Records, 10:60–61, Harvard Archives).
14. VIII.
Docno: DCA01d128
Date: 1824-03-14
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware, Dr. Kirkland, sleepy, quiet at home, evening visiters, Otis, Brennan.1
1. Richard Brenan, of Charleston, S.C., a junior (
Harvard Annual Cat., 1823).
15. VI.
Docno: DCA01d129
Date: 1824-03-15
Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Spanish, Tacitus,1 Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar, Electricity, evening at my room, Cards and Wine.
1. CFA’s two Latin copies of the Opera of Tacitus, published in Antwerp in 1668 and in London in 1817, 3 vols., are in the Stone Library, along with his copy of an English translation of the Annals and History, London, 1698. JQA’s many editions of Tacitus are in the Stone Library and in the Boston Athenseum. See
Catalogue of JQA’s Books
, p. 126–127. For JA’s copies of Tacitus in the Boston Public Library, see
Catalogue of JA’s Library
, p. 240–241.
April 1824. Thursday. 1. VII:10.
Docno: DCA01d130
Date: 1824-04-01
Missed Prayers, Fast day, Chapel, Dr. Kirkland, Dr. Ware, very interesting. Evening at home, Roscoe, Lorenzo de Medici.1
2. V:40.
Docno: DCA01d131
Date: 1824-04-02
Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Spanish, Lecture, Mr. Farrar, Declamation, evening, walk, Lorenzo de Medici.
3. VI.
Docno: DCA01d132
Date: 1824-04-03
Prayers, recitation, Enfield, lounge at the Book store, purchase, at home all day, finish the life of Lorenzo de Medici.
4. VI:10.
Docno: DCA01d133
Date: 1824-04-04
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Kirkland, Dr. Ware, afternoon walk, evening at Tudor’s, conversation.
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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