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7. IX.
Docno: DCA01d010
Date: 1820-01-07
Arise, go to School. Greek grammar and Minora, return, evening, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.1
1. William Steuben Smith (1787–1850) was a nephew of JQA (being the son of Abigail [Adams] Smith) as well as the brother-in-law of LCA, having married Catherine Maria Frances Johnson in 1813 at St. Petersburg. He had been serving as private secretary to JQA, then minister to Russia, while Catherine had accompanied her sister to that distant land. To distinguish this couple from numerous other Smiths, CFA often called them “Uncle Smith” and “Aunt Smith.” See Adams Genealogy; Bemis, JQA
, 1:154–155, 238.
8. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA01d011
Date: 1820-01-08
Arise. No School. Dine at my Uncle Smith’s, evening, Mrs. de Neuville’s ball.
9. IX:15.
Docno: DCA01d012
Date: 1820-01-09
Arise, go to Church. Mr. Henry,1 late, did not hear the text, return, remainder of day at home.
1. Sims Henry, a preacher from New Jersey (JQA, Diary, 9 Jan. 1820; LCA’s Journal, 9 Jan. 1820, enclosed in LCA to JA, Jan. 1820, Adams Papers).
10. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA01d013
Date: 1820-01-10
Arise. Snow storm, go to School. Greek grammar, return, dinner.
11. IX:5.
Docno: DCA01d014
Date: 1820-01-11
Arise, weather fair, go to School. Greek grammar, Minora, return. Evening, usual party.
12. VIII.
Docno: DCA01d015
Date: 1820-01-12
Arise, walk to Capitol Hill, dancing master, not to School, Captain Reid,1 evening, Cardelli.
1. Presumably George C. Read, captain of the Hornet (Callahan, Navy List
).
13. VIII:20.
Docno: DCA01d016
Date: 1820-01-13
Arise, go to School. Greek grammar and Minora, return, dine, evening, John Boyd.1
1. John Quincy Adams Boyd, the son of Harriet (Johnson) Boyd (b. 1781), LCA’s sister, and George Boyd (1779–1846). See Adams Genealogy and entry for 1 Aug. 1826, and note, below.
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/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/