Prayers, recitation, Chemistry, Dr. Kirkland, leave of absence, ride to Boston, George, with him to Roxbury, dine at Mr. Boylston’s,2 agreeable time, thence to Quincy.
1. CFA added “Cambridge,” in pencil, in the margin of the MS beside this entry.
2. Ward Nicholas Boylston (1747–1828), a kinsman and close friend of JQA’s. See Adams Genealogy.
17. IX.
Docno: DCA01d379
Author: CFA
Date: 1824-12-17
Quincy, my Grandfather, Conversation, politics, return to Cambridge, pack, again to Boston, Dr. Welsh’s, Miss Hinkley, George, remain with him.
18. VII:30.
Docno: DCA01d380
Author: CFA
Date: 1824-12-18
Leave Boston, Stage to Providence, Easterly Storm, arrive at Horton’s, remain for the night, Mr. D’Wolf.
19. VI.
Docno: DCA01d381
Author: CFA
Date: 1824-12-19
Leave Providence, Steam boat, College acquaintances, Fisher, Miller, Bonaparte, Elwyn,1 Marshall, Heavy sea. Stop at Newport, very dull.
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/