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22. VI.
Docno: DCA01d384
Date: 1824-12-22
Leave Trenton, Steamboat to Philadelphia, thence to New Castle, Marshall, conversation with him, Stage to Frenchtown, Mr. A. Townsend,1 Steamboat to Baltimore.
1. Presumably Alexander Townsend, Harvard 1802, a Boston lawyer who corresponded with JQA (
Mass. Register, 1824, p. 40).
23. 1:30.
Docno: DCA01d385
Date: 1824-12-23
Arrive at Baltimore, wait for Stage, to Washington. Singular companions, arrive at home, family, dinner party, Conversation with John.
24. IX.
Docno: DCA01d386
Date: 1824-12-24
Morning at home, visits to Mrs. Frye, Mr. T. B. Johnson’s,1 Thomas J. Hellen, return, evening at home, family.
1. Thomas Baker Johnson (1778?–1843), LCA’s brother, who had been postmaster at New Orleans but had apparently resigned in the summer of 1824 (LCA to GWA, 22 July 1824, Adams Papers). See Adams Genealogy.
25. IX:10.1
Docno: DCA01d387
Date: 1824-12-25
Morning at home, Christmas day, family dinner at Mr. Frye’s, evening, Chess, my mother’s ill health.
1. CFA added “Washington,” in pencil, in the margin of the MS beside this entry.
26. IX:15.
Docno: DCA01d388
Date: 1824-12-26
Morning at home, Church, Capitol, Mt. Vernon, visits, Miss Selden, Miss Cott[r]ingers, John, evening, Conversation with him.
27. IX:20.
Docno: DCA01d389
Date: 1824-12-27
Morning at home, billiards with John, evening, ball at Mrs. Brown’s, dull, and no acquaintance.
28. IX.
Docno: DCA01d390
Date: 1824-12-28
Morning at home, walk, visits, principal people, Johnson Hellen, evening, Miss Pleasonton,1 Miss Peter, party at home.
29. IX:5.
Docno: DCA01d391
Date: 1824-12-29
Morning out to walk, purchases, Thomas J. Hellen, evening, Theatre, Damon and Pythias, Mr. Pelby,1 full house, Oyster Supper.
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/