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March 1825. Tuesday. 1. IX:20.
Docno: DCA01d453
Date: 1825-03-01
Morning at home, weather fair, lounge, meet Burton, conversation, home. Dinner. Supreme Court, Mr. Bibb and Ogden. Evening, first visit to A., original sin.
2. X.
Docno: DCA01d454
Date: 1825-03-02
Morning at home, walk to visit old College acquaintances, Burton at the house, Mrs. De Wint arrives, evening Circus with Johnson. Cataract of the Ganges,1 noise.
3. IX.
Docno: DCA01d455
Date: 1825-03-03
Morning at home, lounge, a large family, Mr. Cook and Mr. Cruft dine here, evening, John out at Houston’s,1
punning scene at home until very late.
1. Possibly John H. Houston, clerk in the fifth auditor’s office (
Washington Directory, 1822, p. 45).
4. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA01d456
Date: 1825-03-04
Inauguration of JQA to be President, procession, walk to the Capitol, home, receiving company, Madame unwell, expresident’s, with Burton, evening, ball.
5. IX:30.
Docno: DCA01d457
Date: 1825-03-05
Arise fatigued, reading Don Juan, Mrs. de Wint disagreeable, walk, change in the city, evening, my uncle and aunt Smith, evening, laziness.
6. IX.
Docno: DCA01d458
Date: 1825-03-06
Not at Church. Johnson off, Madame unwell, walk, Don Juan, my own letters, evening, conversation John and Burton, Mr. Davis &c.,1 warmth, second visit to A., child.
1. The Boston lawyer, John Brazer Davis, who was seeking a diplomatic appointment (Henry Dearborn to JQA, 24 Jan. 1825, Adams Papers).
7. IX.
Docno: DCA01d459
Date: 1825-03-07
Morning at home, walk with Burton, visit my aunts Frye and Smith,
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return, pleasant dinner, Mr. Cruft and Sullivan, English wine, evening, 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/