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18. VI.

Docno: DCA01d501

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-18
Prayers, recitation, Say, Missed the Lectures, ride to Boston with Sheafe, dine Exchange Coffee House, return, Franklin Hotel, Billiards, Company drill, evening at Otis’.

19. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA01d502

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-19
Missed Prayers, and recitation, Celebration at Concord,1 Richardson and I to Neponset, tandem, billiards, return through Quincy, evening, Champagne wine.
 
1. Edward Everett made the principal address at the ceremony commemorating the battle of Concord. See “The First Battles of the Revolutionary War,” in Everett’s Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, 1:73–100.

20. VIII:40.

Docno: DCA01d503

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-20
Missed Prayers and recitations all day, ride to Boston, George, conversation, evening, Theatre, John Bull,1 Howard, Sheafe and Richardson, Supper at the Exchange.
 
1. A comedy by George Colman.

21. VII:30.

Docno: DCA01d504

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-21
Boston, ride to Brooklyn, party of four, luncheon, return, George, dine at the Exchange, evening, Circus, stupid, return to Cambridge.

22. VI.

Docno: DCA01d505

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-22
Prayers, recitation, Say, missed Mr. Ticknor’s Lecture, Dr. Bigelow, drill, declamation, to Boston, Theatre, She stoops to Conquer, return, Richardson’s, to bed late.

23. VIII:40.

Docno: DCA01d506

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-23
Missed the exercises, morning at home, horseback to Lexington, Sheafe and Richardson, fatigue, evening to Boston, return early.

24. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA01d507

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-24
Missed Prayers. Chapel, Dr. Kirkland, Dr. Ware, excessive fatigue, evening at Richardson’s, punch, Sheafe.

25. VI.

Docno: DCA01d508

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-04-25
Prayers, recitation, Say, Lecture, Dr. Jackson,1 ride to Neponset with Sheafe, billiards, return early.
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1. James Jackson, Harvard 1796, M.D. 1809, Hersey professor of the theory and practice of physic from 1812 to 1836 ( Harvard Quinquennial Cat. ).
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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