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7. VII:30.

Docno: DCA02d069

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-07
Arise, Journal, ceremony of leave taking, General La Fayette goes. {p. 11} Military parade. Copy his speech, carry it to Force’s. John went to the Ship, evening, billiards.

8. VI:30.

Docno: DCA02d070

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-08
Arise. Commence Hallam’s Middle Ages,1 l’Allemagne, Journal, house very quiet, evening, ride and conversation with the ladies.
 
1. JQA’s copy of Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, 5 vols., Phila., 1821, is in the Stone Library.

9. VII.

Docno: DCA02d071

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-09
Arise, copy Notes, Hallam’s Middle Ages, l’Allemagne, Life of Ben Jonson, Journal, billiards, evening ride with the ladies and conversation, John returned.

10. VII.

Docno: DCA02d072

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-10
Arise, copy Notes, l’Allemagne, Journal, billiards, day spent idly, evening at home, Mr. Anderson.1
 
1. Richard Clough Anderson Jr. (1788–1826), formerly a Representative from Kentucky, whom JQA named minister plenipotentiary to the Panama conference of American states ( Biog. Dir. Cong. ).

11. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d073

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-11
Arise, Church in the morning, Mr. Hawley, tolerable, letters to George and H.W.,1 l’Allemagne, evening, ride and tea at my Uncle’s.
 
1. CFA’s letters to both GWA and to Harriet Welsh are missing.

12. VI:30.

Docno: DCA02d074

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-12
Arise, copy Notes, Hallam, Journal, l’Allemagne, Horace,1 l’Allemagne, Ben Jonson, Every Man in his humour.2 Commence methodical life, eve., converse with Madame.
 
1. JQA’s copy of the Opera of Horatius Flaccus, London, 1744, is in the Boston Athenaeum ( Catalogue of JQA’s Books ).
 
2. JQA’s copy of Jonson’s Dramatic Works, London, 1811, is in the Stone Library.

13. VI:30.

Docno: DCA02d075

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-13
Arise, copy Notes, Hallam, Journal, l’Allemagne, Horace, Ben Jonson, evening conversation with Madame, her state of health.

14. VII.

Docno: DCA02d076

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-09-14
Arise, copy Notes, Hallam, Journal, l’Allemagne, Horace, Ben Jon• {p. 12} son, evening, ride and conversation with the family, Mr. Sullivan, billiards.
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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