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4. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d096
Date: 1825-10-04
Morning at home, indolence, Vattel, Horace, Ben Jonson, Joshua Boyd called,1 billiards, evening, Don Quixote, to bed early.
1. Joshua Johnson Boyd (d. 1832), LCA’s nephew. See Adams Genealogy.
5. VII.
Docno: DCA02d097
Date: 1825-10-05
Morning at home, Vattel, Horace, Ben Jonson, visits, Col. Roberdeau, Col. McKenny,1 evening, Don Quixote, walk.
1. Lt. Col. Isaac Roberdeau, from Pennsylvania, of the Army corps of engineers (Heitman, Register U.S. Army
), and Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785–1859), head of the bureau of Indian affairs of the War Department from 1824 to 1830 (
DAB
).
6. VI:30.
Docno: DCA02d098
Date: 1825-10-06
Morning at home, Vattel, Horace, Ben Jonson, Don Quixote, Johnson Hellen from Rockville, evening, billiards.
7. VI:10.
Docno: DCA02d099
Date: 1825-10-07
Morning at home, Vattel, Horace, Ben Jonson, visits, Dr. Huntt, Joshua Boyd, letter from Richardson,1 evening, billiards with Johnson.
8. VII.
Docno: DCA02d100
Date: 1825-10-08
Morning at home, Bath, visits, Mrs. Smith and M. C. Hellen, Ben Jonson, letter from George,1 evening walk.
9. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d101
Date: 1825-10-09
Morning at home, weather foggy, indolent, Horace, Ben Jonson, letter to George,1 evening, Conversation with Johnson.
10. VII.
Docno: DCA02d102
Date: 1825-10-10
Morning at home, Vattel, weather bad, Horace, Odes, Ben Jonson, evening, billiards, conversation with Johnson, his gloom.
11. VII.
Docno: DCA02d103
Date: 1825-10-11
Morning at home, much wasted, room disordered, masons, visit, Joshua Boyd, evening, billiards with Johnson.
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/