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29. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d121

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-10-29
Morning at home, Ben Jonson, assorting Newspapers, letter to Richardson,1 evening at home.
 
1. Missing.

30. VII:25.

Docno: DCA02d122

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-10-30
Morning at home, Ben Jonson, Horace, Church, Mr. Hawley, dull, evening, conversation with my father.

31. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d123

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-10-31
Morning at home, Montesquieu, finish Ben Jonson, Horace, evening, walk with my father, visit Mr. Frye, Mary.

November. 1825. Tuesday. I. IX.

Docno: DCA02d124

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-11-01
Morning at home, Montesquieu, Esprit des Lois, Horace, dinner party at Mrs. Pleasonton’s, Miss Ramsays, Mr. Weed, Thomas, Randall, evening at home.

2. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA02d125

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-11-02
Morning at home, Montesquieu, Horace, Beaumont and Fletcher,1 letter from George,2 evening, walk.
 
1. The Stone Library contains a three-volume set of the Dramatic Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, London, 1811.
 
2. Missing.

3. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA02d126

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-11-03
Morning at home, finish Montesquieu, Beaumont and Fletcher, evening, visit to my Uncle T. B. Johnson, conversation.

4. IX.

Docno: DCA02d127

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-11-04
Morning at home, Reeves’ History of the English Law,1 Beaumont and Fletcher, Horace, my mother arrives, bad spirits, John, conversation.
 
1. JA’s copy of John Reeves, History of the English Law, from the Time of the Saxons, 2d edn., 4 vols., London, 1787, with CFA’s bookplate in the first two volumes, is in the Boston Public Library ( Catalogue of JA’s Library , p. 209).

5. VIII:15.

Docno: DCA02d128

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-11-05
Morning at home, bath, Beaumont and Fletcher, Horace, evening, visits, my Uncle T. B. Johnson, Mrs. W. S. Smith.
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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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