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December. 1825. Thursday. I. IX.
Docno: DCA02d154
Date: 1825-12-01
At home all day, weather cloudy, Reeves, Beaumont and Fletcher, quiet day, evening with the family.
2. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d155
Date: 1825-12-02
At home all day, nothing remarkable, Reeves, Beaumont and Fletcher, Burke, evening out.
3. IX.
Docno: DCA02d156
Date: 1825-12-03
Morning at home, unwell, spirits low, Beaumont and Fletcher, letter from Richardson,1 death of my friend Sheafe, reflection, evening at home.
4. VIII:40.
Docno: DCA02d157
Date: 1825-12-04
At home all day, low spirits, medicine, Beaumont and Fletcher, Burke, evening with the family.
5. IX.
Docno: DCA02d158
Date: 1825-12-05
2. Representative John W. Taylor, who had previously served as Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1820–1821, was the candidate of the Adams forces. His election by a majority of only two, on the second ballot, was evidence of the weakness of JQA’s supporters in the House (Bemis, JQA
, 2:72–73).
6. IX:10.
Docno: DCA02d159
Date: 1825-12-06
Morning at home, finish Reeves, Beaumont and Fletcher, President’s Message,1 Burke, evening walk.
1. JQA’s first annual message to Congress reviewed the state of the nation and advocated, among other things, a national university and support for geographical and astronomical research (Richardson, ed., Messages and Papers
, 2:299–317).
7. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d160
Date: 1825-12-07
Morning at home, Blackstone’s Commentaries,1 Beaumont and Fletcher, walk, John, evening with the family.
1. JQA’s copy of Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols., London, 1791, is in the Stone Library. Among JA’s books in the Boston
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Public Library are two sets of the Commentaries; the Philadelphia edition, 1771–1773, 4 vols., contains JA’s annotations. See
Catalogue of JA’s Library
, p. 28.
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/