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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
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
{p. 23}
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.
8. IX.
Docno: DCA02d161
Date: 1825-12-08
Morning at home, Blackstone, remove to my own room, Byron, Beaumont and Fletcher, walk, evening with the family.
9. VIII:45.
Docno: DCA02d162
Date: 1825-12-09
Morning at home, Blackstone, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, ride with John, eclipse,1 letter from my Grandfather, evening at home.
10. IX.
Docno: DCA02d163
Date: 1825-12-10
Morning at home, bath, Beaumont and Fletcher, ride with John, evening at home with the family.
11. IX.
Docno: DCA02d164
Date: 1825-12-11
Morning at home, unwell, Beaumont and Fletcher, letter to my Grandfather, evening at home.
12. IX.
Docno: DCA02d165
Date: 1825-12-12
Morning at home, Blackstone, Beaumont and Fletcher, reflection upon sickness, evening with the family.
13. IX:25.
Docno: DCA02d166
Date: 1825-12-13
2. Charles Kellogg (1773–1842), a newly elected Representative from New York, who served only one term (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
).
14. IX:15.
Docno: DCA02d167
Date: 1825-12-14
Morning at home, Blackstone, Beaumont and Fletcher, the Miss Ramsays, walk, evening, Drawing room, pleasant enough.
15. IX:15.
Docno: DCA02d168
Date: 1825-12-15
Morning at home, Blackstone, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, indisposed, evening quiet, with the family.
16. VIII:35.
Docno: DCA02d169
Date: 1825-12-16
Morning at home, Blackstone, Beaumont and Fletcher, weather rainy, walk, evening with the family.
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/