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24. IX.

Docno: DCA02d177

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-24
Morning at home, assorting Newspapers, Beaumont and Fletcher, dinner party, Baron Tuyll’s, Anniversary, Corps Diplomatique, very splendid, Mr. J. W. Taylor.

25. IX.

Docno: DCA02d178

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-25
Morning at home, Christmas day, letter from my Grandfather, evening with the family.

26. IX:10.

Docno: DCA02d179

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-26
Morning at home, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, weather cold, walk to Mr. Frye’s, Christmas dinner, family.

27. IX.

Docno: DCA02d180

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-27
Morning at home, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, dull day at home, evening, family.

28. VIII:35.

Docno: DCA02d181

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-28
At home all day, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, a Drawing room, crowded and stupid.

29. IX.

Docno: DCA02d182

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-29
At home all day, Indolence, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, letter from Richardson,1 evening with the family.
 
1. Missing.

30. IX:10.

Docno: DCA02d183

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-30
At home all day, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, dinner party at home, Mr. Stevenson of Pennsylvania,1 “walking on the edge of a razor.”
 
1. James S. Stevenson (1780–1831), a Pittsburgh manufacturer, who served as an Adams supporter in Congress from 1825 to 1829 ( Biog. Dir. Cong. ).

31. IX.

Docno: DCA02d184

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-31
At home all day, Beaumont and Fletcher, Byron, dinner party, New Year, family, Bishop England,1 arrival of Miss Maese.2
 
1. John England (1786–1842), the Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston, S.C. ( DAB ).
 
2. J. Mease, a friend of LCA, who lived at 192 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia (J. Mease to LCA, 14 Feb. 1825, Adams Papers).
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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.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/