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).
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/