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19. IX:30.

Docno: DCA02d262

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-19
Morning at home, weather bad, letter to George,1 dinner, Charles {p. 37} Bonaparte and Mr. N. Biddle,2 evening, William Lee and Mr. Lawrence.3
 
1. Missing.
 
2. Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844) of Philadelphia, who had been president of the Bank of the United States since 1822 ( DAB ).
 
3. Presumably Joseph Lawrence (1786–1842), who served as a Pennsylvania Representative from 1825 to 1829 ( Biog. Dir. Cong. ).

20. VIII:50.

Docno: DCA02d263

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-20
Morning at home, desultory reading, weather still unpleasant, dinner, my Uncle T. B. Johnson, evening, a walk.

21. IX.

Docno: DCA02d264

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-21
Morning at home, Sergeant on Constitutional Law,1 evening, walk, family, visit from Mr. N. Biddle, Executive Record.
 
1. JQA’s copy of Thomas Sergeant’s Constitutional Law, Phila., 1822, is in the Stone Library.

22. IX.

Docno: DCA02d265

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-22
Morning at home, Constitutional Law, Madame de Genlis, Memoirs,1 Spanish, letter from George,2 evening, a Drawing room.
 
1. CFA’s copy of the Countess de Genlis, Mémoires inédits, 4 vols., Paris, 1825, is in the Stone Library.
 
2. Missing.

23. IX:10.

Docno: DCA02d266

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-23
Morning at home, Sergeant Constitutional Law, Wheaton’s Reports, Madame de Genlis, evening, visits from Mr. Webster and Mr. Hopkinson, Miss Maese.

24. IX:25.

Docno: DCA02d267

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-24
Morning at home, Sergeant, sudden storm, Madame de Genlis, Dinner party, Mr. Hopkinson, Sergeant and others, evening, N. Biddle and C. Bonaparte.

25. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d268

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-25
Morning at home, assorting Newspapers, letters to George and to Richardson,1 evening, a walk.
 
1. Both missing.

26. IX:30.

Docno: DCA02d269

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-03-26
Morning at home, letter to my Grandfather, visit to Richardson’s father, ride with John, pleasant, evening at home.
{p. 38}
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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