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2. IX.
Docno: DCA02d276
Date: 1826-04-02
Morning, Bath, writing letters to George and Richardson,1 Madame de Genlis, Memoirs, evening at home, Johnson Hellen.
3. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d277
Date: 1826-04-03
Morning at home, Sergeant’s Constitutional Law, Spanish, Madame de Genlis, evening, walk.
4. VIII:45.
Docno: DCA02d278
Date: 1826-04-04
Morning, Capitol with J. Hellen, House of Representatives, Mr. McLane of Delaware, Mr. Powell,1 evening at home.
1. The House was debating the propriety of sending United States representatives to the Inter-American Congress at Panama. McLane wished to forbid our ministers from discussing “any proposition of alliance, offensive or defensive, between this country and any of the South American Governments.” Alfred A. Powell, of Virginia, agreed that “every thing in the shape of a pledge” to the Latin American states should be avoided, but he emphatically endorsed the sending of the mission, which was “demanded by high and important considerations, bearing directly upon the special interests of the Union” (
Register of Debates in Congress
, 19 Cong., 1 sess., 2:2011–2029).
5. X.
Docno: DCA02d279
Date: 1826-04-05
Morning at home, Constitutional Law, unwell, evening, a Drawing room, low spirits.
6. VIII:45.
Docno: DCA02d280
Date: 1826-04-06
Morning at home, unwell, Dr. Huntt, Law, Spanish, Madame de Genlis, evening at home, Miss Maese.
7. IX.
Docno: DCA02d281
Date: 1826-04-07
1. CFA’s copy of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle, Histoire de France pendant le dix-huitième siècle, 10 vols., Paris, 1819–1824, is in the Stone Library.
2. James Noble (1785–1831), who served as Indiana Senator from 1816 to 1831 (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
).
8. IX:25.
Docno: DCA02d282
Date: 1826-04-08
At home all day, assorting Newspapers, letters to Richardson and George,1 La Cretelle, evening at home.
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/