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24. IX.
Docno: DCA02d298
Date: 1826-04-24
At home all day, Comyn on Contracts, Voltaire, Spanish, Conversation with Johnson, his suspicions, evening at home.
25. VIII:25.
Docno: DCA02d299
Date: 1826-04-25
At home all day, Comyns, Voltaire, Spanish, little or no incident, evening with the family.
26. VII:50.
Docno: DCA02d300
Date: 1826-04-26
At home all day, regular habits, Comyn, Voltaire, Spanish, evening, quiet with the family.
27. IX.
Docno: DCA02d301
Date: 1826-04-27
At home all day, Comyns, Voltaire, Executive Record, my Mother, translation of la Martine’s poem, Socrates,1 evening with the family.
1. LCA preserved several versions of her translation of Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine’s “La Mort de Socrate.” The fullest is dated 11 July 1826 and is dedicated to JQA “as a tribute of respect for those superior talents, and acquirements, which all acknowledge, and venerate” (Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 273).
28. IX:15.
Docno: DCA02d302
Date: 1826-04-28
At home all day, Comyns, Voltaire, Spanish, dinner party at home, Mr. Sill,1 Mr. Powell and others.
1. Thomas Hale Sill (1783–1856), a Pennsylvania Representative from 1826 to 1827 and from 1829 to 1831 (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
).
29. IX.
Docno: DCA02d303
Date: 1826-04-29
At home all day, assorting Newspapers, Voltaire, his plays, Socrates, evening, family to Mr. Rush’s, Executive record.
30. IX.
Docno: DCA02d304
Date: 1826-04-30
At home all day, desultory reading, letter to George,1 evening, conversation, with the family.
May 1826. Monday. I. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d305
Date: 1826-05-01
Morning at home, Comyn on Contracts, Voltaire, evening walk to Georgetown, peculiarity of feeling.
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/
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