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4. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA02d339

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-04
Morning at home, heat, letter to my Grandfather,1 Matilda, a Novel,2 evening ride with the ladies.
 
1. Missing.
 
2. Constantine Henry Phipps, Marquis of Normanby, Matilda: A Tale of the Day, London, 1825.

5. IX.

Docno: DCA02d340

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-05
Morning at home, heat, Buller’s Nisi Prius,1 Spanish, Thunder Storm, flash of lightning at dinner struck Dr. Lovell’s house,2 air cooler, evening at home.
 
1. Sir Francis Buller’s An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius, first published in London in 1768, went through several editions.
 
2. Joseph Lovell (1788–1836), a Bostonian who served as surgeon general of the Army from 1818 to 1836 ( DAB ).

6. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA02d341

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-06
Morning cool, Buller, fishing with John in a punt, good sport, late return, evening at home.

7. VII.

Docno: DCA02d342

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-07
Morning, Executive Record, Buller, Madame de Stael, French revolution, Spanish, evening, ride with the ladies.

8. VII.

Docno: DCA02d343

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-08
Morning, Executive Record, Buller, Madame de Stael, Spanish, evening at home, family.

9. VI.

Docno: DCA02d344

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-09
Morning at home, Executive record, finish Buller, Madame de Stael, evening walk.

10. IX.

Docno: DCA02d345

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-10
Morning at home, assorting Newspapers, Madame de Stael, indolence, evening, family, Mary C. Hellen quite sick.

11. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d346

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-06-11
Morning at home, warm day again, letter to Burton,1 dinner party at Mr. Brent’s, ride with John, Mr. Clay, storm, evening at home.
 
1. Missing.
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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.
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