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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2

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October 1826. 1. VII:50.

Docno: DCA02d453

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-01
Bath, Morning at home, Bolingbroke, Spirit of party,1 dinner at Mr. Frye’s, Mary C. Hellen, evening, walk.
{p. 82}
 
1. JQA’s copy of Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, on the Idea of a Patriot King, and on the State of Parties, by Henry Saint John, Viscount Bolingbroke, London, 1775, is in the Boston Athenaeum ( Catalogue of JQA’s Books ).

2. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d454

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-02
Bath, Morning at home, Smollet, Continuation of Hume, dull, evening, ride, and Billiards with Johnson Hellen.

3. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d455

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-03
Bath, Morning at home, Smollet, Bolingbroke, visit from P. B. Anderson,1 recollections, evening, ride, billiards.
 
1. Possibly Pierce Anderson, son of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, Joseph Anderson; the boy had been CFA’s schoolmate (JQA, Diary, 14 Nov. 1819).

4. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d456

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-04
Bath, Morning at home, Smollet, Bolingbroke, Executive Record, Billiards, ride, evening, Theatre, Paul Pry, Mr. Jefferson.

5. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA02d457

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-05
Bath, Morning at home, Smollett, Bolingbroke, headache, evening, ride and Billiards with Johnson.

6. VIII:50.

Docno: DCA02d458

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-06
Bath, Morning at home, Smollett too dull, discontinue it, Bolingbroke, Patriot King, evening, ride, Mrs. Frye’s, Theatre, Henry the 5th, Mr. Warren1 as Falstaff.
 
1. William Warren (1767–1832), an English actor who had made his American debut in 1796 (Ireland, Records of the N.Y. Stage, 1:158).

7. VIII:30.

Docno: DCA02d459

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-07
Bath, Morning, fishing, out all day, return to dine, evening, ride, Billiards, out.

8. VIII:50.

Docno: DCA02d460

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-08
Bath, Morning at home, Bolingbroke, conversation, evening, ride, visits, Mrs. Frye’s and my Uncle T. B. Johnson’s.

9. VIII.

Docno: DCA02d461

Author: CFA
Date: 1826-10-09
Bath, Morning at home, Bolingbroke, Butler’s Hudibras,1 evening, ride, Billiards, walk.
 
1. CFA’s copy of Samuel Butler’s Hudibras, London, 1817, is in the Stone Library, which also contains other editions in French and in English.
{p. 83}
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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