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26. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA02d057
Date: 1825-08-26
1. Francis Allyn, master of the Cadmus, the vessel which brought Lafayette to America (Senate Document, No. 154, 24 Cong., 1 sess.).
2. George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), the Virginia playwright and planter, who was the son of George Washington’s stepson and was the father-in-law of Robert E. Lee (
DAB
).
27. IX.
Docno: DCA02d058
Date: 1825-08-27
Arise, at home all day, Dangeau, writing Notes, Gen. La Fayette, &c., dine out, evening quiet.
28. VIII.
Docno: DCA02d059
Date: 1825-08-28
29. VII.
Docno: DCA02d060
Date: 1825-08-29
1. A section of George Washington’s original Mount Vernon estate, at this time the home of Col. Lawrence Lewis, who had married Eleanor Parke Custis, Washington’s niece (Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Phila., 1829, 2:11; Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, 37:63).
2. There are three sets of William Robertson’s History of the Reign of Charles V in the Stone Library, the earliest published in Basel in 1793, 4 vols. A London edition, 4 vols., 1777, is among JA’s books in the Boston Public Library. See
Catalogue of JA’s Library
, p. 214.
30. VII:15.
Docno: DCA02d061
Date: 1825-08-30
Arise, at home all day, Robertson, Hume Appendix, Feudal Law, evening ride with my Mother, visit from my Uncle T. B. Johnson.
31. VIII.
Docno: DCA02d062
Date: 1825-08-31
Arise, at home all day, Robertson, Madame de Stael, l’Influence des Passions, General La Fayette returns.
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/