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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
Docno: ADMS-13-02-02-0004-0005-0030
Date: 1828-05-30
Friday. 30th.
Morning at the Office. Finished Blackstone’s Commentaries which I have read carefully
over and it has taken me five months. I do not { 242 } feel as if I was master of it all either, though this is the third reading I have
given to it. Conversation with George. Report concerning Russell Jarvis sent me by
John. Reflections upon Mr. Stetson’s testimony.1 Afternoon passed in reading and in copying Executive Record. The weather damp and
rainy with thunder so that I did not walk. Evening finished Cicero’s Oration for Quintius.
1. See entry for 21 April, and note, above. Caleb Stetson, to whom JA2 had addressed his hostile remarks about Russell
Jarvis, testified that on the next day he had asked a friend “to state to Mr. Jarvis
that I had no personal concern in that conversation with Mr. Adams.” At the same time
he rather weakly disavowed having expressed his “disapprobation of Mr. Adams’ conduct”
(Report on the Assault by Russell Jarvis, House Report No. 260, 20 Cong., 1 sess., p. 29).
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, 2017.
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