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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2


Docno: ADMS-13-02-02-0001-0006-0005

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-12-05

5. IX.

Morning at home, Reeves, Beaumont and Fletcher, De Lolme,1 Meeting of Congress, J. W. Taylor, Speaker,2 evening walk.
1. CFA’s copy of J. L. De Lolme, The Constitution of England, London, 1821, is in the Stone Library
2. Representative John W. Taylor, who had previously served as Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1820–1821, was the candidate of the Adams forces. His election by a majority of only two, on the second ballot, was evidence of the weakness of JQA’s supporters in the House (Bemis, JQA, 2:72–73).
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, 2015.
http://www.masshist.org/apde2/