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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
Docno: ADMS-13-02-02-0003-0001-0001
Date: 1827-01-01
January 1st. 1827.1
New Year’s Day. The commencement of another and perhaps the last entire year of unincumbered
pleasure. A very large company here this morning and not a very select one.2 I was very much disgusted. Miss Ross3 was with me a great part of the day. She is a niece of Mrs. Clay’s and a pretty,
interesting girl. The day passed off much as usual however, and the evening was passed
quietly enough, at home.
1. From D/CFA/5. For the first two weeks in January CFA’s morning schedule invariably
included reading Voltaire and Spenser. Only three times did he break his studious
activities to take walks, to make visits, and to sort newspapers (D/CFA/1).
2. CFA calls the company “ragamuffins” in D/CFA/1.
3. The young lady’s mother was Mrs. George G. Ross, formerly Eliza Pindell, a niece of
Mrs. Henry Clay (Clay, Papers, 1:554).
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, 2016.
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