1803 to 1845
Original paper slip text:1803-1845
Diary and Memoranda
762 p. Paper not uniform; a synthetic volume.
- This is an omnium gatherum of JQA diary entries (condensed and full) and memoranda of a very miscellaneous character, not arranged by CFA in chronological order.
- The principal diary entries (toward back of volume) run from 1 Dec. 1824 to 31 Dec. 1826, with numerous gaps and highly condensed entries (some are merely visitors' lists). On small sheets at beginning of volume are memoranda beginning 30 Dec. 1819 but covering a great variety of earlier and later dates and subjects--lists of dinner guests, visitors, U.S. representatives, and senators, &c.; a section headed "Obliviscenda," containing scattered "Rubbish" entries for Diary, Sept. 1834 - 18 Oct. 1845. Then follows (on larger pages) a list of Senators, 17 Oct. 1803; meteorological observations, Washington and Boston, 1806, and St. Petersburg, 1811-1814, and a mass of notes, mathematical calculations, &c., from JQA's European years (compare entries in his "Chaos" notebook). There are several pencil and crayon sketches of buildings, flags, &c., in the Baltic, one dated 1 Oct. 1809. Lists of members of Senate and House, 1816-1819. Lists of visitors, 1820-1824. (The Diary entries from 1 Dec. 1824 then begin and continue to end of volume.)
- [Shorthand names in lists are almost always those of members of the family.]
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