John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 - 30 April 1836, page 257

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November 1812 
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  Sunday. Read prayers and a Sermon of Sterne. Morning walk alone. At Noon with Charles. Cards from Count & Countress Soltykoff.
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  Krehmer called this Morning. Dinner at Romanzoff's. diplomatic. He told me a Patent would be granted to Fulton. 15 years.
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  Mrs Krehmer here. Sir Francis d'Ivernois, ill of a fever. Met Harris walking. Brandel here at Eve. Teaching Charles.
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  First Snow. Dined with Catherine at Krehmer's at Ochta. Mrs. Pitt. Gisborne's. Execrations against Napoleon. late home.
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  Harris here. His nephew shipwrecked on the Coast of Finland. Proceeds to Gothenburg by land. Ladies at the Play this Eve.
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  Official Account published of the Battle of Malo-Jaroslawitz. Letter to Russell. Teaching Charles and reading Gisborne.
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  Walks before Breakfast and dinner. Suffering with the rhumatism. Evening at the Play. Saw La Vestale.
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  Still unwell. Read Prayers, and a Sermon of Sterne's, and Gisborne. Declaration of War G.B. against U.S. recd.
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  Neva bridges gone. Harris brought English newspapers. Countess Colombi & Miss F. Bode here. Pardo died near Riga.
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  River frozen over. Snowy day. Ladies, Smith and Charles at the Play. Plummer at Eve with me. Read Gisborne.
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  Etter shewed me his diploma, as Correspondent of the Academy of Sciences. Fisher sent us birds. Reading A. Smith.
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  We had company to dinner and in the Evening. Slate for Charles. Galloway here. Nothing now but good news.
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  Saltus and Delprat here. Met Löwenhielm walking. Harris here at Eve. Reaumur -10. Read Smith's Essays.
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  Reaumur -12. The Season unusually and prematurely severe. Proud and Lewis here. Their political opinions.
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  Reaumur -13. I have a Catarrhal Cold. So has Charles. Read prayers. A Sermon of Sterne & one of Mayhew. Pietro married.
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  Pietro brought his wife and a plate of apples. Walks. Cards at Eve. My health low, and Spirits too much affected.
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  Rode to Meyer's. Walk home. My cold much increased at Eve. Galloway twice here. Read Gisborne & Cicero's Academicks.
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  Sleepless Night. Ride with Catherine. Montreal here. Letter from Romanzoff, about Fulton's patent. My wife very ill.
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  We are all better. Ride with Catherine. Walk home. Saw Laval going off. Ladies at the Play. Lewis and Redwood here.
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  Rose at 5. Wrote till breakfast time. Walk before dinner. Teach Charles St Quentin's Grammar. Played Ombre.
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  My Cold returns upon me; and with it impatience, and low Spirits. The Ladies & Smith at the Play. Eve with Charles
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  Snow Storm the whole day. Galloway here. Rode with Catherine. Read prayers and 2. Sermons. Sterne & Mayhew.
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  Recovered from my Cold. My wife and Charles also recovering. Charles reads. I wrote. Read Gisborne. Cards.
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  Montreal, Lawler and J. W. Smith here. Countess Colombi. Ladies at the Play of the great Russian victory at Smolensk.
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  Te Deum at the Kazan Cathedral for Smolensk. Countess Colombi and Miss F. Bode dined with us. Harris at Eve.
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  Sleepless Night. Warm bath before dinner, at Grootten's Baths. Ladies, Smith and Charles at the Play. Read newspapers.
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  Captain Florence came to ask my advice what to do. Heard Charles read. Walk before dinner. Read Gisborne, duties of Men.
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  Stormy day. Ride with Catherine and Charles. Walk. Ladies and Smith to the Play. Spent the Evening, in teaching Charles.
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  My wife ill in bed the whole day. Read Prayers, Sermons of Sterne and Mayhew. Finished Vol. 1. of Gisborne's book.
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  Letter to my Mother. Charles's lessons Morning and Evening. He began to learn by heart. Walk and read Gisborne.