Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1827-02-07
Evening at Mrs. Clay’s. I was engrossed almost all the evening by Miss Brooks. This young lady’s character is so singular that I am much struck with it. Talked much of that affair of her brother Sidney and Miss Marshall.2
From D/CFA/5. CFA spent the morning at home, reading Voltaire and working on the Executive Record (D/ CFA/1).
The engagement between Emily Marshall, the celebrated Boston beauty, and Mass. Families
, 2:247, 249).