Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1

101 7. VI. CFA

1824-03-07

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7. VI.

Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware,1 Dr. Kirkland, very dull, evening at my room, visitors, Bartlett, Tudor.

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Henry Ware, Harvard 1785, was minister of the Old North Church in Boston and Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard from 1805 to 1840 ( Harvard Quinquennial Cat. ).

 8. VI. CFA

1824-03-08

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8. VI.

Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Spanish, Homer, Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar, evening at home, Belknap’s Biography.

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1824-03-09

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9. VI:5.

Missed Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Homer,1 Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar, evening at home, Richardson.

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CFA’s copy of the Odyssey, in the original Greek, Glasgow, 1819, is in the Stone Library, along with numerous other editions and translations of Homer belonging to JQA. For other editions owned by the family see Catalogue of JQA’s Books , p. 99, and Catalogue of JA’s Library , p. 122–123.

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1824-03-10

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10. VI.

Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Spanish, Homer. Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar, purchased Plutarch’s Lives.1

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CFA’s copy of Plutarch’s Lives, in Latin, published in 1620, 2 vols., is in the Stone Library, along with JQA’s three sets of the work in Latin, French, and English. For JA’s copies in Greek, French, and Latin, see Catalogue of JA’s Library , p. 197–198.

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1824-03-11

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11. VI.

Prayers, recitation, Enfield, a Theme, Homer, Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar. Evening at Tudor’s, Silsbee.1

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Nathaniel Silsbee Jr., of Salem, a senior at Harvard ( Harvard Annual Cat., 1823).

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1824-03-12

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Missed Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Spanish, Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar. Declamation, evening, Lyceum Club, Admission of Members, Chapman.1

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Jonathan Chapman Jr., of Boston, a junior ( Harvard Annual Cat., 1823).

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1824-03-13

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13. VI.

Prayers, recitation, Enfield, feel very uncomfortable, lounge at 102the Bookstore,1 decision of bets, distribution of Exhibition parts,2 Tudor’s evening, Champagne and Cards.

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See entry for 11 May, note, below.

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Since 1756 the two upper classes at Harvard had given public exhibitions twice a year, in the spring and fall, of debates, dialogues, and orations, mostly in English. CFA received no part in the April 1824 performance (Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard , p. 90; Overseers Records, 10:60–61, Harvard Archives).