Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1
1824-11-20
Missed Prayers, at home all day, reflection, happy feelings, evening very quiet.
1824-11-21
Missed Prayers, Chapel, President Kirkland, Dr. Ware, evening, quiet at home.
1824-11-22
Prayers, recitation, Chemistry, Astronomy, Say’s Political Economy,1 first lesson, evening at home.
JQA’s copy of Jean Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy, Boston, 1824, is in the Stone Library.
1824-11-23
Prayers, recitation, Chemistry, Astronomy, Say, evening at Otis’s. Conversation with him until late.
1824-11-24
Missed Prayers and recitation, unwell and excused from exercises all day, occupied at home.
1824-11-25
Omitted all the exercises today, wrote a Forensic, day much wasted, mind unsettled.
1824-11-26
Missed Prayers and other Exercises, ride with Otis, Billiards at the Franklin Hotel, return, evening Oyster Supper, Sheafe.
1824-11-27
Missed Prayers, morning quiet at home, visit from Howard, afternoon, Champagne and Whist at Richardson’s, evening, Supper at my room, Lyceum, Howard, Lothrop, Rundlet.
1824-11-28
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Kirkland, Dr. Ware, evening visit from Howard, Supper at Willard’s Tavern, tough chickens, very agreeable, Otis, puns.