Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1826-10-01
Bath, Morning at home, Bolingbroke, Spirit of party,1 dinner at Mr. Frye’s, Mary C. Hellen, evening, walk.
82JQA’s copy of Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, on the Idea of a Patriot King, and on the State of Parties, by Henry Saint John, Viscount Bolingbroke, London, 1775, is in the Boston Athenaeum (
Catalogue of JQA’s Books
).
1826-10-02
Bath, Morning at home, Smollet, Continuation of Hume, dull, evening, ride, and Billiards with Johnson Hellen.
1826-10-03
Bath, Morning at home, Smollet, Bolingbroke, visit from P. B. Anderson,1 recollections, evening, ride, billiards.
Possibly Pierce Anderson, son of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, Joseph Anderson; the boy had been CFA’s schoolmate (JQA, Diary, 14 Nov. 1819).
1826-10-04
Bath, Morning at home, Smollet, Bolingbroke, Executive Record, Billiards, ride, evening, Theatre, Paul Pry, Mr. Jefferson.
1826-10-05
Bath, Morning at home, Smollett, Bolingbroke, headache, evening, ride and Billiards with Johnson.
1826-10-06
Bath, Morning at home, Smollett too dull, discontinue it, Bolingbroke, Patriot King, evening, ride, Mrs. Frye’s, Theatre, Henry the 5th, Mr. Warren1 as Falstaff.
Records of the N.Y. Stage, 1:158).
1826-10-07
Bath, Morning, fishing, out all day, return to dine, evening, ride, Billiards, out.
1826-10-08
Bath, Morning at home, Bolingbroke, conversation, evening, ride, visits, Mrs. Frye’s and my Uncle T. B. Johnson’s.
1826-10-09
Bath, Morning at home, Bolingbroke, Butler’s Hudibras,1 evening, ride, Billiards, walk.
CFA’s copy of Samuel Butler’s Hudibras, London, 1817, is in the Stone Library, which also contains other editions in French and in English.