Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886, son of JQA and LCA, designated as CFA in The Adams Papers)
Note: Note: habitual activities such as daily walks, weekly church attendance, the identification of Bible texts used in sermons, visits to the Boston Athenaeum, writing journal entries, and account keeping are not indexed.
576
Agent, Personal Assistant, and Deputy for JQA
110
Administers Quincy properties
65
rental
25
quarries
6
handles restoration of Old House and furnishings for JQA and LCA
75
Administers Weston farm and woodland
DCA07
66
Deputy in administering estate of JA and in payment of legacies
17
Deputy in administering W. N. Boylston's estate
71
Manages investments
136
Manages Boston real estate
DCA03
DCA04
DCA05
101
Personal and domestic matters
38
amanuensis
31
performs commissions and errands
See also: Old House
815
Books, Reading, and Education
16
Arts and Architecture
See also: Ellis, Sir H.
See also: Lessing, G. E.
See also: Mascou, J. J.
See also: Menzel, W.
See also: Potter, J.
See also: Steuart, Sir H.
See also: Tacitus
See also: Winckelmann, J. J.
42
Autobiography, Biography, Journals, and Letters
DCA05
DCA06
See also: Blessington, M., Countess of
See also: Bonaparte, C. L.
See also: Burnet, Bishop G.
See also: Burr, Aaron
See also: Correspondance secrète
See also: Davis, M. L.
See also: Grimm, F. M., Baron de
See also: Hall, Basil
See also: Hovey, Sylvester
See also: Lafayette, M. J., Marquis de
See also: Lenfant, J.
See also: Lessing, G. E.
See also: Lockhart, J. G.
See also: London Court Journal
See also: Mackenzie, A. S.
See also: Montague, Lady Mary Wortley
See also: Montbarey, A. M., Prince de
See also: Moore, T.
See also: Pliny (the younger)
See also: Plutarch
See also: Sévigné, M., Marquise de
See also: Sparks, J.
See also: Stone, W. L.
See also: Tacitus
See also: Tucker, G.
See also: Walpole, H.
See also: Wraxall, N. W.
27
Drama
2
ancient
See also: Brumoy, P.
See also: Euripides
See also: Sophocles
See also: Talfourd (Telfourd), Sir T. N.
0
Economics
See: Bentham, J.
See: Felt, J. B.
See: Financial Register
See: Gallatin, A.
See: Ganilh, C.
See: Hamilton, A.
See: Hare, R.
See: Hopkinson, Judge J.
See: Hume, D.
See: Huskisson, W.
See: Law, J.
See: Locke, J.
See: McCulloch, J. R.
See: Malthus, T. R.
See: Raguet, C.
See: Say, J. B.
See: Scrope, G. P.
See: Smith, Adam
See: Stewart, D.
See: Storch, H. F.
See: Tucker, G.
See: Webster, D.
See: Woodbury, L.
See: Wright, S., Jr.
40
Exploration and Travel
See also: Chateaubriand, F. A. R., Vicomte de
See also: Cranz, D.
See also: Forster, G.
See also: Humboldt, F. H. A. von
See also: Lamartine, A. M. de
See also: Lardner, Rev. D.
See also: Le Comte, L.
See also: Martineau, H.
See also: Parry, W. E.
See also: Raumer, F. L. G. von
See also: Ross, Sir J.
See also: Stephens, J. L.
See also: Tietz, F. von
See also: Trollope, Mrs. A.
See also: Willis, N. P.
41
Fiction
DCA03
See also: Corisande de Mauléon
See also: Defoe, D.
See also: Dickens, C.
See also: Hook, T. E.
See also: Hugo, V.
See also: Inchbald, E. S.
See also: James, G. P. R.
See also: Le Borgne, S.
See also: Medianoches
See also: Scott, M.
See also: Scott, Sir W.
See also: Sterne, L.
See also: Voltaire
7
Fine Arts
DCA03
118
History and Government
48
American
DCA03
DCA04
DCA05
See also: JA
See also: JQA
See also: Bancroft, G.
See also: Channing, W. E.
See also: Chevalier, M.
See also: Felt, J. B.
See also: Grahame, J.
See also: Hazard, E.
See also: Sparks, J.
See also: Taylor, J., of Caroline
See also: Tocqueville, A. C. de
See also: White, J.
See also: Whitney, G.
18
French
13
political and economic theory
See also: JA
See also: Aristotle
See also: Condillac, Abbé E. B. de
See also: Ferguson, A.
See also: Goguet, A. Y.
See also: Taylor, Sir H.
See also: Vethake, H.
8
Greek
6
ancient
See also: Crevier, J. B. L.
See also: Demosthenes
See also: Gibbon, E.
See also: Herodotus
See also: Livy
See also: Potter, Archbishop J.
See also: Tacitus
See also: Texier, A. A. de
See also: Thucydides
56
Languages
26
German
DCA06
22
Greek
95
Literature
43
British
DCA03
DCA04
See also: Adventurer
See also: Connoisseur
See also: Guardian
See also: Idler
See also: Lounger
See also: Mirror
See also: Observer
See also: Rambler
See also: Spectator
See also: Tatler
See also: World
24
French language and literature
12
Latin
DCA04
See also: Cato
See also: Cicero
See also: Livy
See also: Lucan
See also: Lucretius
See also: Pliny (the younger)
See also: Tacitus
5
Italian language and literature
4
Greek
See also: Aeschines
See also: Demosthenes
See also: Euripides
See also: Herodotus
See also: Homer
See also: Plutarch
See also: Port Royal (grammar)
See also: Sophocles
See also: Thucydides
2
German
See also: Lessing, G. E.
See also: Meissner, A. G.
See also: Menzel, W.
See also: Wieland, C. M.
See also: LaHarpe
40
Natural History, Mathematics, Science
See also: Buffon, G. L. L., Comte de
See also: Herschel, J. F. W.
See also: Jameson, A. M.
2
Numismatics
See also: Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
See also: Addison, J.
See also: Cooke, William
See also: Eckhel, J.
See also: Jobert, L.
See also: Pinkerton, J.
See also: Spanheim, E. F. von
49
Philosophy and Religion
DCA04
See also: Alcott, A. B.
See also: Aristotle
See also: Atterbury
See also: Barbauld, A. L.
See also: Barrow, I.
See also: Bayle, P.
See also: Berkeley, Bishop G.
See also: Bible
See also: Cato
See also: The English Preacher
See also: Greenwood, F. W. P.
See also: Lessing, G. E.
See also: Locke, J.
See also: Massillon
See also: Milman, H. H.
See also: Paley, W.
See also: Sterne, L.
See also: Tucker, A.
See also: Voltaire
See also: Warburton
See also: Watts, I.
See also: Wieland, C. M.
19
Poetry, Essays, etc.
19
comments on poetry
0
British
See: Anstey, C.
See: Bacon, F.
See: Carlyle, T.
See: Landor, W. S.
See: Scott, Sir W.
See: Spenser, E.
See: Swift, J.
See: Thomson, J.
0
Greek
See: Homer
See: Plutarch
85
Book Collecting
17
purchases books
DCA02
DCA07
DCA08
1
“How many new subjects there are for the human mind.... And yet men die for want of occupation”
DCA05
See also: Boston Athenaeum
See also: CFA—Opinions and Beliefs
See also: JQA—Books and Reading
See also: names of particular authors
1529
Character, Apperance, Habits, Domestic Life
30
Diaries and record-keeping habits
835
Home and Family
123
George Washington Adams
56
visits mentioned
40
CFA's feelings for and description of
14
correspondence
99
John Quincy Adams
17
CFA's feelings for and description of
12
financial arrangements for CFA's marriage
DCA01
67
Other Family Members, General Comment
23
CFA's feelings for Adams family
16
TBA
DCA02
51
John Adams 2d
41
correspondence
DCA01
51
Louisa Catherine Adams
16
correspondence
17
CFA's feeling for and description of
43
domestic purchases, errands, tasks
39
performs household tasks, commissions, &c.
26
activities with the children
22
closing and reopening of Boston home
20
on himself and Brooks family
18
births, baptisms, and christenings
DCA03
DCA06
15
domestic problems
14
deaths, funerals, &c.
6
recipient of family portraits, memorabilia, collections
DCA05
See also: Brooks family meetings
See also: Medford, Mass.
See also: Old House
See also: Quincy, Mass.
39
Numismatics
18
studies, buys, and catalogues coins
6
studies and catalogues Athenaeum's coins
DCA05
13
Portraits and Pictures
77
comments on conditions of his life
DCA04
78
self-appraisal
75
reliance upon divine beneficence
35
response to natural scenes
DCA04
28
comments and evaluations of his life and character
21
distracted during Sunday services
22
pattern and daily routines of life
20
baths
21
feeling for Adams heritage
17
depression of spirits
17
ambitions and desire for reputation
109
Courtship and Marriage
28
CFA on ABA's character and his feeling for her
9
CFA and P. C. Brooks on financial arrangements
280
Finances and Property
156
Investments and investment income
37
real estate
18
currency, banking, and the economy
22
attends stockholder meetings
DCA03
108
Personal
33
pays bills
DCA07
17
comments on resources and prospects
9
quarterly payments from JQA and Peter C. Brooks Sr.
DCA04
DCA05
242
Health and Illnesses
228
health, minor illnesses, and mishaps
DCA07
DCA08
DCA05
DCA01
DCA02
DCA03
213
Legal Studies and Career
59
clients
DCA03
18
directorships &c.
DCA06
13
attends court
See also: Johnson, Thomas Baker
See also: Adams, Thomas Boylston, Jr.
926
Opinions and Beliefs
55
Eloquence
25
observes pulpit style of clergy
17
speaks at debating society to acquire
DCA04
19
Arts
56
Economy
35
Education
217
General
1
“I would rather hear Operas, but the labour of life is more necessary to keep a man alive than its luxuries”
DCA06
1
“[T]here is in the whole range of refined enjoyments none more perfect in all respects than that of listening to the good singing of a good Opera”
DCA06
1
“a step taken ... rather from the spirit of worldly compliance than from a sense of right”
DCA05
57
Historical
1
“The hewer of wood and drawer of water has his sorrows just like the rest of us, but no man will take the trouble to lay open the record of it”
DCA05
DCA01
17
Holidays
153
Literary
76
his own writing
193
Political
63
discussion and comment
DCA01
20
Van Buren
17
slavery and abolition
DCA05
DCA06
9
attendance at Congress
DCA08
124
Social
1
“In this Country simplicity and richness are the only things persons of the better class ... can resort to”
DCA05
1
“Poverty in the old countries is as great a misfortune as great health appears to be in this”
DCA06
See also: JQA—Opinions and Beliefs
276
Public Life
35
attends Democratic meeting and comments
34
Civic and semi-public activities
DCA07
23
comments on involvement in
16
deterrents to
18
fosters coalition of Antimasons and Democrats to support Van Buren
15
serves on Harvard exam committees
12
breaks with Hallett and the Advocate over support for Democratic policies
15
directed against Webster
DCA05
12
public stance avoided and office eschewed
12
JQA's public presence a hindrance to
76
Religion
28
General
240
Residences
32
Residences in Boston
11
preparations for winter occupancy
17
Residences in Cambridge
DCA01
DCA02
169
Residences in Quincy
31
labors and oversees work on trees and grounds
21
comments on time and expense involved in building
14
acquires building materials
9
superintends construction
968
Social Life
41
In Boston
25
in connection with his courtship
49
In Cambridge
DCA01
10
In Quincy
60
In Washington
33
parties, dinners, dances
134
Recreation
32
fishing
32
games
15
cards and parlor games
24
rides
18
carriage
22
billiards
DCA01
167
attends dinners, social functions, &c.
95
evening parties &c. with ABA
DCA05
DCA06
122
attends theater, opera, and concerts
32
with ABA
65
visits made
19
with ABA
DCA07
60
art exhibitions, galleries and auctions
50
bathing
37
saltwater
DCA03
DCA07
DCA04
47
attends sales and auctions
DCA02
27
entertains at dinner
26