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17. VI.
Docno: DCA01d530
Date: 1825-05-17
Prayers, recitation, Paley, a review, Howard, a party to Sudbury,
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ride with Richardson, dine there, rain, return, race between Otis and Howard, argument.
18. VI.
Docno: DCA01d531
Date: 1825-05-18
Prayers, recitation, Paley, a review, missed Lecture, visit from George and Wheatland, ride horseback with Otis and Chapman, evening at home.
19. VI.
Docno: DCA01d532
Date: 1825-05-19
Prayers, recitation, Paley, a review, a Forensic. Students to leave Cambridge, evening at home, Ford’s Plays.
20. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA01d533
Date: 1825-05-20
Missed Prayers, morning at my room, quiet. Stage to Boston, George’s room, Stage leaves me, remain with him, Briggs, Cheney,1 his friends.
1. John Milton Cheney, from Lincoln, who had been in GWA’s Harvard class (
Harvard Annual Cat., 1820).
21. VII:30.
Docno: DCA01d534
Date: 1825-05-21
Boston. Arise, tired with Boston, walk to Quincy, Neponset, billiards dull, arrive to dinner, family, evening quiet.
22. IX:30.
Docno: DCA01d535
Date: 1825-05-22
Arise, at home all day, quiet, Butler’s Analogy,1 dry, evening, Mr. Degrand from Boston.
1. JQA’s two copies of Joseph Butler’s The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, published in London in 1736 and 1791, are in the Stone Library. JA’s copy of Butler, London, 1785, 7th edition, is among his books in the Boston Public Library. See
Catalogue of JA’s Library
, p. 40.
23. VII.
Docno: DCA01d536
Date: 1825-05-23
Arise, quiet at home, my grandfather, my Uncle as usual, dull, reflection on comparative situation.
24. VIII:50.
Docno: DCA01d537
Date: 1825-05-24
Arise, Morning at home, Butler’s Analogy, Liaisons Dangereuses, dangerous book, dull at home.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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