John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 -
30 April 1836, page 247
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January 1812
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VI:15
Wednesday. Walk before Breakfast. Heard Charles read. Arranging Accounts, and
reading Demosthenes.
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Nancarro,
Ecky, Fisher and Woodward here. Kept house. Fruitman's bill brought me; paid
long since to Waldstein.
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VII. Read,
wrote and walked before Breakfast. Fruitman here again. Fraud of the Butter
woman. Lange here.
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J. W.
Patterson came for a Passport. Raimbert here. I declined his present. Dined
with Lauriston. Fisher & Patterson at Eve.
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V. Hollins came for his Passport. Here again
at Eve. Also Harris and Woodward. Read 2. Sermons. My wife taken ill.
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Up most of
the Night. My wife extremely ill. Patterson here for his Passport. Fisher took
it. Russian Christmas. At 3. Churches.
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VIII:30.
Montréal here. Took Charles to ride in the Sleigh. Call on Dana. Galloway here.
My wife yet very ill.
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Hazard here;
just from Archangel. Rode with Charles round by our last Summer’s house. I
daily read Demosthenes.
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Rode with
Charles in the Sleigh. Dined at de Bray’s. The Ladies could not go. Eve at
Bezerra’s. Armfeldt there.
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A Sleepless
Night. Montreal here; and Lange. Rode with Catherine and Charles to the
Tawride. Eve with my wife.
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Sleepless
great part of the Night. Rode with Charles in the Sleigh and walked home. Dana
here at Eve. My wife better.
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Raimbert, Montreal and Fisher here. Also Watzdorf and Harris—anticipating New-Years visits. Wrote to S. S.
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Russian
New-Year’s day. Court Circle. Evening Masked Ball and Hermitage supper. Went
with Catherine. Home at 1.
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Harris,
Montreal, and Williams here. Paid several visits. Harris junr and Ecky here at
Eve. My wife yet ill.
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Detected
many of Waldstein’s villanies. We had company to dinner. Found the cellar
forced open in the Evening.
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Dismissed
Waldstein and turned him out of doors. His robberies and swindling. Visit with
Charles to Raimbert & Montréal.
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Confined at
home, by tradesmen cheated by Waldstein flocking here for payment. Notice for
the Ceremony to-morrow.
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Parade and
Neva benediction ceremony countermanded on account of the Cold. Visit to Busche
who was ill in bed.
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My cold and hoarseness return. The children
both ill. Read 3. Sermons and Horae Paulinae. Annitchkoff Palace on fire.
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Walk before
Breakfast. Waldstein and cheated tradesmen here. Turned him out of doors.
Settled with them. Mrs: Bezerra.
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Montreal and
Nancarro here. Procured at the shops, nests of Brass weights. Waldstein
stole those I had before.
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Fisher here,
with Linn of Philadelphia. Williams came and took a Passport. Harris brought a
New-York Gazette.
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Visit from
Brancia; Note to Romanzoff asking a Passport for Williams. My wife rode out.
first time since her illness.
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Montreal,
Harris and Prevost here. Williams took his Passport. Mrs Bentzon and
Woodward. Evening visitors.
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Empress'es
Birth-day. Court Circle on the Balcony. Bitter cold. Dined at Raimbert’s. Mrs
Colombi & Sister here at Eve.
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Received Schenbom’s Passport for Williams.
He came and went off from my house. Read 3 Sermons and Horae Paulinae.
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Rose and
read by candlelight Suffering by the Cold. Catherine spent the Evening at Mrs
Colombi’s. Harris here.
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Montreal and
Woodward here. Card to attend Zavadofsky’s funeral tomorrow. Catherine this Eve
at Mrs Bentzon’s.
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Received
packets from America. Death of my wife’s mother Mrs Johnson. of A. Buchanan
& of Mr & Mrs Cranch. Harris here.
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Harris
called. Read my despatches to him. Letter from Dr Rush. delivered letters for
Poletica, Princess Gagarin & Hazard.
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Montreal
here, and Hazard. Recd. English Newspapers from Speyer. Mrs Colombi and
Clémentine. Evening visitors.
