John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 -
30 April 1836, page 248
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February 1812
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Saturday.
Harris here-- Visit to my Cellar to ascertain losses. Schulz the Baker brought
bills paid many months.
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Rose and read by Candle light. Saw the
Parade. Fisher here. Dined at Blome's. Eve at Bezerra's. Read 3. Sermons.
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Rose, read
and walked before Breakfast. Reading American public Documents. Note to
Romanzoff asking to see him.
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Conference
with Romanzoff. Hazard called. Dined with St. Julien. Eve at Krehmer's &
Bezerra's Fisher here.
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VIII.
Brancia, Woodward and Richards, morning, Watzdorf, Lebzeltern and Fisher
Evening visitors. Day lost.
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Fisher dined
and spent the Evening with us. Smith went to Romanzoff's Ball for the
Dolgorouki & Gagarin wedding.
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Writing all
day, with the intervals for exercise and reading. Richards came to say he
should go to-morrow.
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Richards took
my Packets and went off. Dined at Laval's. Evening visits at de Bray's and
Bezerra's. he recovering.
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Mrs Krehmer and Harris visitors to the
Ladies. Woodward and Blanchard to me. Read 3. Sermons & Paley.
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Visit from
Schenk to take leave; and from Bentzon who wants a Courier's Passport. Reading
Demosthenes again.
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Search for
Assignation Bank Notes which at last we found. My carelessness. The child taken
suddenly very ill.
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Walk before
Breakfast: Montreal here. Talk with Galloway. Dined at Lauriston's. Eve at
Bezerra's. Fisher dined here.
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Sleepless
night. Raimbert and Hazard here- And Fisher with Chastelgué and Wollers. The
children both unwell.
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Weather
fine. Reaumur -14. Walks before Breakfast and dinner. Writing to send by
Bezerra's Courier to-morrow.
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Detecting
domestic thefts and impositions. Dined at Raimbert's. Took Charles with me.
Montreal gave him a Magic Lantern.
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Absorbed in the investigation of Russian and
French weights and measures. Charles reads 4. fables. Read Horae Paulinae
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Harris
called. At the shops for weights and scales. Dined with Harris. Evening at
Bezerra's. Cards at home
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At de
Bray's. At the shops again. Dined at de Bray's. Visit at Bezerra's. Ball at
Lauriston's. Pardo & St: Julien.
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Harris and
Woodward here. Charles at his lessons. Calculating the comparative length of
measures French & English
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Woodward
here. Studying Paucton, Ricard, Dubost &c. Short walk. Finished Vol 5.
Auger's Demosthenes; began Vol. 6.
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Montreal
brought the addition to the commercial Manifesto. Harris and Woodward Evening
visitors. Auger.
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Fisher here
with Forrester of Salem. Examining the extent of the Earth's Circumference.
69.02 to a degree. Cards.
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Charles's Lessons, my Journal and walk. Read
3. Sermons and Horae Paullinae. French Litre. Borel's tables.
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Weights,
Measures and Demosthenes absorb my time. Examining the weight of water. Evening
spent at Cards.
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Bentzon
here. Has postponed his departure. Harris called. Reading Paucton's Metrology,
and Auger. Cards at Eve.
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Walk before
Breakfast. Réaumur -15. Woodward here. went with him to the Custom-house.
Crates. Met Consolat there.
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Cold and
Clear Walk before Breakfast. Fisher dined and spent the Eve with us. Finished
Auger's Demosthenes.
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Call on the
Brothers Livio who paid Poletica's Bill. Visit to de Bray. War between France
and Russia expected.
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Walk before
Breakfast. Smoke settled over the City. Montreal here. And in the Evening
Fisher and Captn. Boit.
