John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 -
30 April 1836, page 256
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October 1812
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Thursday.
Plummer here, with Gair of Providence. Walks before breakfast and dinner. Eve
teaching Charles.
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Montreal and
Delprat here. Encouraging news from the Armies. Removal of effects from the
Hermitage.
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Morning and
noon walks. Rest of the day writing and reading. Idle after dinner, from weak
eyes & dosing.
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My usual walks. Met Krehmer who left his
Droshky and spoke to me. Read prayers 3 Sermons, & Coelebs.
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Double
windows up. Dined with Harris. Koslofsky, Poletica and Krehmer there. Rapatel
came after dinner.
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Montreal
here, and J. W. Smith with Lawler, just from Archangel. W. S. Smith took
Charles this Eve to the Play.
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Montreal
here; and Lewis with Redwood. Note to Gourieff asking to see him. He appointed
to morrow.
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Note from
Laval, with a form of a life Certificate. Call on Gourieff. He was at Court.
Sent to me to appoint another hour.
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Interview
with Gourieff. Call on Harris. Twice at Laval's with his Certificate. Visit
from Blome. My wife unwell.
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My wife
ill, all Night, but this day better and left her chamber. Prince Koslofsky at
Eve. Catherine & Charles at the Play.
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Montreal here. Rumours from the armies, but
no intelligence. Took Charles to walk. Read prayers & 3. Sermons.
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Harris
here, and Hall with Rogers of Salem. Answer from Gourieff. Letter from Russell
London: going home.
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Walk before
Breakfast. Dismissed Louis Aubin. Pierre Ouvré in his place. Jackson of Newbury-Port here.
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Jackson
took his Passport and despatches. Morning walk, and noon ride. Smith dined with
Slade read Clarke.
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Note from
Romanzoff and Evening Conference with him. Arrangements for despatching the
proposal of mediation.
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Call at
Jackson's lodgings. He here. Note to Romanzoff, asking a Courier's Pass for
him. Tilden here with Sargent.
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Recd. from
Romanzoff, Jackson's Passport and the Mediation despatches for Daschkoff. J. L.
Harris here at Eve.
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Writing almost all day to send by Jackson,
who is wind-bound. Read prayers and 3. Sermons. Rainy Season.
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Jackson
took his Passport, and all the despatches. Rapatel here: and Harris. Call at
Koslofsky's & Romanzoff's.
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Walk before
Breakfast. Confined to the house all the rest of the day by the Rain. Teaching
Charles. Read Gisborne
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Note to
Romanzoff asking to see him. He appoints to-morrow Morning. Harris here at eve.
His Court & army news.
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Interview
with Romanzoff. Duplicates of the Mediation despatches, to be sent by J. L.
Harris. He called here.
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Awakened
about 2 A.M. by Charles. Note to Romanzoff. Recd. his despatches & J. L.
Harris's Pass. L. Harris here. & Lewis.
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Call on
Löwenhielm; he promised a Pass for J. L. Harris. Paulucci with him. Redwood
& Tilden at Eve. Ladies at the Play.
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Notice for a Te Deum to-morrow. Harris
here; and Laval. Fair Russian Prospects. Read prayers. 3. Sermons, &
Gisborne.
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Empress
Mother's birth-day. Te Deum at the Winter Palace for Polotzk. No Court. Lord
Walpole. The Harris's at Eve. Guerrière taken
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Fortress
Cannon. Moscow retaken. Victory over Murat. Harris here. Notice of Te Deum
to-morrow. Illuminations this Eve.
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Te Deum at
the Kazan Cathedral for Bennigsen's victory and Moscow. J. L. Harris and
Kittera went. Illuminations.
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Evening
with Catherine and Charles at Krehmer's at Ochta— Further reports of victories
from Count Wittgenstein.
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Letter from
R. G. Beasley, agent for American Prisoners of War. Harris and Lewis here: and
Redwood at Eve. Courier 6. Octr.
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Walk
before Breakfast. Seized with Rhumatism. Stanwood called: just from England.
The Ladies went to the Theatre.
