John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 -
30 April 1836, page 257
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November 1812
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Sunday. Read prayers and a Sermon of Sterne.
Morning walk alone. At Noon with Charles. Cards from Count & Countress
Soltykoff.
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Krehmer
called this Morning. Dinner at Romanzoff's. diplomatic. He told me a Patent
would be granted to Fulton. 15 years.
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Mrs Krehmer
here. Sir Francis d'Ivernois, ill of a fever. Met Harris walking. Brandel here
at Eve. Teaching Charles.
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First Snow.
Dined with Catherine at Krehmer's at Ochta. Mrs. Pitt. Gisborne's. Execrations
against Napoleon. late home.
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Harris here.
His nephew shipwrecked on the Coast of Finland. Proceeds to Gothenburg by land.
Ladies at the Play this Eve.
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Official
Account published of the Battle of Malo-Jaroslawitz. Letter to Russell.
Teaching Charles and reading Gisborne.
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Walks before
Breakfast and dinner. Suffering with the rhumatism. Evening at the Play. Saw La
Vestale.
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Still unwell. Read Prayers, and a Sermon of
Sterne's, and Gisborne. Declaration of War G.B. against U.S. recd.
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Neva bridges
gone. Harris brought English newspapers. Countess Colombi & Miss F. Bode
here. Pardo died near Riga.
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River
frozen over. Snowy day. Ladies, Smith and Charles at the Play. Plummer at Eve
with me. Read Gisborne.
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Etter
shewed me his diploma, as Correspondent of the Academy of Sciences. Fisher sent
us birds. Reading A. Smith.
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We had
company to dinner and in the Evening. Slate for Charles. Galloway here. Nothing
now but good news.
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Saltus and
Delprat here. Met Löwenhielm walking. Harris here at Eve. Reaumur -10. Read
Smith's Essays.
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Reaumur
-12. The Season unusually and prematurely severe. Proud and Lewis here. Their
political opinions.
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Reaumur -13. I have a Catarrhal Cold. So
has Charles. Read prayers. A Sermon of Sterne & one of Mayhew. Pietro
married.
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Pietro
brought his wife and a plate of apples. Walks. Cards at Eve. My health low, and
Spirits too much affected.
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Rode to
Meyer's. Walk home. My cold much increased at Eve. Galloway twice here. Read
Gisborne & Cicero's Academicks.
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Sleepless
Night. Ride with Catherine. Montreal here. Letter from Romanzoff, about
Fulton's patent. My wife very ill.
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We are all
better. Ride with Catherine. Walk home. Saw Laval going off. Ladies at the
Play. Lewis and Redwood here.
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Rose at 5.
Wrote till breakfast time. Walk before dinner. Teach Charles St Quentin's
Grammar. Played Ombre.
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My Cold
returns upon me; and with it impatience, and low Spirits. The Ladies &
Smith at the Play. Eve with Charles
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Snow Storm the whole day. Galloway here.
Rode with Catherine. Read prayers and 2. Sermons. Sterne &
Mayhew.
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Recovered
from my Cold. My wife and Charles also recovering. Charles reads. I wrote. Read
Gisborne. Cards.
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Montreal,
Lawler and J. W. Smith here. Countess Colombi. Ladies at the Play of the great
Russian victory at Smolensk.
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Te Deum at
the Kazan Cathedral for Smolensk. Countess Colombi and Miss F. Bode dined with
us. Harris at Eve.
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Sleepless
Night. Warm bath before dinner, at Grootten's Baths. Ladies, Smith and Charles
at the Play. Read newspapers.
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Captain
Florence came to ask my advice what to do. Heard Charles read. Walk before
dinner. Read Gisborne, duties of Men.
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Stormy day.
Ride with Catherine and Charles. Walk. Ladies and Smith to the Play. Spent the
Evening, in teaching Charles.
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My wife ill in bed the whole day. Read
Prayers, Sermons of Sterne and Mayhew. Finished Vol. 1. of Gisborne's
book.
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Letter to
my Mother. Charles's lessons Morning and Evening. He began to learn by heart.
Walk and read Gisborne.
