John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 -
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December 1813
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VI:30.
Wednesday. The day spent in reading Schubert's Astronomy, Shakespear's Henry
4th. and Pliny. Epigenes
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V:30. Reading
Schubert's Astronomy. Made Observations on the Book of Job. Bayard spent the
Evening with us.
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IV:45. Walk
before Breakfast round by the lower Admiralty. Read Schubert. Second walk. Todd
here this Eve.
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IV:55. Went
to bring home Charles, but he was gone to Mrs. Brown's. Miss F. Bode here.
Smith dined with Lewis
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IV:30. Read Prayers, and Massillon upon
Afflictions. Slade here. Anxious to go to Court. Harris here at Eve.
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V: St.
Catherine's day. At the Court Circle held by the Empresses. Reading Schubert.
Todd spent the Eve here.
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VIII:30. Sent
to General Betancourt for La Croix's Mathematical Treatises. Read Winthrop on
Comets, & Schubert.
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IV:50.
Finished Schubert's Vol: 2. Theoretic Astronomy. Evening visits with my wife.
Klinkowström's. Betancourt's & Serra-Capriola's.
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IV: 30.
Restless, and almost sleepless Night. Montréal here. Read Schubert Vol. 3.
Unable to read in the Evening.
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IV:45. Miss
F. Bode dined, and was part of the Evening here. Bayard afterwards. Read
Oliver's Essay on Comets.
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V: Walk
before Breakfast. River closed. Beresino Bridge. Went for Charles. He had
already come home. Clear.
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IV:45. Walk before Breakfast. Todd dined
with us and spent the Eve here in part. Read prayers and Massillon.
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IV:30. Took
Charles to School over the Beresino Bridge. Second walk before dinner. Reading
Schubert.
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V: Walks
before breakfast and before dinner. At Rospini's for Bode's Charts, has them
not. Harris spent Eve here.
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V: Walk
before Sunrise. Reaumur -15: Lewis here. Dined at Romanzoff's. Baroness Koscull
and Captain Guedes.
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V. Finished
Schubert, and began La Lande's Abridgment. Family all dined at Harris's.
English there.
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V:15. Walk
before Sunrise. At Bauer's to see the Tachymeter. At Meyer's. Lewis and Slade
here at Evening close.
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IV:15.
Star-gazing in the Issac Square. Montreal here. Court. St. Nicolas day.
Kurakin's. Serra-Capriola's Ball.
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VIII:30. Read prayers, and Massillon. His
curses upon Protestant heretics. Charles read to me, and wrote.
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IV: Took
Charles to School. Call on Tracy who has been ill. Miss F. Bode at dinner. Eve
with Gallatin & Bayard.
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IV:45.
Winter Solstice and Skies overcast. Walk before Breakfast. Montreal here.
Missed business for me.
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III:45.
Pierre ill with a fever. Galloway saw him. I had an attack of Rhumatism. Notes
from and to Montréal.
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VI:30.
Reading La Lande. Note from Montréal. We had Company to dinner.
Serra-Capriola's, and Bardaxi's
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IV: The
Emperor's Birth day. Te Deum for Dresden &c. Empresses held a Court Circle.
Montreal here this Morn.
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VI: Galloway
here. Dined at Romanzoff's. Tracy here at Eve. My wife at Don F. Colombi's
Ball. Bayard's talk.
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V:30. Read Prayers for St. Stephen's day,
and Massillon. Mrs Bailey and Serra-Capriola junr. Evening visitors.
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VI. Sudden
severe Cold. Reaumur -15. Took Charles to School. Ride to the shops. Pierre
dangerously ill.
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IV:30. To
the Shops again this Morning. The Cold continues. Lewis here at Eve. I read La
Landa & La Croix.
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III. Two
hours before my time. Read La Lande, Biot, and La Croix. Weather too bad for
walking. Evenings idle.
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IV:30.
Nights almost sleepless. Changes of the weather. Lewis brought me a Letter of
16. June from S.S. from Lisbon.
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VI: Reaumur
-22. Empress went off. Harris here; and Todd. Note to Romanzoff. Letter to R.
Fulton about his Patent.
