Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1
1825-04-08
Arise, extensive fire in Boston last evening,1 at home all day, reading the Liaisons Dangereuses,2 state of feeling, argument with my Uncle.
The fire, which started in a store on Doane Street, spread quickly and destroyed 53 buildings, causing damage estimated at half a million dollars (Columbian Centinel, 9 April 1825).
By Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, first published in Paris in 1796.