Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1825-07-20
Cambridge, Richardson leaves, packing, Stage to Boston, letter from my Mother,1 George, back to Cambridge, thence to Quincy, family.
Trying to help CFA save face, LCA had written: “if you have no part assigned to you you must come on directly so as to be here . . . when Genl. La Fayette is to pay us a visit and I want you to assist me in doing the honours of the House” (LCA to CFA, 10 July 1825, Adams Papers).