Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1826-05-15
Morning, fishing, good success, weather warm, Bacon’s abridgment,1 evening, dull at home.
Matthew Bacon, A New Abridgment of the Law, a widely used and frequently reprinted 18th-century law dictionary; JA’s copy, 5 vols., London, 1736–1766, is in the Boston Public Library.