Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 6

Wednesday. 5th.

Friday. 7th.

Thursday. 6th. CFA

1834-11-06

Thursday. 6th. CFA
Thursday. 6th.
Medford

A lovely morning. We were occupied most of the time in making final arrangements of different descriptions. And at ten o’clock I went in the Carriage with my Wife and children to Boston. We reached there at about eleven and I was quite busy from that time in my affairs.

Received a couple of letters from my father in no very amiable mood. He takes my recommendations as I thought he would in no very amiable spirit. He says he shall attend to them, but that in such a way 4that he does not appear as if he thanks me for urging them.1 This must be one of my lessons. I must reflect well upon my course.

Went to Medford with Mr. Brooks and spent my time in reading the last numbers of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. Some spicy things. Quiet evening.

1.

To CFA, 1 and 2 Nov. (both in Adams Papers). CFA had apparently offered, partly as an economy measure and partly because LCA was averse to returning to the house in Washington which they had shared with JA2 and his family, to have her live with them in Boston for the winter. He had also urged upon JQA a stern retrenchment in their manner of life in Washington, an extension of loans rather than a hasty liquidation of assets to meet debts. To both proposals JQA seemed to give assent without agreement; however, he recorded in his journal that CFA’s letter has “made a deep impression upon my mind; his opinion of my condition corresponds but too closely with my own” (Diary, 2 Nov.).