Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 6
1835-01-20
I went to the Office this morning with the intention of looking over the great Thelluson case for the purpose of understanding its principle, but I had papers to make up to go to Washington, letters to write and Accounts enough to keep me well engaged during my whole time.1 Then a walk and finishing the first book of the Fasti of Ovid. It wants unity of interest, but its parts are occasionally poetical. I have a French translation under a mountain of Commentary which is occasionally useful.2
Dr. Swan of Medford dined here. Afternoon, the Correspondence of W. Vans Murray which for its dimensions is far the most valuable I have read. It relates to the Treaty with France upon which my father3 59divided with his Secretaries. Evening partly at home and partly Company. The Miss Inches with their Father and brother. Nothing of peculiar interest.
Of the letters, a LbC of that to JQA, 20 Jan., is in the Adams Papers. On the Thelluson case, see entry for 28 Jan., below.
Traduction des Fastes, avec notes ... par Bayeux, Rouen, 1783–1788, had been borrowed from the Athenaeum.
Slip of the pen for “grandfather.”