Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8

Wednesday 27th.

Friday 29th.

Thursday 28th. CFA

1838-06-28

Thursday 28th. CFA
Thursday 28th.

Cloudy with showers which continued with increasing force until sunset. I remained at home and occupied myself in copying a portion of the Fragmentary Journal which appears to have been omitted in the former experiment. The hand writing is so close that I make no very rapid way with even so small leaves. There is not much however of the omitted portion. An entry of the 26 February 1770 four or five days 70before the massacre giving an Account of the funeral of the child killed by Richardson,1 but none on the day. Wrote a letter to Mr. Johnson,2 and in the afternoon read Pliny and Grahame. Thus passed a day very quietly, more remarkable for the amount of my own occupation, than for incident.

1.

What CFA calls the “fragmentary journal” must be “Paper book No. 15”; see JA, Diary and Autobiography , 1:338; the copy which CFA undertook to make of the entries in the paper book is missing. For the entry of 26 Feb. 1770, see same, 1:349–350.

2.

To T. B. Johnson, 27 June, LbC, Adams Papers.