Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1838-07-26
Quite a thunder shower during the night but it was beautifully clear this morning. I did not effect much. Strolled down to the other house and there got caught in reading desultorily for a couple of hours. My review must now wait for a pamphlet which has been promised me or rather a lecture of Mr. Felt’s to extend my information as to facts.1 Hutchinson is in these respects the fullest authority I have.
Corrected MS until dinner time, when Mr. Brooks came. This was not entirely expected but nevertheless he was welcome, and after dinner, he went with me in my vehicle to Mount Wollaston and Germantown, a pleasant ride, thence home by the new lane. We then walked over to the quarries on the farm and across the hill home. The family from the other house took tea with us and passed the evening and Mr. Brooks spent the night here.
Rev. Joseph Barlow Felt had earlier delivered a lecture at the Massachusetts Historical Society (see entry for 19 Dec. 1837, above) on the “old Currency of Massachusetts,” which he would expand and publish as A Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency, Boston, 1839. Whether the MS of the lecture said in the succeeding entry, below, to be available to CFA at the State House was as originally delivered or as it would be published is not clear.