Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1838-09-11
Warm and cloudy. Morning to town. Afternoon reading and evening at the Mansion.
I went to the City to perform the duties in which I failed yesterday and at last set in proper train the work for one of my houses. These visits are fatiguing and dispiriting. On my return I read Lucretius 1. 825–930, and some of Bayle’s letters. Deacon Spear interrupted me by a call on business.
My pleasure is mainly in the hours of literary occupation, varied in a degree by domestic and social relations. Evening is generally devoted to this at the other house. The political accounts from Maine this morning are rather favorable to the Administration.1 Such are the fluctuations of popular opinion.
In Maine, the Van Buren party succeeded in electing its candidate for governor, in gaining control of both branches of the legislature, and in winning all but two of the congressional seats (Boston Courier, 13 Sept., p. 2, cols. 1–2).