Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1838-10-26
A very fine Autumn day. Occupied by writing and company. Afternoon dinner. Evening at the Mansion, and Mrs. Adams’.
My time was much distracted this day. I wrote and finished the fifth of my papers and there was obliged to leave them to superintend the planting of some trees. I had hardly done when some visitors drove up, Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Tarbell1 and Mrs. Miller and her daughter. The object of the former appeared to be to invite me to dinner, he having been at my father’s to ask him. He seems quite enlivened by his renomination to Congress.2
My father and Mr. Lunt dined with me and remained in conversation until after sundown. The ladies went up to see Mrs. T. B. Adams in the evening and I accompanied them.
On Thomas Tarbell’s connections with the Adamses, see vol. 3:59.
CFA is in error. Richard Fletcher was currently serving as a Mass. representative in the 25th Congress, but perhaps because of the controversy that marked his term (see entry for 18 Dec. 1837, above) was not a candidate for renomination in 1838 (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
).