Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1838-12-27
Pleasant day, usual course, evening visit Mr. Brooks.
At the Office I executed my entire revision of the accounts of the 161last six months and rectified two small errors which had crept into the arrangement. But it took up my time excepting a visit to Kauffer and to warn him out of the premises,1 and a walk. Then Alcestis the review of which I finished today and with which I am as much pleased as with any Greek drama I have yet read. Coins and Crevier. Mr. Brooks was here in the evening and talked pleasantly for a couple of hours. Miss Martineau and French.
CFA had employed John T. Kauffer, a painter, two years earlier; see entry for 1 Oct. 1836, above. The circumstances of an ensuing quarrel are not known to the editors, nor of what property he became a tenant; entry for 31 Dec., below.