Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1839-02-14
Cloudy and wet. Time as usual. Quiet evening.
Not long at the Office today as I felt obliged to go down to the Athenaeum and make an effort to procure the volumes of the trial of Burr.1 I am so languid about this that it is eminently doubtful whether I shall make any thing at all of it. Procured the necessary volumes, and 189also one of General Wilkinson’s life2 with which I went home after looking over Wood’s Administration of John Adams3 and Jefferson’s letters about the period of the election.4 I want also the report upon John Smith5 and the Ana in Jefferson6 which were not in.
Antigone after which the report of the trial. It seems to be a contest of technicalities and an extremely vehement one. Quietly at home. I continued upon currency and begin to see my path.
At the Athenaeum were Thomas Carpenter, Report of the Trial of Aaron Burr for Treason, 3 vols., Washington, 1807–1808; David Robertson, Reports of the Trials of Burr for Treason and Misdemeanor, 2 vols., Phila., 1808; Trial of Burr including the Arguments during the Examination and Trial if Gen. Wilkinson, 3 vols., Washington, 1807.
Gen. James Wilkinson, Memoirs of my own Times, 4 vols., Phila., 1816.
John Wood, The History of the Administration of John Adams, N.Y., 1802.
Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 4 vols., Boston, 1829. The letters of 1789–1803 are in vol. 3.
Testimony in Connection with the Investigation of Senator John Smith [of Ohio] ... Queries Addressed by the Committee, Dec. 9, 1807, to Mr. Smith, ordered printed Dec. 31, 1807, Washington, 1808.
Vol. 4 of the edition of Jefferson, above, contained the Ana.