Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1839-05-15
Lovely day. Morning to Quincy. Afternoon at home.
I went to Quincy this morning taking with me my boy John whom I proposed to leave with Catherine one of our women who has gone out to open the house. The morning was lovely and the rain of yesterday has had the effect of starting all the vegetation in a surprising manner. For the first time I perceived that my place was really making some advances in appearance. I am now and then encouraged that all my labour will not be positively thrown away. I worked upon the ground in various ways putting in more plants which I have had supplied me in great abundance. Indeed my greatest difficulty is that I have not room enough for them.
Home to dinner. Afternoon, finished Mr. Quin and read Mr. Raguet’s papers of the Examiner, published in Philadelphia during the panic.1 They conflict strongly with my theory. Evening at home. Wrote a little about Mr. Tucker.
Condy Raguet, effective advocate of free trade and authority on currency matters, was the publisher of a series of periodicals in Philadelphia from 1829 to 1839 that included The Examiner and Journal of Political Economy (1833–1835) and Financial Register of the United States (1837 – 1838). His The Principles of Free Trade, Illustrated in a Series of Short and Familiar Essays, Phila., 1835, was a selection from his editorial articles that had appeared in The Examiner (
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