Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1839-05-18
Lovely day. Morning at home. Afternoon to Quincy. Evening at my father’s.
My time was wholly taken up today in the preparations for our removal, which have come more heavily this year than usual. I expected my Mother also from Washington and this cost me three journies to the Railway depot before I found her and effected her transfer to 237Quincy. The packing and sending out the things at the same time with both families is laborious. Yet at five o’clock in the afternoon, after dining at home, I shut up the town house and moved into the country. Upon no similar occasion have I been so much fatigued. Nevertheless I went down in the evening to see the family who seemed very bright after their journey. Miss Mary Cutts is with them and comes to spend the Summer.1 To bed early overfatigued.
Mary Elizabeth Estelle Cutts, a close friend of LCA, was a visitor at the Old House for extended periods on several occasions. She was a daughter of Richard Cutts, a representative in Congress from Maine, and Anna Payne, sister of Dolly Madison. JQA wrote the obituary of Richard Cutts published in the National Intelligencer, 22 April 1845 (p. 3, col. 6), and later reprinted in
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, 2:277–278 (July 1848) as “Notices of the Cutts Family.” See also JQA, Diary, 4 Aug., 30 Nov. 1845; 27–28 Aug. 1847; LCA to ABA, 26 April 1848, Adams Papers.