Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 8
1839-12-18
Clear and fine weather. Time as usual. Evening at E. Brooks’.
The Storm appears to have cleared the air and given us fine winter’s weather. I was at the Office but had no opportunity to go on with my letter which must be abandoned. Two Tenants, came and overpowered me with words. Walk to the Athenaeum and thence round home, but I 344neglect my exercise a great deal too much. Read about seventy lines of Oedipus Tyrannus.
After dinner looked over Pinkerton on medals and the first volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions.1 Read with my boy John as usual. Evening paid a visit to Edward Brooks and his Wife. Nothing very new. Then went on with the Lecture.
At MQA is CFA’s copy of John Pinkerton, Essay on Medals, 2 vols., London, 1789; also 4 vols. (Amsterdam, 1719–1736) of the Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Histoire, avec les mémoires de littérature, which was ultimately published as 50 vols., Paris, 1701–1793.