Diary of Charles Francis Adams Volume 5, January 1833 – October 1834 Front Matter Title Page Copyright Page Sponsors of Print Edition Advisory Board Contents Descriptive List of Illustrations Introduction Acknowledgments Guide to Editorial Apparatus Documents 1833 January 1833 1 January 1833January. 1833. Tuesday. 1st.Another year. To moralize upon time is stale and old fashioned enough. Yet it has its advantages. Montaigne in the Essay I was reading on Sunday remar... 2 January 1833Wednesday. 2d.This was what is commonly called Election day. That is, the day upon which the newly elected Government of the State goes into operation. I went to th... 3 January 1833Thursday. 3d.Cloudy but very mild. Went to the Office and was engaged there very constantly all the morning. Drew my Dividends, and began the serious work of payin... 4 January 1833Friday. 4th.Astonishing weather. No frosts and the air like April. I went to the Office. My time is very much taken up by accounts. My father’s collections come i... 5 January 1833Saturday. 5th.Delicious day. I never knew in this climate, so extraordinary a week as the last, in this month. It is much more like May weather. I went to the Offic... 6 January 1833Sunday. 6th.Another fine morning. I was grieved to find this morning my child’s eye affected by a violent cold and inflammation. How it can be accounted for I am ... 7 January 1833Monday. 7th.Fine morning though the Weather was colder than it had been. The child does not appear to be materially relieved. I am anxious about her. Went to the ... 8 January 1833Tuesday. 8th.The weather today was clear but much more in accordance with the usual character of the Season. The Child seemed on the whole to be relieved though ye... 9 January 1833Wednesday. 9th.It snowed at day break but was afterwards a clear and mild day. The Child seems to be improving and has recovered her usual animation. I went to the O... 10 January 1833Thursday. 10th.My head was relieved this morning, but I felt my cold oppress me still very much throughout the day. It was warm and rainy but I nevertheless went to ... 11 January 1833Friday. 11th.A severely cold morning. I went to the Office. The Child appears to be better, but my cold affects me considerably. Engaged in writing. Received a cur... 12 January 1833Saturday. 12th.Not so cold as yesterday although still pretty well. I went to the Office. Occupied in Accounts as usual, and finished the Article of Mr. Everett upon... 13 January 1833Sunday. 13th.Morning cold but it moderated in the course of the day. I did nothing excepting my regular duties. Attended Divine Service all day and heard Mr. Putna... 14 January 1833Monday. 14th.Milder with the wind more from the Southward. I went to the Office. But my time was not very usefully taken up. After getting through ordinary duties,... 15 January 1833Tuesday. 15th.Coldest morning we have had. It moderated afterwards. I went to the office. Time taken up as usual. Read a Chapter or two of Lingard. Reign of Charles... 16 January 1833Wednesday. 16th.The weather suddenly changed during the night, and it was sultry with a Southerly wind and rain in the morning. I went to the Office. A letter from T.... 17 January 1833Thursday. 17th.I cannot say that this cold morning was passed in the most advisable manner. At the Office until eleven o’clock industriously occupied upon my Account... 18 January 1833Friday. 18th.Morning somewhat milder. I went to the office. Little or nothing material. Read some of Lingard’s Charles the second, wrote Diary and busied myself wi... 19 January 1833Saturday. 19th.Morning extremely cold—Almost enough to take one’s breath away. I went to the Office as usual. Read more of Lingard and as I find it extremely doubtfu... 20 January 1833Sunday. 20th.Milder. The first thing this morning was a tremendous fire. It was the Sugar Refinery in Atkinson Street. My morning was short. Attended divine Servic... 21 January 1833Monday. 21st.Very mild and pleasant morning. The changes of our weather are most exceedingly strange. Received letters from home, mentioning the illness both of my... 22 January 1833Tuesday. 22nd.Cloudy but mild. I went to the Office as usual and besides my regular duties, accomplished the concluding Chapter of Lingard’s eleventh volume. He dil... 23 January 1833Wednesday. 23d.A very wet, dirty day. I went to the Office but did not succeed in effecting much. As I had no other volume of Lingard at my room, I was obliged to go... 24 January 1833Thursday. 24th.A dull drizzle and gloomy day. I went to the Office feeling excessively out of order. My indisposition of the Autumn continues and affects me constant... 25 January 1833Friday. 25th.Day very dark and gloomy with rain and snow. I felt somewhat better, though with many indications of a cold caught last night. At the Office. Time tak... 26 January 1833Saturday. 26th.Foggy morning but it afterwards cleared away. I went to the Office and as it was a little cool I thought I would sit by the fire and read Lingard firs... 27 January 1833Sunday. 27th.Clear and wintry. Read Smollett’s Independence, an ode the first Stanza of which is superior to the rest. I do not admire the genealogy he traces, as ... 28 January 1833Monday. 28th.My health is not really good this winter, I am sure. Went to the Office, but a Meeting of the Directors of Middlesex Canal having been called I attend... 29 January 1833Tuesday. 29th.Cold again. Drew my Middlesex Canal Dividend, inspected books and read Lingard. On the whole pretty actively engaged. Received a short and excessively... 30 January 1833Wednesday. 30th.Morning cloudy and mild. I went to the Office. Received a short and exceedingly dispirited letter from my Mother. She has been ill, and John and my fa... 31 January 1833Thursday. 31st.A snow storm and the first we have had this season. It makes a great change in the appearance of things. However severe the cold may be, there is noth... February 1833 1 February 1833Friday. Feby. 1st.The cold was severe this morning. And the presence of the snow added much to the reality of the Season. It was however very clear, and being now so la... 2 February 1833Saturday. 2d.Cold morning. I went to the Office and was occupied in writing much of my time. I also read the debate which has lately taken place in the Senate betw... 3 February 1833Sunday. 3d.Cold weather all comes together. I hope the first and the last attack. Read the second Satire of Horace which is obscene, and upon a subject hardly fi... 4 February 1833Monday. 4th.Still cold. Went to the Office. Letter from my Mother, but not a whit more encouraging. They are all sick and always sick. Wrote Diary, and at eleven ... 5 February 1833Tuesday. 5th.Clear but the weather somewhat moderated. I went to the Office, and after my usual duties attended a Meeting of the Directors of the Middlesex Canal f... 6 February 1833Wednesday. 6th.Snow again. Our Winter comes all together. I went to the Office. Read a little of Sir James Mackintosh’s History, the philosophical character of which... 7 February 1833Thursday. 7th.Sunrise clear, but it soon changed to a driving storm from the north west with excessive cold, and was on the whole as unpleasant a day as I have expe... 8 February 1833Friday. 8th.Morning clear with a North West wind but milder than it has been. I went to the Office as usual. Received a letter from my Mother of a tenor rather mo... 9 February 1833Saturday. 9th.Cloudy and mild. I went to the Office and was engaged in my usual occupations. These were however somewhat interrupted by Commissions, as also by my e... 10 February 1833Sunday. 10th.Mild and cloudy. A thaw seems to be taking place as if to remind us of the passage of the Winter. I passed an hour looking over the engravings of the ... 11 February 1833Monday. 11th.Morning mild and cloudy. Snow fell during the night but the days are warm. Went to the Office. The news from Washington remains much the same. This Wi... 12 February 1833Tuesday. 12th.A very bad day with rain which froze as it reached the ground and made the walking intolerable. I went to the Office and after regulating my Accounts ... 13 February 1833Wednesday. 13th.More snow with a high wind and most unpleasant. I went to the Office where I now enjoy uninterrupted quite and read Sir James Mackintosh whose book fr... 14 February 1833Thursday. 14th.A clear day at last. But the streets presented the appearance of winter with the quantity of ice in the streets and the immense icicles pendant from a... 15 February 1833Friday. 15th.Morning cloudy but it was pleasant afterwards. I went to the Office and finished the volume of Sir James Mackintosh. The closing sketch of the order o... 16 February 1833Saturday. 16th.Morning cloudy but it afterwards cleared away. I went to the Office and passed my time in Accounts. I was also engaged in reading the Newspapers, but ... 17 February 1833Sunday. 17th.The snow now begins to disappear. A considerable body of it has been collecting gradually. Read Montaigne for an hour. His Chapter upon human inconsis... 18 February 1833Monday. 18th.I went to the Office this morning but had scarcely got there before I perceived I had left my keys with the child to play with. The consequence was th... 19 February 1833Tuesday. 19th.A mild day causing the streets to flow with the melted snow. I went to the Office and was engaged in writing and Accounts much of the morning to make ... 20 February 1833Wednesday. 20th.Another mild day. Office. Diary and Gouverneur Morris. Many good points about him, but he was an intriguer as there have been few. He wanted to bring ... 21 February 1833Thursday. 21st.A change of twenty degrees in the atmosphere made us feel as if we had not absolutely bid good bye to Winter. I went to the Office as usual and divide... 22 February 1833Friday. 22d.A beautiful day. I went to the Office later than usual, having been engaged by Conant from Weston who came at last with some Wood, and he also paid me... 23 February 1833Saturday. 23rd.Another delightful day. I went to the Office. Read my father’s Speech and pored over the Intelligencer until I was weary. Then read more of the letter... 24 February 1833Sunday. 24th.The day was cloudy with mist, rain, hail and finally snow. I passed the morning in reading Alison on Taste. A correct idea of the principles of taste ... 25 February 1833Monday. 25th.A sudden change in the weather which has brought down the Thermometer again quite low. At the Office. I get no News from home. My father’s last Speech... 26 February 1833Tuesday. 26th.Weather quite cold. At the Office after another business delay with Conant, the Tenant at Weston. Received by Mail, a copy of Mr. Appleton’s Speech fr... 27 February 1833Wednesday. 27th.The Child has not appeared well within a few days. She shows sickness almost immediately. I know no anxiety equal to that which any symptoms of that k... 28 February 1833Thursday. 28th.Our changes of weather are abrupt enough. It was severely cold this morning. I went to the Office where I pursued my common avocations. Read a little ... March 1833 1 March 1833March. 1833 Friday. 1st.Heavy snow for the first Spring day. I went to the Office and was pretty well occupied all the morning. Had a call from Mr. George W. Pratt who came t... 2 March 1833Saturday. 2nd.Snow and a feeble Shine alternated, but towards evening the wind rose and produced a degree of cold greater than any thing we have had this winter. I ... 3 March 1833Sunday. 3d.Excessively cold, with a sharp wind which makes it intrude into houses through every crevice. The suffering of cold is much increased by wind. I finis... 4 March 1833Monday. 4th.This is the day upon which General Jackson is inaugurated a second time. The People have made him President, and for once they have in their blindness... 5 March 1833Tuesday. 5th.If one should judge of the month by the weather, one might readily suppose that we had committed an error in calculation, and that February was just b... 6 March 1833Wednesday. 6th.I was detained all the morning in the Supreme Court Room because I wished to obtain admission as a Counsellor, not that I have any object in it. My pr... 7 March 1833Thursday. 7th.The Season just begins to show signs of moderating. It is somewhat late in the month of March to do so, but in this as in many other things it may tru... 8 March 1833Friday. 8th.A mild and pleasant air in the early part of the day although the wind went round to the Eastward afterwards. The walking very bad from the melting of... 9 March 1833Saturday. 9th.Fine morning. I went to the Office and passed my time pretty industriously there. Read more of the life of Gouverneur Morris and of his intriguing dis... 10 March 1833Sunday. March 10.A lovely day. I read some of the History of the United States this morning. A feeble book. Attended divine service and heard Mr. Frothingham preach fr... 11 March 1833Monday. 11th.The Winter will not leave us. This morning we had snow and sleet and weather altogether disagreeable. I went to the Office. Nothing new. Wrote a good ... 12 March 1833Tuesday. 12th.Morning mild but cloudy and rain. I went to the Office and was occupied as usual. Finished Mr. Sparks’ book. He is a writer who has gained reputation ... 13 March 1833Wednesday. 13th.Morning wet and mild but it afterwards cleared away with a North Wester. I went to the Office and was somewhat occupied. Mr. Curtis came in with Gener... 14 March 1833Thursday. 14th.Clear, bright day. I was engaged most of the morning in finishing off the deed and Mortgage, in comparing the description of the bounds with General T... 15 March 1833Friday. 15th.Morning mild. I went to the Office as usual. From thence at ten o’clock I went according to my agreement with Ayer the Carpenter and looked at the hou... 16 March 1833Saturday. 16th.As soon as I could get through with my breakfast I went down to see Dr. Hayward. He looked at and dressed the wound and pronounced it to be in a good ... 17 March 1833Sunday. 17th.I obtained some rest during the night and felt better all day, though my head throbbed very much and my stomach felt out of order. Remained quietly at... 18 March 1833Monday. 18th.Mild though cloudy. I went to the Office and received a letter from my father at last. It is a sort of review of the state of things at the last of th... 19 March 1833Tuesday. 19th.Lovely morning but the wind got round soon after. I went to the Office and passed my time making up Diary and looking over Mr. Webster’s Speech. It is... 20 March 1833Wednesday. 20th.Morning mild and cloudy with Easterly Winds. I went to the Office and was engaged in writing my Diary most of my time. Took a walk at noon with Mr. Pe... 21 March 1833Thursday. 21st.Morning cloudy and cool. I went to the Office as usual but must plead guilty to a great deal of idleness. At the Athenaeum, where I read the English N... 22 March 1833Friday. 22d.The day was a lovely one. I went to the Office and from thence to the Athenaeum after lounging round idly at various places. Read several Articles in ... 23 March 1833Saturday. 23d.Another beautiful day. I went to the Office and was engaged there part of my time in writing, partly in reading a little of the History of the United ... 24 March 1833Sunday. 24th.A fine day although an easterly wind took from it the delightful balm which we enjoyed yesterday and the day before. I finished the Article Architectu... 25 March 1833Monday. 25th.Foggy rainy morning but it afterwards cleared away. I went to the Office and was engaged most of my time in correcting proof for my father’s Report. I... 26 March 1833Tuesday. 26th.Morning clear and cool. I went to the Office as usual and finished correcting the rest of the proof of my father’s Report. It makes a Pamphlet of fort... 27 March 1833Wednesday. 27th.Our usually quiet habits have been so exceedingly disturbed of late that I confess I looked with great pleasure to the moment when we might get back t... 28 March 1833Thursday. 28th.The North West wind makes our weather exceedingly cool, but it keeps it clear. I went to the Office. Read the History of the United States, the first ... 29 March 1833Friday. 29th.Another cool fine morning. I went to the Office and passed my time principally in Accounts, bringing down those of the Quarter to the close of the mon... 30 March 1833Saturday. 30th.Clear morning, but the wind so very high as to be unpleasant. I went to the Office and was occupied in taking off the Quarterly Account. This with a s... 31 March 1833Sunday. 31st.The day was a pleasant one with the wind at the Southwest. I passed an hour in reading the Account of the French Revolution as given in the little Lib... April 1833 1 April 1833Monday. April 1st.A most delicious day, the air as mild as it is in Summer. I went out with little Louisa to enjoy the air and give her a little of the freshness of the... 2 April 1833Tuesday. 2d.Morning fine although the wind was a little Easterly. I went to the Office after walking a little while on the Common with my Wife and child. At the O... 3 April 1833Wednesday. 3d.Out early this morning to make arrangements and draw Money from the Bank in order to go to Quincy. Started at ten and got there in an hour—My horse be... 4 April 1833Thursday. 4th.Rain with Easterly breezes. This was the day appropriated for the regular Fast—A custom of Puritan origin which has gone somewhat to decay. It being o... 5 April 1833Friday. 5th.I did intend to have gone to Quincy this morning, but the weather being misty and the roads wet, I also having a pretty bad cold, the design was aband... 6 April 1833Saturday. 6th.Fine weather. I went to the Office and was engaged in writing and Accounts most of the Morning. Received a letter from my father together with the Dee... 7 April 1833Sunday. 7th.Morning delightful. But the East Wind set in cold and harsh at Noon. I read part of the Account of Pompeii before attending divine service. Mr. Frothi... 8 April 1833Monday. 8th.Heavy rain all day with the wind high from the Eastward. I went to the Office. Nothing very material in the way of business. I wrote, and read some po... 9 April 1833Tuesday. 9th.Morning cloudy but it afterwards cleared away. I went to the Office and was engaged in my usual series of avocations. Of these it is not often that re... 10 April 1833Wednesday. 10th.Fine clear morning. I walked for an hour on the Common with my child. Met my old classmate Lothrop. He is a Clergyman at Dover in N.H. We left Cambrid... 11 April 1833Thursday. 11th.I made ready to go out of town this morning, but the weather on the whole looked so threatening that I concluded to remain At the Office—Having a morn... 12 April 1833Friday. 12th.Cloudy with rain. Weather altogether unpleasant. I went to the Office after reading a portion of Horace. Got a couple of hours to read the American Hi... 13 April 1833Saturday. 13th.Fine morning. I went to the Office and was occupied there in reading the North American Review—All the principal Articles of which I went through with... 14 April 1833Sunday. 14th.Clear morning and fine day. I occupied part of yesterday Afternoon and this morning in pasting in the rest of the labels in my possession into my fath... 15 April 1833Monday. 15th.Morning clear but extraordinarily cold for the Season. I left home early for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Directors of the Boylston Marke... 16 April 1833Tuesday. 16th.Clear day but the weather is cold and comfortless. I know of no deception greater than our month of April. We have a fine air and clear Sun. The face ... 17 April 1833Wednesday. 17th.The morning was so cloudy that I concluded not to go to Quincy. The Newspapers announce my father’s arrival at Philadelphia, but we hear not a syllabl... 18 April 1833Thursday. 18th.A lovely morning. I thought I would ride to Quincy and observe the progress which was making besides the chance that my father might arrive. My ride w... 19 April 1833Friday. 19th.Morning clear, but a cold, raw wind which as usual destroys all it’s charm. I went to the Office and was so much engaged in accounts that I did not re... 20 April 1833Saturday. 20th.Warm morning. I went to the Office, leaving my father at home with Mr. Degrand. Engaged in writing and Accounts but had time to be able to accomplish ... 21 April 1833Sunday. 21st.Fine morning. I did not attend Divine Service today, but went with my Wife to Medford to Mr. Brooks’. Found the family consisting of himself, his son ... 22 April 1833Monday. 22d.The weather continues fine. I read a Satire of Horace and then to the Office where I made some progress in Sir James Mackintosh’s History. On the whol... 23 April 1833Tuesday. 23rd.Weather cloudy with a few drops of rain. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading far more usefully than I have been able to do hitherto. I ... 24 April 1833Wednesday. 24th.Clear day. I went to the Office after reading an hour of Horace. My time taken up much as usual. Made some progress in the continuation of Mackintosh ... 25 April 1833Thursday. 25th.Fine day. I was quite occupied all the morning, first in Commissions, then I went to Quincy. This being my dear Wife’s birth day, I remembered it by p... 26 April 1833Friday. 26th.Morning cold and easterly. As My Wife proposed to go to Medford to pass the day, I thought I would not remain at home alone, so I rode to Quincy. Foun... 27 April 1833Saturday. 27th.Cold and Easterly. Our weather gives no pleasure to the Spring. I was exceedingly engaged all the Morning. Mr. Tenney notified me that he was about to... 28 April 1833Sunday. 28th.Fine day. I passed the early part of the morning in reading a Sermon of Massillon upon the resurrection. Romans 4. 25 “Who was delivered for our offen... 29 April 1833Monday. 29th.My man servant has left me and the consequence is that we are put to some inconvenience. This comes of these frequent removals. At the Office—Some app... 30 April 1833Tuesday. 30th.Morning sultry but the Wind afterwards veered and it became quite cold. I walked with the child previous to going to the Office. My cold however still... May 1833 1 May 1833Wednesday. May 1st.Col. Perkins has lately made a splendid donation of his dwelling House to the Asylum of the blind. This has carried to it’s height the enthusiasm of t... 2 May 1833Thursday. 2d.I was much occupied this morning in making final preparations for quitting our house for the Summer months. This is quite a business, as it takes plac... 3 May 1833Friday. 3rd.Morning clear but the wind remarkably sharp from the North. I rode into town very much to my own discomfort, having been indiscreet enough to forget m... 4 May 1833Saturday. 4th.Morning cool. I rode to town and was busy most of my morning in the various commissions which residence here seems to impose. A great deal of time was... 5 May 1833Sunday. 5th.Morning cool with an Easterly wind. I was occupied part of the morning upon a labour which will probably take up most of my Summer, arranging and putt... 6 May 1833Monday. 6th.Clear but cool morning. Rode to town. Occupied in my usual little round of trifling commissions, and in conversation with Ayer the Carpenter and other... 7 May 1833Tuesday. 7th.I remained out of town today to do business here. The weather was exceedingly warm and terminated in the evening with a slight shower. I walked to the... 8 May 1833Wednesday. 8th.The morning was bright and the weather continued exceedingly warm. I went to town, and my time was taken up in writing at my Office. I was more quiet ... 9 May 1833Thursday. 9th.Weather moderated and one of our Easterly winds. I rode to town. Busy at the Office. Mr. Treadway called to see me and spent half an hour. He is a law... 10 May 1833Friday. 10th.I had intended to remain quietly at home all day but a notification of a draught upon my father from New York made it necessary for me to go to town. ... 11 May 1833Saturday. 11th.I remained at home this morning as my horse by his week’s work is very considerably fagged. Excepting an Epistle or two of Horace and some work in the... 12 May 1833Sunday. 12th.A cloudy day with a few drops of rain and now and then a misty dampness in the air. I occupied an hour or two in work upon books and attended divine S... 13 May 1833Monday. 13th.Fine day. I rode to town. Weather quite warm. Time taken up all the morning in Commissions. Went to the House to see that every thing was safe and in ... 14 May 1833Tuesday. 14th.It looked misty and rained occasionally so that I did not go to town. My morning taken up principally in reading Horace and in working upon the Catalo... 15 May 1833Wednesday. 15th.Rainy and warm. I was busily at work at home in effecting the transportation of the books to the Office, which for the most part I did—And relieved my... 16 May 1833Thursday. 16th.Misty, easterly, disagreeable day. I went to town and my time was taken up in a variety of ways, so that I was at the Office but a very little while. ... 17 May 1833Friday. 17th.Misty again but it cleared away towards the Afternoon. I passed my morning in reading Horace and attending to the Catalogue until my trees came out of... 18 May 1833Saturday. 18th.The weather was clear and very warm this morning. I went to town accompanied by John Kirk my father’s man. Our principal object was to see about purch... 19 May 1833Sunday. 19th.An exceedingly warm morning, but in the Afternoon we had light showers and before night the wind changed until it became really cold—One of the extrao... 20 May 1833Monday. 20th.The weather was misty and cold today. I went to town accompanied by my Mother’s woman Mrs. Kirk. Went to the Office and from thence to the House in qu... 21 May 1833Tuesday. 21st.Heavy rain for the first time. The wind from the eastward, but it became gradually warmer notwithstanding. I passed my morning at home and somewhat id... 22 May 1833Wednesday. 22nd.Morning clouds but on the whole a very delightful day. I went to Boston. Time engrossed by Accounts of various Kinds and Commissions. Drew up the Acc... 23 May 1833Thursday. 23rd.Mild but the weather very cloudy and a few drops of rain. I went to town accompanied by my Wife. We hesitated on the way about turning back but finall... 24 May 1833Friday. 24th.Clear but cool. I remained at home all day. My morning passed without due improvement. I worked in the garden, read a little of Horace’s second book o... 25 May 1833Saturday. 25th.I went to Boston today. My first object was to get the Glass purchased the other day safely lodged at the house, which I did. But the anxiety and trou... 26 May 1833Sunday. 26th.Rainy, cold, disagreeable day. I attended Divine Service in the morning but missed in the Afternoon from the drowsiness which has of late overcome me ... 27 May 1833Monday. 27th.Morning clouds with rain and occasionally openings of dry, clear weather. I remained at home all day. Read part of the first and second Epistles of th... 28 May 1833Tuesday. 28th.Rode to town. Went to the Gallery for an hour and to the Athenaeum. I sat for an extremely large proportion of the time looking at the picture said to... 29 May 1833Wednesday. 29th.The weather was so doubtful that I did not go to town. Time occupied partly in reading some of Horace and partly in attention to my gardening and plan... 30 May 1833Thursday. 30th.Dull morning but it afterwards cleared away. I remained at Quincy. In the hope of improving my time better, I this day moved my place of study to the ... 31 May 1833Friday. 31st.Fine morning. I went to town. My time was consumed at the Gallery, in my performance of Commissions and at the Office. I met at the first several acqu... June 1833 1 June 1833June 1833. Saturday. 1st.This is the first very fine day we have had for some time. I did not go to town. But my time was taken up not unprofitably. I read several of the Epod... 2 June 1833Sunday. 2nd.The day was warm and cloudy. I read a little of Horace at the Office and attended Divine Service both morning and afternoon. Mr. Whitney discoursed fr... 3 June 1833Monday. 3d.Fine morning. It became cooler at night. I rode to town, the roads in very fine order. My time was principally taken up in writing and copying a Lette... 4 June 1833Tuesday. 4th.Day clear but uncommonly cool for the Season. Not having any thing particularly to call me to town I remained quietly at home. Pursued my regular avoc... 5 June 1833Wednesday. 5th.Morning fine but it changed soon after to quite cold. I remained very quietly at home. Read the Carmen Seculare which is a beautiful specimen of the R... 6 June 1833Thursday. 6th.My father accompanied me to town today. I was engaged in running round upon a variety of little Commissions for the greater part of the time, the rema... 7 June 1833Friday. 7th.Morning cloudy but the day was clear with an unpleasant easterly wind at noon. I remained at home all day. Visit from Mr. Harvey Field who came for hi... 8 June 1833Saturday. 8th.Morning fine. I find the air for the season unusually cold. I went to Boston and was engaged there in a variety of ways. My time passes always very ra... 9 June 1833Sunday. 9th.A most extraordinary day for weather, first, a chilly East wind, then a sudden change to West, then North with a most furious gust of wind, and a very... 10 June 1833Monday. 10th.Morning cold with occasional showers through the day. I went to town for the purpose of voting, and attending the regular Meeting of the Directors of ... 11 June 1833Tuesday. 11th.Our Season is very extraordinary—High winds and cold with an unusually small proportion of rain. Altogether quite comfortless. I remained at home to i... 12 June 1833Wednesday. 12th.Cold day. I remained at home. Read as usual beginning with Horace. My practice is to read over the Notes of the Edition of Dacier and Sanadon and to c... 13 June 1833Thursday. 13th.The day was tolerably pleasant notwithstanding a cold Easterly wind that prevailed for an hour or more. I went to town. My time engrossed as usual. Ca... 14 June 1833Friday. 14th.This is the first really pleasant day we have had for a considerable time back. I staid at Quincy and occupied myself in my usual way. Read Horace, th... 15 June 1833Saturday. 15th.Fine morning. I went to town. My time divided between my house which I visited to get a book, my Office and the Athenaeum To read seems to be a thing ... 16 June 1833Sunday. 16th.Fine day after a brisk shower in the morning. I attended Divine Service all day. Heard Mr. Jos. Angier preach. Texts from Philippians 2. 12–13. and Ps... 17 June 1833Monday. 17th.The vegetation of the year which had promised so fairly begins to suffer from the want of moisture. We have not for two months had one day’s settled r... 18 June 1833Tuesday. 18th.Fine day though exceedingly cold. I went to Boston. Finding that my time was much wasted by my way of life, I went to the Athenaeum and got the second... 19 June 1833Wednesday. 19th.The day was fine. All the family drove into town this morning, in the Carriage. I went first to the Office and spent an hour without doing much. The r... 20 June 1833Thursday. 20th.Fine day although cloudy. I remained quietly at Quincy as much to get over the fatigue of yesterday as to do something in the way of literary occupati... 21 June 1833Friday. 21st.Morning cloudy with an occasional dropping of rain which did not amount to a shower. I rode to town and passed my morning indolently, part of it at th... 22 June 1833Saturday. 22nd.When passed at home, my days have so much uniformity that I think it hardly of use to sit down and record them. Indeed to a man not engaged in great a... 23 June 1833Sunday. 23rd.The day was clear but quite cool. I attended divine service and heard Mr. E. Q. Sewall preach two sensible, tolerably well written Sermons. One from 6... 24 June 1833Monday. 24th.The day was wet and foggy with wind from the Eastward so that I did not stir from home. Indeed while the town is making a holiday of General Jackson’s... 25 June 1833Tuesday. 25th.It rained so very heavily nearly all day that I did not pretend to execute my intention of going to Boston. The time was passed far more profitably in... 26 June 1833Wednesday. 26th.The morning was so bright that I expected a pleasant day to go to town, but it did not so turn out. The wind was quite cold, with occasional threats o... 27 June 1833Thursday. 27th.Fine morning but it clouded up, and we had occasional heavy showers through the day. After doubting a little while, I concluded to go to town, and acc... 28 June 1833Friday. 28th.Fine morning although the Northwest wind made the air still quite cold. I staid at home all day today. My time passed in my usual avocations. Horace’s... 29 June 1833Saturday. 29th.Fine day and more like Summer than any thing we have had. My Wife received a Note in answer to a proposition of her’s, by which this was the day fixed... 30 June 1833Sunday. 30th.The morning was fine and the day warm. I was occupied partly in attendance upon Divine Service all day and partly in my ordinary occupations. Texts fr... July 1833 1 July 1833Monday. July 1st.The day was excessively warm. I went to town and was engaged pretty actively, first, in finishing off my Quarterly Accounts, second in my affairs. Pur... 2 July 1833Tuesday. 2d.It is not easy to say how much I suffered during the night and morning—The child taken so suddenly, my Wife in no condition to bear so much anxiety an... 3 July 1833Wednesday. 3d.The child had an excellent night so that she appeared quite nicely this morning. As I had written to my Mother what was calculated perhaps to alarm he... 4 July 1833Thursday. 4th.It is now so many years since the Declaration of Independence that the vigour of its celebration is rather slackened. The City of Boston still holds o... 5 July 1833Friday. 5th.I went to town this morning and was engaged at my Office in my usual way. Read some portions of the North American Review as well as a little of Marsh... 6 July 1833Saturday. 6th.Fine day. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. At the Office, then the House and a call at Miss Oliver’s, which was returned by her soon afterwards with ... 7 July 1833Sunday. 7th.The Morning was drizzly but it became clear and warmer as the day advanced. I attended Divine Service all day, and heard Mr. Stetson. The morning’s wa... 8 July 1833Monday. 8th.The morning was cloudy with occasional showers of rain. I went to town and was occupied much of my time first in a walk to my House, next in business ... 9 July 1833Tuesday. 9th.My purpose in coming here last Night was to obtain of my father the necessary Deed of the Estate in High Street. I had written it as long since as Sat... 10 July 1833Wednesday. 19th 10th.I left Medford with Mr. Brooks, and my Wife was to follow in the Carriage. My stay here this time has been less agreeable than ever, from the absence ... 11 July 1833Thursday. 11th.Fine day. Having been to Boston a great deal of late, I concluded I would try the comfort of a day or two in quiet and study. Remained at Quincy and r... 12 July 1833Friday. 12th.The Season is at present delightful—Not too warm and yet comfortable. I passed another day in the quiet enjoyment of life at Quincy. Although drowsy f... 13 July 1833Saturday. 13th.The day was still fine although increasing in heat above those preceding. I rode to town this morning and was mainly occupied in Accounts and little C... 14 July 1833Sunday. 14th.A very hot day with a Southerly wind, more oppressive than any thing I have felt this Summer. My morning was not very actively employed. Read an Ode o... 15 July 1833Monday. 15th.The weather promised to be warm so that I concluded to remain at home. It was in fact however quite tolerable the wind coming out from the North West.... 16 July 1833Tuesday. 16th.Fine day and as cool as need be. I rode to town by way of the Neck for the purpose of seeing the improvements going on there. Roxbury is receiving a g... 17 July 1833Wednesday. 17th.The day was cool. I remained at Quincy and occupied myself in reading according to my usual way. An Ode or two of Horace, a Chapter of Neale who beco... 18 July 1833Thursday. 18th.Cloudy with occasional thunder showers round about us but no rain of any consequence here. I rode to town and spent my morning in rather an idle way. ... 19 July 1833Friday. 19th.I remained at home all day and pursued my usual occupations with tolerable industry. Read a little of Horace and was pleased at the acquisition which ... 20 July 1833Saturday. 20th.Clouds but no rain. I rode to town and passed my time in a very desultory way. Read a little of Marshall however. Went to see Mrs. Frothingham and sat... 21 July 1833Sunday. 21st.The day threatened great heat, but clouds and an East wind prevented. I read an Ode or two of Horace and attended divine Service all day. Mr. Brooks f... 22 July 1833Monday. 22d.The day was exceedingly warm. I went to town, according to agreement for the purpose of collecting rent, but was disappointed, as I was also at Payne’... 23 July 1833Tuesday. 23d.The day was quite cool with an Easterly wind which to the feeling was very pleasant after yesterday’s heat. I was occupied all day pretty busily. Read... 24 July 1833Wednesday. 24th.Another day of extreme heat terminated by a flurry accompanied with a very little rain. I remained at home and was very busily occupied in writing off... 25 July 1833Thursday. 25th.A cool day. These alterations of our weather are very relieving to the feelings. For the air is chilled before it gets to be so heated as to afford li... 26 July 1833Friday. 26th.Morning fine and day cool. I remained quietly in my study, writing, reading some Odes of Horace and looking over old Papers. This last engrossed most ... 27 July 1833Saturday. 27th.As the day was likely to prove a hot one and I had no leading object to carry me to town, I passed my time very quietly looking over old Papers. A pac... 28 July 1833Sunday. 28th.Morning warm, although a high wind dispelled all the inconvenience one might otherwise have experienced from it. I attended divine service all day and... 29 July 1833Monday. 29th.Cool morning with a gradual clouding up as if at last it was likely to produce Rain. I went into town and was busy most of my time in a variety of Com... 30 July 1833Tuesday. 30th.A hard rain in the night with occasional showers through the day. Having made an appointment with the maker of the grate to take his measures at my ho... 31 July 1833Wednesday. 31st.Morning cool and pleasant without a cloud in the sky. I remained quietly at home. My time with the exception of what was taken up by Horace, was entir... August 1833 1 August 1833Thursday. August 1st.Fine day. I passed it in my usual occupation. I am making out a pretty complete set of the Letters of my Grandfather and Grandmother to each other. Th... 2 August 1833Friday. 2d.My day was passed very quietly here in the pursuit of my usual occupations. I went to the Office, where after reading one or two fine Odes of Horace I... 3 August 1833Saturday. 3d.Fine day although somewhat cool. I went to town. By appointment I was to meet the Painter for the purpose of deciding upon what was to be done at my h... 4 August 1833Sunday. 4th.Morning hazy with clouds of vapor, and excessive heat—All which terminated in the sharpest thunder shower we have had during the Season. I was occupie... 5 August 1833Monday. 5th.Foggy with an occasional Easterly puff of wind which kept us quite cool. I remained very quietly at home pursuing my usual studies and reading more le... 6 August 1833Tuesday. 6th.Cloudy with occasional drops of rain. I went to town. Engaged for some time in Commissions. Called at Mrs. Frothingham’s and talked a little with her.... 7 August 1833Wednesday. 7th.It was quite a warm day although early and at noon there were showers. I remained quietly ensconced in my Office. Read some Odes of Horace, and looked... 8 August 1833Thursday. 8th.My day passed in the quiet pursuits which render my Diary so exceedingly monotonous. I finished the Odes of Horace which completed my perusal of the b... 9 August 1833Friday. 9th.I had intended to go to town today but it was a cold day with an Easterly wind and heavy rain. The consequence was that I remained very quietly at hom... 10 August 1833Saturday. 10th.The day was fine, and I went to town accompanied by Sarah, the child’s nurse for the Summer, whom I also brought out again. My time was very much take... 11 August 1833Sunday. 11th.Morning clear and warm although the air was sufficiently elastic to prevent any inconvenience from it. I laboured to finish the assorting of the Lette... 12 August 1833Monday. 12th.I went to town and passed the day. Time very much taken up in Commissions and exercise of various sorts. I went to my House to attend to the setting o... 13 August 1833Tuesday. 13th.The morning began with very heavy showers and wind from the South. It afterwards cleared away and was hotter than was at all comfortable to the feelin... 14 August 1833Wednesday. 14th.I went to town, accompanied by my father. The day was warm but not oppressive. I was occupied in the various little ways which consume so much time. F... 15 August 1833Thursday. 15th.Fine day. I remained at home and occupied myself in my usual way interrupted only in the morning once for the sake of taking a sea bath. Sat down to H... 16 August 1833Friday. 16th.Clear with a cool Easterly wind. I worked today with considerable effect upon my review of Hutchinson. I find the matter flows in upon me abundantly. ... 17 August 1833Saturday. 17th.Foggy with the Wind from the Eastward but it did not rain. I rode to town and was moving about some time. Went to the House and found that they had ac... 18 August 1833Sunday. 18th.On this day I complete twenty six years of my Life. Another year has been added since I recurred to the self examination which the occasion creates, a... 19 August 1833Monday. 19th.Fine day. I went to Boston and passed my morning in a variety of occupations. Went to the house where I found the Carpenter at work in preparing for t... 20 August 1833Tuesday. 20th.Fine day. I rode to town accompanied by my brother. Time taken up in my usual variety of ways. I went first to my House where I found the Painter had ... 21 August 1833Wednesday. 21st.Fine day though cool. I remained at home all day, and it was tolerably fortunate that I did, for I found myself unexpectedly quite indisposed. This la... 22 August 1833Thursday. 22d.Day fine although there was a Sea fog hanging over us all the morning. I rode to town. Time a good deal taken. First came a man to procure a transfer ... 23 August 1833Friday. 23d.The morning was foggy with a North Easter and a little rain. It cleared away however before night. I remained at home all day. Finished during the mor... 24 August 1833Saturday. 24th.Fine day with a cool Easterly wind. I went to town accompanied by my brother. My time was very much taken up in doing little commissions for my Mother... 25 August 1833Sunday. 25th.Morning fine although the dry weather still continues. I attended divine service in the morning and heard Mr. Capen of South Boston preach upon the ch... 26 August 1833Monday. 26th.After a restless night, I arose and breakfasting, went to town. My determination was to endeavor in future to avoid occasions upon which to come here ... 27 August 1833Tuesday. 27th.Morning warm with a South west wind. My father accompanied me to town. I was engaged at the House where the Painters were doing a little more outside ... 28 August 1833Wednesday. 28th.I said that my plan was to be altered. This is in consequence of a disposition on the part of my brother to conciliate, by his manner to my Wife and b... 29 August 1833Thursday. 29th.As I had been going for so long a time I concluded it would be better to remain quietly at home today and turn my attention to winding up the principa... 30 August 1833Friday. 30th.Cold morning. The Easterly winds have prevailed of late very much although the drought has become exceedingly severe. I went to town and was occupied ... 31 August 1833Saturday. 31st.The morning was cloudy with slight rain. I remained quietly at home, and my time was very quietly engrossed by my occupation although it is of such a ... September 1833 1 September 1833Sunday. September 1.The morning was cloudy with a shower, but it afterwards cleared away quite cool. I was occupied all day that was not taken up by my regular duties in ... 2 September 1833Monday. 2d.The North wind was almost a gale this morning. I went into town with it blowing in my face very violently and scarcely recollect having had a more dis... 3 September 1833Tuesday. 3d.I went to town this morning for the purpose of attending to my household which yesterday’s accident had disarranged. At the house I found Mrs. Field, ... 4 September 1833Wednesday. 4th.I this morning made the final disclosure to my Wife and although much affected, she bore it on the whole remarkably well. Went to town and had my time... 5 September 1833Thursday. 5th.Went to town accompanied by my brother. The day was cloudy and very sultry indeed. I passed much of my time at the House and at an Auction sale of the... 6 September 1833Friday. 6th.I went to town again this morning and was occupied in the closing directions for the house, which has at last resumed it’s natural appearance. I was o... 7 September 1833Saturday. 7th.This was the morning for our move. Accordingly after seeing to every thing, I went off leaving my Wife and child to follow in the Carriage with my Mot... 8 September 1833Sunday. 8th.Morning cloudy with a few drops of rain. My father returned to Quincy after breakfast, Kirk having come in a Gig to take him out. I attended divine se... 9 September 1833Monday. 9th.Morning damp and cool. I went to the Office as usual and passed the greater part of my time in accounts. Several persons came in—Mr. French upon the s... 10 September 1833Tuesday. 10th.My time now begins to be more at my disposal, and I enter again very quietly upon my ancient occupations. This produces a monotony in my Diary which i... 11 September 1833Wednesday. 11th.As my Wife expected some of the family from Quincy, I took the trouble to go down to Market. She was disappointed after all, my father and brother’s w... 12 September 1833Thursday. 12th.Fine clear morning. I went to the Caucus which was called to consult upon a candidate for Governor, immediately after breakfast. It sat from eight o’c... 13 September 1833Friday. 13th.At an early hour I went out for the purpose of putting into the hands of Col. Merrick the answer which last night I brought with me. After considerabl... 14 September 1833Saturday. 14th.Fine morning though cool. I went to the Office and passed most of my time there, but could not resist going to the Athenaeum for an hour. The Masonic ... 15 September 1833Sunday. 15th.Fine day although yet very cool. I have caught a severe cold which makes me feel it somewhat more than I probably otherwise should. Attended Divine se... 16 September 1833Monday. 16th.Clear and cool. I went to the Office and was occupied in reading Bradford’s History in which I made considerable progress. The difficulty with me is t... 17 September 1833Tuesday. 17th.The day was fine but somewhat cool. I passed an hour at home in writing upon my Article and then went to the Office. Mr. Peabody called in and asked m... 18 September 1833Wednesday. 18th.The day was cloudy with rain. I went to the Office and passed the greater part of my morning in reading Bradford. He fails more as he goes into the mo... 19 September 1833Thursday. 19th.Morning very warm and sultry. I awoke feeling excessively heated and feverish, and this settled into a nervous head ach for the day. At my Office in t... 20 September 1833Friday. 20th.Another excessively sultry day. I felt better however. Morning at the Office. Read all the State Papers previous to the famous Message of Jany. 6. 177... 21 September 1833Saturday. 21st.Morning cloudy but much cooler. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading the controversial papers which took place between Hutchinson and th... 22 September 1833Sunday. 22d.I sit down to write the record of a trying day to me. We were just seated very quietly to take breakfast as well as usual, when my Mother as she was p... 23 September 1833Monday. 23d.I slept but about two hours, for my anxiety about my Wife kept me uneasy. She was exceedingly exhausted by her labour and in a critical state all nigh... 24 September 1833Tuesday. 24th.My Wife had a good night and seemed to be on the whole much on the recovery. The boy is a stout little fellow, and seems quite tolerably. Thanks be to... 25 September 1833Wednesday. 25th.Beautiful weather. My Wife was tolerably today. My Mother not quite so well, but both on the whole still comfortable. It was the day of general muster... 26 September 1833Thursday. 26th.Very fine weather. My wife was tolerably and my Mother somewhat better. The Carriage came in from Quincy, bringing with it my father. He looks quite u... 27 September 1833Friday. 27th.Fine day. My Wife seems to be slowly but gradually improving. My Mother on the other hand does not recover decisively. She thought change of air might... 28 September 1833Saturday. 28th.Fine day. I went to the Office and amused my leisure time in reading the Records of my Life by J. Taylor—One of the most superficial works of a superf... 29 September 1833Sunday. 29th.Fine day though cloudy and warm. My Wife looked better than she has yet done. Her colour begins to revive. The child is well and hearty. I begin to re... 30 September 1833Monday. 30th.I make it a point as far as I can to avoid any share in the political agitations of the day. But I cannot help feeling the harshness with which my fat... October 1833 1 October 1833Tuesday. October 1st.The day was fine though cooler than it has been. I went to the Office after passing an hour in reading part of the third Georgic. My Wife still appear... 2 October 1833Wednesday. 2d.Morning cloudy with occasional showers. I went to the Office and was busily occupied most of my morning in Accounts, which I brought completely up. Mr... 3 October 1833Thursday. 3d.Fine day. I went to the Office. Occupied in Accounts. My brother John came in for a little while. He mentioned to me a transaction that has occurred, ... 4 October 1833Friday. 4th.Morning fine. I amended and altered my draught of last evening, and then called upon Quincy for the purpose of procuring his assent to the facts relat... 5 October 1833Saturday. 5th.Fine day, but I rose with a head ach from some difficulty in digestion, and it did not leave me until night, and sickness at my stomach. Went to the O... 6 October 1833Sunday. 6th.I arose feeling better and devoted my day to quiet and meditation. As this is in its true nature a religious day, I purpose as well as I can to make i... 7 October 1833Monday. 7th.The morning was delightfully pleasant. I give no daily account of the state of my family because I thank Heaven that as yet they are well. And the inc... 8 October 1833Tuesday. 8th.Morning cloudy with heavy rain in showers throughout the day and night, yet very warm. I went to the Office, where my time was very much taken up in A... 9 October 1833Wednesday. 9th.It rained when I arose and there was a rainbow in the West which Sailors generally would consider a forerunner of bad weather. The day was nevertheles... 10 October 1833Thursday. 10th.Much of my morning time was taken up in delays at my house and afterwards in Accounts. At the Office I pretty nearly closed up the business of the beg... 11 October 1833Friday. 11th.Morning clear and cool. After my usual quantity of Virgil I went to the Office and was occupied there in writing and Accounts. Called to see Mr. Halle... 12 October 1833Saturday. 12th.Morning warm with clouds, but the wind became easterly and very uncomfortable. I went to the Office and was occupied in Accounts. The time becomes so ... 13 October 1833Sunday. 13th.The storm set in last night and it rained heavily in showers throughout the day. I attended Divine Service all day and heard my friend Mr. George Whit... 14 October 1833Monday. 14th.Cleared off with a sharp air from the Northwest. I went to the Office and passed my time much as usual. It is a little singular that I do not get alon... 15 October 1833Tuesday. 15th.My indications were not ill understood. I had another head ach of indigestion. These now occur so frequently as to alarm me. Some thing must be done t... 16 October 1833Wednesday. 16th.Morning cloudy and damp. A Southerly wind with sultry weather. I went to the Office and was occupied in various ways, writing my Diary &ca. I had a sh... 17 October 1833Thursday. 17th.Morning foggy with easterly wind. I began reading Virgil’s Aeneis having finished the Georgics. A peculiarity of the ancient works is that one never t... 18 October 1833Friday. 18th.Morning fine and tolerably warm. I read some of the first book of Virgil’s Aeneid and went to the Office. Mr. Peabody called in and asked me to take a... 19 October 1833Saturday. 19th.Morning clear and cool. My Wife took advantage of it and rode out for the first time. Our course hitherto has been exceedingly prosperous, she having ... 20 October 1833Sunday. 20th.Cloudy with heavy rain all day. I copied several Letters for my father and prepared them to go in the Mail. Attended divine service at Mr. Frothingham... 21 October 1833Monday. 21st.Heavy rain. I was up late and went to the Office. Occupied in reading the rest of the number of the North American Review. It deals in a variety of ma... 22 October 1833Tuesday. 22nd.Rain continues. This will be of great service this day in replenishing the Wells. We have not had so much at a time since the month of April I think. ... 23 October 1833Wednesday. 23d.Fine clear day. I was very much occupied most of my time in executing a business operation. Having gathered together all the sums I could well spare, ... 24 October 1833Thursday. 24th.Very lovely day. I went to the Office and was engaged much of my time in Accounts. Settled up all my books and found myself likely to be pretty hard p... 25 October 1833Friday. 25th.Morning cloudy but it afterwards cleared away quite pleasant. I went to the Office and was busy as usual. My multitudinous occupations make the time p... 26 October 1833Saturday. 26th.Fine day. I went to the Office. Received a letter from my Mother in regard to the affair of the other day. I shall endeavor to think no more of it. I ... 27 October 1833Sunday. 27th.I was gratified to find it a fair day and that nothing would prevent the taking place of the ceremony of my child’s baptism. My father and Mother arri... 28 October 1833Monday. 28th.Fine day although the morning was cloudy and threatened snow. I went to the Office. My Wife being now without a Nurse, and one of her Women being take... 29 October 1833Tuesday. 29th.Day clear but cold. My family in a state of disarrangement from sickness. I went to the Office and occupied myself as usual. Milton has not yet been t... 30 October 1833Wednesday. 30th.Day cloudy and wind very raw. I went to the Office, from thence to a sale of pictures at Cunningham’s rooms and to the Athenaeum. Returned home at noo... 31 October 1833Thursday. 31st.Morning cold and clear. I went to the Office and was able to effect something in the way of reading before dinner. I began Milton’s Defence of the Peo... November 1833 1 November 1833Friday. November 1st.The day was cold and clear, and in all respects favorable for the progress of my Mother’s Journey. I went to the Office and passed my time not very pr... 2 November 1833Saturday. 2d.The day was milder than it had been and looked cloudy but it soon after became quite clear. I went to the Office and was engaged most of my time quiet... 3 November 1833Sunday. 3d.Clear and cold morning. Passed an hour in copying, after which I attended Divine Service at Mr. Frothingham’s and heard him from John 6. 27. “Labour n... 4 November 1833Monday. 4th.Fine clear day. I went to the Office and passed my time very quietly reading the small talk of Mr. Taylor’s book. There is something amusing in it, ju... 5 November 1833Tuesday. 5th.Fine morning but quite cold. I went to the Office. Time taken up in Accounts as usual and in writing Diary. Instead of employing my time as I ought to... 6 November 1833Wednesday. 6th.Pleasant morning. My father came in to town this morning preparatory to his going away. As Mr. Everett wished to see him I invited him to dine with hi... 7 November 1833Thursday. 7th.My father left us this morning at 1/2 past 6 o’clock. I regret his going although in the present disturbed condition of our political affairs in this ... 8 November 1833Friday. 8th.A cloudy morning but it cleared away and became a very fine Indian Summer day. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading Milton’s Defence of ... 9 November 1833Saturday. 9th.Fine morning, but it afterwards clouded over and by night was very gusty with rain. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading Milton, but hi... 10 November 1833Sunday. 10th.Fine day. I attended divine service and heard Mr. Frothingham preach an excellent Sermon from Malachi 3. 14. “Ye have said, what profit is it that we ... 11 November 1833Monday. 11th.This is the day appointed by law for the election of State Officers. The result is with a higher power. I went to perform my duty by voting for the wh... 12 November 1833Tuesday. 12th.The returns come in this morning and manifest one thing decidedly—The total prostration of the National Republican or till now dominant party. Even in... 13 November 1833Wednesday. 13th.The weather very fine today, although growing quite cool. The returns still come in very unfavourably to the National Republicans. The running is quit... 14 November 1833Thursday. 14th.I enjoyed the brightness of the day by taking a long walk. I went also to the Office and was occupied some time there in reading and my common avocati... 15 November 1833Friday. 15th.The rain set in after sunset last evening and continued until morning when we had a fog so thick one could see but a yard off. I had fixed this time t... 16 November 1833Saturday. 16th.Fine day although growing much cooler. I went to the Office and was occupied much of my time in Accounts. Mr. William Spear came in from Quincy and se... 17 November 1833Sunday. 17th.Fine morning and the weather far more in character with the Season. I passed an hour in reading Chalmers on the adaptation of the mind to external nat... 18 November 1833Monday. 18th.Cool and clear. At the Office, studying out Accounts, and with two or three Country visitors. Mr. Adams from Quincy with a bill, and Col. Jones from W... 19 November 1833Tuesday. 19th.The cold now begins to make us sensible of the approach of Winter. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading the remainder of Milton’s answer... 20 November 1833Wednesday. 20th.Very cool indeed. I went to the Office and was busy in reading Milton although not with a great deal of profit. Called upon Mr. Hallet and had a conve... 21 November 1833Thursday. 21st.Morning milder and more pleasant. I went to the Office and passed an hour in occupation. Mr. Peabody came in and asked me to walk with him. I accordin... 22 November 1833Friday. 22d.Cloudy with a heavy rain through the most part of the day. I went to the Office and passed most of my time in reading the account of the Parliamentary... 23 November 1833Saturday. 23d.I spent an hour at market this morning making purchases, although I did not think that the display was as great as I should have expected so soon befo... 24 November 1833Sunday. 24th.Since Mr. Brooks has taken possession of his Pew, I have to go to some other and my efforts to procure one have been hitherto pretty unsuccessful. My ... 25 November 1833Monday. 25th.Snow and the first arrival of winter. I went to the Office. Mr. Conant from Weston came in and passed a considerable time in talking about the lease o... 26 November 1833Tuesday. 26th.Snow continues with pretty warm air. I went to the Office as usual and passed my time in reading the Parliamentary Debates. Came to the famous speech ... 27 November 1833Wednesday. 27th.I went to Market as usual upon the morning preceding Thanksgiving day and found the price of Poultry by the extortion of the venders who attempt a mon... 28 November 1833Thursday. 28th.This was the day set apart as usual for Thanksgiving. It was quite pleasant, and I read in the course of the morning a considerable quantity of Chalme... 29 November 1833Friday. 29th.Morning cloudy and raw. I went to the Office and finished the Parliamentary History, for 1774—A record of great importance in American Affairs. Little... 30 November 1833Saturday. 30th.Morning cloudy with heavy rain throughout the day. I went to the Office and sat very quietly reading the Parliamentary History. The papers relating to... December 1833 1 December 1833December. 1833. Sunday. 1st.I read a little of Mr. Chalmers’ book before I attended Divine Service and heard Mr. Frothingham preach all day. John 19. 25. “Now there stood by the ... 2 December 1833Monday. 2d.Morning cloudy and mild. I went to the Office and was occupied there in reading the Parliamentary History. Only one or two interruptions. Dr. Brown, t... 3 December 1833Tuesday. 3d.Morning cloudy. I went to the Office. Mr. Conant the younger called on me from Weston about the Farm and discussed the subject of the Lease. I told hi... 4 December 1833Wednesday. 4th.Morning the same kind of cloudy weather we have had for some time back. I went to the Office and was engaged for some time in Accounts, then called up... 5 December 1833Thursday. 5th.The weather continues mild. I went to the Office. Received an apologizing letter from Mr. Hallett, returning me the draught with a request I would rem... 6 December 1833Friday. 6th.Morning a little cloudy but it afterwards cleared away and became very pleasant. I went to the Office. Time passed in looking over Accounts which from... 7 December 1833Saturday. 7th.Morning cooler but fine weather. I went to the Office and was engaged in rectifying my Accounts which I finally succeeded in doingSo that instead of ... 8 December 1833Sunday. 8th.Cloudy and raw. I read some of Mr. Chalmers in the morning prior to attending divine service. Mr. Gilman of Charleston, S.C. preached in the absence o... 9 December 1833Monday. 9th.It rained and blew a hurricane last night, but this morning the weather was as fair and mild as October. I went to the Office and after my usual occup... 10 December 1833Tuesday. 10th.Fine morning. I went to the Office as usual. Engaged in Accounts &ca. Called on Mr. Oliver about the Note of my father due on the 21st instant. And ca... 11 December 1833Wednesday. 11th.Fine day although the weather is growing colder and more in accordance with the season. I went to the Office, and into State Street to collect Dividen... 12 December 1833Thursday. 12th.Cloudy and cold today. I went to the Office and read very uninterruptedly for about an hour in the Parliamentary. I thought that I would then amuse my... 13 December 1833Friday. 13th.Cloudy day and cold. Went to the Office as usual and was occupied for some time in reading and writing. One or two persons came in—Mr. Degrand and oth... 14 December 1833Saturday. 14th.Morning at the Office. Received a letter from my father with a copy of the report of the Bank Directors and a request to me to touch the elbow of the ... 15 December 1833Sunday. 15th.The weather keeps cloudy but does not positively rain or snow. I read Mackintosh and attended Divine Service. Mr. Robbins. Job 37. 21. “And now men se... 16 December 1833Monday. 16th.Morning cloudy. I went to the Office where I received a letter from my father and the Address to the People which accompanied it. In consequence of it... 17 December 1833Tuesday. 17th.Morning clouds, it began to rain in the Afternoon and to blow almost a hurricane. I was seriously anxious for the safety of my chimney tops, which how... 18 December 1833Wednesday. 18th.The rain and wind continued through the day. I went to the Office. Engaged in my usual occupations—Writing and Parliamentary Debates. Nothing of conse... 19 December 1833Thursday. 19th.The weather cloudy but the wind has ceased. I went to the Office and was engaged in reading and writing. Received a letter from my Mother by which bei... 20 December 1833Friday. 20th.Fine morning. I went to the Office and passed my time very quietly reading and writing and making up Accounts. Mr. Ladd called in and we had a talk. H... 21 December 1833Saturday. 21st.Beautiful day. I was very busy all the morning in money affairs. After coming from Market, I called at the Commercial Bank and took up the Deposit mad... 22 December 1833Sunday. 22d.Heavy rain and the Streets in such a condition from its freezing on the bricks as to be dangerous. I went to Meeting nevertheless. Mr. Frothingham, 1 ... 23 December 1833Monday. 23d.The day was beautiful. I received from my father a long letter upon politics. He does not print his Address until after the election of Governor which... 24 December 1833Tuesday. 24th.We have within a week or ten days experienced prodigious alternations of weather. Today brought with it another Easterly rain which with the snow whic... 25 December 1833Wednesday. 25th.Christmas day. The desire to consider it as a day of celebration is increasing very fast in this Community. I think if it would tend to amusing and in... 26 December 1833Thursday. 26th.Fine day again. Office. I was about to go to work, when Mr. S. Conant from Weston came in about his Lease. He was followed by Brown the Steam Doctor o... 27 December 1833Friday. 27th.Fine clear day. I went to the Office. Engaged in copying out my Accounts for the close of the year. Mr. Peabody called in and asked me to walk, we acc... 28 December 1833Saturday. 28th.Fine day. I was at the Office all the morning, occupied in drawing out my Quarterly Account. Mr. Walsh called in, my new Tenant who succeeds Mr. Peabo... 29 December 1833Sunday. 29th.Fine day. I attended divine Service all day. Heard Mr. Frothingham from Luke 1. 78–79. “The day spring from on high hath visited us, To give light to ... 30 December 1833Monday. 30th.Fine day. I went to the Office and finished most of my business for the present quarter. Called upon Mr. Mason and received the balance due upon the E... 31 December 1833Tuesday. 31st.Fine after clouds. I went to the Office, drew up all my Accounts and settled my balances. Very quiet and undisturbed all day. Walk. Afternoon, wrote t... 1834 January 1834 1 January 183412 December 1835Titlepage 1 January 1834January. 1834. Wednesday. 1st.The first page of a new volume on New Year’s day—A day which to the young brings all the elastic vigor of hope into activity, and to the old presents ... 2 January 1834Thursday. 2d.The New Year brings with it several duties among which the most important is in a social point of view to redeem one’s engagements. I was busy much of... 3 January 1834Friday. 3d.Morning colder. Office. Time as much taken up in business affairs as ever. I brought up my private Accounts. From some cause or other, I feel this yea... 4 January 1834Saturday. 4th.Morning tolerably clear. I was occupied an hour in my weekly visit to Market, after which I passed my time at the Office very quietly. Did not think o... 5 January 1834Sunday. 5th.Morning snowy and quite cold. I attended divine Service all day. Heard in the morning Mr. Frothingham. Psalms 55. 14. “We took sweet counsel together ... 6 January 1834Monday. 6th.I find my mornings much shortened from a lazy practice I have of remaining over the fire at my House dipping into the Newspaper. Today my stay was to ... 7 January 1834Tuesday. 7th.Cold weather. I went to the office where I pursued my occupation of Accounts. Nothing of any consequence happened. The political affairs of the day ar... 8 January 1834Wednesday. 8th.A very beautiful day. Our weather this season has been uncommonly mild and open. I went to the Office. The Editor of the Advocate sent me a proof of m... 9 January 1834Thursday. 9th.I was again engrossed the whole morning in correcting proof. Mr. Davis was this day elected Governor, and the Address will appear tomorrow. I finished... 10 January 1834Friday. 10th.Mild day. I went to the Office and passed my time in making up the arrears of the last few days. My fathers Address appeared this morning in the Advoc... 11 January 1834Saturday. 11th.Day mild. I went to the Office. Engaged in accounts and in reading the North American Review. This Journal is carried on with a good deal of ability, ... 12 January 1834Sunday. 12th.Day stormy, with snow, rain and frost. I attended divine Service all day and heard Mr. Frothingham in the morning. 1 Corinthians 7. 29,30,31. “But thi... 13 January 1834Monday. 13th.The children give us considerable uneasiness in different ways. And fear and anxiety respecting them are the only troubles that I have. If I did not r... 14 January 1834Tuesday. 14th.Morning clear and cold. The rain and frost immediately following have made the Streets a sheet of ice. At the Office. Mr. Fuller one of my Tenants cam... 15 January 1834Wednesday. 15th.Morning clear and cold. I went to the Office. Time taken up in Accounts and making up my Diary. The mornings now are short and I do as I have always d... 16 January 1834Thursday. 16th.Fine day. I went to the Office. Time passed very uninterruptedly reading the Debates. Mr. Curtis called in to pay me his Account, and I went down to d... 17 January 1834Friday. 17th.Very mild with a Southerly wind and rain. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading and Accounts. Read the second part of Mr. Binney’s speech... 18 January 1834Saturday. 18th.The day was more like May than January. The baby makes us very uneasy. He has a cold which distresses us—The perils incident to children, and the mise... 19 January 1834Sunday. 19th.The weather continues particularly mild, and probably produces this tendency to colds. I attended divine service all day and heard Mr. Frothingham. Ez... 20 January 1834Monday. 20th.The child was not so well this morning. His voice was almost gone. The Dr. calls it a catarrh on his Lungs of a very severe character. I went to the o... 21 January 1834Tuesday. 21st.The weather changes to much cooler. The child was pronounced better this morning much to my relief. I went to the office and was busy in Accounts whic... 22 January 1834Wednesday. 22d.This was the first morning which has occurred this winter, of extraordinary severity. I went to the Office and found that my Office boy had deserted m... 23 January 1834Thursday. 23d.Morning still colder. I went to the Office. Occupied in Accounts. I have no time for the Parliamentary Debates. Completed the payment of my little bil... 24 January 1834Friday. 24th.The third cold morning. I went to the Office quite late and found every thing so cold and cheerless that I left in disgust without making a fire or si... 25 January 1834Saturday. 25th.Weather moderating. The Dr. finally assured us this morning that our children did not need his services further at this time, and the idea is charming... 26 January 1834Sunday. 26th.My record of Sunday is now little else than that of my religious exercises. A few years since I could hardly have expected that I should so easily hav... 27 January 1834Monday. 27th.Fine day. I went to the Office rather earlier than usual and was engaged in writing up my Arrears of Diary as well as drawing the Lease for Mr. Ladd. ... 28 January 1834Tuesday. 28th.Mild, winter day. I went to the Office. Engaged in writing and had a visit from Mr. Walsh, who conversed as usual upon the troubles of the money depar... 29 January 1834Wednesday. 29th.Pleasant winter weather. The children appear now to be pretty well and my heart is easy. I went to the Office and occupied myself in arrears. Mr. Cona... 30 January 1834Thursday. 30th.Mild, agreeable weather. I received a short Note from my brother at Washington, though without any thing material in it. My day was wasted in dancing ... 31 January 1834Friday. 31st.A delightfully mild day. I went to the Office and from thence to a Meeting of the Directors of the Middlesex Canal. The purpose was to declare a Divid... February 1834 1 February 1834February. 1834. Saturday. 1st.We were anxious to hear of the little child and at last had an account which promised favorably. My wife went out early this morning for the purpose o... 2 February 1834Sunday. 2d.A lovely day as I have ever seen at this season of the year. We attended divine service all day and heard Mr. Frothingham. Matthew 22. 39. “The second... 3 February 1834Monday. 3d.Another delightful day. I went to the Office. Engaged as usual in making up my arrears, which is about the only occupation of my morning. I lounge awa... 4 February 1834Tuesday. 4th.The weather holds on mild although it was cloudy today. I passed my time in no better manner than usual. Accounts and Newspapers. Mr. Degrand called i... 5 February 1834Wednesday. 5th.Mild but cloudy. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading the debate in the Senate between Mr. Webster and Mr. Wright. This is of some conse... 6 February 1834Thursday. 6th.Fine morning but it afterwards grew cloudy. I went to the Office and I believe for the first time since New Year devoted an hour or two to Parliamenta... 7 February 1834Friday. 7th.A snow storm. Such are the alternations of our weather. I went to the Office as usual. Nothing particular. Mr. Degrand called and I executed the money... 8 February 1834Saturday. 8th.Fine day though cool. I went to the Office and purposed to pass my time industriously in reading. But Mr. Conant the Tenant from Weston came in and co... 9 February 1834Sunday. 9th.Weather cloudy. Attended divine service all day. Mr. Putnam. Ecclesiastes 1. 14. “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun and behold, al... 10 February 1834Monday. 10th.I have rarely known a time when my existence was more monotonous than at present. Even my literary occupations which usually give some variety to my J... 11 February 1834Tuesday. 11th.Beautiful day. I went to the office. I find my new acquaintance in the room opposite takes up full as much of my time as the former one Mr. Peabody di... 12 February 1834Wednesday. 12th.Cold again. I went to the Office but executed little excepting a Lease of the Tenant at Weston, and studied a little the returns of the Massachusetts ... 13 February 1834Thursday. 13th.Fine day. I went to the Office and executed the remainder of the Lease to the Farmer at Weston. Attended the sale of things belonging to Mr. A. Welles... 14 February 1834Friday. 14th.Morning passed at the office occupied in the same series of nothingness which distinguishes so much of my time. My spirits are a little affected by th... 15 February 1834Saturday. 15th.Mild but cloudy. I went to the Office and spent an hour in reading the Parliamentary Debates. In the present disturbed state of our own Country it is ... 16 February 1834Sunday. 16th.The day was pleasant. I attended divine service and heard Mr. Frothingham preach from Psalms. 4. 4. “Commune with your own heart and be still.” The se... 17 February 1834Monday. 17th.Cloudy day. I went to the Office and was engaged the whole morning with Tenants. Finding my finances now alarmingly low, I made a sweep around the Ten... 18 February 1834Tuesday. 18th.Weather singularly mild and pleasant. Our whole month of February has been quite uncommon. I went to the Office and was engaged for some time in affai... 19 February 1834Wednesday. 19th.My morning was wasted in reading over some English Newspapers. There is something quite charming in the appearance of comfort and solidity which one f... 20 February 1834Thursday. 20th.A very lovely day. I went to the Office and occupied myself in writing and reading. Made some progress in the Parliamentary Debates. These were at tha... 21 February 1834Friday. 21st.Fine day. I went to the Office, but did not spend my time as profitably as I might have done. Received a letter from my Mother not in very good spirit... 22 February 1834Saturday. 22d.Fine day. Office. I had two or three persons made application to me upon various subjects. Mr. E. Fuller came in upon the subject of the Lease of the ... 23 February 1834Sunday. 23d.Dull rainy day. I arose late from the disturbed night caused by the child. Attended divine service all day and heard Mr. Frothingham preach. Ephesians... 24 February 1834Monday. 24th.Cloudy day. I went to the Office, but my time was much taken up by Mr. Walsh who came and conversed three hours. This is a little too much although I ... 25 February 1834Tuesday. 25th.Snowy morning and an appearance of recurring winter. I went to the Office but did very little. Mr. Walsh came in and conversed upon English History so... 26 February 1834Wednesday. 26th.Morning clear and cooler than for some time past. I went to the Office and from there to a sale of Mr. Cogswell’s books. I did not go to purchase, nor... 27 February 1834Thursday. 27.Fine day. I went to the Office and from thence to Mr. Cogswell’s sale, but got no books. Did little or nothing as usual. Lounged at the Athenaeum. Cam... 28 February 1834Friday. 28th.Our weather is perfectly delightful. Mr. Walsh took up the whole morning in conversation excepting a short time when I was at Auction purchasing books... March 1834 1 March 1834Saturday. March 1st.Beautiful day. I went to the Office. Occupied in reading the Debates in the British Parliament and in our Congress. It is not without profit to compar... 2 March 1834Sunday. 2d.Snow, clouds and wet weather. I passed my morning hour in reading the Annual Register for 1832, being the account of the Reform bill. The Author is ev... 3 March 1834Monday. 3d.Cooler than it has been. I went to the Office, and passed my time as usual not to much purpose. I have been meditating some change by which I could ap... 4 March 1834Tuesday. 4th.Lovely morning. The fine weather this season decidedly predominates. A person disordered in his stomach takes very little notice of the beauties of na... 5 March 1834Wednesday. 5th.Another very beautiful day. I went to the Office and occupied myself as well as I could with the Parliamentary Debates. As I find however that these a... 6 March 1834Thursday. 6th.Hazy and clouds. A few drops of rain from time to time but it cleared away in the evening. Office, where I was not regularly occupied but still manage... 7 March 1834Friday. 7th.Fine day. I went to the Office. Time taken up by Diary and progress in the Register. I am going over the ground of the volume of Debates I have been r... 8 March 1834Saturday. 8th.My Ink is so pale today, I have great doubts whether I can write. Went to the Office—Weather being very stormy with wind and rain. Read the remainder ... 9 March 1834Sunday. 9th.Clear and pleasant day. Began Benjamin Constant’s book upon Religion which I bought the other day. I am charmed with it’s beginning. Attended divine S... 10 March 1834Monday. 10th.Cool but pleasant. Went to the Office and from thence to the Athenaeum where I spent nearly all my morning. Read the remainder of Mr. Redding’s book u... 11 March 1834Tuesday. 11th.Dusty. Office as usual. I brought down a volume of Jefferson’s Memorials to read but did not open the book. I had several Commissions in different pla... 12 March 1834Wednesday. 12th.Fine day and mild as May. I went to the Office. Occupied in my Accounts and paying off as many of my engagements as possible. This took me some time. ... 13 March 1834Thursday. 13th.A very fine day. I went to the Office and was occupied in my usual manner. Made some progress in the Life of Jefferson and was much struck with his Ac... 14 March 1834Friday. 14th.Fine day but cool. I went to the Office, but was not very industrious. Read the National Intelligencer for the Debates and was somewhat surprised at M... 15 March 1834Saturday. 15th.Our Season is fine but uncommonly dry. I went to the Office, and read the Volume of Jefferson’s Memoir with the single interruption caused by Mr. S. B... 16 March 1834Sunday. 16th.Fine day. I read Benjamin Constant. Divine Service all day. Heard Mr. Frothingham from Genesis 2. 17. “The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” He... 17 March 1834Monday. 17th.Fine morning. I went to the Office after a visit from Mr. Stephen Whitney. This is a member of our House of Representatives from Deerfield. He is one ... 18 March 1834Tuesday. 18th.Weather clear and pleasant. I went to the Office and was occupied in making up my Diary, and reading the Debates in the Intelligencer which are active... 19 March 1834Wednesday. 19th.Uncommonly warm for the Season. I went down to the Office. My time passed quite unprofitably. My good resolutions produce little benefit of any sort. ... 20 March 1834Thursday. 20th.It rained last night but was clear in the morning. I read some of Constant, and went to the office. Most of my time was taken up by the Conants who ca... 21 March 1834Friday. 21st.I spent most of my morning at the Athenaeum reading in the English Periodicals and amusing myself as well as I could. The English as well as ourselves... 22 March 1834Saturday. 22d.A cold and very windy day, much in character with the month. I amused myself this morning with reading Baron d’Haussez upon the manners and Institutio... 23 March 1834Sunday. 23d.Cool. Continued and finished d’Haussez whose book has diverted me much. He is satirical enough. He strips the glitter off English Society and exposes ... 24 March 1834Monday. 24th.Mild. Read Mrs. Jamieson’s Memoirs of Female Sovereigns, Christina of Sweden—A curious and interesting personage. Office. Time pretty much engrossed b... 25 March 1834Tuesday. 25th.Cloudy with occasional showers of hail and rain. Read the Account of Queen Anne by Mrs. Jamieson. I was not aware before that she became latterly inte... 26 March 1834Wednesday. 26th.Cool but clear. I went to the Office after lounging some time over Mrs. Jamieson. Her account of Maria Theresa is very interesting. The Austrian Princ... 27 March 1834Thursday. 27th.Fine morning. I went to the Office and was occupied part of my time in Accounts and part of it in reading Mr. Jefferson’s Letters, then I went to the ... 28 March 1834Friday. 28th.The season is uncommonly clear and dry. I went to the Office and occupied myself as well as I could, not however without reading Newspapers an undue ... 29 March 1834Saturday. 29th.Lovely day. I was so much tempted to be out that I did not execute much at home. Walked to the Boylston Market to make up the record of the annual mee... 30 March 1834Sunday. 30th.The Weather yesterday terminated in a shower and subsequent fall of the temperature more than forty degrees to this morning. It was today unusually co... 31 March 1834Monday. 31st.Fine day. I went to the Office and was occupied very busily in making up my Account for the last Quarter. This took three good hours work, and I felt ... April 1834 1 April 1834Tuesday. April 1.The weather was blustering with occasional rain. I went to the Office as usual and was occupied in making out a list of Stockholders of the Boylston M... 2 April 1834Wednesday. 2d.The weather cloudy and dull. I was myself in but indifferent spirits. The answer of my Mother has operated so much upon Abby that I am afraid she has ... 3 April 1834Thursday. 3d.This was the regular day appointed for Fast according to the custom of this people. I remained at home in the morning and read Constant until the time... 4 April 1834Friday. 4th.Fine morning. I went to the Office but not until after I had occupied myself in reading some time. My memory is so treacherous that I forget to put th... 5 April 1834Saturday. 5th.Fine day. Office. Mr. William Spear called upon me to let me know that William Field one of the Tenants had run away from Quincy after having embezzle... 6 April 1834Sunday. 6th.Fine day but cool. I attended Divine Service all day and heard Mr. Frothingham and Mr. Ripley. The first from 6. John 57. “As the living Father hath s... 7 April 1834Monday. 7th.Morning pleasant. I went to the Office and passed my time very easily. My office boy has deserted me and consequently half the time I make no fire. My... 8 April 1834Tuesday. 8th.Morning cloudy without rain. Went to the Office and from thence to collect Dividends. This with Accounts and lounging consumed my morning. Thomas Doyl... 9 April 1834Wednesday. 9th.Rainy morning with clouds. I went to the Office but did not spend my time to much advantage. Mr. Walsh came in and consumed an hour. I had two or thre... 10 April 1834Thursday. 10th.Morning fine weather. I went to the Office and occupied myself as usual but not to much profit. Mr. Jones came in and paid me his Note which with othe... 11 April 1834Friday. 11th.I had one of my unpleasant headachs today. Thinking it arose from indigestion I thought I would walk it off, but I found this only made the matter wor... 12 April 1834Saturday. 12th.A very lovely and very warm day. I could not keep much at the Office. Mr. William Spear came in from Quincy and paid me a sum of money on his Note, th... 13 April 1834Sunday. 13th.A summer’s day. I walked out upon the Common for an hour after breakfast with my Wife and child and took the benefit of the balmy air. Attended divine... 14 April 1834Monday. 14th.Fine day. I went to the Office and was occupied in Accounts to some extent. Conversation with Mr. Walsh and lounging at Insurance Offices. The interes... 15 April 1834Tuesday. 15th.The children seem to be a little disordered which makes us uneasy and unhappy. I trust as I ever do. The day was excessively and unnaturally warm. I w... 16 April 1834Wednesday. 16th.Morning fine but cool. I did intend to have started at once for Quincy but by going down to the Office and a few interruptions my time fell short so t... 17 April 1834Thursday. 17th.Very warm. I went to the Office. Occupied in various Accounts and lounging in the Insurance Offices reading Newspapers. The accounts are that the Patr... 18 April 1834Friday. 18th.The thunder of yesterday chilled the air for today. I went out early and rode to Quincy. Passed the morning in superintending the garden and looking o... 19 April 1834Saturday. 19th.Morning Cloudy and towards night, rain. I went to the Office and was occupied in a variety of things—Accounts, calls from Mr. Spear and Thomas Doyle. ... 20 April 1834Sunday. 20th.Morning cloudy after the rain but it cleared away before night. I read Basil Hall’s visit to Loo Choo which I think is the most amusing of all his wor... 21 April 1834Monday. 21st.Cloudy with a thunder storm in the evening. I went to the Office and was tempted from thence to study General Jackson’s new Protest against the usurpa... 22 April 1834Tuesday. 22nd.Clouds and chilly atmosphere. I went to the Office. Time rather wasted. Read a little of Jefferson’s Letters which are not so interesting as one might... 23 April 1834Wednesday. 23d.Day cloudy with rain. I went to the Office after reading for an hour the story of Gabriel Desodry or the Exalté a novel of Picard. At Office engaged i... 24 April 1834Thursday. 24th.Fine day but cool. I went out early. Read the Newspapers and called at the Office. Then attended the Sale at Mr. Callender’s for the purpose of purcha... 25 April 1834Friday. 25th.Cold morning. I went to the Office after writing for an hour. Time wasted in reading politics, writing Diary, Accounts and a little half hour of Mr. J... 26 April 1834Saturday. 26th.Fine day although the East wind prevailed. As I had asked a friend or two to dine with me, I was occupied first in providing the necessaries to enter... 27 April 1834Sunday. 27th.I both eat and drank too much for my wellbeing, yesterday. The consequence was that I did not feel in my usual good order today. My morning was taken ... 28 April 1834Monday. 28th.Morning clear but uncommonly cold for the Season—A sharp frost. I read Helen, a novel by Miss Edgeworth. After a lapse of many years she has ventured ... 29 April 1834Tuesday. 29th.Pleasant morning. I rode to Quincy. Found things much in the same State, but as there was nothing to be done, I felt my time heavy upon my hands. Ther... 30 April 1834Wednesday. 30th.Day cloudy with heavy showers. I went to the Office and from thence to the Athenaeum where I daudled away time reading little Essays in the English Pe... May 1834 1 May 1834Thursday. May 1.A beautiful May day. I went out earlier than usual and was engaged much of my time in business affairs. Looked over my Accounts &ca. and afterwards to... 2 May 1834Friday. 2d.Morning fine although accompanied by an East wind. I rode to Quincy for the purpose of settling with Carr by his own request. But he was not ready and... 3 May 1834Saturday. 3d.Fine day. Morning to the Office. Occupied in business. Mr. Spear came in from Quincy and paid me the balance of his Note together with some other smal... 4 May 1834Sunday. 4th.A fine day. I went to walk with my Wife and child before Meeting. Attended divine service and heard Mr. Frothingham from Job 29. 2. “Oh! that I were a... 5 May 1834Monday. 5th.Morning pleasant. I was engaged for some time in disposing of the various little matters that have accumulated upon my table during the past winter. O... 6 May 1834Tuesday. 6th.Heavy rain in the morning, and thick weather all day. I was engaged in details much of my morning, preparatory to change of residence. Took an Account... 7 May 1834Wednesday. 7th.It held up during the morning but by noon it set in as earnestly as ever and rained heavily all the rest of the day. This was peculiarly disagreeable ... 8 May 1834Thursday. 8th.Fine morning with the air mild and pleasant. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Time occupied in commissions of various sorts. Called in at a s... 9 May 1834Friday. 9th.Fine morning. I went to the Office after riding into town with Mr. Brooks. My time taken up for the most part in business matters. Conversation with M... 10 May 1834Saturday. 10th.I had fixed upon this day to go to Quincy, but upon waking, I found it raining heavily which continued without intermission through the day. Consequen... 11 May 1834Sunday. 11th.Morning quite fine. Read some of Madame de Stael’s fine theory of perfectability not a particle of which do I believe in. Attended divine service and ... 12 May 1834Monday. 12th.Cold, gusty day. I went to town and passed an hour there in business. Received a letter from T. B. Adams inclosing a bill in payment of his Note to me... 13 May 1834Tuesday. 13th.Quite cold and cheerless for Country life. My Wife has by imprudent exposure caught a violent cold which has fixed in her throat and makes her very un... 14 May 1834Wednesday. 14th.Blustering, cold weather more like the month of March than May. There was a frost this morning which hazards very seriously the fruit for the year. I ... 15 May 1834Thursday. 15.Weather cold and cheerless. We have frosts every morning which are likely to do great injury. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town or rather he went with ... 16 May 1834Friday. 16.Another frost and the day cold although much pleasanter than it has been. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town, after reading an hour in Ortis, a sort of ... 17 May 1834Saturday. 17.Weather better today although still very far from warm. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Walk to the Estate, corner of Boylston Street to exa... 18 May 1834Sunday. 18.The first day in character with the Season and very pleasant it was. I amused myself in sauntering about a little while and afterwards in reading Hume... 19 May 1834Monday. 19th.A lovely day. I went to town with Mr. Brooks. Time taken up in some Commissions and at the House where I copied a letter to my father written yesterda... 20 May 1834Tuesday. 20th.Day pleasant although somewhat cooler. I read Italian for some time and then rode to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Passed some time in writing, read... 21 May 1834Wednesday. 21st.Very warm and pleasant day. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town and not having much of any thing to do, I sauntered into the Artist’s Exhibition for an h... 22 May 1834Thursday. 22d.Fine day but cold. I went to town with Mr. Brooks. Office. Jefferson’s Journal of a Journey through the South of France and Italy. Not very interestin... 23 May 1834Friday. 23rd.A cold, cloudy day. I accompanied by Mr. Brooks rode to town. Morning passed very quietly at my Office where I made progress in Mr. Jefferson’s book. ... 24 May 1834Saturday. 24th.Morning cloudy and warm. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. Time passed at the Office. Mr. W. Spear called and paid some money, besides discussing matt... 25 May 1834Sunday. 25th.Morning cold and raw. The proportion has been very great of this weather during this month. The clouds seem to predominate. I read Italian before atte... 26 May 1834Monday. 26th.Cold and cloudy. I went to town in the Carriage with Mr. Brooks and the two Everett children who were going home. Office where I remained very quietly... 27 May 1834Tuesday. 27th.Morning cloudy with a cold Easterly wind, but it cleared away and became pleasanter in the afternoon. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Called... 28 May 1834Wednesday. 28th.Another cloudy, cheerless morning. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. Passed some time at the Office reading Jefferson’s book and then spent an hour at... 29 May 1834Thursday. 29th.We are so accustomed to dark, cold, wet mornings now that we hardly expect any thing else. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. Passed part of the mornin... 30 May 1834Friday. 30th.Cold and rainy. I notwithstanding made up my mind to go to Quincy, which I accordingly did. The ride was a long one through the Country, but I came ho... 31 May 1834Saturday. 31st.Another cloudy day. I concluded to stay at home. Passed some of my time in reading Italian, then Hume, Dissertation of the passions. Took a walk along... June 1834 1 June 1834Sunday. June 1st.Warmer but still cloudy and with occasional showers of rain. I passed much of my day in reading Horace Walpole with whose book I was much amused. He c... 2 June 1834Monday. 2d.Rode to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. It cleared off and became a fine day. The sight of sunshine was quite a novelty. Office. Letters from Washingt... 3 June 1834Tuesday. 3d.A fine day though cool and with a high wind from the Northwest. I went to town with Mr. Brooks in his Carriage and the children of Mr. Everett who ret... 4 June 1834Wednesday. 4th.Fine day. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Office, and to the House from whence I strolled to the Athenaeum Gallery and reading room. I have ... 5 June 1834Thursday. 5th.Very unexpectedly we perceived the sky overcast this morning and it rained very heavily all day so that nobody went to town. I passed my time quietly ... 6 June 1834Friday. 6th.Morning cloudy but it afterwards cleared a little. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. Nothing of material importance. Read some of Jefferson, conversed... 7 June 1834Saturday. 7th.Pleasant day. I rode to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Nothing of any consequence transpired. I was at the office sometime. Mr. Spear called in from ... 8 June 1834Sunday. 8th.A fine day and in character with the season which has been a rarity heretofore. I passed my morning, partly in reading German and partly in Hume’s Dis... 9 June 1834Monday. 9th.A very warm day indeed. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. Passed my time at the Office reading Jefferson and also in the performance of several Commis... 10 June 1834Tuesday. 10th.Warm day but not like yesterday. We are in general subject here to a rapid alternation from cold to hot without much of the middling weather which is ... 11 June 1834Wednesday. 11th.Fine day. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town and passed my time very quietly at the Office making up my Accounts which have fallen backward somewhat and... 12 June 1834Thursday. 12th.Day cool and windy. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Office. Nothing of any consequence. Read Jefferson’s Letters. Went to my House where I f... 13 June 1834Friday. 13th.The day was cloudy and as I had nothing to do, I concluded to remain at home. Divided my time, so that I read German, wrote and began upon the life of... 14 June 1834Saturday. 14th.Morning pleasant although uncommonly cool still. I went to town accompanied by Frank Frothingham who returns home from his vacation. Mr. Brooks intend... 15 June 1834Sunday. 15th.Morning clear but cool. I read German, finishing the extracts from Goethe in the reader and several of Hume’s Dialogues upon Natural Religion. There i... 16 June 1834Monday. 16th.Heavy rain this morning so that I made up my mind very quietly to remaining at home. Read German, Muller, History of the Appenzel War which is interes... 17 June 1834Tuesday. 17th.Rode to town, accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Found myself in pretty active request, first by the necessity of attending to my purchase of wine, then to go... 18 June 1834Wednesday. 18th.Very heavy rain again today. I did not stir out of the House. Read Muller and almost finished the lively Account of the Appenzel Insurrection. Then Hu... 19 June 1834Thursday. 19th.The day was cloudy with passing showers. I went to town in my own way. Time somewhat taken up with commissions after which I sat down and made up the ... 20 June 1834Friday. 20th.Morning pleasant. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks who took me a long Journey round to deliver him in Chestnut Street. We did not reach it aft... 21 June 1834Saturday. 21st.I did not go to town today. But Mr. Brooks and P. C. Jr. and my wife did go. My occupation was principally German, an extract from Schiller’s Thirty y... 22 June 1834Sunday. 22d.Pleasant day. I read more of Schiller which was interesting and gave me some encouragement for my German. This with a walk in the garden with the chil... 23 June 1834Monday. 23d.Warm morning. Instead of going to town, I decided upon going to Quincy. I rode round the Country through Cambridge and Brooklyne and felt the fatigue ... 24 June 1834Tuesday. 24th.Morning warm but misty after which it cleared away. I went into town with Mr. Brooks. Time at the Office where I wrote my arrears of Journal which are... 25 June 1834Wednesday. 25th.I remained very quietly fixed at home today. Passed my morning which went off very rapidly in reading Schiller. I accomplished ten pages being the who... 26 June 1834Thursday. 26th.Weather warm but pleasant. There was a thunder shower in the afternoon. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Occupied at my Office in writing up ... 27 June 1834Friday. 27th.A cool but very pleasant day with the wind from the Northwest. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. Office, thence to see Mr. Foster about this draught o... 28 June 1834Saturday. 28th.Pleasant morning but it clouded up afterwards. I went to the Office after carrying Mr. Brooks with me into town. My time much cut up. Attended a sale ... 29 June 1834Sunday. 29th.Cloudy with a fine rain. I continue my shower baths in the morning begun in warm weather but now rather a trial. Read German. Schiller. He is on the w... 30 June 1834Monday. 30th.Cold, cloudy morning. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town and passed my whole morning very busily in Accounts. Drew up my Quarterly Statement for my fath... July 1834 1 July 1834Tuesday. July 1.A cloudy, cool morning. We have as yet had no summer. I went to town alone. And was very much occupied nearly all my time in Accounts. My first day of... 2 July 1834Wednesday. 2d.Morning rain so that I omitted my shower bath. Not however without regret as it was sultry. It cleared away so that I went to town. My time for the mo... 3 July 1834Thursday. 3d.Morning cloudy with a little drizzle. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town and went to the Office where I passed much of my morning. Busy in Accounts alth... 4 July 1834Friday. 4th.This being the great Anniversary of the Nation I should have preferred to have remained quietly at Medford, but as Mr. Brooks and my Wife proposed to ... 5 July 1834Saturday. 5th.Morning pleasant but warm. I went to the Office and from thence after doing some business with William Spear who came in from Quincy I went upon sever... 6 July 1834Sunday. 6th.Morning at home. The weather exceedingly warm. I spent much time in reading the Ghost Seer, quite an interesting pursuit. I think in this way I shall ... 7 July 1834Monday. 7th.Cloudy but very warm with a thunder shower in the middle of the day which did not cool the air much. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks full of ... 8 July 1834Tuesday. 8th.This is the first case of decided and extreme summer hear. I should not have gone to town with Mr. Brooks had I not supposed it probable that some of ... 9 July 1834Wednesday. 9th.The perfect calm which prevailed until eleven o’clock seemed to me the most forcible example of the torrid zone I had ever perceived. I concluded not ... 10 July 1834Thursday. 10th.Very warm day although not quite so oppressive as it had been from the presence of some light, flying clouds which settled into a thunder storm, in th... 11 July 1834Friday. 11th.Morning cloudy and much more cool. I went to town with the idea of going to Quincy to meet my father whom I expected to see there, but upon arriving I... 12 July 1834Saturday. 12th.A cool day. I went to town with Mr. Brooks. At Office, where I was engaged with one or two Tenants, after which having received a Notification that I ... 13 July 1834Sunday. 13th.A cool, cloudy day. I read German in the morning and attended divine service where I heard Mr. Furness of Philadelphia. 1 Corinthians 15. 32. “What ad... 14 July 1834Monday. 14th.Misty and damp but it cleared away very warm by evening. I went to town with Mr. Brooks and kept myself vastly quiet at my Office. This was owing to a... 15 July 1834Tuesday. 15th.Morning pleasant but very warm. I went to town alone, and finding that my father had really arrived at Quincy on Sunday night, after a hurried day I s... 16 July 1834Wednesday. 16th.A very warm day with light showers morning and evening. I was engaged to go to town, but as I did not know where to dine, and had some business in Qui... 17 July 1834Thursday. 17th.Morning to town with Mr. Brooks. The day was as warm as any we have had and it seemed to me as if I had not been so much called upon to be out for the... 18 July 1834Friday. 18th.A change in the Weather and much cooler. I went to town with my father in the Carriage. Time much occupied with commissions of various sorts. Called u... 19 July 1834Saturday. 19th.Morning cool and pleasant. I went to town with Mr. Brooks. Office where I passed my time very quietly. Nothing of any particular importance. I was en... 20 July 1834Sunday. 20th.Another very cool but clear day. So sudden are the changes of our atmosphere that it was now uncomfortable to be out of woollen. I read some of Madame... 21 July 1834Monday. 21st.I started for town alone this morning. Passed my time at the Office very quietly with the exception of a visit to the Athenaeum. One or two Tenants ca... 22 July 1834Tuesday. 22d.I read a little of Goethe’s Werter this morning before starting for town. My father’s lonely situation gives me much pain as he seems to take it patie... 23 July 1834Wednesday. 23d.The weather is now very steadily cool and pleasant with cloudless days. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town and was occupied much of my morning in busine... 24 July 1834Thursday. 24th.The day being cool and pleasant I thought I would stay at home. Accordingly I spent the morning down in the Grove which was cool and quiet. My occupat... 25 July 1834Friday. 25th.It was quite warm again today. I went to town. Found a letter from my father for me inclosing two to be copied. One of these to my brother is a little... 26 July 1834Saturday. 26th.An excessively hot day. After despatching my business, I returned to town. These visits are short but necessary to keep up my father’s spirits which s... 27 July 1834Sunday. 27th.Another hot day. I passed the morning reading Puckler Muskau whose Style amuses me very much. His modes of thinking are curious, but he does think. No... 28 July 1834Monday. 28th.The morning was cool and clouds came up from the Eastward which soon produced a strong contrast to the yesterdays temperature. I went to town alone, a... 29 July 1834Tuesday. 29th.Another cool morning. I remained here doubtful about returning in the afternoon when a heavy thunder shower came up and settled the question. Our day ... 30 July 1834Wednesday. 30th.Fine day. I arose and immediately after breakfast returned to Boston. Passed my morning very quietly at the Office writing and making up Accounts. The... 31 July 1834Thursday. 31st.I came into town with Mr. Brooks and found my father at the Office when I got there. He had made such arrangements as necessitated my going to Quincy ... August 1834 1 August 1834Friday. August 1st.I returned to town this morning and found Wilson with the Carriage there. He had come in before I left town but gone to another Stable so that he miss... 2 August 1834Saturday. 2d.Pleasant morning. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Received a letter from my father stating that my Mother had not yet arrived so that I rema... 3 August 1834Sunday. 3d.Morning hazy with a warm day. I amused myself reading German for some time. I find I make progress in the particular book which I read without however... 4 August 1834Monday. 4th.Morning pleasant. I went to town alone. At the Office where I was occupied in my usual manner. Finished Professor Dew’s Pamphlet upon Slavery which ha... 5 August 1834Tuesday. 5th.A warm morning. I remained at Quincy throughout the day and passed it in uncommon indolence. Much of it was taken up in conversation with my Mother an... 6 August 1834Wednesday. 6th.A succession of clear, warm days. I went to town after a not very early breakfast. Office where I was engaged in copying for my father several letters... 7 August 1834Thursday. 7th.A very warm day. Perhaps as oppressive as any which we have had. I went to town with Mr. Brooks and after I got there regretted very much my going. I ... 8 August 1834Friday. 8th.The weather changed from warm to cool in the course of the night. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. My time was pretty much taken up in attend... 9 August 1834Saturday. 9th.Cool morning. I went to town in my own way, Mr. Brooks being about to dine abroad to day. Went to the House to obtain the Keys and some books. Also on... 10 August 1834Sunday. 10th.Pleasant morning. I went to Meeting all day and during the remainder of it occupied myself with German. Mr. Burnap of Baltimore preached. Matthew 5. ... 11 August 1834Monday. 11th.Morning warm after the east wind was over. There were clouds which threatened rain but they passed off. I went to town alone. Office with little or no... 12 August 1834Tuesday. 12th.The weather was so warm I concluded to postpone my departure until Afternoon. My morning was not very profitably spent. Conversation and a little Ger... 13 August 1834Wednesday. 13th.My child is this day three years old. May God bless her and preserve her. I returned to town after breakfast. The Community seemed to be in great agit... 14 August 1834Thursday. 14th.I went to Boston this morning in my own way, and passed by the blackened walls which are all that remain of the Convent. The feeling that came over me... 15 August 1834Friday. 15th.I remained at home today and passed much of my time in making a rough draught of what I might have to say in case I should attend the Antimasonic Conv... 16 August 1834Saturday. 16th.Morning cloudy but it afterwards grew warm. I went to town and was occupied for considerable time in business and commissions. We hear today that seve... 17 August 1834Sunday. 17th.Pleasant day. I read a good deal of German. La Fontaine’s style is so easy and his stories are so interesting that I make great progress. Attended div... 18 August 1834Monday. 18th.I am this day twenty seven years old. My youth may now be said to be complete. I have observed that this has frequently been the particular age at whi... 19 August 1834Tuesday. 19th.I went into town this morning accompanied by Walter Hellen. My time was very much taken up in running around with him to show him the town. This with ... 20 August 1834Wednesday. 20th.The rain fell heavily almost all day with a cold north east wind. I remained quietly at home, and thinking I could employ my time to a useful purpose,... 21 August 1834Thursday. 21st.A North Easterly mist still so that I thought I would remain at home. My father nevertheless went in the Stage to an Overseers Meeting of Harvard Univ... 22 August 1834Friday. 22d.Morning warm. I went to town. Morning consumed in making up the Arrears of my Diary and in arranging my Accounts. My frequent absences from town make ... 23 August 1834Saturday. 23rd.My father wanted a long report of his upon the affairs of Harvard University copied today so that I was obliged to sit down early and work almost with... 24 August 1834Sunday. 24th.Morning warm but we had a thunder storm in the evening. I read German in order to keep up my little idea of it which a few days may have weakened. Att... 25 August 1834Monday. 25th.My father accompanied me to town this morning being engaged with the business of the College. I went to the Office and engaged as usual in my various ... 26 August 1834Tuesday. 26th.Fine day. My time was consumed in reading German, until my Mother was ready to go to Boston where I accompanied her, in the Carriage. I had not much l... 27 August 1834Wednesday. 27th.Having agreed to go with Walter to Commencement today we arose and started betimes. I thought he would like to see a little of the Country so I took h... 28 August 1834Thursday. 28th.I remained at home all day—My father going to Cambridge to the exercises of the ΦBK. My day was not very usefully spent. Arranged and put away the Man... 29 August 1834Friday. 29th.Arose early and set off with Walter Hellen for Boston so as to be in time for the boat which goes to Nahant. As this is one of our greatest curiositie... 30 August 1834Saturday. 30th.This was the day fixed for the termination of our visit at Quincy and return to Medford. I started as usual shortly after breakfast. Engaged most of t... 31 August 1834Sunday. 31st.I resumed my shower baths this morning although the passage of the season makes it much more trying to take than when I left. Read German in continuat... September 1834 1 September 1834Monday. September 1st.The morning looked dark and threatening. Nevertheless I went to town. My time partly taken up in writing arrears of Diary, partly in a visit to the At... 2 September 1834Tuesday. 2d.It rained in the morning and the weather looked threatening all day. I sat quietly at home all the time it was doubtful and read German, Goethe’s Wert... 3 September 1834Wednesday. 3d.A lovely morning after the rain. I went to town and upon arriving received an invitation to dine at Mr. Everett’s which I accepted. My time passed pre... 4 September 1834Thursday. 4th.A fine day but exceedingly warm. I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town. My first business was to reflect calmly upon the subject alluded to yesterday and t... 5 September 1834Friday. 5th.A warm hot cloudy day with a southerly wind and rain. I went to town in the Carriage with Mr. Brooks and Sidney and Wife. Time passed very quietly at ... 6 September 1834Saturday. 6th.This being the day fixed for the delivery of the Eulogy of La Fayette by Mr. Everett, Mr. Brooks, my Wife and I went to town in the Carriage. The day ... 7 September 1834Sunday. 7th.The day was cloudy with so much rain that in the afternoon Mr. Brooks did not attend Church. We went in the morning and heard from Mr. Stetson a Sermo... 8 September 1834Monday. 8th.I went to town this morning alone. Nothing material. Busy all the morning in making up arrears which continue to press upon me. Also in accounts. Went... 9 September 1834Tuesday. 9th.This being a sultry morning and my child suffering severely from an attack of Cholera Morbus and subsequent fever, I arose early and took the bath to ... 10 September 1834Wednesday. 10th.Cool and clear. A fine day. The Child had a very uneasy night but seemed on the whole to be better this morning. Although my anxiety is by no means qu... 11 September 1834Thursday. 11th.A cold morning but fine weather. My Mother suffered much from a restless night and coughing and seemed not so well this morning. I returned to town af... 12 September 1834Friday. 12th.I accompanied Mr. Brooks to town this morning. Passed my time very busily at the Office in writing until T. B. Adams came in. His object appeared to b... 13 September 1834Saturday. 13th.Cool morning with probably a slight frost. I persevere in taking the shower bath although it is now pretty trying. Went to Boston alone as Mr. Brooks ... 14 September 1834Sunday. 14th.Fine day. I passed the morning in reading German. Attended divine service and heard a young man Mr. Briggs just commencing his profession. In the morn... 15 September 1834Monday. 15th.Fine day. The air milder than it has been. I went to Boston alone. My time partly wasted, partly taken up in Accounts and partly in investigations at ... 16 September 1834Tuesday. 16th.My Mother was still very ill and I recommended the sending for Dr. Holbrook as consulting physician with Dr. Woodward which was accordingly agreed to ... 17 September 1834Wednesday. 17th.Fine morning. Instead of going to town I went with my Wife and Walter to Mount Auburn in Cambridge to show it to the latter. We rambled round while Mr... 18 September 1834Thursday. 18th.Cloudy and slight showers of rain. I went to town accompanied by Walter. But I had little leisure to attend to any thing. I first went to an Auction R... 19 September 1834Friday. 19th.I remained at Quincy until four or five o’clock. My time was not passed very usefully and yet agreeably. There is a great deal of pleasure to be deriv... 20 September 1834Saturday. 20th.Morning to town with my Wife and Mr. Brooks in the Carriage. My first business was to call upon Miss Oliver the Tenant in Hancock Street and see the h... 21 September 1834Sunday. 21st.Our weather for several days past has been charming, uniting the ingredients of a pleasant temperature. Morning reading German. These Novels of Lafont... 22 September 1834Monday. 22d.Fine day. I went this morning to town. My boy is this day one year old. I always think of the passage of time as it respects the children with gratitu... 23 September 1834Tuesday. 23d.I left Quincy this morning finding my Mother much the same. In Boston engaged constantly in something or other without making profitable progress in a... 24 September 1834Wednesday. 24th.Louisa looked so poorly this morning that I recommended to her Mother to act decisively with her. I never think it worth while to nurse a diseased sta... 25 September 1834Thursday. 25th.A pleasant day. I continue my shower baths in the morning and as yet do not find them unpleasant. My child was better this morning but seems yet to be... 26 September 1834Friday. 26th.It is very seldom now that I do not go to Boston, and it is exceedingly seldom that I find I improve my time in doing so. I had made an appointment th... 27 September 1834Saturday. 27th.Fine day although we had a few clouds and slight showers. I went to town with Mr. Brooks, found at my Office my father who told me my Mother was bette... 28 September 1834Sunday. 28th.I arose this morning feeling extremely unwell, and omitted my usual bath. By starvation however I recovered the tone of my stomach and felt as well as... 29 September 1834Monday. 29th.A cool morning but a beautifully clear one. We were again in some anxiety respecting our child who droops in an inexplicable manner. I went to town in... 30 September 1834Tuesday. 30th.A cold morning. I remained at Quincy today. Most of my time spent with my Mother who was better and sat up some hours in conversation. I also read thr... October 1834 1 October 1834Wednesday. Octr. 1.I did not mention Walter Hellen’s leaving us yesterday morning as he only started for Boston. Today he goes home. I have been pleased with his unassum... 2 October 1834Thursday. 2d.Cloudy and with a high Southerly wind but exceedingly warm. I went into town with Mr. Brooks. Time consumed in Office, business—Rents, Money, Athenaeu... 3 October 1834Friday. 3d.A beautiful day. I went to town accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Office where I was engaged with business and Accounts my whole time. Mr. Walsh came in abou... 4 October 1834Saturday. 4th.Morning cloudy with a Southerly wind which brought a storm of rain before night. I went to town with Mr. Brooks and was busy at my office much of the ... 5 October 1834Sunday. 5th.The weather changed to cold with a high North westerly wind. I passed the morning in reading German and laughing over the story, then attended Divine ... 6 October 1834Monday. 6th.This was one of the most beautiful days I ever remember in our climate. The air was pure and the sky so clear that the outlines of all the distant hil... 7 October 1834Tuesday. 7th.A pleasant morning although it clouded in the course of the day. I returned to town this morning and was engaged a considerable part of my time collec... 8 October 1834Wednesday. 8th.Another fine day although it clouded up before evening. I went with Mr. Brooks into town, and was busy for some time in Accounts, and collecting my se... 9 October 1834Thursday. 9th.As Mr. Brooks was to dine out, we had fixed upon this day for my Wife to ride with me to see my Mother at Quincy. The morning looked cloudy with a war... 10 October 1834Friday. 10th.Morning clear with a high wind form the North West. I went to town accompanying Mr. Brooks. Time wasted, excepting a little in business. Mr. Brooks ha... 11 October 1834Saturday. 11th.A cold clear morning. I took a shower bath but it is so cold that I believe after this I shall give it up. With but one intermission since I have begu... 12 October 1834Sunday. 12th.Mild autumn day. I passed my morning reading German. Attended divine service and heard Mr. Stetson preach. Genesis 18. 26. “And the Lord said, if I fi... 13 October 1834Monday. 13th.Mild morning, but it clouded up to rain in the latter part of the day. I went into Boston with Mr. Brooks. Morning passed rather indolently. I was obl... 14 October 1834Tuesday. 14th.The morning was cold, cloudy and with a little snow, but as the wind promised a clear day I went to town. Time taken up at Office and in Commissions f... 15 October 1834Wednesday. 15th.I arose very early this morning and went down to fish for smelts. The air was sharp and I thought would probably be very favorable but I hardly had a ... 16 October 1834Thursday. 16th.As my Wife was going to town in the Carriage, Mr. Brooks and I accompanied her. Morning engaged in several Commissions. Went to the House and from the... 17 October 1834Friday. 17th.Mild but cloudy. I felt quite unwell this morning but it afterwards passed off. Rode into town accompanied by Mr. Brooks, by way of Cambridge, to inqu... 18 October 1834Saturday. 18th.A very beautiful day such as we rarely have so late in the Season as this. I went to Boston with Mr. Brooks. My morning rather wasted. Went to the Ath... 19 October 1834Sunday. 19th.I spent most of this day in the company of either my father or mother. The former was making preparations to go off to Washington tomorrow morning and... 20 October 1834Monday. 20th.I left Medford this morning in a very heavy rain which did not appear encouraging to my father’s progress, but it soon stopped and before evening beca... 21 October 1834Tuesday. 21st.A beautiful morning with a fine North west breeze. I think my father must have had a favorable passage. I went to town. My Mother was quiet although s... 22 October 1834Wednesday. 22d.A southerly wind blew up a great quantity of clouds but it did not rain. I went to the Office and was engaged there in overlooking my papers and makin... 23 October 1834Thursday. 23rd.I left Medford this morning for the purpose of taking up my residence generally at Quincy until the time should come for me to go with my Mother if sh... 24 October 1834Friday. 24th.A fine cold morning. I went to town and to the Office, from thence to the House where I wished to procure some things. This with my occupation at the ... 25 October 1834Saturday. 25th.A fine day but quite cold. I went into town in the morning and was busy most of my time in my affairs. I got the Mason to be busy about the grates in ... 26 October 1834Sunday. 26.I cannot go through a detailed Account of this day. Stormy as it was, the confusion of the elements was little to me compared to the trouble of the mi... 27 October 1834Monday. 27th.The Storm howled through the night, but the morning was fair and bright and Autumnlike. After a good deal of conversation with my Mother in which she ... 28 October 1834Tuesday. 28th.I left Medford this morning in the Carriage with my Wife and Mr. Brooks. My morning was too much taken up in running about and trifles. Mr. Walsh came... 29 October 1834Wednesday. 29th.I went to town with the design of doing a great deal. But I was so much deranged by the process of moving from my old Office to my new one that I coul... 30 October 1834Thursday. 30th.Nothing but the power of habit keeps up my fancy for Journalizing. For I have now little worth recording. Even my reading is disappearing and I am bec... 31 October 1834Friday. 31st.I had intended going over with my Wife and children to Quincy this morning, but after studying out the weather I thought the probabilities were agains...
