Diary of Charles Francis Adams Volume 8, March 1838 – February 1840 Front Matter Title Page Copyright Page Contents Descriptive List of Illustrations Documents 1838 March 1838 1 March 1838Thursday March 1st.Morning cloudy with every appearance of preparation for a storm but it cleared afterwards. I suffered from a head ach which disabled me from doing muc... 2 March 1838Friday. 2d.A beautiful morning with some little admonition of the return of a more genial season. My Wife still continues much in the same condition, but mending... 3 March 1838Saturday. 3d.My Wife was again not so well this morning having had a bad night. She seems rather disposed to magnify her own evils, and that almost without any exe... 4 March 1838Sunday. 4th.Morning very fine. My Wife was more quiet and better today. I am in hopes she will be making progress now. Worked on my coins until time for divine se... 5 March 1838Monday. 5th.Fine day. Abby had a better night and is now I hope gaining. I went to the Office but did little or nothing. My constant and unavailing regret is for ... 6 March 1838Tuesday. 6th.A very lovely day. Office. My Wife appears really a little better today. Nothing new. I was engaged in accounts. Home, Sophocles with which I make som... 7 March 1838Wednesday. 7th.Day cloudy with rain and snow. I went to the Office where I was taken up with accounts and methodizing my papers which need it excessively. I have occ... 8 March 1838Thursday 8th.Clouds and fog and snow. Abby continues better and is I hope now really on the mending hand. Office where I turned my attention to the pamphlets which... 9 March 1838Friday. 9th.Morning mild and cloudy. I went to the Office and my time was taken up in Accounts and in arranging my pamphlets. Not any thing new. Read a little of ... 10 March 1838Saturday 10th.Morning clear but it clouded, and the mild weather has flooded the streets. Office where I am endeavoring to reform my habits about papers. I destroy ... 11 March 1838Sunday. 11th.Fine clear day. Morning passed upon coins excepting a portion spent with my Wife who appears now gradually on the recovery. Attended divine Service an... 12 March 1838Monday. 12th.Fine day. Our weather now begins to have a touch of spring, and the snow is disappearing pretty rapidly. I went to the Office. Nothing very new. Recei... 13 March 1838Tuesday. 13th.A very fine morning, but the weather soon came round to the Eastward wind feeling which is the sign of our spring. I went to the Office. Received toda... 14 March 1838Wednesday. 14th.Our weather now is remarkably pleasant. Clear and cool but not too cold. My Wife now appears to be gaining strength pretty rapidly, and will I hope fe... 15 March 1838Thursday 15th.Fine mild day. I went to the Office as usual and was occupied in Accounts &c. Received letters from Washington which made necessary the writing of som... 16 March 1838Friday. 16th.Fine weather. Nothing new at Washington. Mr. Webster has been making a speech which his puffers pronounce the very most superhuman thing possible. Suc... 17 March 1838Saturday 17th.Fine day although the easterly wind and gathering clouds portend a storm. I went to the Office where all my disposable time was taken up by Mr. Walsh ... 18 March 1838Sunday. 18th.A high Easterly gale all night followed by a pretty heavy fall of snow today. My Wife now gains steadily and the baby improves so that I feel grateful... 19 March 1838Monday 19th.The morning cloudy and moist but it cleared and the streets very soon presented great difficulties in walking. I went to the Office where I spent my t... 20 March 1838Tuesday. 20th.Market and so forth which makes a late morning. I felt today anxious about my little girl who had scratched her hand with a nail and appeared otherwis... 21 March 1838Wednesday 21st.Morning cloudy with flakes of snow. I went to the Office where I read Sismondi more attentively than usual. His chapter upon Banking is quite instruct... 22 March 1838Thursday. 22d.Cloudy, dull weather. I went to the Office and was occupied there for some time. Received letters from T. B. Johnson who is at New York just arrived f... 23 March 1838Friday 23d.My uneasiness about Louisa much relieved although she still seemed poorly. My Wife better. I went to the Office and occupied myself with drawing my Ac... 24 March 1838Saturday 24th.This was one of my dies non. I woke with a slight feeling of tightness rather than pain which developed itself through all the stages of head ach unti... 25 March 1838Sunday 25th.Fine day. I passed an hour upon the coins which go on slowly, then to attend divine Service. Heard Dr. Frothingham who preached from 1. Corinthians 15... 26 March 1838Monday 26th.Morning fine. I went to the Office. Letters from Washington. One from my father apparently historical giving an account of the late duel. This is a se... 27 March 1838Tuesday 27th.Morning clear but it afterwards was cloudy with a very raw wind from the Eastward. I went to market and from thence to the Office. Call in at a house ... 28 March 1838Wednesday 28th.A cloudy, very raw day. I was detained a long while at home by S. Conant the Tenant of the Weston Farm with whom I had some sort of account to settle ... 29 March 1838Thursday 29th.Morning snow with a cold Easterly wind. Office. The news from Washington is of the passage of the amended Treasury bill by a majority of two in the Se... 30 March 1838Friday. 30th.Morning cloudy but it cleared pleasantly, though the melting snow made the walking bad. I went to the Office where I drew up an Account between Mr. Jo... 31 March 1838Saturday 31st.A fine clear day. I went to the Office where I was engaged in looking through Mr. Woodbury’s Pamphlet about the Banks, a pretty useful though very unm... April 1838 1 April 1838Sunday. April 1st.A clear morning with a cold Northwest wind blowing pretty hard. My Wife went out notwithstanding to ride and I accompanied her, before service. Attend... 2 April 1838Monday 2d.Morning clear but quite cold. I went to the Office and became very soon engaged in my usual Quarterly accounts, which would have kept me had not J. Q.... 3 April 1838Tuesday. 3d.Our weather begins to grow favourable. Today was pleasant enough. I went to the Office and was occupied very much in bringing up my Accounts which are... 4 April 1838Wednesday 4th.Fine day. I went to Market and from thence to Quincy where I had agreed to meet several workmen on matters connected with my house. Found it looking f... 5 April 1838Thursday. 5th.A very fine day. The one fixed upon according to custom for the observation of a general fast but which has of late years been observed as a kind of q... 6 April 1838Friday 6th.A very lovely day, such as we have here and there in the course of our Spring to relish more from its contrast with the others. I went to the Office f... 7 April 1838Saturday 7th.A clear day though a change of wind had taken off the very genial feeling which marked the air of yesterday. I was much occupied at the Office in atte... 8 April 1838Sunday 8th.A raw cold East wind, but clear until towards evening. I worked upon the coins pretty steadily until the time for divine service when I attended and h... 9 April 1838Monday. 9th.A wet morning but it cleared afterwards. I was nevertheless discouraged from going to Quincy and therefore turned my attention to the arrangement of a... 10 April 1838Tuesday 10th.Wet but it cleared. Went to Quincy where it looked full cheerless. The workmen were however all very busy in their occupations and I felt a little ray... 11 April 1838Wednesday 11th.Morning rainy and continued so all day. I went out to make purchases for Quincy and was detained in this until late so that I had very little time aft... 12 April 1838Thursday 12th.Morning clear but cold with Easterly wind. I was occupied much of my time in little details of various kinds which are consuming without being profita... 13 April 1838Friday 13th.Morning mild and pleasant but it gradually clouded. I went to the Office and was busied as usual in and out in Accounts and the various commissions pr... 14 April 1838Saturday 14th.A cold day with snow and rain. Disappointed of my visit to Quincy to regulate matters there. To the Office where I was occupied with many visitors. Fu... 15 April 1838Sunday 15th.Morning clear but cold with a sharp frost such as we do not often have so late. I spent an hour in coins and then attended divine service. Heard Dr. F... 16 April 1838Monday 16th.Morning very cold for the season of the year. I felt obliged to go to Quincy but it was one of those cold blustering days when one would by far prefer... 17 April 1838Tuesday. 17th.Mr. Buckingham has not only done what I proposed but he being himself sick, my letter occupies the editorial department. Here is an answer to my quest... 18 April 1838Wednesday 18th.The second of my letters appeared today and reads so well that I think it will not fail of an effect. I have got beyond the time for being smothered, ... 19 April 1838Thursday 19th.My third letter was printed today, that which I think the best. They evidently make some sensation as there was besides a feeble attempt to array a qu... 20 April 1838Friday. 20th.My fourth and last letter came out today. It is not quite so well written as the rest and is also defaced by misprints, but on the whole terminates th... 21 April 1838Saturday 21st.This morning appears a long communication from Mr. Buckingham endeavouring to weaken the impression made by my articles, but bearing the mark of menta... 22 April 1838Sunday. 22d.A lovely day. I attended divine service all day and my wife in the morning for the first time for many months for the which God be praised. Dr. Frothi... 23 April 1838Monday 23d.Morning clear but cold. I went to Quincy where I found things under way. My orders have been nearly all executed and now I know of nothing in this dir... 24 April 1838Tuesday 24th.Morning passed in attention to affairs at the Office. Brought up my Accounts, arranged Mr. Johnson’s Affairs, converted my money and so forth. It is o... 25 April 1838Wednesday 25th.Day fine. Morning passed in final arrangements. Kirk in town to take with him my horse. Ketchum, the owner of another which matches him came up and I ... 26 April 1838Thursday 26th.We had a quiet trip and found ourselves at day break fast nearing New York. The day was drizzly. And we rode up to the Astor House in the rain, to bre... 27 April 1838Friday. 27th.Up early this morning and off to Philadelphia in the boat. Travelling between the great cities is now such a matter of fact affair that it is needless... 28 April 1838Saturday 28th.The weather is certainly very superior to our’s, being free from the admixture of chilly East winds. We started a little before 7 in the Steamer for W... 29 April 1838Sunday. 29th.Day fine. After breakfast called upon T. K. Davis and walked with him to the Catholic College where he wanted to see a youth, the son of Mrs. Henry, a... 30 April 1838Monday. 30th.Colder. I left Baltimore at nine, and my Wife who is to remain two days longer. I left it rather willingly because I thought I saw both upon the spiri... May 1838 1 May 1838Tuesday. May 1.Warm. Davis came down according to agreement after breakfast and we went in the carriage with my father to the Capitol. But the debate being rather du... 2 May 1838Wednesday. 2d.The morning was showery but mild. I went out in the carriage with my father, who on his way to the Capitol was kind enough to stop at the President’s ... 3 May 1838Thursday. 3d.Pleasant day. I rode early with my father to the Capitol and thence down to seventh Street where I stopped to call at Mrs. Latimer’s for Davis. Found ... 4 May 1838Friday. 4th.Rainy day. I passed a large part of last evening as I forgot to state at the Concert of Madame Caradori Allan. The music was ill selected and pleased ... 5 May 1838Saturday 5th.Weather doubtful, more than half the time showery. T. K. Davis called in the morning and sat talking until noon. We then accompanied my father to see ... 6 May 1838Sunday 6th.The weather is constantly showery and unpleasant. I went out early this morning to call upon T. K. Davis at Mrs. Latimer’s. Found him sitting with the... 7 May 1838Monday. 7th.A continuation of our weather. I walked up to the Capitol after seeing Mr. Pope at home who called to visit my Wife. The debate upon the duel still co... 8 May 1838Tuesday. 8th.Weather cold as usual. I was at home all the morning, particularly as my father returned from the House with the intelligence of the death of a member... 9 May 1838Wednesday. 9th.Continued cold and raw weather. T. K. Davis came in and sat for an hour talking of his various conferences with individuals. I am satisfied that the w... 10 May 1838Thursday 10th.Cool morning. Mr. Frye came in and asked me to accompany him to see the Mill property of my father, so we walked there. A pretty spot situated upon a ... 11 May 1838Friday. 11th.A cold but fine, clear day. Occupied in the morning in writing and then accompanied the ladies to the Capitol, where they were going to look at the tw... 12 May 1838Saturday 12th.A lovely day. I walked up early to the Capitol, calling on my way at Mrs. Latimer’s, to see Baron de Roenne, who had left a card for me some time ago.... 13 May 1838Sunday. 13th.My father did not get up from the House until nearly two o’clock this morning and yet the Administration party did not succeed in carrying their bill.... 14 May 1838Monday. 14th.A fine day but very warm. T. K. Davis called and sat an hour, after which I walked with him to the Capitol. He gave me an account of his visit to Mr. ... 15 May 1838Tuesday 15th.The weather is waxing warmer. I went out early this morning and made a call upon Dr. Thomas returning a visit from him, and also one from A. H. Everet... 16 May 1838Wednesday 16th.The heat of the Theatre last night made my head ach and I got up with it which made a bad prospect for me for the day. I of course tried to go out to ... 17 May 1838Thursday 17th.I felt so much fatigued that I almost determined upon remaining at home all day, but although warm the day was cloudy with drops of rain so as to make... 18 May 1838Friday 18th.We had showers in the morning which moderated the heat a little. Mr. Frye called after breakfast and I gave him the papers of Lt. Casey sent to settle... 19 May 1838Saturday. 19th.A very fine day. I spent it very quietly at home with the exception of a long walk. Read more of the Emancipation Report and of the Bank pamphlet of M... 20 May 1838Sunday. 20th.A fine day. Morning passed in writing Diary. Then to Church at St. John’s. Service performed by Mr. Hawley and Sermon by a Mr. Slaughter from Virginia... 21 May 1838Monday 21st.Warm, cloudy morning. After writing my Diary, I went up to the House of Representatives, calling on my way at Judge Cranch’s. There being nothing of i... 22 May 1838Tuesday 22d.A very hot, windy morning. I felt so much fatigued as to be very unwilling to undertake any long walk in the sun, so that I decided upon remaining in ... 23 May 1838Wednesday 23d.Very heavy rain with occasional gusts of wind throughout the day, which prevented my going out until evening. But as I thought it scarcely advisable t... 24 May 1838Thursday. 24th.Morning fine, but much cooler than it has been. After devoting some time to making up Diary, &ca. I accompanied the ladies to the Capitol. In the Hous... 25 May 1838Friday 25th.Morning cloudy with rain and severely cold for the advanced season. I remained at home working up my Diary as usual, until noon and then walked up to ... 26 May 1838Saturday 26th.Clear and cool. On the whole, a very fine day. After breakfast, I called to see Dr. Huntt who is now confined to his house. He is a mere skeleton, and... 27 May 1838Sunday 27th.The weather is very certainly far from favorable. Wind and cold and heat each in undue proportion. Attended divine service at St. John’s Church, where... 28 May 1838Monday 28th.The weather continues cold, but pleasant to walk about. I felt slightly unwell with symptoms of an impending head ach. Went with the ladies to make so... 29 May 1838Tuesday. 29th.Morning at home, the weather cool and showery. I finished the arrangements of our departure and packed up the trunks, somewhat to the regret of my Wif... 30 May 1838Wednesday 30th.The morning was clear and beautiful as we rose with the sun to prepare for our Journey. After a rapid breakfast we started from the house for the Rail... 31 May 1838Thursday 31st.I passed a very disturbed and heavy night but yet felt relieved from pain when called up at five to prepare to go in the boat for New York. The day wa... June 1838 1 June 1838Friday June 1st.I slept better than I usually do but yet was up shortly after the sun. Our course had been very favorable and we were off Point Judith with little to ... 2 June 1838Saturday. 2d.Morning cloudy but it cleared away warm. In resuming my usual routine of domestic occupations I feel a repugnance which I can myself hardly account fo... 3 June 1838Sunday 3d.Fine day. I was relieved of my headach and turned my attention to my catalogue of coins, but made not much progress before it was time to attend divin... 4 June 1838Monday 4th.Fine day, the usual attendant upon Artillery Election. I went down to the Office and was occupied very soon in Accounts. Mr. Kirk from Quincy came in ... 5 June 1838Tuesday 5th.Heavy rain in the morning, but it cleared before night. I went to the Office and was occupied in preparing the Accounts for the case of Mr. Johnson wh... 6 June 1838Wednesday 6th.Morning pleasant with flying clouds. I went to the Office and from thence walking to accomplish commissions. Met Kirk who had come in with one of the ... 7 June 1838Thursday 7th.Fine day. I was occupied much of my morning in various duties appertaining to the great object of removal to Quincy and in a few connected with the Te... 8 June 1838Friday 8th.Warm but pleasant day. My morning was passed in the usual way. A great variety of little things very tedious to me to execute but absolutely essential... 9 June 1838Saturday 9th.Fine day. After walking up to the house at the corner of Tremont Street to see that the painter was at his work, I returned to the usual duties at the... 10 June 1838Sunday 10th.This was a specimen of Summer heat; there not having been last year any day when the Thermometer rose higher. I spent some time in the work of making ... 11 June 1838Monday 11th.The heat very great. I went down to see how the work in Tremont Street went on, and from thence upon various commissions as usual most of which I fini... 12 June 1838Tuesday 12th.A continuation of this heat which is believed to be almost without example at this season of the year. I went to the Office and spent time in Accounts... 13 June 1838Wednesday 13th.Continuation of the heat, notwithstanding the thunder shower of last evening. I went to the Office after a laborious piece of work attending to the pa... 14 June 1838Thursday 14th.The light of the sun roused me at an unwonted hour and I could not help opening the window to see the scene. There is a charm, a freshness about the C... 15 June 1838Friday 15th.Another warm day. Shortly after breakfast I went to town and finding it difficult to make much exertion I concluded to remain at the Office and work o... 16 June 1838Saturday 16th.Morning warm. I remained at home quietly to enjoy the breeze at the house instead of rambling about the City. Walked down to the old house where I sel... 17 June 1838Sunday 17th.Fine day and warm with a thunder shower and light rain before sunset. I occupied myself in reading, a luxury which is rather new to me of late, until ... 18 June 1838Monday 18th.The morning brought with it a great change in the weather, and a brisk wind from the Eastward which made it very cold. I remained quietly at home read... 19 June 1838Tuesday 19th.A cold easterly wind but very clear. I. Hull breakfasted with me and accompanied Mrs. Adams and myself to Boston where we went to get sundry things. A... 20 June 1838Wednesday 20th.I went to town again this morning to execute the business which I had failed in getting through with yesterday. I was tolerably successful with it and... 21 June 1838Thursday 21st.Morning clear with a cold Easterly wind. I spent more time than I had intended running over the books in the library down at the house and selecting s... 22 June 1838Friday 22d.It was warm today until a thunder shower came and cooled the air. I went to town and was employed every minute of my time in something or other. Among... 23 June 1838Saturday 23d.Day pleasant but cool. I remained at home and enjoyed my occupation much. Having gone down to the house, I there procured the papers relating to my gr... 24 June 1838Sunday 24th.Warm, cloudy day. I passed my morning very quietly, occupied as usual in papers. I take great interest in this new business of the journals because I ... 25 June 1838Monday 25th.A sea fog from the Eastward covered every thing up and prevented my being able to go to town as I intended. The greater part of my morning was therefo... 26 June 1838Tuesday 26th.The day was remarkably fine and clear. I was up early and started to Boston in the carriage with the view of returning with Mrs. Frothingham who with ... 27 June 1838Wednesday 27th.I was up this morning to see the sun rise, a very beautiful sight from this spot as a sublime one indeed from any. The sky was clear but a vapour in t... 28 June 1838Thursday 28th.Cloudy with showers which continued with increasing force until sunset. I remained at home and occupied myself in copying a portion of the Fragmentary... 29 June 1838Friday 29th.Morning fine. I went to town. Engaged all day in Accounts at the Office so that I remained steadily occupied at the Office and in one duty. As usual a... 30 June 1838Saturday 30th.Cool day with an easterly breeze and fog clouds. I remained at home with the exception of a call at the old house to select more books, and was steadi... July 1838 1 July 1838Sunday. July 1st.A cloudy foggy day with much vapour rising from the sea. I passed much time in copying and finished one of the omitted paper books, then attended divi... 2 July 1838Monday 2d.Foggy morning with a heavy shower but it afterwards cleared and became very warm. I accompanied Mrs. Frothingham into town who terminated her visit wi... 3 July 1838Tuesday. 3d.Morning, a promise of a very hot day which it was. I accompanied the children to school, and from thence to Mrs. Adams’ for the purpose of settling t... 4 July 1838Wednesday 4th.A very hot day. This is a Summer such as we have not had for several seasons. I went down to the old Mansion for the sake of trying a horse offered fo... 5 July 1838Thursday 5th.Very warm indeed, perhaps the hottest day yet of this hot season. I rode to Boston however taking Kirk in with me for the sake of riding the horse bac... 6 July 1838Friday 6th.The air was perfectly clear this morning and cool enough to be very agreeable. I went to town accompanied by my man John, and drove in the horse I bro... 7 July 1838Saturday 7th.Morning clear and cool, growing warmer however as the day advanced. My Wife wished to go to Boston, so I accompanied her with the Nurse and baby. At t... 8 July 1838Sunday 8th.A very warm day having however at noon a Slight easterly breeze which checked the excessive heat. Occupied some time in copying which I still endeavou... 9 July 1838Monday 9th.I was up and dressed early this morning for the sake of going to Cambridge through Boston, in time for the commencement of the examination of the Juni... 10 July 1838Tuesday 10th.The morning threatened great heat but the rising of the east wind furnished us a great luxury and reduced the temperature. I went to town for the morn... 11 July 1838Wednesday 11th.There was a fine wind today, but the heat of the sun was excessive. I walked down with my children to their schools and although moving slowly and sto... 12 July 1838Thursday 12th.Up early enough to watch the sunrise, although it was in a cloud. The scene was notwithstanding very beautiful and the choral song of the birds made i... 13 July 1838Friday 13th.The morning was cloudy with an Easterly wind and rain. I felt unwilling to risk a day in Boston in a Storm so declined going; after my decision upon w... 14 July 1838Saturday 14th.Pleasant day. I went to town. Occupied as is usual with me in Accounts and in doing commissions. Office where I concluded to sum up my Annual settleme... 15 July 1838Sunday. 15th.A warm day and cloudy but cleared before sunset. I occupied myself in copying the remainder of the MS Journal which I wished to execute but did not qu... 16 July 1838Monday 16th.A pleasant day. I was occupied most of my morning in finishing the copy of the Fragmentary Journal and in correcting what was already copied. I have n... 17 July 1838Tuesday 17th.Weather fair. I went to town this morning and passed my time in the variety of avocations usual with me. These Accounts are very tedious things but it... 18 July 1838Wednesday 18th.A beautiful day. I remained at home and occupied myself pretty steadily with the exception of a walk with the children to school and down to the house... 19 July 1838Thursday 19th.Fine day. I remained at home all the morning with the exception of a walk down to the Mansion. I made some progress in my undertaking although I feel ... 20 July 1838Friday 20th.Fine day although the easterly wind made it rather cool, and we had a little rain towards night. I went into town accompanied by my man John who went ... 21 July 1838Saturday 21st.Morning clear and cool. I went to the Bank, taking the children with me to school. Also a visit to the House where I got so engaged with Mr. N. Curtis... 22 July 1838Sunday 22d.An agreeable, cool day. I devoted some time to writing on my project which I fear I shall not satisfactorily execute. Then attended divine service and... 23 July 1838Monday 23d.A very fine day. I passed it for the most part at home, engaged in writing upon my projected Review and in correcting MS. I believe I have in my mind ... 24 July 1838Tuesday 24th.Morning I went to town and was actively occupied in various commissions as usual until eleven o’clock, when I went to the Office. Calls from P. C. Bro... 25 July 1838Wednesday. 25th.The morning looked very threatening with rain but there was only a little and it cleared away. My time much taken up in my work a sketch of which I fi... 26 July 1838Thursday. 25th i.e. 26th.Quite a thunder shower during the night but it was beautifully clear this morning. I did not effect much. Strolled down to the other house and there g... 27 July 1838Friday. 27th.Morning clear and very pleasant. I went to town where I was occupied as usual. Accounts and various little commissions. Call from I. P. Davis about Fe... 28 July 1838Saturday 28th.A turn towards greater heat again today. I remained very quietly at home with the exception of a short visit at the house. Time devoted to reading, pa... 29 July 1838Sunday 29th.This was a morning of as great heat as any we have had, but we had a tremendous shower at noon which refreshed the herbage if it did not greatly cool ... 30 July 1838Monday 30th.A very warm day, but the heat was tempered with us by a high wind blowing with violence, which though warm was better than calm. I rose early and went... 31 July 1838Tuesday 31st.A cool morning. I accompanied my father to Mr. Greenleaf’s Wharf where we took a bath. The water many degrees cooler than yesterday. After breakfast w... August 1838 1 August 1838Wednesday August 1st.Quite cool. I nevertheless accompanied my father to the bath which was pleasant. Morning passed for the greater part at home in reading Mr. Felt’s Lec... 2 August 1838Thursday 2d.Up early and breakfasted below with my father whom I accompanied to Hingham on a fishing party by invitation of the gentlemen of that town. We reached... 3 August 1838Friday 3d.I arose this morning with the kind of warning which precedes a head ach. Nevertheless I went to town and busied myself in the usual range of commissio... 4 August 1838Saturday 4th.We have had dry and hot weather for so long that the country begins to show signs of suffering. I was visited by my father to enquire of my condition,... 5 August 1838Sunday 5th.Warm though hazy and ending in clouds. I read some of Dr. Paley’s Horae Paulinae. Attended divine service and heard Mr. Lunt preach from a text in I C... 6 August 1838Monday 6th.Morning warm but at noon the wind changed and brought with it a very cool and refreshing shower. I had just seated myself to pursue my morning avocati... 7 August 1838Tuesday 7th.Pleasant day. I went to town and was occupied mostly at the Office after going through the usual routine of my affairs. Nothing new but the arrival fo... 8 August 1838Wednesday 8th.I spent my day at home very quietly, devoting a good deal of the morning to a new draught of my projected review of Grahame. I continue to write altho... 9 August 1838Thursday 9th.Fine day but it gradually clouded up. I was occupied in the morning pretty industriously upon my proposed review which is going on slowly and not very... 10 August 1838Friday. 10th.The day cloudy but without rain. I went to town and my time was taken up in Accounts and in a call at my house to superintend the receipt of my chair ... 11 August 1838Saturday 11th.Cloudy but no rain. I sat down to work upon my Review of Grahame. But on the whole I find I can do little with it. My inclination is to give it up as ... 12 August 1838Sunday 12th.A clear fine day in which the beauty of the landscape again shone out with the greater effect from the previous days of mist. I read a little of the H... 13 August 1838Monday 13th.The air was clear and it was warm today but not oppressive. I went to town instead of my regular day, tomorrow, because the Probate Court proposes to ... 14 August 1838Tuesday 14th.Morning cold with an Easterly wind. I remained at home almost all day. Attended the probate Court held at the Hotel and presented my papers for the or... 15 August 1838Wednesday 15th.Cool day. After breakfast, walked down to the House to see how Mr. Rowley got along. Found him at work still. Received by mail from Boston, a copy of ... 16 August 1838Thursday 16th.Cloudy day with occasional showers. I remained at home and occupied myself steadily in reading over the MS papers of J. A., the old journals and contr... 17 August 1838Friday. 17th.A fine, clear day. I went to town where I was occupied much as usual. Looked into the National Office and found that the Courier had published my comm... 18 August 1838Saturday 18th.On this day I count myself thirty one years old. The change into middle life is now complete and I bid adieu to it’s spring time. Well, I have had mor... 19 August 1838Sunday 19th.Day clear and cool. Divine Service both parts, and a walk to the Quarries to show the Frothinghams the way of getting stone, the evening at Mrs. Adams... 20 August 1838Monday 20th.Clear and cold east wind. At home in study all day. My mother and the rest of the family took tea and passed the evening. Some time lost in the mornin... 21 August 1838Tuesday 21st.Warm and clear. Morning to town. Afternoon taken up by company. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Brooks to dine and spend the day. My father and Mary to meet them.... 22 August 1838Wednesday. 22d.Clear and warm. Two hours devoted to my article, one to a play of Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, and two to Lessing’s Laocoon. Dinner as usual at the othe... 23 August 1838Thursday 23d.A very warm day. An hour upon my article which I finally conclude to give up as a bad job. Then fell into desultory reading which ended in the examina... 24 August 1838Friday 24th.Clear and very warm. Morning in town. Afternoon spent in reading and attending to my trees affected by the dry weather. Evening, a call at Mr. Daniel ... 25 August 1838Saturday 25th.A very warm morning which ended in a thunder storm shortly after dinner of unusual violence. Morning passed in reading at home till noon, and then a r... 26 August 1838Sunday. 26th.Morning clear but with a cold high wind, a very great change since yesterday. Read an hour before service and attended as usual. Afternoon spent in re... 27 August 1838Monday. 27th.Morning clear but it clouded afterwards and rained steadily in the evening. Day divided into study and supervision of the work upon my ground. Finishe... 28 August 1838Tuesday 28th.Morning clear and warm. In town. Afternoon devoted to reading and evening at the Mansion where the De Wint family had been dining. I have no very good... 29 August 1838Wednesday 29th.Clear and cool. I work about an hour upon my trees for the sake of exercise during the cool weather, then read until dinner time. Afternoon reading al... 30 August 1838Thursday 30th.Rather warm with a heavy shower in the Afternoon. One hour passed in work, the remainder of the morning excepting that portion taken up by P. C. Brook... 31 August 1838Friday. 31st.Morning clear and cold. Town accompanied by Miss Julia DeWint. Afternoon taken up with company. Evening at the Mansion. Not a profitable day. My busin... September 1838 1 September 1838Saturday. September 1.Sultry all day with occasional showers and thunder and lightning throughout. Morning passed in reading, and afternoon also. In the evening the family ... 2 September 1838Sunday 2d.Day clear and cool. Passed as usual. Attendance upon divine service and reading. Evening spent at the Mansion. Read today my father’s speech upon the ... 3 September 1838Monday 3d.Cold and clear. Morning spent almost entirely in working at the garden with Kirk, superintending the various little improvements I wished to be made. ... 4 September 1838Tuesday 4th.Cold East wind in the morning but warmer afterwards. Morning in town, the rest of the day devoted to the festivity gotten up for the occasion. I went ... 5 September 1838Wednesday. 5th.Clear and warm. Morning work for an hour, then study. Dined at the Mansion and took a drive with my father in the Afternoon. Evening a visit to T. Gre... 6 September 1838Thursday 6th.Morning fine. To town with my Wife. To Medford to dine, with Mr. Frothingham who took my Wife’s place in my vehicle. Family dinner and Afternoon waste... 7 September 1838Friday 7th.Day fine. To town with Mr. Brooks and return. Dine at Gorham Brooks’ and afternoon generally wasted in company. My day has little of remark as I was e... 8 September 1838Saturday. 8th.The day cold. Morning to town. Return to Quincy to dinner and Afternoon spent in reading without progress. Evening at the Mansion. I left Medford imme... 9 September 1838Sunday 9th.Fine day. An hour before service devoted to arrears of my Diary. Then attendance upon divine service and reading. Evening a walk with my father to see... 10 September 1838Monday 10th.Warm and hazy. Morning to town. Afternoon devoted to reading and evening at the Mansion. My duties were all of the drudging kind today connected with ... 11 September 1838Tuesday 11th.Warm and cloudy. Morning to town. Afternoon reading and evening at the Mansion. I went to the City to perform the duties in which I failed yesterday a... 12 September 1838Wednesday 12th.Heavy rain with a N. E. Wind which came on to blow very heavily at night. I remained at home all day reading. Continued Locke’s Essay p. 162–220. The ... 13 September 1838Thursday 13th.Rain fell heavily but calm in the morning but it cleared at noon. At home all day, reading and working. Dined at the Mansion. Continued Locke’s Essay,... 14 September 1838Friday. 14th.Fine day. Morning in town. Afternoon reading and work. Evening, a visit at Mrs. T. B. Adams’s. After reaching town I thought I would call at the State... 15 September 1838Saturday 15th.Clear day. Morning to town. Afternoon reading and evening at the Mansion as usual. My Mother, Mary, my Wife and I went to the City in order to take an... 16 September 1838Sunday 16th.Clear but cold with an Easterly wind. Day passed in the usual duties and evening at the Mansion. There has been a very bright Aurora borealis for four... 17 September 1838Monday 17th.Clouds and drizzle from the Eastward. At home all day reading and evening at the Mansion. Continued and finished Mr. Locke’s Chapter on power. p. 252–... 18 September 1838Tuesday 18th.A thick heavy drizzle. I went to town notwithstanding and was occupied as usual in the performance of commissions and in a visit to the Athenaeum. Hom... 19 September 1838Wednesday 19th.Weather clear and warm. Morning spent in personal superintendence upon some improvement I wished in the road. Afternoon in reading. Evening at the Man... 20 September 1838Thursday 20th.Morning fine. Ride to town. Afternoon, ride also. Evening passed at the Mansion. I went to the City accompanied by my father, but not with my own hors... 21 September 1838Friday. 21st.Clouds and warm rain. At home all day in study. Evening at the Mansion. Continued Locke’s Essay 300–352. Chapter of Identity and Diversity. The line b... 22 September 1838Saturday. 22d.Cloudy and warm. Morning spent in study. Afternoon in riding. My boy John five years old this day. Evening at the Mansion. Continued Mr. Locke p. 353–... 23 September 1838Sunday 23d.Day cloudy with occasional heavy showers. Attendance on divine service. Reading. Dinner at the Mansion. Evening at home. At the Morning service, my th... 24 September 1838Monday 24th.Clear and cold. Morning passed in study. Afternoon in a ride. Evening passed partly at the Mansion, partly at Mrs. T. B. Adams’s. Mr. Brooks left us t... 25 September 1838Tuesday 25th.Fine day. I went to town accompanied by my father. Afternoon at home. Evening at Mr. Miller’s. My morning was much given up to business. Various perso... 26 September 1838Wednesday 26th.Cloudy day with mist and rain. Morning to town. Dinner and afternoon at the Mansion. My morning was almost entirely taken up by the various duties inc... 27 September 1838Thursday 27th.Drizzly morning. Study. Afternoon, spent an hour at the Wharf of Mr. Greenleaf, attempting to catch smelts. A Concert in the Evening. Continued Locke’... 28 September 1838Friday 28th.Cloudy, damp day. Morning to town. Afternoon at home in reading. Evening at the Mansion. My father accompanied me to town. Time taken up in giving fin... 29 September 1838Saturday 29th.Cloudy day with heavy rain at times. Morning divided between study and a search after papers at my father’s. Afternoon study, evening at the Mansion. ... 30 September 1838Sunday 30th.Morning study. Attendance upon divine service all day. Reading in the Afternoon and evening at the Mansion. I read today several chapters of Milman’s ... October 1838 1 October 1838Monday. October 1.A lovely day, more like June than this month. Morning in part in study and part out. Afternoon a ride. Evening at home. Locke’s Essay Volume 2, p. 1–4... 2 October 1838Tuesday. 2d.Fine day. Morning with my father to town. Afternoon, study and in the evening, company at home. My time was very much taken up today, by the occupatio... 3 October 1838Wednesday 3d.Day threatening but after a brief shower it cleared. To town with my father and Wife in the carriage, returning in the evening. We went to town for th... 4 October 1838Thursday 4th.Fine day. At home, an hour spent in fishing. Afternoon ride and evening at the Mansion. Locke, 2 vol. p. 42–84. A valuable Chapter upon the remedy to ... 5 October 1838Friday. 5th.Day very fine. Morning in town. Afternoon at home and evening at the Mansion. My time was engrossed in town much as usual, but in a manner not at all ... 6 October 1838Saturday. 6th.Warm, windy day. Morning passed out of doors. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I felt a little inclining to head ach today which however pas... 7 October 1838Sunday 7th.Heavy rain, clearing away cold. Divine service as usual all day with reading and evening at the Mansion. I continued Milman’s History of the Jews whic... 8 October 1838Monday 8th.A cold morning with the wind from the Eastward. Day spent in town. Evening at the Mansion. My day was not a very profitable one and yet my duties in t... 9 October 1838Tuesday 9th.Cold, chilly day. Morning to town. Afternoon at home and also evening. My father accompanied me to town. I devoted the greater part of the morning to ... 10 October 1838Wednesday 10th.Stormy day. Time passed at home. My head was not in order today so that the prosecution of my work languished. Continued Locke vol. 2, p. 84–126, but ... 11 October 1838Thursday 11th.Fine, clear, windy day. Morning passed in study. Afternoon and evening at the Mansion. Continued Locke, b. 2, p. 126– 185. Upon Maxims, identical prop... 12 October 1838Friday. 12th.Clouds and rain in the latter part of the day. Morning to town. Afternoon spent in fishing. Evening at home. My father accompanied me to town, and I w... 13 October 1838Saturday 13th.Day clear and windy, passed at home in occupation of various kinds. I arose this morning an hour before daylight for the sake of catching the tide to ... 14 October 1838Sunday 14th.Mild, clear day. Time divided in the usual manner on this day. Attended divine service all day. Mr. Lunt preached in the morning from 1 Corinthians 10... 15 October 1838Monday. 15th.Rain and fog. Day at home writing and reading. Evening at the Mansion. Read Locke, p. 185–240. Upon the general character of proof, certainty, probabi... 16 October 1838Tuesday 16th.Clear day. Morning to town. Afternoon reading, evening at the Mansion. My time in the City so much taken up by tenants and commissions of various sort... 17 October 1838Wednesday 17th.Fine day. Morning study excepting an hour in fishing. Afternoon, work on my ground. Evening, Lecture at the townhouse. Locke, p. 240–282. Reason, Fait... 18 October 1838Thursday 18th.Fine day. Morning partly in study and partly out. Afternoon short. Evening at the Mansion. Finished Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding, a work f... 19 October 1838Friday 19th.Clouds and heavy rain. To town in the morning and rather late return. Afternoon and evening at home. My trip to town was made in the expectation that ... 20 October 1838Saturday 20th.Clear fine day. Passed at home writing and in study. Evening at the Mansion. I felt somewhat unwell this morning, the result of my exposure yesterday,... 21 October 1838Sunday 21st.Clear day. Attended divine service as usual and the remainder of the day passed in writing and reading. Evening at the Mansion. I was unable to find t... 22 October 1838Monday 22d.Fine day. Kept much at home by the effect of a severe cold. Evening at a meeting of the Society to prevent stealing. I did not deem it prudent to haza... 23 October 1838Tuesday 23d.Fine day. Morning spent in town. Afternoon busy planting trees. Evening at the Mansion where I dined. My cold was extremely troublesome all day. I wen... 24 October 1838Wednesday 24th.Heavy rain all day. Confined to the house where I worked on my papers. I passed a bad night and arose in the morning so much indisposed as to see with... 25 October 1838Thursday 25th.Fine day. Morning to town. After dinner, superintending trees and evening at the Mansion. I went to town out of course today for the sake of seeing to... 26 October 1838Friday 26th.A very fine Autumn day. Occupied by writing and company. Afternoon dinner. Evening at the Mansion, and Mrs. Adams’. My time was much distracted this d... 27 October 1838Saturday 27th.Morning promised well but it clouded and finally rained hard with a sharp thunder storm. To Boston. Afternoon, reading. Evening at the Mansion. I went... 28 October 1838Sunday 28th.The morning bright but it changed to rain and snow. Attended the services as usual and evening at the Mansion. The near approach of the period of our ... 29 October 1838Monday 29th.Clear and windy. Morning wasted. Afternoon to Boston and return. Evening at the Mansion. We found upon rising this morning the ground covered with a c... 30 October 1838Tuesday 30th.Clear and colder. Morning to town where I was all day not returning until evening. I drove in the pair of horses this morning, with my father, Wife an... 31 October 1838Wednesday. 31st.Clouds and snow. At home all day busy packing up. Dine at the Mansion and spend the evening there. I felt this morning a little inclined to head ach b... November 1838 1 November 1838Thursday. November 1st.Weather changed during the night to sharp cold. I went to town. Return to my fathers where I remained the night. Visits. Up early to get off the famil... 2 November 1838Friday 2d.A very fine day. Devoted to arrangements for the winter and planting. Evening visit. I have no special account to give of my day’s work. My reading wa... 3 November 1838Saturday 3d.A lovely autumn day. To town in the morning and in the Afternoon to Weymouth. Evening at home. I rode to town this morning and devoted my time to the ... 4 November 1838Sunday 4th.Rain. Attended divine service as usual, and the rest of the time passed at home. It does seem as if we could have only one or two dry days at a time. ... 5 November 1838Monday 5th.Heavy rain all day. Confined to the house. Nothing material. This was the day fixed upon for our return to town, but the rain was so heavy and so ince... 6 November 1838Tuesday 6th.Clear. Removed to town. Office, and afternoon at home. Shortly after breakfast I started with my Wife and Louisa from Quincy for the town. Thus termin... 7 November 1838Wednesday 7th.Very pleasant. To Quincy all day. Evening at home. I started early this morning for Quincy in order to make a good day of it. Occupied most of the tim... 8 November 1838Thursday 8th.Another heavy rain. At Office. One hour before dinner devoted to Greek as customary in town. Afternoon, reading and evening, writing. This succession ... 9 November 1838Friday 9th.Clear. Ride to Quincy for the day. Return home to tea and evening to the Theatre. The mud was quite deep today but I went to Quincy and was occupied i... 10 November 1838Saturday. 10th.Cold and clear. At the Office. Athenaeum and home. Evening quiet. I have not much to record of my morning experiences. Called to see T. K. Davis at hi... 11 November 1838Sunday 11th.Moderate and clear. Divine service both parts of the day and an evening visit to the Governor. Attended divine service and heard Dr. Harris preach fro... 12 November 1838Monday 12th.Fine day. General Election. Office. Athenaeum. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Play. I passed my time at the Office much as usual. It being the day ... 13 November 1838Tuesday 13th.Fine day. Ride to Quincy. Return to dine at Mr. Brooks’. Evening at home. Immediately after breakfast my father accompanied me to Quincy. I took the o... 14 November 1838Wednesday 14th.A beautiful day. Office. After dinner to Quincy. Tea at Mrs. Adams’ and delivered a Lecture. Sleep at Quincy. I passed the morning at the Office in th... 15 November 1838Thursday 15th.Heavy rain. To town. Office. Afternoon at home. Nothing new. My father concluded to remain at Quincy today so that after transacting a little business... 16 November 1838Friday 16th.Cloudy. Office as usual. Home. Afternoon reading and evening visit to Mr. Frothingham’s. Mr. Buckingham published my second number today which I like ... 17 November 1838Saturday 17th.Day fine. Office with Accounts and visitors. Dine at I. P. Davis’. Evening at home. I was taken up almost all of my time by W. Spear who came with his... 18 November 1838Sunday. 18th.Cool day. Attended divine service as usual. Evening at home. Read part of Milman’s History of the Jews of which I have now the second volume. Attended... 19 November 1838Monday 19th.Day pleasant. Morning spent at the sale of South Cove lands. Afternoon at home. Evening, Mr. Lawrence. My time during the morning was taken up by the ... 20 November 1838Tuesday 20th.Day cloudy. Office as usual. Afternoon and evening at home. I passed the morning in endeavouring to fill up the arrears of my Diary which are now cons... 21 November 1838Wednesday 21st.Clear day but cool. Morning to Quincy. Return to dinner. Evening at home. Immediately after breakfast, my father accompanied me to Quincy. After an ho... 22 November 1838Thursday 22d.Cloudy threatening rain. Office. Athenaeum. Afternoon and Evening at home. Mr. Degrand. Another of my papers today making the 5th. The Courier publish... 23 November 1838Friday 23d.Clear and cool. Office. Afternoon at home reading and in the evening to Mrs. Gorham’s. Morning devoted to the Office as usual. My father dined out at ... 24 November 1838Saturday 24th.Day cold. Ride to Quincy. Return to dinner at home with company. Evening, Concert. At the Office and from thence to Quincy. Transacted business at the... 25 November 1838Sunday 25th.Severely cold. Service all day. Reading and evening to see Mr. Brooks. The thermometer was near zero this morning. I read some of Milman’s History of ... 26 November 1838Monday. 26th.Cold and clear. Office. Afternoon my father off. Evening quiet at home. My time today was taken up scarcely with my knowing how. Engaged in Accounts a... 27 November 1838Tuesday 27th.Cold and clear. Usual division of time. Evening, visits. At the Office today making up arrears. The division of occupation now becomes so monotonous t... 28 November 1838Wednesday 28th.Milder and clear. Usual division of time. Evening Mr. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Frothingham and Thomas with us. Nothing of moment to record of my mornin... 29 November 1838Thursday 29th.Clear and mild. Thanksgiving day. Service and evening at Mr. Frothingham’s, family. I read today the greater part of a volume of travels by Mr. Stephe... 30 November 1838Friday 30th.Mild and clear. Office, and the usual record. I made up my Arrears very bravely at the Office today and put myself somewhat at ease respecting my occu... December 1838 1 December 1838Saturday. December 1st.Mild and cloudy. Office, thence to Roxbury. Evening, Concert. My Wife was taken suddenly sick in the night and continued so through the day. Her healt... 2 December 1838Sunday 2d.Weather pleasant, divine service all day, time divided as usual. Continued Milman’s History of the Jews, and finished Davis’ life of Burr. It is diffi... 3 December 1838Monday 3d.Cold and clear. Office and regular distribution of time. My morning runs away in reading the Newspapers at the Insurance Office. Received a letter fro... 4 December 1838Tuesday. 4th.Clear. Office. Accounts, division as usual. Evening out. My morning was very much taken up in accounts. I transacted business with the Treasurer of th... 5 December 1838Wednesday 5th.Cloudy. Office, division as usual. Evening at home. Morning taken up at the Office. Accounts becoming somewhat complicated and therefore require to be... 6 December 1838Thursday 6th.Clear and pleasant, division as usual. Evening out. Office. Much interest is now excited by the movement of Mr. Biddle and the Bank of the United Stat... 7 December 1838Friday. 7th.Clear, mild and pleasant, time divided as usual. Evening to Medford to deliver a Lecture. The public mind is at present agitated by the receipt of the... 8 December 1838Saturday 8th.Fine day, time divided as usual. Evening, Mr. Brooks at home. At the Office nothing new. But the political accounts are very interesting. The departur... 9 December 1838Sunday 9th.Day fine but cold. Services as usual. Evening out. I read more of Milman’s history of the Jews, relating to the disturbances in Judaea and the reducti... 10 December 1838Monday 10th.Fine day though cool. Usual division of time. I was at the Office as usual. Making up arrears of Diary. The accounts from Washington contain nothing n... 11 December 1838Tuesday 11th.Fine day. Usual division of time. I was at the Office, but the Editor of the Courier sent me an article from the Globe bringing up the whole story of ... 12 December 1838Wednesday 12th.Day fine, distribution as usual, ball in the evening. I had for once a morning of entire leisure, interrupted only by a visit from Mr. Jones of Weston... 13 December 1838Thursday 13th.Fine weather, usual distribution. Evening at the Theatre. I was occupied at the Office in the morning for the most part in looking over papers connect... 14 December 1838Friday 14th.Fine weather. Distribution as usual omitting Greek. My morning was entirely taken up by the various little forms incidental to the execution of the pa... 15 December 1838Saturday 15th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Concert in the evening. My time at the Office was taken up in a great degree by a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Kirk who ha... 16 December 1838Sunday 16th.Fine day. Services and reading. Evening at home. I finished today the second volume of the History of the Jews which ends at a time of great interest,... 17 December 1838Monday 17th.Fine day though cold, Distribution as usual. Evening visit. My morning at the Office was consumed in looking up Title deeds and in making settlement w... 18 December 1838Tuesday 18th.Clear. Time as usual. Evening to Jamaica Plains to lecture. A little snow had fallen during the night but the day was clear and pleasant. At the Offic... 19 December 1838Wednesday 19th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening visit. My time at the Office was taken up in finishing various little duties which I recollected still to rem... 20 December 1838Thursday 20th.Mild, pleasant day. Distribution as usual. Evening party. At the Office pretty lazy. Having now accomplished all the morning work I have to do, my tim... 21 December 1838Friday 21st.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. Office as usual where I had a variety of little matters but no regular nor useful occupation. Alcest... 22 December 1838Saturday 22d.Day fine. Office, dinner at Mr. Brooks’ and evening at Dr. Frothingham’s. My time at the Office today was very much taken up by business accounts of D... 23 December 1838Sunday 23d.Clouds and snow but cleared off cold. Services as usual. Evening at Governor Everett’s. Worked upon the Athenaeum collection, having finished Mr. Milm... 24 December 1838Monday 24th.Very cold and clear, distribution as usual. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. At the Office where I found John Kirk with an announcement that his stable was bro... 25 December 1838Tuesday 25th.Cold but it moderated before night. Distribution as usual. Christmas day but with us commonly the quietest day of the year. I saw nobody and went on w... 26 December 1838Wednesday 26th.Pleasant day, distribution as usual. Evening at home. I passed my day quietly enough. At the Office I began an examination of my Accounts for the last... 27 December 1838Thursday 27th.Pleasant day, usual course, evening visit Mr. Brooks. At the Office I executed my entire revision of the accounts of the last six months and rectified... 28 December 1838Friday. 28th.Cold and clear. Time divided as usual. Evening at home. At the Office I was engaged in writing Diary and then beginning the re-examination of the Life... 29 December 1838Saturday 29th.Snow and rain with clouds. Time as usual. Evening at home. At the Office today as usual. Nothing material. I read some of Aaron Burr’s Life and made n... 30 December 1838Sunday. 30th.Clear and cold. Usual exercise. Evening out. I continue Crevier with diligence in order to get up in my historical commentary upon the coins. But I ca... 31 December 1838Monday 31st.Cold and clear. Distribution as usual. Evening Assembly ball. The time passed at the Office is not easily to be accounted for because I interrupted my... 1839 January 1839 1 January 183923 May 1841Titlepage 1 January 1839January 1839. Tuesday 1st.Here is a new volume with which to begin the New Year and a very fine opportunity to moralize upon the passage of the years, the prospects of the futu... 2 January 1839Wednesday 2d.Pleasant morning. Distribution as usual. Evening at Governor Everett’s. I was very much occupied at the Office by the making up of my Accounts and the... 3 January 1839Thursday 3d.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. My practice is to go down and read the Newspapers at the National Insurance Office where I commonly ... 4 January 1839Friday 4th.Cloudy day. Occupation as usual. Evening at home. At the Office I finally got rid of the large sum of Mr. Johnson’s which has been upon my hands for s... 5 January 1839Saturday 5th.Day cloudy but it cleared. Distribution of time as usual. Evening at home. I am commonly more occupied at my Office on this day than on any other as m... 6 January 1839Sunday 6th.Day cloudy with snow. Usual division on Sunday. Evening at J. Quincy’s. The greater part of my day was taken up in continuing the third volume of Milm... 7 January 1839Monday 7th.Morning cloudy which ended in rain. Distribution as usual. Evening party. At the Office my time engaged in Accounts as usual. The commencement of this... 8 January 1839Tuesday 8th.Morning clear, and a pleasant day, time as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’. There is no very important record to be made of my mornings. They pass in... 9 January 1839Wednesday 9th.Fine day. To Cambridge. Afternoon at home, coins. Evening Mr. Dexter’s. I was up early to be off on the examination of one division of the Junior clas... 10 January 1839Thursday. 10th.Morning mild. Again to Cambridge returning by dinner time. Evening at Mrs. Shaw’s. I was rather a volunteer today in going to Cambridge having already... 11 January 1839Friday 11th.Morning clear. Time distributed as usual. Evening at home. This was a quiet day and I confess I relished it somewhat. My time at the Office taken up i... 12 January 1839Saturday 12th.Mild day. Time as usual, dinner company at home, quiet evening. My time passed this morning quite in a bustle, first with various little commissions s... 13 January 1839Sunday. 13th.Pleasant day. Services as usual. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. I passed my time as usual, continuing the History of the Jews by Milman which is my Sundays r... 14 January 1839Monday 14th.Morning pleasant, time divided as usual. Evening Assembly. I went to the Office and from thence attended the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the... 15 January 1839Tuesday 15th.Cool day. Division as usual. Evening at home. Every thing falls now with me into arrears so much that I refused to day going to Cambridge upon the exa... 16 January 1839Wednesday 16th.Fine day though cold. To Cambridge, returning to Mr. Brooks’ and in the evening to Mrs. N. Appleton’s. I went on my division to Cambridge today and fo... 17 January 1839Thursday 17th.Fine day. Morning as usual. Dinner late at Mr. Otis’s. Evening at home. I was occupied as usual this morning upon my Arrears of Diary which keep growi... 18 January 1839Friday. 18th.Day pleasant. Quietly divided. Evening at home. E. C. Adams here. Otis’s wine was a little too strong for my head, I think, for I suffered a little fr... 19 January 1839Saturday 19th.Day clear. Distribution as usual. Evening uninterrupted at home. My morning was taken up very much by my country business. Received a letter from the ... 20 January 1839Sunday 20th.Cold day. Services and studies as usual. Evening at home. H. G. Gorham. I read much of Milman’s History of the Jews, in the latter part of which I fin... 21 January 1839Monday 21st.Cold day. Time divided as usual. Evening at home. I have no account to give of my day. Worked with some diligence upon my arrears and also upon the ac... 22 January 1839Tuesday 22d.Cloudy day with a light fall of snow. Time as usual. Mr. Stearns and coins. Evening ball at Mr. Appleton’s. I prosecuted my work of arrears with some ... 23 January 1839Wednesday 23d.Cloudy but turned excessively cold by night and clear. Division as usual. Dr. and Mrs. Frothingham and Thomas in evening. I continued my work this mor... 24 January 1839Thursday 24th.Severely cold night and morning. Office. Time as usual. Evening ball at Mrs. J. Welles’. I made up my arrears this morning and filed up all my bills, ... 25 January 1839Friday 25th.Mild and pleasant. Division as usual. Evening at Dr. Frothingham’s and Governor Everett’s. The cold proved but a short blast of the keen polar wind, a... 26 January 1839Saturday. 26th.Warm with rain which continued until night. Time as usual. Evening at home. I went to the Office in good season for the sake of doing business. As I e... 27 January 1839Sunday. 27th.Fine day. Exercises as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’. The morning was clear and pleasant. I read some of the London Quarterly Review. My tendencies... 28 January 1839Monday 28th.Cloudy and snow in the evening. Time as usual. Evening, Third Assembly. I went to the Office and brought up my Accounts, though not before attending a... 29 January 1839Tuesday 29th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening Mr. R. Robbins. I occupied my morning in returning my answer to Mr. Downing and other work remaining on hand ... 30 January 1839Wednesday 30th.Snow showers but on the whole clear. Time as usual. Evening, Diorama. Finished the balance of occupation at the Office and now I promise to go on seri... 31 January 1839Thursday 31st.Clear and cold. Time divided as usual. E. C. Adams in the evening. I sat down today in earnest both at the Office and at home to reading Aaron Burr. T... February 1839 1 February 1839Friday February 1st.Cloudy with snow. Morning as usual. Dine at Mr. Brooks’. Evening at home. Continued my labour at the Office in reading Burr all the morning and made s... 2 February 1839Saturday 2d.Clear day. Office. Time as usual. Evening at home. This is a period of such profound quiet in all affairs domestic, political and literary that my Jou... 3 February 1839Sunday. 3d.Cold and clear. Exercises as usual. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. I have finished Milman and am now in want of some substitute. In the mean time and not to ... 4 February 1839Monday 4th.Cool day. Distribution as usual. Evening at Dr. Frothingham’s. I have only to repeat that I worked upon Burr today, attending however the annual meeti... 5 February 1839Tuesday 5th.Cool and clear. Distribution as usual. Evening visit Mrs. Bates at Papanti’s. At the Office I am often bored by countrymen who come in about the farm ... 6 February 1839Wednesday 6th.Severe cold. Time much as usual. Evening at home. The morning was devoted to Burr. The whole account of the Presidential Election of 1800 is interesti... 7 February 1839Thursday. 7th.Very severe cold, but moderated afterwards. Time passed as usual. Evening at Mrs. Parker’s. Morning devoted to Burr, excepting always time given to ap... 8 February 1839Friday 8th.Mild and cloudy. Time as usual. Evening at home. My morning was taken up by a succession of persons calling, principally applicants for the Weston far... 9 February 1839Saturday 9th.Clouds and light snow. Time as usual. Evening at home. My morning went rapidly. W. Spear came in from Quincy without any particular business and took ... 10 February 1839Sunday. 10th.Cold and clear. Services as usual. Evening to Edward Brooks’. I continued my attempt at composition this morning without success. One thing is certain... 11 February 1839Monday 11th.Cloudy and more mild. Day spent in attending corporation meetings. Evening Assembly. I was entirely unable to be at my Office this morning as I was fi... 12 February 1839Tuesday 12th.Clear and mild. Time as usual. Evening, friends at home. At the Office I continued Burr, as steadily as applicants for the farm at Weston would let me... 13 February 1839Wednesday 13th.Lovely day. Division as usual. Quiet evening. More applications for the farm at Weston. Time at the Office spent in Accounts reviewing the state of th... 14 February 1839Thursday. 14th.Cloudy and wet. Time as usual. Quiet evening. Not long at the Office today as I felt obliged to go down to the Athenaeum and make an effort to procure... 15 February 1839Friday 15th.Cloudy and wet. Time as usual. Evening to see Edmund Quincy. I devoted much of my time to the reading of the trial of Burr. Never was a case so embarr... 16 February 1839Saturday 16th.Weather dull and foggy. Much the usual distribution. Evening at home. At the Office this morning where I was occupied by Deacon W. Spear who came from... 17 February 1839Sunday. 17th.Snow and drizzle. Exercises as usual. I follow up my investigations respecting Aaron Burr during my day light hours and write upon the currency in the... 18 February 1839Monday. 18th.Still dull and cloudy. Division as usual. Evening to the Theatre. This gloomy weather continues long. At the Office not having any other definite occu... 19 February 1839Tuesday 19th.Clear and pleasant. Time as usual. Quiet evening at home. It was a fair and bright day today but I felt not quite well and rather uneasy at some sympt... 20 February 1839Wednesday 20th.Cloudy. Time regularly divided. Evening at Edward Brooks’. At the Office, feeling better but still not quite free from my trouble. Finished off the cl... 21 February 1839Thursday 21st.Mild and clear day. Time as usual. Evening a family party at home. My time at the Office a little wasted. J. Kirk from Quincy came in and bothered me.... 22 February 1839Friday. 22d.Clouds and rain. Distribution regular. The profound quiet of my life is interrupted only by tenants from Weston. I this morning managed to settle the ... 23 February 1839Saturday 23d.Clouds and fog. Division made as usual. At the Office today I concerned myself with Accounts, but got into an examination of Mr. Woodbury’s last repor... 24 February 1839Sunday. 24th.Day pleasant. Exercises as usual. Evening at Mrs. Quincy’s. I am working upon my papers respecting the currency in order to get them out of the way of... 25 February 1839Monday 25th.Snow but cleared by night. Time as usual. Evening, Assembly. At the Office this morning I devoted my time to business and making out my quarterly acco... 26 February 1839Tuesday 26th.Lovely morning but rain at night. Usual division. Evening, ball at Mrs. Miller’s. Finished the work of my Quarterly Account. I believe I am now free f... 27 February 1839Wednesday 27th.Morning fine but it clouded over by night. Time as usual. Evening at Mrs. Thorndike’s. I am so much dissatisfied with my papers upon currency that I h... 28 February 1839Thursday 28th.Cloudy but it cleared fine. Time as usual. Evening, Mr. Brooks at home. The children have been more or less out of order for a week or two past and to... March 1839 1 March 1839Friday, March 1.Day cloudy. Time divided as usual. Evening at home. At the Office today I was so busy in attending to business that I could not go on at all with my p... 2 March 1839Saturday 2d.Lovely, spring day. Time as usual. Quiet evening. The season appears to open quite early. Office doing business with William Spear and others. The sen... 3 March 1839Sunday 3d.Snow but cleared off very cold. Exercises as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’. I spent half an hour this morning over my cabinet of Medals. Attended d... 4 March 1839Monday 4th.Very cold. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. At the Office as usual. Much of my time taken up in examining the question of the boundary which ex... 5 March 1839Tuesday 5th.Still cold. Time according to custom. Evening at Dr. Frothingham’s. At the Office, I went on with the examination of the papers respecting the fronti... 6 March 1839Wednesday 6th.Clear and more mild. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. We have accounts of the breaking up of Congress as usual in a great hurry. They have pass... 7 March 1839Thursday 7th.Mild and pleasant. Time as usual. The difficulties with Great Britain still continue to be the general topic. I received today a letter from my father... 8 March 1839Friday 8th.Mild but easterly cold. Division as usual. I was pretty assiduous this morning in the continuation of my work upon currency and made a good deal of pr... 9 March 1839Saturday 9th.Fine day. Time as usual. Evening out without success. I was much engaged at the Office all the morning with various interruptions common on this day o... 10 March 1839Sunday 10th.Colder. Exercises as usual. Evening at home. I devoted an hour to my collection of medals this morning. Attended divine service as usual. Heard Mr. Ro... 11 March 1839Monday 11th.Fine day. Time as usual. Evening sixth Assembly. At the Office where I dispatched two of my papers upon currency to Mr. Buckingham. I hope this will s... 12 March 1839Tuesday 12th.Fine day. Time as usual. Evening small party at Miss Scollay’s. At the Office I busied myself very assiduously in my work upon my articles but made sl... 13 March 1839Wednesday 13th.Fine day. Usual division. Evening small party at Mrs. E. Blake’s. I continued my work at the Office which gives me satisfaction as it keeps me employe... 14 March 1839Thursday. 14th.Rain. Time divided. Evening at Mrs. H. G. Rice’s. My first number on the currency appeared today. I read it with some interest and liked it much. But ... 15 March 1839Friday 15th.Clear and fine day. Time as usual. Evening at home. I felt this morning a little the worse for the week’s dissipation and was glad to think that it wa... 16 March 1839Saturday 16th.Morning fine. Time divided as usual. Evening at home. I spent my time at the Office today in writing my fourth and last number of my papers upon curre... 17 March 1839Sunday. 17th.Lovely day. Time devoted to the ordinary exercises. Evening at E. Brooks’. I began this morning a series of Sunday Morning readings which I purpose to... 18 March 1839Monday 18th.Cloudy day. Time occupied as usual. Evening at home. I devoted some time to the arrangement necessary for removing the body of T. B. Adams and had a l... 19 March 1839Tuesday 19th.Clouds and cold with a high Easterly wind. To Quincy. Afternoon and evening at home. After going down into State Street for half an hour, finding that... 20 March 1839Wednesday 20th.Cloudy and dull. Time divided as usual. I was very busy all the morning in making up the fourth and last of my numbers which has been long delayed. I ... 21 March 1839Thursday 21st.Rain and clouds and darkness. Time as usual. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. I worked hard this morning and made out to finish the fourth and last number of m... 22 March 1839Friday. 22d.Cloudy but clearing. Office. Nickleby. Philoctetes. China. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. My day at the Office today was full of laziness. This I took out of... 23 March 1839Saturday 23d.Clear. Office. Time as usual. Evening at home. At the Office I did little or nothing. My last paper upon Currency was published and adds one more to t... 24 March 1839Sunday 24th.Fine day. Exercises as usual. Evening, visiters at home. I continued my exercises with my little girl this morning, and she read two chapters of Genes... 25 March 1839Monday 25th.Day fine. Time divided as usual. Evening at Mrs. Everett’s. My time at the Office is now a little on my hands and I am not sure that I make the very b... 26 March 1839Tuesday 26th.Fine day. Office. Conant to settle. Evening at home. At the Office. Call at Mr. Foster’s Store to settle the charges of freight for poor T. B. Adams a... 27 March 1839Wednesday 27th.Mild day. Office. Time as usual. Evening to Mr. Shaw’s. Called for Mr. Brooks and we went to see a collection of plants from France, some of which I d... 28 March 1839Thursday 28th.Fine day. Fast. Morning service. Afternoon at home. Evening visit at Mrs. Minots. The day was pleasant as is almost always the case so far as my exper... 29 March 1839Friday 29th.Dark and damp. Distribution as ordinary. Evening at home. The accounts from Maine are at last pacific, but the apprehensions now are respecting all th... 30 March 1839Saturday 30th.A beautiful day. Time divided as usual. Evening spent at home. I do not well know what I did with my time but presume it was usefully employed. Nothin... 31 March 1839Sunday. 31st.Clear and cool. Exercises as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’. I devoted the morning hour as usual to my little girl who read two Chapters in Genesis,... April 1839 1 April 1839Monday. April 1.Cool and extremely windy. Office. Afternoon to a funeral at Charlestown. As this was the first day of a new quarter I was much occupied in collecting ... 2 April 1839Tuesday 2d.Cool and clear. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. My time at the Office was again much taken up in Accounts. Paid off one of my Notes of the Sou... 3 April 1839Wednesday 3d.Cloudy and cold. Morning to Quincy. Day as usual. The day was not pleasant but I felt obliged to go and attend to my affairs at Quincy which now begin... 4 April 1839Thursday 4th.Very fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. At the Office whither I transferred my Review with the design of writing it out and improving u... 5 April 1839Friday. 5th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening, visit Mrs. Blake’s. At the Office where however I had a visit from I. Hull Adams which disabled me from doin... 6 April 1839Saturday. 6th.Fine day. Time as usual. I have very little to say concerning my use of time today beyond what I must every day record. At my Office I had some busine... 7 April 1839Sunday 7th.Beautiful day. Time given to exercises as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. I spent the morning hour with my daughter, in reading two chapters in ... 8 April 1839Monday 8th.Windy and cool. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. I was at the Office this morning somewhat earlier and sat down resolutely to work upon Burr. M... 9 April 1839Tuesday 9th.Pleasant. Morning to Quincy. Afternoon at home. Evening, W. C. Gorham came in. I went to Quincy this morning and was fully occupied in attending to th... 10 April 1839Wednesday 10th.Day fine. Time divided as usual. Evening Mr. Brooks. I made another good morning’s work upon Burr today and begin to feel encouraged. There is nothing... 11 April 1839Thursday 11th.Cloudy and warm but no rain. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Carter’s. Continued my work today. If I can go on at this rate I shall soon wind u... 12 April 1839Friday 12th.Heavy rain all day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. We had more rain today than we have experienced for a long time back. And it was acceptabl... 13 April 1839Saturday 13th.Continued rain. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. I was little interrupted and therefore made good work upon Burr. The rain which continues as i... 14 April 1839Sunday. 14th.A continuation of clouds and rain. Division as on this day. Evening at home. I devoted some time as usual to my daughter’s morning exercises, and bega... 15 April 1839Monday 15th.Bad weather continues. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. I worked again upon Burr, although neither so long nor so effectively as last week. As ... 16 April 1839Tuesday 16th.Cleared very fine. Distribution as usual. Afternoon, Athenaeum. Evening to Mr. Brooks’. I intended to have gone on with Burr this morning vigorously b... 17 April 1839Wednesday. 17th.Rain again. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. Stormy days are favorable for me. I worked over the bad part of the last Sheet so as to please me ... 18 April 1839Thursday 18th.Morning cloudy but cleared. Division as usual. Afternoon Railway to Brighton. Evening at home. I did something in the matter of my Review this morning... 19 April 1839Friday 19th.Beautiful day. Morning to Quincy. Afternoon at home. Pamphlets. Evening, Dr. Gorham. I expected Kirk with my horse early this morning so that I could ... 20 April 1839Saturday 20th.Clear but cool. Office. Afternoon at Quincy. Evening, visits. The day was fine though windy and cold. At the Office I continued my labours with great ... 21 April 1839Sunday. 21st.Cold east wind but clear. Services as usual. Evening visit to Mrs. Everett. I passed an hour this morning in my usual exercises with Louisa. Tried to ... 22 April 1839Monday. 22d.A lovely day. At Quincy all day. Home late. Evening fatigue. I went to Quincy as soon as possible after breakfast, and worked there all day with Kirk ... 23 April 1839Tuesday 23d.Fine day. Morning, Office. Afternoon Quincy. Evening to Mrs. H. B. Rogers’. I made a little more headway upon Burr but not much. I am almost discourag... 24 April 1839Wednesday 24th.Fine day. Morning to Quincy. Dinner company. Evening at home. I went to Quincy again this morning and continued my work of transplanting trees. I remo... 25 April 1839Thursday 25th.Fine warm day. Morning Office. Afternoon Quincy. Evening at Mrs. Minot’s. It was a very agreeable morning, but I was not in much condition to enjoy it... 26 April 1839Friday. 26th.Fine day. Regular distribution. Evening Mr. Brooks, at home. I was at the Office today and worked pretty vigorously upon my Review, but the work goes ... 27 April 1839Saturday 27th.Fine day and warm. Morning as usual. After dinner to Quincy. Evening at home. I was at the Office but unable to execute as much of my Review as I wish... 28 April 1839Sunday 28th.Cold east wind. Divine service as usual. Evening at home. I occupied most of my leisure hours today in writing upon the Essay which I promised to Mr. ... 29 April 1839Monday 29th.Cloudy and cold with rain. Morning to Quincy. After dinner to New York. It was a cheerless looking day that I have rarely known worse at the season. I... 30 April 1839Tuesday 30th.Visits. My father’s Address. Sidney Brooks. Evening, National Theatre. I did not sleep much and could not help thinking when awake of the melancholy e... May 1839 1 May 1839Wednesday May 1.Day dull and drizzly. Breakfast with Sidney Brooks. Visits, dine with Dr. Wilkes. Steamer Narragansett. We went out, (that is my father and I) to brea... 2 May 1839Thursday 2d.Rain but afterwards cleared. Railway to Boston. Afternoon to Quincy. Evening at Mr. Otis’. The fog was such that the boat could not attempt to enter S... 3 May 1839Friday. 3d.Clear day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. I devoted this day very much to the prosecution of my various occupations. Worked for some time upo... 4 May 1839Saturday 4th.Clear day. Morning Office. Afternoon Quincy. Evening at home. I kept on working as well as I could this morning although interrupted by one or two per... 5 May 1839Sunday. 5th.Windy and clouds. Divine service as usual. Evening at home. I devoted an hour of the morning to the pursuit of my medallic studies for which I have no... 6 May 1839Monday 6th.Clear. Morning Office. Afternoon to Quincy. At the Office working upon Burr which I am now finishing. Nothing else shall take precedence of this becau... 7 May 1839Tuesday. 7th.Clear. Morning Office. Afternoon to Quincy. Evening to Mrs. Frothingham’s. I continued Burr today with so much assiduity as to bring me to the last Sh... 8 May 1839Wednesday. 8th.Cloudy day. Morning Office. Afternoon to Quincy. I this morning finished my last sketch of Burr. Good, bad or indifferent I am not going to trouble my... 9 May 1839Thursday 9th.Morning cloudy but it cleared away hot. Afternoon to Quincy. Morning at the Office engaged in Accounts, but on the whole luxuriating a little in idlen... 10 May 1839Friday 10th.Clear day. Division as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. Louisa had a good night and although severely bruised appears not to be materially injure... 11 May 1839Saturday 11th.Fine day but cool. Time as usual. Evening at home. Louisa continues to recover. God be praised for all his kindness. I can hardly see a cart without s... 12 May 1839Sunday 12th.Beautiful day. Divine service in Boston and Quincy. Evening at home. Louisa is improving and appears almost well. I can hardly credit it even when I h... 13 May 1839Monday 13th.Fine day. Morning to Hingham. Afternoon at home. Evening, at Govr. Everett’s. Last year when my Wife and I went to Washington, taking Louisa with us, ... 14 May 1839Tuesday 14th.Heavy showers all day. Time much as usual. Evening at home. I had intended to go to Quincy today but the weather made it impossible. At the Office I w... 15 May 1839Wednesday 15th.Lovely day. Morning to Quincy. Afternoon at home. I went to Quincy this morning taking with me my boy John whom I proposed to leave with Catherine one... 16 May 1839Thursday 16th.The day warm with clouds and showers. Morning Office. Afternoon to Quincy. I was occupied at the Office in the morning with a variety of Accounts. Set... 17 May 1839Friday 17th.Fine day. Morning Office. Afternoon to Quincy. Evening company. At the Office where I was engaged in Accounts and settling Miss Elizabeth C. Adams aff... 18 May 1839Saturday 18th.Lovely day. Morning at home. Afternoon to Quincy. Evening at my father’s. My time was wholly taken up today in the preparations for our removal, which... 19 May 1839Sunday 19th.Fine day. Divine service as usual. Evening at my father’s. I occupied myself part of the day in writing a very brief article for Mr. Hunt, also in the... 20 May 1839Monday 20th.Fine day. Morning reading. Division of time. Evening at the house. I made arrangements today for the ordinary division of my studies. I propose to beg... 21 May 1839Tuesday 21st.Fine day though cool. To Boston. Afternoon at home. Evening, visit Mr. Lunt. I went to town today but found myself much wanting in occupation. A few c... 22 May 1839Wednesday. 22d.Rainy with cold, raw east wind. At home all day. Evening at the house. It was a very cold disagreeable day and although wanting fires exceedingly I c... 23 May 1839Thursday 23d.Another cold, cloudy day. At home. Evening, the family at my house. Determined not to suffer so much again from cold I had the furnace heated this mor... 24 May 1839Friday 24th.Cloudy, cold and rainy. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. This was my day for going to town but the weather seemed so very unpleasant that I de... 25 May 1839Saturday. 25th.Rain but afterwards cleared up. To Boston. Afternoon out. Evening at the Mansion. The morning opened with heavy clouds and a thunder shower in the mid... 26 May 1839Sunday 26th.Lovely day. Services as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I passed the morning, devoting the usual portion of time to Louisa, and reading the two first d... 27 May 1839Monday 27th.Warm but cloudy. Distribution as usual. Evening at the Mansion. Rain. My morning was not very profitably spent. Yet I managed to put together some mat... 28 May 1839Tuesday 28th.Morning rain but cleared. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at Mrs. T. B. Adams’. I went to town this day, but not much of importance to do. Looked ... 29 May 1839Wednesday 29th.Clouds but it afterwards cleared. At home all day. Time as usual. I devoted my morning to the continuation of Tucker and the review. I am by degrees h... 30 May 1839Thursday. 30th.Cleared at last. At home. Time distributed as usual. Evening to see Edmund Quincy. I continued the work upon Tucker which spreads itself as I go. It n... 31 May 1839Friday 31st.Fair. Morning to town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town this morning, accompanied by Miss L. C. Smith. My time almost exclusi... June 1839 1 June 1839Saturday June 1.Cold easterly drizzle. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. The weather has been during our stay thus far disagreeable. Clouds and cold and damp h... 2 June 1839Sunday 2d.Cold and cloudy. Time divided as usual. I was occupied with my daughter Louisa for an hour of the morning as usual, in her exercises which are almost ... 3 June 1839Monday 3d.Cold and cloudy. Time disposed of at home. Evening at the Mansion. Much of my morning was given to the beginning of Tucker. I wrote about three pages ... 4 June 1839Tuesday 4th.Fine day. Morning to town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. This is the first clear day we have had for some time, and this was disfigured b... 5 June 1839Wednesday 5th.Rain storm. At home all day, distribution as usual. A very heavy gale from the Eastward brought with it rain and kept me rigidly confined to the house... 6 June 1839Thursday 6th.Cloudy. At home all day. Distribution as usual. The weather promises better. I hope we shall enjoy it for hitherto we have had little of the true plea... 7 June 1839Friday 7th.Lovely day. To town. Afternoon study. Evening at the Mansion. I rode to town. Occupied in making up the Quarterly Statements for my father and in expe... 8 June 1839Saturday 8th.Warm day. To town and Medford to dine. Evening home. I rode to town accompanied by my father. Finished the quarterly Accounts mentioned yesterday, and... 9 June 1839Sunday. 9th.Cloudy but cleared. Exercises as usual, head ach and early to bed. On first rising I had a light warning of what would come, but hoping that with fast... 10 June 1839Monday 10th.Windy but clear. At home dividing time as usual. Evening, the family with us. I spent much time this morning upon the review of Tucker and went on as ... 11 June 1839Tuesday 11th.Morning to town. Afternoon at home as usual. Evening at the Mansion. My morning in the city was very much taken up with accounts so that I did hardly ... 12 June 1839Wednesday 12th.Clear but cool. At home all day. Dine at the mansion and evening. I pursued my work upon the Review of Tucker so steadily that I finished it before th... 13 June 1839Thursday 13th.Clouds and rain. At home, rather idle. Evening at home. Looked over the review of Tucker which I have finished and found it on the whole as good as I ... 14 June 1839Friday 14th.Cool and clear. Morning to town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town and passed most of my time at the Office engaged in making ... 15 June 1839Saturday 15th.Clear and cool. At home all day. Evening to see D. Greenleaf. This was the first day that looked much like Summer and I enjoyed it although it was col... 16 June 1839Sunday 16th.Showers and wind. Usual exercises of the day. Evening at the Mansion. It was quite dark this morning and we were up late. I devoted however my usual p... 17 June 1839Monday 17th.Windy and cool. At home all the morning. Afternoon, Ride. Evening at the Mansion. Our season has been by no means an agreeable one. An alternation of ... 18 June 1839Tuesday 18th.Clouds and latterly rain. To Boston. At home after dinner and evening. I went to town and was industriously engaged all the morning in business of the... 19 June 1839Wednesday 19th.Clear but high wind. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. I was at home and wrote over some portion of my Review of Tucker which did not quite ple... 20 June 1839Thursday 20th.Clear but windy. At home occupied as usual. Evening family with us. My time passes with so little variety now that I record its movement rather in com... 21 June 1839Friday 21st.Cloudy but very warm. To Boston with my Wife. Afternoon at home and evening. My Wife accompanied me to town, and the carriage took Mrs. J. Adams, Miss... 22 June 1839Saturday 22d.Clouds and rain. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. My intention had been to accompany my father to town this morning but as I found that the we... 23 June 1839Sunday 23d.Cloudy but warm. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I devoted my usual time to my daughter Louisa and read some Chapters of Tucker’s Light of... 24 June 1839Monday 24th.Clouds and showers. At home. Visitors. Evening to Mr. Beale’s. My time was not very profitably spent today. I finished Silas Deane’s portion of the Di... 25 June 1839Tuesday 25th.Day fine. Morning to town. Afternoon work. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town and passed the greater part of my morning in making up the necessary... 26 June 1839Wednesday 26th.Fine day. Trip to Cohasset. Evening at the Mansion. This day has been fixed upon for the party to Cohasset which has been in agitation ever since my m... 27 June 1839Thursday 27th.Warm day. At home. Evening at the Mansion. Mrs. Adams was so unwell that she could not get up this morning, and I felt more exhausted than I have done... 28 June 1839Friday 28th.Rain all day. Morning to town. At home rest of the day. I felt extremely unwell this morning, but determined to go to town notwithstanding. The weathe... 29 June 1839Saturday 29th.Fair day. At home. Ride. Evening at the Mansion. I was better this morning but still far from feeling well. Occupied myself at home pretty steadily in... 30 June 1839Sunday 30th.Fine day. Exercises as usual. Evening at home. I felt better today. Time devoted as usual; partly to my daughter Louisa and partly to reading Tuckers ... July 1839 1 July 1839Monday July 1.To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at Mrs. T. B. Adams’. I went to town today instead of tomorrow which was the day for the usual dinner at Squantum.... 2 July 1839Tuesday 2d.Day fine and warm. At home. Dine at Squantum. I was pretty busy most of my morning in writing upon my new undertaking of the Report of the Southern C... 3 July 1839Wednesday 3d.Fine day after rain. At home. Dine at the Mansion. I was busy in pursuing my papers during the morning. There is abundance of subject and I am only af... 4 July 1839Thursday 4th.Showery but warm. At home. Evening call at the Mansion. The sunrise was announced by cannon from the City and many of the surrounding towns. I arose a... 5 July 1839Friday 5th.Fogs and mist. To Boston. Company at dinner. Evening at the Mansion. I went to the City in the morning and was occupied most of my time in Accounts. F... 6 July 1839Saturday 6th.Fog and rain. At home, dine at the Mansion and evening. I devoted my whole morning to the examination of my books without however succeeding in detect... 7 July 1839Sunday 7th.Showery and warm. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. Passed my morning hour in my usual avocations with my daughter and reading a chapter or ... 8 July 1839Monday. 8th.Showery but warm. At home. Ride after dinner. Evening at E. Quincy’s. I devoted another morning to the examination of my books in the course of which ... 9 July 1839Tuesday 9th.Showers. To town. Return to dinner. Afternoon at home, head ach. Since I have come to Quincy this summer, my head has troubled me in an unusual degree... 10 July 1839Wednesday 10th.Warm. To Cambridge. Examination, home, head ach. A very unusual thing with me my head ach continued through the night and troubled me all day though n... 11 July 1839Thursday 11th.Fine day but showery. My father 72. To town. Dine at the Mansion. Evening also. I went to town as I proposed to go to Cambridge again tomorrow. My tim... 12 July 1839Friday 12th.Warm day. To Boston and Cambridge. Examination and return. Evening company. I went to Boston early this morning but yet did not reach it in season to ... 13 July 1839Saturday 13th.Warm day. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. After a week of so much and such unusual movement with me I was glad to seize the occasion of a qui... 14 July 1839Sunday 14th.Showery and cool. Exercises in the usual way. Evening at the Mansion. I passed a portion of my morning as usual in my lessons to my daughter Louisa wh... 15 July 1839Monday 15th.Fine day but not entirely without rain. At home. Dine and evening at the Mansion. I spent the morning in reading excepting a short time devoted to a m... 16 July 1839Tuesday 16th.Fine day. Morning to town. Afternoon at home reading. Evening at the Mansion. I rode to town and was occupied the greater part of my time in various c... 17 July 1839Wednesday 17th.Fine day and warm. At home. Dine at the Mansion and evening. This season is a fine one although the early part of it has proved so inconvenient. The s... 18 July 1839Thursday 18th.Warm day. Morning to town. After dinner at home. Evening at the Mansion. Although not my day, I went to town this morning, partly for the purpose of a... 19 July 1839Friday 19th.To town, not returning until evening. This was a day of great heat. I went to town accompanied by my Wife. Passed the morning much as usual, various c... 20 July 1839Saturday 20th.Extreme heat. At home. Bath after dinner. Evening at the Mansion. The morning was one of the warmest we have in the course of a year, but it brought o... 21 July 1839Sunday. 21st.Rain and clouds. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. There was very heavy rain early but it soon ceased and continued cloudy all day. I devote... 22 July 1839Monday. 22d.Warm but showery. At home. Evening at the house below. The day was so sultry that it brought on a heavy shower by night attended with a little thunder... 23 July 1839Tuesday 23d.Warm morning and showers. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town. Time taken up partly in a visit to the house in Acorn St... 24 July 1839Wednesday 24th.Moist weather. At home, dine at the Mansion and evening. I suffered during the night and all of this day with the affection of my teeth, so that I was... 25 July 1839Thursday. 25th.Clouds but warm. At home. Mr. Brooks and Sidney and his Wife to dine. Quarries. My face continued to pain me all night and this morning, but it gave s... 26 July 1839Friday 26th.Fine day. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town this morning and was much occupied in visiting the House in Acorn Street ... 27 July 1839Saturday 27th.Fine day. At home. Afternoon to visit Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Gray. Evening at the Mansion. My morning was consumed in a sort of studious idleness. Finishe... 28 July 1839Sunday 28th.Fine day. Exercises as usual. Evening to Mrs. Quincy’s, and at the Mansion. After the usual course with my daughter, I read a little of Tucker’s Light... 29 July 1839Monday 29th.Clear. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town this morning, partly for the sake of accommodating my father who wished to g... 30 July 1839Tuesday 30th.Warm. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. Morning in the city again. Most of my time taken up with the Account of T. B. Adams which I ... 31 July 1839Wednesday 31st.Heavy southerly showers. At home all day, dine and evening at the Mansion. My day passed very quietly. Most of the morning devoted to reading the seco... August 1839 1 August 1839Thursday. August 1st.Fine day. At home. I was at home all day, reading Arthur Lee’s correspondence which is interesting and well written. Texier and Meissner’s Alcibiades,... 2 August 1839Friday. Aug. 2.Fine day. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening visit to Dr. Woodward. I went to town this morning and my time was taken up for the most part with busin... 3 August 1839Saturday. 3d.Day fine. At home. Evening at the Mansion. I passed my time quietly but pretty steadily all day. Read and finished Arthur Lee’s Correspondence and tha... 4 August 1839Sunday 4th.Fine day. Customary exercises. Evening at Mrs. T. B. Adams’. I occupied one hour in going over the usual exercise with my daughter and read besides so... 5 August 1839Monday. 5th.Fine day. At home. Ride. Evening, visit from E. Quincy and Mr. Parker. This day was passed very quietly at home. Read the Correspondence of the Revolu... 6 August 1839Tuesday 6th.Hazy but fine. To town. Afternoon visitors. Evening at the house below. I went this morning to town and was occupied very much with applications from ... 7 August 1839Wednesday 7th.Warm and dry. At home. Dine at my father’s and evening visit. I spent a large part of my morning in a manner somewhat different from my usual one. My ... 8 August 1839Thursday 8th.Morning warm but weather changed. At home, bath. Evening at my father’s. Mr. Ward. I spent the greater part of the morning in budding trees, it being ... 9 August 1839Friday 9th.Cloudy morning with light showers but it afterwards cleared. To town. Afternoon at home. Rode to town where my time was very much taken up with visits... 10 August 1839Saturday 10th.At home, fine day. Afternoon, visitors and to Weymouth. At my father’s. My morning was not passed altogether profitably, for after a little reading on... 11 August 1839Sunday. 11th.Pleasant day. Usual Exercises. Evening at the Mansion. I spent an hour in my usual way with my daughter, teaching her some little notion of religion. ... 12 August 1839Monday 12th.Cloudy with showers. At home. Evening, a short ride. At the Mansion. I devoted three hours of my morning to a copy of a letter of my grandmother’s sen... 13 August 1839Tuesday. 13th.Clear and cool. To town. Afternoon company. Evening at the Mansion. My daughter Louisa is eight years old this day. As she grows, she becomes the subj... 14 August 1839Wednesday 14th.Cold and foggy. At home, dine and evening at my father’s. I passed some time in the morning in continuation of the work of copying a long letter. I ha... 15 August 1839Thursday 15th.Cold east wind. At home all day. Evening at my father’s. I continued my work upon the letter without doing quite as much as I have upon any preceding ... 16 August 1839Friday. 16th.Cold easterly wind. To town. Afternoon and evening at home. I went to town this morning accompanied by my father. Called at the Athenaeum to procure a... 17 August 1839Saturday 17th.Cold and fog. At home all day. Evening visit to Mr. Appleton’s. My occupation this morning was pretty steady. I finished the long letter which has tak... 18 August 1839Sunday 18th.Clearing off. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I went through the ordinary routine of exercises for this morning with my little girl and re... 19 August 1839Monday 19th.Fine day and warm. At home. Afternoon ride. Evening at the Mansion. Upon entering another year of my life, it is usual with me to look back and take a... 20 August 1839Tuesday 20th.Beautiful day and warm. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town today where the principal matter of interest seems to be th... 21 August 1839Wednesday 21st.Warm day. At home. Evening visit to Mr. Lunt. This was of the hottest of the season. I passed my time very busily in copying and gave only an hour to ... 22 August 1839Thursday 22d.Warm day, bath, at home. Evening to Mrs. Adams’s. Another extremely warm day. I went and took a bath at the Wharf this morning alone, the pleasantest ... 23 August 1839Friday. 23d.Warm day. To Boston. After dinner at home, and evening. I went to town this morning and heard of an accident that befel Mrs. Everett yesterday by whic... 24 August 1839Saturday 24th.Warm day. At home, bath. Work as usual, evening at the Mansion. I devoted myself to the usual train of occupations, with the exception of an hour for ... 25 August 1839Sunday 25th.Warm. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. Mrs. Angier. I spent an hour with my daughter in her lessons. Read more of Tucker and attended divin... 26 August 1839Monday 26th.Warm day. At home, bath. Usual occupations. Evening visit to Mr. Whitney. My time was consumed much in the manner that it usually is. I devoted some t... 27 August 1839Tuesday. 27th.The warmest of the season. To town with my father. Home. Evening below. I was much exhausted today by the various commissions I had to perform as it w... 28 August 1839Wednesday 28th.Cold change. At home all day. Usual occupation. Evening at the Mansion. The temperature fell very fast today from the point which it has maintained fo... 29 August 1839Thursday 29th.Cold and cloudy. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. I have not much to record of this day beyond what happens very regularly. I devoted a couple... 30 August 1839Friday 30th.Stormy. To town, return to dine. Afternoon and evening at home. I arose very early this morning in order to be prepared if my father inclined to accep... 31 August 1839Saturday 31st.Clearing up. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. The night proved an exceedingly tempestuous one but the wind declined towards morning though it ... September 1839 1 September 1839Sunday. September 1.Lovely day. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I have no variation to record in my usual course of proceeding this morning. After an hour dev... 2 September 1839Monday 2d.Beautiful day. At home. Time passed as usual. Ride. Evening at my father’s and Mrs. Adams’. I cannot give much variety to my present record. My mornin... 3 September 1839Tuesday 3d.Lovely day. Mrs. Adams with me to town. Afternoon at home. Evening at my father’s. Our weather since the storm has been the perfection of the season. ... 4 September 1839Wednesday 4th.Fine day. At home. Dine at my father’s. Supervisors meeting. Pic Nic. I cannot pass over yesterday without remembering that it completed ten years of ... 5 September 1839Thursday 5th.At home all day. Occupation as usual. Evening at the Mansion. This was a warm day with a damp Southerly wind but it cleared before night without rain.... 6 September 1839Friday 6th.Fine day but warm. To Boston. Afternoon company. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town this morning and pretty steadily occupied at the Office, first... 7 September 1839Saturday. 7th.Warm morning but change. At home. Bath. Evening at Mrs. T. B. Adams’. I was pretty steadily occupied in writing upon my Lecture until noon. It goes on... 8 September 1839Sunday 8th.Warm and showery. Exercises as usual. Evening an hour at the Mansion. I have to record only a repetition of the exercises usual in my Sunday, first wi... 9 September 1839Monday 9th.Warm and cloudy. At home. Occupied as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I continued my occupations all the morning and finished a very considerable part ... 10 September 1839Tuesday 10th.Fine day. To town, thence to Medford. Mr. Brooks’ and Gorham’s. Mr. Brooks has for some time past been urging my Wife and myself to go to Medford. We ... 11 September 1839Wednesday. 11th.Fine day. To town, back to Medford, dine at Gorham Brooks. Evening at house. I went to town this morning accompanied by Mr. Brooks. Found upon arrivin... 12 September 1839Thursday 12th.Cool. To town, thence to Quincy. Afternoon at work. Evening at the Mansion. I left Medford this morning hardly with unwillingness for my want of my us... 13 September 1839Friday 13th.Cloudy and cold morning. Usual occupations. Evening at the Mansion besides meals. I spent the day very quietly. Tried to continue my Lecture but found... 14 September 1839Saturday 14th.Clear and pleasant. To town, home. Mrs. Adams returns. Evening ladies here. It was quite a pleasant change from yesterday and I went to town for the p... 15 September 1839Sunday 15th.Pleasant day. Usual exercises. Evening at the Mansion. I have not the opportunity for so much miscellaneous reading on this day of the week now as for... 16 September 1839Monday 16th.Warm day. At home as usual. Afternoon ride to Brookline and evening at Mansion. I devoted most of my morning to the prosecution of my Lecture upon cre... 17 September 1839Tuesday 17th.Fog but became warm and clear. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at Edmd. Quincy’s. I went to town this morning, accompanied by Miss Julia DeWint wh... 18 September 1839Wednesday 18th.Rain and damp but warm. At home. Evening at home. My head was not entirely at ease this morning and I was apprehensive of a bad day but it passed off ... 19 September 1839Thursday. 19th.Fine day. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion, and dine there. I this morning resumed my labour in copying the letters which I remitted in order t... 20 September 1839Friday 20th.Beautiful day. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening, visit to Mrs. T. B. Adams’ and Mansion. My time in town today was taken up for the most part in at... 21 September 1839Saturday 21st.Fine day. At home. Afternoon ride. Evening at the Mansion. My work upon the letters went on pretty briskly this morning and I begin to perceive the en... 22 September 1839Sunday 22d.Fine day. Exercises as usual. Evening, family with us. J.Q.A. 6 years. I devoted my morning to the usual course of occupation with my daughter and onl... 23 September 1839Monday 23d.Continued fine day. At usual occupations. Ride and evening at the Mansion. My morning passed in pretty steady application to the business of copying w... 24 September 1839Tuesday 24th.Fine day. To town. Return to dinner. Evening at the Mansion. It was a lovely day like all the days since Miss Hall’s visit who today returned to town ... 25 September 1839Wednesday 25th.Clear morning. At home. Visitors. Evening at the Mansion, where we dined. The morning was lovely but it clouded before night in such a manner as to si... 26 September 1839Thursday 26th.Morning cloudy but cleared with high wind. At home. Evening at the Mansion. I remained all the morning pretty constantly devoted to the business of co... 27 September 1839Friday 27th.Fine morning but heavy wind and rain in the Evening. Boston and Hingham. I went to town this morning and was much occupied with calls at my house to w... 28 September 1839Saturday 28th.Clear day but cool. To town, early return and afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. As by the summary proceeding of last evening I had left my ho... 29 September 1839Sunday 29th.Clear day though cold. Exercises as usual. Visit to Mrs. Quincy. Evening at the Mansion. After my regular lesson with Louisa, I attended divine servic... 30 September 1839Monday 30th.Fog and rain. At home. Evening at the house below. Visiters. I passed all my morning in copying or comparing the copies already made with my Wife who ... October 1839 1 October 1839Tuesday 1st. October.To town. At home Afternoon. Evening at the Mansion. I have accidentally made a wrong entry of what happened this Afternoon as being of yesterday, inst... 2 October 1839Wednesday 2d.Fine day. At home, dine and tea at the Mansion. Evening at Mr. Beale’s and Mrs. A’s. The morning was so fine that I passed an hour or two of it at wor... 3 October 1839Thursday 3d.Mild day. At home. Visit from Dr. and Mrs. Frothingham. Evening ladies at home. I spent about an hour in copying this morning, when Dr. Frothingham wi... 4 October 1839Friday 4th.Fine day. To town. Mechanic’s fair. Home. Evening, two visiters. I went to town this morning, but the greater part of my time was taken up in accompan... 5 October 1839Saturday. 5th.Clear but cool. At home. Evening, visiter. At the Mansion. I spent the first part of my morning with the boys trying to catch fish but was disappointe... 6 October 1839Sunday 6th.Very clear but cool. Usual exercises. Evening at the Mansion. After the usual time passed with my daughter, I attended divine worship and heard Mr. Lu... 7 October 1839Monday 7th.Fine day. Work as usual. Afternoon ride. Evening visit to Mr. Harrod. I passed the greater part of my morning in copying some of the letters out of my... 8 October 1839Tuesday 8th.Fine day. To town. Afternoon and evening at home, family and visiters. The weather has been uncommonly fine thus far in the Autumn and the frosts set ... 9 October 1839Wednesday 9th.Fine day. At home. Evening at the Mansion. I was occupied most of my morning rather idly, in working upon my grounds and in finishing off several lett... 10 October 1839Thursday 10th.Pleasant day. At home. Dine and evening at the Mansion. I was quietly engaged all the morning in pursuing my usual occupations. Copied several letters... 11 October 1839Friday. 11th.Clear and pleasant. Morning to town. Home. Afternoon. Evening, visit to Mrs. T. B. Adams and below. I went to town accompanied by Mrs. Adams’ maid, Ca... 12 October 1839Saturday. 12th.Wet, foggy day. At home all day. I awoke early this morning at the sound of an alarm bell for fire but found myself suffering far too severely with he... 13 October 1839Sunday 13th.Foggy and damp though warm. Exercises as usual. Dine and evening at the Mansion. I read Herschel’s Astronomy pretty steadily during all the leisure ti... 14 October 1839Monday 14th.Heavy rain. At home all day and evening. Hoarseness and cold. I found myself somewhat incommoded by my cold, how I caught which is far beyond my compr... 15 October 1839Tuesday 15th.Heavy rain. At home all day. The rain continued to fall so heavily all day that I felt no inclination to go to town nor to try my cold by any movement... 16 October 1839Wednesday 16th.Fine day. To town. Return at noon. Dine and evening at my father’s. Afternoon, Penn’s hill. The clearing of the weather gave us a most lovely day toda... 17 October 1839Thursday 17th.Lovely day. At home. This was a most remarkable day for the season. Soft as the month of June. I was occupied most of my morning in superintending the... 18 October 1839Friday. 18th.Lovely day. To town. Afternoon, planting. Evening at the Mansion. Another extraordinary day. I rode to town. Found myself much occupied as usual in th... 19 October 1839Saturday 19th.Rain and clouds. At home all day. Evening at the Mansion. The rain fell heavily in the morning with warm weather which cooled off at night with a nort... 20 October 1839Sunday 20th.Cloudy and cold. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I spent an hour in my usual course of reading with my daughter and spent all of my superf... 21 October 1839Monday 21st.Cold morning. At home writing. Evening at the Mansion. This was a sharp morning and indeed continued quite cold throughout the day. I devoted myself p... 22 October 1839Tuesday 22d.Cold morning. To town with my father. Afternoon writing. Evening at the Mansion. A sharp frost this morning reminding us of the rapid approach of wint... 23 October 1839Wednesday 23d.Lovely day. At home. Dine at the house below and Evening at Lyceum. The day was extraordinarily fine. We have been as much favored in the season this ... 24 October 1839Thursday 24th.Fine day though hazy and warm. To Braintree. Lecture. Evening at the Mansion. I worked very steadily upon my third paper and finished it. The Courier ... 25 October 1839Friday 25th.Pleasant day. To town with my Wife. Home to dine. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town and was pretty constantly engaged in running about upon diffe... 26 October 1839Saturday 26th.A lovely day. At home. Transplanting trees. Evening at the Mansion. This was a very remarkable day. I spent two or three hours of the morning in comme... 27 October 1839Sunday. 27th.Beautiful day. Exercises as usual. Evening at the Mansion. I devoted the hour before service to my daughter Louisa and then attended the regular exerc... 28 October 1839Monday. 28th.Fine. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town this morning out of time because I wished to take with me Catherine, who is a... 29 October 1839Tuesday 29th.Fine. At home. Nothing material. Evening at the Mansion. I did not make as much out of the morning as I should have done. Kirk occupied me part of the... 30 October 1839Wednesday 30th.Fine. To town. Return to dine at the Mansion, where also Evening. I went to town this morning and was taken up as usual with matters pertaining to the... 31 October 1839Thursday 31st.Chilly with clouds. At home. Evening at the Mansion. I was at home all day but was unable to make the progress in writing which I expected because of ... November 1839 1 November 1839Friday November 1st.Chilly with clouds. At home. Evening at the Mansion. As it was on the whole more convenient for me to go into town tomorrow, and as my father was in a... 2 November 1839Saturday 2d.Weather much the same. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening at the Mansion. I went to town this morning instead of yesterday. Occupied much of the day ... 3 November 1839Sunday. 3d.Weather much the same. Usual exercises. Evening, visitors and to the Mansion. Ride. After the hour devoted to Louisa, I attended divine Worship as usu... 4 November 1839Monday 4th.Clear and cold. To town. Afternoon at home. Evening, visitors and to the Mansion. I went to town to day taking my man Albert with me to work at the ho... 5 November 1839Tuesday 5th.At home. Fine day. Evening at the Mansion. We are all in a state of great depression of spirits from the declining condition of Little Fanny. Even my ... 6 November 1839Wednesday 6th.Clouds in the morning but it cleared. To town. Evening, Lecture. The night was a very stormy one and the morning opened so unpromisingly I had great d... 7 November 1839Thursday 7th.Fine day. Office. Afternoon at home and Evening. I began today upon my town life. The regular series of occupations not very interesting to record, bu... 8 November 1839Friday 8th.Fine day. Office. To Quincy to dine. Return to tea. Evening at work. I devoted some time to labour in my Office in finishing off various little matter... 9 November 1839Saturday 9th.Cold but clear. Office. Time as usual. Evening at home. I went to the Office as usual. My time not entirely at my own disposal as my father and Mr. Cu... 10 November 1839Sunday 10th.Cold and cloudy. Exercises as usual. Evening, Degrand, H. G. Gorham. I devoted the morning hour to my daughter Louisa as usual. Attended Divine servic... 11 November 1839Monday 11th.Fine day. To Quincy. Return Afternoon. Evening at home. A cool but clear and bright November day. As soon as practicable after breakfast I started to ... 12 November 1839Tuesday 12th.Lovely day. Day divided as usual. Evening at home. At the Office where I finished up all the remaining business which I had on hand. Made the draft of... 13 November 1839Wednesday 13th.Fine day. Office. Time as usual. Evening at home. I have little or nothing new to record this morning. My town life is now so very regular that a Diar... 14 November 1839Thursday 14th.Clouds and light rain. Division as usual. Evening, my father’s Lecture. I was at the Office reading No. 105 of the North American Review. The accounts... 15 November 1839Friday 15th.Rainy but mild. Division as usual. Evening visit to Governor Everett. My morning was not very well employed as my Office hours now need some special o... 16 November 1839Saturday 16th.Mild and pleasant. Office. To Quincy to dine. Evening return, head ach. I awoke this morning with a dull feeling the precursor of head ach which did n... 17 November 1839Sunday 17th.Lovely day, clouding however towards night. Usual exercises. Evening to Mr. Brooks’. This was one of our most charming mornings. After the usual exerc... 18 November 1839Monday 18th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home and at E. Brooks’. I went to the Office as usual this morning and was occupied in accounts and a vari... 19 November 1839Tuesday 19th.Fine day. Morning at Office. To Quincy to dine. Return to tea. Evening at home. I went to the Office this morning but was not occupied very usefully. ... 20 November 1839Wednesday 20th.Cold and clear. Office as usual. Regular division. Evening at home. I went to the Office this morning as usual and was occupied in my ordinary mode. N... 21 November 1839Thursday 21st.Office. Thence to Quincy. Cold and snowy. Return. Evening at home. I went to the Office where Mr. Ladd came and talked and paid rent. Received a notic... 22 November 1839Friday. 22d.Cold. Morning to Quincy. Home to tea and evening. As my father wished me to be near him so that he might have somebody to call upon in case of need I ... 23 November 1839Saturday 23rd.Cool. Carriage to Quincy. Funeral. Home. Evening quiet. After a little business at the Office, I joined my Wife at the house and we went in a Carriage... 24 November 1839Sunday 24th.Clouds and rain. To Quincy. Service as usual. Home with Miss Cutts, Mr. Thornton. I started for Quincy immediately after breakfast and in order to rea... 25 November 1839Monday. 25th.Heavy rain. At home. Evening visit at Mr. Crowninshield’s. The day opened warm with a strong southerly wind and heavy rain, so that I was not able to ... 26 November 1839Tuesday 26th.Cold and clear. To Quincy. Evening at home. Mr. Brooks. After devoting an hour to business, I went to Quincy accompanied by my Wife, meeting my father... 27 November 1839Wednesday 27th.Weather moderating. To Quincy. Return with the family. Evening at home. I was much engaged in preparing funds for my father, and securing tickets for ... 28 November 1839Thursday 28th.Fine day. Thanksgiving. Service as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. I arose this morning with a sense of relief which I have not had for some tim... 29 November 1839Friday 29th.Continued fine weather. Time as usual. Evening to the Theatre. We are now commencing again upon the usual routine of winter life. At the Office where ... 30 November 1839Saturday 30th.Fine day. Office. Roxbury Probate Court. Evening at home. The weather at least has been highly favorable to the family, if it is like what we have had... December 1839 1 December 1839Sunday. December 1st.Chilly and clouds. Exercises as usual. Evening, H. G. Gorham. A change in the weather but I hope by this time the family are clear of it. Lesson as us... 2 December 1839Monday 2d.Cloudy and cold. Office. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. The day was cheerless. I was at the Office engaged in making up the arrears of my Dia... 3 December 1839Tuesday. 3d.Cloudy and chill. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. Mr. Brooks. Office as usual. Nothing to record. The days follow each other with great unifor... 4 December 1839Wednesday 4th.Chilly but cleared before evening. At home as usual. I had nothing material to record today. My time passes monotonously enough. Made a call upon old ... 5 December 1839Thursday 5th.Clear and beautiful day. Office. Division as usual. Evening at home. My time at the Office is so little improved that I must set about some novel plan... 6 December 1839Friday 6th.Fine day. Office. Division as usual. I pursue my affairs regularly enough, but the season of the year always affects my spirits a little and some circ... 7 December 1839Saturday. 7th.Cloudy. Office. Distribution as usual. At the Office. The accounts from Washington are in the same strain with that of the preceding days. Deacon Spea... 8 December 1839Sunday 8th.Rain and clouds all day. Exercises as usual. Evening at home. After my usual course of lessons with my daughter Louisa, I attended divine service and ... 9 December 1839Monday 9th.Heavy rain. Office. Athenaeum. Division as usual. Evening at home. The rain poured very heavily in parts of today. I was at the Office in business. Th... 10 December 1839Tuesday. 10th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. It was clear this morning after the heavy blow of last night. Office where I saved half an hour to b... 11 December 1839Wednesday 11th.Lovely day. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. The weather remains extraordinarily pleasant for the season and today was such a one as we ... 12 December 1839Thursday. 12th.Rain, but cleared up in the evening. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. The morning looked very dark and threatening but it turned ... 13 December 1839Friday 13th.Pleasant day. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. I was at the Office this morning with my time much taken up in writing. Began a letter to my Mot... 14 December 1839Saturday 14th.Day pleasant. Distribution as usual. Evening Mr. Brooks. I was at the Office where I again attempted to finish my letter but was interrupted by Deacon... 15 December 1839Sunday. 15th.Cloudy with snow, rain and a very heavy gale. Exercises as usual. At home. This was the first day of real winter and it brought with it all the worst ... 16 December 1839Monday 16th.Snow all day with high wind. Office for an hour, day at home. The Storm lulled at about one o’clock this morning but the snow continued falling all da... 17 December 1839Tuesday 17th.Fine, distribution as usual. Company at dinner and in the evening. A beautiful winter’s day. Office where I had but little leisure. My letter to my Mo... 18 December 1839Wednesday. 18th.Clear and fine weather. Time as usual. Evening at E. Brooks’. The Storm appears to have cleared the air and given us fine winter’s weather. I was at t... 19 December 1839Thursday 19th.Cold and clear. Time divided as usual. Evening at home. The account from Washington is that a Speaker has been at last chosen, Mr. Hunter of Virginia,... 20 December 1839Friday. 20th.Cold but clear. Division as usual. Evening at home. I do not know whether I have said that my occupation for one hour after breakfast every morning is... 21 December 1839Saturday 21st.Moderating. Distribution as usual. Dine with Mr. Brooks. Evening at home. I devoted my time to the usual course of morning proceedings. At the Office.... 22 December 1839Sunday 22d.Cloudy and wind. The usual exercises. Evening to Mrs. S. C. Gray’s. A very dark day for a short one making it still shorter. I had a brief lesson with... 23 December 1839Monday 23rd.Clouds and light snow. Office as usual. Evening Lecture. The weather was dull and gloomy all day. I occupied myself much as usual, in drawing up old L... 24 December 1839Tuesday. 24th.Mild and cloudy. Office. Evening at Dr. Frothingham’s. After my usual course of occupation in medals I went to the Office and spent my time in making ... 25 December 1839Wednesday 25th.Clear, lovely day. Office. Museum with the boys. Evening, children at the house. This is Christmas Day. A day of great festivity in many parts of the ... 26 December 1839Thursday 26th.A lovely day. Division of time as usual. Evening at home. After my usual time passed in coins, about four or six of which I succeed in investigating d... 27 December 1839Friday 27th.Cloudy. Time distributed as usual. Evening at home. This season of the year commonly passes with much uniformity, but I think there is more this year ... 28 December 1839Saturday 28th.Clear and cloudy. Time as usual. Evening at home. H. G. Gorham. I went to the Office as usual. Time passed in ordinary way. The storm of last night is... 29 December 1839Sunday. 29th.Windy and cold. Exercises as usual. Evening, visitors. Call to see Mr. Brooks. The weather is very tempestuous this season. After my usual exercise wi... 30 December 1839Monday 30th.Clear and very cold. Office as usual. Nothing new. Evening, W. C. Gorham. I devoted my time much as usual. Nothing very material of any novelty. Mr. G... 31 December 1839Tuesday 31st.Clear and continues very cold. Office and Auction. Evening to Edward Brooks’. The weather seems to be now setting in for winter. After my usual time d... 1840 January 1840 1 January 1840January 1840. Wednesday 1st.The New Year opened with cold. I look upon it and upon myself and when I reflect upon the future, and what it may bring, I recoil as if it could not c... 2 January 1840Thursday 2d.Cold quite severe. Time distributed as usual. Evening at home. I was so much taken up all the morning with the important task of paying bills that I h... 3 January 1840Friday 3d.Cold. Time as usual. Evening at Governor Everett’s. My record has nothing to vary it from preceding days. I went to the Office and although not at all... 4 January 1840Saturday 4th.Cold. The winter appears to be set in. Time as usual. Evening at home. After my usual time in coins I went to Market and Office. Plenty of calls for m... 5 January 1840Sunday. 5th.Moderating. Services as usual. Evening at home. The day was dark and I was up so late as to be quite unable to finish my usual lesson with my daughter... 6 January 1840Monday 6th.Clear and cold. To Cambridge—Examination, return. Afternoon at home. Evening writing. We arose much earlier than usual in order that I might be ready ... 7 January 1840Tuesday. 7th.Clear. Office and usual distribution. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. My paper of criticism upon the Message appeared in The Courier of this morning. “... 8 January 1840Wednesday 8th.Clear and fine. Office. Time as usual. Evening at home. After the time usually devoted to the study of coins, I was at the Office and had little time ... 9 January 1840Thursday 9th.Fine day. To Cambridge. Home. Afternoon reading. Evening, Lecture. Mr. Brooks’. Early rising to go to Cambridge in company with Judge Merril, for an e... 10 January 1840Friday 10th.Fine day. Time distributed as usual. Evening at home. We arose early in case of being called to go to Cambridge as I had agreed to fill a vacant place... 11 January 1840Saturday 11th.Cloudy. Office. Division as usual. Evening at home. I went through the usual course of occupation today. Wrote two letters, one to Mr. Johnson request... 12 January 1840Sunday 12th.Clouds and snow. Exercises as usual. Evening at home. My regular lesson with my children, for John is now coming in to read the Bible with his sister.... 13 January 1840Monday 13th.Snow and clouds. Distribution as usual. Evening to Edward Brooks. The day was dark and gloomy and I felt somewhat with the weather. After my usual tim... 14 January 1840Tuesday 14th.Clear. Division as usual. Evening at home. There is nothing new. Even politics do not appear to furnish any variety. The world wags quietly. Office en... 15 January 1840Wednesday 15th.Clear. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. Time passes fast and brings on with it my projected journey to New York which I face with... 16 January 1840Thursday 16th.Severely cold. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. Dr. Palfrey. The morning was the sharpest we have had. I went to the Office. Distressing intell... 17 January 1840Friday 17th.Extremely cold. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mr. Lothrop’s. I this morning finished my catalogue of the collection of silver of ancient Rome whic... 18 January 1840Saturday 18th.Cold. Distribution as usual. Evening at home. My morning was very much taken up in making the necessary arrangements prior to leaving town. After the ... 19 January 1840Sunday 19th.Moderating. Exercises as usual. Evening H. G. Gorham. The weather looked a little moderating today though still severe enough. After my exercises with... 20 January 1840Monday 20th.Mild. Ride to Springfield and thence to Hartford. Before day break I arose and prepared myself for my Journey. Took breakfast and rode to the depot of... 21 January 1840Tuesday. 21st.Cold and clear. Ride to New Haven and thence to New York. We were roused at four o’clock which to me was no inconvenience as for some reason or other ... 22 January 1840Wednesday 22d.Rain hail and snow. Walking. Evening at Clinton Hall. The sleep of a few hours was not refreshing to me inasmuch as waking brought with it the conscio... 23 January 1840Thursday 23d.Clear day. Much exercise. Evening, Lecture. The weather cleared very mild and for some hours there was a general thaw which however lasted but a few h... 24 January 1840Friday 24th.Cool. Left by the Stage. Morning out. Dine and evening at Mr. Davis’. I arose early this morning and put every thing in order to start by the Stage wh... 25 January 1840Saturday 25th.Cold and clear. Steamer New Haven to New Haven. I was up betimes and marched down to the Slip where the Steamer was and went on board. Found plenty of... 26 January 1840Sunday 26th.Railroad to Hartford and thence to Worcester. The impatience of some of our company which does not appear to be quite of the best class, caused our ge... 27 January 1840Monday 27th.To Boston. At home all day. Evening small party at Miss Jones’. We were roused at six this morning and after partaking of a good breakfast the first t... 28 January 1840Tuesday 28th.Snow. At home, distribution as usual. Evening, small party at Mrs. Ritchie’s. I went down to the Office and employed myself much in matters of account... 29 January 1840Wednesday 29th.Bad weather, rain and ice. Dine at Mr. Brooks’. Evening at home. Office making a call upon Mrs. Sidney Brooks on the way. The streets dangerously slip... 30 January 1840Thursday 30th.Clear. Usual routine. At home. I resumed the medals this morning and thus fell exactly into my old habits as if there had never been any change. At th... 31 January 1840Friday 31st.Clouds and snow. Division as usual. I have very little to remark. My days pass monotonously enough. I am writing up my arrears of Diary, and arranging... February 1840 1 February 1840Saturday 1st February.Dull weather. Distribution as usual. After market, Office. Writing up arrears. Nothing new. The newspapers are dry and dull enough. Home reading Oedip... 2 February 1840Sunday. 2d.Clear and cool. Divine service as usual. Evening to Mr. Brooks’. After the usual hearing of my children for an hour, having now regularly joined my se... 3 February 1840Monday 3d.Wet and damp clearing off cold. Division as usual. Evening at Mr. B. Gorham’s. My time at the Office is taken up principally in the arrangement of my ... 4 February 1840Tuesday 4th.Excessive cold. Usual division. Evening at home. After the time spent in coins, I went to the Office and occupied myself in Diary and accounts. I prop... 5 February 1840Wednesday 5th.Very cold morning, but moderated. Division as usual. E. C. Adams. These two last mornings are severe enough. I went to the Office as usual. An hour of... 6 February 1840Thursday 6th.Weather moderating. Time as usual. Mrs. R. D. Tucker’s. Nothing very material to stir up the attention. At the Office where I continue very slowly mak... 7 February 1840Friday 7th.Rain. Time as usual. Evening at home. Office where I received another sheet of proof from Mr. Hunt. I should think the Lecture would make twenty five ... 8 February 1840Saturday. 8th.Wet and thawing. Time divided as usual. Evening at home. My market day which consumes the time I ordinarily devote to Medals. Office where I worked a ... 9 February 1840Sunday 9th.Mild but pleasant. Divine service as usual. Evening at home. Edmund Quincy. I read two chapters in the Old Testament with my two children Louisa and J... 10 February 1840Monday 10th.Foggy. Division as usual. Evening, Mr. Brooks. After coins, I went to the Office. Received the last proof sheet of my Lecture in Hunt. I read it over ... 11 February 1840Tuesday 11th.Clear and mild. Distribution as usual. Evening at Edward Brooks’. After coins I went to the Office. Mr. Warren the antiquary called to offer me some c... 12 February 1840Wednesday 12th.Mild day. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Frothingham’s. The regular course of things. I tried to do a little at my accounts but was prevented.... 13 February 1840Thursday 13th.Mild. Office. After dinner Proprietors of South Cove. Evening Mr. J. C. Gray’s. After coins, went to the Office. Time devoted to making up Diary which... 14 February 1840Friday 14th.Cloudy and east wind. Office. Proprietors of South Cove. Evening at home. After coins, to the Office. Bringing up Diary bravely. Nothing however that ... 15 February 1840Saturday 15th.Chilly but mild. Office. Division as usual. Evening at home. After going to Market I went to the Office and at last succeeded in bringing up the long ... 16 February 1840Sunday 16th.Pleasant day. Divine Service. Evening at Mr. Brooks’. After an hour devoted to the instruction of my children I attended divine service and heard Dr. ... 17 February 1840Monday 17th.Charming day. Office, division as usual. Evening at Mrs. Everetts. After my hour in coins, I went to the Office. Occupied in Accounts. Letter from the... 18 February 1840Tuesday 18th.Lovely day. Division as usual. Evening company at home. After coins, at the Office. Received another application from Salem for the delivery of the Le... 19 February 1840Wednesday 19th.Cloudy but very mild. Division as usual. Evening to Salem. Lecture. After coins, I went to the Office and was occupied in accounts as usual. Nothing v... 20 February 1840Thursday 20th.Mild, spring day. To Boston. Division as usual. Evening at home. Mr. Brooks. I arose early and after a rapid breakfast, made the best of my way to tow... 21 February 1840Friday 21st.Clear and mild. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mr. Story’s. Very extraordinary weather for this season of the year. I went out today without any ov... 22 February 1840Saturday 22d.Mild weather. Division as usual. Evening at home. H. G. Gorham. This is my usual day for going to Market and omitting coins. Office as usual where the... 23 February 1840Sunday 23d.Lovely day, but warm. Divine service and duties as usual. Evening to E. Brooks’. A very uncommon day for this season of the year being very warm, so t... 24 February 1840Monday 24th.Mild. Office. Division as usual. Evening at home. After coins I went to the Office and finished up the rest of the work I had in arrears so that my fu... 25 February 1840Tuesday 25th.Cloudy and chilly. Division as usual. Evening at Mrs. Armstrong’s. After coins I went to the Office. Nothing there very material, so I determined to g... 26 February 1840Wednesday. 26th.Cool and cloudy. Distribution as usual. Evening at Mrs. Crowninshield’s. After coins I went to the Office where I did not find any thing very material... 27 February 1840Thursday 27th.Cloudy and cool. Distribution as usual. Evening to Mrs. Henshaw’s. There is not much deserving of particular notice in the record of my day. The Offic... 28 February 1840Friday 28th.Cloudy with slight rain. Distribution as usual. Evening Mr. Beale. Unwell. After coins I went to the Office and there almost completed an answer to my... 29 February 1840Saturday 29th.Fine day. Distribution as usual. Evening, T. B. Frothingham. After my usual market visit I went to the Office and was occupied there as customary in A... Back Matter halftitle2 Chronology
