Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1

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1824-03-13

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Prayers, recitation, Enfield, feel very uncomfortable, lounge at 102the Bookstore,1 decision of bets, distribution of Exhibition parts,2 Tudor’s evening, Champagne and Cards.

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See entry for 11 May, note, below.

 2.

Since 1756 the two upper classes at Harvard had given public exhibitions twice a year, in the spring and fall, of debates, dialogues, and orations, mostly in English. CFA received no part in the April 1824 performance (Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard , p. 90; Overseers Records, 10:60–61, Harvard Archives).

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1824-03-14

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Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware, Dr. Kirkland, sleepy, quiet at home, evening visiters, Otis, Brennan.1

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Richard Brenan, of Charleston, S.C., a junior ( Harvard Annual Cat., 1823).

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1824-03-15

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Prayers, recitation, Enfield, Spanish, Tacitus,1 Lectures, Mr. Willard, Mr. Farrar, Electricity, evening at my room, Cards and Wine.

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CFA’s two Latin copies of the Opera of Tacitus, published in Antwerp in 1668 and in London in 1817, 3 vols., are in the Stone Library, along with his copy of an English translation of the Annals and History, London, 1698. JQA’s many editions of Tacitus are in the Stone Library and in the Boston Athenseum. See Catalogue of JQA’s Books , p. 126–127. For JA’s copies of Tacitus in the Boston Public Library, see Catalogue of JA’s Library , p. 240–241.