Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1

458 6. VI. CFA

1825-04-06

 6. VI. CFA
6. VI.

Prayers, recitation, Say, obtain leave of absence, Lecture from Bigelow,1 Stage to Boston, George, thence to Quincy, my Grandfather and family well.

 1.

During their final two terms at Harvard, seniors were given an opportunity to hear lectures from eminent professors in all departments of the college. For a schedule of these lectures, see Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard , p. 229.

CFA intended to write out the lectures of Dr. Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), the Rumford professor, who was also professor of materia medica, on “the application of the Sciences to the Arts,” but he succeeded in taking notes on only the first of them. See Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 314. For others of these lectures which CFA attended see entries for 11, 12, and 25 April, and 7 June, below.

 7. IX:30. CFA

1825-04-07

 7. IX:30. CFA
7. IX:30.

Fast day. Arise, go to Meeting, Mr. Brooks,1 remain at home in the afternoon composing a Conference,2 evening conversation with George and a glass of Punch.

 1.

Presumably Charles Brooks, the Congregational minister at Hingham ( Mass. Register, 1824, p. 86).

 2.

See entry for 26 April, below.

 8. X. CFA

1825-04-08

 8. X. CFA
8. X.

Arise, extensive fire in Boston last evening,1 at home all day, reading the Liaisons Dangereuses,2 state of feeling, argument with my Uncle.

 1.

The fire, which started in a store on Doane Street, spread quickly and destroyed 53 buildings, causing damage estimated at half a million dollars (Columbian Centinel, 9 April 1825).

 2.

By Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, first published in Paris in 1796.

 9. VIII. CFA

1825-04-09

 9. VIII. CFA
9. VIII.

Arise, return to Boston, dull ride with my Aunt, George, Briggs,1 dinner with the former and a Cigar, evening Stage to Cambridge, Pratt, lovely walk, Richardson’s, a glass of Punch.

 1.

Cyrus Briggs, who had been in GWA’s class at Harvard.

 10. VIII. CFA

1825-04-10

 10. VIII. CFA
10. VIII.

Missed Prayers, remain at home all day, name still out, writing my Conference, evening, Freshpond, walk, with Richardson, supper and conversation.

 11. VI. CFA

1825-04-11

 11. VI. CFA
11. VI.

Prayers, recitation, Say, missed Ticknor and Warren,1 ride to Bos-459ton, Richardson, Franklin Hotel, billiards, dinner at the Exchange, evening, Theatre, Sweethearts and Wives.

 1.

John Collins Warren, Harvard 1797, M.D. (hon.) 1819, Hersey professor of anatomy and surgery from 1815 to 1847 ( Harvard Quinquennial Cat. ).