Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 1

466 June. 1825. Wednesday. 1. VIII. CFA

1825-06-01

 June. 1825. Wednesday. 1. VIII. CFA
June. 1825. Wednesday. 1. VIII.

Northampton. W. B. Lee, Round Hill,1 ascent of Mt. Holyoke, warm, Miss Warren, dine with Blake, Payne and others. Ives, Sturgis,2 lively and agreeable Supper.

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The site of the experimental school conducted by George Bancroft and Joseph Green Cogswell.

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Russell Sturgis, of Boston, a member of the Harvard class of 1823, who did not, however, receive his degree until 1845.

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1825-06-02

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2. VIII.

Northampton. Weather rainy, leave it and pass through Amherst to Belchertown, dine, irritable, scene with Richardson, pain in my teeth, stop at Ware, conversation.

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1825-06-03

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Ware Factory village, leave it, pass through Brookfield and South Brookfield to Spencer, execrable dinner, through Leicester to Worcester, pleasant day, pain in my teeth.

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1825-06-04

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4. VIII.

Leave Worcester, rain and uncomfortable, Westborough to Framingham, good dinner, return to Cambridge, evening, Sheafe, agreeable conversation.

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1825-06-05

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5. VIII.

Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware, Mr. Gilman, return to old habits, weather cold, fires, conversation with Sheafe, about Lothrop and others, our conclusions.

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1825-06-06

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Prayers, a Miss, weather unpleasant, at home all day, Traits of Nature, Miss Burney,1 very quiet. Artillery Election.

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Sarah H. Burney, Traits of Nature: A Novel, 5 vols., London, 1812.

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1825-06-07

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Prayers, Lectures, Dr. Webster, Judge Parker,1 to Boston with 467Sheafe, dine at Rouillard’s, long ride, return, find Richardson, at his room, Potter and Conversation.

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Isaac Parker, Harvard 1786, Royall professor of law from 1816 to 1827, and chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1814 to 1830 ( DAB ).