Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
1825-09-14
Arise, copy Notes, Hallam, Journal, l’Allemagne, Horace, Ben Jon-12son, evening, ride and conversation with the family, Mr. Sullivan, billiards.
1825-09-15
Arise, copy Notes, Hallam, Journal, l’Allemagne, Horace, Ben Jonson, Mr. Nelson of Virginia and Governor Coles of Illinois,1 at dinner and evening.
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1825-09-16
Arise, Hallam’s Middle Ages, Madame de Stael, l’Allemagne, Ben Jonson, letter from Richardson,1 evening, Browere, a curiosity.2
Missing.
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1825-09-17
Arise, Ben Jonson, visit to Mr. Browere, Operation of making a bust from the head,1 disagreeable, evening, Mr. G. Sullivan, letter to Richardson.2
CFA saw his bust, evidently completed, in New York the following June; see entry for 29 June 1826, below. Browere’s busts from life masks of JA and JQA (and other celebrities of the day) are now in the New York State Historical Association at Cooperstown, but that of CFA was lost around the turn of the century. It is illustrated in Charles Henry Hart, Browere’s Life Masks of Great Americans [N.Y.], 1899, facing p. 54.
Missing.
1825-09-18
At home all day, Medicine, Ben Jonson, evening ride with my Mother, my Uncle Johnson and Aunt Smith, John, Conversation, the Journey.
1825-09-19
Morning at home, Hallam, Ben Jonson, Horace, Odes, letters to my Grandfather and George,1 evening, Company, my father, the Stars and Comet, up till late.2
Both letters are missing.
CFA and JQA were up until 1:00 a.m. watching Saturn and the Great Comet of 1825, which was brightly visible until the middle of October (JQA, Diary, 19 Sept. 1825; J. Russell Hind, The Comets, London, 1852, p. 159).