Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2

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Leave Baltimore, ride to Washington, home, President’s house, family, my Mother, Billiards, evening, Mr. Hopkinson.1

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Joseph Hopkinson, the noted lawyer and author of the patriotic anthem “Hail Columbia!,” who had been a Representative from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1819 ( Biog. Dir. Cong. ).

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Washington. At home all day, conversation with the family, my Mother, John, evening, Mr. Rush.1

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Richard Rush (1780–1859), of Philadelphia, who had served as attorney general under President Madison and, briefly, as secretary of state under President Monroe, pending the return of JQA from Europe, and who was now Secretary of the Treasury ( DAB ).