- Wyer— Edward.
- Huntt. D
rHenry
I awoke twice this Morning before I rose— The second time, though little
after four and without a Moon the atmosphere was lighted as by a
twilight, and I observed an unusual succession, for several minutes of
the meteors called falling Stars— As they seemed then to cease I paid no
further attention to them, but learnt from others that they continued
with increased and most extraordinary brilliancy— I wrote till breakfast
time, part of a Letter, in answer to one from the Revd. Bernard
Whitman— But my copiers are all disabled. My wife continued all this
day exceedingly ill, and confined to her bed— And my son John’s
wife was seized violently in the
Night last Night, and was also confined the whole day to her bed— He
himself was not so well as yesterday, and the whole family are
exceedingly helpless— Dr Huntt was here twice in the course of the day.
Mrs
Frye called for a short time, and I had a long visit from
Edward Wyer— He told me, of his
two visits to the President, to
solicit appointments to the Consulate at the Havana, 182and at Tangier— Of his declaration to the President that
he never was, and never could be a Jackson-man—and of the President’s
half-promise to him that he should have the Office of Consul at the
Havana, and Major Donaldson’s
half promise that he should have the appointment to Tangier—and of his
being now a Candidate for the Office of Serjeant at Arms to the Senate—
He shewed me a friendly Letter he had just received from Baron Stackelberg, late Chargé
d’Affaires from Sweden. The Letter is dated 23. Septr. at London, where Stackelberg had just
arrived—Wyer told me he had often given Stackelberg a half a dollar to
pay for his dinner, and that gambling had reduced him to that extremity—
Wyer had much political news, some-what Apocryphal— I received a Letter
from my Son Charles, and paid an
Evening visit to Mr and Mrs W.
S. Smith— He was not at home.