5 March 1816
adams-john10 Neal Millikan
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5. V:15. Finished this morning the Letter to my Mother, and after Breakfast went into London. Called at Mr Wilberforce’s house Kensington Gore, to enquire the character of the Footman Robert Martin— Mr Wilberforce had not been at his house since yesterday Morning. He has lodgings in town. Derby Street, near Parliament Street. I went to my Office, where I found Mr Smith, and the young Man whom he has employed to copy Papers— The Note to Lord Castlereagh had been prepared, but not in proper form— It was necessary to have another copy made of it— I called at Mr Wilberforce’s lodgings but he was not there.— Left a Note at Baron Fagel’s. Returned to the Office. Visit from Dr Magrath, the Physician of Dartmoor Prison, who has been so much commended by the American Prisoners there— He says that he is now come here to seek for employment— Visits from Mr G. Joy, and his nephew, Mr H. Joy; a young lawyer. There were Letters from Mr Bourke the Danish Minister, and from Mr Fox the Consul at Falmouth— Robert Martin, the Footman came twice— I sent him to Lady Anderson with whom he last lived, to enquire when she would see me to give his character. She appointed to-morrow between twelve and One— Mr Smith promised to call upon her in my stead— Signed the Note and made up the Packet for Lord Castlereagh, and left it to be sent to the foreign Office. I had ordered the Carriage at a quarter before five; but walked half an hour before— The Carriage overtook me, beyond the fourth Mile-Stone from Hyde-Park corner.— It was near seven when I got home. No Evening— As I reached Brentford, going into town, the Queen and Princesses were just passing, on their way from Windsor— The Postman had just before given me two Letters— One from a Mr M’Crackan, enclosing one recommending him, from Mr O. Wolcott, of New-York— The other from Mr Pitcairn at Hamburg; who has procured for me Bode’s Uranographia with the Charts, from Berlin; and will send it to me through the English Consul Mr Cockburn, to Mr Hamilton, the Under Secretary of State.

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