John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

19. VII:15. B. O. Tyler here— Franklin Insurance Company Stock— Clay’s Portrait— Call on the Postmaster General— R. J. Meigs junr— Instructions to T. B. Johnson, to go to-morrow. Copy of the recommendation of S. Van Rensselaer as Postmaster at Albany, signed by 22. members of the New-York delegation.— At the Office— S. Canning— The rolled and hammered iron question— The claim of the Crooks’s— Wilcocke’s case— The Russian Edict about the North-west coast— discussion of an hour— W. Taylor— His claim to an appointment at Vera-Cruz— He is to call again— Dined with Messrs. Gaillard, Dickerson, Van Dyke, and Lowndes, at their Lodgings— Mr Crawford, the Baron de Neuville, and Mr Poletica, there— Also Mr Cuthbert of Georgia— Mr Randolph called this day at my house, and left his name.