John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

13114. VI. Mr T. B. Johnson did not make his appearance this morning. I took a Horse and Chaise, and came out to my fathers at Quincy— Stopped at Governor Eustis’s at Roxbury, on my way; to enquire if he would go with me to Portland— My plan was to go next Wednesday to Salem— Thursday and Friday to Princeton; return thence the ensuing Monday, and the next day to proceed to Portland— I found the Governor doubtful whether he could go— Determined that he would not go in the Steam-Boat. Sure that he could not stop at all at Portsmouth, and having some other humours, not very accommodating for a fellow traveller— He will have a Note left to-morrow week at my lodgings to let me know whether he will go with me— He spoke of the Cunningham Correspondence, and said he knew the hand of every line in the introduction as well as if he had been present at its being penned— (Meaning by Jonathan Russell.) He talks strangely but he means me to think him my friend— I took back the Instruction to R. Rush, and the Maps that I had left with him— It was near Noon when I reached my father’s House— But in the afternoon I heard Mr Richmond, from Galatians 2.17. “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the Minister of Sin? God forbid.”— Mr Richmond is a very cold preacher— Charles Foster came out from Boston this afternoon and returned; and Mr Marston was here in the Evening.