- Gilpin Bernard
- Bruce Stephen
- M
rsFrye - M
rsW. S. Smith
My wife is much
indisposed, with the complicated disease with which she suffers every
Spring and fall— She was bled this morning by Dr. Huntt and was
confined to her bed almost all the remainder of the day— I walked to the
National Intelligencer Office, and left there 50 papers to be pasted
into the copies of my La Fayette
Oration, and sent to members of the House of Representatives. I had some
Conversation with Mr Seaton, and brought home newspapers containing
a months European news from 11. Feby to 12
March— The sudden death of the Emperor of
Austria on the 3d. the Meeting
of the newly chosen British Parliament—the choice of the opposition
candidate Abercrombie, as
Speaker of the House of Commons. 534No very
encouraging news from France.— On coming home I found Mrs Frye,
at the house, and she dined with us. Bernard Gilpin the Quaker, who married a Sister of the late Roger Johnson’s
wife, and who lives about
twenty miles on the road to Frederick made his promised visit— He had
dined, but had his horse put up and stayed while we dined he kept me
nearly three hours, talking all the time, and the monotous uninteresting
tone which operates upon me as an irresistible narcotic— In the midst of
his discourse, Stephen Bruce the
half-idiot came in and commenced his discourse, which I however
immediately stop’d and he went away— Mr
Gilpin remarked his insanity— I walked down to Mr
Frye’s, and sat with him until Mrs
Frye came home with Mrs Klapp and Mary. I returned with them— So large a portion of the day
was wasted that much of my writing was abridged.