- Hallett Benjamin F.
- Adams Charles F.
- Beale George W.
- Quincy Josiah jun
r
My garden has been neglected for annual cultivation till the growth of
weeds and self sown grass puts me to shame. I find the absolute
necessity of employing a steady workman upon it and have been applied to
by two men, one of whom asked 20 and the other 18 dollars a month for
wages— This in an advance from 40 to 50 per cent upon the prices of the
last year. My seedling trees are absorbing so much space that I must
abandon my plantation experiments, or transfer the seat of them— An
Apple-seed in Pot N. 4. planted 2. June, breaks ground and one pignut
Hickory shews itself in the St. Germain Pear
tree lot. I marked with stake and Stone the only three plum-trees that
have come up from the multitudes of the Plums and Stones which I planted
last Autumn— I find their leaves already perforated by insects and
imagine that they are attacked at the root or in the kernel itself which
forms the seed leaves— In the house I pursue the recovery of arrears of
my Journal in September 1833. and hear my granddaughter Mary-Louisa read. My Son Charles came out from Boston this
afternoon with Mr Hallett— The first number of his Appeal from
the New to the old whigs was published this morning both in the Daily
Advocate and in the Centinel— Mr Beale called upon me, and
informed me that the Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of
the Anniversary of Independence had voted to request me to preside on
that day— I desired him to express my grateful Sense of the honour done
me by the Committee, to its members; but to request that they would
excuse me from that Service; for the reasons which I had mentioned to
him— I said I would attend at the delivery of the Oration, and would
share in the subscription for the dinner; but that the day, particularly
this year was associated with so many painful associations to me and to
my family that I could not share in festivities 23of
the anniversary with the Spirit, proper to the occasion— Mr Beale then asked if I would prepare a few
Toasts, for the company, to which I consented— He mentioned also the
necessity of holding a Meeting of the Supervisors of the Adams Temple
and School fund; concerning which I promised to speak to Mr Thomas
Greenleaf their President— Coll. Quincy paid us an
Evening visit— I received a Letter from Mr Frye with notice of
the payment by the Treasurer of the Columbian College of one years
interest due the first of June last year, upon their debt to me— He had
already informed me of the payment of the Dividend upon the Franklin
Insurance Company Stock— I received also a Note from Doctor George Parkman, with printed
notices of Audubon’s Ornithology,
and an invitation to dine with him next Friday—and an invitation to dine
with the Cincinnati of Massachusetts at Concert Hall, in Boston, upon
the approaching 4th. of July.