John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

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19. IV. Tuesday.

Thomas Dr

Catarrh still oppressive— Mary Louisa sick in bed. I continue my random Lecture without knowing where it will end— Received from Gales and Seaton, Wheeler’s report of my Speech of 2 March. Took it back to the Office of the National Intelligencer Office Bacon’s Essay on Dispatch— Mi venga la muerte di spagna. Thunder Shower—prevented me from going to the Capitol Library— Mr Reinhart was here with a proposal from a Clerk whom he did not name, to purchase the house that I bought of Mr Daniel Baker— Asked my terms and said he would see me again in two or three days— Afternoon walk round the President’s Square— Mr. John Connell was here this Evening— From Philadelphia this morning, and to leave the City to return thither tomorrow Evening.— I read some pages more of Mr Wilcox’s Chapter 4. appeal to the Union on Abolition, and Slavery, and I received from General Gaines a pamphlet containing sundry Dissertations of his upon the military defences of the United States; with a prefatory Address to the young men of the United States on Steam-frigates.