14 November 1844
adams-john10 Neal Millikan
510 Boston Thursday 14. November 1844.

14. V. Thursday.

Leavitt Joshua Andrews Adams Charles F. Curtis Charles P Davis Isaac P Grinnell Joseph Mason Jeremiah Otis Harrison Gray. Paige Pendleton Perkins Thomas H Sears David Mrs Miriam Sears Sears David junr Webster Daniel Winthrop Robert C Frothingham N. L Mrs. N. L. Frothingham Degrand P. P. F. Mrs. Edward Brooks Miss Anna Henshaw.

I forgot to mention that yesterday Morning I visited Mr and Mrs Francis P. Stockton, at their lodgings in Summer Street—Mrs Le kain’s. He was not at home but Mrs Stockton received me— This morning, I went astray in the library and stumbled upon a Museum Criticum or Cambridge Classical Researches in two 8vo. volumes 1826. and in the second volume at page 140. I find a review of two Articles; publications at Milan by Angel May of fragments of 6. Orations of Cicero—inedited found on Bobian palimpsest manuscripts—one passage from which I copy here as truly Ciceronian. Pro Scauro p. 11. [“]Venio nunc ad testes in quibus docebo non modo nullam fidem et auctoritatem, sed ne specium quidem esse aut imaginem— Testium etenim fidem primum ipsa tollit consensio, quae lata facta est compromisso Sardorum et conjuratione cogitata. Deinde illa cupiditas quae suscepta est spe et promissione praemiorum. Postremo ipsa natio, cujus tanta vanitas est ut libertatem a servitute nulla re alia, nisi mentiendi licentia distinguendum putet”— This definition of liberty is by no means confined to the antient Sardians— I walked out at noon, purchased at Libby’s a signet ring, and took it to Mitchell to be engraved— He promised it for Monday morning. Call at Charles’s office and then at the Morning Chronicle Office where I saw Mr Joshua Leavitt and the Ex-Texian S. P. Andrews— I asked for my manuscript copy of the record in the circuit Court U.S. of the Antelope case. He said that Mr Torrey’s counsel at Baltimore Reverdy Johnson had it— Call at J. P. Putnam’s Office 19. Court Street— I had received a Letter from him with an application from the young men’s institute at Hartford Connt. for another address from me. I requested him to inform them of my regret that it would not be in my power—which he promised to do. I dined with Charles at Mr David Sears’s with the company named between two lines in the margin— Very pleasant Mrs Sears asked me if I remembered her father, (Jonathan Mason) as a student in my father’s Office in 1774.— I did— On our return home this evening we found Dr and Mrs Frothingham here, and Mr Degrand— Mrs Edward Brooks, and Miss Henshaw had been here before. John Kirke was here with the trees for Mr Angier— I sent W B. Reed copies of my 3. speeches.

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