- Freeman John S.
- Adams John Q. 2
- Miss Batchelder
- Batchelder
- Jarvis D
rEdward - Jarvis of Concord.
- M
rsW. P. Lunt - Anna Lunt
- Lucretia Lunt
Sun set 7:30
When I awoke this morning the Sun was already risen.— John Stocker Freeman, the young man who
came to me on the 4th. and 5th. of last November, and for whom I
enclosed to Mr
Edward Everett Letters to reach Freeman’s Sisters, came again this
morning, with a Letter which he gave me to read, from James Mathers a Tailor in London,
married to his Sister Mary Ann— It is dated in January last, professes
to be very kind, and affectionate, and gives him information about many
of his relatives, but says not one word about his maternal grandfather
Collins, or about the property left by
him. Freeman has written to him twice since he received this Letter but
has no answer.— He has some suspicion of Mr
Mathers— Thinks it strange that his Sister did not herself write to him—
I advised him to write to Mr Mathers once
more, and to address to him special enquires concerning Mr Collins and the property left by him— And
if he should get no answer, then to write to Coll.
Aspinwall our Consul to ascertain in the prerogative Court
whether some administration has been effected on Collins’s property— He
said he had some thoughts of going this Summer himself to England which
he supposed he could do at little or no expence, as he could work his
passage— Miss Batchelder
was here with a young man
from Cambridge— She came in the expectation of finding Mary E. E. Cutts here, having heard that
she had arrived with my
wife— She is one of Miss Cutts’s Saco Friends, and wrote
with a pencil on a card a remembrance to be delivered to her when she
arrives.— My nephew John Quincy. 2.
dined with us, and Charles only
of my sons family. After dinner Dr Edward Jarvis of Dorchester
and his brother from Concord New Hampshire
came in— The Doctor was anxious to know what had been done in Congress
at Washington with the Memorials of the American statistical association
and the Massachusetts Medical Society concerning the errors in the
returns of the sixth census of 1840.— I told him how the memorials had
been treated— At the first Session of the last Congress referred to a
select Committee which—on the last day of the Session reported that they
had not had time to investigating the subject— At the second Session
referred to a select committee of which I was chairman, but of which I
was never to obtain a quorum— A false and prevaricating report from
John C. Calhoun Secretary of
State upon an impudent statement by the knave who cheated Congress and
the Nation into a double publication of the compendium, filching from
Blair, and Rives a bargain of 3000 dollars for
himself— I saw the Sun set from the porch of Charles’s house— Met there
Mrs
Lunt and her two
daughters. Charles came home with me, for an Evening
hour.