John Quincy Adams
The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his first annual presidential address to Congress, delivered on December 6, 1825.
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- 2/6/1826: V:45 Southard. Seymour. Chase Bishop. Judges of Supreme Court. Clay. Barbour. Everett. Mills.
- 2/5/1826: V:45. Heard Little. from Acts. 28.30.31. Baker. Sol. Song 5.16. News of Emperor Alexander’s Death.
- 2/4/1826: V:30. Findlay’s. Lowrie. Clarke, M’Lane, North. Ogden’s. Ward Jos. Smith. Barbour. Clay. Webster.
- 2/3/1826: VI. Thornton. Lowrie, Cranch. Cass. Rush. Anderson. Thomas. Allen. Sullivan. Company to dine.
- 2/2/1826: V:30. Van Rensselaer. Tibbets. King. W. R. and Owen. Kerr. J. L. Gouverneur. Mrs Sherburne. Clay.
- 2/1/1826: V:30. Wednesday. Graham. Watkins. Knight and Isacks. Noland. Douglas. Rush. Mills. Oyster Supper.
- 1/31/1826: VI. Lowrie. Vance with Coffee. Rush. Clay. J. W. Hunter— James Johnson dined with us.
- 1/30/1826: VI. M’Kee. Cabinet Meeting. Full. Clay. Rush. Barbour. Southard. Wirt. The draft. E. J. Coale dined with us.
- 1/29/1826: VI. Heard Little. 1. Cor. 3.2. Baker, Luke 18.1. Draft of Message to Senate with new Creek Treaty.
- 1/28/1826: VI. Powell’s. A. H. and Cuthbert Adams P. Sloan. J. Vance. Dwight. Clay. In the Evening Webster.
- 1/27/1826: VI. Graham. Rush. B. Bassett. Barbour. Genl. Brown. Lambert. Bradley Clay. R Mills. Company to dine
- 1/26/1826: VI. Lowrie W— Cook. D. P. Anderson. John Rush Barbour. Sutherland. Talbot. John Williams.
- 1/25/1826: V:30 John Cook, Coachman died. Van Rensselaer. Findlay. W. Wickliffe Jones Coll. 4th. Drawing-room.
- 1/24/1826: V:30. Hohnstein, Miller D. H— Sutherland, Ingersoll E. M’Ilvaine. Clay, Barbour, Rush Elmsley.
- 1/23/1826: V:30. Southard, White— Mitchell, Walton, Barbour J. S. Duval J. P. Handy. Brashears. G. Tucker.
- 1/22/1826: V:30. Note Psalm 56.45. Heard Little. Psalm 58.11. M’Ilvaine. Phil. 3.8. Dorsey, Crowninshield.
- 1/21/1826: IV:30. Smith. Elisha. Jamison. Stewart. A Lawrence, Baird, Stockton, Bogardus. Elmsley. Wever.
- 1/20/1826: V:15. Johnson. G Graham— G. White. Cass— Clay, Barbour, Rush. Southard. Company to dine.
- 1/19/1826: V: Hodgson Graham. M’Kean and Moore. Cranch. Metcalfe. Holt. Brent D. Hay G. Ward. N.
- 1/18/1826: VI. Lowrie. Southard, Rush. Barbour. Knight and Isacks. Thompson Hayden. Taylor. Webster.
- 1/17/1826: V:30 Sherburne. Cook D. P. Thomas Jesse D. Edwards. H. W. Brent. Gurley Russell G. C. M’lean.
- 1/16/1826: VI. Dickins. Hammond Jabez. Warrington Bartow White and his brother. Clay, Brown. Verplanck
- 1/15/1826: V:30. Note Psalm 27.14. Heard Little. 2. Timothy 4.6.7.8 Seasonable. Hawley. Philippians 4.19 —
- 1/14/1826: V. Morgan. Captain Brown. Rowan. Pinkham. Barbour. J. S. Ashley, Mills. Blake. Jaudon.
- 1/13/1826: VI. Barbour, Lowrie, Lloyd, Tucker, Bonnycastle. Colman. Hunter. Southard. Company to dine.
- 1/12/1826: VI:15. G. Johnson. Watkins of Giles. M’Kean with Catlin— Rush, of Hay and Ingersoll. Sullivan. Bailey.
- 1/11/1826: V. Force. Hunter J. W. Lovell. Jos. Baker. Maguire. Ward. Adlum. Third Drawing Room. Taylor J. W.
- 1/10/1826: V:30. Mills. Hughes. Lathrop. Taylor R. Rush. Coleman, Massias, Maury’s. R. and M. Nicholls.
- 1/9/1826: VI. Letcher. Barbour. Blunt. Jos. Markley with Genl. Porter. Wurts and Richards. Southard, Sullivan. Everett.
- 1/8/1826: V:30. Heard Bishop England at the Capitol. Call on Gaillard. at Barbour’s. Baker. John 9.4. El. Robson Ps. 36.7
- 1/7/1826: VI. Sullivan. G. Rush. Columbian Institute Meeting. Watkins’s Address. I attended. Clay. Resn. Senate.
- 1/6/1826: V:30— Van Ransselaer, S. White, Jos. M. Barbour, John S. Thruston, T. Lowrie, Brown, Grammarian.
- 1/5/1826: V:30. Cook, D. P. Bell, Mallary, Kent, Rush, Hammond, Clay, Dickins. Company to dine. V. Buren. White.
- 1/4/1826: VI. Gurley. Lowrie, Burges and Martin, M’Lean, Rush, Blunt Jos. Smith S. Southard. Swartwout R—
- 1/3/1826: V:30. Mills, about Branch’s Resolution. Bailey, Clay, Rush, Brown, Genl. Brent D. Southard Resn. H.R
- 1/2/1826: VI. Wirt. Received the New-Year’s day Visitors. Southard. Midshipman Van Dyke. James Lloyd at eve.
- 1/1/1826: V. Sunday. Heard Little. Luke 11.28. Lee at Hawley’s. Isaiah 5.4.5.6. Sullivan to dine. Watkins.
- 12/31/1825: V:30. Goodsell. Holmes— Peter. G. Dick. Mills— Barbour. Company to dine. Miss Mease arrived.
- 12/30/1825: VII. Lowrie; with five. Resolutions of Senate. Rush. Brent. D. Southard— Company to dine
- 12/29/1825: VI:30. Tucker. G. Dunglason. Long. Rush. Powell. A. H. Tucker H. St.. G. Baker. D. Patterson— Twitchel
- 12/28/1825: VI. Coxe and Morgan. Van Rensselaer. Sullivan. G and J. S. Ellery. Clay. Scott. Macomb. Cass.
- 12/27/1825: IV:30. Lowrie. W. Sullivan. G. Garnett. R. S. Blunt. Joseph. Everett. Messages to both Houses.
- 12/26/1825: VI:15 Johnson R. M. and Mosely. Moore. T. P. Rush. Barbour. Brown and Worth. Anderson Gaines.
- 12/25/1825: VI. Christmas. Heard the Bishop of Charleston, England, at the Catholic Church. At home the rest of day
- 12/24/1825: VI:15. Members of Congress 11. Bishop England with Matthews. Rush, Southard, Clay. Tuyll’s dinner.
- 12/23/1825: VI:30. Capitol Library last Night on fire— Knight. Isaks, Garnsey, enrolling Committee, and many others.
- 12/22/1825: V:30. Trimble D. Bailey. Williams John— Cabinet Meeting. Clay. Rush. Barbour. Southard. Creeks. Taylor
- 12/21/1825: V:30. M’Donald and Whitwell. Bouligny. Brown. King. Barnum brothers. Raymond. Easton.
- 12/20/1825: V:20. Crowell. Gurley. Brent. D. Hunter J. W. Southard. Lowrie. Cranch. Cazenove. Clay.
- 12/19/1825: V:15. Berryman. Sewall. Bailey. Davis. Van Rensselaer. Watkins. Calvert. Kankey— Lee E. J.