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Thursday 30. March 1837.
30. V.
- Frye Thomas J.
- Adams John Q. 2
d.
The first time for more than forty years I have suffered a total breach
in my Diary for several weeks— At one of the most trying periods of my
life— The Journals of the House of Representatives of the United States,
my Letter Book, and my Addresses to my Constituents the Inhabitants of
the 12th. Congressional District of
Massachusetts must supply the vacancy. This morning Thomas J. Frye, who had passed the Night
here; returned to his College. I spent the morning in writing, and in
packing up books to be sent to Quincy— Walked to the Capitol— At the
Office of the Clerk of the House of
Representatives— Mr Burch is ill, and has been
confined to his house ever since the close of the Session of Congress.
R. Johnson was not there—
They have not yet printed the Journal of the 30th. of January. At the Library— Met Leonard Jarvis there, who stays on
account of his and his wife’s
infirm state of health—and Mr John Taliaferro, member of
the late House of Representatives from Virginia— He is here on account
of the recent decease of his niece of the same
name— I saw at the Capitol two Casts of Statues by
Pedrich, called sleeping
Innocence, and the fisherman’s daughter— An Article shewn me by Jarvis
in the New-York Mirror, charging the Committee on Paintings with
ignorance for the selection of Artists to paint the pannels of the
Rotundo, mentioned the History of Painting and Painters by the Abbate Lanzi translated by Thomas Roscoe—at which I looked— I
read also the conclusion of Matthias’s Edition of Gray’s works— Walked home Midshipman John Quincy Adams 2d.
arrived this day from Norfolk— About three weeks
since he returned in the Potowmac frigate Captain J. J. Nicholson from the
Mediterranean— Evening at Whist. I met this day in the Street Lloyd N. Rogers of Baltimore in the
Street, who spoke to me of his
Son, now at Cambridge University—
