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20 December 1799
Fri[day] copied in night Saturday 29 Nothing very extraordinary. Sunday 30 Left Cam- for Bos tarried till Monday Monday 31 Left Boston for [illegible text] and arrived in town about four O'clock. 1 January 1799 So much of the vacation I have spent as usual, doing nothing; but visiting. I have been to one sleigh ride; we, [illegible text], [illegible text], as myself, [illegible text] and [illegible text] to Natick, where we safely arrived once [illegible text] [illegible text] our [?] [illegible text] [illegible text] our [illegible text]. We [illegible text] the night at Newells [?] in Natick [illegible text] next morning we sent off for home through [illegible text] & [illegible text], an arrive at [illegible text] about sunset. The [illegible text] cost us one dollar each. This day [illegible text] [illegible text]; an the event right [illegible text] at [illegible text] the even with him but
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1 January 1799
Friday the night, in [brachia mutiere quae est caressama mihi?] Sat 19 Spent the day at Mr. T--s with [illegible text] & [illegible text]. Sunday 20 Was at my at my old aunts. The night I spent in my earthly heaven, in my [illegible text] [illegible text]. Mon 21 [illegible text] not made from my centre till nearly noon, then left the north in a snowstorm. Nothing further Tuesday 22 At home all Day reading history. [illegible text] at sundown [illegible text] Wed 23 Read history till two O'clock. Went to Mr. Pratts to get my boots mended in the afternoon, also a part of the afternoon I spent at home in company with [?]. The even I spent at at the house of my [illegible text] brother in company with her and some people from Midway. The night was spent in the embraces [struck out text] [illegible text]
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29 January 1799
Thursday 29 Came at ten. Sloper at and [?] at Mr [Prestiss's?] [left?] two, thus returned and read the remainder of the day and [evening?] [?] my playing two games of whist.
{Wednesday} 30 Alarmed by my [sister?], who came runing into my chamber half undressed and in much perturbation informed me that our father was sick. Upon hearing this I immediately lept out of bed and ran down stairs and found my father [?] and in a fitt, which I afterwards discovered to be of the [paralitick?] kind. I sent directly after {Doctor} [?], who came and confirmed what I had before suspected that my father's malady was the [palsy?]. This was in the morning. In the course of the day there were thirty people to see my father
February 1799
3 Sunday From the 30 [?] my father's life has been [?] in danger but now I think he is some perhaps a little better. In the evening at about eight O"clock I wt of for the north end, and was so fortunate as to find my [?] not fallen a [?] to [Sommes?]. Spent in her [arms?] a few happy hours, happy I call them, they were so, yet not not without allay, for my father's situation damped the [?] of my love. But I found in her arms a sweet comfort of of all my woes.
{Monday} 4 My father much so
Tuesday 5 Temportent, [?] [mus?] pater [feuit?]
{Wedneday} 6 Which so my father spent te might in the arms of {Reges?].
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7 February 1799
Thursday 7 My father rode out as far as John Smith
Fryday 8 Again my father took the air in a sleigh
{Saturday} 9 Nothing of consequence
{Sunday} 10 My mother very ill, and in the evening I went for the doctor on her account. At 9 O"clock, evening, off for the north and found my [?] in her, slept the night in her arms
Monday 11 Left the North early. and Nothing of consequence has since ocured.
March 1799 Tuesday Arrived at Cambridge in company with Little, Nothing of consequence happened in our journey. The day was two degrees colder than any one the preceeding winter. [?] drove us.
Wednesday 7 6 Nothing very comical. Settled all my bills, and ranged my books in order acording to their number. The state of my mind is uncommonly calm, considering the situation in which I left my father and my own backward situation, here in college studies. I feel a kind of independ ence, which operates as an antidote to disappointed am bition. I seem eager to study not from a hope of establising a character as a schooler scholar, but from a sense of the importance of a right use of time. Whether I shall be able to support for any length of time this way of thinking, I am uncertain, but I am sure that I will try.
Even. Went to the theatre in company with a large number of scholars. The play was most excellent ([?] vows) and the performance was very good.
Thursday 8 Nothing of consequence.
Fryday 9 [?]
Saturday 10 Spent the principal part of the day in [doing?] nothing. principal occupation fishing; not however in college walls, but on the [?], for [?] not for orations.
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| Saturday 9 | Bean and myself caught about 30 fish, and |
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| Sunday 10 | Nothing very remarkable has occurrd this day, unless |
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| Monday 11 | Cold weather for the season; nothing further of consequence |
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| Tuesday 12 | In the morning my chum and myself lay in bed |
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| Wednesday 13 | Nothing of consequence. At night after |
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| Thursday 14 | A very fortunate day nether a [...sense?] or |
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| Fryday 15 | Been to Boston. Every coffee club met |
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| Saturd 16 | There for moro hallery. The first time I have |
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| Sunday 17 | Nothing of consequence. |
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| Mon 18 | A violent snow storm. In Even Meeting may be the |
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March 99
[Tuesday?] 19 Nothing important {Evening} visited by five of my classmates [?] in disguise [?] [?].
Wednesday 20 Nothing of consequence has occurred this day. Evening My chum was at the theatre. About 7 O'clock I went over Adam's room, where I tarried all night.
Thursday 21 Rained considerable, The Spring with all its charmes shall now [appear?], And with its beauties deck the [?] [year?} now the bends beneath the [flowers?] flowry branch [?] And with their sweet [?] [?] rouse the sluggish
Wednesday [?] 22 Nothing new, the same old round of [?] [dullness?] still prevails. Coffee [sweet?] The [?] is now effectively gone.
Saturday 23 Nothing. And [?] with their sweet song the [sluggish?] [?]
Sunday 24 Did not go to meeting. My chum was struck blind in a [degree?] [and?] {remained} so for some time. I sat his table for him, but made rather a bungling piece of work of the business.
March 99
Monday 25 My chum has gone home sick, by whome I sent two letters, one to my father and the other to my love. Warm agreeable weather.
Tuesday 26 The freshmen were examined. [?] ultra.
{Wednesday} 27 A horrid storme. [Struck?] [?] in the beginning of the evening which woke me completely stupid, and so of course I go to bed Nine O"clock.
Thursday 28 Cold as [January?], so cold that I conclude to go to bed and [?] under cover.
Fryday 29 Very cold. When scholars are once from college free, With hearts well filled with mirth and glee In place of courting the muses They, [good souls?], will court the [ladies?].
May 3 Fryday Returned once more to college, and may no un- toward circumstance occasion force me to leave it till the vacation. {Arrived} in town of four [?] settled of my bills and went early to bed. Had a very disagreeable journey from M- a cold storm part of the way. Albee came down to take back the